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The Best Place to Work:

The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

A captivating look at how companies can foster office culture that fuels creativity, productivity, and a sense of belonging and community among employees. A must-read for the future of work.

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace:

Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

This book will give you the tools to improve staff morale, create a more positive workplace, and increase employee engagement. How? By teaching you to effectively communicate authentic appreciation and encouragement to employees, co-workers, and leaders.

The Inner Game of Work:

Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace

A groundbreaking guide to overcoming the inner obstacles that sabotage your efforts to be your best on the job. No matter how long you’ve been doing it or how little you think there is to learn about it, your job can become an opportunity to sharpen skills, increase pleasure, and heighten awareness.

The ABC of Teamwork

(This book is in spanish)

There are goals that only a team can achieve. Success is not an individual merit: it is the product of the interaction of several people. And the greatest achievement is that all of them work with the same goal of excellence, in a supportive and effective way. In other words, they form a team. Organizing, guiding and encouraging a work team is a fundamental task that every leader must learn. In this book, John C. Maxwell analyzes the characteristics that every good team possesses, and how to keep them working by balancing the strengths and weaknesses of its members. An essential guide for leaders to appreciate the value of connecting with people.

Achieve job satisfaction

Secrets to Happiness at Work

(This book is in spanish)

How to be a satisfied worker. This book is a practical and accessible guide to achieving job satisfaction that will give you the essential information and save you time. In just 50 minutes you will be able to: Discover how to create new habits, founded on who you really are, without destabilizing the whole team, identify the indicators of demotivation and job satisfaction factors in order to fight the former and achieve success and satisfaction thanks to the latter, and apply positive changes in your day-to-day life that will lead you to improve your well-being at work and achieve your personal and professional goals.

Resolving Conflicts at Work

Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job

Resolving Conflicts at Work is a guide for preventing and resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work, including dozens of techniques for revealing how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace are actually opportunities for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth. In the third edition of this text, all chapters are completely infused with additional content, updated examples, and new case studies. Like its predecessors, it identifies core strategies for preventing and resolving both intermittent and chronic conflicts in the workplace.This definitive and comprehensive work provides a handy guide for managers, employees, union representatives, human resource experts, and consultants seeking to maintain stable and productive workplaces.

Workplace Happiness Pyramid: The keys to happiness at work

(This book is in spanish)

The main objective of this book is to provide you with simple tools to search, identify and consolidate your happiness in the professional environment. The multiple techniques, ideas and recommendations that you will find here, summarize my more than 20 years of work experience, as an employee, occupying management positions in leading companies. It is practically impossible to be happy in life if you are dissatisfied with your work, hence the importance we must give to this issue. The initial challenge I set myself with this method is to get you to develop steadily as a person and professional, to build that excellent worker that everyone would like to have as a partner or boss, that person who transmits security, confidence, respect for others; a subject who has clearly defined goals, who is proactive, who knows how to handle with elegance and positive attitude to toxic people and who keeps his commitment intact from the first day to the last.

Manage Stress at Work

(This book is in spanish)

This guide will help you manage stress and find a lasting solution. You will learn how to master stress so that it becomes the engine of your productivity, create realistic and practical routines to follow, seek progress not perfection, follow a flexible schedule, decide the boundaries between work and life, renew yourself physically, mentally and emotionally.

Jobcrafting. Turn the job you have into the job you want.

(This book is in spanish)

Jobcrafting is a new methodology to personalize your work, add value to it and make it much more satisfying. It is a handcrafted and individual way to adapt your work to you and bring the best of you to your job. This is achieved by taking advantage of all your resources and talents using some of the fifteen ideas that are included in the book according to the circumstances in which you find yourself.

