The Next Right Thing

The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
By Emily P. Freeman
Baker Publishing Group, 2019. 250 pages. Religion

Nothing gets our attention like an unmade decision: Should I accept the new position? Which schooling choice is best for my kids? How can I support my aging parents? When we have a decision to make and the answer isn't clear, what we want more than anything is peace, clarity, and a nudge in the right direction. The Next Right Thing offers a fresh way of practicing familiar but often forgotten advice: simply do the next right thing.

Conversational, not preachy, and draws from the author's personal experiences. With bite-sized chapters and simple suggestions, readers can find several new practices to make their day-to-day decision-making intentional and less stressful.

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The Last Lecture
By Richard Pausch
Hyperion Books, 2008. 206 pages. Biography/Memoir

Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can’t help but mull the same question: If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

How to Figure Out What to Do with Your Life (Next)
By Jennifer Turliuk
Dundurn, 2021. 207 pages. Business

Jennifer Turliuk was dissatisfied in her corporate job, so she quit...but she had no idea what to do next. She embarked on a "self-education journey," interviewing and shadowing some of the world's leading professors, founders, and investors. What she discovered is not only a way to find out what she really wanted to do with her own life, but a career design process that would help others do just the same.

Stretched Too Thin: How Working Moms Can Lose the Guilt, Work Smarter, and Thrive
By Jessica N. Turner
Revell, 2018. 228 pages. Religion

At the end of each day, many working moms are exhausted and stretched too thin. But this doesn't have to be the norm! Turner shows working moms how to establish clear work boundaries that will help them discover more flexibility and develop home management solutions.

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El Oficio de Narrar Sin Miedo

El Oficio de Narrar Sin Miedo

Por Harris Whitbeck
Two Rivers Distribution, 2021. 264 páginas. No Ficción

En sus 30 años como periodista, Harris Whitbeck ha viajado a los lugares más peligrosos del mundo para narrar acontecimientos históricos. Por su impecable profesionalismo, fue reconocido con un Emmy especial en 2002. Esta obra relata el detrás de cámaras de su labor periodística y sus recuerdos por los países que visitó para llevar al lector las más poderosas historias. Con un punto de vista crítico y entrañable, desde sus inicios en CNN en Español, Whitbeck ha cubierto sucesos como el huracán Mitch en Centroamérica, el tsunami de 2004 en Indonesia, los disturbios políticos en Haití y Venezuela, las guerras de Irak y Afganistán, y la disolución de la Unión Soviética.

El centro de este libro es una anécdota emotiva sobre el vínculo con su profesión y su natal Guatemala. El oficio de narrar sin miedo es una oportunidad única para descubrir, a través de la mirada del autor, la realidad compleja en la que vivimos: guerras, miseria e injusticia que atraviesan y lastran nuestro presente. «Al enfrentarme a desafíos enormes y verme cara a cara con la desgarradora violencia de la guerra, afronté mi propio temor a la muerte, me di cuenta de que el miedo pierde su fuerza cuando se le encara».

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El Lenguaje No Verbal en la Comunicación
Por Joan Francesc Canovas

Lectorum Pubns, 2022. 200 páginas. No Ficción

Durante la crisis de la Covid-19, hemos tenido que incorporar a nuestro día a día un número casi ilimitado de plataformas tecnológicas para poder mantener nuestras conexiones profesionales o personales. Así pues, si antes de 2020 hacer una videollamada podía tener, en según qué ámbitos, incluso un punto de esnobismo, ahora es un hecho habitual que ha venido para quedarse. A raíz de esta situación, las personas (más preparadas para relacionarnos de manera presencial que remota) hemos tenido que aprender a marchas forzadas los secretos y las eficiencias de esta nueva comunicación online.

A base de aciertos y errores, cada persona ha ido erigiendo un manual propio de cómo comunicarse en una videoconferencia, por lo que, sin saberlo, todos juntos hemos ido creando un nuevo lenguaje que hay que conocer muy bien. Por primera vez, todos estos aprendizajes se han reunido en un solo libro «El lenguaje de la comunicación online» una obra con una finalidad muy práctica y didáctica que da respuesta a las miles de dudas que surgen a la hora de preparar y participar en una videoconferencia, como por ejemplo qué fondo debe utilizarse, qué tipo de plano o ángulo de la cámara, qué ropa o complementos son idóneos para salir en pantalla, qué iluminación es la correcta, y un larguísimo etcétera. Y sin olvidar la adecuación del tipo de lenguaje utilizado (verbal, vocal y no verbal), ya que, como en cualquier otra comunicación, condicionarán mucho el resultado final. 

