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12May2019

Mind Tools for Managers by Manktelow and Birkinshaw

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I still remember the day when I came to work in my first managerial job as Chief Psychologist in large university-based health sciences center in Montreal. Youthfully naïve and thinking that the position was some celestially guided reward for being an effective and hard working clinical psychologist, I was woefully unprepared for what awaited me.

12Apr2019

The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga by Fumitake Koga

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I’m a skeptic at heart when I hear about exaggerated claims to psychotherapies be they old or new. This past week, two came into view. The first arrived in the form of a book from a client extolling Adlerian therapy -The Courage to be Disliked By Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. The second, Compassion

12Mar2019

Get the Truth by Philip Houston et al

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I don’t work for the CIA but… Following a client’s recommendation, I acquired, read and rather uneasily digested Houston and company’s recent bestseller on interview interrogation techniques -Get the Truth. The authors, ex-CIA agents specialized in integration-the verbal, not the water board kind-have written a highly readable and comprehensive “how-to-do-it” book to get the

27Dec2018

Good Boss: Bad Boss by Robert Sutton

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At a recent California psychology conference, I found myself in a long line of post-talk attendees hoping to speak to the renowned speaker, and former professor of mine, Dr Don Meichenbaum. Some forty years ago, I was lucky enough to be in a small group of doctoral students in Clinical Psychology at the

15Oct2018

The Asshole Survival Guide by Robert Sutton

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The catchy title perhaps belies the academic credentials behind the scholarly author of this very quotable book on coping with demeaning or critical bosses. Robert Sutton is a professor of Management Studies at Stanford and an author of numerous books on management, organizations and business psychology. Although not his latest book, The Asshole Survival Guide

07Apr2018

The Courage Solution by Mindy Mackenzie

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I must admit that I had some serious doubts about this thin book with its all-too catchy title. As a university professor who believes in empirically justified everything, my doubts were fueled by the author’s introduction proudly proclaiming that the books reflects a “non-theoretical or non-research based perspective.” Boy, was my initial judgment wrong. In

08Feb2018

Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

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Jason Selk There is a considerable literature on goal attainment with multiple books providing tips on how to stay focused, measure progress and even celebrate achievement. I will not provide the reader with yet another creative decoding of the SMART acronym. However, in Executive Toughness not much text is devoted to these concepts. I thought

29Jun2017

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

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To reduce visual stress read this simple and motivating tidying-up book with its many helpful hints such as 1) clean-up everything at once, 2) get rid of items that don’t bring pleasure and 3) ensure that every item has a particular storage place.

25Jan2017

Happiness Advantage by Shawn Archor

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This is a great book on so many fronts not the least of which involves goal-setting; here are some of Shawn’s tips: #1 Start with a positive frame of mind #2 Note all the resources at your disposition #3 List all the possible routes to achieve that goal #4 Since effort is dramatically increased as

28Feb2016

How of Happiness by Dr Sonya Lyubomirsky

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I’m always suspicious about psychology books that prescribe the path of happiness. What do we know about happiness more than writers, philosophers or even bartenders. Turns out, a lot, and all of what UC Riverside psychology professor, Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, in her book endorses is backed by strong experimental evidence. It really does work, she

Genre: happiness, positive psychology, work place psychology

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