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    Making It Work at Work: A Guide to Career Development and Fulfillment (Collection)

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    by Alan Lurie, Kevin Elko, Edward G. Muzio, Deborah J. Fisher PhD, Erv Thomas PE, Gregory Shea PhD, Robert E. Gunther


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      ISBN-13: 9780133087345
    • Publisher: Pearson Education
    • Publication date: 05/14/2012
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 925
    • File size: 2 MB

    Alan Lurie is Managing Director at Grubb & Ellis, a national real estate service firm, following a 25-year career as a licensed architect. He is also a nondenominational ordained Rabbi, teaching, leading prayer services, and writing on issues of faith and religion. Dr. Kevin Elko is a nationally renowned performance consultant and motivational speaker. He has consulted with dozens of athletic teams, including LSU, Miami, Nebraska, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Dallas Cowboys; and with companies ranging from Travelers Insurance and Smith Kline Beecham to Prudential Securities and Tyson Foods. His books include Nerves of Steel and Winning the NFL Way. Edward G. Muzio, President and CEO of Group Harmonics, is a leader in the application of analytical models to enhance group effectiveness. He has started large organizations and small companies, led global initiatives in technology development and employee recruitment, and published papers on topics ranging from manufacturing strategy to individual productivity. Dr. Deborah J. Fisher, Ph.D., is a Visiting Research Professor at the University of New Mexico. Dedicated to group productivity and human motivation, her career has included tenure and an endowed chair position at her current institution. She previously directed the Engineering Management Program at the University of Houston. Erv Thomas, PE, Program Manager at Intel Corporation, has spent the past several years helping Intel recruit, mentor, and develop the top engineering talent in the world. He has dedicated 30,000+ hours to helping professionals and young adults live up to their full potential. Gregory P. Shea, Ph.D., consults, researches, writes, and teaches in the areas of organizational and individual change, group effectiveness, and conflict resolution. He is a principal in the Coxe Group international consultancy, Senior Consultant at the Center for Applied Research, and faculty member at Wharton. Robert E. Gunther is a professional business writer who has worked on 17 books, including The Truth About Making Decisions and Convergence Marketing.

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    Table of Contents

    Five Minutes on Mondays

    Introduction     xv

    Donkey for Sale: Ethical Wealth     1

    Justice on the Train: Offering Criticism     9

    Try Them, Try Them: Developing Persistence     17

    Door Openers: Spiritual Leadership     25

    Who Needs You?: Working Together     33

    Listen Up: Effective Listening     41

    I Don’t Know: Respectful Conversation     49

    In the Beginning: Keeping Resolutions     59

    Prelude to Disaster: Building Confidence     65

    Eureka !: Using Intuition     73

    Something Creative: Accessing Creativity     81

    Do You Mean It?: Discovering Meaning     91

    You’re Finished!: Embracing Change     99

    Alone on the Sofa: Finding Truth     107

    The Superior Object: Resolving Conflicts of Interest     115

    Hey, You Screwed Up Again!: Transforming Mistakes     121

    Making Stuff Up: Reacting Objectively     129

    Waiting for Nobel: Overcoming Feelings of Inadequacy     137

    Self, Actually: Being Authentic     145

    Return That Call: Enlightened Self-Interest     153

    So, a Horse Walks into a Bar... Taking Time for Laughter     161

    What If?: Facing Fear     169

    The Aim of Existence: Cultivating Happiness     177

    The No Negativity Event: Living with Optimism     185

    A Thankfully Short Message: Living with Gratitude     195

    The Power of Three: Living with Balance     201

    Take a Breath: Directed Meditation     209

    Go Forth: Starting on the Spiritual Journey     217

    The Lonely Man: Balancing Faith and Ambition     223

    What’s in Your Pocket: Integrating Opposites     233

    Index     243

     

    Touchdown!

