<p><strong>A professional organizer and life coach shows readers how to kick the clutter habit with his complete how-to guide to total organization</strong></p> <p>Arguably the most organized man in America, sought-after coach Andrew J. Mellen has created unique, lasting techniques for streamlined living, bringing order out of chaos for the chronically overwhelmed everywhere. Acknowledging that it's often the "stuff behind the stuff" that holds people back, Mellen offers a surprisingly simple, yet effective solution in his step-by-step guide, guaranteed to help achieve organizational bliss for everyone from perpetual key-misplacers to hard-core hoarders.</p> <p>From basement to bedroom, kitchen to car, and into every corner of life, Mellen’s system yields lasting results. Discover how to:</p> <ul> <li>Never lose your keys or wallet again</li> <li>Stop mail, magazine, and paper pileups for good</li> <li>Feel empowered to tackle bills and budgets</li> <li>Reclaim space and time once dominated by clutter</li> </ul> <p>Built on the principle that we must distinguish ourselves from our possessions, <em>Unstuff Your Life!</em> starts with truly achievable goals and works toward the nightmare projects everyone tries hard to avoid. With humor, honesty, tough love, and foolproof advice, Mellen makes it easy to finally let go and embrace the decluttered life.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>The esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels on how to cope with feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life and how to open to a more meaningful existence, even if outer circumstances cannot be changed.</strong></p> <p>In <em>Living Your Unlived Life</em>, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson, writing with longtime collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist Jerry M. Ruhl, offers a simple but transformative premise: Our abandoned, unrealized, or underdeveloped talents, when they are not fully integrated into our lives, can become profoundly troublesome in midlife, leading us to depression, suddenly hating our spouses, our jobs, or even our lives. When our unlived lives are brought to consciousness, however, they can become the fuel that can propel us beyond our limitations?even if our outer circumstances cannot always be visibly altered.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Hundreds of ordinary Canadians tell their own stories in this book. They tell them in their own words, and the impact is astonishing. As page after page of unforgettable stories rolls by, it is easy to see why this book sold 300,000 copies and why a successful stage play that ran for years was based on them.</p> <p>The stories, and the 52 accompanying photographs, tell of an extraordinary time. One tells how a greedy Maritime landlord ho tried to raise a widow's rent was tarred and gravelled; another how rape by the boss was part of a waitress's job. Other stories show Saskatchewan families watching their farms turn into deserts and walking away from them; or freight-trains black with hoboes clinging to them, criss-crossing the country in search of work; or a man stealing a wreath for his own wife's funeral.</p> <p>Throughout this portrait of the era before Canada had a social safety net, there are amazing stories of what <em>Time</em> magazine called "human tragedy and moral triumph during the hardest of times." In the end, this is an inspiring, uplifting book about bravery, one you will not forget.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old ageーunmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate lonelinessーawaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a caustic eye not only on the modern fiction that old age can be “defied” but also on the sentimental image of a past in which Americans supposedly revered their elders.</p> <p><em>Never Say Die</em> unmasks the fallacies promoted by twenty-first-century hucksters of longevityーincluding health gurus claiming that boomers can stay “forever young” if they only live right, self-promoting biomedical businessmen predicting that ninety may soon become the new fifty and that a “cure” for the “disease” of aging is just around the corner, and wishful thinkers asserting that older means wiser.</p> <p>The author offers powerful evidence that America has always been a “youth culture” and that the plight of the neglected old dates from the early years of the republic. Today, as the oldest boomers turn sixty-five, it is imperative for them to distinguish between marketing hype and realistic hope about what lies ahead for the more than 70 million Americans who will be beyond the traditional retirement age by 2030. This wide-ranging reappraisal examines the explosion of Alzheimer’s cases, the uncertain economic future of aging boomers, the predicament of women who make up an overwhelming majority of the oldestーand poorestーold, and the illusion that we can control the way we age and die.</p> <p>Jacoby raises the fundamental question of whether living longer is a good thing unless it means living better. Her book speaks to Americans, whatever their age, who draw courage and hope from facing reality instead of embracing that oldest of delusions, the fountain of youth.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future.