Cool Down: Getting Further By Going Slower

Cool Down highlights the harmful effects of speed on productivity. It is a prescriptive book on how to apply "slow" concepts to workplaces where a high-speed corporate lifestyle has become the norm - especially environments where speed and urgency rule. Cool Down is not about doing less, it’s about achieving more by slowing down. Productivity could dramatically be increased if people just slowed down, planned a little more, talked a little more and spent less time in front of their e-mail and Blackberry systems. This book provides you with the tools and techniques to slow down, think clearly, prioritize effectively, and achieve more during the workday.

Table of contents :
Introduction
· The road to Burnout
· The Silo Effect
· Personal Blur
· What Is the Slow Movement?
· The Power of the Blue Sky
· Creating a Cooler Workday
· Becoming a Cooler Person
· Fear
· Career Maintenance
· Transition
· The Family
Conclusion
Index
About the Author

Market Description :
· General trade market
· Business readers

About Author :
Steve Prentice is president of Bristall Morgan Inc., a professional education firm with offices in Toronto and New York City, which specializes in reinstating productivity and profitability where distraction and overload currently reign. His first book is entitled Cool Time: A Hands-on Plan for Managing Work and Balancing Time and is published by John Wiley and Sons (2005). He is a frequent media guest and is regularly called on for TV and radio interviews to discuss issues dealing with stress, overload, and workplace technology.