Showing results for "Less" in Workplace & Organisational Behavior

What if the secret to less stress is just three simple steps? If you've ever woken up on a Monday already exhausted – or spent Sunday night bracing yourself for the week ahead – the problem isn't you. The problem is stress. And there's a surprisingly simple way to break free. Stress is embedded in today's workplaces – disguised as drive, rewarded as resilience, and even praised as passion. But chronic stress isn't a strength; it drains leaders, divides teams, and damages entire organizations.

NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Navigate the chaos of information overload and supercharge your efficiency with Lean Learning, a groundbreaking guide that reveals a counterintuitive approach to success: winning by learning less. From an early age, we’re taught that more is better. More...

Cracks are forming in the myth of the VC-funded, IPO-driven billion-dollar company. They're unprofitable, unethical and unsustainable - so why bother chasing unicorns? The Minimalist Entrepreneur is the manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great companies than big ones. Packed with hard-won, battle-tested lessons from Lavingia's own journey of building Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur teaches founders how to start from anywhere to build any kind of software-enabled business. 

In The Humor Habit, veteran speaker, corporate trainer, and comedian Paul Osincup delivers a hilarious and effective new take on how to make yourself and your team more productive and resilient by focusing on the funny side of work and life. In the book, you'll learn why humor isn't an in-born quality you're either born with or without. Instead, it's a habit you can develop over time.

A Rice University social scientist teaches you to rethink what you need to succeed, and do more with what you already have, in this counterintuitive, evidence-based guide to changing the way you work and live. Stretch identifies key ways for people and organizations to work beyond their...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Art of Life Admin, written and read by Elizabeth Emens. This book will give you many hours of your life back. Every day, an unseen form of labour creeps into our lives, stealing precious moments of free time, placing a strain on our schedules and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Forget the old concept of the 9-5. Companies around the world are redesigning the work week to increase efficiency, health and happiness in their workers. A growing number of businesses are shortening their working week to address problems with low productivity, poor...

Richard Medcalf, an advisor to some of the world’s most accomplished CEOs, reveals the secrets to becoming a more strategic leader, and offers a complete set of strategies to help you elevate your focus. Making TIME for Strategy will radically change how you think about your path to leadership impact, and give you practical tools to move you away from incremental progress and closer to breakthrough results.

Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what we can control and worry less about things we can't. As head of the Roman empire, he encountered his fair share of difficult people, frustrating situations and political infighting. In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius encouraged us to accept other people's inevitable shortcomings, make the most of our short life, resist the temptations of fame and flattery and, when things get too much, take a cosmic perspective of our existence.

As an agency owner, you're running a uniquely complicated business. Like any services firm, you're surrounded by clients, team members, and other humans—and humans are complicated. But unlike a plumber or electrician, your clients tend to be picky about whether your work is "good enough"...or even whether it's "done." Other professional services firms sell complex services, too. Yet in spite of all the lawyer and accountant jokes, their clients tend to pay their bills on time.

Wall Street Journal Bestseller "The pick of 2014's management books." –Andrew Hill, Financial Times "One of the top business books of the year." –Harvey Schacter, The Globe and Mail Bestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every...

Janice and Jason Fraser have been using their method for decades to help all kinds of people—including Navy SEALs, startup CEOs, and Fortune 100 executives—make progress in both their professional and personal lives by solving hard problems with grace. The approach is simple but powerful, calling on listeners to: orient honestly, value outcomes, leverage brains, and make durable decisions.

Discover how you and your company can work less, be more productive, and make time for what's really important with the support of this life-changing book.​ The idea of success embraced by the global economy means being always-on, never missing an opportunity, and outworking your peers. But...

Stell dir vor, du bist in einem wichtigen Meeting und plötzlich wirst du mit einer kritischen Frage konfrontiert, die du nicht erwartet hast. Dein Herzschlag beschleunigt sich, dein Kopf fühlt sich leer an, und du wünschst dir, dass dir genau jetzt die perfekte Antwort einfällt. Wenn du solche Momente kennst, dann bist du nicht allein. Viele Menschen fühlen sich in solchen Situationen unsicher und überfordert. Genau hier kommt die Schlagfertigkeit ins Spiel.

Whether interviewing, selling, networking, or leading a team, brainstorming with the boss or delivering a presentation, success in business depends on connection with other people. Nicholas Boothman, the best-selling author or How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, now brings his system of forging instant relationships to the world of business. Beginning with the simplest of tools - face, body, attitude, and voice - he shows how to make a dazzling first impression.

From Dr. Rick Brinkman, one of the best-selling masterminds who made Dealing with People You Can't Stand a little less painful - and a lot more productive - comes the much-needed cure for that time-wasting, headache-inducing, soul-sucking plague known as meetings. This proven step-by-step method addresses the most common problems that derail a meeting: preparation, people, process, and time. Dr. Brinkman provides key insights into the human behaviors that lead to unsuccessful meetings, along with psychologically based tactics for addressing them.

Culture cannot be a set-it-and-forget-it aspect of your business. Weaving culture-building into your daily and weekly activities strengthens the engagement of your people and reinforces the key principles of your desired culture, making it a reality. In Cultivating Culture, author, speaker, and leadership coach Brad Federman provides actionable tools for immediately promoting better teamwork, creating two-way conversations with your people, and gaining better feedback about how things are really going.

Fall asleep faster and wake up feeling refreshed, even if your mind won’t stop spinning when you hit the pillow. Do your thoughts take over the moment you try to rest? Are you replaying conversations, planning tomorrow’s to-do list, or stuck worrying about things you cannot change? You are not alone. Millions of adults struggle with nighttime overthinking and mental exhaustion. But restful sleep is possible, even if nothing has worked before.

We’ve been helping independent insurance agencies transform from “doing okay” into their Best Version Possible™ agency for four decades now. We’ve helped agency owners: Work a lot less, while making a lot more, banish drama, gossip, and employee-induced insomnia forever, grow operating profit, increase agency value (resulting in a payday at the end of a long career that would have you smiling for the rest of your life), and turn toxic cultures into dream workplaces, where producers produce and service staff wow clients every day.