</strong></p> <p>Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into believing that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do; and in turn, why attempts to predict, manage, or manipulate social and economic systems so often go awry.</p> <p>It seems obvious, for example, that people respond to incentives; yet policy makers and managers alike frequently fail to anticipate how people will respond to the incentives they create. Social trends often seem to be driven by certain influential people; yet marketers have been unable to identify these “influencers” in advance. And although successful products or companies always seem in retrospect to have succeeded because of their unique qualities, predicting the qualities of the next hit product or hot company is notoriously difficult even for experienced professionals.</p> <p>Watts' argument has important implications in politics, business, and marketing, as well as in science and everyday life.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives.</strong></p> <p>Any given day brings a never-ending list of things to do. There’s the work thing, the catch-up thing, the laundry thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the family thing, the thing we don’t want to do, and the thing we’ve been putting off, despite it being the most important thing. Even on days when we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed.</p> <p>After five years of searching for the secret to productivity, Madeleine Dore discovered there isn’t one. Instead, we’re being set up to fail. <em>I Didn’t Do the Thing Today</em> is the inspiring call to take productivity off its pedestalーby dismantling our comparison to others, aspirational routines, and the unrealistic notions of what can be done in a day, we can finally embrace the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life.</p> <p>For anyone who has ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this antidote to our doing-obsession is the permission slip we all need to find our own way.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in <em>National Geographic</em> or <em>The Washington Post</em> know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In <strong>Confucius Lives Next Door</strong> he brings all these attributes to the fore as he examines why Japan, China, Taiwan, and other East Asian countries enjoy the low crime rates, stable families, excellent education, and civil harmony that remain so elusive in the West. Reid, who has spent twenty-five years studying Asia and was for five years The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, uses his family's experience overseas--including mishaps and misapprehensions--to look at Asia's "social miracle" and its origin in the ethical values outlined by the Chinese sage Confucius 2,500 years ago.</p> <p>When Reid, his wife, and their three children moved from America to Japan, the family quickly became accustomed to the surface differences between the two countries. In Japan, streets don't have names, pizza comes with seaweed sprinkled on top, and businesswomen in designer suits and Ferragamo shoes go home to small concrete houses whose washing machines are outdoors because there's no room inside. But over time Reid came to appreciate the deep cultural differences, helped largely by his courtly white-haired neighbor Mr. Matsuda, who personified ancient Confucian values that are still dominant in Japan. Respect, responsibility, hard work--these and other principles are evident in Reid's witty, perfectly captured portraits, from that of the school his young daughters attend, in which the students maintain order and scrub the floors, to his depiction of the corporate ceremony that welcomes new employees and reinforces group unity. And Reid also examines the drawbacks of living in such a society, such as the ostracism of those who don't fit in and the acceptance of routine political bribery.</p> <p>Much Western ink has been spilled trying to figure out the East, but few journalists approach the subject with T. R. Reid's familiarity and insight. Not until we understand the differences between Eastern and Western perceptions of what constitutes success and personal happiness will we be able to engage successfully, politically and economically, with those whose moral center is governed by Confucian doctrine. Fascinating and immensely readable, Confucius Lives Next Door prods us to think about what lessons we might profitably take from the "Asian Way"--and what parts of it we want to avoid.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to love?to keep our minds in a happy mood?when life is complex, difficult, and, often, disappointing? Bestselling author and beloved teacher Sylvia Boorstein asked herself these questions when she started to write this inspiring new book. The result is her best work to date, offering warm, wise, and helpful ways we can experience happiness even when the odds are against us.</p> <p>As Boorstein has discovered in more than three decades of practice as a professional psychotherapist, the secret to happiness lies in actively cultivating our capacity to connect with kindness: with ourselves; with friends, family, colleagues; with those we may not know well; and even with those we may not like. She draws from the heart of Buddhist teachings to show how Wise Effort, Wise Mindfulness, and Wise Concentration can lead us away from anger, anxiety, and confusion, and into calmness, clarity, and the joy of living in the present. These qualities strengthen our ability to meet encounters of every kind with balance and intelligence, providing us with a grounded sense of true contentment.