Can I Have Your Attention?: Inspiring Better Work Habits, Focusing Your Team, and Getting Stuff Done in the Constantly Connected Workplace - Hardcover

Steinhorst, Curt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111939046X ISBN 13: 9781119390466

Publisher: Wiley, 2017

Synopsis

"A must read for anyone in the business of leading others."
Ken May, CEO of Top Golf; former CEO of Fedex

"If you want your team to stay focused, you will want to read Can I Have Your Attention?"
Chester Elton, New York Times Best-Selling author of All In, The Carrot Principle and What Motivates Me

Inspire better work habits. Focus your team. Get stuff done in the constantly connected workplace.
As our workloads expand, attention has never been more valuable. Or more difficult to keep.

In Can I Have your Attention?, Curt Steinhorst shows business leaders how to cut through the noise and get their employees back to work. Curt has spent years helping Fortune 500 companies overcome distraction and achieve focus. With technology creating endless opportunites to "improve productivity", people spend so much time responding to the interruptions that they've lost the ability to focus and do their jobs. Yet, the potential for harnessing the power of your team's attention has never been greater--if you can capture it.

You'll learn how to:

• Implement a comprehensive organizational strategy to increase focus and overcome digital distraction.
• Take back control of the technology in your organization and life.
• Establish a Communication Compact, defining how, when, and why your team will communicate with each other.
• Create a "vault" to increase productivity, decrease stress, and boost your creativity.
• Free yourself and your employees from the never-ending flood of emails and messages.
• Achieve unmatched focus in the age of distraction.

The smartphone isn't going away. Learn the simple rules and guidelines that will improve focus and create the mental space needed for your people to work to their full potential.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

PRAISE FOR CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?

"A must read for anyone in the business of leading others."
—KEN MAY, CEO of Top Golf, former CEO of FedEx

"It feels like an impossible dream—to be creative and productive...responsive and efficient...open to others and focused on your own work. In his provocative, pithy, and insatiably readable style, Curt Steinhorst shows how to make this dream a reality. Curt's book certainly got my attention. I urge you to put his messages to work."
—WILLIAM C. TAYLOR, cofounder of Fast Company, author of Simply Brilliant

"At last—deliverance from distraction in the digital age! Everyone I know (including me) needs this book."
—GEOFF COLVIN, bestselling author of Humans Are Underrated and Talent Is Overrated

"In our Stanford research we discovered an 'attention economy' where companies compete for your mindshare and bet heavily to win your business. Curt Steinhorst has captured profound insights that turn those challenges and confusion into confidence and commitment in a world bent on distracting you."
—MARK THOMPSON, The World's #1 Growth Coach, New York Times bestselling author of Admired and Success Built to Last

"Curt is an expert in helping companies reclaim their workplaces from the drudgery of distraction."
—MICHAEL COORS, co-CEO of CoorsTek, Inc.

"In a world full of distractions this book offers practical advice on how to stay focused and productive at work. If you want your team to stay focused you will want to read Can I Have Your Attention?"
—CHESTER ELTON, New York Times bestselling author of All In, The Carrot Principle, and What Motivates Me

"Mandatory reading for anyone that wishes that they—or their organization—spent more time focusing on the things that matter."
—MARK RAMPOLLA, founder of ZICO Coconut Water, author of High-Hanging Fruit

"When I saw Curt speak I was immediately struck by his ability to think 'loud-world' differently and immediately booked him to present to BMLG."
—SCOTT BORCHETTA, founder, president, and CEO of Big Machine Label Group, American Idol Mentor

"Can I Have Your Attention? is an awesome resource for business leaders who want to inspire others."
—BRIAN SCUDAMORE, founder and CEO of O2E Brands

"Curt understands the consequences of distraction and, more importantly, how to capture undivided attention. His insights can help individuals and teams develop intense focus to achieve their full potential."
—JOHN MCCAIN, CEO of NTT DATA Services

"If you're looking for someone who can equip your people to better focus in today's work environment and do so while keeping them entertained and engaged, look no further than Curt. He makes us think, keeps us laughing, and leaves us knowing how to improve our lives by reclaiming our attention."
—MIKE KAPLAN, president and CEO of Aspen Ski Co.

From the Inside Flap:

The way we are working isn't working. We're distracted by technology. We're overwhelmed by open offices, siloed by cubicles, or marooned on our "remote" island. We're expected to be available 24/7, but never more in need of focus. We miss deadlines. We produce poor quality work. And they don't understand why. How can we get employees' attention off the myriad temptations and on what's important for their work?

Can I Have Your Attention? is written for anyone who knows that they, their employees, or their organizations can be more productive but aren't sure how to get there. In the book, Curt Steinhorst and Jonathan McKee help leaders rethink every aspect of work with an eye toward our most precious and dwindling resource: attention. They dissect the nature of distraction in our constantly connected workplace, reveal the hidden costs, and outline the strategies and systems needed to address the problem head on.

"Focus-wise" is the term used to describe the goal of turning our attention resources into productivity. Written for business leaders in any field, Can I Have Your Attention? discusses the possibilities and limitations of our brain's ability to focus. The authors explore our love-hate relationship with tech and reveal how it can actually help promote focus. They also include a thoughtful examination of the pros and cons of monitoring your workforce, unpack the shortcomings of digital communication and examines how face-to-face connection can make all the difference for engaging people. They also offer an alternative to the myth of work/life balance, explore issues of delineation and delegation, and offer practical tips for extending focus and capacity.

Can I Have Your Attention? is filled with research and experience based expertise and a practical approach to the unique demands of today's workforce. The book includes ideas for training that really work, suggestions for establishing emotional engagement, and a surprising cure for employee boredom.

Now you can reverse the distraction paradigm and make the workplace once again a place of productive work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 111939046X
• ISBN 13: 9781119390466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256