Soundview Executive Book Summaries to Host Webinar with Bob Posen

Feb. 18, 2013 - PRLog -- In this Soundview Live webinar, Extreme Productivity, Bob Pozen will reveal his secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. The antidote to a calendar full of boring meetings and a backlog of emails, this event will show professionals how they can achieve their goals by making a critical shift in mindset: from hours worked to results produced. Learn more at http://www.summary.com/track/_/Extreme-Productivity.
Robert C. Pozen is Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was formerly Chairman of MFS Investment Management®, which manages over $200 billion in assets forover five million investors worldwide. This represents an increase of about 75% from the first half of 2004 when Bob was named Chairman.

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. Born in 1946, Bob lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife Liz, a psychotherapist and figurative artist. They have two adult children, Joanna and David.

Attendees will learn:

The three big ideas for making productive goals.
How to be productive every day.
Which personal skills need to be developed for the greatest productivity.
How to effectively manage up and down.
How to apply productivity principles across every area of your life.

About Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Founded in 1978, Soundview pioneered the concept of distilling the key points and ideas of full-length business books into easy-to-read 8-page text and 20-minute audio summaries, helping readers maximize their time and business intelligence. They have continued to enhance the summary content with author interviews, interactive author webinars, and video interviews with executives. Soundview’s 100,000+ subscribers worldwide include CEOs, government leaders, entrepreneurs, business consultants, academics, and students. Soundview is a part of the Philadelphia, Pa.-based Concentrated Knowledge Corporation. Visit http://www.summary.com/new for more information about Soundview Executive Book Summaries.