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Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series)

Stop doing busywork. Start doing your best work.

Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office?

The world has changed and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.

Featuring contributions from: Dan Ariely, Leo Babauta, Scott Belsky, Lori Deschene, Aaron Dignan, Erin Rooney Doland, Seth Godin,Todd Henry, Christian Jarrett, Scott McDowell, Mark McGuinness, Cal Newport, Steven Pressfield, Gretchen Rubin, Stefan Sagmeister, Elizabeth G. Saunders, Tony Schwartz, Tiffany Shlain, Linda Stone, and James Victore. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO Scott Belsky.

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Quotes and Questions on Leadership: Powerful Quotes and Insightful Questions to Sharpen Your Leadership Skills

This book is unlike any other book on leadership you have encountered before. It’s a unique work that consists of 270 self-contained leadership messages. These quick, practical messages cover over 90 topics that are strategic to world-class leadership. Each message contains four powerful QUOTES related to a key leadership topic, and four insightful QUESTIONS to facilitate deeper reflection on topics such as • Leadership and Self-Mastery • Leaders as Motivators • Leadership and People Skills • Leaders are defined by Results • Leaders as Simplifiers • Leadership and the wise use of Power • Leaders as Coaches • Leadership and Attention to Detail • Leaders as Master Communicators • Leadership and Stress • Leadership and the Power of Expectations • Leaders as Change Agents, and more. “Quotes and Questions on Leadership” is not only a book of CAREFULLY SELECTED leadership quotes from all over the world; it’s also a book of simple, yet provocative questions to further stimulate your thinking regarding your own leadership. It is not intended to be read once and put away. It is intended to be read quickly from cover to cover and then REREAD, message by message, day by day. Business leaders, coaches, military leaders, educators, trainers and others will find in this book a quick, dynamic leadership message to KICK-START each and every work day of the entire year. These brief messages, read and applied daily, will have a tremendous impact on how you influence and lead others. By combining powerful quotes on leadership with insightful questions about your own leadership, the results can be quite impressive. Underline your favorite quotes and questions. Use them in your team meetings and daily huddles. Discuss the topics with your peers. INSPIRE the people around you! It all starts with a simple process: Read the quotes, reflect on the questions, day by day. Time and providence will do the rest. Enjoy!