Peter Bregman

Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 MINUTES clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives. Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us. Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies, Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide us -- pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or less.

Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

18 Minutes

Harvard Business Review

Rasmus Hougaard

Jacqueline Carter

Jack Zenger

Become a mindful listener at work. Listening is a critical skill that leaders and managers often take for granted. By learning to listen mindfully, you can keep your employees more engaged, foster the discovery of new ideas, and hear what you need to hear in a discussion rather than what you expect to hear. The book will teach you what great listeners do, how to stay fully present in challenging conversations, and how empathic listening can help others learn and grow. This volume includes the work of: Peter Bregman Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Mindful Listening (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 18 Minutes unlocks the secrets of highly successful leaders and pinpoints the missing ingredient that makes all the difference You have the opportunity to lead: to show up with confidence, connected to others, and committed to a purpose in a way that inspires others to follow. Maybe it’s in your workplace, or in your relationships, or simply in your own life. But great leadership—leadership that aligns teams, inspires action, and achieves results—is hard. And what makes it hard isn’t theoretical, it’s practical. It’s not about knowing what to say or do. It’s about whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it. In other words, the most critical challenge of leadership is emotional courage. If you are willing to feel everything, you can do anything. Leading with Emotional Courage, based on the author’s popular blogs for Harvard Business Review, provides practical, real-world advice for building your emotional courage muscle. Each short, easy to read chapter details a distinct step in this emotional “workout,” giving you grounded advice for handling the difficult situations without sacrificing professional ground. By building the courage to say the necessary but difficult things, you become a stronger leader and leave the “should’ves” behind. Theoretically, leadership is straightforward, but how many people actually lead? The gap between theory and practice is huge. Emotional courage is what bridges that gap. It’s what sets great leaders apart from the rest. It gets results. It cuts through the distractions, the noise, and the politics to solve problems and get things done. This book is packed with actionable steps you can take to start building these skills now. Have the courage to speak up when others remain silent Be stable and grounded in the face of uncertainty Respond productively to opposition without getting distracted Weather others’ anger without shutting down or getting defensive Leading with Emotional Courage coaches you to build your emotional courage, exercise it effectively, and create an environment in which people around you take accountability to get hard things done.

How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, And Inspire Action On Your Most Important Work

Leading With Emotional Courage

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Amy Jen Su

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

In order to build trust, gain buy-in, and move up in your organization, you need to be confident. But self-doubt and anxiety can break your composure--and faking it doesn't feel comfortable. How do you push these insecurities away? This book explains how you can better understand your emotions to become more self-assured at work. You'll learn from the latest research what is holding you back, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and when too much confidence can actually hurt you.--

Confidence

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Stewart D. Friedman

Daisy Wademan Dowling

You can have it all. You can't have it all. Balance your work and your life. There is no balance. Prioritize! Manage your time! With so much conflicting advice and so many demands on your time, it's no wonder you feel overwhelmed by your commitments. No matter your age, your marital or parental status, or your profession, you juggle a lot. Work, home, family duties, volunteer activities, your own interests and mental health--every day you face the constant push and pull of a full life. But having a full life isn't a bad thing, and it doesn't have to be a constant source of stress. You'll never divide your time or attention evenly between all of your activities and commitments, but you can discover ways to make choices and trade-offs and feel less stressed about them. This guide brings together a variety of expert voices with a carefully selected set of ideas for managing all of your competing interests more effectively. You'll learn how to: Make sustainable contributions to the most important areas of your life Create a schedule that works for most everyone, most of the time Understand the difference between must-do and to-do items on your list Make time for yourself Assuage feelings of guilt and failure Ease the strain on your personal and professional relationships Be present at home--and at work Cope with unexpected gaps in child- or eldercare Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.--

HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance

All too often our best efforts to accomplish the things we want most—to do our jobs well, to make meaningful contributions at home and at work, to have satisfying relationships with loved ones, friends, neighbors, and coworkers—are built on bad habits that sabotage us. We feel overwhelmed by our increasingly large to-do list, so we automatically multitask to get more done—and end up more stressed and more overloaded. We say something with the hopes of impressing the other person, but instead of end them—then spend days trying to repair the damage. We give what we think is a pep talk to our team— but they walk away demotivated. How can we be most effective and productive in a world that moves too fast and demands so much of us? In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows that the answer is to pause for as few as four seconds—the length of a deep breath—to replace bad habits and reactions with more productive behaviors. In his trademark style of blending personal anecdotes with practical advice, Bregman reveals some of our most common counter-productive tendencies and describes counter-intuitive strategies for acting more intentionally, including: Why setting goals can actually harm your performance How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower Why listening—not arguing—is the best strategy for changing someone's mind How taking responsibility for someone else's failure can actually help you succeed Drawn from Bregman's hugely popular Harvard Business Review blog, this engaging and wise book provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.

