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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about the questions you ask yourself or others consciously or subconsciously. It is about the moments before you search for solutions, the world that existed before the answers.The quality of your life, not in a motivational poster sense, but in a deep, structural, neurological, civilizational sense, is largely determined by the quality of the questions you ask. The questions you ask yourself in the dark. The questions you bring to your work. The questions you are willing to put to the people you love. The questions you have the courage to voice in a meeting, or don't. Questions shape what is visible to you and what remains invisible. They determine which paths appear and which stay hidden. They are, in every meaningful sense, the software running your life.This is not a self-help book, though I hope it helps. It is not a management guide, though leaders will find things here that will change how they lead. It draws on psychology, neuroscience, history, biography, and philosophy, because the truth of questions is universal. Humans have been asking questions since before language gave them the precision to do it well, and every great leap in our collective understanding has come from someone deciding that the current answers weren't good enough and the existing questions were too small.It is the time to question your questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about why emotional intelligence is not a soft skill, not a nice-to-have, not the corporate equivalent of a participation trophy. It is, in the age we are currently living through, the most precise and the most powerful leadership skill available. It is what separates the leaders who build organizations that last from the leaders who build organizations that succeed briefly and then, often in ways that are difficult to trace back to their actual cause, stop.In the age of artificial intelligence, this distinction has never been more urgent. Machines are now demonstrably superior at analysis, pattern recognition, data processing, and the execution of complex logical tasks. The leaders who continue to define their value through cognitive prowess alone are competing with systems that outperform them on those dimensions and cost a fraction of their salary. The leaders who define their value through their capacity for genuine human connection, emotional understanding, and the creation of the conditions under which other human beings do their best work: those leaders are not competing with machines. They are doing something machines cannot do.Feeling is not the opposite of thinking. In the most important leadership moments, feeling is the most sophisticated form of thinking available. This book is the argument for that claim, and the practical guide to building the capabilities it requires. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You have felt it in the gap between the life you are living and the life you know you could live. This book is about that gap. More precisely, it is about what fills it.But this book does not simply report what others have found. It offers a complete methodology, a set of tools, exercises, and frameworks you can use, starting today, to do the work that used to require a seminar hall, a facilitator, and a weekend.You know or felt that something is running your life, and it is not you. This might sound dramatic, might even sound insulting, but if you are honest with yourself, really, ruthlessly honest, you already suspect it is true. You have felt it in those moments when you said yes and meant no, when you walked away from something you wanted, when you picked the safe path even though your whole body was screaming for the other one.This book draws on the research in psychology, cognitive science, and human development. It synthesizes ideas from existential philosophy, from the work of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, from the attachment research of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, from the cognitive revolution ignited by Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, from the breakthroughs in neuroscience led by researchers like Antonio Damasio and Lisa Feldman Barrett. It also draws on the rich tradition of transformational knowledgw and processes that, over the past half-century, have helped millions of people distinguish the invisible narratives governing their lives. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about listening, not hearing, not waiting for a chance to react. Not just auditory perception, the mechanical vibration of air on an eardrum, but the whole human act of receiving another person, a situation, or even your own buried knowledge. Listening, as we'll explore it here, is the most undervalued human capacity. It costs nothing. It requires no technology. And its absence is behind nearly every broken relationship, failed organization, political disaster, and private heartbreak of the modern age.This is not a book of techniques, though it contains practical guidance. It is not a self-help book, though it will change how you live if you let it. It is an investigation into what may be the most important and most neglected skill we possess, the ability to hear what is being said, what is not being said, and what is trying to be said but cannot find the words.We will begin with loss, what happened to our collective ability to listen, and why it deteriorated so fast. Then we'll look at the architecture of attention itself, because listening turns out to be an act of radical attention in a world designed to fracture it. We'll examine the body's role in listening, because hearing is not just a cognitive event, it's a full-body experience that most of us have learned to ignore. We'll confront the courage it takes to listen, real listening, the kind that might change your mind. We'll cross political divides, enter failing organizations, sit at the kitchen table with couples in crisis. We'll learn to listen to ourselves, which may be the hardest listening of all. And we'll explore what it might mean to build a culture, a family, a company, a country, that actually hears.The world is talking. It has never stopped talking. The question is whether anyone is still listening.Let's find out. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Publicado por Anshuman Sharma Dez 2024, 2024
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Añadir al carritoTaschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - ????????? ???????? ?? ??????, '??? ????????' ?? ???? ??, '?????? ?? ???????? ?? ??? ????, ?????? ????? ?? ???? ???? ???? ??? ?? ??????? ????? ?? ??? ????? ?? ????? ???? ???? ??? ?????? ?? ???, '???? ??? ??? ????? ??? ????, ??? ???? ???? ???? ??? ?????'' ???? ?? ?????? ??? ?????? ?? ??? ????? ?????? ?? ??????? ?? ???????? ?? ?? ?????? ?? ??? ???????? ?? ?????? ???? ???
