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Description

This week, the Priority team presents the first half of its review of The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity. Caitie takes issue with the books’ hypothetical antagonist, Carl the office creep. Max feels slightly skeptical when authors Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne claim this book isn’t about managing time. Worse, he picks a fight with the entire Internet over the productivity legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Still, our hosts can get behind The 5 Choices' actual focus: managing decisions, attention, and energy. And Caitie definitely appreciates the book's realistic standards: “extraordinary” goals, for instance, are a personal benchmark, not someone else's ideal.  Will Carl finally be sent to the HR class on hostile work environments? Will Ike bomb Max back to the Stone Age? There are only five ways to find out...

Summary

This week, the Priority team presents the first half of its review of The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity. Caitie takes issue with the books’ hypothetical antagonist, Carl the office creep. Max feels slightly skeptical when authors Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne claim this book isn’t about managing time. Worse, he picks a fight with the entire Internet over the productivity legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Still, our hosts can get behind The 5 Choices' actual focus: managing decisions, attention, and energy. And Caitie definitely appreciates the book's realistic standards: “extraordinary” goals, for instance, are a personal benchmark, not someone else's ideal. Will Carl finally be sent to the HR class on hostile work environments? Will Ike bomb Max back to the Stone Age? There are only five ways to find out...

Subtitle
Review of "The 5 Choices."
Duration
38:07
Publishing date
2016-03-25 16:00
Link
http://www.priority.fm/episodes/56
Contributors
  Max Leibman and Caitie Leibman
author  
Enclosures
http://traffic.libsyn.com/priority/PriorityEp056.mp3
audio/mpeg

Shownotes

Don't call it an Eisenhower Box!

This week, the Priority team presents the first half of its review of The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity.

Caitie takes issue with the books’ hypothetical antagonist, Carl the office creep. Max feels slightly skeptical when authors Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne claim this book isn’t about managing time. Worse, he picks a fight with the entire Internet over the productivity legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Still, our hosts can get behind The 5 Choices' actual focus: managing decisions, attention, and energy. And Caitie definitely appreciates the book's realistic standards: “extraordinary” goals, for instance, are a personal benchmark, not someone else's ideal. 

Will Carl finally be sent to the HR class on hostile work environments? Will Ike bomb Max back to the Stone Age? There are only five ways to find out...

Links: 

The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne | Amazon

The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity | FranklinCovey Course

The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity | Free eBook

FranklinCovey | Wikipedia

The Sound of Music Lyrics | Julie Andres Online

FranlinPlanner.com | FranklinCovey Consumer Products Licensee

The 5 Choices Planner | FranklinPlanner.com

Productivity Paradox | Wikipedia

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | Amazon

"Wibbily Wobbly Timey Wimey" | Urban Dictionary

Sexual Harassment | Wikipedia

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Amazon

The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity | Leadership & Ethics Institute
(Scroll down to view the Time Matrix.)

Time Management (Jump to "The Eisenhower Method") | Wikipedia

"Dwight Eisenhower Nailed a Major Insight About Productivity" by Drake Baer | Business Insider

The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking by Mikael Krogerus | Amazon

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey | Amazon

THREES - A Tiny Puzzle Game that Grows on You | Official Site

Unbreakalbe Kimmy Schmidt | IMDB / Netflix

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Amazon

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Amazon

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Wikipedia

Depression | Psychology Today

Back to Work Episode No. 256: "Every Minute Weighs the Same" | 5by5 Podcast Episode