Work Motivation

A recent study done by psychology researchers at Yale University shows only 10 minutes of meditation is enough to turbocharge your brain’s cognitive capabilities whilst lowering stress hormones. In a short amount of time, you’ll notice significant focus and performance improvement as well as reduced levels of stress and anxiety. By increasing your self-awareness and balance with meditation, you’ll no longer find yourself reactive to the environment and people around you.

In this unforgettable parable, Tom Cook, a disillusioned American businessman, has traveled to Italy looking for direction in his life. In Florence, the last city on his tour, Tom meets a mysterious old man who opens his eyes to the art and life of Michelangelo and reveals what the artist's work can teach him and all of us about the power of following your passion.

Bill Butterworth will make you laugh -- and learn while you're doing it! In the opening chapter of this powerful audiobook, Bill shares how, while running in a nightmarish 440-yard dash with his rotund body, he learned a great lesson: life is much more like a marathon than a sprint.

The Empath, or highly sensitive, artistic, intuitive person, wants bonded, happy family relationships, a soul mate partnership, and a career involving her creativity. Yet many times the Empath becomes caught in lose-lose situations in both her relationships and her career. In this book learn how to unravel the most common binds for Empaths that can form in relationships, in creative endeavors, and in the development of intuitive gifts. This book describes the Empath as an Enneagram Archetype, or Type Four. Also covered are other common Empaths, including the Empathic Hero, the Sensitive ...

In his instant self-help classic, the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael J. Gelb identified seven aspects of da Vinci's genius that contemporary readers can emulate and apply in their own lives.

Staying true to his trademark journalistic approach, Andrés Oppenheimer takes his listeners on yet another journey, this time across the globe, in a thought-provoking search to understand what the future holds for today's jobs in the foreseeable age of automation.

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a strong indicator of individual, team, and organizational success. But stocking up on emotionally intelligent employees isn't enough: you need a concrete plan for putting this valuable resource to work. The EQ Difference offers an array of self-assessment tools and team-focused exercises that will help increase and leverage emotional intelligence both in individuals and in groups. It's filled with practical tips and suggestions for developing your own "emotional quotient," as well as that of your peers, employees, and even senior executives.

Haven’t been seeing answers to your prayers? Maybe it’s time for a change. Build your habit of daily prayers and watch your relationship with God improve. Writing your prayers will help you remember how you prayed. Later, you can make a note of the date your prayer was answered. The helpful list at the end of each chapter reminds you how to find success through this process. This guide will help you: discover how God really sees you find out what affects your prayers learn what to do when God answers reframe your mindset about prayer To start seeing a record of God’s answers to your ...

In Working on Purpose, journalist Ellen C. Scott offers a 360-degree approach to better understanding our relationship with work, from generational differences to the benefits of individual work styles to restoring the balance between our professional and personal time. This empowering and clear-sighted guide is brimming with practical exercises, hacks and uplifting advice for anyone who wants to bring a renewed sense of purpose to their work. Because work shouldn't just be about getting through the day - instead it can be an opportunity to actively cultivate joy and meaning.

I don’t want to be here. That’s the thought that leads to stress and anxiety at work and home, and it's been overstepping its bounds, standing in the way of the life you want to live. I Want to Be Here uncovers the source of our stress and anxiety, presents the key to its defeat, and shares a method for creating lasting change. The story is told from the perspective of a senior leader in the technology industry, husband, and father, who conquered the anxiety that landed him in the emergency room.

Durante sus doce años como una de las más admiradas CEO del mundo, Indra Nooyi redefinió lo que significa ser un líder excepcional. La primera mujer de color e inmigrante en dirigir una de las 50 compañías más importantes listadas por Fortune y una de las estrategas más destacadas de nuestro tiempo transformó PepsiCo con una visión única, una vigorosa búsqueda por la excelencia y un gran sentido del propósito. En sus memorias nos cuenta con gracia, valor y buen humor su legendaria carrera y los sacrificios realizados.

Consider Jason your spirit guide, offering strategies for honing in on what makes you weird, recognizing when feedback is just another form of procrastination, and how to stop with social media already. There's a specific set of strategies and exercises that can help you prioritize your life over your business, by identifying your MMM (Minimum Monthly Magic) number. He also offers examples from his own life (how he got out of $124K worth of debt, escaped the pressure to have a big wedding, and has thrived on social media by primarily ignoring it).

There is an awesome human within every single one of us. The Awesome Human Project is the essential guidebook to help you embrace your awesome human and become the best version of yourself - with courage and compassion.

Business executive Shundrawn Thomas reveals how work is intended to produce lasting value and should be meaningful and productive. A healthy attitude toward work and the workplace requires intentionality and effort. Thomas helps us to a greater understanding of our abilities and passions, which in turn will help us develop into the people we are meant to be. He addresses issues of work ethic, character formation, and work-life synergy to find better harmony between what we do and who we are.

Work is an important part of living, whether you wait on customers, build a business or cook for your family. As such, we all have important stories to tell about our work. From this rich treasure chest of experiences, Canfield, Hansen, and company have gathered a special collection of inspiring tales that share the daily courage, compassion, and creativity that take place in workplaces everywhere.

In Joy Works, Alex Liu delivers an engaging blueprint for ensuring people feel safe and inspired at work. In the book, you'll find a step-by-step action plan for approaching joy at work using the three key drivers that determine employee happiness--people, praise, and purpose--and learn how to implement that plan for maximum results and maximum joy.

Ditch the Act shows how to present your humanness - imperfect and flawed but honest, resilient, and willing to learn - in strategic ways to achieve clear, defined goals. It provides an actionable program for building an authentic, long-lasting personal brand, explaining why exposure is important and how it cultivates more durable connections than any polished persona can. By creating a personal brand that's honest and authentic and that reveals personal struggles, you'll build stronger, longer-lasting relationships - and achieve greater success.

Fully revised second edition. Since Breaking Through Bias was published in 2016, the #MeToo movement has exposed just how pervasive sexual harassment is in the workplace; the increase in public misogynistic comments has made clear that explicit gender bias is not a thing of the past; and stay-at-home orders and school closings due to Covid-19 have brought into even sharper focus the discriminatory impact of the unequal division of child care and household responsibilities between most couples.

The world has changed, our lives have changed, and in recent years, our work has changed. Despite the disruption, our relationship and understanding of self-care have remained the same as we still see it as something fluffy or a perfect list of habits that we "do" alone outside of work to recover. But what if self-care wasn't something we "do"? What if self-care is a mindset that allows us to achieve peak performance, engagement, and growth without burning out and sacrificing our health and joy?

“The Science of Workforce Engagement” is based on the scientific application of sound theories of human behavior, leadership, and workplace needs. Applying the science will fuel the “engagement system” and its seven subsystems and allow each person to perform to their maximum, thus becoming the best version of themselves at work. The manifestation that the science is being applied is how the organization uses PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act), the 4CoE (Four Competencies of Execution), and the Six Questions of Continuous Improvement in all activities. Although there is a great deal of ...