<p>If you want a 'normal' leadership development book please give this one a wide berth. If you've selected this book in the hope of finding a simple and cheery step-by-step guide to management improvement, I'm afraid you've picked up the wrong book altogether. I fear this book may upset you. It's a story about the stresses of modern life and all the things that can go wrong with work, family, relationships and customers. It's about working too hard and surviving each day in the hope that tomorrow may be better. It's terribly sad, especially when you find out it's about you. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that's about exhaustion, pressure, bad luck, regret, complacency, disillusionment and misery quickly return it to the shelf. Nobody will think badly of you. Look around you, nobody will even notice if you put it back right now. Thinking about it, you may of course already be brilliant. You probably don't work long hours or have work pressures and a demanding home life. I bet you're not permanently exhausted. You are probably the perfect manager, leader and parent. You may be an inspirational person who can't improve any further, in which case what on earth could you learn anyway? Whatever you decide, I know it will be the right choice. The themes of the book can be delivered in businesses. The messages are very simple - in fact so simple that they are frequently overlooked. The book translates some highbrow academic concepts into language that we can both understand and apply. Basically, I wanted to write something that would be idiotic to ignore. Textbooks are crammed full of theories and diagrams but I figured that life isn't a theory, it's very much a practical exercise - and we should be living it fully! The messages are suitable for people at all levels in all organisations. They are particularly relevant to leaders and those tuned into personal development. Workshops on 'The Art of Being Brilliant' aim to make a massive and long-term impact on business performance. They are also designed to be great fun.</p>

Being Brilliant: The Art of Being Yourself ... Brilliantly!

Business & Money

Cope, Andrew

Management & Leadership

Balloon View Ltd

MindStore will show you that being happy, confident and successful in life is not luck but a skill. Like any skill it needs to be learned and then practised. * Increase you self esteem and develop new levels of confidence  * Develop unshakeable self-belief  * Rid yourself of doubt and indecision  * Control stress for better health  * Regain your natural zest for life  * Find new direction and keep focused on your goals   This classic MindStore personal development programme now comes with a free audio download containing live versions of the guided visualization exercises that will help you to build and make use of your House on the Right Bank.

Mindstore: The Classic Personal Development Program

Self-Help

Black, Jack

Success

A Brilliant Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Andy Cope

Psychology & Counseling

Whether you are looking to change work, get re-inspired or are simply seeking direction, this text offers a chance to explore how to bring more creativity, integrity, fulfilment and fun into your work.  Introduction -- the twelve principles of the work we were born to do; defining the work we were born to do; undoing our conditioning; discovering the spirit of our work; awakening the heart at work; knowing that money is never really the issue; working on purpose; integrity, authenticity and the return to wholeness; contribution and the discovery of meaningful work; welcoming transformation and change; the inspiration to create; abundance and inner riches; experiencing the true meaning of success; in conclusion.

Work We Were Born To Do

Nick Williams

Job Hunting & Careers

This book is about a Kabbalistic view of a human being. This means it takes into account the concept of the four macrocosmic worlds of Emanation, Creation, Formation and Action, which are manifest in the microcosm of the Divine, spiritual, psychological and physical levels within a person. The book's approach is through the metaphysical scheme of the Sefirotic Tree of Life and the extended Trees of Jacob's Ladder. Combining ancient, medieval and modern understandings of Adam, the archetype of humanity, the book works its way up, after introducing the way Kabbalistic principles work, through the body, psyche and spirit to the Divine Realm where Self-realisation is attained.

How to be Inspired

Life DIY: 12 Simple Steps to Transform Your Life

Cohen, Pete

Personal Transformation

Stretch Zone

Widelko, Glenn

How Love Works: A new approach to lasting partnership

Allen, Jeff

Allen, Sue

Foss, Helena

Parenting & Relationships

What Happy People Know: Volume II: The Path of Emotional Maturity

Spezzano, Chuck

<p>The Wartime Letters of Molly Rich London 1940-1944 Throughout the Second World War, Molly Rich, a vicar s wife in London, wrote hundreds of letters to a young Austrian refugee named Otto. The boy had fled the Nazis and became a much-loved member of her family, only to be deported for internment in Australia. The warmth and humour of Molly's letters sustained Otto through grim times, even as she and her family endured their own trials in wartime record cold, rationing, and the Blitz. Molly wrote from the heart of her community, the vicarage of St Nicholas, Chiswick. The old house overflowed with children, refugees, evacuees, lodgers, neighbours, and a menagerie of cats, dogs, rabbits and chickens. She kept her extended family clothed and fed while also volunteering, digging her allotment, and fire-watching, always with time to cheer everyone she knew. Hers is a story of bravery, selflessness, and love. introduction The letters of Molly Rich, my mother, were written to Otto, a 20-year-old refugee from Vienna who came to live with us at Chiswick Vicarage early in 1939 and quickly became part of the family. Fourteen months later, as Hitler invaded Europe, Otto was arrested as an Enemy Alien and sent to internment camps in England and then Australia. Released fourteen months after his arrest, Otto joined the Pioneer Corps (a military auxiliary) and then the Army, serving in England, France and Germany as the Allies fought to victory. Much loved by us four children, Otto was considered a fifth child by our mother, who wrote to him throughout the war. After Molly s death in 1974, I was lunching with Otto and his wife when he told me he still had all her letters. I was greatly excited, as Molly was a natural communicator, writing with charm and energy to her children away at school, her mother in Hertfordshire, her sisters in Kenya and extended family in Trinidad and America</p>

Vicarage in the Blitz

History

Anthea Craigmyle

Europe

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