Пирамида эффективности. От разрозненных техник к цельной системе

by Tamara Myles, Тамара Майлс

От производителя
О чем эта книга
Согласно пирамиде потребностей Маслоу, нас не интересует самореализация и общественное признание, пока мы голодны или не находимся в безопасности: сначала нужно удовлетворить потребности низшего уровня, чтобы переходить к верхнему. По тому же принципу построена пирамида продуктивности, система, которую предлагает автор — сертифицированный тренер по продуктивности.
Прежде чем заняться тайм-менеджментом, необходимо навести порядок у себя дома и в офисе, в своем компьютере, и только после всего этого можно заниматься целеполаганием и максимально реализовывать свой потенциал.
С помощью этой книги вы сможете:
оценить свою продуктивность на разных уровнях;
обустроить свое рабочее пространство;
навести порядок в своих файлах и электронной почте;
правильно расставлять приоритеты и управлять своим временем;
устанавливать четкие цели и добиваться их реализации.

Для кого эта книга
Для всех, кто хочет максимально реализовать свой потенциал.

Фишки книги
Сильный контент. Выгодно отличается от аналогов свежими идеями и нестандартным подходом.
Очень простой и доступный текст с множеством кейсов и коротким резюме по каждой главе.
Авторская концепция "Пирамиды продуктивности", соответствующая по структуре и связи между уровнями пирамиде потребностей Маслоу.

Цитаты из книги

Пирамида Маслоу
В своей известной научной работе о мотивации, опубликованной в 1943 году, Абрахам Маслоу писал о том, что существует иерархия потребностей и что человек не может испытывать потребности высокого уровня, пока нуждается в более примитивных вещах.

Новый уровень
Нет одного, «правильного» для всех уровня, с которого начинается путь к максимальной эффективности. Прежде чем стремиться к вершине, вы должны быть готовы к переменам. Ничего не получится, если вы не готовы заменить непродуктивные инструменты теми, что приведут вас к успеху.

Полный порядок
Организация физического пространства — это первый уровень Пирамиды эффективности. Если люди не начнут с ликвидации беспорядка на своем рабочем месте, любые другие шаги по повышению эффективности обречены на неудачу.

Просите о помощи
Если причиной откладывания дел является отсутствие ясности, иногда просто нужно попросить о помощи. Наставник, руководитель, тренер или другой человек, которому вы доверяете, может помочь вам разобраться в ситуации, подсказать, с чего начать, или предложить шаги для завершения проекта.

Похитители времени
Постарайтесь избегать задач, которые попадают в категорию «Не важно и Не срочно»: непредвиденные паузы в работе, телефонные звонки «для поддержания отношений», плохо организованные деловые встречи. «Похитители времени» —все те дела, которыми мы занимаемся, чтобы не работать по-настоящему.

В здоровом теле
Развивайте самодисциплину, чтобы претворять в жизнь изменения, придерживаться выбранного курса и активно действовать. Ведите здоровый образ жизни, снизьте уровень стресса и не жертвуйте здоровым сном — все это поможет вам достичь пика продуктивности.

Genres: Self Help, Productivity, Business, Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Tamara is an accomplished consultant, author and international speaker with over two decades of experience helping leaders improve business performance. She leverages her expertise on productivity, well-being, and meaningful work to help leaders create systems and cultures that enable their teams to thrive, and their organizations to grow.

Tamara was one of the first 600 people in the world to earn a master’s in Applied Positive Psychology (aka the science of happiness) from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a leading global authority on meaning at work—her research is the first rigorous study to examine the leader’s impact on making work meaningful.

Tamara works with a wide range of organizations, from emerging start ups to Fortune 500’s. Her clients include KPMG, Microsoft, and MassMutual, and her insights have been featured in leading publications such as Forbes, FastCompany, USA Today, and Business Insider. She is the author of "The Secret to Peak Productivity: A Simple Guide to Reaching Your Personal Best" (2014) and "Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee" (2025).

Tamara is an instructor in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania and a trainer for the world-renowned Penn Resilience Program. She is a professor in the Master of Science in Leadership program at Boston College, where she integrates cutting-edge research into practical applications for leadership and organizational success.

Tamara was born in Brazil and lives in New England with her husband and three children. She does her best thinking on long walks with her 2 dogs while listening to an audiobook.

Reviews

[Volodymyr Dehtyarov · Rating 4 out of 5]

Мне книга была полезна как минимум тестом про личную эффективность в первой же главе, который показал, что у меня все отлично с стратегическим планированием, тайм-менеджментом и целеполаганием, средне с организацией физического пространства и очень плохо с электронным документооборотом. Разобрал несколько ящиков, начал разбирать по приходу домой рюкзак, запланировал купить еще несколько ящиков, удалил приложение Facebook с телефона и начал сортировать содержимое папок "work" и "new". А еще открытие - что в США существует отдельная профессия National association of professional organizers, и даже несколько профессиональных ассоциаций и сертификаций организаторов.

