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NOW A USA TODAY AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER! What are your limits? Care to break them? To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down. In Elevate, Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles -- or capacities -- that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habits, and find your "why." As we look to elevate ourselves, we mean so much more than beating the competition. After all, our greatest competition is ourselves! We need to find ways to consistently outperform ourselves and our own expectations. Robert Glazer has built a career on accelerating productivity and careers. ELEVATE is based on his five foundational elements necessary for increasing our capacity: Finding Your Why, Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs, Setting Goals and Creating Accountability, Maintaining Health and Wellness, and Establishing Routine and Positive Habits. The key is elevating yourself beyond the edge of your current abilities. Challenge yourself, and the result will inspire others to rise along with you. It's time to break free of your limits.

In The Happiness Track, founder of Fulfillment Daily and science director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University Emma Seppälä draws upon the latest scientific research on resilience, willpower, compassion, positive stress, creativity, and mindfulness to reveal the connection between happiness and success, and how to achieve both. Featuring practical strategies we can use in our daily lives, The Happiness Track will show you the fulfilling, rewarding, and anxiety-free life that is within your reach.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, Adam Grant investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, harness the advantages of impostor syndrome, bring nuance into charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe all our thoughts or internalize all our emotions. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over consistency.

We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door.Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess-it's about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.

A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Think Again, and Originals For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? This book shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity, and bucking outdated traditions. It explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, and build a coalition of allies.

From Facebook's COO and a top-rated Wharton professor comes a powerful, inspiring, and practical guide on building resilience after life's inevitable setbacks. Following the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg found herself engulfed in grief, feeling that joy would never return. She describes this experience as being in "the void," a profound emptiness that hinders thought and breath. Her friend, psychologist Adam Grant, introduced her to concrete steps for recovery, emphasizing that resilience can be developed like a muscle. This book intertwines Sheryl's personal journey with Adam's research on overcoming adversity. It begins with the heart-wrenching moment of her husband's collapse and delves into her feelings of isolation and sorrow. However, it also highlights stories of various individuals who have triumphed over hardships such as illness, job loss, and natural disasters, showcasing the human spirit's capacity to persevere and rediscover joy. Resilience stems both from within and from external support. Even after devastating events, it's possible to grow by finding deeper meaning in life. The book offers insights on helping others in crisis, fostering self-compassion, raising strong children, and building resilient communities. Ultimately, it encourages us to embrace the challenges of life, as we all face our own versions of "Option B."

Zistite, ako odomknúť vlastný potenciál V súčasnosti je spoločnosť posadnutá talentovanými ľuďmi. Ospevujeme prirodzené nadanie, a pritom podceňujeme zručnosti, ktoré sa môžeme sami naučiť. Skrytý potenciál spája vedecké poznatky, prekvapivé postrehy a živé rozprávanie, ktoré nás zavedie zo školskej triedy do zasadacej miestnosti, z ihriska na olympijské hry a zo Zeme až do vesmíru. Ukazuje, že pokrok nezávisí ani tak od toho, ako sa snažíte, ako skôr od schopnosti učiť sa nové veci. Grant vysvetľuje, ako posilniť svoje charakterové zručnosti, vytvárať motivačné štruktúry a ako pomáhať ostatným ľuďom rozvíjať ich vlastný potenciál. Táto kniha odhaľuje, ako sa môže ktokoľvek zlepšiť prakticky v čomkoľvek. Skutočným meradlom vášho potenciálu nie je výška vrcholu, ktorý ste dosiahli, ale to, ako ďaleko ste kráčali, aby ste sa tam dostali.

Čím myslíte, že je determinován úspěch? Je to talent, tvrdá dřina či snad dobré rodinné zázemí? Autor bestselleru Ještě to promysli vám ve své novince představí novou perspektivu toho, jak můžeme sebe i ostatní pozvednout do nečekaných výšin. Žijeme ve světě, který je posedlý talenty. Oslavujeme nadané studenty ve škole, ve sportu, zázračné děti v hudbě. Toto obdivování vrozených výhod nás ale vede k přehlížení vlastního potenciálu, podceňování rozsahu dovedností, jež se můžeme během života naučit, a cílů, kterých můžeme dosáhnout. A to může být chyba! Každý v sobě máme více potenciálu ke zlepšení, než co si myslíme. A vůbec nevadí, když u nás příležitost zrovna neklepe. Vždy existují způsoby, jak jí postavit dveře.

In "Erfolgsgeheimnis Altruismus" zeigt Adam Grant, dass Selbstlosigkeit, Anstand und Empathie in der Arbeitswelt entscheidend für beruflichen Erfolg und persönliche Zufriedenheit sind. Anhand von Beispielen aus der Wirtschaft belegt er, dass Geber die Gesellschaft wertschätzender und menschlicher gestalten.