Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected is a fascinating look at how we can handle and harness surprise in our work, relationships, and everyday lives. Pop Quiz! Do you prefer when: A) Things go according to plan? B) When the unexpected happens? Most of us pick control and predictability. Yet research reveals a counterintuitive truth: surprise is the key that unlocks growth, innovation, and connection. It is also the secret ingredient in our best memories. Through colorful narratives and compelling scientific findings, authors Tania Luna and Dr. LeeAnn Renninger shine a light on the world's least understood and most intriguing emotion. They reveal how shifting our perception of surprise lets us thrive in the face of uncertainty. And they show us how surprise acts as a shortcut that turns a typical product into a meaningful experience, a good idea into a viral one, awkward small talk into engaging conversation, and daily life into an adventure.

Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Luna, Tania

Renninger PhD, LeeAnn

Mental Health

TarcherPerigee

Product Description 
What if you could become a great manager, leader, and communicator faster? 
The Leader Lab is a high-speed leadership intensive, equipping managers with the Swiss Army Knife of skills that help you handle the toughest situations that come your way. 
Through painstaking research and training over 200,000 managers, authors Tania Luna and LeeAnn Renninger, PhD (co-CEOs of LifeLabs Learning) identified the most important skills that distinguish great managers from average. Most importantly, they’ve discovered how to help people rapidly develop these core skills. The result? You quickly achieve extraordinary team performance and a culture of engagement, fulfillment, and belonging.  
Too often, folks are promoted without any training for the countless crucial responsibilities of the modern manager: being part coach, part player, part therapist, part role model. The Leader Lab serves as your definitive guide to what it means to be a great manager today – and how to become a great leader faster. This book is based on LifeLabs Learning’s wildly successful workshop series. It combines research, tools, and the playful, fluff-free style that’s made LifeLabs the go-to professional development resource for over 1,000 innovative companies around the world.   
You’ll learn how to:  \nQuickly improve performance and engagement 
Handle tough conversations with confidence 
Identify and resolve the underlying issues holding your team back 
Create a culture of inclusion 
Spark innovation 
Reduce stress and burnout 
Finetune your coaching, productivity, feedback, one-on-one, strategic thinking, meeting facilitation, people development, and leading change skills 
Learn the same high-leverage skills that new managers at the world’s most innovative organizations are using to create impactful change in business and in life \nThis interactive, accessible, and brain-friendly resource will help you and your team ramp up and reach the tipping point of managerial greatness fast. 
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What if you could become a great leader faster? 
The Leader Lab is a high-speed leadership intensive, equipping managers and execs with the Swiss Army Knife of skills to handle the toughest situations. The result? Leaders quickly achieve extraordinary team performance and a culture of fulfillment and belonging. 
Through painstaking research and training over 200,000 managers, Tania Luna and LeeAnn Renninger, PhD identified the most important skills that separate great managers from average. Most importantly, they’ve discovered how to help people rapidly develop these core skills—from micro habits like “split-tracking” and “deblurring” to macro skills like feedback and strategic thinking. 
Too often, people are promoted without any training for the countless crucial responsibilities of the modern manager: being part coach, part player, part therapist. The Leader Lab serves as the definitive guide to what it means to be a great manager today—and how to become a great leader faster. 
Based on LifeLabs Learning’s wildly successful workshop series, this book combines research, tools, and the fluff-free style that’s made LifeLabs Learning the go-to training resource for over 1,000 innovative companies around the world. The Leader Lab is ideal for folks who were promoted to a manager role and need a high-impact toolkit to excel quickly as well as experienced leaders looking to up their gam 
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Praise for THE LEADER LAB 
“This book will make you a better leader of people, full stop. I learned a ton. Why can’t all business books be this fresh, interesting, and immediately actionable?” 
 —DAN HEATH, co-author of Switch, Made to Stick, and The Power of Moments 
“The definitive guide to the most valuable ‘tipping point’ skills needed by modern managers and leaders. These skills are elegantly dissected, combined, illustrated with practical real-world examples, and backed by research. I loved every minute of thi

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