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Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos Michael Carroll Author This collection of teachings is designed to illuminate the power that mindfulness can have at work. By surrendering to the moment one becomes alert, open, and unusually skillful. In brief chapters, Carroll expounds some thirty-five slogans designed to be both fodder for meditation and mnemonic devices for when that particular message can help the most, during an opportune moment at work. "Welcome the tyrant" helps one to disarm a cranky boss; "avoid idiot compassion" reminds one to eschew giving merely superficial help. 2004, Shambhala | ||
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Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood Marsha Sinetar Author Sinetar urges the reader to find the work best suited to his or her needs and talents. She provides assessment tools and guidance for overcoming fears, learning to take risks, and building self-esteem. 1989, Dell | ||
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Falling Awake: Creating the Life of Your Dreams Dave Ellis Businessman and philanthropist Ellis says, "Life can work." Falling Awake presents twelve major Success Strategies to assist you in reaching the life of your dreams. 2002, Breakthrough Enterprises |
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Knock ‘Em Dead 2008: The Ultimate Job Search Guide Martin Yate The author, a leading advocate for working professionals, guides you through the whole process of job seeking – from assembling your resume to landing the interview to negotiating a salary. The book offers insider information on the answers you need to impress interviewers and convince them beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are the best candidate for the position. 2007, Adams Media Corporation | ||
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Shifting Gears: How to Master Career Change and Find the Work that’s Right for You Carole Hyatt Most people will make several career changes during the course of their working life. The changes can be self-initiated such as choosing to work for oneself or can be imposed as the result of downsizing or merger. Hyatt offers a framework for self-assessment and mastering the career change process. She includes chapters on understanding individual work styles, identifying the triggers of change, getting stuck, dealing with barriers to change and defining career paths. Case examples of successful career transitions are included. 1992, Fireside | ||
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Staying the Course: The Emotional and Social Lives of Men Who Do Well at Work Robert Weiss This readable study by sociologist Weiss tells how 85 upper middle class American men aged 35-55 achieved responsible, professional and community positions despite the inevitable frustrations, stresses and some less-foreseeable cases of mental, alcoholic and marital problems. The author contends that the men’s acceptance of traditional standards of peer behavior and their willingness to divide life into three interdependent components – work, family and community – was as important to their success as their innate personal strengths. 1991, Fawcett Books | ||
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Richard Nelson Bolles, Mark Emery Bolles Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world thirty years after its debut, the book guides the reader through a process of self-discovery by offering detailed exercises for the reader to complete. Parachute helps you focus on what’s important to you in a career . . . not only money, but the things that make work satisfying. An Amazon reader/reviewer says, “I recommend this book to everyone who is trying to work through the puzzle to pay the rent without losing your mind or soul.” 2007, Ten Speed Press | ||
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When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb This book describes the feelings of fear, isolation, shame and remorse associated with losing a job, status or money. Hyatt and Gottlieb emphatically stress that career failure is something that eventually touches every professional. They describe the process of dealing with emotions associated with failure and how men and women may respond in different ways to experiences of failure. They offer a comprehensive strategy for personal reinvention after suffering a career setback through discovering how one has failed, learning from the failure, letting go of old ways of understanding oneself, expanding one’s career choices and making the transition from the old professional to the new centered and focused individual. 1993, Penguin Books | ||
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Win-Win Negotiating: Turning Conflict into Agreement Fred Jandt The author argues that conflict can be a positive force leading to increased communication, teamwork, and healthy change in an organization. He presents examples of many creative negotiating techniques such as “unpacking” – dealing with each point of disagreement as a separate issue, and “determining the mini-max” – how to get the most and give up the least without alienating your adversary. 1987, Wiley |
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