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Can I Have Your Attention?: Inspiring Better Work Habits, Focusing Your Team, and Getting Stuff Done in the Constantly Connected Workplace
The must-read guide for business leaders, overworked and overwhelmed professionals, technology addicts, and anyone who wants to overcome distraction and reclaim focus in their work and personal life.
As our workloads expand, attention has never been more valuable. Or more difficult to keep.
In Can I Have your Attention?, Curt Steinhorst shows business leaders how to cut through the noise and get their employees back to work. Curt has spent years helping Fortune 500 companies overcome distraction and achieve focus. With technology creating endless opportunites to "improve productivity", people spend so much time responding to the interruptions that they've lost the ability to focus and do their jobs. Yet, the potential for harnessing the power of your team's attention has never been greater--if you can capture it.
As our workloads expand, attention has never been more valuable. Or more difficult to keep.
In Can I Have your Attention?, Curt Steinhorst shows business leaders how to cut through the noise and get their employees back to work. Curt has spent years helping Fortune 500 companies overcome distraction and achieve focus. With technology creating endless opportunites to "improve productivity", people spend so much time responding to the interruptions that they've lost the ability to focus and do their jobs. Yet, the potential for harnessing the power of your team's attention has never been greater--if you can capture it.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published September 22, 2017
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About the author
Curt Steinhorst
2 books5 followersCurt Steinhorst is on a mission to rescue us from our distracted selves.
Having spent years studying the impact of tech on human behavior, Curt founded Focuswise, a consultancy that equips organizations to overcome the distinct challenges of the constantly-connected workplace. He is also a certified speaker at the Center for Generational Kinetics, the premier organization for generational research in North America.
Diagnosed with ADD as a child, Curt knows intimately the challenges companies face in keeping the attention of today’s distracted workforce and customer. He has coached executives, TV personalities, and well-known professional athletes on how to effectively communicate and create focus when they speak to audiences, lead their employees, and engage their customers.
Curt’s unique insight and entertaining speaking style has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. He speaks more than seventy-five times a year to everyone from leadership associations and global non-profits to Fortune 100 companies.
Curt is a proud graduate of Texas A&M University, where he served a term as president of his class. Curt lives in Frisco, TX with his wife, Kimi, and two sons, Rand and Reed.
Having spent years studying the impact of tech on human behavior, Curt founded Focuswise, a consultancy that equips organizations to overcome the distinct challenges of the constantly-connected workplace. He is also a certified speaker at the Center for Generational Kinetics, the premier organization for generational research in North America.
Diagnosed with ADD as a child, Curt knows intimately the challenges companies face in keeping the attention of today’s distracted workforce and customer. He has coached executives, TV personalities, and well-known professional athletes on how to effectively communicate and create focus when they speak to audiences, lead their employees, and engage their customers.
Curt’s unique insight and entertaining speaking style has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. He speaks more than seventy-five times a year to everyone from leadership associations and global non-profits to Fortune 100 companies.
Curt is a proud graduate of Texas A&M University, where he served a term as president of his class. Curt lives in Frisco, TX with his wife, Kimi, and two sons, Rand and Reed.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
July 31, 2019
Fantastic book about cultivating a culture of focused work in a culture of constant distractions. Engagingly written, full of real-life examples that bring the point home and strategies to try that sound like they'll actually work! Ultimately, this book is about being a better team player and a better leader.
Some favorite quotes:
Your employees most likely know the problems your organization is facing better than you do. And they know that if they don't get a chance to own the solution, the problems will most likely never get solved.
This is the fundamental irony of most people's lives. They don't quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.
Routine is a foundation of quality focus.
Wandering minds are linked to increased creativity and better working memory—the part of our brains that can help process the noise and information that bombards us every day.
There is no balance. But there is a convergence of priorities that is primarily define by what I say no to.
Some favorite quotes:
Your employees most likely know the problems your organization is facing better than you do. And they know that if they don't get a chance to own the solution, the problems will most likely never get solved.
This is the fundamental irony of most people's lives. They don't quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.
Routine is a foundation of quality focus.
Wandering minds are linked to increased creativity and better working memory—the part of our brains that can help process the noise and information that bombards us every day.
There is no balance. But there is a convergence of priorities that is primarily define by what I say no to.
March 16, 2018
The book is a 4 for me, but I saw Curt speak, and that catapults it to a 5.
I really like the focus on when to work, how to work smarter, how to communicate, and how to focus in our overly connected world. I found myself taking photos of certain pages and sending them to my coworkers like, "What do you think of this idea?" or to a friend, "You HAVE to read this book!"
I can relate to the idea that the most connected, most responsive team member drives the expectations for that team and liked hearing that more is not always better when it comes to communication. Our team at work, for example, functioned much better once we agreed not to email and make decisions during the weekend.
I think every team should read and discuss this book. There is so much to learn, and I think that different team members would relate to different concepts.
I really like the focus on when to work, how to work smarter, how to communicate, and how to focus in our overly connected world. I found myself taking photos of certain pages and sending them to my coworkers like, "What do you think of this idea?" or to a friend, "You HAVE to read this book!"
I can relate to the idea that the most connected, most responsive team member drives the expectations for that team and liked hearing that more is not always better when it comes to communication. Our team at work, for example, functioned much better once we agreed not to email and make decisions during the weekend.
I think every team should read and discuss this book. There is so much to learn, and I think that different team members would relate to different concepts.
January 24, 2025
A great read about establishing focus sense. I came away with some wonderful insight and tips and tricks to help keep me focused. I did think at times there was a bit of rambling going on, but it was not terribly long. I do appreciate the additional resources we can access online.
September 16, 2018
Very relevant, with hands on advice.
October 5, 2018
Fantastic read!
May 20, 2025
Good value, blends some old school style with some new school approaches in an engaging manner.
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