Ep 52. Bob Pozen: Extreme Productivity

Bob Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. And he is a former President of Fidelity Investments and Former Executive Chair of MFS Investment Management. Bob has put his experience into action in several ways. He’s written Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours. Bob served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security, where he developed a progressive plan to make the system solvent. He was Secretary of Economic Affairs for Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. And in 2007 he was chairman of the SEC's Committee to Improve Financial Reporting. Stew and Bob talk about how we can all be more productive, more efficient, and more mindful with our time. They talk about ways to set small and achievable goal posts for larger long-term goals. Bob shares his wisdom and ideas for how to make meetings more productive, how to manage the email deluge, and how to talk with your boss to get more flexibility in accomplishing your mutual goals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to the Work and Life Podcast with Stew Friedman -- bestselling author, celebrated professor at The Wharton School, and founder of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is widely recognized as the world's foremost authority on cultivating leadership from the point of view of the whole person. On this podcast, Stew talks with a variety of experts -- leading researchers, progressive executives, policy advocates, inspiring educators, and more -- about how to cultivate harmony between work and the rest of your life; that is, your family, your community, and your private self (mind, body, and spirit). Conversations in all Work and Life Podcast episodes are taken from broadcasts of Stew's Work and Life Radio Show, which airs weekly on SiriusXM 132, Business Radio Powered by Wharton. Tune in on Mondays at noon Eastern Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.