Download or read book Brainchains written by Dr Theo Compernolle MD Phd and published by Compublications. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book "BRAINCHAINS" you discover your brain, to unleash its full potential in a hyperconnected, multitasking world Prof Dr Theo Compernolle studied over 600 publications, surveyed 1200 professionals and wrote another easy readable and practical book.As a medical doctor, neuropsychiatrist and scholar with decades of experience in medical schools and business schools in many countries, he integrates science from many domains. What is your most important tool to be successful as a professional? Your brain! What do you know about your thinking brain? Nothing. The sad result: a majority of knowledge workers ruin the performance of their magnificent brain, and obstruct the matchless potential of their brain-ICT collaboration (Information and Communication Technologies). Taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of your brain you will also get the best results from your brain-ICT synergy. -Part 1: How your reflecting brain, your archiving brain and your reflex brain influence your thinking -Part 2: The BrainChains: how always being connected, multitasking, stress and lack of sleep ruin your performance -Part 3: Practical tools and tips to unchain your brain -The fifth BrainChain; "Badly Designed Offices" about disastrous open offices is a FREE BOOKLET at www.brainchains.org "Eye-opener! A great read for all of us who are "juggling-it-all," work and family, are interested in increasing productivity and to get the most of our brains AND our smart phones.Marjan Inbar, Senior Communications Consultant, NY. USA ..".quite a feat to integrate research from so many domains and turn them in a very readable, inspiring, useful often surprising and even stirring book... not only the problems... but also the solutions..."Daniel Blumberg, Principal and Investor, NY ..". a compelling, meticulously researched, and cleverly illustrated case against the twin tyrannies of hyperconnectivity and multitasking... also shows how to free ourselves from them" Nelida and Jorge Colapinto (Psychologists). Wynnewood. PA. USA "Read this book if you'd like to learn how to master information technology, rather than have it master you and letting it get in the way of doing your best work." Prof Peter Cappelli.G.W. Taylor Professor of Management. The Wharton School. Philadelphia. USA ..".Multitasking is impossible! Understanding and accepting this, helped me to refocus on tasks which matters and to rediscover my creativity. I used the short MULTITASKING test in my meetings in our global organization. It's exciting to see everywhere the "aha"-epiphany!"Dr. Peter zum Hebel, Vice President, Manufacturing, Kemira Germany ..". a revelation for me and helped me better understand why people do what they do in a health & safety context. An essential and easy read for practical people, who want to know how people work and what can be practically done to maximize their efficiency and reduce human error"Malc Staves, Global Health & Safety Director, L'Oreal .Paris France ..". an easy to read "page turner..". which I feel everyone in the "connected" world should read"Dave Scott President Barco, Inc. USA ..".everybody is complaining about a continuous input overload. Yet the real quandary is: while we are continuously flooded by the breakers of redundant signals we do suffer from a lack of relevant information. Theo Compernolle describes and analyzes this state of affairs and its impact on our daily life and our habitual and creative performance."Gottlieb GUNTERN, President of CREANDO - International Foundation for Creativity & Leadership, Switzerland ..".This book shows me a so powerful human brain ... Looking inside into my brain, I get my idea to have my life back under my own control... and recapture time to love and be loved..."Wei TAO, Business Information Manager of DSM China

Download or read book Brain Games written by Stephanie Drimmer and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to train your brain with superfun activities, mystifying mazes, and cryptic codes. You will uncover hidden messages, hack your mind and learn how to harness your creative brain with imagination-boosting challenges. -- From back cover.

Download or read book Brain Games written by Stephanie Drimmer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An activity book that acts as a companion to the TV series Brain games.

Download or read book The Mammoth Book Of Brain Games written by Gareth Moore and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun programme - featuring logic, observation, number and word puzzles, in categories such as reasoning, concentration and speed - that will help to build new brain skills in just a few minutes each day. At the end of each week, a 're-thinking' page features a range of suggestions and ideas to help improve your memory and unleash your creativity, challenging you to make better use of your brain in your daily life. An exceptionally wide range of content - 78 entirely different types of puzzle, none of which repeats within a quarter of a year - provides the novelty that helps a brain to thrive, while puzzles of the same type are carefully arranged in order of increasing difficulty through the book. A scoring system helps to keep you motivated as you improve week by week, with the final page of each week's puzzles offering you the chance to calculate your brain rank as another way to keep pushing yourself. Praise for The Mammoth Book of Fun Brain Training: 'The puzzles are fresh and lively' - Will Shortz

Download or read book Learning How to Learn written by Barbara Oakley, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can help their kids master these skills as well. Now in this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying. We all have the tools to learn what might not seem to come naturally to us at first--the secret is to understand how the brain works so we can unlock its power. This book explains: Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process How to avoid "rut think" in order to think outside the box Why having a poor memory can be a good thing The value of metaphors in developing understanding A simple, yet powerful, way to stop procrastinating Filled with illustrations, application questions, and exercises, this book makes learning easy and fun.

