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"What should I do with my life? It's one of the biggest questions we face, and one that's so easy to get wrong. Career Match helps you find the best fit for your skills, interests, and core personality - the secret to a truly satisfying professional life. Whether you're starting a job search, selecting a course of study, or hoping to switch out of a career that never clicked, just one simple quiz points you in the right direction. Derived from popular...
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In an unorthodox approach, Georgetown University professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice, and sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers.
Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping....
Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping....
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"Make every workplace interaction positive and productive. Personality Style at Work outlines the four principal personality styles--Direct, Spirited, Considerate and Systematic. It explains how to determine which one describes you and shows how to use this knowledge to interact more successfully with others.Kate Ward was manager of curriculum development CareerTrack, where she authored programs, supervised a team of instructional designers, and facilitated...
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This book leads you step-by-step through the process of determining and verifying your personality type, providing real-life case studies of people who share your type and introducing you to the key ingredients your work must have for it to be genuinely fulfilling. Using workbook exercises and explaining specific job search strategies, Do What You Are identifies occupations that are popular with your type and offers a rundown of your work related...
7) Personality power: discover your unique profile and unlock your potential for breakthrough success
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The key to both enjoying and succeeding at work lies in knowing your core strengths-- and making the most of them. The authors give you a clear blueprint for using your natural abilities more effectively, and reenergizing your professional life.
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"The Career Inside You employs the Enneagram Personality Assessment System (with its sizeable audience) to find a career specifically tailored to any reader. In addition, this guide includes quizes and interactive exercises for the reader to identify their particular personality type, a list of recommended jobs tailored to each type, and practical job-hunting tools to launch the perfect career. In geometry, an enneagram is a 9-pointed figure or star;...
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"New York Times bestselling author Patrick Lencioni provides a groundbreaking new model for finding joy in work, avoiding misery and frustration, getting more done, and working better with others. The 6 Types of Working Genius details a simple and lightning-fast way to discover and use your natural, God-given talents"--
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How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power and authority are not leaders at all -- at least not as the word is currently used. But, according to Barbara Kellerman, this assumption is dangerously naive. A provocative departure from conventional thinking, Bad Leadership compels us to see leadership in its entirety....
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Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain and ignoring his pain killing addiction, he uses his cane to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. House and his team deal with unusual medical mysteries.
16) The microstress effect: how little things pile up and create big problems--and what to do about it
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"There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of-and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds,...