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- Why You Should Read The Creative Habit
So you’re not a dancer. You’re not a musician. You’re not an artist or a poet. Why read this book? Because you have ideas: ideas for new population studies, new treatments for disease, and new ways to look at data. And this book will give you the habits that beget more good ...
- Recapture Your Free Time with How to Write a Lot
Do you find your grant-writing intruding on time you’d rather spend with your family? Did revisions to that last journal article ruin your vacation? Then this book might be just the thing you need.
Author Paul Silvia wanted to call How to Write a Lot “How to Write More Prod...
- Why you should read The Opposable Mind
For fifteen years prior to this book's publication, author Roger Martin studied successful leaders, interviewing more than fifty of them for up to eight hours at a time, trying to find a pattern to their success. The pattern he discovered was what he calls "integrative thinking....
- Don’t Delay (Or Do). Read Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
Did you know that speakers who frequently pause for short periods are more persuasive than those who don’t? Or that not lingering on a date that’s going well can make a new relationship stronger? What about the fact that taking some time before apologizing causes the wronged pe...
- Why You Should Read Drive
This is not the book for anyone wanting a quick hit of external motivation to reach a short-term goal. Daniel H. Pink disdains the easy ways out of carrots and sticks, grades and monetary incentives. Instead, Drive details the theory and implementation of what he calls “Motivatio...
- Excellent Read for the Optimistic Academic: Give and Take by Adam Grant
Adam Grant's New York Times Best Seller Give and Take has been heralded by Daniel Pink as “A rare work that will shatter your assumptions about how the world works and keep your brain firing for weeks after you turned the last page.” As a brain scientist, I can pretty much guaran...
- Lessons in Leadership: Why You Should Read Colin Powell’s It Worked For Me
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell offers leadership advice through storytelling in this collection of anecdotes and true tales. Each short chapter derives a lesson from an incident encountered in his military and political service, and occasionally from private life. Often...
- Where Good Ideas Come From
Which do you think would help the germ of a thought grow into a brilliant idea: Talking about it with others, who have their own sparkling thoughts and brilliant ideas, and recombining the best parts of each to make them as strong as possible; or locking it away without sunlight ...
- Prevent the Email Faux Pas That Gets You Fired: Read Send
Did you know that signing an email with “Sincerely” instead of “Best regards” can irrevocably alter your relationship with a colleague? Or that “please” and “thank you” can be anything but polite?
Although it’s now almost five years old, Send remains an invaluable guide to em...
- Do More Great Work
Ever wish you had a map to show you how to avoid unnecessary busywork and focus on the work you know you were meant to do? In this jam-packed little volume, Michael Bungay Stanier gives you just such a map--fifteen of them, in fact. His starting premise, that "busy" is not a me...
