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One Size Does Not Fit All! Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared those managers for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities, all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what they had in mind, is it? Don't panic. Devora Zack has the tools to help readers succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs...
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"Leadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no fluke: the latest research on the brain shows that we can pinpoint the mental activity associated with it--and cultivate it for our benefit. In this book, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert; Jeffrey...
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"Anyone-even you!-can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Many people understand humor's power intuitively. But when it comes to using it with intention, far fewer know how. As a result, humor is vastly underleveraged in most workplaces today, impacting our performance, relationships, and health, and contributing to a permanent and unsightly frown known...
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In today's frenzied and wired world, we are obsessed with the idea of not "wasting time." But have we lost the silences and solitude so essential to our inner lives? A great deal of evidence suggests the value in wasting time, of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks, of unplugging from the grid. In this vital investigation of the rush and heave of the modern...
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" As leaders climb the corporate ladder of success, the risk of falling into "ego traps" increases, which in turn can hurt business and threaten hard-won success. In EGO vs. EQ, author Jen Shirkani presents ways of honing Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to eliminate business blind spots. Drawing on real-life anecdotes from the author's 20 years of coaching and consulting -- including stories of success and failure from the leaders of vanguard companies...
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Daniel Goleman's international bestseller Emotional Intelligence changed our concept of 'being smart,' proving that emotional intelligence- how we handle ourselves and our relationships-matters more than IQ or technical skill in educational success. Now, Goleman teams with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, experts on emotional intelligence research, to explore the consequences of emotional intelligence for leaders and organizations. The authors argue...
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Guy Kawasaki's acclaimed books have established him as the entrepreneur's entrepreneur. Now he turns to the mystery of influence, and offers a new take on this key force that drives any successful business or personal interaction. This book's fundamental message is that in any transaction the goal is not to get your own way, but to bring about a voluntary, enduring, and delightful change of heart in other people, by working with and through them and...
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" The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It's not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learn new and effective powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership, and mutual success. Conversational Intelligence translates the wealth of new insights coming out of neuroscience from across the globe, and brings the science down to earth so people can understand...
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The essential follow-up to the groundbreaking Emotional Intelligence is now available as an unabridged audio program. In Working With Emotional Intelligence, Goleman shows that emotional intelligence has become the new yardstick for success for CEOs and junior hires alike. Drawing on both unparalleled access to business leaders and in-depth research, he documents that star performance in every field depends more on emotional intelligence than IQ or...
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Why do executives get stuck? Why do leaders sometimes find themselves pushing hard but not gaining traction? Frequently it's because they're working against themselves, defeating their best efforts with their own problematical thoughts and emotions.
In this book, we refer to thought patterns and emotional tendencies that hinder your ability to respond to business issues in a productive and professional way as HeadTrash. Put another way, HeadTrash
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Awakening Compassion at WorkThe Quiet Power That Elevates People and OrganizationsSuffering in the workplace is not just a private matter; it's an unrecognized and costly drain on organizational potential. People bring their personal struggles to work every day, and the workplace itself can be a source of pain. Scholars and consultants Monica Worline and Jane Dutton reveal that not only does unaddressed suffering have a dramatic impact on productivity...
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To perform better in any situation-in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life-it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness...
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Brian Billick, who guided the Baltimore Ravens to victory in Super Bowl XXXV in only his second year as head coach, quickly earned a reputation as one of the best leaders and motivators in the ranks of the NFL. Creating what many football observers consider the all-time best defense, he led his team to footballs Holy Grail against long odds and a tough series of adversaries. Calling upon the skills that helped lead a professional football team, Billick...