Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done:
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen recognizes that time management is useless the minute your schedule is interrupted; setting priorities isn't relevant when your e-mail is down; procrastination solutions won't help if your goals aren't clear. Instead, Allen shares with readers the proven methods he has already introduced in seminars and at top organizations across the country. The key to Getting Things Done? Relaxation.

Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity. His seamless system teaches us how to identify, track, and-most important-choose the next action on all our tasks, commitments, and projects and thus master all the demands on our time while unleashing our creative potential. The book's stylish, dynamic design make...

Life Matters: Creating a dynamic balance of work, family, time, & money

Life Matters:
Creating a dynamic balance of work, family, time, & money

by A. Roger Merrill
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Z.B.A.: Zen of Business Administration - How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work And Your Life

Z.B.A.:
Zen of Business Administration
How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work And Your Life

by Marc Lesser
Entrepreneur Marc Lesser built his company, Brush Dance, from a tiny recycled-paper venture operated out of his garage into a multimillion-dollar publisher of greeting cards and calendars. Armed with an MBA, this founder and CEO grappled with the usual challenges of running a company: meeting payroll and balancing cashflow, hiring and firing employees, and maintaining relationships with vendors and customers. Informing every decision was Lesserโ€�s commitment to Zen practice. As an ordained Zen priest, he has practiced and studied Zen for thirty years. In Z.B.A. he follows the great spiritual tradition of teaching stories to beautifully describe the delicate path of living a working life as a spiritual practice.

Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

Enough:
True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

by John C. Bogle
For a critical element of American society, including many of its wealthiest and most powerful, there seems to be no limit today on what "enough" entails.

The excesses are most starkly visible in the continuing crisis in banking and investment, and even in the two enormous government-sponsored (but publicly owned) mortgage lenders, to say nothing of the billion-dollar-plus annual paychecks that top hedge-fund managers draw down and the excessive compensation paid to CEOs, regardless ofย  performance.

Throughout his legendary career, John Bogleโ€”founder of the Vanguard mutual fund group, and creator of the first index mutual fundโ€”has helped investors build wealth the right way and led a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. Along the way, heโ€�s seen how destructive an obsession with financial success can be. Now, with Enough, he puts this dilemma in perspective.

Bogle offers his unparalleled insights on money, on the value...

The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life

The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life

by Ken Blanchard
This is the story of a One Minute Manager who was so successful in every way that he forgot one important thing: He forgot to stay physically fit. He was so much in demand that he ate on the run, didn't take time to exercise, and all the while saw his weight balloon and his breath grow shorter. He soon discovered success in business was endangering his health. His life was out of balance.For all those busy, achieving people with overcrowded schedules, here is a useful blueprint that shows how to manage stress and make a lifetime commitment to fitness and well-being. By following four important strategies for balancing a complicated life, everyone can get their bodies back into shape and their lives into proper perspective. The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life offers a way to achieve not only a new, healthier style of living but increased productivity as well. For the millions of readers of Ken Blanchard's bestselling books--including Raving Fans and Gung Ho!<...

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

The Power of Full Engagement:
Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

by Jim Loehr

The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live....

Time Management from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule--and Your Life

Time Management from the Inside Out, second edition:
The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule--and Your Life

by Julie Morgenstern
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the definitive guide to managing and freeing up time

Applying the groundbreaking from-the-inside-out approach that made Organizing from the Inside Out a New York Times bestseller, Julie Morgenstern set a new standard for the time- management category. Her system has helped countless readers uncover their psychological stumbling blocks and strengths, and develop a time-management system that suits their individual needs.

By applying her proven three-step program-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-and following her effective guidelines, readers will find more time for work, family, self-improvement, or whatever is most important to them. Time management is a learnable skill, and in this completely revised edition, Morgenstern provides the ultimate tools to combine, delegate, and eliminate unnecessary tasks; put technology to work; and stop procrastinating once and for all.

This revised edition delivers
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Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life

Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition:
The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life

by Julie Morgenstern
A completely revised and expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to putting things in order

Getting organized is a skill that anyone can learn, and there's no better teacher than America's organizing queen, Julie Morgenstern, as hundreds of thousands of readers have learned. Drawing on her years of experience as a professional organizer, Morgenstern outlines a simple organizing plan that starts with understanding your individual goals, natural habits, and psychological needs, so that you can work with your priorities and personality rather than against them. The basic steps-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-can be applied to any space or situation.

In this thoroughly revised edition, Morgenstern has incorporated new information in response to feedback from her clients and audiences. These changes include
- new chapters on living or working with someone who is disorganized
- new chapters on organizing photographs, handbags, briefcases, a...

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

The Power of Full Engagement:
Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

by Jim Loehr

The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live....

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done:
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:

โ�ฌ Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box to empty
โ�ฌ Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
โ�ฌ Plan projects as well as get them unstuck
โ�ฌ Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed
โ�ฌ Feel fine about what you're not doing

From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing...

Indispensable By Monday: Learn the Profit-Producing Behaviors that will Help Your Company and Yourself

Indispensable By Monday:
Learn the Profit-Producing Behaviors that will Help Your Company and Yourself

by Larry Myler
Separates fact from fiction for what makes an employee indispensable ...

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Who Moved My Cheese?:
An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

by Spencer Johnson
From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.

Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.

Do More Great Work:
Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.

by Michael Bungay Stanier
Here's a business book that gets right to the problem that plagues so many organizations: Even the best performers are spending less than a fraction of their time doing "great work" or work that leads to "great work"โ€”the kind of innovative work that pushes business forward, stretches creativity, and offers true satisfaction. The rest of the time (50 percent or more) employees are treading water with "good work"โ€”the work that keeps the business going but will never move it aheadโ€”and are mired in "bad work" (upwards of 25 percent of the time)โ€”the endless meetings, the energy-draining bureaucratic processes. Michael Bungay Stanier, Canadian Coach of the Year in 2006, is a business consultant who's found a way to move us away from bad work (and even good work), and toward more time spent doing great work.

This inspirational, motivating, at times playful book uses fifteen short, thought-provoking exercises that effectively force the reader to look at what his or her work rea...

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Linchpin:
Are You Indispensable?

by Seth Godin
"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."

In bestsellers such as Purple Cow and Tribes, Seth Godin taught readers how to make remarkable products and spread powerful ideas. But this book is different. It's about you - your choices, your future, and your potential to make a huge difference in whatever field you choose.

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.

Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organ...

Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It

Mojo:
How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It

by Marshall Goldsmith
Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment--and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it. ...

Business Class: Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work

Business Class:
Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work

by Jacqueline Whitmore
A fresh and contemporary look at how to use good manners for career success S tudies have shown that technical skills and knowledge account for a mere fifteen percent of the reason you get a job, keep a job and advance on the job. The other eighty-five percent is based on people skills-skills that aren't taught in school or at work, leaving many without the polish needed to succeed in today's competitive marketplace. Jacqueline Whitmore, founder and director of The Protocol School of Palm Beach, can help. She has coached thousands in the art of treating colleagues and customers with courtesy and respect to increase visibility, credibility, and profitability.

5 Steps To Professional Presence: How to Project Confidence, Competence, and Credibility at Work

5 Steps To Professional Presence:
How to Project Confidence, Competence, and Credibility at Work

by Susan Bixler