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Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Kaplan describes a specific and actionable roadmap for helping readers define their own success and reach their unique potential. This effort requires several key steps in an integrated process, as well as a high level of motivation and hard work.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Most of us live our lives by accident--we live as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose. "What are you going to do with your life? What are you doing with your life now?" "Do you have goals? A vision? A clear sense of why you do what you do?" Almost everyone knows someone who has grappled with at least one of these questions. The answers can often seem elusive or uncertain. Though there are many paths to follow into the...
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In Any Economy, It Pays to Discover Your Calling. According to financial expert Dave Ramsey, “Few categories of our lives define us and grow us spiritually, emotionally, relationally, and as people. Our work is one of those defining areas. Sadly, a j-o-b is what most people settle for. But as Dan Miller so powerfully points out in 48 Days to the Work You Love, a calling lights up your life.” As a leading vocational thinker, New York Times best-selling...
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English
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In this wise and often funny book, a philosopher/mechanic systematically destroys the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one's hands.
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite...
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Series
Publisher
Gildan Audio
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
Provides proven strategies for earning true worth at work and explains how to better organize time and advance skills to succeed at every stage of a career no matter how competitive the industry. For everyone, including staff members or executives who want to earn more money; people in job transition; students entering the workplace; and every unemployed person who wants to get back into the workforce.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Build Your Dreams is the new career manifesto for anyone who wants to turn their passion into their profession. Packed with anecdotes, exercises, and illustrations, this revolutionary guide provides a 5-stage strategy to help you find your calling and launch your dream job: discover, research, embark, adapt, maintain. Build Your Dreams has everything you need to make a living doing what you love"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A consultant, public speaker and best-selling author describes how to make career changes and to avoid feeling trapped in the wrong job by changing the way workers view their skills, relationships and work ethics through the use of a “Career Savings Account.”
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"There are other―often better―ways to find fulfillment at work besides leaving your job It can be tempting to fire off a letter of resignation (or at least fantasize about doing so) when you're unsatisfied or unhappy at work. But leaving a stable job can be impractical. And often there are other, less dramatic, ways to get what you want out of your career. In Don't Call It Quits, Shana Lebowitz Gaynor draws on her experience writing about career...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth -- the idea...
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Language
English
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"The 6 Types of Working Genius is the fastest way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy, and avoid work that leads to frustration and burnout. Beyond the personal discovery and instant relief that Working Genius provides, the model also gives teams a remarkably simple and practical framework for tapping into one another's natural gifts, which increases productivity and reduces unnecessary judgment. In classic Lencioni...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Featured in the #1 spot in 2019 "Get Motivated" podcasts on Apple Podcasts Nominated for a Webby Award for Best Business Podcast. "Heller pivots effortlessly from encouraging readers to accept “miraculous changes,” find their bliss, and examine their authentic selves to practical tips for building mass marketing email distribution lists and identifying web-based social media and teaching portals that allow small-business owners to capture additional...
17) How to have a good day: harnessing the power of behavioral science to transform our working lives
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb, business consultant and former partner at powerhouse McKinsey and Co., brings together the findings on behavioral economics and neuroscience--subjects that have led to dozens of bestselling books over the last decade--to show us how we can use these revolutionary new findings to improve how we work. Organized around seven factors that determine whether we have a good day at work, Webb offers us specific tools...
18) Bullshit jobs
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating...
19) Why we work
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Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent. We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we’ve shaped much of the infrastructure of our society to accommodate this belief. Then why are so many people dissatisfied with their work, despite healthy compensation? And why do so many people find immense fulfillment...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Real Happiness at Work brings the profound benefits of meditation to an area where people could use it most--the workplace. And it's written by one of the world's leading meditation teachers. A follow-up to Real Happiness, the New York Times bestseller, Sharon Salzberg's Real Happiness at Work is a practical guide to improving work life through mindfulness, compassion, and ingenuity. It's about being committed without being consumed, competitive without...
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