N David Rock Hardcover 2009-06-11T22:25:34-05:00 <p>David Rock takes the reader inside the heads-literally-of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday and show us how a more nuanced understanding of the brain allows us to better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily life. <p>Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of Marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. <p>We travel inside their brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, memorize it, and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works-and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. They show how it's possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but succeed in it-and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day. <p>YOUR BRAIN AT WORK explores issues such as: <p>- why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources<br> - why changing behavior is so difficult-and how to make it less so<br> - why focusing on problems doesn't seem to create desired change<br> - how concentration and focus change the brain, and how to maintain energy and productivity at work<br> - why providing critical feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier<br> - howcorporate/office culture is formed and can most effectively be altered.<br> <p><b>Biography</b> <p>David Rock is a leadership coach, teacher, and public speaker who advises corporations around the world. He is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, and for the past several years has been studying the impact of coaching on performance and the links between coaching and neuroscience. 40.0 No 1.0 82146 N http://media.800ceoread.com/view/9780061771293/image/coverart REG 0061771295 English N 9.65 No Book 288 2699 active 2009-10-01 2699 HarperBusiness No Business, Economics, Finance Available 1 9780061771293 2010-03-04T14:42:57-06:00 0.99 6.25