DescriptionThe key to achieving well-being and happiness was once thought to stem from building our careers and achieving wealth and comfort. However, research shows that many suffer negatively from trying to balance their work with their personal commitments. Long working hours result not in increased productivity but in decreased performance and stress-related illness. We need to rethink our approach to our social, professional, and personal lives: to create a future that offers the opportunity to relax, pursue personal interests, and spend time with our families and friends, whilst performing effectively and productively at work to ensure that businesses thrive. Find the Balance combines analysis with exercises and case studies to introduce simple but effective strategies into our lives, so that we can achieve fulfilment.
DescriptionAn organization's productivity depends on effective management of its workforce. In this best selling program, Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer reviews the ways in which well-intentioned companies can undermine their workforce and offers some new perspectives on more enlightened leadership. He highlights the workforce as a competitive advantage, the rhetoric and reality of "empowerment, " and the costs of obsession with control.
DescriptionCrocodile Charlie Kingmore embarks on a Quest. He has an urgent need to find the Secret of unified teams, productive people, and human happiness at work. It's that, or give up on his dreams for his own success. What to do? If you work for a living, w…
DescriptionIn business, many people follow the golden rule. But treating people the way we'd like to be treated can turn off clients or colleagues with different needs, wants, and hopes. The Platinum Rule shows you how to do unto others as they'd like done unto them. You'll discover the 4 basic business personalities and how to handle them in ways that puts them at ease - the key to stronger career prospects, higher productivity, improved customer relations, and fewer conflicts. Those who use The Platinum Rule see people differently, understand them better, and deal with them in ways that turn every encounter into a win-win situation.
DescriptionSince Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published his groundbreaking book Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Prime Minister Tony Blair and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and influential sports figures like Super Bowl champion coach Jimmy…
DescriptionFrom the author of the best-selling It's Not the Big That Eat the Small, It's the Fast That Eat the Slow comes a vital new guide to increasing business productivity without adding employees or other overhead costs. Managers and CEOs are always lo…
