Decision Diagnosis: Seven Antidotes to Decision Procrastination
You can’t make successful decisions if you don’t know what those decisions are asking of you. In this book, via the brokering of economics theories, the scientific method, and a surgical approach to medical problems, you will find innovative methods to diagnosing decisions and tools for improving your clarity in personal and professional decision-making.
Physicians and surgeons routinely go through seven attributes of a medical problem to tease out the pertinent positives and negatives from a patient, so as to arrive at the right diagnosis and manage the patient with the correct treatment. Here I have hybridized this medical technique normally used for complex diagnoses with my work in research and business leadership to create seven antidotes to decision procrastination—a framework, entitled Decision Diagnosis, which we can apply to decision-making.
I believe that when you apply this framework, it will provide useful insights. Most importantly of all, it will help you achieve a greater understanding, clarity, and focus in your strategy and decision-making. Whether it is for personal or professional decisions, I believe this construct will help you succeed and improve your strategic and executive function.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
The book that started the Quiet Revolution
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.
In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.
Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Entrepreneur: Warren Buffett: 7 Ultimate Financial Habits (Free “5 Life-Changing Habits You Can Begin Today” Inside Book 1)
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Consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people, Buffett is known for his frugality, calculated financial practices, and philanthropy. His financial and life philosophies are some of the most respected and celebrated in the business world. Buffett’s own success is the truest testament to the efficacy of his financial habits, and with this simple guide, these same habits are available to you.
As Warren Buffett says: “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of mediocre”
Break Your Busy – Set Your Creativity Free: A Disruptively Simple Approach to Better Life and Time Management – Stop Procrastination, Be More Productive … What You Want (Work Life Wide Open Book 1)
We have inherited an urgency to do more. We strive to be ever more efficient regardless of how effective this never ending work we incessantly keep doing actually is. We feel a desperate need for better life and time management techniques to help reduce stress and overcome overwhelm so that we can continue to be yet more productive. Despite our best efforts these surface level solutions only tackle the symptoms of the High Definition Life context we are all living in.
They ignore the underlying cause of the discord and conflict that drives this incessant cycle of work for works sake. To solely use time management, motivation and anti procrastination techniques as a way to help you feel better, less stressed and more purposeful is like trying to keep the rain off with a sieve during a thunder storm. You will get soaked wet through and your life will still be riddled with Busy Work.
When you are fully connected to your creativity, in whatever form it takes, you’ll have no need for the sticking plaster of better time management. Your Real Work of the moment will be known to you and everyone else you come in contact with. Resolving never ending priority conflicts, being pulled from pillar to post, taken for granted, overworked and underpaid will become things of the past before you know it.
The need for external motivation subsides and procrastination disappears by taking responsibility for what you really want in your life and finally Breaking Your Busy. When the dust settles you will be doing what you want to do instead of finding ways to force yourself to do the things you don’t. You will feel more purposeful, fulfilled, happier and in tune with your creativity. You will be willing to take action to bring it to life in the world, either at home, in your relationship, in your community, at work or in your small business enterprise.
With this book, you’ll quickly be able to identify what Busy Work is for you and start using simple ways to eliminate it from your life quickly, efficiently and permanently.
How will you Break Your Busy?
Prior to recognising the difference between Busy Work and Real Work for me personally I was disillusioned, unfulfilled and didn’t have a hope of turning my ideas and visions into reality. As soon as I could tell them apart I had more time, energy and focus to implement necessary changes in my life and be better prepared for and available to my neglected creativity. All of a sudden my stalled plans were set in motion and personal success goals reached through consistent action.
What Break Your Busy (BYB) has done for me:
I now only work only 2/3 the time I used to before BYB.
I have all but eliminated Busy Work from my life.
I no longer feel the need for motivation or procrastination.
I know what I’m doing and Why so get it done and enjoy the process.
I waste much less money, time, energy and focus than when I was pandering to Busy Work.
At least 80% of the work I actually do is what I call Real Work.
