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    Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
    Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
    Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
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    Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

    Written by David Rock

    Narrated by Roger Wayne

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    A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday—revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.

    Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

    In Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul's brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Dr. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting. By analyzing what is going on in their heads, he offers solutions Emily and Paul (and all of us) can use to survive and thrive in today's hyperbusy work environment—and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

    In Your Brain at Work, Dr. Rock explores issues such as:

    • why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources
    • why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions
    • how to maximize the chance of finding insights to solve seemingly insurmountable problems
    • how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible
    • how to collaborate more effectively with others
    • why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier
    • how to be more effective at changing other people's behavior
    • and much more.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 11, 2020
    ISBN9780063050624
    Author

    David Rock

    David Rock is a consultant and leadership coach who advises corporations around the world. The author of Coaching with the Brain in Mind, Quiet Leadership, and Personal Best, he is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, a leading global consulting and coaching organization. He is on the advisory board of the international business school CIMBA and the cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and New York City.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent book to improve your live in almost all the aspects. Very recommend it!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Mie mi-a dat speranța că încă mai pot să-mi îmbunătățesc performanțele și că există șansa să trăim într-o lume mai bună! Excelentă carte! O recomand cu căldură! ?

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    • 5/5
      It's a great book, but I'm only giving 4 stars. I'm not saying you have to be a scientist to narrate a science book, but they could have at least hired a guy who didn't sleep through high school biology. They guy has no idea how to pronounce amygdala. Apparently he doesn't know how to use Google to find out how to pronounce things either. Each time he says amig-dal it hits my ears like a 10 pound sledge. I guess the director doesn't know how to pronounce it either. Sadly, as this is a book about the brain, the word comes up a lot.

      That aside, I gained valuable insight into the workings of the brain, and truly appreciate the mention of sources. I enjoyed the original and now I've refreshed with the revision.