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Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
by David Rock
In Your Brain at Work, David Rock takes readers inside the heads—literally—of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday to reveal how we can better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily lives.
1 Second Ahead
by Hougaard Rasmus
Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance. 1 Second Ahead demonstrates that it is possible to train the brain to respond differently to today's constant pressures and distraction.
Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
by Jeffrey Pfeffer
In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern management commonalities such as long work hours, work-family conflict, and economic insecurity are toxic to employees—hurting engagement, increasing turnover, and destroying people’s physical and emotional health—and also inimical to company performance.
Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace
by Sharon Salzberg
Real Happiness at Work is a practical guide to improving work life through mindfulness, compassion, and ingenuity. It’s about being committed without being consumed, competitive without being cruel, managing time and emotions to counterbalance stress and frustration. It shows readers how to be more creative, organised, and accomplished in order to do better, more productive work.
The Mindful Workplace: Developing Resilient Individuals and Resonant Organisations with MBSR
by Michael Chaskalson
This book offers a practical and theoretical guide to the benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in the workplace, describing the latest neuroscience research into the effects of mindfulness training and detailing an eight-week mindfulness training course.
Mindfulness at Work
by Dr Stephen McKenzie
Mindfulness at Work reveals how the practice of mindfulness — the ability to focus our attention on what ‘is’ rather than be distracted by what ‘isn’t’ — can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our modern lives, especially our working lives.
Brain Rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school
by John Medina
In Brain Rules, Dr John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in brain science, and how it can influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule — what scientists know for sure about how our brains work — and offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.
The Mindfulness Edge: How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule
by Matt Tenney
The authors make a compelling case for why mindfulness training may be the 'ultimate success habit.' In addition to helping you improve the most essential elements of highly effective leadership, mindfulness training can help you discover unconditional happiness and realise incredible meaning—professionally and personally.
The Burnout Challenge: Managing Peoples Relationships with Their Jobs
Christina Maslach & Michael Leiter (2023)
Two pioneering researchers identify key causes of workplace burnout and reveal what managers can do to promote increased productivity and health.