The Career Equation® allows coaches and talent professionals to offer their clients and staff the clarity to enable them to take meaningful action. Whether it is to commit fully to the work they are doing, to make a lateral move within their existing firm, or to try something completely new, the Equation addresses the self-knowledge and self-management needed for them to own their careers. We all have unique talents and skills and the Equation can help people find their place in the world of work. The reader will learn how to: •Make use of The Career Equation® •Create a career design •Prepare their clients for a career conversation •Help their clients overcome mental barriers This book will change the way coaches, mentors, career advisors and performance professionals support their clients to achieve maximum satisfaction from their work. “The Career Equation is exceptionally swift and effective, simple to learn, share and use with talent at all stages of their career.” James Sparrow, Chief Executive Officer EMEA at Savills “The Career Equation is must-read text for parents, personal tutors, HR managers, team leaders, careers advisers and coaches. An easy guide for importance career conversations in our ever-changing environment.” Dr Helen Smith, Faculty Head of Coaching and Mentoring for Business and Law, Department of People and Performance “This book is a great resource for career professionals, offering tools and ideas that get to the heart of what we mean by career success.” John Lees, Author of How to Get A Job You Love “This book helps to discover the simple and effective model that has enabled me to have valuable career conversations, and more importantly, see the positive results when individuals are making the choices aligned to their strengths and passions.” Aneta Jajkowksa, People & Organisation Partner / Your Career Plan Accredited Coach Erica Sosna is a career consultant expert, a TEDx Speaker, founder of Career Matters and bestselling author of Your Life Plan. Erica’s work has transformed the career direction and aspirations of professionals all over the world. Her company, Career Matters, accredits professional coaches in her Career Equation method. Find out more at www.ericasosna.com

In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.

This book supplies a simple, memorable, and effective formula to solve problematic behaviors in the work environment and life in general. An invaluable guidebook, it will help readers move beyond mediocrity and achieve happier, more successful lives. The Work-Life Equation: Six Key Values That Drive Happiness and Success is for the millions of people and business managers who are surrounded by bad behavior—with its attendant mediocre or unsatisfying results—at work and in their private lives, but who hope and dream for happier and more successful lives. The book begins with a frank explanation of the need for self-awareness and self-improvement, then describes how the "winning formula" and the equation for happiness and success in work-life—(H,S) = f(4C,2R)—can be applied via six types of behaviors to effect sweeping changes. The formula means Happiness and Success can be achieved by (is a function of) Cooperation, Consideration, Compassion, Courtesy, Respect, and Responsibility. The book focuses not just on the meaning of these values but also on how to "better live" them. It concludes with a self-assessment tool for the individual, team, or organization to complete that enables objective measurements of behaviors and identification of areas of potential improvement. Dismissing the familiar, corporate value clichés, the author focuses on six key values most readers probably learned as kids but have forgotten about in adulthood—or didn't realize were still apt and relevant. The book provides priceless information and guidance for all readers but will be especially appreciated by those in the corporate workplace interested in self-improvement and success, educators and business students, executives looking to shift their firm's behavioral atmosphere in a positive direction, and individuals seeking inspiration and hope in their daily lives.

The #1 international bestseller from the author of The Book of Awesome that “reveals how all of us can live happier lives” (Gretchen Rubin). What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times–bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband. After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life. In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new light, and then provides practical and specific guidelines for how to apply this new outlook to lead a fulfilling life. Once you've unlocked Pasricha’s 9 Secrets, you will understand counter intuitive concepts such as: Success Does Not Lead to Happiness, Never Take Advice, and Retirement Is a Broken Theory. You will learn and then master three brand-new fundamental life tests: the Saturday Morning Test, The Bench Test, and the Five People Test. You will know the difference between external goals and internal goals and how to make more money than a Harvard MBA (hint: it has nothing to do with your annual salary). You will discover that true wealth has nothing to do with money, multitasking is a myth, and the elimination of options leads to more choice. The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.

Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process to help with career development.

