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Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Back when you were young, your strengths were to be trusted. You might not have had a name for them-you might not even have labeled them strengths-but when you were a child, you listened to them. Then somehow, sometime between then and now, your childhood clarity faded and you started listening to the world around you more closely than you did to yourself. You had to get into college and find a job, and with the job came the urgent demands of customers,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Explores how athletes, scientists, therapists, companies, and musicians around the world are learning to break through their plateaus--to turn off the forces that cause people to 'get used to' things--and turn on human potential and happiness in ways that seemed impossible.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The sneakiest obstacle to meeting your goals is not laziness, but perfectionism. We're our own worst critics, and if it looks like we're not going to do something right, we prefer not to do it at all. That's why we're most likely to quit on day two, "the day after perfect"--when our results almost always underperform our aspirations. The strategies in this book are counterintuitive and might feel like cheating. But they're based on studies conducted...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
¿TIENE OPORTUNIDADES DE USAR SUS FORTALEZAS TODOS LOS DÍAS?
Es posible que no lo haga. Es muy frecuente no explotar nuestros talentos. Desde la cuna hasta el cubículo, dedicamos más tiempo a corregir nuestros defectos que a desarrollar nuestras fortalezas.
Para ayudar a que las personas descubran sus talentos, Gallup presentó la primera versión de su evaluación en línea, Conozca sus Fortalezas, en el libro sobre desempeño Ahora, descubra...
Author
Publisher
HarperWave
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Recently, top pros have been performing well past a previously considered prime: World-class athletes such as Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, is winning competitions in his fifties; Tom Brady can beat players half his age. But what about the rest of us? Steven Kotler has been studying human performance for thirty years, and taught hundreds of thousands of people at all skill levels, age groups, and walks of life, how to achieve peak...