StrengthsFinder

DO YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE YOUR STRENGTHS EVERY DAY?

Chances are, you don’t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.

To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.

In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more. While you can read this book in one sitting, you’ll use it as a reference for decades.

Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself — and the world around you — forever.

https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/1531865321

(NIE)GRZECZNI?

Poznaj krainę dziecięcych emocji, reakcji i lęków!
(NIE)Grzeczne dzieci, czyli jak zdefiniować grzeczność i co z tego wynika
Niegrzeczność w praktyce, czyli jak zrozumieć, o co chodzi dziecku
Rodzic roszczeniowy versus rodzic odlotowy, czyli jak sensownie ustawiać granice
Jeśli jesteś rodzicem, w pół słowa zrozumiesz wszystkie emocje i lęki targające dorosłymi obecnymi na kartach tej książki. Bez trudu odnajdziesz z nimi wspólny język, oparty na tożsamości doświadczeń, bezradności i frustracji. Trochę trudniej będzie Ci za to pojąć, jak myśli i odczuwa Twoje (nie)grzeczne dziecko i na czym w ogóle polega ta (nie)grzeczność. Na szczęście autorki książki, prywatnie i zawodowo związane ze sferą dziecięcych humorów, zachowań i odkryć, pomogą Ci wejść w świat Twojego dziecka i choć na chwilę przyjąć jego perspektywę.

Wszystkie sytuacje opisane w tej książce zdarzyły się naprawdę, a brak porozumienia co do istoty problemu spowodował gniew i rozżalenie u obu stron konfliktu. Jednak ponieważ każdej z przedstawionych tu scen towarzyszy szczegółowy zapis emocji i postaw zarówno dziecka, jak i dorosłego, a także bezstronna ocena eksperta, zyskujesz niepowtarzalną szansę przetestowania “na sucho” podobnych zachowań, by uniknąć błędów w przyszłości. Wychowanie dziecka nie jest prostą sprawą, ale jeśli chcesz na całe życie zachować z nim dobry kontakt, a przy tym mądrze pokierować jego rozwojem, koniecznie przeczytaj tę książkę. I korzystaj z niej na co dzień!

http://sensus.pl/ksiazki/nie-grzeczni-monika-janiszewska-malgorzata-bajko,grznie.htm

Homeschooling for Success: How Parents Can Create a Superior Education for Their Child

This book is a quick reference guide for anyone considering homeschool; it covers some of the misconceptions and common concerns about homeschooling. Being general and concise it is a text that gives the reader a simple idea about homeschool, both initiating it and continuing it through and up to college. If you are considering homeschooling make this part of your inventory for investigating this avenue. The book, as said before, is concise, it is merely 178 pages long, but continues with three very salutary appendices constituting a homeschooling resource guide, homeschooling support groups in each state and lastly, a brief summary of state laws for every state. This book will get you started, but it should supplement your desire to understand homeschooling.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FOUAF1A

The Road to Character

"I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it." (David Brooks)

With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous best sellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us and himself to rebalance the scales between our "résumé virtues" - achieving wealth, fame, and status - and our "eulogy virtues," those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, faithfulness, and relationships.

Looking to some of the world's greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade.

Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth.

https://www.amazon.com/Character-Thorndike-Press-Large-Print/dp/1594139377

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Winning by not competing! This international best seller upends traditional thinking with principles and tools to make the competition irrelevant.

In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

Based on a study of 150 strategic moves, spanning more than 100 years and 30 industries, they provide a systematic approach that every company can use to render rivals obsolete and unleash new demand:

Reconstruct market boundaries

Focus on the big picture

Reach beyond existing demand

Get the strategic sequence right

Overcome organizational hurdles

Build execution into strategy

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ocean-Strategy-Uncontested-Competition/dp/1591396190

Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People

Everyone knows that it is the give-and-take of negotiation that enables decisions to be made, problems to be solved, needs to be satisfied - in our professional as well as our personal lives. But where does that leave you when you confront someone who has no intention of negotiating fairly or in good faith? How can you find common ground when your opponent - an angry boss, an unreasonable client, a deceitful colleague, an insecure business partner, a stubborn spouse - refuses to give an inch? How, in short, can you get to "yes" when someone else says "no"?

In Getting Past No, Dr. Ury offers his unique five-step system to dismantle stone walls, disarm tough bargainers, deflect attacks, and dodge dirty tricks. Dr. Ury's method of breakthrough negotiation depends not on scoring a win over your opponent - but on winning him over. Getting Past No offers specific techniques and proven strategies designed to identify the problem, develop practical proposals, and invent creative options that satisfy both sides' needs.

Whether you're dealing with an unruly teenager or an office bully, Dr. Ury's method will help you gain control in even the most difficult situations. More than getting mad or getting even, Getting Past No will get you results!

https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Past-Negotiating-Difficult-Situations/dp/0553371312

Fizyka życia - http://www.physicsoflife.pl/

Życie to coś więcej niż walka, to gra. Gra, która toczy się bez ustanku. Gra, w której ktoś wygrywa. Gra, z której odpadają pokonani, a zwycięzcy zdobywają prawo do powielenia i dalszej gry. Gra, w której gra jeden na jednego, jeden na wielu, wielu na jednego i wielu na wielu; w której grają rodzice, klony i zwycięskie klony klonów.

Na treningach siatkówki, bilarda, zapasów, szachów i każdej innej dyscypliny sportowej, trenerzy nie podają magicznej formuły wygrywania. Bo na wygrywanie nie ma prostego wzoru, który każdemu i zawsze zapewniałby zwycięstwo!

... a jednak trenuje się! Trenuje się po to by wygrywać! A wszystko to, co na trening się składa - wyrafinowane metody, sprawdzone zasady, wieloletnie doświadczenie, zaawansowana analiza teoretyczna, ciężka praca i od czasu do czasu jakiś matematyczny wzór - to wiedza, wiedza służąca do wygrywania.

Fizyka Życia to nie wzory, to wiedza. Wiedza dotycząca gry najważniejszej - życia. Gry, pełnej przeróżnych reguł, często niezrozumiałych i bezlitosnych, lecz czasem pełnych miłości i poświęcenia. Gry, w której każdy z nas, czy tego chce czy nie, bierze udział!