Mindful Self-Discipline:

Living with Purpose and Achieving Your Goals in a World of Distractions

As a meditation teacher and self-discipline coach, Giovanni Dienstmann has helped hedge fund managers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, ambitious professionals, artists and pro athletes to live a more focused and disciplined life. Since 2014 he has been successfully coaching people to overcome distractions, procrastination, self-doubt, fear, and other forms of self-sabotage. Whatever self-discipline challenge you face, whatever excuse you are telling yourself. Mindful Self-Discipline is a collection of all these years of experience, converted into a tool for you to use. This revolutionary book is a comprehensive and practical guide for you to develop self-discipline in a balanced way without beating yourself up. It emphasizes the use of mindfulness and awareness as key components for building habits, rather than forcefulness and willpower. If you have tried other methodologies and failed, then this is for you. This revolutionary book is a comprehensive and practical guide for you to develop self-discipline in a balanced way without beating yourself up. It emphasizes the use of mindfulness and awareness as key components for building habits, rather than forcefulness and willpower.

Undistracted

Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy

The world has never been more distracting—joy has never been more possible. Through the pithy and inspiring storytelling that has endeared him to millions, New York Times bestselling author Bob Goff invites you to laugh with more gusto, dream with more confidence, and love with more intention in this disarming call to live Undistracted. Bob’s stories are like the rumble strips on the road that make you suddenly alert to how far you have drifted from your lane. From visiting friends in San Quentin to accidentally getting into a stalker’s car at the airport to establishing Uganda’s first space program, Bob shows you the way back to an audaciously attentive life. Your undistracted life is an adventure waiting to happen. What stories will you live with undistracted purpose and unstoppable joy?

Overcoming Burnout

Recognize the symptoms. Make viable changes. Reconnect with work.

(This book is in spanish)

Chronic, unchecked job stress (burnout) is becoming widespread. Recognize the signs and make the appropriate changes.Continuous work and increasing pressures are leading to a high rate of burnout. Burnout not only leads to lower productivity and negative emotions, but can have serious personal and professional consequences.Are you or your team at risk?The HBR Guide How to Overcome Burnout offers practical advice and tips to help you, your team and organization avoid the dangers of burnout and rediscover healthy engagement at work.In the HBR Guide How to Overcome Burnout you will learn to: Understand the difference between normal stress and burnout Prevent your passion for work from leading to burnout Avoid taking work home with you Protect your team leaders from burnout Help prevent burnout in your team, even if you're burned out yourself. Restore your productivity and efficiency

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like? To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he shows that while we have evolved to find joy meaning and purpose in work, for most of human history our ancestors worked far less and thought very differently about work than we do now. He demonstrates how our contemporary culture of work has its roots in the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago. Our sense of what it is to be human was transformed by the transition from foraging to food production, and, later, our migration to cities. Since then, our relationships with one another and with our environments, and even our sense of the passage of time, have not been the same.

Work Won't Love You Back:

How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.

Stress Less, Accomplish More:

Meditation for Extraordinary Performance

You know you should be meditating, so what’s stopping you? This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation—the favorite training for high achievers—will finally take meditation mainstream. In our high-stress, overworked lives, we think the answer to accomplishing more is to do more. But the best advantage we can give ourselves is to take a mental break—to spend a few minutes of the day giving the body and brain rest. Did you know that a brief meditation can offer rest that’s five times deeper than sleep? When you make time to practice the Z Technique this book teaches, you’ll actually be more productive than if you took an hour-and-a-half nap or had a cup of coffee. A leading expert in meditation for high performance, Emily Fletcher has taught meditation at numerous global corporations, including Google, Barclays Bank, and Viacom, to help their employees improve their focus and increase their productivity levels. With Stress Less, Accomplish More, anyone can get the benefits of her 15-minute twice-daily plan. Emily specifically developed the Z Technique for working people with busy lives. Now, you can learn to recharge anywhere, anytime—at home or at your desk. All you need is a few minutes and a chair (no apps, incense, or finger cymbals required).

Emerging Coaching:

Positive Psychology for a new leadership

(This book is in spanish)

Coaching is a discipline that generates spaces where it is possible to apply the discoveries of positive psychology to foster productivity, life satisfaction and happiness or human flourishing. The objective of this book is to organize the findings coming from the different areas of research of Positive Psychology and useful in the Coaching processes through the Emergent Coaching FLOW model. All of this is accompanied by interesting practical tools that are offered as an aid to bring out the best in people.