</p> <p>Happiness Is an Inside Job resonates with the knowledge of a psychotherapist, the compassion of a spiritual teacher, and the wisdom of a grandmother. Boorstein’s vivid stories capture our minds and our hearts, and the simple exercises she suggests can be done while you read.</p> <p>This beautiful book is comforting and reminds us that life is a shared journey, that our hearts truly do want to console and love our fellow sojourners, and that living happily is indeed the best way to live.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>Lauren Artress reintroduces the ancient labyrinth, a walking meditation that trancends the limits of still meditation, and shows us the possibilities it brings for renewal and change.</strong></p> <p>'Walking the Labyrinth' has reemerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and a powerful tool for transformation. This walking meditation is an archetype, a mystical ritual found in all religious traditions. It quiets the mind and opens the soul. <strong>Walking a Sacred Path</strong> explores the historical origins of this divine imprint and shares the discoveries of modern day seekers. It shows us the potential of the Labyrinth to inspire change and renewal, and serves as a guide to help us develop the higher level of human awareness we need to survive in the twenty-first century.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>Unlock the Fountain of Prosperity Inside You!</strong><br /> “I truly believe Jim Rohn is an extraordinary human being whose philosophy can enhance the quality of life for anyone.” <strong>ーAnthony Robbins</strong></p> <p>“Few men are endowed with Jim Rohn’s ability to motivate and effect changes in other human beings.” <strong>ーTom Hopkins</strong></p> <p>“Jim Rohn . . . is one of the most profound thinkers and mind expanding individuals I’ve ever had a chance to listen to.” <strong>ー Les Brown</strong></p> <p>“Jim Rohn is a master motivatorーhe has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference . . . The world would be a better place if everyone heard my friend Jim Rohn.” <strong>ーMark Victor Hansen</strong></p> <p>You don’t have to choose between wealth and happinessーthey spring from the same fountain of abundance. With this book, you’ll discover the seven essential strategies you need for success:</p> <p>・Unleash the Power of Goals<br /> ・Seek Knowledge<br /> ・Learn the Miracle of Personal Development<br /> ・Control Your Finances<br /> ・Master Time<br /> ・Surround Yourself with Winners<br /> ・Learn the Art of Living Well</p> <p>Author Jim Rohn’s philosophy has helped millions change their lives for the better. Find out what it can do for you!</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir <em>Duty,</em> a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.</p> <p>Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Many despair that they are too big and too hard to reform.</p> <p>Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental organizationsーthe CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defenseーhe offers us the ultimate insider’s look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed, which is by turns heartening and inspiring and always instructive.</p> <p>With practical, nuanced advice on tailoring reform to the operative culture (we see how Gates worked within the system to increase diversity at Texas A&M); effecting change within committees; engaging the power of compromise (“In the real world of bureaucratic institutions, you almost never get all you want when you want it”); and listening and responding to your team, Gates brings the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to civic duty to inspire others to lead desperately needed change.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America.</strong></p> <p>The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The grifter classーmade up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their biddingーhas been growing in power, and the crisis was only one terrifying manifestation of how they’ve hijacked America’s political and economic life.</p> <p>Matt Taibbi has combined deep sources, trailblazing reportage, and provocative analysis to create the most lucid, emotionally galvanizing account yet written of this ongoing American crisis. He offers fresh reporting on the backroom deals of the bailout; tells the story of Goldman Sachs, the “vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity”; and uncovers the hidden commodities bubble that transferred billions of dollars to Wall Street while creating food shortages around the world.</p> <p>This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the labyrinthine inner workings of this country, and the profound consequences for us all.