Publicado por Anshuman Sharma Dez 2024, 2024
ISBN 13: 9798230236405
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
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Añadir al carritoTaschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - ?? ?????? ?? ????? ???????? ???? ?? ????? ????? ????? ??? ???? ??? ?? ??? ?????????? ???? ??????? ?? ?? ???????? ?? ???????? ??? ??? ??????? ???? ?????? ?? ?? ?????? ?? ?? ???? ????, ?????? ?? ??? ??? ?? ??? ??????? ?? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?????? ??? ????? ?? ?????? ????? ???, ???? ??? ?? ?????? ?? ????? ???? ???
Librería: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book aims to discuss and answer "Why the Next Great Brands Will Be Built Like Living Systems, Not Like Monuments?"This book is an argument. The argument is that the fundamental metaphor most brand builders carry in their minds, the metaphor of the brand as a building, a structure, a fixed thing, is wrong. And that the wrongness of the metaphor is producing the wrongness of the strategy. When you believe you are building a structure, you hire architects and engineers. When you understand you are growing a living system, you hire gardeners and doctors. The skills are different. The mindset is different. The outcomes are different.The argument draws on biology, neuroscience, systems theory, organizational psychology, and thirty years of brand case studies spanning industries from luxury goods to fast food to technology. It is informed by conversations with brand builders on five continents and by the work of thinkers from Charles Darwin to Donella Meadows to Daniel Kahneman. But the argument is ultimately simple, the brands that learn to breathe will outlast the brands that refuse to.Let me show you what I mean. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about the questions you ask yourself or others consciously or subconsciously. It is about the moments before you search for solutions, the world that existed before the answers.The quality of your life, not in a motivational poster sense, but in a deep, structural, neurological, civilizational sense, is largely determined by the quality of the questions you ask. The questions you ask yourself in the dark. The questions you bring to your work. The questions you are willing to put to the people you love. The questions you have the courage to voice in a meeting, or don't. Questions shape what is visible to you and what remains invisible. They determine which paths appear and which stay hidden. They are, in every meaningful sense, the software running your life.This is not a self-help book, though I hope it helps. It is not a management guide, though leaders will find things here that will change how they lead. It draws on psychology, neuroscience, history, biography, and philosophy, because the truth of questions is universal. Humans have been asking questions since before language gave them the precision to do it well, and every great leap in our collective understanding has come from someone deciding that the current answers weren't good enough and the existing questions were too small.It is the time to question your questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You have felt it in the gap between the life you are living and the life you know you could live. This book is about that gap. More precisely, it is about what fills it.But this book does not simply report what others have found. It offers a complete methodology, a set of tools, exercises, and frameworks you can use, starting today, to do the work that used to require a seminar hall, a facilitator, and a weekend.You know or felt that something is running your life, and it is not you. This might sound dramatic, might even sound insulting, but if you are honest with yourself, really, ruthlessly honest, you already suspect it is true. You have felt it in those moments when you said yes and meant no, when you walked away from something you wanted, when you picked the safe path even though your whole body was screaming for the other one.This book draws on the research in psychology, cognitive science, and human development. It synthesizes ideas from existential philosophy, from the work of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, from the attachment research of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, from the cognitive revolution ignited by Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, from the breakthroughs in neuroscience led by researchers like Antonio Damasio and Lisa Feldman Barrett. It also draws on the rich tradition of transformational knowledgw and processes that, over the past half-century, have helped millions of people distinguish the invisible narratives governing their lives. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Librería: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about listening, not hearing, not waiting for a chance to react. Not just auditory perception, the mechanical vibration of air on an eardrum, but the whole human act of receiving another person, a situation, or even your own buried knowledge. Listening, as we'll explore it here, is the most undervalued human capacity. It costs nothing. It requires no technology. And its absence is behind nearly every broken relationship, failed organization, political disaster, and private heartbreak of the modern age.This is not a book of techniques, though it contains practical guidance. It is not a self-help book, though it will change how you live if you let it. It is an investigation into what may be the most important and most neglected skill we possess, the ability to hear what is being said, what is not being said, and what is trying to be said but cannot find the words.We will begin with loss, what happened to our collective ability to listen, and why it deteriorated so fast. Then we'll look at the architecture of attention itself, because listening turns out to be an act of radical attention in a world designed to fracture it. We'll examine the body's role in listening, because hearing is not just a cognitive event, it's a full-body experience that most of us have learned to ignore. We'll confront the courage it takes to listen, real listening, the kind that might change your mind. We'll cross political divides, enter failing organizations, sit at the kitchen table with couples in crisis. We'll learn to listen to ourselves, which may be the hardest listening of all. And we'll explore what it might mean to build a culture, a family, a company, a country, that actually hears.The world is talking. It has never stopped talking. The question is whether anyone is still listening.Let's find out. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about the art of expression, and about what happens when an entire civilization begins to lose it. The art of expression comes with the struggle and resistance to find the right words and flow to express yourself, your ideas, your thought.What happens when the resistance disappears? That is the question this book will try to answer.Something is shifting beneath us. It is not loud. There is no alarm sounding. The shift feels, if anything, like relief, like being handed a better tool for a hard job. Artificial intelligence can now write our emails, draft our reports, structure our arguments, and generate our social media posts. It can compose wedding speeches and condolence letters. It can rephrase our half-formed thoughts into polished paragraphs in seconds. For many people, this is simply progress. The mental labor of communication, the searching, the struggling, the deleting and rewriting, has been lifted. The machine handles it now.But here is what almost no one is talking about, that mental labor was not a bug. It was the training.Every time you sat with a blank page and forced yourself to find the right word, not a good word, the right word, you were building something inside your mind. Every time you caught yourself midsentence and restructured your thought because you could see the listener's confusion, you were honing a cognitive skill that no app can replicate. Every time you failed to say what you meant and lay awake that night replaying the conversation, figuring out what you should have said, you were getting better. Slowly, imperfectly, painfully, but better.That process has a name, though we rarely use it. It is called 'cognitive load'. And cognitive load, in the domain of communication, is not an obstacle to be eliminated. It is the resistance that builds the muscle. Without resistance we will weaken our muscles of expression.We will discuss this complex area in this book.Not with panic, not with nostalgia for some imagined golden age of human conversation. I have no interest in arguing that we should throw away our tools. I am interested in something more precise and more urgent, understanding exactly what we are losing, mapping the mechanisms of that loss, and asking whether we can still do something about it before the loss becomes invisible, which is to say, before we forget we ever had the thing we are losing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about why emotional intelligence is not a soft skill, not a nice-to-have, not the corporate equivalent of a participation trophy. It is, in the age we are currently living through, the most precise and the most powerful leadership skill available. It is what separates the leaders who build organizations that last from the leaders who build organizations that succeed briefly and then, often in ways that are difficult to trace back to their actual cause, stop.In the age of artificial intelligence, this distinction has never been more urgent. Machines are now demonstrably superior at analysis, pattern recognition, data processing, and the execution of complex logical tasks. The leaders who continue to define their value through cognitive prowess alone are competing with systems that outperform them on those dimensions and cost a fraction of their salary. The leaders who define their value through their capacity for genuine human connection, emotional understanding, and the creation of the conditions under which other human beings do their best work: those leaders are not competing with machines. They are doing something machines cannot do.Feeling is not the opposite of thinking. In the most important leadership moments, feeling is the most sophisticated form of thinking available. This book is the argument for that claim, and the practical guide to building the capabilities it requires. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Most books about change ask you to want more. This one asks something harder. It asks you to look carefully at the program you're already running, the set of beliefs, patterns, and inherited assumptions that have been quietly making decisions about your life while you were focused on everything else.Change isn't a matter of trying harder. It's a matter of understanding what's actually running. The human mind is not a mystery. It has identifiable architecture. The beliefs that constrain us, the emotions that derail us, the patterns we can't seem to break, these are not cosmic afflictions. They are structures. They have components, causes, and, most importantly, levers.This book maps those levers, one by one. It draws on psychology, neuroscience, behavioral science, and the lived experiences of real people navigating an era of unprecedented disruption. The science is real. The principles are testable.The world is moving faster than it ever has. The algorithms reshaping your feed, the automation rewriting your industry, the constant noise of a culture that profits from your anxiety, these forces are real, and they bear directly on the interior life of every person reading this page. I've written this book with that reality in plain view.But the heart of what follows is not about technology. It's about you, the hidden system you're running, the ways it serves you and the ways it quietly costs you, and the practical, science-backed path to rewriting the parts that no longer belong.You don't have to live inside a program you didn't choose. You can take back control. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino Unido
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about the questions you ask yourself or others consciously or subconsciously. It is about the moments before you search for solutions, the world that existed before the answers.The quality of your life, not in a motivational poster sense, but in a deep, structural, neurological, civilizational sense, is largely determined by the quality of the questions you ask. The questions you ask yourself in the dark. The questions you bring to your work. The questions you are willing to put to the people you love. The questions you have the courage to voice in a meeting, or don't. Questions shape what is visible to you and what remains invisible. They determine which paths appear and which stay hidden. They are, in every meaningful sense, the software running your life.This is not a self-help book, though I hope it helps. It is not a management guide, though leaders will find things here that will change how they lead. It draws on psychology, neuroscience, history, biography, and philosophy, because the truth of questions is universal. Humans have been asking questions since before language gave them the precision to do it well, and every great leap in our collective understanding has come from someone deciding that the current answers weren't good enough and the existing questions were too small.It is the time to question your questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino Unido
EUR 18,07
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You have felt it in the gap between the life you are living and the life you know you could live. This book is about that gap. More precisely, it is about what fills it.But this book does not simply report what others have found. It offers a complete methodology, a set of tools, exercises, and frameworks you can use, starting today, to do the work that used to require a seminar hall, a facilitator, and a weekend.You know or felt that something is running your life, and it is not you. This might sound dramatic, might even sound insulting, but if you are honest with yourself, really, ruthlessly honest, you already suspect it is true. You have felt it in those moments when you said yes and meant no, when you walked away from something you wanted, when you picked the safe path even though your whole body was screaming for the other one.This book draws on the research in psychology, cognitive science, and human development. It synthesizes ideas from existential philosophy, from the work of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, from the attachment research of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, from the cognitive revolution ignited by Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, from the breakthroughs in neuroscience led by researchers like Antonio Damasio and Lisa Feldman Barrett. It also draws on the rich tradition of transformational knowledgw and processes that, over the past half-century, have helped millions of people distinguish the invisible narratives governing their lives. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino Unido
EUR 18,07