Signals:

How Questioning Assumptions Produces Smarter Decisions

We all have entrenched Beliefs, Values, and Illusions (BVIs), which elicit a reflex reaction when signals from others come to us. Using proven concepts that can apply to companies both large and small, Riordan will show you: How our BVIs are established, the burden of proof to require for assumptions, how desire, delay, and defense drives bad decisions in corporations, the energy equation in the enterprise, why so many people are battling for the control of the human mind and its actions.

Trillion Dollar Coach

The never-before-told story of one of Silicon Valley's most iconic characters Bill Campbell played a pivotal role in the growth of several prominent companies including Google, Apple and Intuit; fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries including Steve Jobs; Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.

Seeds of Greatness

In "Seeds of Greatness", Denis Waitley teaches you how to tap into the greatness within you and provides you with a system that allows you to achieve more quickly what would take many, even years. In a clear and practical way Waitley highlights ten attributes or seeds that lead you down the path to self-improvement and personal triumph. He dives into his own experience and from it effectively propels you toward the realization of your goals. At the end of each session, he offers you a space for self-reflection, proposing a plan of action for you to apply each of these ten seeds in the practice of your daily walk. These secrets will teach you how to: combine positive attitudes with your natural abilities, choose your goals and follow specific steps to achieve them, build self-confidence and improve your self-esteem, understand others and make them understand you, set and propose higher goals.

Burnout:

The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you “love your body” when every magazine cover has ten diet tips for becoming “your best self”? How do you “lean in” at work when you’re already operating at 110 percent and aren’t recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a sexist world that is constantly telling you you’re too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Instead of asking us to ignore the very real obstacles and societal pressures that stand between women and well-being, they explain with compassion and optimism what we’re up against—and show us how to fight back.

Four Thousand Weeks:

Time Management for Mortals

Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.
Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

The 5 Am Club

This book, with a profound personal impact, will uncover the routines that have made it possible for many people to achieve great results, while increasing their happiness and vitality.

Joy at work

Joy at Work applies the famous KonMari method to the space where you work. It offers stories, practical tips and strategies to eliminate clutter in the place where you work and enjoy the productivity, success and happiness that come with a tidy work environment and a tidy mind.

The power of habit

This book details, among other things, why habits are created, how they are formed, what elements form the cycle of a habit or how they influence individuals, organizations or societies.

The Upside of Stress:

Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn’t bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating that stress can, in fact, make us stronger, smarter, and happier—if we learn how to embrace it. The Upside of Stress is the first book to bring together cutting-edge discoveries on the correlation between resilience—the human capacity for stress-related growth—and mind-set, the power of beliefs to shape reality.

Arianna Huffington: Thrive

In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and raising two daughters--of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse and to her "aha moment."

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of "genius," Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers--from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll.

Atomic Habits

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Becoming

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.

Laziness does not exist

Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes. 60-hour work weeks. Side hustles.
Like many Americans, Dr. Devon Price believed that productivity was the best way to measure self-worth. Price was an overachiever from the start, graduating from both college and graduate school early, but that success came at a cost. After Price was diagnosed with a severe case of anemia and heart complications from overexertion, they were forced to examine the darker side of all this productivity.
Laziness Does Not Exist explores the psychological underpinnings of the “laziness lie,” including its origins from the Puritans and how it has continued to proliferate as digital work tools have blurred the boundaries between work and life. Using in-depth research, Price explains that people today do far more work than nearly any other humans in history yet most of us often still feel we are not doing enough.

How to Be a Grown-Up (English Edition)

For fans of Bryony Gordon and Caitlin Moran, a comforting, witty, supportive handbook for real twenty-something women who want to discover how they can reach the end of the 'fun' decade knowing exactly who they are. Have you ever felt lost, anxious, panicky about adulthood? Have you ever spent a hungover Sunday crying into a bowl of cereal? Have you ever scrolled through Instagram and felt nothing but green-eyed jealousy and evil thoughts? Award-winning journalist, Grazia agony aunt and real-life big sister to five smart, stylish, stunning twenty-something young women, Daisy Buchanan has been there, done that and got the vajazzle. In How to be a Grown-Up, she dispenses all the emotional and practical advice you need to negotiate a difficult decade. Covering everything from how to become more successful and confident at work, how to feel pride in yourself without needing validation from others, how to turn rivals into mentors, and how to *really* enjoy spending time on your own, this is a warm, kind, funny voice in the dark saying "Honestly don't worry, you're doing your best and you're amazing!"