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>**“A fascinating survey of the digital age . . . An eye-opening paean to possibility.” ー<em>The Boston Globe</em></p> <p>“Mr. Shirky writes cleanly and convincingly about the intersection of technological innovation and social change.” ー<em>New York Observer</em></p> <p>An extraordinary exploration of how technology can empower social and political organizers**</p> <p>For the first time in history, the tools for cooperating on a global scale are not solely in the hands of governments or institutions. The spread of the internet and mobile phones are changing how people come together and get things doneーand sparking a revolution that, as Clay Shirky shows, is changing what we do, how we do it, and even who we are. Here, we encounter a whoman who loses her phone and recruits an army of volunteers to get it back from the person who stole it. A dissatisfied airline passenger who spawns a national movement by taking her case to the web. And a handful of kids in Belarus who create a political protest that the state is powerless to stop. <em>Here Comes Everybody</em> is a revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant chronicler.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>A classic, personal work of self-examination from the bestselling author of <em>The Return of the Prodigal Son,</em> hailed as “one of the world’s greatest spiritual writers” by <em>Christianity Today</em></strong></p> <p>This is Henri Nouwen’s secret journal. It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being lovedーeven his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote a daily spiritual imperative to himself that emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters.</p> <p>For more than eight years, Nouwen felt that his journal was too raw and private to share with others. Instead, he published <em>The Return of the Prodigal Son</em> to express some of the insights gained during his mental and spiritual crisis. But then friends asked him, “Why keep your anguish hidden from the many people who have been nurtured by your writing? Wouldn’t it be a consolation to know about the fierce inner battle that lies underneath your spiritual insights?”</p> <p>For the countless men and women who live through the pain of broken relationships or suffer from the loss of a loved one, this book about the inner voice of love offers new courage, new hope, and even new life.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>In her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in <strong>A Thousand Names for Joy</strong>, she encourages us to discover the freedom that lives on the other side of inquiry.Stephen Mitchellーthe renowned translator of the Tao Te Chingーselected provocative excerpts from that ancient text as a stimulus for Katie to talk about the most essential issues that face us all: life and death, good and evil, love, work, and fulfillment. The result is a book that allows the timeless insights of the Tao Te Ching to resonate anew for us today, while offering a vivid and illuminating glimpse into the life of someone who for twenty yearsーever since she “woke up to reality” one morning in 1986ーhas been living what Lao-tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago.Katie’s profound, lighthearted wisdom is not theoretical; it is absolutely authentic. That is what makes this book so compelling. It’s a portrait of a woman who is imperturbably joyous, whether she is dancing with her infant granddaughter or finds that her house has been emptied out by burglars, whether she stands before a man about to kill her or embarks on the adventure of walking to the kitchen, whether she learns that she is going blind, flunks a “How Good a Lover Are You?” test, or is diagnosed with cancer. With her stories of total ease in all circumstances, Katie does more than describe the awakened mind; she lets you see it, feel it, in action. And she shows you how that mind is yours as well.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>Based on brain-imaging science, <em>Healing Anxiety and Depression</em> reveals the major anxiety and depression centers of the brain, offers tools to determine the specific type of disorder, and provides a comprehensive program for treating both anxiety and depression.</strong></p> <p>Dr. Daniel Amenーa pioneer in uncovering the connections between the brain and behaviorーpresents his revolutionary approach to treating anxiety and depressive disorders. Based on brain scienceーand featuring treatment plans that include medication, diet, supplements, exercise, and social and therapeutic supportーthis groundbreaking book will help you conquer these potentially devastating disorders and change the way you think about anxiety and depression.</p> <p><em>Healing Anxiety and Depression</em>:<br /> ? Reveals 7 different types of anxiety and depression<br /> ? Provides proven-effective treatment plans for each type<br /> ? Explains the source of anxiety and depression through brain images<br /> ? Includes a self-diagnostic test to determine <em>your</em> type</p> <p><strong>“Help and hope for anyone who has struggled with anxiety and depression.”ーJohn Gray, Ph.D.</strong></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>From not enough space and too many things to not knowing what color to paint the living room walls, many of us struggle with our homes. Now Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, frequent makeover expert on HGTV’s Mission: Organization and Small Spaces, Big Style, shares the do-it-yourself strategies that have enabled his clients and fans to transform their apartments into well-organized, beautiful places that suit their style and budget.