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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

Success

Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities. Rather than leaving the reader with vague lessons learned, Kawasaki spells it out with tips, advice and quotes.

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Think Like a Child: What We Lose with Age (and How to Get It Back)

Success

Officials at Google and 3M found fashioning offices akin to kindergarten classrooms resulted in creative, energetic environments where innovative ideas were born every day. They learn to step back and view problems, people and things from a completely different point of view.”. They’re not afraid of their ignorance,” Uldrich says. “In

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Managing Interruptions and Dealing with Distractions

Eat Your Career

Learning how to do this is perhaps the most important thing you can do to maintain your productivity in any environment. In this session, you will learn…. When interruptions and distractions try to pull you off track, you need to deal with them and get back on track quickly. Or, even better, you need to avoid them entirely.

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Keeping focussed in a busy environment

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 April, 2010 Keeping focussed in a busy environment There are so many distractions in the office -- the telephone, your co-workers, email and your boss! What I learned very quickly was that I had to finish one room at a time. Lets enjoy our day together.© 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Answering Reader Mail: Being Terminated (Social Etiquette Part 2)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Hello Readers - 8 months ago, a reader asked me a question about fraternization and social etiquette at work. And it’s better to make all your mistakes now when you are young so you have time to learn and not repeat the same mistakes when you are at a more critical juncture in your career. The link is that original post.

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Creating Effective Team Communication Systems

BioTeams

One can imagine the resonance here against large multinational teams operating in a matrix structure with multiple backgrounds, skill sets and scopes and especially those that work under a follow the sun model (where one time zone sleeps, the other is awake to continue the trail).

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I wish I had known sooner

Practically Perfect PA

It seemed that being the ‘go to’ person meant I should be up to speed on company policies and procedures, office etiquette and in-house systems as soon as I started. So much of what we do is automatic, like riding a bike, so using my PA skill set really helped me in those initial months. The internet is a great learning tool.