[Holli Keel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I started reading this book because I clearly need help organizing my life and doing things differently. But no. This one might work for a Type A person who likes making lists and automating their life to the point that they find an extra half hour in their day so they can use that time to be even more productive. But I am not that person. By chapter three, I decided life would not be worth living if I implemented her system. So, back to the creative, overwhelming mess of my life.

[Kirk Hanley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty basic book on time management with a few valuable nuggets buried among a lot of the same old time management advice offered elsewhere. Tamara Myles compares her approach to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is an interesting way of looking at it. But I felt some essential information was lacking. For example, in the chapter on dealing with electronic organization, it is pretty much all about dealing with email. I really could use some insights on dealing with bookmarking too many sites, keeping up with podcasts, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. and there is nothing here addressing that - a serious absence in my opinion. If you're looking for a basic text to begin with, it may be useful, but if you've read other materials on time management, I'm not sure there's much here of use. Your valuable time may be better spent elsewhere.

[Susan Finn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I hesitate to pick up non-fiction books. I especially hesitate to pick up books that I think might make me feel even more disfunctional in my time-management struggles. But I am very happy to have picked up this book! Tamara Myles has outlined a truly simple guide to making each day, each action the most productive and meaningful that it can be. The trick, for me, was learning that it is not really "Time-Management" but, 'Choice-Management". I am very grateful that I read this book. It has already made a big difference in my personal and business productivity and peace-of-mind.

[Craig Maloney · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm not sure when I picked up this book but I decided to take a quick peek through it to see if there were any nuggets that I might find useful.

There's a checklist that I have for whether a book is going to be useful or whether it's going to try to seduce me into thinking I'm getting more out of it than I really am.

1) Lots of reviews in the front-matter of the book. Check. There's a lot of plaudits in there about how this is a transformational system.
2) A Cosmo-style quiz. Check. Pretty much any answer on this quiz will trigger that you need some form of help that this author will provide. Naturally it's a 1-3 scale where 1 is complete disaster and 3 is "well, you probably could pick up a few pointers in this book". Everyone's a winner! Huzzah!
3) A comparison to a well-known area of scientific research. Remember Maslow's Pyramid? Well, the author has taken that and re-worked it (and trademarked it) so it totally fits the model they wish to expound on in the book. After all, if Maslow's Pyramid is scientific then surely re-working it a bit will also make it seem scientific.
4) Certified Professional Organizer (R). The author is a Certified Professional Organizer (R) and mentions this several times in the text. Apparently one can become certified through means that I won't go into in this review, but suffice to say Chapter 13 is about how to hire a professional organizer, of which one of the questions is whether or not the potential hire is certified. Considering the author likely fits all of the interview questions I'm sure everyone who picks up this book will at least have the author's contact information in their contacts list.
5) Pictures of before and after. Naturally one wants to see results from a book like this and the author has provided the necessary pictures of "before" and "after", which show such scenes as a dining room table full of crap, and a dining room not full of crap. Whether or not the pictures are sequential is irrelevant - you have seen what a dining room table not foll of boxes, papers, and other assorted junk looks like and are now able to do the same.
6) Pictures of office supplies like boxes, accordion folders, and the like.
7) Bibliography of other books, some of which (David Allen's "Getting Things Done" in particular) are more complete and well-designed systems than the piecemeal and hacked-together version presented in the text. Harold Taylor is mentioned in several chapters as well.
8) SMART goals. Much of the productivity recipe in this book is related to SMART goal setting. Unfortunately the way it's presented feels like a re-tread of other authors like Leo Babauta of zenhabits.net.
9) Case Study. The last chapter of the book (and also covered throughout the book) is a case study. In this case study the author makes the case that their methods presented in this book work and their client is now hopeful and happy.

Unlike some books which lay out a complete system this feels like a hodge-podge of other, better systems. Instead of the "Weekly Review" of David Allen's GTD this refers to a "weekly maintenance" period that seems awfully familiar. The author recommends when deciding on whether to do something or not that you can "Choose, Remove, Wait, or Delegate". And naturally the first thing the author suggests that one should do is write down everything. Hmm...

This book is an incomplete version of better-written and implemented productivity techniques and tools. It gives advice for clutter removal that are better explained elsewhere. And it makes promises of gains that I don't see happening without the paid services of the author. If you're really stuck then this book will not help you directly. You'd be better served with David Allen's "Getting Things Done" book (which provides a clearer and more completely realized system for productivity) and the minimalism and focus work written by Leo Babauta on zenhabits.net.

[Mcrea Ellington · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll be honest, I almost didn't pick this up. I've read enough productivity books to wallpaper my office and most of them leave me feeling simultaneously inspired and completely overwhelmed. This one is different.
The Productivity Pyramid is genuinely clever because it starts at the ground level, your physical space, before it ever asks you to think about goals or ambition. That sequencing matters more than it sounds. I'd tried time management systems before that completely fell apart because my desk was a disaster and my inbox had 4,000 unread emails. Myles gets that you can't build upward on a broken foundation.
The self assessment at the beginning is worth the price of the book alone. It told me things about my own habits I'd been avoiding for years.
My one honest criticism is that some sections feel a little corporate and dry, like you're reading a workplace training manual rather than a book written for real people. A few more personal stories would have gone a long way.
But if you've tried the flashy productivity methods and they never stick? Start here. It's practical, humble, and actually doable.

