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Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Advice on careers & achieving success
The pace of business is accelerating and the boundaries of the
working day are becoming increasingly blurred. Managing shorter
response times and greater volume forces people to focus on the
immediate and the urgent, often at the expense of proactive or
longer-term issues. Being 'busy being busy' means that there is no
time to question whether there is a good connection between
activity and effectiveness or whether the outcomes achieved are
contributing to the delivery of current goals and objectives. Time
to Think puts an end to all that! Drawing on the author's
leading-edge experience of helping business and sports people to
achieve their own definition of success, Time to Think provides
clarity amidst confusion. Packed with ideas and exercises, its
incisive 'how-to' content provides a realistic approach that will
bring about lasting change. Beginning with a self-scoring skills
analysis and focusing on sound principles and good practice, Time
to Think creates the opportunity to review existing processes,
tools and time utilisation. It addresses prioritisation by
combining the three key steps of goal setting, task management and
proactivity. It looks at delegation and meetings management, and
tackles the contemporary issues of generating personal energy,
managing email and working from home.
Faith Popcorn has been called "America's most highly regarded trends forecaster" (Newsday). She first identified the concepts of Cocooning, Female Think and Icon Toppling; predicted the fall of New Coke; and has helped create and market many of America's most successful new products. Her astonishingly accurate predictions are an invaluable asset to the American business world, and Clicking, which sold over 100,000 copies in hardcover, appeared on bestseller lists ranging from the New York Times and USA Today to the Chicago Tribune and Business Week. Now Popcorn, coauthor Lys Marigold, and Popcorn's company, BrainReserve, share even more of their remarkable insights about how we will conduct our businesses and live our lives in the future. Clicking is about positioning one's business, and one's self, to be poised to take the fullest advantage of upcoming trends. Loaded with telling anecdotes and inspiring examples, packed with ideas, products and people who have successfully mastered trends, or "clicked," this up-to-the minute revised report (including a major trend not identified in the hardcover) reveals the shape of the future.
In a world where an increasing number of people work remotely,
Invisible Work is a new skillset and framework to ensure personal
and business success - from the author of The Creative Economy.
Just as power has moved from boardrooms into the domain of dynamic
individuals, Invisible Work maps the evolution of this new way of
being and succeeding. It is a mindset of deeply focused,
value-added thinking and sharing. It is a process of creativity
that combines emotional intelligence and collaboration. It is the
key to the success of a growing army of self-employed workers. This
is an emerging field of work in which new business domains and
creative endeavours are based on personal interests and digital
connections. Howkins lays out a visionary framework for working
practice and success. He focuses on the ways in which we think most
innovatively, how we best share those private ideas, and how we
make unseen connections and remain authentic while staking out our
domain in a virtual world.
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