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The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great
Lower the bar. Turn it down a notch. Get off the Stairmaster The Underachiever's Manifesto is the playfully persuasive pocket guide to living life to the least and loving it. With sharp humor and genuine wisdom, this welcome little book extols the fabulous benefits of underachievement in our overextended society. A witty introduction makes the case for the right amount of effort -- a lot less than we've been led to believe. Ten principles of underachievement establish the basics (#8: The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut); and practical applications show how mediocrity is the key to happiness at work, in relationships, dieting, exercise, investment, and more. Devilishly enlisting examples from philosophy, economics, science, and good common sense, The Underachiever's Manifesto is a lighthearted, life-changing rallying call for those who dare to do less and enjoy more..
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Fake Work: Why People Are Working Harder than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem
How many countless working hours have you spent on projects, proposals, paperwork, and meetings that felt useless or were ignored or dismissed? Hard work is not the same as real work. Half of the work we do consumes valuable time without strengthening the short- or long-term survival of the organization. In a word, it's fake. Not only does fake work drain a company's resources without improving its bottom line, it steals conviction, care, and positive morale from employees, and adds the burden of high turnover, communication breakdowns, and cultural patterns of poor productivity. But how can you turn fake work into real work? Internationally renowned business consultants Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson explain how to identify needlessly time-consuming and sometimes difficult tasks (which aren't always as easy to spot as they seem) and shift your focus toward rewarding work that will achieve results. With more than twenty years of experience, Peterson and Nielson have successfully helped corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, schools, and community groups increase their productivity and retain talented employees by understanding and using their skills on things that actually matter. They illustrate their advice with stories about real world employees who have been trapped by fake work. Fake Work offers solutions that will change the way you view work, including how to recognize fake work and how to get out of it, how (and what) to communicate with your colleagues to eliminate fake work, how to recognize and counteract the personality traits that encourage fake work, and how to close the gap between your company's strategies and the work that needs to be done to reach the results critical to your and your company's survival..
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Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less
A certain kind of busyness is crucial to life, allowing us to earn a living, create art, and achieve success. But too often it consumes us and we become crazy busy, nonstop busy, and we expend extraneous effort that gets us nowhere. Marc Lesser’s new book shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more — more desire, more activity, more things, more exhaustion. Less is about stopping, about the possibility of finding composure in the midst of activity. The ideas and practices that Lesser outlines offer a radical yet simple approach to transforming a lifestyle based on endless to-do lists into a more meaningful approach that is truly more productive in every sense. .
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How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible but Want to Try Anyway
How to Remodel a Man offers concrete, step by step instructions for actually changing the character and behavior of men. Keen insight into the male of the species by one of its own, will for the first time shed light on such mysterious subjects as "Why can't men open a refrigerator and see the mayonnaise?" With clear, step-by-step instructions for actually altering the character and behavior of the male of the species, you’ll learn: - What to do when men pretend not to be able to do housework
- How to tell a man that no matter how much he yells at the television, he’s not really a member of the team
- Why the male body smells like it is decomposing
- What to do when men cut themselves on the competitive edge
- How to contact the male brain via the ears
- About tools and why men need to have all of them
- Men may be from Mars but they’re not going back
- About changing the toilet paper roll—a 12 step program
- How to take a man to the opera and what to do about the resulting coma
- Why men think shirts have a sniff test
- How to train a man to put the toilet seat down even though he’s got lots of good arguments why it should be left up
This ground-breaking book is a must-read for anyone who is related to a man in any fashion. .
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Be somebody
We can walk through life watching other people become successful or we can walk through life being that successful person. "Be Somebody" is an inspirational book for people who want more than what they have. It covers practical issues to help achieve one's dream or aspirations and encompasses simple assignments to encourage personal growth. Although short, each chapter is meant to be savoured and meditated upon to get the best out of this book. It encourages the reader to employ strategies in becoming somebody..
Price: $6.04
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