Ernest Becker
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The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life Bernard Roth HarperBusiness/An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers (July 2015) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle, July…
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The Chocolate Conversation: Lead Bittersweet Change, Transform Your Business Rose Fass Bibliomotion (2013) Unless and until you communicate clearly and honestly with yourself, you probably won’t be able to do so with others. As I began to read this book,…
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Success Under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying Calm, Confident, and Productive When the Pressure’s On Sharon Melnick AMACOM (2013) How to avoid or overcome self-defeating barriers to success…including those that are self-imposed Walt Kelly’s possum, Pogo, once observed, “We have…
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Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance George Kohlrieser Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2006) How to avoid becoming or remaining a “hostage” to self-defeating expectations of you (including your own) The title of this review was suggested by Ernest…
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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Alan Watts Vintage Books/Random House (1989) Of all the books I have reviewed for various Amazon websites thus far, none has attracted more reader comments than has this “little” book…
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Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, is a motivational psychologist, researcher, and consultant. She writes about the scientifically-tested strategies we can use to be more effective reaching our goals at work and in our personal lives. Her new book is Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals…
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Who is Ernest Becker and what is his relevance to today’s business world?
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. He is probably most famous for one of his nine books, Denial of Death, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (for general non-fiction)…
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