Everyone wants to be productive, but productivity doesn’t always come easily. Feeling distracted can take a toll on your self-esteem and prevent you from living up to your potential. You may be contemplating what extreme steps you should take to boost your productivity, but maybe you just need to reset your ideas on what productivity …
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Thomas Stanley and William Danko conducted the most comprehensive study ever on wealthy Americans and discovered that the prevailing assumptions about millionaires are just plain wrong. For starters, most Americans with over $1 million in net worth rarely purchase fancy cars or homes. The typical millionaire lives in a neighborhood where they are outnumbered by …
I Don’t Agree (2020) is a practical guide to improving your conflict resolution skills. Disagreement is seen as bad, and even scary. But, actually, conflict can be a powerful engine for growth if you know how to deal with it effectively. I Don’t Agree provides ten practical strategies that will help you become an expert …
Exactly What to Say (2017) is designed to provide you with the key phrases and words to make your conversations count and bring you success. It contains magic words. Words that are heard and interpreted by the subconscious mind. Words which will help you get the results you want. We’re not sure if this is …
Musician Amanda Palmer has worked as a living statue on the street, couchsurfed with fans, and asked for meals, equipment, and medicine over Twitter. She’s put her music online for free and asked for donations, and she’s used Kickstarter to raise over $1 million. In short, her entire career is built on asking. In this …
Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People (2013) provides practical tactics for navigating tough conversations at work. Along with over 325 phrases, it includes dozens of sample conversations that show the phrases in action. Bite-sized truths and tactics for managing conflict with difficult coworkers and bosses. Brownnosers, credit-stealers, meeting-monopolizers, gossips, bullies – the workplace can …
You remain relevant as a worker if you excel at the skills that smart machines cannot do well. These skills include creativity, imagination, critical thinking and decision-making in conditions of ambiguity. In this book summary of Hyper-Learning, business professor Edward D. Hess prescribes a holistic approach to lifelong learning that will enable you to develop …
If you were the owner of a fast food restaurant that sold milkshakes, and your milkshakes weren’t selling well, how would you go about improving your milkshakes? Would you buy higher quality ingredients? Would you survey customers to see what flavors they would like to see on the menu? Would you focus on one popular …
At the beginning of the 20th century, working-class women joined the glamorous radium-dial industry, eager to make the best wages of the day. But when these women began to experience mysterious illnesses and painful deaths, they never guessed that their dazzling new profession might be to blame. In this book review of The Radium Girls, …
Colin Ellis, author of The Project Book, says accountability simply means ‘The buck stops with you’. He also likes the Japanese expression ‘setsumei skinin’, the literal meaning of which is ‘duty to explain’. “When you are accountable for a project, it is your duty to explain the progress of the project to anyone at any …