I have more time, space and energy for idea generation, exploration and implementation.
My mind is stronger, faster and more tuned to my creative instincts.
I am more in control of my thoughts, feelings and emotions and use them to my creative advantage.
I feel like I am giving more of myself to the world and living my gifts more authentically.
I’m clear on the Why, How and What of both my work life and personal life.
I’m able keep mastering and re-mastering The Seven Works to enjoy a more balanced, productive, meaningful, fulfilling and happier life.
Download this book and in addition to the ebook edition you’ll also receive:
A PDF edition of the book (in case your e-reader doesn’t handle screenshots very well).
The chance to have your burning questions answered in The Creativity Core community.
3 bonuses to help you BYB more effectively.
Your Leadership EDGE: Mastering Management Skills for Today’s Workforce
Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders. If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and learn the secrets to effectively motivating and developing your team, Your Leadership Edge is the program to take you there.
Your Leadership Edge is not just another leadership development self-help book; it is a complete management training program. The leadership training guide is geared toward managers, supervisors and executives of all backgrounds and experience levels and provides concrete steps that you can take to become a better leader right away.
As you work through the management training guide, Your Leadership Edge will help you assess your own leadership competencies and allow you to identify your strengths and weaknesses. From there, the leadership development program helps you find ways to overcome the obstacles that stand in your way of being the type of effective leader that motivates, inspires and retains employees.
In the pages of Your Leadership Edge, you won’t find broad discussions of leadership development that are difficult to relate to or use to affect change in your own leadership style. Instead, you’ll engage in a series of exercises and activities that make the concepts discussed relevant to your own position. It’s this difference that makes this leadership training program so powerful. By the end, you will have a deeper appreciation of your own level of leadership skills and be poised to lead those who report to you in a way that maximizes their job satisfaction and improves their overall performance.
Discover the leadership skills that transform subordinates into productive, positive and driven teams that are poised to accomplish their goals. Become the type of leader that you have always wanted to be. Order the paperback version of Your Leadership Edge or download this life-changing leadership training program for your Kindle today.
Business
Ideal for users studying business and key practices, BUSINESS, 11E is a best-selling introductory text featuring current, comprehensive survey of the functional areas of business: management, marketing, accounting, finance, and information technology. Core topics include ethics and social responsibility, small business concerns, and global issues. New coverage in this edition closely examines cutting-edge topics like the impact of the economic and political climate on business, green and socially responsible business, and sustainability. Increase student engagement and improve outcomes by incorporating one of our digital products into your course: CengageNOW, CourseMate, WebTutor, Interactive Business Plan, MikesBikes Simulation or Course360.
The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 Seconds- Best Motivational Video for Entrepreneurs
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You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C’s to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life
NFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4–12 record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith’s leadership, the Falcons earned an 11–5 record in his first season and would go on to become perennial playoff and Super Bowl contenders earning Smith AP Coach of year in 2008 and voted Coach of Year by his peers in 2008, 2010 and 2012.
You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon—consultant to numerous college and professional teams—to explore the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization.
Step by step, the authors outline a strategy for building a thriving organization and provide a practical framework that give leaders the tools they need to create a great culture, lead with the right mindset, create strong relationships, improve teamwork, execute at a higher level, and avoid the pitfalls that sabotage far too many leaders and organizations.
In addition to sharing what went right with the Falcons, Smith also transparently shares what went wrong his last two seasons and provides invaluable lessons leaders can take away from his victories, success, failures and mistakes.
Whether it’s an executive leadership team of a Fortune 500 company, a sports team, an emergency room team, military team, or a school team successful leaders coach their team and develop, mentor, encourage, and guide them. This not only improves the team, it improves the leaders and their relationships, connections, and organization.
You Win in the Locker Room First offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at one of the most pressure packed leadership jobs on the planet and what leaders can learn from these experiences in order to build their own winning team.
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller.
Why have history’s greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today’s top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.
The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you’ll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms.
By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you’ll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.
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