Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
| Quantity | Price | Discount |
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| List Price | $29.99 |
$29.99
Book Information
| Publisher: | HarperBusiness |
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| Publish Date: | 10/06/2009 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780061771293 |
| ISBN-10: | 0061771295 |
| Language: | English |
What We're Saying
I was inspired by NPR's Mile HIgh Book Club listing today and thought to myself, "Hey! Lots of people will be grabbing a plane to visit family and friends this weekend - what would business minded people want to read during their travels? " Well, why not pick from the Top 10 business books that we've sold overseas and across borders in 2009? READ FULL DESCRIPTION
It's that time again - to reflect and note what others across the globe are taking time to read - Here are 800CEOREAD's international best selling business books for November 2009: 1 - Made to Stick (Latvia) 2 - IT Savvy (Australia) 3 - Kellogg on Branding (Turkey) 4 - Power of a Positive No (Mexico) 5 - Behavior Change (Spain) 6 - Peripheral Vision (France) 7 - Your Brain at Work (South Africa) 8 - Change Monster (Indonesia) 9 - Outrageous Advertising (Australia) 10 - Wikinomics (Greece) Stay tuned later this month for our Best International Books for the whole of 2009! READ FULL DESCRIPTION
It's been awhile! A whole summer, in fact! Have you felt as much out of the loop as to what's HOT across the seas, oceans and borders of the world as I have? READ FULL DESCRIPTION
Our resident wordsmith Sally, who in her own words "probably think[s] about life in sports metaphors more often than your average nerdy female bookworm," has posted her second offer over on inBubbleWrap. She asks whether, as is the case with olympic athletes, "every high level of success must be accompanied by an equal amount of sacrifice. " And, by giving away David Rock's Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter all Day Long, she hopes to put a book in your hands that will help you work smarter and find a better work/life balance so you don't have to make Olympian sacrifices to succeed. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
Full Description
In this revised edition updated with new findings, a researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday--revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.
Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.
In Your Brain at Work, David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul's brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting. By analyzing what is going on in their heads, he offers solutions Emily and Paul (and all of us) can use to survive and thrive in today's hyperbusy work environment--and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.
In Your Brain at Work, Rock explores issues such as:
- why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources
- why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions
- how to maximize the chance of finding insights to solve seemingly insurmountable problems
- how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible
- how to collaborate more effectively with others
- why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier
- how to be more effective at changing other people's behavior
- and much more.
