Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul's brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works-and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it's possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but succeed in it-and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

认识Emily和Paul：两个孩子的父母，Emily是一家大公司新晋升的营销副总裁，而Paul则作为独立IT顾问在家或客户办公室工作。他们的生活和我们一样，充斥着令人困惑的电子邮件、电话、更多的电子邮件、会议、项目、提案和计划。仅仅站在风暴的前面已经成为一项似乎无法克服的任务。在这本书中，我们深入到艾米丽和保罗的大脑中，他们试图对呈现给他们的大量信息进行分类，找出如何对其进行优先排序、组织并采取行动。幸运的是，艾米丽和保罗得到了很好的帮助：大卫·洛克知道大脑是如何工作的，更确切地说，知道大脑在工作环境中是如何工作的。Rock向我们展示了Emily和Paul，以及读者，不仅能够在当今压倒一切的工作环境中生存，而且能够在工作环境中取得成功，并在一天结束时仍然感到精力充沛和成就感。