Each year, Fast Company picks the brains of the most productive people in business to better understand how they work, how they lead, how they create, and how they recharge, wringing the most out of their time. And boy, do they have advice.

This collection features a remarkable range of creative and business powerhouses, from Oprah Winfrey to Chobani founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya; Apple CEO Tim Cook to Venus Williams; historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.

Whether your challenge is gaining mastery over your inbox, getting the best work out of your team, being creative under deadline pressure, or just being a better, more balanced person, we hope you walk away from this collection with fresh ideas.

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