![]() With the Wall Street Journal, I read the summaries on the left of the front page and then leaf through the Journal page by page. I read the editorial page of the Times to see the liberal perspective on current events. I’m mainly interested in finance, health care, retirement, and taxes - broadly speaking. With the New York Times, I’m reading the front page to see what the paper considers important and then deciding whether to read any other stories in my areas of interest. I also want to see what’s happening with the Celtics, Red Sox, or Patriots. In reading the Globe, I’m trying to follow the major political events in Massachusetts. At breakfast, I read the Boston Globe and the New York Times at work, I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. ![]() I know what I’m reading the newspaper for. But if you ask most people why they are reading the newspaper, they will give you vague answers. To begin with, you have to ask: “Why am I reading this book or newspaper?” Reading for pleasure - that’s a separate topic. This week’s topic: How Pozen reads so fast. The first, on Pozen’s daily routine, is here. The result is a seven-part series on productivity, of which this is the second installment. Justin Fox, editorial director of HBR Group, was curious how Pozen did that. Bob Pozen, chairman emeritus of MFS Investment Management, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and sometime writer for Harvard Business Review and HBR.org, gets an awful lot accomplished with a minimum of visible effort and stress. ![]()
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