Business Life
31 Articles & Excerpts
Everyone Can Have Charisma If Only…
 Charisma: Seven Keys to Developing the Magnetism that Leads to Success
by Tony Alessandra, Ph.D.
You walk into a room and soon notice an animated conversation among a knot of several people. You're attracted to their energy and start to join them. Then you see that one fellow has already turned and is now talking to someone else.
Getting Started
 Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
From the outset I want you to know and, even more important, believe that the mistakes impeding you from reaching your career goals or potential don't happen because you're stupid or incompetent (although others might want to make you think so).
Powerful Phrases to Help You Conquer the Working World
 Magic Words at Work
by Howard Kaminsky, Alexandra Penney
So what is the point of these Magic Words? They're a reminder that if we're like most people we've chosen to acknowledge a fairly harmless flaw and may be letting something far more serious get in the way of our success.
Dinner: How Can I Decline His Invitation
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
I just started a new job a week ago. I work as a receptionist for a company with 15 people in the office. Four partners started the company and one of the partners, a man, approached me today and asked if it would be ok if he took me out for a business
The Myths of High Performance
 Overachievement: The New Model For Exceptional Performance
by John Eliot, Ph.D.
Whose life do you admire the most? Whose phenomenal success do you wish you could call your own? Have you ever wondered what they know that you don't about the path to success? Bill Gates started 'fooling around' with computer software when he was a kid
Change Your Reaction, Change Your Life
 Working With You is Killing Me
by Kathi Elster, Katherine Crowley
Let's explore the two faces of business-the clear, crisp Kodak image that companies present to the outside world, versus the day-to-day reality of working in any company, which is usually messy, complicated, political, and full of emotional traps.
What Workplace Assholes Do and Why
 The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
by Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D.
Who deserves to be branded as an asshole? Many of us use the term indiscriminately, applying it to anyone who annoys us, gets in our way, or happens to be enjoying greater success than us at the moment.
The Enneagram: A Business Model for Nine ways to Work Together
by Sandra Ford Walston
Breakdowns and disruptions that hinder an organization's advancement rarely have to do with unskilled employees. In Good to Great, Jim Collins discovered that 'good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.'
The Golden Triangle: Relationships, Power, and Self-Esteem
 In the Company of Women
by Pat Heim, Ph.D., Susan Murphy, Ph.D.
Relationships: It has become almost axiomatic that women live in a web of relationships. We have developed a great facility for relatedness, and we need these connections in order to maintain our sense of personal well-being.
Transforming Dissatisfaction At Work
 The Art of Happiness at Work
by The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
It had been a long day for the Dalai Lama. Even by the time he had eaten his meager breakfast of tsampa and tea at 7:30 a.m., he had already been up for four hours, completing his rigorous daily regimen of prayer, study, and meditation.
Stress at Work
by US Department of Veterans Affairs
The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed. Perhaps now more than ever before, job stress poses a threat to the health of workers and, in turn, to the health organizations.
The Neurobiology of High Performance
Overachievement: The New Model For Exceptional Performance
by John Eliot, Ph.D.
These contrasting qualities of thinking, which produce different performances, also depend on a different neurobiology - as different, in fact, as you and a squirrel running across a telephone wire!
The Trusting Mindset
Overachievement: The New Model For Exceptional Performance
by John Eliot, Ph.D.
Over the past decade as a student and teacher of performance psychology, and now also as a professional adviser to performers in many different fields, I have been able ask hundreds of other talented men and women how their minds work under pressure.
Work Stress and Alcohol Use
by National Institute of Health
Employees who drink heavily or who abuse or are dependent on alcohol can undermine a workforce's overall health and productivity. To better understand the reasons behind employee abusive drinking and to develop more effective ways of preventing problem
Internal? External? Eternal?
 The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work
by Marcelle DiFalco, Jocelyn Greenky Herz
Pay careful attention to how the company communicates to its employees. Are there lots of companywide memos? If so, who sends them? If anybody and everybody memos the entire staff all the time, feel free to email the universe with requests
Clear Your Head for Creativity
 Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life
by David Allen
Completion of open loops, whether they be major projects or boxes of old stuff we've yet to purge and organize, prepares the ground for cleaner, clearer, and more complete energy for whatever shows up. We're often not sure what's next or what to tackle.
A Whole New World
The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work
by Marcelle DiFalco, Jocelyn Greenky Herz
When you first started your job, the nice people in human resources, or some reasonable facsimile thereof, gave you a whole stack of glamorous paperwork associated with your fantastic new life: health insurance forms for when you get sick
Making It Easy to Take It Easy
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life
by David Allen
Maximum productivity is making something happen furniture, freeways, or fun with as little effort as possible. The fact that we have effort at all, though, implies that we confront resistance and impediments when we want to get anything done.
Mastering the 'P' in Productive
 Leave the Office Earlier: The Productivity Pro Shows You How to Do More in Less Time...and Feel Great About It
by Laura Stack, MBA, CSP
Preparation relates to how well you've planned and laid the foundation for your daily activities. Most people don't have well-articulated goals. Perhaps you don't know how to set them.
Why Get Organized?
 Order from Chaos : A Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life
by Liz Davenport
The average businessperson receives 190 pieces of information each day. The average businessperson wastes 150 hours each year looking for stuff. Add 10 more hours and that is an entire work month.
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