</p> <p>Week by week, <em>Apartment Therapy</em> will guide you to treat common problems, eliminate clutter, and revamp even the tiniest space. Here is an eight-step process that includes:</p> <p>? A therapeutic questionnaire to help you get in touch with your personal taste and diagnose your home’s physical, emotional, and energy flow issues<br /> ? A prescription with recommendations for each room based on your needs and lifestyle?including tips on how to use color, lighting, and accessories<br /> ? A treatment plan, including regular maintenance schedules to ensure the ongoing health of your space<br /> ? Illustrations of floor plans and decorative examples that allow you to visualize concepts before you begin</p> <p>With surprising ease and without elaborate professional help, <em>Apartment Therapy</em> will help you clear a path through disorder and indecision?to reveal a home you’ll love.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong><em>New York Times</em> bestseller ・ This groundbreaking book from New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., introduces readers to his pioneering, science-based meditation practice.</strong></p> <p><em>Aware</em> provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's day-to-day life.</p> <p>An in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation's effectiveness, this book teaches readers how to harness the power of the principle "Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows." Siegel reveals how developing a Wheel of Awareness practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention can literally help you grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in your life.</p> <p>Whether you have no experience with a reflective practice or are an experienced practitioner, <em>Aware</em> is a hands-on guide that will enable you to become more focused and present, as well as more energized and emotionally resilient in the face of stress and the everyday challenges life throws your way.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>Have you ever walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? Do you avoid certain family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering tension that you can't figure out how to address?</strong></p> <p><strong>Now, finally, there's a solution: a new framework that frees you from the trap of unproductive conflict and pointless arguing forever.</strong></p> <p>If the threat of raised voices, emotional outbursts, and public discord makes you want to hide under the conference room table, you're not alone. Conflict, or the fear of it, can be exhausting. But as this powerful book argues, conflict doesn't have to be unpleasant. In fact, properly channeled, conflict can be the most valuable tool we have at our disposal for deepening relationships, solving problems, and coming up with new ideas.</p> <p>As the mastermind behind some of the highest-performing teams at Amazon, Twitter, and Slack, Buster Benson spent decades facilitating hard conversations in stressful environments. In this book, Buster reveals the psychological underpinnings of awkward, unproductive conflict and the critical habits anyone can learn to avoid it. Armed with a deeper understanding of how arguments, you'll be able to:</p> <p>Remain confident when you're put on the spot</p> <p>Diffuse tense moments with a few strategic questions</p> <p>Facilitate creative solutions even when your team has radically different perspectives</p> <p><em>Why Are We Yelling</em> will shatter your assumptions about what makes arguments productive. You'll find yourself having fewer repetitive, predictable fights once you're empowered to identify your biases, listen with an open mind, and communicate well.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>**The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency</p> <p>"[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." ー<em>The Washington Post</em></p> <p>"Fascinating." ーFareed Zakaria, <em>Newsweek</em>**</p> <p>In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens.</p> <p><em>The Ascent of Money</em> reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company</strong></p> <p>In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he couldn't accept American Express cards. Frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting credit card payments, McKelvey joined his friend Jack Dorsey (the cofounder of Twitter) to launch Square, a startup that would enable small merchants to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones. With no expertise or experience in the world of payments, they approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective, questioning the industry's assumptions, experimenting and innovating their way through early challenges, and achieving widespread adoption from merchants small and large.</p> <p>But just as Square was taking off, Amazon launched a similar product, marketed it aggressively, and undercut Square on price. For most ordinary startups, this would have spelled the end. Instead, less than a year later, Amazon was in retreat and soon discontinued its service. How did Square beat the most dangerous company on the planet? Was it just luck? These questions motivated McKelvey to study what Square had done differently from all the other companies Amazon had killed. He eventually found the key: a strategy he calls the Innovation Stack.