Activate Your Brain: How
Understand i ng
Your
Brain Can Improve Your
Work - and Your Life
By Scott G. Halford
Would you like more control over
your life and your work?
Would you like greater stamina
as you carry out your daily tasks?
How about more significance
and meaning as you move for-
ward in your career?
Scott Halford shows us how we
can all find these things if we sim-
ply understand how to activate
the full potential of the brain.
This incredible organ is still full of
mystery, but we know enough
to harness its power better than
ever before. We just have to rec-
ognize how the brain works, and
understand the actions we can
take to help it perform at its best.
Combining research, anecdote,
and inspiration, Activate Your
Brain shows you how small steps
toward better brain function and
management can eventually
lead to success on a whole new
level.
In the end, Activate Your Brain
is an indispensable collection
of practical things you need
to know about your wonderful
brain—which, when fully har-
nessed, can give you more of
the fulfilled life you seek.
Work Rules!: Insights from
Inside Google That Will
Transform How You Live
and Lead
By Laszlo Bock
Drawing on the latest research in
behavioural economics and with a
profound grasp of human psychol-
ogy, Laszlo Bock, Head of People
Operations at Google provides teach-
ing examples from a range of indus-
tries - including companies that are
household names but hideous places
to work, and little-known companies
that achieve spectacular results by
valuing and listening to their employ-
ees.
Bock takes us inside one of history's
most explosively successful businesses
to reveal why Google is consistently
rated one of the best places to work
in the world, distilling 15 years of inten-
sive worker R&D into delightfully coun-
Triggers: Creating Behavior
That Lasts--Becoming the
Person You Want to Be
By Marshall Goldsmith
In Triggers, renowned executive coach
and psychologist Marshall Goldsmith
discusses the emotional triggers that
set off a reaction or a behavior in us
that often works to our detriment. Do
you find that at times you suddenly
become defensive or enraged by an
idle comment from a colleague? Or
that your temper rises when another
car cuts you off in traffic? Your reac-
tions don’t occur in a vacuum. They
are the result of emotional and psy-
chological triggers that often happen
only in specific settings—at meetings,
or in competitive situations, or with
a specific person who rubs you the
wrong way, or when you feel under
particular pressure.
terintuitive principles that are easy
to put into action, whether you're
a team of one or a team of thou-
sands.
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