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  Never Not Working - Why the...

  Malissa Clark

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  Many workers believe that to compete with other top talent they must embrace a culture that rewards long hours and constant connection to work. Businesses and society have encouraged this by endorsing busyness, overwork, and extreme commitment as the most valued traits in workers. Sometimes that endorsement is explicit, as when Elon Musk told Twitter employees to work "long hours at high intensity" or get fired. But more often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that increasingly make it easy to tether people to work. 
   
   
   
  Either way, this workaholic behavior is unhealthy and counterproductive for workers and for organizations. It's time to fight back. Malissa Clark shows you how in Never Not Working. Clark delivers a comprehensive definition of workaholism, busting myths along the way—such as the idea that the number of hours worked is the strongest predictor of workaholic tendencies. (It's not.) She also helps you see if you're creating workaholics in your organization or if you're falling prey to the phenomenon yourself. 
   
   
   
  Deeply researched and written for everyone from leaders to individual contributors, Never Not Working is the essential guide to identifying workaholism in yourself and others and starting on the road to recovery.

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  Windfall - Viola MacMillan and...

  Tim Falconer

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  The fascinating, scandalous, and true story of Viola MacMillan and the Windfall mining scandal
  		 
  Viola MacMillan had it all: success, money, and respect. Influence, even. But in 1964, after three decades in the mining industry, one of the most fascinating women in Canadian business history was the central character in one of the country’s most famous stock scandals.
  		 
  MacMillan, who started out as a prospector in the ’30s, had developed lucrative mines and put together big deals. But she still wanted “a major discovery.” Early in July 1964, shares in Windfall Oil and Mines, a company she and her husband controlled, traded for around 56 cents. Then one day, the stock took off. In the absence of any information from the company about what it had found near Timmins on its claims, rumors and greed pushed the share price to a high of $5.70. MacMillan stayed quiet. Finally, after three weeks, Windfall admitted it had nothing.
  		 
  So many small investors lost money when the stock crashed that the Ontario government appointed a royal commission to examine what had happened, which led to changes at the Ontario Securities Commission and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Although MacMillan spent a few weeks in prison, she later received a pardon and the Order of Canada.

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  Intentional Careers for STEM...

  Hannah Roberts

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  IT'S ALL TOO EASY TO END UP ON THE STEM CAREER CONVEYOR BELT AND FIND YOURSELF OVERLOOKED, UNDERAPPRECIATED AND UNDERPAID.
  Reinvent your approach and choose a conscious career path that enables you to make an impact and take control of your professional life by creating a blueprint for your fulfilment. Intentional Careers for STEM Women is your step-by-step guide on this journey. This book is packed with clear-sighted, practical methodology and tools, brought to life by inspirational real-life stories of STEM women who have followed the intentional careers path. It will help you choose what's next in your career and provide you with the strategy to make it happen, while balancing the people and things that mean the most to you.
  Learn to:
  • Disentangle your self-worth from your work
  • Identify what keeps you stuck and playing small, and understand how to move beyond it confidently
  • Uncover your natural talents to create a leadership pathway based on your strengths
  • Articulate your purpose, your mission and your vision to find clarity on your short- and long-term goals
  • Master personal branding and positioning to create new opportunities and negotiate an above-market-rate salary
  'Deeply compassionate, profoundly inspiring. A powerful call for STEM women to align their careers for fulfilment with personal integrity. These pages speak to the power of reclaiming the intentionality of where to focus your time and attention.' — Nir Eyal, former Stanford lecturer, behavioural design expert, and international bestselling author of Indistractible: How to control your attention and choose your life
  
  'Want to break free from the confines of conventional careers and step into a world of intentional success? Let Intentional Careers for STEM Women be your guiding light. Get ready to transform your professional life and unleash your full potential. But it doesn't stop there. This book is a rallying call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in leadership. It is time for women with STEM backgrounds to step into positions of influence and power – and shape a better future for all.' — Lily Satterthwaite, Regional Lead, Microsoft, and Co-Lead, Global Technical Women Committee
  
  'I wish I'd had access to this book when I was earlier in my STEM career. It's educational and inspiring, providing tangible advice and proven methodologies. Don't hesitate to read this. You'll discover ways to empower yourself and create the fulfilling STEM career you deserve, while enjoying the journey along the way.' — Professor Alexandra Knight CEng FIMechE FWES, founder and CEO, STEMAZING

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  The Power of Not Thinking - How...

