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January, 2017 l Working World l WorkingWorld.com 5 Creative Time, Problem-Solving Time, People and Family Time and Spare Time. Each chapter is filled with Tracy's signature straightforward advice and techniques. Tracy is a master at framing his success advice; this latest entry effectively uses, to paraphrase Franklin, the raw material of life: time. GOALS! How to Get Everything You Want - Faster than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy Prolific author, speaker and sales trainer Tracy (his book Advanced Selling Strategies was summarized in 1995) offers specific advice to help executives and others achieve their personal and workplace goals. Clarifying your values and finding your "major definite purpose" is a key step. Tracy also identifies the self-imposed barriers that so many people put between themselves and their goals. What You'll Learn • How to unlock your potential, take charge, and create your own future by setting goals for the things you want out of life, and creating a plan to achieve those goals. • How to use vision, or future orientation, to determine where you?ll be in the future, and how you will get there. By imagining the ideal future, you can set yourself on the path to making it happen. • How to clarify your values and determine your major definite purpose - the quantifiable, measurable, achievable goal that is most important to you right now. • How to eliminate the limiting beliefs about yourself that are holding you back from achieving all you can achieve. • How to measure your progress, every step of the way, as you push forward toward reaching your goals. • How to maintain the fire and passion you feel for achieving your goals, by building momentum and persisting every day until that which you desire is yours. THE BEST PLACE TO WORK The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace by Ron Friedman In The Best Place to Work, award- winning psychologist Ron Friedman, Ph.D. draws from the latest research on motivation, creativity, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and management to reveal what really makes us successful at work. Combining powerful stories with cutting edge findings, Dr. Friedman shows leaders at every level how they can use scientifically-proven techniques to promote smarter thinking, greater innovation, and stronger performance. The Best Place to Work offers game-changing advice for working smarter and turning any organization, regardless of its size, budgets or ambitions, into an extraordinary workplace. What You'll Learn • Why successful teams make more mistakes than other teams. • How the design of our workplace impacts our performance. • Six insights to delay the adaptation that erodes happiness. • Why the best managers focus on themselves. • How to provide daily opportunities for autonomy, competence and relatedness THE 2020 WORKPLACE How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today by Jeanne C. Meister & Karie Willyerd The multi-generations that will make up the workforce in 2020 will place new demands on employers who will be challenged to manage employees who have vastly different values, beliefs and expectations. In this summary of The 2020 Workplace, Meister and Willyerd present a functional guide to help you and your organization create tomorrow's workplace of choice. In this summary of The 2020 Workplace, you will learn: • How to transform your organization. • How to achieve compelling business results. • How to increase innovation and improve customer connectedness. • How to compete more effectively in the global marketplace. • What companies need to know — and do — to win and hold on to tomorrow's best employees. THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is the #1 National Bestseller that offers a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. In this summary, Stephen Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Originally published in 1989, the timeless seven habits remain relevant even as the challenges have become more difficult. In this summary of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, you will learn: • Why the personality ethic has supplanted the character ethic. • How to write a personal mission statement. • Why leveraging productivity is a function of "putting first things first." • How the challenge is not to manage time, but yourself.