Cómo las Personas Exitosas Crecen

Por John C. Maxwell

Center Street, 2014. 147 páginas. No Ficción

 
¿Existen principios probados y verdaderos que siempre seguramente ayudarán a una persona a crecer? John Maxwell dice que la respuesta es sí. Ha sido un apasionado del desarrollo personal durante más de cincuenta años, y aquí enseña todo lo que ha aprendido sobre lo que se necesita para alcanzar nuestro potencial. De la forma en que solo él puede comunicarse, enseña John. . . 

La ley del espejo: debes ver el valor en ti mismo para agregar valor a ti mismo. La ley de la conciencia: debes conocerte a ti mismo para crecer. La ley del modelado: es difícil de mejorar cuando no tienes a nadie más que tú para seguir. El crecimiento se detiene cuando pierdes la tensión entre dónde estás y dónde podrías estar. La ley de la contribución: desarrollarte a ti mismo te permite desarrollar a los demás. Esta lectura compacta ayudará a los lectores a convertirse en aprendices de por vida cuyo potencial sigue aumentando y nunca se "agota".

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Etiquetas: Español, No Ficción, Biografía, Negocio, Autoayuda

Women and Leadership

Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons
by Julia Gilliard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

MIT Press, 2021. eBook. Nonfiction

Women make up fewer than ten per cent of national leaders worldwide, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Through conversations with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women, Women and Leadership explores gender bias and asks why there aren't more women in leadership roles.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a pivotal moment in history for women in global and local leadership roles. Women and Leadership is anchored in this massive global change and provides the much-needed update on women leadership in a changed world. With humor and solid strategy pulled from eight real-world stories, Women and Leadership shows the inequalities faced by women leaders and provides steps to rise above.

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Called to Lead: Success Strategies for Women
by Pegine Echevarria

Palnoma Press, Ltd., 2021. 214 pages. Nonfiction

Leadership is calling. The world needs women who say "YES!" and lead. Is this you? Gain actionable insights from diverse women worldwide who share their wisdom and advice for your multifaceted life.

She Represents: 44 Women Who are Changing Politics...and the World
by Caitlin Donahue

Zest Books, 2020. 214 pages. YA Nonfiction

Each of the forty women profiled in this illustrated YA book demonstrates how women are capable of political and community leadership and activism. Readers will be inspired to pursue their own goals of social change.

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Never Split the Difference

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it

by Chris Voss

Harper Business, 2016. 288 pages. Business

A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss's head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles—counterintuitive tactics and strategies—you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life. With poignant examples from the field and practical ways to implement the skills in your daily communication, Never Split the Difference will impact your communication style right from page one.

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Stalling for Time

by Gary Noesner

Penguin Random House, 2018. 240 pages. Biography/Memoir

In Stalling for Time, the FBI’s chief hostage negotiator takes readers on a harrowing tour through many of the most famous hostage crises in the history of the modern FBI, including the siege at Waco, the Montana Freemen standoff, and the D.C. sniper attacks. Having helped develop the FBI’s nonviolent communication techniques for achieving peaceful outcomes in tense situations, Gary Noesner offers a candid, fascinating look back at his years as an innovator in the ranks of the Bureau and a pioneer on the front lines. Whether vividly recounting showdowns with the radical Republic of Texas militia or clashes with colleagues and superiors that expose the internal politics of America’s premier law enforcement agency, Stalling for Time crackles with insight and breathtaking suspense.

Start with No

by Jim Camp

Penguin Random House, 2020. 288 pages. Business

Think a win-win solution is the best way to make the deal? Think again. For years now, win-win has been the paradigm for business negotiation. But today, win-win is just the seductive mantra used by the toughest negotiators to get the other side to compromise unnecessarily, early, and often. Win-win negotiations play to your emotions and take advantage of your instinct and desire to make the deal. Start with No introduces a system of decision-based negotiation that teaches you how to understand and control these emotions. It teaches you how to ignore the siren call of the final result, which you can’t really control, and how to focus instead on the activities and behavior that you can and must control in order to successfully negotiate with the pros.

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