Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

Publisher Marketing: 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, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul s brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they re presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize 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. Rock shows how it s possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today s overwhelming work environment but to succeed in it and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day. " Your Brain at Work" explores issues such as: why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resourceswhy it s so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractionshow to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problemshow to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possiblehow to collaborate more effectively with otherswhy providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easierhow to be more effective at changing other people s behavior" Contributor Bio:  Rock, David David Rock is a consultant and leadership coach who advises corporations around the world. The author of Coaching with the Brain in Mind, Quiet Leadership, and Personal Best, he is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, a leading global consulting and coaching organization. He is on the advisory board of the international business school CIMBA and the cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and New York City. Contributor Bio:  Walter, Bob Bob Walter is a producer, director, and audiobook narrator. He is best known for his work as a music producer and sound effects designer for the movies "Halloween", "The Little Brave Toaster", and "Apocalypse Now". His audiobook narrations include several nonfiction and fiction titles from Hachette, Random House, and HarperCollins, among others.