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Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long | 
| Author: David Rock
Publisher: HarperBusiness
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1880
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061771295
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092019
EAN: 9780061771293
ASIN: 0061771295
Publication Date: October 1, 2009
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Product Description
Meet Emily and Paul, the parents of two young children. Emily is a newly promoted executive in a large corporation, while Paul has his own business as a consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. For them, just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. In this book, we travel inside the brains of Emily and Paul as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with and figure out how to prioritize, organize, and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul—and for readers of Your Brain at Work—they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works—and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Your Brain at Work explores: - Why your brains feels so taxed, and how to take full advantage of your mental resources
- Why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions
- How to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems
- How to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible
- How to collaborate with others more effectively
- Why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier
- How to effectively change other people's behavior
Rock shows how it's possible not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but to succeed in it—and still feel energized at the end of the day, with a sense of accomplishment.
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Succeeds in Form as Well as Function November 19, 2009
Mark Goulston
What I like most about David Rock's books is the experience my brain and mind and "dopamine" center have when I read whatever he writes. The bump to my dopamine from this present book is the format of following a story of a couple who are leading and living overly busy and harried lives (sound like anyone you know?), followed by a deep dive into their brains and minds to tell you what those inner areas are going through, followed by lessons and applications that I can use to help me be more mindful, in control and more effective in my life.
This book has just enough research to pass my credibility radar with flying colors, great practical application to use immediately and a great story to identify with.
It's a triple treat.
Mark Goulston
author of Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
syndicated Tribune columnist
blogger for Huffington Post, Fast Company, Psychology Today and Minyanville
Thumbs up from a neuropsychologist November 16, 2009
Marsha Lucas, Ph.D. (Washington, DC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
David Rock and I share a similar view: People become more open to changing the behaviors which hold them back when they can understand the brain science behind it all. If you teach a man to do a task, he'll complete the task; if you teach him how his brain is wired, and how to optimize and build it, he'll be one of the most successful (and well-adjusted) people you've ever met.
In "Your Brain at Work" David speaks clearly and meaningfully -- with humor and relevance to everyday life -- about why it is our brains work better under some circumstances than others. He's frank about the limitations of our cognitive abilities -- even the brightest among us -- explaining the "why" and "how" of the limits, and, most importantly, "how to make it better" without frazzling yourself with multitasking, split attention, and other inefficient ways of trying to do your work.
He manages to do this with warmth and humor, all the while bringing the reader inside the findings of some of the top researchers in neuroscience.
I'm a neuropsychologist by training, and now do psychotherapy with high-functioning, successful people who complain about feeling depleted, overwhelmed, out of balance, and burned out. I'm grateful to have this book to supplement our work on the brain-based issues that create the perpetual sense of swimming upstream.
Simple Strategies for a Complex World November 15, 2009
Larry Underwood (Scottsdale, AZ)
Our brains are very complex organs, but they crave simplicity; they crave certainty. We live in a world filled with complexity and uncertainty; keeping things simple is a difficult task, but it's the key to getting the most our of our brains, and the most out of life.
David Rock understands this concept, and has compiled this wonderful book to share with the rest of the world, to help us become more productive members of society. Of course, the bonus with our higher level of productivity is the good feeling we have about our lives; our happiness will certainly be a positive influence on other people's happiness; and so on and so forth.
If this sounds too simple to be true; it isn't. Read the book and you'll agree; unless you want to stay overwhelmed, confused and unproductive. Of course you don't; that's why you're reading this simple, yet effective review.
Other great books to help simplify and enrich your life: Talk Less, Say More: Three Habits to Influence Others and Make Things Happen & Power of Less, The: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life
Great book & a "must-read"! November 6, 2009
Suzan Czajkowski
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
David Rock has really honed his writing style, and it shows here. He does a wonderful job of presenting the science and theory of the brain in small, useful bites that make it easily accessible and applicable. At the same time, he's written this book in a voice that is distinctly his own. If you've ever heard David speak at a conference or in a teleseminar, then you'll recognize his voice in this book.
It is rare that I read a business book cover to cover; "Your Brain at Work" almost demanded it. The small bites that he presents his information in allowed me to absorb information in the short sets that my life allows, contemplate, and then go back for more. I found that the themes and stories flowing through the book from front to back really helped demonstrate how to apply the information to my own world, immediately. Consistent end-of-chapter elements - "Surprises About the Brain" and "Some Things to Try" - serve both as insightful keys to applying the material, and also points for review when I go back to this book in search of a specific reminder later.
I have so far found two applications for this material: it is helpful for getting more out of my own brain, and I am also finding it of great use within my own coaching practice. This is a great book and a "must-read".
Lots to chew on! November 6, 2009
Victoria M. Del Frate (Simi Valley, CA)
I met this author while at a business coaching seminar and really liked his style and the focus of his work. I thought he was a big hit and I'm happy to report that his book is a big hit with me, too! The ideas, principles, lessons and suggestions are delivered in a direct manner, peppered here and there with humor and in a format that makes it easy to digest and easy to recollect later when you really want to apply them. I give it 5 stars.
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