How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553419633 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Caroline Webb is a former partner at McKinsey and Company, where she worked for over a decade, before starting her consulting firm, Sevenshift, to help clients be more productive, inspired, and effective at work
"The everyday epiphany." according to timothy d fisher. For those of us without the time, means, or gumption to hire a career/life coach, there is help. Profound, tangible, and accessible help from this book. And blessedly, it requires little heavy lifting on our part. It turns out, the ways we get in our own way, the procrastinating, time-wasting, goal-sabotaging, can be squelched. While we’ve been suffering, a small army of academics has been figuring stuff out. It might in how our brains function, our evolutionary. Five Stars Amazon Customer Very practical and extends accepted knowledge to new interpretation and application.. "This is a terrific book, filled with practical advice that is easy" according to C. L. Franklin. This is a terrific book, filled with practical advice that is easy to apply. Time Magazine recommended it and I know why. I use the principles in it every work day, and even in my non-working life. Along with Time Magazine, I highly recommend this book.
But it has not always been easy to see how to apply these insights in the real world--until now. In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be at our best. A remarkable and much-needed book, How to Have a Good Day gives us the tools we need to have a lifetime of good days.. She translates three big scientific ideas into step-by-step guidance that shows us how to set better priorities, make our time go further, ace every interaction, be our smartest selves, strengthen our personal impact, be resilient to setbacks, and boost our energy and enjoyment. Through it all, Webb teaches us how to navigate the typical challenges of modern workplaces—from conflict with colleagues to dull meetings and overflowing inboxes—with skill and ease. Filled with stories of people who have used Webb&
Very useful." —Sir Michael Moritz, Chairman of Sequoia Capital “A powerful toolkit to improve both work and wellbeing. Now we have one. Whatever your personal definition of a good day, you'll have more of them after reading this book.” —Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and co-founder of Quiet Revolution "Almost all of us work in environments where our time is stretched far too thin.