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"Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected is a fascinating look at how we can handle and harness surprise in our work, relationships, and everyday lives. Pop Quiz! Do you prefer when: A) Things go according to plan? B) When the unexpected happens? Most of us pick control and predictability. Yet research reveals a counterintuitive truth: surprise is the key that unlocks growth, innovation, and connection. It is also the secret ingredient in our best memories. Through colorful narratives and compelling scientific findings, authors Tania Luna and Dr. LeeAnn Renninger shine a light on the world's least understood and most intriguing emotion. They reveal how shifting our perception of surprise lets us thrive in the face of uncertainty. And they show us how surprise acts as a shortcut that turns a typical product into a meaningful experience, a good idea into a viral one, awkward small talk into engaging conversation, and daily life into an adventure. "-- "Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected is a fascinating look at how we can handle and harness surprise in our work, relationships, and everyday lives"--

Surprise --- Emotions --- Adaptability (Psychology)

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Pourquoi faut-il se préoccuper de ceux qui sont trop sensibles et trop doués ? Tout simplement parce que, dans un parcours professionnel, on gagne toujours à mieux se connaître. Le fonctionnement de la personne sensible et douée la conduit souvent à se sentir décalée et à en souffrir. Intuition, intelligence, sensibilité sont pourtant de vrais atouts. Quelles difficultés l'adulte doué rencontre-t-il au travail et pourquoi ? Quelles sont ses forces, ses fragilités ? Comment trouver sa voie, être accepté et réaliser son potentiel ? Ce livre en forme de portrait sensible donne des clés de compréhension précieuses destinées à tous ceux qui se sentent différents, en situation de mal-être, pour qu'ils reprennent confiance, qu'ils soient mieux compris et retrouvent une perspective professionnelle épanouissante. De nombreux témoignages et des conseils pour tracer sa route, trouver sa place et réussir, tout en étant en cohérence avec ce que l'on est. Arielle Adda est l'une des premières psychologues à s'être intéressées en France aux problématiques des enfants doués. Elle travaille depuis plus de quarante ans avec des enfants comme avec des adultes dans divers centres de consultation, elle a également été la psychologue nationale de Mensa France pendant dix ans. Elle donne de nombreuses conférences et a notamment publié L'Enfant doué. L'intelligence réconciliée. Thierry Brunel est bénévole d'associations depuis trente ans. Diplômé de l'ESSEC, d'un MBA de l'INSEAD et d'une licence de mandarin, il a été pendant vingt ans cadre financier de sociétés cotées en Bourse puis a créé sa propre structure de conseil en investissement. D'abord secrétaire général de Mensa Île-de-France, il a été le premier Français sélectionné pour le Leadership Exchange Ambassador Program (LEAP) de Mensa International, et donne régulièrement depuis des conférences à l'étranger et en France, notamment sur le sujet des adultes doués au travail.

Surdoués --- Satisfaction au travail --- Adaptation (Psychologie) --- Sensibilité (Trait de personnalité) --- Gifted persons --- Job satisfaction --- Adaptability (Psychology)

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Approaching "work" as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism's social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, "gift-like" socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.

Work environment --- Adaptability (Psychology) --- Interpersonal relations. --- Capitalism --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Adaptation (Psychology) --- Adaptive behavior --- Flexibility (Psychology) --- Malleability (Psychology) --- Personality --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects.. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A60 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Economische sociologie --- Adaptability (Psychology). --- Interpersonal relations --- Social aspects --- Capitalism. --- Economic Anthropology. --- Employment. --- Flexible Capitalism. --- Labor. --- Neoliberalism.

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Most individuals who move into leadership positions experience the modern day version of trial by ordeal. It's sink or swim. To reduce the learning curve and create a more effective process, Leader Evolution describes a road map for leadership development, a series of four stages that expand personal competence as well as create a broader impact on the organization or business. Each stage requires unique changes in thinking, perspective taking, and behavior, both those needed to acquire as well as those needed to jettison. The book is a pragmatic approach for self-motived individuals to take control of their professional development by giving them the concepts, tools, techniques, and assignments to develop their leadership effectiveness where it counts the most--on the job. In addition to new and existing managers, the book is ideally suited for technical professionals and leaders in technical organizations looking to develop critical leadership behaviors distinct from technical expertise. These include individuals who are moving on a technical rather than managerial track. The broad application of concepts and techniques also makes this book appealing to organizations developing their leaders as part of broad change initiatives. While the concepts and principles are directed toward the individual for on-the-job application, the book serves as an organizational and leadership development resource for Executive MBA programs as well as a blueprint for in-house leadership development programs.

Leadership. --- adaptability --- alignment --- analytical thinking --- authentic leadership --- change management --- coaching --- competency-based --- credibility --- culture --- emotional intelligence --- high performance organization --- leadership --- leadership development --- leadership style --- leadership training --- management --- mentor --- metacognition --- motivation --- partnership --- professional development --- strategic --- strategy --- strategic thinking --- succession planning --- talent development --- talent management --- teamwork --- technical leadership --- training

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This volume offers radically new ways of thinking about precarious life in the city of Johannesburg. Using case studies as varied as Pentecostal and Zionist churches, brothels, shelters, political movements for change in Zimbabwe, ex-soldiers groups, counseling services and art projects, this volume grapples with the way its predominantly migrant residents navigate the opportunities, challenges, moral orders and relationships in this iconic and complex city. Taking seriously how context shapes meaning the authors use participatory and ethnographic techniques to understand people’s everyday responses to the violence, insecurity and possibilities for change that they face in contemporary Johannesburg.  Read together, the case studies give us new insights into what it means to seek support, to cope and to heal, going beyond what mental health professionals traditionally consider support mechanisms or interventions for those in distress. They develop a notion of healing that sees it as a process and an outcome that is rooted in the world-view of those who live in the city. Throughout the chapters in this book is a sense of everyday insecurity alongside an equally strong sense of optimism, care and a striving for change. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that this book deals very centrally with themes of the struggle for progress, mobility (geographic, material and spiritual), and the sense of possibility and change associated with the City of Gold. Ultimately, the volume demonstrates that coping and healing are both a collective and individual achievement, as well as a economic, psychological, spiritual and material phenomenon shaped by context.

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