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Is This The Day I Get Fired?
 "Don't get too comfortable." That's the message from business and productivity expert Steve Prentice, and it is aimed at working people everywhere.
When the day comes that you lose your job, will you be ready? Will you know where to turn? Do you know what you actually do? Do you even know who you are?
Is This The Day I Get Fired? challenges you to keep your hunting instincts sharp; To know that to survive in the world of work, you need to be constantly on the lookout for danger and opportunity.
"The one thing worse than being unemployed," says Steve, "is being fully employed." Because then you are chained to a process that dulls the senses and keeps you overly occupied on the present, and therefore vulnerable to future changes. To even contemplate unemployment - not being able to pay your bills - creates a fear that pushes us back into line, where we keep our head down and wait for payday. And when the day comes that you are "no longer needed," "right-sized," "made redundant," "let go," the prospects of landing something quickly and effortlessly are slim.
Unless you have kept your hunting instincts sharp.
Is This The Day I Get Fired? is an essential handbook for career survival. This book will empower you to:
- Change your mindset from "dog" to wolf"
- Develop your networking skills both inside and outside your company
- Leverage new social media to solidify and expand your connections and opportunities
- converse, socialize and present yourself as an asset "too good to lose"
- manage your time to get the most important work done first, right, and clearly
- learn from top networkers and sales pro's how to use influence to your advantage
- keep your ear to the ground, rather than your nose to the grindstone
- survive and thrive during periods of transition (if or when they occur)
Cool Time: A Hands-on Plan For Managing Work and Balancing Time
If you have ever said (or felt) any of the following, then Cool Time is the solution for you:
- I spend more and more time just dealing with e-mail.
- I often take work home or stay late because that’s when I work without distraction.
- A lot of time gets wasted in meetings.
- There are too many interruptions.
- I plan my day every day, but by 9:15 it’s totally derailed.
- I never feel caught up!
Cool Time is a time management book with a difference. It’s all about keeping mentally and physically cool so that you are always at your best and on top of your game. When you’re mentally cool, you make the best decisions and get the best stuff done, and that’s
the root of successful time management.
Cool Time doesn’t focus exclusively on prioritizing and agenda setting. In the real world of interruptions, e-mail, and distractions, few people are able to organize their work in isolation from everything else. In fact, effective time management is more about human relationships and expectations than it is about making lists.
 Cool Time is a complete approach to managing time and defending it from the endless demands and expectations of others in the workplace and at home.
- Contains practical, personal techniques that will help you apply your new skills to real-world situations: holding time-effective meetings, dealing with distractions, learning to focus, coping with unrealistic workloads, planning for the unexpected, negotiating with your manager over conflicting tasks, using technology effectively (phones, texting/IM and e-mail).
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Includes suggestions on non-work activities, which make this a complete
approach to managing time and balancing life.
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Features lots of examples, practical tips, and concepts that are memorable
and easy to apply, as well as to explain and teach to others in your
life. Concepts such as the "I-Beam Agenda" for planning
and structuring your day, "Keystone Time" that you block
off for focused work, "The 60-Second Workspace" for organizing
yourself physically and mentally, and many more.
A
complete approach to managing time, priorities, and people in an increasingly
fast paced world, Cool Time allows you to be in control, feel less stress,
and never break a sweat as you go about your day.
International
Editions
Cool
Time is also available in Korean, Polish and Russian. For more information
on ordering these editions,
contact us.
  
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Cool-Down: Getting Further by Going Slower: Before you check your wireless email for the fourth time this hour, ask yourself, is this helping you get further ahead? In this presentation, based on his book of the same name, Steve challenges our modern addiction to high-speed activity, especially email and event-to-event thinking. He suggests that people are getting locked inside a loop of surface-level urgencies, and are losing the ability to connect creatively with mentors, clients, even their managers. Working days are getting longer, and the separation between work and life is eroding. This, he calls, “death-in-harness.” In an effort to find a better way, Steve takes a look at the "Slow" movement that is catching on in Japan and Europe, and asks whether it could possibly take root here, and indeed whether it even should. He takes the concept of “Slow” apart and rebuilds it, using terms, case studies and common sense segments that demonstrate clearly that to get further ahead faster, people do actually need to cool down.
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