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book aims to discuss and answer "Why the Next Great Brands Will Be Built Like Living Systems, Not Like Monuments?"This book is an argument. The argument is that the fundamental metaphor most brand builders carry in their minds, the metaphor of the brand as a building, a structure, a fixed thing, is wrong. And that the wrongness of the metaphor is producing the wrongness of the strategy. When you believe you are building a structure, you hire architects and engineers. When you understand you are growing a living system, you hire gardeners and doctors. The skills are different. The mindset is different. The outcomes are different.The argument draws on biology, neuroscience, systems theory, organizational psychology, and thirty years of brand case studies spanning industries from luxury goods to fast food to technology. It is informed by conversations with brand builders on five continents and by the work of thinkers from Charles Darwin to Donella Meadows to Daniel Kahneman. But the argument is ultimately simple, the brands that learn to breathe will outlast the brands that refuse to.Let me show you what I mean. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino Unido
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about why emotional intelligence is not a soft skill, not a nice-to-have, not the corporate equivalent of a participation trophy. It is, in the age we are currently living through, the most precise and the most powerful leadership skill available. It is what separates the leaders who build organizations that last from the leaders who build organizations that succeed briefly and then, often in ways that are difficult to trace back to their actual cause, stop.In the age of artificial intelligence, this distinction has never been more urgent. Machines are now demonstrably superior at analysis, pattern recognition, data processing, and the execution of complex logical tasks. The leaders who continue to define their value through cognitive prowess alone are competing with systems that outperform them on those dimensions and cost a fraction of their salary. The leaders who define their value through their capacity for genuine human connection, emotional understanding, and the creation of the conditions under which other human beings do their best work: those leaders are not competing with machines. They are doing something machines cannot do.Feeling is not the opposite of thinking. In the most important leadership moments, feeling is the most sophisticated form of thinking available. This book is the argument for that claim, and the practical guide to building the capabilities it requires. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino Unido
EUR 19,28
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about the art of expression, and about what happens when an entire civilization begins to lose it. The art of expression comes with the struggle and resistance to find the right words and flow to express yourself, your ideas, your thought.What happens when the resistance disappears? That is the question this book will try to answer.Something is shifting beneath us. It is not loud. There is no alarm sounding. The shift feels, if anything, like relief, like being handed a better tool for a hard job. Artificial intelligence can now write our emails, draft our reports, structure our arguments, and generate our social media posts. It can compose wedding speeches and condolence letters. It can rephrase our half-formed thoughts into polished paragraphs in seconds. For many people, this is simply progress. The mental labor of communication, the searching, the struggling, the deleting and rewriting, has been lifted. The machine handles it now.But here is what almost no one is talking about, that mental labor was not a bug. It was the training.Every time you sat with a blank page and forced yourself to find the right word, not a good word, the right word, you were building something inside your mind. Every time you caught yourself midsentence and restructured your thought because you could see the listener's confusion, you were honing a cognitive skill that no app can replicate. Every time you failed to say what you meant and lay awake that night replaying the conversation, figuring out what you should have said, you were getting better. Slowly, imperfectly, painfully, but better.That process has a name, though we rarely use it. It is called 'cognitive load'. And cognitive load, in the domain of communication, is not an obstacle to be eliminated. It is the resistance that builds the muscle. Without resistance we will weaken our muscles of expression.We will discuss this complex area in this book.Not with panic, not with nostalgia for some imagined golden age of human conversation. I have no interest in arguing that we should throw away our tools. I am interested in something more precise and more urgent, understanding exactly what we are losing, mapping the mechanisms of that loss, and asking whether we can still do something about it before the loss becomes invisible, which is to say, before we forget we ever had the thing we are losing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.