Personal Growth

Personal Growth

 
The Next Level Eblin, Scott Davies-Black Publishing , 2006 Human Resources, Management, Personal Growth

40 percent of new executives fail in their positions within eighteen months of promotion. Could it be that CEOs and executive teams have chosen the wrong person for the job nearly half the time? Scott Eblin doesn’t...

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The Now Habit at Work Fiore, Neil John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2010 Personal Growth, Productivity

The Now Habit at Work offers those who seek to be more productive in their professional lives the tools and strategies necessary for more effective time management. A follow-up to author Neil Fiore’s...

 
 
The Number Eisenberg, Lee Free Press , 2006 Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Personal Growth

Secretly, many people agonize over whether they have enough money put away in order to survive the rest of their lives as they age and “downshift” in jobs toward retirement. According to author Lee Eisenberg, tens of...

 
 
The One Thing You Need to Know Buckingham, Marcus Free Press , 2005 Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

In his first best seller, First, Break All the Rules, Buckingham, breaking with conventional wisdom, offered managers valuable guidelines on how to avoid the mistake of coercing their employees into overcoming their...

 
 
The Opt-Out Revolt Mainiero, Lisa A. | Sullivan, Sherry E. Davies-Black Publishing , 2007 Human Resources, Personal Growth

More and more highly talented employees – particularly women – are leaving the traditional workforce in a trend termed the “opt-out” phenomenon. Some of these individuals pursue careers outside traditional corporate...

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The Optimism Bias Sharot, Tali Vintage Books , 2011 Personal Growth

In The Optimism Bias, Tali Sharot examines ways in which the human brain deceives its owner—to the owner’s advantage. Normal people misperceive their surroundings, choose to delay pleasure but...

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The Other 90 Percent Cooper, Robert K. Crown Publishing , 2001 Innovation, Leadership, Personal Growth

Although a host of recent scientific discoveries have found that human capacity is limitless, most people, because of an innate biological predisposition, use only a tiny fraction of the immense power of their...

 
 
The Other Kind of Smart Deutschendorf, Harvey Amacom , 2009 Human Resources, Personal Growth, Relationships

In his book The Other Kind of Smart, Harvey Deutschendorf shows that emotional intelligence can be more important than general intelligence when determining an individual’s personal and professional...

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The Panic Free Job Search Hill, Paul Career Press , 2012 Personal Growth

In The Panic Free Job Search, author Paul Hill presents a radically different approach to finding employment. Most job seekers sift through endless online job ads, and respond by sending out an...

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The Passion Plan at Work Chang, Richard | Smith, Fred Jossey-Bass Publishers , 2001 Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

Everyone enjoys something, but that "something" is usually not the job. This is unfortunate because a job consumes a large portion of an adult’s life, and spending countless hours toiling at a career that is neither...

 
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