David Rock

Your Brain at Work (eBook, ePUB)

Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Meet Emily and Paul, the parents of two young children. Emily is a newly promoted executive in a large corporation, while Paul has his own business as a consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. For them, just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

In this book, we travel inside the brains of Emily and Paul as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with and figure out how to prioritize, organize, and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Pauland for readers of Your Brain at Workthey're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain worksand more specifically, how it works in a work setting.

Your Brain at Work explores:

• Why your brains feels so taxed, and how to take full advantage of your mental resources
• Why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions
• How to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems
• How to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible
• How to collaborate with others more effectively
• Why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier
• How to effectively change other people's behavior

Rock shows how it's possible not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but to succeed in itand still feel energized at the end of the day, with a sense of accomplishment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061943546
• Artikelnr.: 37988274

Autorenporträt

David Rock is a consultant and leadership coach who advises corporations around the world. The author of Coaching with the Brain in Mind, Quiet Leadership, and Personal Best, he is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, a leading global consulting and coaching organization. He is on the advisory board of the international business school CIMBA and the cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and New York City.