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Your brain at work : strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus, and working smarter all day long / David Rock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper Business, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0061771295
  • 9780061771293
Other title:
  • Strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus, and working smarter all day long
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 658.4092019 22
LOC classification:
  • HF5386 .R538 2009
Contents:
Act I. Problems and decisions -- Scene 1. The morning email overwhelm -- Scene 2. A project that hurts to think about -- Scene 3. Juggling five things at once -- Scene 4. Saying no to distractions -- Scene 5. Searching for the zone of peak performance -- Scene 6. Getting past a roadblock -- -- Internission: meet the director -- Act II. Stay cool under pressure -- Scene 7. Derailed by drama -- Scene 8. Drowning amid uncertainty -- Scene 9. When expectations get out of control -- Act III. Collaborate with others -- Scene 10. Turning enemies into friends -- Scene 11. When everything seems unfair -- Scene 12. The battle for status -- Act IV. Facilitate change -- Scene 13. When other people lose the plot -- Scene 14. The culture that needs to transform.
Summary: Through the story of Emily and Paul, a working couple with different job situations, the author shows how to better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our working lives.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Act I. Problems and decisions -- Scene 1. The morning email overwhelm -- Scene 2. A project that hurts to think about -- Scene 3. Juggling five things at once -- Scene 4. Saying no to distractions -- Scene 5. Searching for the zone of peak performance -- Scene 6. Getting past a roadblock -- -- Internission: meet the director -- Act II. Stay cool under pressure -- Scene 7. Derailed by drama -- Scene 8. Drowning amid uncertainty -- Scene 9. When expectations get out of control -- Act III. Collaborate with others -- Scene 10. Turning enemies into friends -- Scene 11. When everything seems unfair -- Scene 12. The battle for status -- Act IV. Facilitate change -- Scene 13. When other people lose the plot -- Scene 14. The culture that needs to transform.

Through the story of Emily and Paul, a working couple with different job situations, the author shows how to better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our working lives.

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