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Career
Excellence Club Tour (3 of 7)
TOUR: Expert
Interviews and Book Insights
Expert
Interviews
Career Excellence Club Expert Interviews
are in-depth interviews with world experts in key skills
areas. By listening to these interviews on your PC or iPod/MP3
player, you can build your skills and knowledge quickly and easily,
and become much more aware of career issues that can arise, so
that you can counter them if they do.
Recent interviews include:
| Creating
We, with Judith Glaser (24mins)

Learn how to build a healthy business
culture with distinguished consultant, Judith Glaser. In
this interview, find out how to build an environment that
rewards good teamwork and discourages office politics. |
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Rewire
or Rust! with Robert Critchley (31 mins)

Age discrimination is damaging both for
individuals and for organizations. Find out why managers
can't afford to discriminate, and what older workers can
do to counter discrimination. |
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| One
Person/Multiple Careers, with Marci Alboher (31mins)

In this interview, we talk to writer/speaker/coach
Marci Alboher on the unusual topic of "slash careers,”
which involve doing more than one job at a time. Find out
how to succeed in two or more fulfilling careers at the
same time. |
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Resiliency, with Cal Crow (30 mins)

Part of being successful is resiliency:
the ability to rebound from setbacks. Find out how you can
build resiliency and self-efficacy - and, from this, build
success. |
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| Are
We Hardwired for Success?, with Chuck Martin (30 mins)

In this interview with well-known researcher
and author Chuck Martin, we explore how identifying your
strengths and your weaknesses can help you - and the people
around you - become more productive and happier at work. |
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| The
Power of Nice, with Robin Koval (24mins)

In our interview Robin Koval, President
of the highly successful advertising agency, the Kaplan
Thaler Group, we learn that, contrary to popular opinion,
nice people do finish first! (And also live longer, are
healthier and have more lucrative lives!) Learn how Nice
and Successful go hand-in-hand in every aspect of your life,
both personal and professional. |
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| Managing
Your Email Before It Manages You, with Mike Song (32 mins)

Here we talk to Mike Song, one of the
authors of "The Hamster Revolution". Hear how
we don't need to be helpless in the face of more and more
messages, and learn some the low-tech but high-impact solutions
that you can start using TODAY! |
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| Unsticking
Your Career, with Tim Butler (31 mins)

In this interview with Dr Tim Butler of
Harvard Business School, we talk about his new book "Getting
Unstuck". In it, he explains how to treat apparent
dead ends as new frontiers, and discusses the practical
steps we can take to get from "impasse" to "new
path". |
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Remember that these are only a few of the interviews
within the Career Excellence Club. You'll find many more inside!
Book
Insights
Career Excellence Club Book Insights
are detailed reviews of new and classic management, career
development and self-development books. Using them, you can quickly
and easily keep yourself up-to-date with the latest ideas and
thinking, and learn about ideas that you want to develop and explore
in more depth.
Reviewed by Mind Tools' expert reviewers, they
are available either in MP3 format that you can listen to on your
PC or iPod, or as PDF transcripts that you can download and read.
Recent Insights include:
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Thinking
About Tomorrow, by Susan Crandell
Do
you ever feel there may be something missing, even if your
career is successful? Find out how 45 men and women beat
their mid-career blues; and gather some ideas for your own
future. |
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12:
The Elements of Great Managing, by
Rodd Wagner and James K Harter
Learn about the 12 qualities are that highly-productive
people tend to find in their workplaces - according to a
massive Gallup survey - and how you can create the same
levels of engagement with your job. |
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One
Billion Customers, by James McGregor
China - one of the world's most dynamic
economies - is a mystery to most Westerners. Author James
McGregor helps to unlock it, based on his experience of
doing business in China for nearly two decades. |
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Learned
Optimism by Martin Seligman
Prominent psychologist Dr Martin Seligman
explains why looking on the bright side may be the key to
everything, from success at the office to physical health.
And he also shows HOW you can become an optimist. |
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Career
Intelligence, by Barbara Moses
We review "Career Intelligence, the
Twelve New Rules for Work and Life Success", a useful
book on positioning yourself intelligently to make the most
of your opportunities in today's rapidly changing job market. |
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The
Effective Executive, By Peter Drucker
This management classic made Peter Drucker
a legend in university MBA programs and corporate boardrooms
around the globe, and is a definitive guide on managing
knowledge workers - and managing yourself. |
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Made
To Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die,
by Chip and
Dan Heath
Find out how to make your idea or message
utterly memorable with this book's "six principles
of sticky ideas". While their approach draws on insights
from the world of advertising, it will work for anyone who
needs to communicate powerfully. |
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What
Got You Here Won’t Get You There, by Marshall Goldsmith
Celebrity executive coach Marshall Goldsmith
shows you how to identify the skills you need AND the traits
you need to leave behind if you're going to move on in your
career. |
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The
Speed of Trust
by Stephen M R Covey
This is one of the most high-profile new
business books around, but what does its title actually
mean? Find out what the benefits of working at the speed
of trust are, and what you can do to inspire trust in others. |
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Repacking
Your Bags,
by Richard J Leider and David A Shapiro
This life design book that will help you
work out where you are now, where you’d like to head next
in your work and personal life, and what baggage you do
– and don’t – need to get there. Find out more! |
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What
Happy Companies Know, by Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg and
Collins Hemingway
We review "What Happy Companies Know",
a great book on creating a positive and successful workplace,
with an interesting and highly relevant psychological angle
on the subject. |
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Getting
Things Done When You Are Not in Charge,
by Geoffrey M Bellman
Helena Smalman-Smith reviews this practical and common-sense
guide to an issue many of us face - working successfully
with others to complete projects when we have little direct
authority. |
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Winning,
by Jack & Suzy Welch
We look this powerful and insightful book, co-written by
one of the world's most influential business leaders. Find
out what you can learn from this important book. |
As with the Expert Interviews, there are many
more Book Insights inside the club, and they're all instantly
available the moment you join!
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