The book explores Argentina's dynamic transformation during the forty years leading up to 1930, highlighting the significant economic and social advancements of the era. It examines the impact of the First World War as a pivotal moment that interrupted this growth, providing insights into the country's development and the factors that influenced its trajectory during this crucial period.
DISCOVER THE SCIENCE BEHIND BRAIN-BASED COACHING By understanding how the brain works, coaching professionals can better tailor their language, strategies, and goals to be in alignment with an individual’s “hard-wired” way of thinking. Written by two well-known coaching professionals, David Rock and Linda Page, Coaching with the Brain in Mind presents the tools and methodologies that can be employed by novice and experienced coaches alike to create an effective―and ultimately more rewarding―relationship for both coach and client. This informative guide to the neuroscience of coaching clearly demonstrates how brain-based coaching works in practice, and how the power of the mind can be harnessed to help an individual learn and grow. Illustrated with numerous case examples and stories, this book is organized for immediate use by professionals in their client work. Coverage Building on the existing foundation of coaching by adding neuroscience as an evidence base for the profession, Coaching with the Brain in Mind shows that it is possible to become a better professional coach by understanding how the brain works. As well, the authors, through their research, present that an understanding of neuroscience research, however new and speculative, can help coaches and leaders fulfill their potential as change agents in the lives of others.
Just as athletes have coaches to help them achieve their best, people are hiring a coach to help them achieve personal best in all aspects of their lives. This is a step-by-step workbook, supported by inspiring stories of others going through the coaching process, to achieving personal goals, so the reader can be their own life coach.
Meet Emily and Paul, parents of two young children navigating the chaos of modern life. Emily, the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation, and Paul, an independent IT consultant working from home or client offices, face an overwhelming barrage of emails, calls, meetings, and projects. As they struggle to manage the deluge of information, they seek ways to prioritize, organize, and take action. Fortunately, they have the guidance of David Rock, who understands the workings of the brain in a professional context. He reveals how Emily and Paul, and by extension the reader, can not only survive but thrive in today’s demanding work environment while feeling energized and accomplished. The exploration covers critical topics such as why our brains feel overwhelmed and how to optimize mental resources, strategies to enhance focus and manage distractions, and techniques for uncovering insights to tackle complex problems. Additionally, it addresses maintaining composure for better decision-making, improving collaboration, simplifying the feedback process, and effectively influencing others' behavior. This insightful journey offers practical tools to navigate the complexities of work and life.
Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. "If people are being paid to think," he writes, "isn't it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?" Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.
Drawing on largely unexplored nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources, this book offers an in-depth study of Britain's presence in Argentina. Finally, the book traces links between British multinationals and the political breakdown in Argentina of the 1970s and early 1980s, leading into dictatorship and the Falklands War.
Taking the opportunity of Friedrich Schorlemmer's (Evangelische Akadamia, Wittenberg) stint as Visiting Writer at Keele University in 1995, scholars of German culture and society held a symposium there on his role and that of other writers, the church, and citizens' movements in the transformation of East Germany both before and after reunification. Nine essays emerged, some on specific people and some on general features. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Jurek Becker is one of the most important post-war German authors. His first novel, Jacob the Liar, already has the status of a classic of post-1945 European literature about the Holocaust and has been widely translated. This timely book traces the main events in Becker's unusual personal his childhood experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in the concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen, his life in the GDR, and his move to the West. The author reflects both on Becker's quest for his Jewish identity as well as on his achievements in terms of narrative technique, formal innovation and style. Examining Becker's treatment of the Holocaust in his novels and stories, the author highlights their central themes of hope as resistance to barbarity, the idea of memory, the inability of a survivor of the camps to overcome psychological scars, but also the provocative portrayal of Jews as oppressors who take revenge on their former persecutors. Becker's portrayal of life in former East Germany, the role of gender relations, the problems facing a writer under a socialist regime, and East-West German relations are also investigated.As the first comprehensive assessment of Becker's life and work, this book will be essential reading for those interested in German and Holocaust literature, critical theory and German studies.
Součástí zvyšování výkonnosti vašich zaměstnanců je také změna způsobu jejich myšlení. Ve své bohaté činnosti instruktora, lektora a poradce společností po celém světě David Rock dokázal, že tajemství vedení lidí (a práce s nimi) se nachází v jejich hlavách. Autor radí co lze dělat pro pozvednutí myšlení zaměstnanců na vyšší úroveň, aby je přiměl dosáhnout prvotřídní výkonnosti. Kniha je praktická a dobře promyšlená. V šesti krocích autor nabízí rady, jak dosáhnout trvalé změny pracovní výkonnosti.
