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61. |  By: Peter Taylor Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 03-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 30-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Lazy Winner
The Lazy Winner is for all those who simply want to do more with less effort and succeed in their working and personal lives without rushing around like headless chickens or putting in 100 hour weeks. We are all too good to put our careers and work—life balance at risk by working too hard! The Lazy Winner builds on the concept of 'productive laziness', developed in Peter Taylor's bestselling The Lazy Project Manager, which encourages people to apply more thought before leaping in to action and throwing effort at a problem or task. With better planning readers can ensure that they are Lazy...
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62. |  Stress-Proof Your Business and Your Life By: Elisabeth Wilson; Steve Pipe; Steve Pipe Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 27-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 30-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stress-Proof Your Business and Your Life
Running a business can be incredibly stressful. In fact, many people regard stress as one of the biggest problems facing business owners. Stress-proof your business and your life has been designed specifically to help entrepreneurs, business owners and managers stress-proof their personal, financial and business concerns. It is intensely practical and down to earth, exactly the sort of advice that a really good professional would give to clients and friends.
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63. |  Robert Collier's The Secret of the Ages: A modern day interpretation of a self-help classic By: Karen Mccreadie Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 20-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 21-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Robert Collier's The Secret of the Ages: A modern day interpretation of a self-help classic
After overcoming an illness through what he felt was subliminal means, Robert Collier became fascinated with the power of the mind and how to use it to create success in every area of life. Collier believed that our subconscious mind is like a sleeping giant. Once awoken it can bring us fame, fortune and happiness. He set to work on a series of texts, the first of which was 'The Secret of the Ages', to explore his theory. In this book, first released in 1926, Collier plots a course for his readers to follow in order to achieve their ultimate goals. It proved fantastically popular, selling...
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64. |  Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance: A modern-day interpretation of a self-help classic By: Andrew Holmes Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 26-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 21-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance: A modern-day interpretation of a self-help classic
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist. From 1836 to 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston's Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately but many of Emerson's thoughts were later used in Self-reliance. In this book, first published in 1841, Emerson clearly illustrates the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and to follow his or her own instincts and ideas. Here, Andrew Holmes' interpretation of Self-reliance illustrates the timeless nature of Emerson's...
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65. |  By: Lyndon Jones; Paul Loftus Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Time Well Spent
It is possible to have an overwhelmingly busy life and job and still be productive. Organization and modification of major work habits can turn people into high-performing professionals with control over their work and life.
Time Well Spent teaches readers how to be efficient and accomplish more with less effort. It includes chapters on getting to know oneself better, avoiding procrastination, using and analyzing one’s time, organizing one’s workload and workplace, handling interruptions, making best use of information and technology, and delegating and conducting meetings...
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66. |  By: Richard Denny Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Succeed for Yourself
Succeed for Yourself is a practical, step-by-step guide to unlocking your potential for success and happiness. It focuses on a variety of areas, demonstrating how you can improve both your business and personal life on your own terms. In Succeed for Yourself, Richard Denny shows how you can transform your individual dream of success into reality. Crammed with common-sense advice and inspiring ideas, Succeed for Yourself will take you on a journey of self-discovery that will help you seize your self-belief, set goals and achieve them, overcome setbacks and rejection, become highly motivated...
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67. |  What's Wrong with Work?: The 5 Frustrations of Work and How to Fix them for Good By: Blaire Palmer Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 21-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What's Wrong with Work?: The 5 Frustrations of Work and How to Fix them for Good
Work isn't working.
We all love to hate our jobs. Everyone moans about the same things: we're not listened to; we're not trusted; we spend our time in pointless meetings; we're weighed down by bureaucracy; we hate our boss; we're overloaded and work saps time and energy from the rest of our lives.
It shouldn't be like this. Work ought to be, and can be meaningful and fulfilling.
In What's Wrong with Work? Blaire Palmer shows how work can change. Confronting all the big problems head-on, the book shows what you can do about each one, to make work better for you and those around...
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68. |  Juggle!: Rethink work, reclaim your life By: Ian Sanders Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 20-APR-2009 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Juggle!: Rethink work, reclaim your life
Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim your Life
shows people how to carve out a work life that goes beyond a job title; where The Work You is The Real You/ The Best You; where you can mix up your passions and celebrate your multi-dimensional talents. Where there are no limits to what you do, and where you mix up work and play to get the most out of life.
The book reveals the insight of leading Jugglers with contributions from Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi; Mike Southon, Financial Times columnist and best-selling business author; Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine entrepreneur and...
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69. |  Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 05-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 17-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You You can design your own career, so
you love what you do! You only have one life: why settle for
anything less? Whether you’re an entrepreneur or working
within a company, Get a Life, Not a Job shows how you can make it
happen for yourself. You’ll learn how to move towards a
fulfilling career that offers greater work-life balance, financial
security, and personal control over your future -- and more sheer
pleasure and inspiration from the work you do. You’ll learn
how to allocate more time to roles you enjoy, and shed roles you
can’t stand… identify career choices you’ll be
passionate about,...
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Stubbornly Hold on to Your Dreams: Meaning Built to Last By: Jerry Porras; Mark Thompson; Stewart Emery Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 02-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stubbornly Hold on to Your Dreams: Meaning Built to Last This Element is an excerpt from
Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
(ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark
Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.
Discover your lifelong obsession: the
passion that creates meaning you’ll never want to escape
from!