Download or read book The Brain Fitness Book written by Rita Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced, scientific, and practical approach to monitoring and maintaining your brain's agility and mental health. How do you expand your brain's skills? How do you keep your brain working at its best as it ages? Bookshelves are full of writing by charismatic authors claiming they have found the answer, whether they are neuroscientists, psychologists, or mystics. The Brain Fitness Book looks at the well-established science and recent scientific revelations, and offers a well-balanced, clear, and colorful practical guide to keeping your brain fit. First, it shows you how your brain works--explaining how memories are stored and recalled, for instance, and how different parts of your brain have different functions. It then gives you practical advice and a whole range of exercises to improve memory and mental agility and keep your brain working to its maximum potential. The book includes mental exercises and activities, featuring challenges from logic puzzles and visual reasoning to language learning and sensory exercises, stimulating as many parts of the brain as possible. As well as mental stimulation, the book highlights the role and importance of sleep, a healthy diet, and physical exercise. An agile, healthy brain is not only less prone to age-related decline, it can also conquer stress, anxiety, and the risk of depression. Keep challenging your mind in new ways with The Brain Fitness Book and maintain your brain.

Download or read book It s Only Logical written by Dr. Gareth Moore and published by Hungry Tomato ®. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mood Cure written by Julia Ross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a part of the bad mood epidemic? Here are the answers you've been looking for! Julia Ross’s plan provides a natural cure for your mood. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents breakthrough solutions to overcoming depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, and other negative emotional states that are diminishing the quality of our lives. Her comprehensive program is based on the use of four mood-building amino acids and other surprisingly potent nutrient supplements, plus a diet rich in good-mood foods such as protein, healthy fat, and certain key vegetables. Including an individualized mood-type questionnaire, The Mood Cure has all the tools to help you get started today and feel better tomorrow.

Download or read book It s Only Logical written by Dr. Gareth Moore and published by Hungry Tomato ™. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love juggling numbers and playing with words? These puzzles and brain-bafflers will keep you buzzing! Use language, math, and logic to... ? solve figure sequences and tricky problems ? crack codes ? answer riddles ? play lateral-thinking games ...and lots more. Devised by an expert on brain training, these challenges with words, numbers, and lateral thinking will exercise your mind and imagination! There are handy tips if you need help, plus an answer key at the back!

Download or read book Chains on the Brain written by David Goff and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chains On The Brain is an exploration into the discovery of the self-imposed limitations that exist in our lives. D.Goff provides methods to identify and release the chains so that you may live the life you were born to live.

Download or read book Focused Fundraising written by Christopher M. Cannon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintain your focus, your productivity, and your sanity in the contemporary fundraising environment In Focused Fundraising: How to Raise Your Sights and Overcome Overload, accomplished nonprofit management strategists and leaders Christopher Cannon and Michael Felberbaum deliver a must-read combination of the latest mindfulness techniques and operational strategies that will equip you to succeed in an increasingly chaotic, noisy, and confusing fundraising environment. You’ll find concrete strategies to navigate the challenges of modern fundraising, including technology changes, scarce resources, and shifting donor expectations. In the book, you’ll also find: Hands-on skills for sharpening your focus while those around you are giving in to endless distractions An insightful combination of big-picture views and micro-considerations that offer a practical roadmap to set and stick with your priorities Practical applications of tried and true mindfulness and nonprofit strategy research that you can implement immediately in your organization An essential, desk-side resource for nonprofit board members, managers, leaders, and team members, Focused Fundraising is a one-of-a-kind toolbox designed to help you tackle the challenges you face every day.

Download or read book From Accidents to Zero written by Andrew Sharman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions. However, there is still a gulf between these two groups where engagement, communication and shared understanding can be found lacking. From Accidents to Zero opens up the field of safety culture and breaks it down into bite-sized pieces to facilitate new, critical thought and inspire practical action. Based on the concept of creating safety, as opposed to just preventing accidents, each of the 26 chapters in this user-friendly book includes explanation, commentary, reflections and practical activities designed to systematically and sustainably improve workplace safety culture. Core topics range from behaviour to values, daily rituals to unsafe acts, felt leadership to trust. Andrew Sharman's practical guide blends current academic thinking with authoritative guidance and sets up the opportunity for all parts of the organization to close the gap by providing very clear steps to thinking and acting differently. It sparks insight into how both traditional methods and novel approaches can be brought to life in real world situations. From Accidents to Zero offers a clear route to culture change through over one hundred pragmatic ideas to motivate and lead people, influence behaviour and drive a positive evolution in workplace safety.