How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?: And Other Thoughts On Modern Life (English Edition)

Modern life is full of choices - but how do we know we're making the right ones? Why, in our attempts to make life easier, do we often make it harder? With a light touch and plenty of humour, Pandora Sykes delves into the myths we've been sold and the stories we tell ourselves, in a timely bid to encourage us to consider the lives we once led, and how they might better serve us. It's time to stop looking for the answers - and start delighting in the questions.

The algebra of happiness

An unconventional book of wisdom and life advice from renowned business school professor and New York Times bestselling author of The Four Scott Galloway. Scott Galloway teaches brand strategy at NYU's Stern School of Business, but his most popular lectures deal with life strategy, not business. In the classroom, on his blog, and in YouTube videos garnering millions of views, he regularly offers hard-hitting answers to the big questions: What's the formula for a life well lived? How can you have a meaningful career, not just a lucrative one? Is work/life balance possible? What are the elements of a successful relationship? The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning draws on Professor Galloway's mix of anecdotes and no-BS insight to share hard-won wisdom about life's challenges, along with poignant personal stories. Whether it's advice on if you should drop out of school to be an entrepreneur (it might have worked for Steve Jobs, but you're probably not Steve Jobs), ideas on how to position yourself in a crowded job market (do something "boring" and move to a city; passion is for people who are already rich), discovering what the most important decision in your life is (it's not your job, your car, OR your zip code), or arguing that our relationships to others are ultimately all that matter, Galloway entertains, inspires, and provokes. Brash, funny, and surprisingly moving, The Algebra of Happiness represents a refreshing perspective on our need for both professional success and personal fulfillment, and makes the perfect gift for any new graduate, or for anyone who feels adrift.

Deep work

Distractions are not bad in themselves; what is negative is that because of them we are unable to concentrate on a single task at a time and, therefore, we do not complete any task successfully or within the time we have planned for it. This is an increasingly frequent problem that often leads to feelings of frustration, anxiety, fatigue and high levels of unproductivity in organizations. Focusing on a single activity has become a rare ability in today's world and therefore, according to Cal Newport, an increasingly valuable asset in a competitive environment full of traps that steal our attention. Working in depth allows us to master information in less time, solve problems effectively and obtain outstanding results, which results in personal satisfaction and a positive impact on our work. Based on four practical rules, this book demonstrates the value of developing and increasing concentration levels in a world that encourages hyperconnectedness and multitasking.

I don't feel like going to work: Workplace harassment

(This book is in spanish)

In the work environment of many organizations around the world, mobbing, as it is known in English-speaking countries, is practiced, which is nothing more than the psychological violence exercised by some employees (perverse, envious or mediocre) who see their position in the company threatened by the arrival of someone they consider too young for a position of first hierarchy, more intelligent, capable or physically gifted. In this circumstance, the survival instinct begins to operate in the human being by means of hostile attitudes in a vertical upward or vertical downward direction, that is to say, from subordinates to superiors or from bosses to employees. In the first case, the harasser allies himself with henchmen or inferiors to denigrate the victim and provoke his self-elimination; as for the bosses, they besiege the worker either by reducing his responsibilities or by increasing his workload, in other words, they make life impossible for him in order to force him to resign. Trixia Valle's objective in writing this book is to show readers that negative work pressure or mobbing is not normal and that it is possible to reverse it. Everything related to this social phenomenon is presented here, from the definition of mobbing and its causes, to the ways of confronting it, the profiles of the victim and the harasser, the modus operandi of mobbing, the types of mobbing and the strategies that any boss or employee can follow to avoid falling into mobbing or becoming a victim of mobbing. The prologue to this book was written by Rafael Medina de la Cerda, Secretary General of the Federation of Mexican Private Institutions of Higher Education (FIMPES).

Happiness at work and in life

(This book is in spanish)

If we are going to work 40 years or more, can we give up trying to be happy? The answer is a resounding no. Happiness at work and in life provides the steps by which we can move from theory to practice and achieve balance in both our professional and personal lives.