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One of the world’s leading experts on behavior change, drawing on interviews with remarkable innovators and leading scientists, offers simple tactics that can move us towards an abundance mindset, reinforce healthy habits and allow us to live our lives to the fullest and appreciate what we have.
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Gallery Books
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English
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"We live in a culture where most of us suffer from feeling "time poor": the feeling of sprinting from morning to night-stressing over too much to do and not enough time to do it. Cassie Holmes has made this question her life's work: How do we optimally spend our time so that we feel satisfied in the day-to-day and with life overall? With clear, actionable advice from how to be confident in choosing how to spend your time, to how to sidestep distractions...
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The School of Life is dedicated to exploring life's big questions. We don't have all the answers, but we will direct you towards a variety of useful ideas that are guaranteed to stimulate, provoke, and console. A practical and inspirational guide to examining your career and deciding whether it truly makes you happy-this book will show you the steps it takes to find a job that truly makes you thrive. The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs." It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are millions of peopleHR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyerswhose jobs...
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A smart, science-based approach to retaining your talent and making the world of work a better place. Today’s work isn’t working. Stress and burnout are driving talented professionals out of the workforce while the corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop travel proves unsustainable. But innovative leaders are using this once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that’s better for everyone. The workplace...
7) How to have a good day: harnessing the power of behavioral science to transform our working lives
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Crown Business
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"In How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb, business consultant and former partner at powerhouse McKinsey and Co., brings together the findings on behavioral economics and neuroscience--subjects that have led to dozens of bestselling books over the last decade--to show us how we can use these revolutionary new findings to improve how we work. Organized around seven factors that determine whether we have a good day at work, Webb offers us specific tools...
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"In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper reveals how a culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation's finest minds to the long-run implications of their actions. Law school deans have ceded independent judgment to flawed U.S. News & World Report rankings criteria in the quest to maximize immediate results. Senior partners in the nation's large law firms have focused on current profits to enhance American Lawyer rankings and individual...
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