There’s a right way and a wrong way to accept a job, author Tiffany Pham explains, but you should also know when to ask for more and when to take less.
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Is jail a place to rehabilitate, or a place to please investors? Can it be both? Or neither?
Call it manipulation, call it nudging or guiding, call it common-sense, but there are things in this book that can enhance your day-to-day and give you the edge.
If you want to be entertained with the possibility of learning, here’s your book. If you want straight info, though, “Dream Teams” will drive you to distraction.
For anyone who’s stuffed envelopes for pennies, or wondered if there’s real cash to be made gigging, this book sets it straight.
In “Rebel Talent”, you’ll read anecdote after example of small businesses and national corporations that turned around, grew, or reinvigorated after doing things that counteracted conventional wisdom.
Readers without a plan will get the most out of “Retirement Reinvention” but there’s really something for everyone here. It’s easy to understand, quick to read, entertaining, and even forty-somethings will find useful info here.
Learn to embrace downtime: it’s the best way “to nourish the Self” and gain “necessary inner stability,” writes author Alan Lightman.
There’s a good mix of inspiring, gracious and grateful tales inside this book, from those with stardom already in-pocket, to a few that may not be household names quite yet.
The solution to “breaking up with busy” won’t be easy and the author’s ideas can have a whiff of new-agey-ness to them.
This is a biography of cringing, compassion, and somebody’s-got-to-do-it resourcefulness, but with a breezy heft of fabrication built in. It’s so singular that it’s almost irresistible.
How do you best manage a diverse group of employees? The answers found in this book could at least make workplaces less stuffy, more worker-friendly, and quite possibly more efficient for better profitability.
You may scoff at the idea of a “sleep coach,” but what the author espouses for elite athletes he works with, he says, can extend to the enhancement of performance in business.
Procrastinators, as it turns out, are in good company: 1 out of 5 of us chronically waits until the last minute to start tasks. Such delay, says Santella, “is one of the oldest stories ever told.”
It’s an age-old business question: how can you get the best performance from your employees? The answer, say the authors, is counterintuitive: ask for less.
Author Shomari Wills offers interesting, thoughtful tales that show readers how past Black entrepreneurs - some of whom could barely read or write - changed U.S. economics and paved the way for later wealth-builders.
Though it’s quite simplistic, “The Self-Discipline Handbook” surely could be of some help to anyone for whom procrastination is the default position.
Author Joanne Lipman absolutely is not laying blame anywhere in this book; if nothing, any blame can go on the brains of all employees, collectively.