Personal Development

[close] Is your attitude serving you or hurting you? Is it one of constant doom and gloom, or one of happiness and joy?

If it is the latter, terrific - keep doing what you are doing! If it is the gloom and doom, negative attitude that pushes people away, the book gives you some options of things you can do to change.

Your attitude creates an aura that is positive or negative and becomes the magnet that draws people to you or pushes them away. What you project through your attitude is, in large part, the catalyst for the kinds of attitudes that you receive from others.

If your life is not what you want it to be in one or all aspects, the problem may be closely related to your attitude.

The purpose of this short book that is filled with wonderful information is to help you really look at your approach to life and the attitude you project.

Attitude can be your most powerful tool in living a good life.

As you read through each section of the book, you will find information, exercises and suggestions to help you with attitude adjustments that can make your whole outlook brand new. [close]

[close] A fun book of no-time-to-lose, far out predicaments that you need to find a way out of (it's NOT a how-to book).

Each short, edge-of-your-seat story in "Outsmart the Unexpected" unfolds an unusual, no-time-to-lose, and sometimes life and death predicament, and then challenges you to come up with a solution to help one of the characters out the situation they suddenly find themselves in. They're a fun way to develop your creativity, exercise your brain, stretch your imagination, and jump start your ability to think and react quickly, especially in situations where things are happening very fast. Use them to develop the skill to creatively solve problems when they suddenly arise.

In some, you may need to suspend your disbelief to play along. Some will make your head spin. Others may make your heart pound. Still others will make you go hmmm. But all will challenge you to think outside your comfort zone, to look for solutions from different angles, and to not necessarily limit yourself to what you see and what the obvious solution could be. They will stretch your mind and help you to develop your ability to formulate best possible solution in situations where you must quickly decide upon a course of action and there's little available information to work with.

Try your hand at inventing different endings and discussing and debating the possible solutions or interesting outcomes that you came up with. Do You think that the best solutions come from asking the right questions? Get your brain buzzing thinking up what those questions would be. Do you enjoy making up your own endings? Let your imagination run wild.

Dive into the unexpected and bring your creative side along with you!
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[close] The Essential Manager offers a wealth of down-to-earth guidance which encourages you to reflect upon, and perhaps consider changing, how you
currently respond to some common trials and tribulations (and joys) of managerial life.

The 30 topics are presented across three dimensions which directly
impact upon your ability to shine as a manager at any level:

Part 1 – About You begins with a focus on you, because you can never hope to
bring the best out of others until you first get the most from yourself.

Part 2 – About Employees concentrates on important aspects of leading and
managing your employees, who are, after all, the people who can help you to
achieve your personal and business goals.

Part 3 – About Business is concerned with some key activities associated with
managing any business or function. For instance, it addresses subjects very
much to the fore at present, like strategic planning and managing change.

The 30 management essentials presented in the book are intended to get you to think about your performance and, based on those reflections, to consider how you can get better at what you currently do, and this applies regardless of your level of experience in the management game.
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