All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want

Four Seconds

18 минут

Listening is a critical skill that leaders and managers often take for granted. By learning to listen mindfully, you can keep your employees more engaged, foster the discovery of new ideas, and hear what you need to hear in a discussion rather than what you expect to hear. The book will teach you what great listeners do, how to stay fully present in challenging conversations, and how empathic listening can help others learn and grow. This volume includes the work of: Peter Bregman Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Mindful Listening

All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work

остановись, подумай, сделай

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Dacher Keltner

Harrison Monarth

Dan Cable

Wield your power for greater influence and impact. With formal authority comes power. But few people realize that informal power--the kind that doesn't come with a title--can have just as much impact. How do you use your power for greater influence? This book explains how power affects our emotions, our behavior, and how we work with others. You'll learn how to use self-awareness to keep your power in check, connect with the right people to create more value, respond to abuses of power, and leave a lasting impression. This volume includes the work of: Dan Cable Peter Bregman Harrison Monarth Dacher Keltner HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Power and Impact (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

La véritable solution pour gérer son temps efficacement ? Cibler son énergie sur ce qui est important et arrêter de vouloir tout faire. Le noyau dur de la démarche de Peter Bregman ? 18 minutes par jour pour s'organiser et hiérarchiser ses priorités. Dans ce livre : • On commence par établir un plan (qu’est-ce qui compte vraiment, quels sont les gros projets/les gros changements que vous voulez faire) • On consacre à peine plus d’un quart d’heure chaque jour à déterminer les actions quotidiennes importantes. Quant au flot de mails, d’appels et de réunions, l’auteur fournit ses astuces pour les utiliser adéquatement sans être emporté par le tourbillon. « 18 minutes pour être efficace est un guide ultra-pratique, vraiment intelligent et facile à lire, qui va booster votre efficacité et améliorer votre satisfaction. Les idées de ce livre m’ont déjà beaucoup apporté dans mon propre travail. Et ce sera la même chose pour vous. » Daniel Pink, l’auteur de La vérité sur ce qui nous motive. Peter Bregman est le PDG de Bregman Partners, une entreprise de consultants en management. 18 minutes pour être efficace est basé sur la rubrique hebdomadaire qu'il tient pour la Harvard Business Review et qui est l'une des rubriques les plus consultées sur HBR.com, totalisant des centaines de milliers de vues uniques mensuelles. Il est basé à New York.

18 minutes pour être efficace (Nouvelle édition)

Zeven uur. De wekker gaat, we slepen ons ons bed uit en maken ons op voor weer een dag rennen, vliegen, vallen, opstaan en weer doorgaan. Aan het eind van die doodvermoeiende dag zitten we op de bank en vragen ons verbijsterd af waar de dag gebleven is: `Wat heb ik vandaag nou helemaal gedaan?! Peter Bregman, schrijver van de populaire Harvard Business-column How We Work, vroeg zich af hoe we die ratrace kunnen doorbreken. Hij kwam met een revolutionair plan: sta gedurende de werkdag 18 minuten 5 minuten s ochtends, 1 minuut op elk heel uur en 5 minuten s avonds stil bij wat je nu echt wilt, en je zult zien dat je minder snel wordt afgeleid door kleine dingen, zodat je uiteindelijk met meer tevredenheid terugkijkt op je werkdag. Zijn doel is: werk elke dag met plezier, maar laat het werk niet je leven overnemen, want er is zo veel meer om van te genieten! 18 minuten biedt je die kans.

18 Minuten

Howie Jacobson

Discover how to change the lives of the people around you In You Can Change Other People, the world’s #1 executive coach, Peter Bregman, and Howie Jacobson, Ph.D., share the Four Steps to help the people around you make positive change — even if they’ve been stuck for years. The authors rely on over 50 years of collective professional experience to show you exactly what to say to influence those around you for the better. Changing the way you talk will stop you from being perceived as a critic, and turn you into a welcomed and effective ally. You’ll learn how to: Disarm their defensiveness and increase their confidence to act Turn people’s biggest problems into even bigger opportunities Ensure accountability and follow through without making them dependent on you No one wants to be changed; but change and personal growth are critical to success, and more importantly, to a fulfilled life. You Can Change Other People is a must-read for those who want to improve their impact with co-workers, family members, and everyone in between.

The Four Steps to Help Your Colleagues, Employees-- Even Family-- Up Their Game

You Can Change Other People

Stop running on empty. Every day you juggle the many components that fill your life. Between work and family commitments, volunteer work, hobbies, and managing your physical and mental health, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and that you’re letting someone down or neglecting some aspect of your life. But you can find ways to honor all of your commitments without collapsing. The HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance will help you: Evaluate and adjust your priorities Manage expectations Set and spend your time budget Make plans--and backup plans Understand how to make trade-offs Prioritize self-care Discover what works for you

Peter Bregman

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