Download or read book Citronelle s Rise Fall 2 Rising to Power written by don lehman jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chef Felicien craves a real Maitre'd to ensure that his food-art and Guests are served properly. Instead Corporate provides him with a series of managers that regularly violate the basic tenets of the Fine Dining Experience. Burned out from the abuse, Felicien retreats into his Kitchen. Underestimating his power, Don the Waiter feels there is nothing that he can do to protect Service. Although Brain continues to spread his web of misconceptions, the Universe places Don face-to-face with Reality. Heart's chains break and Body stands up for herself. Rising to Power is the second book in the trilogy, Citronelle's Rise & Fall. The trio of books chronicles the real trials and tribulations of Citronelle, a popular gourmet restaurant in Santa Barbara. The author has worked as a waiter in Santa Barbara's Fine Dining scene for over thirty years. He has written many other books, including Butter on Table 7 and The Divine Breakdown.

Download or read book The Open Office Is Naked written by Theo Compernolle and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because modern ZOO-directors know more about the inborn needs of their animals, than company-directors about the innate needs of people... the cages in modern zoos are better for animals, than modern offices for people. Working in an open plan office reduces your intellectual productivity very significantly. If try to keep up your concentration, you pay the price of spending more energy, having more stress and leaving the office more exhausted than in an office with less distraction. The negative impact of these distractions that are outside of your control, is worsened by the distractions that you should control yourself: especially email, social media and surfing the web. To know if your office is fit for the work you do is very simple: do the telephone test. If you need attention and concentration to do intellectual work, and you can hear other people making phone calls... then you are in the wrong office. You're a knowledge worker or a manager of these brainworkers. But what do you know that's really practically useful about your most important instrument for your work and success; your brain? For 99% of the professionals the answer is: NOTHING! What do you know about the effect on your brain, your intellectual productivity and wellbeing, of the improper use of your wonderful information and communication technology, to always be online, multitasking, constant stress, lack of sleep and ... poorly designed open offices? In my book "BRAINCHAINS. Discover your brain and unleash its full potential in a hyperconnected multitasking world" I explain some essentials about your thinking brain, the ways you unknowingly chain it and the solutions (see www.brainchains.info) . As a result of the success of this book, I am all the time invited by companies and other organizations, for workshops and presentations about these "BrainChains." Then, too often I am kindly requested not to talk about the negative impact of open offices, a request I usually ignore, because the issue is much too important for the productivity and health of modern office workers. I learned in the past five years that most executives are totally ignorant about the crystal-clear scientific conclusions about the negative effects of open offices... or do they knowingly choose a very short term ostrich policy, even if it undermines the long term productivity and wellbeing of their employees. I prefer to choose the ignorance-hypothesis. Therefore, in this booklet I summarize the research of others and myself and give my own conclusions. Originally, this was a chapter of my book "BrainChains." In the final stages of writing "BrainChains" however, I realized that my book is about counterproductive issues and behaviors that can you can and should control yourself, while your office is outside your influence. Therefore I removed the chapter and turned it into this separate booklet. To help you to spread the knowledge, this booklet is FREE TO COPY AND DISTRIBUTE under the Creative Commons Copyright rules, but please respect the many hours of work I have invested in researching the subject and writing the text, by properly referring to the source when you distribute this text.

Download or read book The Cognitive Sciences written by Carolyn P. Sobel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engagingly written introduction to the cognitive sciences examines the historical and contemporary issues and research findings of the core cognitive science disciplines, including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, language, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. For each of the core disciplines of cognitive science, the historical development and classic research studies are presented in one chapter and current research development and issues follow in a second chapter. The student is given insight into the way each discipline has contributed to the growth of cognitive science and what directions research is taking in the future. This text assumes no background on the part of the reader.

Download or read book Getting Things Done for Teens written by David Allen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of the business classic Getting Things Done for teenage readers The most interconnected generation in history is navigating unimaginable amounts of social pressure, both in personal and online interactions. Very little time, focus, or education is being spent teaching and coaching this generation how to navigate this unprecedented amount of "stuff" entering their lives each day. How do we help the overloaded and distracted next generation deal with increasing complexity and help them not only survive, but thrive? How do we help them experience stress-free productivity and gain momentum and confidence? How do we help them achieve autonomy, so that they can confidently take on whatever comes their way? Getting Things Done for Teens will train the next generation to overcome these obstacles and flourish by coaching them to use the internationally renowned Getting Things Done methodology. In its two editions, David Allen's classic has been translated into dozens of languages and sold over a million copies, establishing itself as one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. Getting Things Done for Teens will adapt its lessons by offering a fresh take on the GTD methodology, framing life as a game to play and GTD as the game pieces and strategies to play your most effective game. It presents GTD in a highly visual way and frames the methodology as not only as a system for being productive in school, but as a set of tools for everyday life. Getting Things Done for Teens is the how-to manual for the next generation--a strategic guidebook for creating the conditions for a fruitful and effective future.

Download or read book The Listener written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: