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  • The New Corner Office

  • How the Most Successful People Work from Home
  • By: Laura Vanderkam
  • Narrated by: Laura Vanderkam
  • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (76 ratings)

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The New Corner Office

By: Laura Vanderkam
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Drawing on her 18 years of experience working remotely, plus original interviews with managers, employees, and free agents who've perfected their remote routines, Laura Vanderkam shares strategies for productivity, creativity, and health in the new corner office.

How do you do great work while sitting near the same spot where you watch Netflix? How can you be responsive without losing the focus necessary for getting things done? How can you maintain and grow your network when you spend less time face-to-face?

The key is to detach yourself from old ways of working and adopt new habits to match your new environment. Long before public health concerns pushed many of us indoors, some of the most successful people fueled their careers with carefully perfected work-from-home routines. Drawing on those profiles and her own insights, productivity expert and mother of five Laura Vanderkam reveals how to turn "being cooped up" into the ultimate career advantage. Her hacks include:

  • Manage by task, not time. Going to an office for eight hours makes you feel like you've done something, even if you haven't. Remote workers should set three to five ambitious goals for each day and consider the work day done when these are crossed off.
  • Get the rhythm right. A well-planned day features time for focused work, interactive work, and rejuvenating breaks. In place of a commute, a consciously chosen shutdown ritual keeps work from continuing all night.
  • Nurture connections. Wise remote workers can build broader and more effective networks than people sitting in the same cubicle five days a week.

Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, a self-starter or someone who prefers detailed directions, you can do your clearest thinking and deepest work at home - and have more energy left over to achieve personal goals or fuel bigger professional ambitions. In fact, soon you might find it hard to imagine working any other way.

©2020 Laura Vanderkam (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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Gréât Principles for working from home

I’ve loved Laura’s work for quite some time. This is a great, quick book with ideas on how to effectively work from home, manage Time, and set your self up for a full life. I highly recommend!

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Useful tips, quick listen

This short book gives some really useful tips for those new to working from home. Glad a gave it a listen!

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Not as good as her other books

She has some great actionable tips and thoughts. If you’ve read her other books though then there won’t be as much new material here. I still enjoy her refreshing honesty and ideas though.

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Practical and timely

I think this is a timely book given the pandemic and folks listening can all find something useful in it.

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