Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.

Motivation: re-imagining boot camp, nursing home rebellions, and the locus of control -- Teams: psychological safety at Google and Saturday Night Live -- Focus: cognitive tunneling, Air France flight 447, and the power of mental models -- Goal setting: smart goals, stretch goals, and the Yom Kippur War -- Managing others: solving a kidnapping with lean and agile thinking and a culture of trust -- Decision making: forecasting the future (and winning at poker) with Bayesian psychology -- Innovation: how idea brokers and creative desperation saved Disney's Frozen -- Absorbing data: turning information into knowledge in Cincinnati's public schools. -- Appendix: a reader's guide to using these ideas.