Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061771295 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. YOUR BRAIN AT WORK explores issues such as: - why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources - why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions - how to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems - how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible - how to collaborate more effectively with others - why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier - how to be more effective at changing other people's behavior. Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works-and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul's brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it and act on it. Rock shows how it's poss
M Kramer said Entertaining Encapsulation of the Literature. In this review I will:a. summarize the book's content,b. provide an overview of the amazon reviews of this book, andc. evaluate the book's merits.CONTENTThe overarching message is that we benefit ourselves when we engage in metacognition (Rock's term). We improve ourselves by becoming more aware of how our power of awareness functions. Rock often expresses this idea metaphorically by telling us that it is to our advan. "INTERESTING BUT A DIFFICULT READ FOR ME" according to DCS - CARMAN. It is a very interesting book, very informative, but was a somewhat difficult read for me. Maybe it was just me, but I had to read some of the passages a few times to get the full understanding of the authors message. Then, I always felt I was still missing something. As a person with both Left Brain and Right Brain capabilities my creativity is sometimes living in different world. And the problem of better understand. Ivan said A Great Book that Gives Advice Based on Scientific Research. Your Brain at Work does an excellent job synthesizing a large body of scientific research on cognitive neuroscience and interpreting the results in a way that helps readers understand how the brain works and how to make it function more efficiently.The book is laid out in a format of a theatrical play, where it introduces two ordinary people and follows their respective days. Both of the characters are facing a variet
Paul Pioneer Press) . Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)“This is the best, the most helpful, and the brainiest book I’ve read on how the brain affects how, why and what we do and act.” (Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business and University Professor, University of Southern California and author of On Becoming a Leader)“This book will improve how you work—by showing you how your brain works!” (Marshall Goldsmith, author of What Got You Here Won't G
David Rock is a consultant and leadership coach who advises corporations around the world. The author of Coaching with the Brain in Mind, Quiet Leadership, and Personal Best, he is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, a leading global consulting and coaching organization. He is on the advisory board of the international business school CIMBA and the cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and New York City