• Focus on your primary objectives: Every night, revise your next day's schedule to understand your top priorities. 
• Manage your work overload: Skip over 50-80% of your emails based on the sender and the subject. Break large projects into small steps — and start with step...

Age and seniority highly correlate with personal productivity.

Habits of seniors include:

• Developing routines for low-value activities.
• Managing message flow
• Running effective meetings
• Delegating tasks

Highly productive professionals share the same clusters of habits:

• They plan their work based on their top priorities and then acted with a definite objective
• They develop effective techniques for managing a high volume of information and tasks
• They understand the needs...

There are noteworthy differences in how women and men managed to be productive.

• Women are able to run productive meetings; they can keep sessions within 90 minutes and finish with the agreement of the next steps.
• Men do very well at coping with high message volume...