Soundview to Publish Summary of Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen

Jan. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- In Extreme Productivity, author Robert Pozen reveals the secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. This book is for anyone feeling overwhelmed by an existing workload — facing myriad competing demands and multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a calendar full of boring meetings and a backlog of e-mails, Extreme Productivity explains how to determine your highest priorities and match them with how you actually spend your time. Learn more at http://www.summary.com/book-summaries/_/Extreme-Productivity-summary.

Robert C. Pozen was formerly Chairman of MFS Investment Management®, which manages over $300 billion in assets for over five million investors worldwide.  This represents an increase of more than 100% from the beginning of 2004, when Bob was named Chairman.  He serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Bob was formerly Vice Chairman of Fidelity Investments and President of Fidelity Management & Research Company, the investment advisor to the Fidelity mutual funds. During Bob’s five years as President, Fidelity’s assets increased from $500 billion to $900 billion. From 1987 to 1996, Bob was Managing Director and General Counsel of Fidelity Investments.  In that role, he created Fidelity’s Charitable Gift Fund, launched Fidelity’s entry into the Japanese mutual fund business, and served as a director of its credit card bank.

In 1968, Bob graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College, which awarded him a Knox Traveling Fellowship. In 1972 Bob received a law degree from Yale Law School, where he served on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal.  In 1973, he received a JSD from Yale for his doctoral thesis on state enterprises in Africa.

Bob is an outside director of Medtronic, Inc, and Nielsen, Inc. He is also an outside director of several funds managed by AMC, a subsidiary of the World Bank investing in Africa and Latin America. In addition, he is a member of the governing board of two non-profit organizations, the Harvard Neuro-Discovery Center and the Commonwealth Fund.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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