</p> <p>McKelvey's fascinating and humorous stories of Square's early days are blended with historical examples of other world-changing companies built on the Innovation Stack to reveal a pattern of ground-breaking, competition-proof entrepreneurship that is rare but repeatable.</p> <p><em>The Innovation Stack</em> is a thrilling business narrative that's much bigger than the story of Square. It is an irreverent first-person look inside the world of entrepreneurship, and a call to action for all of us to find the entrepreneur within ourselves and identify and fix unsolved problems--one crazy idea at a time.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love.</strong></p> <p>Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation <em>Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion,</em> Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion’s hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. <em>The Conscious Closet</em> shows exactly what we can do about it.</p> <p>Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, <em>The Conscious Closet</em> is packed with the vital tools you need. Elizabeth delves into fresh research on fashion’s impacts and shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. Inspired by her own revelatory journey getting off the fast-fashion treadmill, Elizabeth shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams.</p> <p><em>The Conscious Closet</em> is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earthーfashionーinto a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they’re made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In <em>The Conscious Closet,</em> Elizabethshows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes againーwithout sacrificing the environment, our morals, or our style in the process.</p> <p>*Michelle Goldberg, <em>Newsweek/The Daily Beast</em></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>**One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley!</p> <p>The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America**</p> <p>Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government--and always had been--and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University. It is also a story of a community that started off remarkably homogeneous and tight-knit and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective hubris that has led to astonishing triumphs as well as devastating second-order effects.</p> <p>Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, from the justly famous to the unjustly obscure, across four generations of explosive growth in the Valley, from the forties to the present, O'Mara has wrestled one of the most fateful developments in modern American history into magnificent narrative form. She is on the ground with all of the key tech companies, chronicling the evolution in their offerings through each successive era, and she has a profound fingertip feel for the politics of the sector and its relation to the larger cultural narrative about tech as it has evolved over the years. Perhaps most impressive, O'Mara has penetrated the inner kingdom of tech venture capital firms, the insular and still remarkably old-boy world that became the cockpit of American capitalism and the crucible for bringing technological innovation to market, or not.</p> <p>The transformation of big tech into the engine room of the American economy and the nexus of so many of our hopes and dreams--and, increasingly, our nightmares--can be understood, in Margaret O'Mara's masterful hands, as the story of one California valley. As her majestic history makes clear, its fate is the fate of us all.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Do you hate cramming all of your errands into the weekend?</p> <p>Do you resent having to beg permission to watch your kid’s weekday soccer game?</p> <p>Are you tired of seeing people who aren’t very good at their jobs get promoted because they arrive early and stay late?</p> <p>There’s got to be a better wayーand there is! Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson show that <em>everyone</em> benefits when we change the focus from hours to outcomes. It’s just that our traditional definition of workーMonday through Friday, nine to fiveーdoesn’t make sense in the always-on global economy.</p> <p>So, Ressler and Thompson created the Results-Only Work Environment. In a ROWE, <em>you</em> control when, where, and how long you work. As long as you meet your objectives, the way you spend your time is entirely up to you.</p> <p>Suddenly, work isn’t a place you <em>go</em>, it’s a thing you <em>do</em>. In a ROWE, there are no mandatory meetings or fixed schedules. You stop doing any activity that wastes time, and no one criticizes you for “leaving early” or “coming in late.” If you do your best work at midnight or on Sundays, go for it!</p> <p>ROWE sounds like a fantasy, but Ressler and Thompson have already made it a reality at Best Buy, a Fortune 100 company. They have proven that ROWE not only makes employees happier but also delivers <em>better results</em>. And now the authors are helping companies implement ROWE nationwide.