Price Pritchett, one of the world's most renowned thought leaders on corporate culture and organizational change, presents a groundbreaking program for developing the positive mental practices that will not only improve your performance on the job, but enhance the quality of every part of your life. Drawing upon research from the influential field of positive psychology, Pritchett shows you how to adopt hard optimism-a forward-thinking mindset that incorporates resilience, energy, innovation, and hope into the way you approach every task. Hard Optimism gives you 12 powerful, proven practices for reducing negative thinking and adopting the attitude of a winner-the keys to seizing opportunity, overcoming obstacles, and wielding a positive influence on the people around you. With the action steps outlined in Hard Optimism, you'll discover how to: <ul>
<li>Recognize and dispute pessimistic thoughts </li>
<li>Gain an edge by adopting an optimistic style to interpret events, both good and bad </li>
<li>Use positive reappraisal to handle problems and disappointments </li>
<li>Know how and when to use negative thinking to your advantage </li>
<li>Play to your signature strengths </li>
<li>Practice gratitude and forgiveness to fight off negativity </li>
</ul>
By taking a hard look at reality rather than sugarcoating it, by managing your thought processes to improve hard results, you'll master hard optimism and meet the challenges in every area of your career and life.

Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins

Business & Money

Pritchett,Price

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Deep strengths are those attributes that individuals and organizations depend on to carry them through the most difficult periods. They also are the psychological assets needed in today's corporate arena to make the most of opportunities and deal effectively with high-velocity change. Price Pritchett's Deep Strengths draws on his latest research, including data from more than 300 CEOs, to show how an organization's power comes from 10 inner forces that underlie its ability to produce results. These essential qualities are * Resilience * Confidence * Energy Level * Creativity &amp; Innovation * Can-Do Attitude * Ambition * Hope * Happiness * Competitive Spirit * Staying Power As an advisor to executives, boards of directors, and senior managers for more than three decades, Pritchett has developed an intimate understanding of the necessary qualities for success, and has become one of the world's top thinkers on corporate culture, mergers, and organizational change. In this landmark work, he shows how the ten deep strengths found in every successful companycombine to drive organizational effectiveness. Pritchett then provides a new model and approach for “strength training” that you can put to work in your company. As you put this training into action, you will find ways for your company to enhance leadership effectiveness, improve employee performance, and develop an organizational culture that is psychologically primed for the escalating pace of our changing business world.

Deep Strengths: Getting to the Heart of High Performance

Are you a CEO, company president, or front-line financial manager recently involved in a merger or acquisition? After the Merger, long hailed as the indispensable reference source for anyone entering the M&amp;A marketplace, is your bible for keeping costly post-merger surprises to a minimum. This classic text, first published in the heady days of 1985 and now revised to reflect new realities in today's rapidly-changing business world, is packed with fascinating case histories and examples involving TWA, Wells Fargo, and others. After the Merger shows you how to roll up your sleeves and combine two separate, highly distinct companies into one solid organization. Look here for details on ways to defuse the cultural time bombs that threaten to destroy international mergers; the 6 errors that managers make again and again, and how you can avoid them; best practices for handling the 4 major categories of merger, everything from "rescue" to "raid"; and time-saving checklists for executives on both sides of the acquisition. Whether you are in the middle of a merger or acquisition or just considering the possibility — no matter what your side — you need the completely updated and revised After the Merger to guarantee long-lasting, post-merger success.

After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition

Finance

Describes different types of mergers, covers employee bail-outs, morale, staff duplications, and productivity, and offers practical advise on making a smooth management transition

After the Merger: Managing the Shockwaves

Industries

Irwin Professional_Pub

Identifies the costs of mishandled mergers, tells how to avoid the most common management errors, and explains how to overcome resistance to change

Making Mergers Work: A Guide to Managing Mergers and Acquisitions

Business One Irwin

This powerful employee handbook provides 13 clear and practical guidelines that workers can weave into their daily routines immediately. These specific points are made with hard facts, powerful logic and a sense of humor that can be universally understood and applied. And, the handbook format will enable people to transform the organization fast by promoting a consistent message throughout the organization.

The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World: 13 Ground Rules for Job Success in the Information Age

Pritchett & Associates

New Work Habits for the Next Millennium is the sequel to the best-selling New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World. It will provide your employees with 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for improving performance in today's supercharged world of corporate change--without sacrificing control of their personal lives in the process. Work is wearing down a lot of people these days, and that's not good for people or the companies that employ them. New Work Habits for the Next Millennium delivers practical solutions that will energize your workers and restore spirit back into the workplace. Learn to migrate to the 4th level of change, practice self-leadership and a new kind of followership, help create value, and make job changes judiciously.

New Work Habits for the Next Millennium

Economics

Hard Optimism

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