How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond - Softcover

Webb, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509818243 ISBN 13: 9781509818242

Publisher: Pan, 2017

Synopsis

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.

Advances in these behavioral sciences are giving us ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be smart and savvy. But it's not always been easy to see how to apply these insights in the workplace – until now.

In How to Have a Good Day, Webb explains how three big scientific ideas can help us be at our best every day. She shows us exactly how to apply this science to our plans, tasks and conversations, in step-by-step guidance that allows us to:

– Set better priorities
– Make the hours go further
– Turn every interaction into a success
– Strengthen our personal impact
– Be resilient in the face of setbacks
– Sustain our energy over the course of the day

Webb teaches us how to be at our best under pressure, and gives us specific tools to tackle common work challenges – from conflict with colleagues, to dull meetings and packed inboxes.

Filled with stories of people who have used Webb's insights to boost their job satisfaction and performance at work, How to Have a Good Day is the book so many people wanted when they finished Nudge, Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow, and were looking for practical ways to apply this fascinating science to their own lives and careers.

A remarkable and much needed book, How to Have a Good Day firmly delivers on its promise, showing us all how to have a lifetime of good days.

'Wise, fun and humane. The best behavioural self-help book by far. Everyone should read it.' - Cass R. Sunstein, co-author of Nudge

About this title

About the Author

Caroline Webb is a leadership coach, economist, and one of the world’s leading experts on using insights from behavioural science to improve professional effectiveness. She has been named one of the world’s top 50 executive coaches by Thinkers50, and one of the top 50 leadership and management thinkers by Inc. magazine. She is a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company, where she was previously a partner. Her work has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Fortune, the BBC, WIRED, Fast Company, TIME and Harvard Business Review. She is the bestselling author of How to Have a Good Day, which has been published in 18 editions and over 60 countries, and Leadership Intelligence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509818243
• ISBN 13: 9781509818242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368