[Carter Hemphill · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author knowingly includes a lot of productivity tips that you can find frequently mentioned in other books. The value of this book is that the author uses the Maslow construction of needs to focus on how to advance to higher level of productivity (e.g., physical clutter -> digital clutter --> goal setting). It's a useful paradigm for addressing productivity issues. The book is also unique in discussing what a power office should look like and what to do if you are looking for a productivity expert. At first I had checked this book out from the library, but later purchased it since it will be a good book to go back to and review.

[الهنوف · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected more practical advices

[Dan Murage · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a life changing book for me. If you are looking to reorganize and reenergize your life this book will do that for you.

[Brittany Mazzola Leath · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good info and the author encourages skimming if it doesn’t apply. Love that!
Definitely a good business resource.

[Queenie]

I watched so many YouTube videos before about productivity but Myles was able to encapsulate all important, effective and yet simple "guides" in this tiny textbook. Liked it!

[Diane Holcomb · Rating 4 out of 5]

If there’s a secret to peak productivity, I want to know what it is, because I’m overwhelmed by all the things I want to do, need to do, and would do if I had the time. So when I saw this book in the library, I snatched it and scurried home.

The secret? A Productivity Pyramid based on a version of Maslow’s Pyramid. Who's Maslow? The brainiac who spelled out the five levels to self-actualization, numero uno being our basic needs. Until those are met, we can't move up the pyramid.

The Productivity Pyramid works the same way. Until we master the first four levels, we can't reach the fifth, the realm of possibility. And what are those five levels?

Level 1: Physical Organization

It's hard to be productive, let alone think clearly, when surrounded by clutter. The author suggests using the three T's to clear up the mess:

To toss: stuff you don’t need.
To do: stuff you need to take action on.
To keep: all that important stuff you need to file away.

Level 2: Electronic Organization

Are you overwhelmed by emails? Yeah, me too. What to do? The author suggests setting up electronic files to sort your emails into, which is highly appealing to those of us with OCD. Also, limit the number of times you check your email, no matter how addicting it is to check. Three times, tops, should do it.

Level 3: Time Management

Here's the step I want to master. How does one get a handle on managing time? By utilizing the three P’s:

Plan: all the stuff you want, need, and have to work on. This could take some time, y'all.
Prioritize: decide what's most important, then next, and so on. Is it social media? Probably not.
Perform: commit to doing all that stuff, starting with the most important. Hint: it's not Twitter.

Level 4: Activity-Goal Alignment

Is whatever you’re doing, or adding to your to-do lists, or spending your time on, in alignment with your goals? Do you even know your goals? Hmm. This is another step I could brush up on.

Level 5: Possibility

What do you want to do or be? What’s the big picture of your life? Well... um...hmm. Time for the five E’s:

Enjoy: spend time doing what you loved to do but stopped doing.
Engage: spend time with people, friends, family, community.
Enable: spend time taking care of your health, home, and welfare.
Evolve: spend time taking whatever you currently enjoy doing to the next level.
Explore: spend time seeking out new challenges.

Okay, all of these action steps are well and good, but who's got the time to do them? Just reading about the T's and P's and E's made my head spin.

Luckily, I discovered one more tidbit of wisdom in the book. And it's on the last page.

Are you ready?

Stop saying: “I don’t have the time.” Instead, say: “I had more important tasks on my list," or "I have other priorities.” So that you’re living in the world of choice management, rather than time management.

And that, my friends, is the biggest secret of all.

[Claire Binkley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Honestly, I didn't find this simple guide to reaching my personal best easy to understand, and I've been trying for a while.

I'm sure Ms Myles has a winning strategy, but I couldn't pick it up in the attempts I've made at this book.

Stay organised, neat and efficient. Then productivity follows. I think that is the bottom line here.

[Stock · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book to be pretty good. I felt the middle section was the best as it contained a lot of good tips and suggestions quoted from many other good books such the art of the deal and think and grow rich; however the beginning and end were mainly fillers

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review to come

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed getting more productivity tips. I love how she ties it to Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

[Leif Denti · Rating 2 out of 5]

Is supposed to concern productivity but now in retrospect I can’t even remember one principle. A run-of-the-mill book.

[BLACK CAT · Rating 2 out of 5]

Similar to the books: getting things done and the 7 habits of highly effective people. It is a productivity/goals system.

[Daniel Wong]

Excellent book w/ many practical and fresh suggestions. I practice the 25 min plane mode & set the timer for 25 min. of concentrated work.

[Jenny Gargarello · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is inspirational in my opinion. The only reason why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars is because it became repetitive and included some unnecessary information near the end.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall a basic guide to productivity and getting stuff done. Had a few nuggets and was able to skim the rest.

[Andréia · Rating 4 out of 5]

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