</p> <p>Infused with passion and common sense, <em>Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It</em> will change the way you think about your job, your company, and your quality of life. Read it and join the revolution!</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>Easy-to-follow mindfulness exercises you can do every day to fundamentally transform your relationship with time.</strong></p> <p>We’re all struggling to find time in our lives, but somehow there’s never enough to go around. We’re too tired to think, too wired to focus, less efficient than we want to be, and guilty about not getting enough time with our loved ones.</p> <p>We all know that we feel starved for time, but what are we actually doing about it? Precious little. In <em>The Art of Stopping Time, New York Times</em> bestselling author Pedram Shojai guides us towards success with what he calls <em>Time Prosperity</em>ーhaving the time to accomplish what you want in life without feeling compressed, stressed, overburdened, or hurried.</p> <p>So how do we achieve this <em>Time Prosperity?</em> We learn to <em>Stop Time.</em> To do that, Shojai walks us though a 100-day Gong, which is based on the Chinese practice of designating an amount of time each day to perform a specific task. The ritual helps you become mindful, train your mind, instill new habits, and fundamentally transform your relationship with time. We can find moments of mental awareness while in the shower, eating a snack, listening to podcasts, and even while binge-watching our favorite TV shows.</p> <p>He shares how to use Gongs to reprogram your habits, reduce stress, increase energy, exercise the ancient practice of mindfulness, and become a master of your time. Whether you do one per day, a bunch at a time, or read the whole book in one sitting, practicing the Gongs is a dedicated act of self-love that snaps us out of our daily trance and brings the light of awareness to our consciousness. The more we practice, the more we wake up, and the better off we are.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>In <em>The Secret Handshake</em>, top corporate consultant and USC management professor Kathleen Reardon explores and reveals the hidden rules on the ins and outs of corporate politics that you won’t find outlined in any employee handbook.<br /> Based on hundreds of candid interviews with executives at Fortune 500 companies who have achieved their goals and joined the inner circle, <em>The Secret Handshake</em> lays bare the unstated conventions that govern and shape corporate hierarchies. Taking readers inside boardrooms to learn firsthand how the top decision-makers view and assess the employees under them, it offers invaluable advice on such career-building tactics and skills as getting noticed, networking, persuading others, knowing which battles to fight, and mastering the art of the quid pro quo. For all those who aspire to be part of the decision-making body of their organization, <em>The Secret Handshake</em> is the ultimate intelligence report on whom to trust and whom to watch out for, how to manage the inevitable conflicts that will arise, and how to read between the corporate lines.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>The essential writings of the 20th century’s most influential economist, collected in one volume</strong></p> <p>Today, John Maynard Keynes is best remembered for his pioneering development of macroeconomics, and for his advocacy of active fiscal and monetary government policy. This uniquely comprehensive selection of his work, edited by Keynes’s award-winning biographer Robert Skidelsky, aims to make his work more accessible to both students of economics and the general reader. All of Keynes’s major economic work is included, yet the selection goes beyond pure economics. Here too are Keynes’s essential writings on philosophy, social theory and policy, and his futurist vision of a world without work. As Robert Skidelsky writes in his introduction: “People talk of the need for a new Keynes. But the old Keynes still has superlative wisdom to offer for a new age.”</p> <p>For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>“BRAD HELPED US DEVELOP THE TOOLS TO PICK A-PLAYER LEADERS AT GE.” ーJACK WELCH</strong></p> <p>Great companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent; the more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Of course, that’s easier said than done. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high performers.</p> <p>But companies that have used Brad Smart’s Topgrading system over the past two decades have boosted their hiring success rates dramaticallyーsometimes even to 90%.</p> <p>Three huge problems account for the typical poor results in hiring: dishonesty (via deceptive r?sum?s), incomplete information (via shallow interviews), and lack of verifiability (via biased references). <em>Topgrading</em> shows how to solve all three problems. Instead of hiring by your gut reactions to r?sum?s and interviews, you can start using a scientifically honed process that compels candidates to be totally honest.</p> <p>Smart, one of the world’s foremost experts on hiring, has personally helped hundreds of companies double, triple, or even quadruple their hiring success rates. His clients have ranged from global giants such as General Electric and Honeywell to midsize and small businesses in every field imaginable, and to not-for-profits such as the American Heart Association. And hundreds of thousands of readers have applied the lessons and tools of the first two editions of <em>Topgrading</em>.