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" What are you doing today to make your dream future come true? 'A rare self-help book that's actually informed by evidence. A host of perceptive, practical tips for getting out of your own way and making progress toward your career goals. ' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again and Originals'A practical and accessible guide to using behavioural science in your career.' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women ________________ We all have big ambitions for the future but those dreams only become reality if we do something towards them regularly. To achieve audacious goals, we need to take action and make small changes every day. We need to think big and act small. Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioural science, Dr Grace Lordan offers immediate actionable solutions and tips that will help you get closer to your dream future, every day. Focusing on six key areas - your time, goal planning, self-narratives, other people, your environment, and resilience - Dr Lordan reveals practical, science-backed hacks that will help you get ahead. Each chapter introduces us to behavioural science concepts like the 'halo effect', 'confirmation bias', 'affect heuristic' and the 'ostrich effect', to help you better understand yourself and others, so that you can get the most out of your career. Whether you fantasise about changing industry, landing that big promotion, writing a screenplay or setting up your own company, Think Big creates a clear pathway to the future you want now. Some of the things you'll learn include how to: · Overcome a fear of failure and throw yourself at opportunity · Craft the optimum environment for work and give yourself ample time for tasks · Rewrite self-narratives and tackle imposter syndrome · Watch out for other people's biases and stop them from holding you back Think Big provides a practical framework to keep you moving in the right direction towards any goal. It will help you get out of your own way and propel you on the path to success, transforming you from dreamer to doer! "
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Biographisches: "Dr Grace Lordan is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative (TII), Director of the MSc in Behavioural Science and an Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An economist by background, her research is focused on understanding why some individuals succeed in life and others don't. She is an expert on the effects of unconscious bias, discrimination and technology changes. Grace is an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board. Her academic writings have been published in top international journals in economics and the broader social sciences. This is her first book." Rezension(2): "Robert Cialdini, Author of Influence and Pre-Suasion:Insights from Behavioral Science are being used around the globe for a variety of purposes but never, until now for career building-something Grace Lordan does systematically, eloquently, and instructively in Think Big " Rezension(3): "Dorie Clark, author of Reinventing You and executive education faculty, Duke University Fuqua School of Business:If you know it's time to aim higher in your career, Think Big provides a clear and compelling behavioral science toolkit to help you realize your goals and replace your current reality with something bigger, better and more enjoyable" Rezension(4): "Jonah Berger, Wharton Professor and Bestselling Author of The Catalyst:Want to advance your career fast without compromising personal happiness? Think Big can help. It provides a handy, science driven framework to career building that can fit around even the busiest person's daily life" Rezension(5): "Professor Paul Dolan, London School of Economics, author of Happiness by Design and Happy Ever After:In a refreshingly down to earth way, Grace shows how the insights from behavioural science can not only help you to build the career you want but also the career that will make you happy. This book will interest and entertain you whatever your stage of career" Rezension(6): "Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN, DRIVE, and TO SELL IS HUMAN:On your journey to thinking big - about yourself and about the world - Grace Lordan is a wise and winning guide. She's written the ultimate primer on enlisting modest changes to achieve monumental goals" Rezension(7): "Cal Newport, author of A World Without Email:A practical and compelling treatise on leveraging big insights from behavioural science to enable big upgrades to your career." Rezension(8): "Graham Alcott, author of Productivity Ninja:Engaging, practical and insightful. Reading Think Big is like having a savvy performance coach sat inside your head, helping correct your path towards the career you really want" Rezension(9): "Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and ORIGINALS, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife:This is a rare self-help book that's actually informed by evidence. Drawing on her knowledge of behavioural economics and psychology, Grace Lordan shares a host of perceptive, practical tips for getting out of your own way and making progress toward your career goals" Rezension(10): "Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women:A practical and accessible guide to using behavioural science in your career" Rezension(11): "Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy UK:Think Big contains a combination rare in a business book: it is both sound in theory and useful in practice. I only wish it had come out ten years ago" Rezension(12): "Bruce Daisley, author of The Joy of Work:Dr Grace Lordan has created one of the most important books anyone can read to help their working life. Anchored with behavioural science she shows how all of us can move towards our ambitions while fighting back worries and self doubts"
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