A no-fluff, easy-to-read compilation of the best advice from the top 20 time management books. Recommendations cover five areas: Focus, Plan, Organize, Take Action, and Learn. Short chapters cover the A to Z of time management from finding out what time means to you to prioritizing, overcoming procrastination, and managing stress and well being. You can read the book from start to finish or zero in on specific areas for improvement. The book includes a useful annotated bibliography and bonus sections on recommended books on being successful and how to buy books for much less.
Inspirational & Motivational Quotes – Possibly The Best Way To Start Your Day
Inspirational & Motivational Quotes Kindle Book – Within this masterpiece, Terry H. Elston and Benjamin P. Bonetti have combined some of their most renowned quotes for a truly magical resource of inspiration and motivation.
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.
In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG—to fix this broken formula. Using stories and case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.
Isolating seven practical, actionable principles that have been tried and tested everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, stretching from Argentina to Zimbabwe, he shows us how we can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our potential. Among the principles he outlines:
• The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility, so we can see—and seize—opportunities wherever we look.
• The Zorro Circle: how to channel our efforts on small, manageable goals, to gain the leverage to gradually conquer bigger and bigger ones.
• Social Investment: how to reap the dividends of investing in one of the greatest predictors of success and happiness—our social support network
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The 25 Best Time Management Tools and Techniques: How to Get More Done Without Driving Yourself Crazy
At last, all the advice you'll ever need to manage your time better, stay organised and get things done – in one volume! Let's face it, if you need time management then you probably don't have time to read reams of advice from piles of different books. You need to get in and get out. With The 25 Best Time Management Tools and Techniques you get all the best ideas from twenty books in one place. You'll be amazed at how much more productive you are and how much your quality of life can improve once you've mastered these simple tricks.
The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management
The all-time classic book on time management, "The Time Trap", has shown countless readers how to squeeze the optimal efficiency and satisfaction out of their work day. Based on decades of research with businesspeople around the world, and now completely updated. Filled with smart tactics, revealing interviews, and handy time management tools, the book has been extensively revised to cover time management challenges caused by new technologies and the Internet, and to provide technology-based solutions. For those who feel swamped by work and information overload, this is the proven, up-to-the-minute guide they need for getting things done when there never seems to be enough time.
Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity
A 5-part process that will transform your organization — or your career — into a non-stop creativity juggernaut
We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity-at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz — as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists — into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy for you and your organization. The methodology is simple, backed by proven results.
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Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius
In this trailblazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael Michalko shows how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you. To create this book, Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history's greatest thinkers—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—and then brought their techniques into the modern home and workplace. The follow-up to the popular THINKERTOYS, which sold over 80,000 copies.
Organizing Your Day: Time Management Techniques That Will Work for You
EXCERPT FROM CATALOG:
Yes or no?
1. Are you trying to do too much in the time you have?
2. Do you know what the chief time hindrances are in your life?
3. Are you willing to make some changes in how you use your time?
If you answered yes to any of these, you are ready for this chapter.
Time is unpredictable. Often it seems slippery, sliding by unnoticed and unused. Because you can't see it, it is tricky to organize. Let's demystify it. If we approach it in the same way we approach organizing furniture or clothing or silverware, it becomes less mysterious.
Step away from blaming, complaining, and justifying. No matter what is holding you back, you can overcome it. There is a wonderfully upgraded life waiting for you. Just begin one step at a time to move in the direction of good time management.
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