Anders Ericsson
Goal-Setting Boot Camp: Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Kevin Shulman Sandler Training (September 2020) How and why effective goal setting starts in the personal realm and moves outward from there The title of one…
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Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job Bruce Daisley HarperOne/An imprint of HarperCollins (February 2020) How to stimulate creativity, energy, and success throughout your workplace culture Teresa Amabile and Steve Jobs are among those who…
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The Leader Habit (4/19/18): Master the Skills You Need to Lead–in Just Minutes a Day Martin Lanik AMACOM (April 2018) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle I am among those who…
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50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey (April 2018) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) This is the latest in a series…
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The Motivation Myth : How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win Jeff Haden Portfolio/Penguin Group (2018) How and why “motivation is a result,” not a spark Long ago, I concluded that I could not motivate another person but…
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Breaking Bad Habits: Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business Hardcover Freek Vermeulen Harvard Business Review Press (November 2017) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” I agree with Aristotle’s comment, presuming…
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Here is a Wiki briefing on a concept that is the focus of Mihaly Csikszentmihályi‘s eponymous book, published in 1990. “In positive psychology, flow, also known as being ‘the zone,’ is the mental state of operation in which a person…
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In The Leading Brain, Friederike Fabritius and Hans Hagemann explain several ”powerful science-based strategies for achieving peak performance.” For example, these are their key points in Chapter 5, “Unleash Your Unconscious”: o Your unconscious brain runs the show. Even when you…
Read MoreThe Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance Friederike Fabricius and Hands Hagemann TarcherPerigee/Penguin Random House (February 2017). Here are several science-based strategies that can drive peak performance Although by no means an authority in the multiple dimensions…
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Who is Bill Joy and why is he significant?
In a book published by Little, Brown & Company ten years ago, Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell has this to say about Bill Joy: “After graduating from Berkeley [with a PhD degree in computer programming], Joy cofounded the…
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