Whether it’s British Airways,
Coca-Cola, or NASA, whenever the old guard takes its eye off the
prize, Richard Branson feels a moral obligation to set the big
guy’s platform on fire. You have to admire billionaires like
this. What keeps them so passionately involved even after
they’ve long since...
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Life Balance Is Fiction: Finding Your Passion Will Bring a Life Built to Last By: Jerry Porras; Stewart Emery; Mark Thompson Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 02-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Life Balance Is Fiction: Finding Your Passion Will Bring a Life Built to Last This Element is an excerpt
from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that
Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery,
and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.
As conventionally defined,
“balance” doesn’t matter. Passion does. Learn how
to find it--and start living it!
CEOs and Nobel laureates don’t have
“balance.” The Dalai Lama doesn’t. Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Mother Teresa didn’t. Enduringly successful
people, many living lives that are gifts to the world, don’t
raise balance as a major issue. Not because they’ve handled
it masterfully. Because...
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Doing What Matters: Why It Is So Damn Hard and So Darn Rewarding By: Jerry Porras; Stewart Emery; Mark Thompson Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Doing What Matters: Why It Is So Damn Hard and So Darn Rewarding This Element is an excerpt from
Success
Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
(ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark
Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.
Learn the four biggest obstacles to
following your dream: then expose them, get past them, and liberate
yourself!
There are at least four reasons to feel
sidetracked from creating the life you want. Whether you let them
get you down, or move ahead boldly, there will be suffering.
It’s worth the fight. “When you go after what’s
meaningful to you,” says Ogilvy & Mather CEO Shelly
Lazarus, “you...
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73. |  An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Finding Your Balance By: Joan Gurvis; Gordon Patterson Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 23-JAN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Finding Your Balance
Balance isn't an issue of time, but an issue of choice. It's about living your values by aligning your behavior with what you believe is really important. Aligning your behavior with your values is much like any other developmental experience; the basic process involves assessment, challenge, and support. This guidebook will help you determine where you are, define where you want to go, and then put into place the tools you need to get there.
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74. |  Enjoy!: 101 Little Ways to Add FUN to Your WORK Every Day By: Gini Graham Scott Ph.D. Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 17-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 24-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enjoy!: 101 Little Ways to Add FUN to Your WORK Every Day
All work and no play is no longer an option with these simple and fun ways to make life at work more pleasurable.
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75. |  By: Brian Brian TRACY Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 05-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 23-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Reinvention If you knew you couldn’t fail, what is the greatest thing you would dare to dream? Is the job you now have the one you’ve always wanted? Do you work with the kind of people you’d like to work with? As personal success expert Brian Tracy can attest, it’s not until you deal with the dissatisfactions of the present that you can move onward and upward to create the wonderful future that is possible for you. And it is possible. In Reinvention, Brian Tracy reveals how every one of us is engineered for success, and with the right focus, can remake ourselves and put an end to the chronic stress,...
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76. |  By: Jeri Sedlar; Rick Miners Publisher: Alpha Books Publication Date: 01-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 |
Having a "working retirement" is one of the fastest-growing trends in America today. If you want to move on from the work you've done all your life to something that is both financially and personally rewarding, look to Don't Retire, REWIRE! Second Edition, to help you identify your motivators and guide you through the process of using your interests to discover work with the flexibility, challenges, and rewards you want.
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77. |  By: Robert Holden; Ben Renshaw Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited Publication Date: 22-MAR-2002 Insert Date: 26-FEB-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Balancing Work & Life
Perfect for the briefcase or portfolio, these four new guides in the Essential Managers series are ideal for experienced or novice managers in companies both large and small. Having sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, these books are relevant to every work environment. Concise treatment of dozens of techniques, skills, and methods make Essential Managers the most accessible guide to business available.
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78. |  By: Beverly Kaye; Sharon Jordan-Evans Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-NOV-2003 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Love It, Don't Leave It Whether for fear of an uncertain economy or reluctance to deal with the inevitable stresses of looking for work, many people feel unwilling or unable to change jobs. So they simply "quit on the job." They disengage, produce less, and bide their time in quiet dissatisfaction, making themselves, and often their coworkers, family, and friends miserable. But there is an alternative.
Love It, Don't Leave It provides readers with 26 ways to make their current work environment more satisfying. Presented in an appealing, accessible A-to-Z format, Love It, Don't Leave It includes strategies for...
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79. |  Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work By: Alan Lurie Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 11-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work Imagine the leaders of one of New York
City’s top real-estate firms coming together every Monday
morning to hear…the moral and spiritual thoughts of a Rabbi.
Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall? To hear the paths
Alan Lurie traced for his listeners, how he helped them bring
together their spiritual and business lives, the sacred and the
profane? Five Minutes on Mondays compiles these talks for the first
time, sharing Lurie’s deep and profound inspiration on the
challenges we all face–at work, and in life.
Lurie draws on millennia of philosophy,
theology, and science to help us answer...
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80. |  Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 18-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 09-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Why do we sometimes get into the wrong
relationships, take the wrong jobs, and make the wrong
choices? The answers and solutions to these everyday plights
are revealed by today’s “scientists of the mind,”
evolutionary psychologists who have discovered stunning new lessons
about the power of instincts and their capacity to transform lives
positively. But too many of us have lost contact with our
instincts. We don’t hear them. We don’t use them. And
that gets us in trouble–over and over again. Now, Dr. Hendrie
Weisinger shows how to reconnect with the instincts Mother Nature
gave you. You’ll...
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