The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni (Hardcover - Sep 1, 2000)

How to Get Things Done without Trying Too Hard - Paperback (July 17, 2009) by Richard Templar

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Life (July 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0273725564
• ISBN-13: 978-0273725565

Review

"Templar's refreshingly pithy guide shows how, with the right strategies in place, anyone can become well-organised and productive." Good Book Guide, January 2010

Product Description

Templar returns! The bestselling author of the internationally acclaimed, million-selling Rules books is back with this, the second of a brand new series of handy guides to life. How to Get Things Done without Trying too Hard is the wise and witty antidote to procrastination, the definitive manual for getting more done and the best and simplest guide to finding time to do all those little things you know you need to do, but usually can't be bothered to. We all know how easy it can be to put things off until tomorrow and we tell ourselves we just don't have time to do things straight away. But tomorrow never comes and slowly but surely all those little tasks and jobs you've been putting off all build up into a huge mountain to climb. In a busy world where being time-poor is a popular complaint, it can be easy to convince ourselves that organising our CD collection or clearing out the garage, cleaning the oven, or shampooing the carpet is just not a good use of time and there are better, usually more exciting, things we could be doing. Time, it seems, is the one thing we always wish we had more of, but when we've got it, on the whole we use it badly. With his inimitable blend of originality, wisdom, common sense and straight talking, Richard Templar will take you through 100 clever, cunningly simple and pain-free ways to help you get more things done and dusted with the minimum of time and effort. Before you know it you'll be ticking things off your to-do list at record speed and feeling more organised, more in control and more able to enjoy that precious free time without the nagging feeling that you've still got things to do.

How To Boost Your Brain Power: Achieving Peak Intelligence, Memory and Creativity by Roger B Yepsen Jr.

How To Boost Your Brain Power: Achieving Peak Intelligence, Memory and Creativity by Roger B Yepsen Jr.


My version is by Rodale Press, 1987.  ISBN 0-87857-653-3 Hardcover.

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Contents


Chapter 1 How Your Brain Works (or Doesn't)
Chapter 2 Foods for Thought
Chapter 3 No Mind Is an Island
Chapter 4 The Brain Drugs: Caffeine, Nicotine and Alcohol
Chapter 5 How to Build a Better Brain
Chapter 6 Keep Your Memory Sharp
Chapter 7 Learn to Be More Creative
Index

Chapter 1 How Your Brain Works (or Doesn't)