Getting the People Equation Right outlines a proven formula for making good people decisions and avoiding hiring mistakes-a practical method for getting the right people in the right jobs and keeping them. Getting the People Equation Right shows the reader how to identify strong performance potential: people who can both do the job and who have the traits and qualities needed to excel in the job. Readers learn how to discover why current top performers perform so well and how to use that understanding to hire other top performers. The author provides intriguing insight into counter-productive job behaviors such as being harsh, authoritarian, dogmatic, permissive, inflexible or dominating. The author also shows how to identify these counter-productive behaviors in people before you hire them. Getting the People Equation Right examines five simple but powerful management practices that great managers use to retain top talent. In short, Getting the People Equation Right offers readers a practical method for getting the right people in the right jobs, together with concrete management practices that help managers retain top talent and build great places to work.

Why is marriage worth £200,000 a year? Why will having children make you unhappy? Why does happiness from winning the lottery take two years to arrive? Why does time heal the pain of divorce or the death of a loved one – but not unemployment? Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness – precisely – will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I really going to feel happy about the career that I picked? How can we decide not only which choice is better for us, but how much it's better for us? The result of new, unique research, The Happiness Equation brings to a general readership for the first time the new science of happiness economics. It describes how we can measure emotional reactions to different life experiences and present them in ways we can relate to. How, for instance, monetary values can be put on things that can't be bought or sold in the market – such as marriage, friendship, even death – so that we can objectively rank them in order of preference. It also explains why some things matter more to our happiness than others (like why seeing friends is worth more than a Ferrari) while others are worth almost nothing (like sunny weather). Nick Powdthavee – whose work on happiness has been discussed on both the Undercover Economist and Freakanomics blogs – brings cutting-edge research on how we value our happiness to a general audience, with a style that wears its learning lightly and is a joy to read.

In terms of time, energy, and money, a career is one of the most important investments that a person makes during his or her lifetime. Career Stress in Changing Times is an exciting volume that covers the entire career cycle, from beginning through mid-career dilemmas to the retirement transition. Many key career issues and stressors--as they are experienced during each stage of one’s career--are examined. Experts also explore the major social and cultural forces that influence careers and will continue to do so in the next century, including women’s influx into the workplace, the decline of blue-collar labor, the changing demographics of our nation, and the movement toward a world economy. Career Stress in Changing Times is ideal for individuals involved in career planning activities, professionals counseling people engaged in career planning transitions, and educators involved in teaching career planning seminars. This volume is unique in that it blends the work of academic researchers with that of practitioners on the firing line; it blends theoretical and conceptual work with empirical, data-based research as well as with the results of in-depth interviews and reports from the direct experience of practitioners.

In terms of time, energy, and money, a career is one of the most important investments that a person makes during his or her lifetime. Career Stress in Changing Times is an exciting volume that covers the entire career cycle, from beginning through mid-career dilemmas to the retirement transition. Many key career issues and stressors--as they are experienced during each stage of one's career--are examined. Experts also explore the major social and cultural forces that influence careers and will continue to do so in the next century, including women's influx into the workplace, the decline of blue-collar labor, the changing demographics of our nation, and the movement toward a world economy. Career Stress in Changing Times is ideal for individuals involved in career planning activities, professionals counseling people engaged in career planning transitions, and educators involved in teaching career planning seminars. This volume is unique in that it blends the work of academic researchers with that of practitioners on the firing line; it blends theoretical and conceptual work with empirical, data-based research as well as with the results of in-depth interviews and reports from the direct experience of practitioners.

This book is written for the individual who leads the organization, whether as CEO, senior manager of a major operating function, department manager, or senior technical contributor. It is for those who are in a new organization, new role, new position, or want to refocus an existing role. For those not in these roles but aspiring to them, this book will give you tools, tips, and techniques to help you focus your career.Executive Focus: Your Life and Career is about. Keeping the organization momentum going in the right direction. Keeping the ship on course! Looking for danger. Making contingency plans! Bringing balance to your professional and personal life. Using your creative leadership energy to get where you want to go. With a combined 70 years experience as President, Executive Vice President, senior manager, and other leadership positions, authors Duffy and Moran provide you with the skills to anticipate and plan for changes in your personal or organizational career. You’ll learn how you align your career with your skills, education, experience, knowledge, and proficiency so they are all in the right place in your life. When this happens you have Executive Focus.