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Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness fuels success, not the other way around. Achor isolates seven practical, actionable principles that show how to capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve performance and maximize potential.
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Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness fuels success, not the other way around. Achor isolates seven practical, actionable principles that show how to capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve performance and maximize potential.
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Books on Tape
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p2010.
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English
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Shawn Achor, a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, presents a seven-step guide to achieving true happiness and gratification in the workplace. Here, listeners will discover that happiness is one of the biggest factors in becoming successful and that with Achor's advice, they will easily be able to find that happiness.
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"Dave Hemsath and Leslie Yerkes show how you can have fun at work, everyday. Written for anyone who works in any type of organization, this book offers over 300 ideas for creating a dynamic, fun-filled work environment." "Hemsath and Yerkes show that creating a fun atmosphere in the workplace increases productivity and morale and has a positive effect on the bottom line. Most importantly, they give you tools to have more fun at work, no matter where...
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Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to "hack" our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure"--
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Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When it comes to emotions at work, there's rarely a happy medium. Some offices are emotional deserts, where you suspect your coworkers might be robots. Others are filled with over-sharers who seem to know every detail of co-workers' health, finances, and social media. Either extreme hurts employee health and productivity. Fosslien and Duffy look at how emotions affect our professional lives, and how we can navigate emotions at work. They show that...
15) Bullshit jobs
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence, even though as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is...
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The School of Life Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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It's impossible for a child to spend too long around adults without one of them coming up and asking, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" They mean for this to be a relatively simple question; the idea is that you'll quite easily be able to say something like, "A teacher" or "A doctor" and then the adult will move on--and bother someone else. But the truth can be a lot more complicated, and...
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99U book volume 1
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Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven't accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office? The world has changed and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A collection of essays from today's most acclaimed authors--from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen--on the realities of making a living in the writing world. In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You...
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