  Simon Roberts

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  Ask someone to point to the part of their body responsible for their intelligence and it is highly likely that they will point at their head. This assumption is understandable, given that, for centuries, from Descartes' "cogito ergo sum" to the computer age, this is what we have been told to think. 
   
   
   
  And yet we all share common experiences that have revealed the incomparable power of "not thinking." Have you ever struggled to remember your pin number only to hold your fingers out and type it correctly with your hands, played the piano without focusing on remembering the correct notes, or listened to your gut feeling when under the pressure of a big decision? All these instances prove that it is time to stop neglecting the role the body plays in our acquisition of knowledge and to explore how it is that brain and body combine to deliver what we view as uniquely human intelligence. 
   
   
   
  In this unique new book, Simon Roberts looks at the pivotal role that our body plays in how we learn. Drawing upon an incredible range of cutting-edge science, real-life examples, and personal experience, Roberts explores the complexity of even the simplest of tasks that humans perform every day and goes on to explain how, with a greater awareness of the processes at work, we can tap into our full potential and excel in any area of our lives.

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  Mindful Command - The Way of the...

  Sally-Anne Airey

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  ? HIGHLY COMMENDED LEADERSHIP BOOK OF 2024 at Business Book Awards ?
  This is a book about the essence of skilful leadership: what really matters, nbsp;why it works, and what any leader can do to improve their effectiveness and their impact on the world. It offers a crystal-clear view of what good leadership looks like and a simple, original conceptual framework for evolving it throughout life.  Mindful Command begins with the fundamental understanding that real success as a leader depends not on what you do, but on how you are. Motivating people to give their best is about being your best – consistently, over time. The book is a concise, practical guide for busy leaders who recognise their need to undertake or continue this inner work and want to know how.

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  Cutting My Own Path - The Guy...

  Guy P. Wyser-Pratte

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  Known internationally as The Dean Of Risk Arbitrage, Guy Wyser-Pratte is a force majeure of shareholder activism. 
  Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and an Austrian-Catholic mother, Guy (Ghee) has lived a life shaped by history, ambition, and risk. From an idyllic childhood on the beaches of Cannes to narrowly escaping war-torn Europe, his journey is one of resilience, fortune, and survival against all odds. His background as a US Marine Corps infantry officer foreshadows his ability to lead into a storm. 
  At just five years old, Guy was moments from death while attempting to crawl to freedom through a hole in a fence to Switzerland from Occupied Annecy, France. That near-death experience at the business end of a Nazi soldier's rifle, forever imprinted on his memory-becomming a defining moment of his life: a lesson in the fragility of fate, the necessity of taking risks when the stakes are highest, and the courage to cut your own path. 
  "Every time I uncovered corporate misbehavior at the expense of shareholders, I felt an immediate surge of purpose. I wasn't built to sit quietly and passively sweat out individual risk-arbitrage deals. That just wasn't me. By the 1990s, I was actively going after managements in the United States that were failing their shareholders." 
  -Guy Wyser Pratte 
  "There are men who follow the rules, and there are men who rewrite them. Guy Wyser-Pratte has never been interested in the former." 
  -Brig. Gen. Thomas V. Draude 
  Guy P. Wyser-Pratte, MBA is considered by many to be the founding father of shareholder activism. He is a U.S. Marine Corps Officer, an award-winning and celebrated arbatrageur, a fund manager with 38% returns, and sports a storied history of iconic, disruptive mischief in the name of shareholder value.

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