1.1. Intellectual Fitness

1.2. Brain Chemicals

1.3. Mind and Body, or Mind/Body?

Chapter 2 Foods for Thought

2.1. Your Sugar-Fueled Computer

2.2. The Ups and Downs of Sugar

2.3. Psychoactive Foods

2.4. Tryptophan and Drowsiness

2.5. Choline for Memory Function

2.6. Choline in Your Diet

2.7. Vitamins and Minerals for Peak Mental Performance

2.8. The B Vitamins

2.9. Vitamin C

2.10. Vitamin E

2.11. Trace Elements

2.12. Iron for Anemic Intellects

2.13. The Role of Zinc

2.14. A Smart Diet for Kids

2.15. The Hyperactive Child

2.16. Special Needs in Later Years

Chapter 3 No Mind Is an Island

3.1. Sound Advice

3.2. Music to Think By

3.3. Learning to Music

3.4. The Pursuit of Quiet

3.5. Plug Your Ears

3.6. White Noise

3.7. In the Home and Office

3.8. Is Sunlight an Essential Nutrient?

3.9. Winter Doldrums and The Third Eye

3.10. Supplementing Your Light Diet

3.11. Choosing the Right Light

3.12. Witches' Winds and Ion Generators

3.13. Fresh Air, Fresh Thoughts

3.14. Generate Your Own Ions

3.15. Time Warps

3.16. Successfully Weathering Jet Lag and Swing Shifts

3.17. Your Internal Clock versus Society's Clock

3.18. Mind Allergies

3.19. Are You Allergic to Your Home?

3.20. Food Allergies

3.21. Look Out for Lead

3.22. How to Get the Lead Out

Chapter 4 The Brain Drugs: Caffeine, Nicotine and Alcohol

4.1. Caffeine: The Number-One Brain Drug

4.2. What Goes Up Must Come Down

4.3. How Can You Tell If You're Hooked?

4.4. How to Get Off the Hook

4.5. Nicotine

4.6. A Thinking Person's Guide to Alcohol

4.7. The Three Faces of Alcohol

4.8. Does Alcohol Really Pickle the Brain?

Chapter 5 How to Build a Better Brain

5.1. Mental Muscle

5.2. Teaching Old Rats New Tricks

5.3. How to Set Off "Dendritic Fireworks"

5.4. A Powerful Mind in a Fit Body

5.5. Exercise for Those Who Think Young

5.6. The Biochemistry of Exercise

5.7. Minding the Mind/Body Split

5.8. Blood Supply

5.9. Air Supply

5.10. The Importance of Quality Sleep

5.11. Mind Rhythms

5.12. Your Thoughts Can Make You Sick

5.13. Keep Stress from Sabotaging Your Mind

5.14. Meditation

5.15. Biofeedback

5.16. Linking Mind and Body

5.17. Put Yourself in a Creative Mood with Biofeedback

5.18. What is Biofeedback Like?

5.19. Muscle Relaxation

5.20. Body Therapies

5.21. The Power of Positive Thinking, Revisited

5.22. Picture This

5.23. The Mind in Sports

5.24. Mental Tips for Peak Sports Performance

Chapter 6 Keep Your Memory Sharp

6.1. The Mechanics of Memory

6.2. Learning to Remember

6.3. Stress: Memory's Worst Enemy

6.4. Our Moody Filing Cabinets

6.5. Memory around the Clock

6.6. Focus Your Attention

6.7. Techniques for Better Concentration

6.8. Memory Food

6.9. Memory Pills

6.10. Alcohol

6.11. Does the Memory Wear Out?

6.12. Is It Really Senility?

6.13. Alzheimer's and Senile Dementia

6.14. When All Else Fails, Forget It

Chapter 7 Learn to Be More Creative

7.1. Creative Resuscitation

7.2. Creativity Takes Youthful Thinking, Not Youth

7.3. The Creative Personality

7.4. Intelligence and Creativity

7.5. Is One Sex More Creative than the Other?

7.6.  Creation Takes Time

7.7. Block Busters

7.8. Booze and the Muse

7.9. Thinking Laterally for Better Creativity

7.10. Exercises in Lateral Thinking

7.11. Brainstorming

7.12. Visit Your Unconscious Mind

7.13. Other Mind-Expanding Possibilities

7.14. Creativity Tips

Index

Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes, and Thinking Big by Ralph Heath

Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes, and Thinking Big by Ralph Heath

• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: Career Press (July 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601630646
• ISBN-13: 978-1601630643
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Table of Contents
Introduction Failure Teaches You to Succeed
Chapter 1 Starting Fires
Chapter 2 Resistance to Change
Chapter 3 Think Big
Chapter 4 Leading From the Back
Chapter 5 I Want to Throw Up
Chapter 6 Pause and Celebrate the Moment
Chapter 7 Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, and Herb Lee
Chapter 8 Hire for Attitude
Chapter 9 Family, God, and the Green Bay Packers
Chapter 10 Learn From Your Mistakes
Chapter 11 Pushing Yourself to Fail
Chapter 12 Break a Rib
Chapter 13 Winning and Losing the Negotiation Game
Chapter 14 Never Threaten to Quit Anything
Chapter 15 Answer the Question, Please
Chapter 16 Anaerobic Creativity
Chapter 17 Continuous Improvement
Chapter 18 Losing Control
Chapter 19 More Valuable Than Money
Chapter 20 Investing in People: The HR ROI
Chapter 21 Let Me Help You Find a New Job
Chapter 22 Negative Listening
Chapter 23 Even Geniuses Can Fail
Chapter 24 Keep Your Edge
Chapter 25 Confronting Fear and Surviving the Epic Crisis
Chapter 26 Blow it Up
Chapter 27 Why Wait?
Chapter 28 I Can't Find My Ball
Chapter 29 It's the Economy, Stupid
Chapter 30 Change Is My Drug of Choice
Postmortem
Index
About the Author

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Celebrating Failure is the definitive how-to manual for leaders seeking to embrace the power of failure as a learning tool to improve their organizations and achieve ever-greater goals. The business world (and, lately, the political arena) is convinced that the number one topic is change.

Heath posits that it might well be failure, because if you do it right, failure can become a launching pad for change.

Heath contends that "positive failures" are not only necessary steps on the path to success, but encourage greater freedom to take risks in pursuit of one's life goals. This counterintuitive but powerful title includes:
• Engaging stories of real-life business and personal failure experiences.
• Practical steps to apply each chapter's "lessons" and change your approach to risk-taking and failure.
• Positive, effective ways to eliminate the "fear of failure" that can holdyou back in today's competitive, fast-changing world.

Heath's insightful stories lay out his own failures and reveal his human side as a son, father, athlete, and business leader.

About the Author


Ralph Heath is president of Ovation Marketing, an ad agency he founded in 1978 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Ovation was twice named to INC magazine's 500 fastest-growing companies. Heath is a John Caples advertising award winner and was recognized as Midwest Direct Marketer of the Year. He is a motivational speaker and has taught advertising at the University of Wisconsin. He is president of two nonprofit organizations, Mississippi Valley Conservancy and Human Powered Trails. Heath has been honored as a four-time Triathlon All-American, and is a two-time finisher of the Hawaii Ironman and a 2008 bronze medalist in Wisconsin cycling.

John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business Review Book) by John P. Kotter (Hardcover - Mar 18, 1999)

The Surprising Work of God by Jonathan Edwards (Paperback - Oct 1, 1997)

The Literary Almanac: The Best of the Printed Word : 1900 to the Present by High Tide Press

The Literary Almanac: The Best of the Printed Word : 1900 to the Present - Paperback (Nov. 1997) by High Tide Press