    About the Author    xi

    Foreword by Butch Davis     xiii

    Foreword by Jon Dorenbos     xviii

    Preface by Stewart Emery     xxvii

    Introduction     1

    Chapter 1: Growing Up      7

    Chapter 2: You Do Not Have to Carry More Than You Can Hold     21

    Chapter 3: Cutting the Internal Mental Clutter     35

    Chapter 4: Just One Last Play     51

    Chapter 5: Seasons of Life     63

    Chapter 6: The Preseason: It Happens Before It Happens     77

    Chapter 7: The Action Season: You Do Not Get What You Want: You Get What You Deserve     97

    Chapter 8: The Playoffs     115

    Chapter 9: The Off-Season    123

    Chapter 10: Speaking Out: Heart Song Catalogue of Catch Phrases     131

    Index    149

     

    Four Secrets to Liking Your Work

    Acknowledgments     xvii

    About the Authors     xviii

    Prologue: Monday Morning Dread     xix

    Chapter 1: The Trouble with Work     1

    Chapter 2: How People Act     17

    Chapter 3: Watching the Action     33

    Chapter 4: Why People Act     45

    Chapter 5: Figuring Out Why     65

    Chapter 6: What People Do     77

    Chapter 7: Do What You Like     91

    Chapter 8: Got Skills?      105

    Chapter 9: A Bird’s Eye View     123

    Appendix     139

    Notes     141

    Index     147

     

    Your Job Survival Guide

    Preface: We Surely All Will Die     xix

    Chapter 1: An Eskimo on the Titanic     1

    Chapter 2: Working the Eddies: Pace Yourself to Preserve Your Sanity     13

    Chapter 3: Mastering the Roll: Prepare to Fail Gracefully and Recover Quickly     45

    Chapter 4: The Power of Play: Optimism and Resilience     65

    Chapter 5: Personal Flotation: You Are Responsible for Your Own Security     85

    Chapter 6: Scouting and Portaging: Set Your Own Course     103

    Chapter 7: Rising above the Roar: Communicate Through Symbols     137

    Chapter 8: Building Flocks: Teaming for Today’s Run     163

    Chapter 9: Leading Trips: Guiding Through Permanent Whitewater     187

    Conclusion, What Conclusion?      205

    Endnotes     219

    Index     231

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    Master Powerful Ways to Find Purpose, Fulfillment, and Greatness at Work!

    Four great books show you how to find purpose, fulfillment, and greatness at work--no matter where you work or how fast your workplace is changing! Imagine the leaders of one of New York’s top real-estate firms coming together every Monday morning to hear…the moral and spiritual thoughts of a Rabbi. Wouldn’t you like to hear the paths Alan Lurie traced for his listeners, how he helped them bring together their spiritual and business lives, the sacred and the profane? Five Minutes on Mondays compiles these talks for the first time, sharing Lurie’s deep and profound inspiration on the challenges we all face--at work and in life. Lurie draws on millennia of philosophy, theology, and science to help us answer our deepest questions, comfort our deepest yearnings, and become better people: more connected to each other and to the Greater Purpose. Next, in Touchdown! Achieving Your Greatness on the Playing Field of Business (and Life), Dr. Kevin Elko shows how to build your success one brick at a time…so when it happens, it happens huge. America’s #1 performance consultant, Elko shares all he’s learned working with legendary athletes such as Emmitt Smith, championship coaches like Nick Saban, and thousands of the world’s top businesspeople. If you’re good, he’ll make you great. If you’re great, he’ll make you the best! Next, Four Secrets to Liking Your Work offers the first practical, start-to-finish program for transforming your work life: all the tools, tricks, ideas, examples, and proven research you need to make your work life more fulfilling and joyful, wherever you work--starting right now. Finally, in Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change, Gregory Shea, Ph.D., and Robert Gunther help you thrive amidst the challenges of your permanent “whitewater world” of change at work. Drawing on extensive research, they show how to protect your career, improve your resilience, and rediscover play and adventure as you “ride the workplace rapids.”

    From inspirational business leaders, trainers, and authors, including Alan Lurie, Kevin Elko, Edward Muzio, Deborah Fisher, Erv Thomas, Gregory Shea, and Robert Gunther

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