</p> <p>The Topgrading system makes hiring easier, faster, and more successful than any other process. And it works at every level, from the front lines to senior management.</p> <p>For the first time in seven years, Smart has fully revised and updated <em>Topgrading</em> with many new tools, techniques, and case studies. This edition now features 40 companies of all sizes, across a wide range of industries and home countries. It’s the most advanced and useful version of <em>Topgrading</em> ever. The third edition includes:</p> <ul> <li>Simplified Topgrading methods for entry-level jobs.</li> <li>The new Topgrading Snapshot, which screens out weak candidates in just 15 seconds.</li> <li>The latest version of the acclaimed Topgrading Interview script.</li> <li>Case studies from 35 companies not featured in any previous edition.</li> <li>Many additional innovations created by Topgraders.</li> </ul> <p><em>Topgrading</em> isn’t just about hiring and promotingーit’s also about developing talent. It enables leaders to reward their A Players, coach their Bs to become As, and weed out the Cs who are beyond improvement.</p> <p>Many great leaders know that Topgrading works. Find out how it can help your company gain a big competitive advantage.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>**The instant <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller<br /> #1 <em>Wall Street Journal</em> Business Bestseller<br /> Instant <em>Washington Post</em> Bestseller</p> <p>"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --<em>The Wall Street Journal</em></p> <p>Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of <em>Drive</em> and <em>To Sell Is Human</em>, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home.**</p> <p>Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork.</p> <p>Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In W<em>hen: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing</em>, Pink shows that timing is really a science.</p> <p>Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married?</p> <p>In <em>When</em>, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and <em>New York</em>’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversationsーfeaturing all-new advice!</strong></p> <p>There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green doesーand in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when</p> <p>? coworkers push their work on youーthen take credit for it<br /> ? you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all”<br /> ? you’re being micromanagedーor not being managed at all<br /> ? you catch a colleague in a lie<br /> ? your boss seems unhappy with your work<br /> ? your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal<br /> ? you got drunk at the holiday party</p> <p><strong>Praise for <em>Ask a Manager</em></strong></p> <p>“A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”<strong>ー<em>Booklist</em> (starred review)</strong></p> <p>“The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”<strong>ー<em>Library Journal</em> (starred review)</strong></p> <p>“I am a <em>huge</em> fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplacesーand to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”<strong>ーRobert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of <em>The No Asshole Rule</em> and</strong> <em><strong>The Asshole Survival Guide</strong></em></p> <p>“<em>Ask a Manager</em> is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”ー<strong>Erin Lowry, author of</strong> <em><strong>Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together</strong></em></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and <em>New York</em>’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversationsーfeaturing all-new advice!</strong></p> <p>There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green doesーand in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when</p> <p>? coworkers push their work on youーthen take credit for it<br /> ? you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all”<br /> ? you’re being micromanagedーor not being managed at all<br /> ? you catch a colleague in a lie<br /> ? your boss seems unhappy with your work<br /> ? your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal<br /> ? you got drunk at the holiday party</p> <p><strong>Praise for <em>Ask a Manager</em></strong></p> <p>“A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”<strong>ー<em>Booklist</em> (starred review)</strong></p> <p>“The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”<strong>ー<em>Library Journal</em> (starred review)</strong></p> <p>“I am a <em>huge</em> fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplacesーand to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”<strong>ーRobert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of <em>The No Asshole Rule</em> and</strong> <em><strong>The Asshole Survival Guide</strong></em></p> <p>“<em>Ask a Manager</em> is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”ー<strong>Erin Lowry, author of</strong> <em><strong>Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together</strong></em></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。