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Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living
Fumio Sasaki is a writer in his thirties who lives in a tiny studio in Tokyo with three shirts, four pairs of trousers, four pairs of socks and not much else. A few years ago, he realised that owning so much stuff was weighing him down - so he started to get rid of it. In this hit Japanese bestseller, Sasaki explores the philosophy behind minimalism and offers a set of straightforward rules …
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- 978-0-141-98638-8
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- 259 hlm.; 13x20 cm
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- 179.9 SAS g
Give and Take : A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common. For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or g…
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- 978-0-670-02655-5
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- 305p.;16x23,5cm
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- 158.2 GRA g
Goodbye, Things : The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert; he’s just a regular guy who was stressed at work, insecure, and constantly comparing himself to others until one day he decided to change his life by reducing his possessions to the bare minimum. The benefits were instantaneous and absolutely remarkable: without all his “stuff,” Sasaki finally felt true freedom, peace of mind, and appr…
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- 978-0-393-60903-5
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- 259p.;14x21,5cm
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- 179.9 SAS g
Real Influence : Persuade Without Pushing and Gan Without Giving In
People won't put up with being "sold" anymore. If they sense they are being pushed, their guard goes up - and even if they do comply, lingering resentment undermines the relationship ...maybe forever. Yet, most books on influence still portray it as something you "do to" someone else to get your way. That out-of-date approach invites resistance or cynicism from those who recognize the techn…
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- 978-0-8144-2015-7
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- x+258hlm.;16x23,5cm
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- 658.45 GOU r
Positive Psychology and Change : How Leadership, Collaboration, and Appreciat…
Positive Psychology and Change explores how areas of positive psychology such as strengths, flow, and psychological capital can be applied to the everyday challenges of leading a dynamic and adaptive work community, and how collaborative group approaches to transformational change can be combined with a positive mindset to maintain optimism and motivation in an unpredictable working environment…
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- 978-1-118-78884-4
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- xxiv+245p.;16x24cm
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- 658.4092 LEW p
StandOut 2.0 : Assess Your Strengths Find Your Edge Win At Work
In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations performance app…
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- 978-1-69969-074-5
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- xi+211p.;14,5x22cm
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- 650.1 BUC s
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