Business Life

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.

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.

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.

The Feel of It
Overachievement: The New Model For Exceptional Performance
by John Eliot, Ph.D.
Athletes who've actually been in the Trusting Mindset are notoriously inarticulate about what happened. Franz Klammer could not get much beyond the description that nothing was going on in his mind.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Is It a Workstation or a PlayStation?
The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work
by Marcelle DiFalco, Jocelyn Greenky Herz
Everyone knows about the corner office — the bigger the office, the more powerful the person. The better the view, generally the more influential the inhabitant. No news there. It's just a big ol' corner office cliché.

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

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.

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).

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.