Caroline Webb is a management consultant and executive coach who has spent fifteen years at McKinsey and at her own firm, Sevenshift, showing clients how to use behavioral science to boost their professional effectiveness. An Oxford- and Cambridge-trained economist, Webb and her work have been featured in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, Forbes, and on the BBC. She divides her time between New York and London.
“How to Have a Good Day is a smart, thorough, and eminently
practical book. Just about every page offers a science-based tip to
help you become better off — or, in many cases, just plain
better.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive
"Behavioral science has come of age in recent years, and it has
begged for a world-class translator. Now we have one. Caroline
Webb’s peerless translation of the behavioral sciences into tools
for shaping the quality of our day is the book we’ve been waiting
for. Play with just 2% of the ideas in this book, and you might
just end up changing your life's course. Words like 'magisterial'
come to mind. Bravo."
—Tom Peters, co-author of award-winning bestseller In Search of
Excellence
“Finally, a practical book based on evidence. How to Have a
Good Day is grounded in state-of-the-art research on behavior
and neuroscience, and animated with vivid examples from
professionals who have successfully applied Webb’s advice. It might
even leave you looking forward to your next tricky conversation or
challenging task as an opportunity to try out her tips."
—Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York
Times bestselling author of Give and Take and
Originals
"How to Have a Good Day is an extraordinary book — a wonderful mix
of science, practical advice, and stories based on Caroline Webb's
years of experience helping a huge range of people transform their
professional lives for the better. Every chapter is studded with
engaging real-world examples that ring true and illustrate how to
make the most of the book's suggestions. Whatever your personal
definition of a good day, you'll have more of them after reading
this book.”
—Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World
That Can’t Stop Talking and co-founder of Quiet Revolution
"Almost all of us work in environments where our time is stretched
far too thin. How to Have a Good Day helps us rise to that
challenge, containing ideas and techniques that show us how to be
at our own personal and professional best every day."
—Tony Hsieh, New York Times bestselling author of Delivering
Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc.
"Webb has given us a great gift: she has synthesized all the advice
coming out of labs around the world, filtered it for quality, and
illustrated it with well-chosen examples. The appendices alone will
save you dozens of hours per year — particularly on email — and
help you create more great days for yourself. This is the only
self-improvement book you will need in the next five
years."
—Jonathan Haidt, NYU-Stern School of Business, author of The
Happiness Hypothesis and The Righteous Mind
"There's a big difference between having a great, productive day
and having a bland, ordinary one. Caroline Webb deftly explains how
to squeeze the most out of twenty-four hours, to create more of the
former. Very useful."
—Sir Michael Moritz, Chairman of Sequoia Capital
“A powerful toolkit to improve both work and wellbeing. From
email and meetings to making the most out of every day, Webb shows
us not just how to be more productive, but how to be more fulfilled
along the way.”
—Jonah Berger, Wharton professor and bestselling author of
Contagious and Invisible Influence
"Imagine what your life would be like if you could simply 'choose'
to have a good day. Webb makes a powerful case that we
can. Best of all, she shows us how. Webb gets her arms around
the vast body of information coming at us from behavioral
economics, psychology, and neuroscience, and distills the best of
it into the kind of practical advice a wise friend might offer.
It's the book Daniel Kahneman might write if he'd been working in
the business world for twenty
years. Masterful."
—Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, co-authors of the bestselling
Difficult Conversations and Thanks for the Feedback
"This is a brilliantly useful book. Caroline Webb has a quite
exceptional range of organisational experience. She uses it to
review a vast span of the latest academic 'thinking about thinking'
in the clearest possible way. And then she applies this wisdom to
help us all sort out the frazzle of our own working day. Her
approach is utterly straightforward but based in deep insights into
how human beings really behave."
—Peter Day, BBC Business Correspondent, Presenter of In Business
and Global Business
“Years ago I was a rower, and in sport everyone knows you need to
pay attention to yourself, your intent and your mindset,
to be at your best. This book reminded me of all I
learned from those days about the importance of having the right
attitude. I found it a great, practical guide to applying
these and other helpful psychological insights in business –
something we do all too infrequently. Built solidly on the latest
research, brought to life with storytelling, it offers many simple
ways to boost your performance and give you a better day at work –
and if you’re a leader, it will show you how to make sure that your
colleagues are on top form, too."
-—Matt Brittin, President of Google Europe, Middle East & Africa,
former rowing World Championship medalist and British Olympic team
member
"How to Have a Good Day speaks to every area of your workday and
shows how making a few critical adjustments to your everyday
behavior will leave you amazed by the results. By applying the
lessons in Webb's book, all based on science, you’ll maximize your
performance and be more energized than ever."
— Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author
of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t
Get You There
“An absolute must read for the millions of people struggling
to overcome the challenges and stresses of work and family life.
Caroline Webb’s deep dive into ground-breaking new behavioral and
neuroscience research gives us the tools to empower everyone to
have a better, more fulfilling day, every day. Finally, we can
say, ‘Good morning,’ and mean it!”
—Linda Kaplan Thaler, Chairman of Publicis Kaplan Thaler and
co-author of Grit to Great
“The quest for self-improvement usually takes place on a
well-trodden path, with many different gurus offering guidance. But
the advice, in addition to being contradictory, often lacks solid
foundations. Fortunately, How to Have a Good Day is
the breakout exception to this category. The evidence and
examples packed inside its pages leave the reader in no doubt that
Webb's advice will make a real difference. Better days lead
to better lives, and this extraordinary book will lead to
both.”
—Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author of The $100
Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit
“In How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb offers practical
advice rooted in the latest science and psychology for anyone who
wants to take a more intentional approach to life and enjoy the
greater productivity and success that comes from doing so. If you
want to stop reacting to your life and start living it, this book
will get you moving in the right direction."
—Bryce G. Hoffman, author of American Icon
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