How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B019QZ9TT2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 589 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The everyday epiphany. 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 tendencies, or the habits (good or bad) we pick up.To be clear on what “How to Have a Good Day” is not: it requires no deep plumb. Five Stars Very practical and extends accepted knowledge to new interpretation and application.. This is a terrific book, filled with practical advice that is easy 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.
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's insights to boost their job satisfaction and performance at work, How to Have a Good Day is the book so many people wanted when they finished Nudge, Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow and were looking for practical ways to apply this fascinating science to their own lives and careers. In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows listeners how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform their approaches to everyday working life. 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 resilie