In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.
Introduction - i: INTRODUCTION Section - ii: THE SCIENCE ESSENTIALS Section - iii: THE TWO-SYSTEM BRAIN Section - iv: THE DISCOVER-DEFEND AXIS Section - v: THE MIND-BODY LOOP Unit - 1: PART I: PRIORITIES Setting Intentional Direction for Your Day Chapter - 1: ONE: Choosing Your Filters Chapter - 2: TWO: Setting Great Goals Chapter - 3: THREE: Reinforcing Your Intentions Unit - 2: PART II: PRODUCTIVITY Making the Hours in the Day Go Further Chapter - 4: FOUR: Singletasking Chapter - 5: FIVE: Planning Deliberate Downtime Chapter - 6: SIX: Overcoming Overload Chapter - 7: SEVEN: Beating Procrastination Unit - 3: PART III: RELATIONSHIPS Making the Most of Every Interaction Chapter - 8: EIGHT: Building Real Rapport Chapter - 9: NINE: Resolving Tensions Chapter - 10: TEN: Bringing the Best Out of Others Unit - 4: PART IV: THINKING Being Your Smartest, Wisest, Most Creative Self Chapter - 11: ELEVEN: Reaching Insight Chapter - 12: TWELVE: Making Wise Decisions Chapter - 13: THIRTEEN: Boosting Your Brainpower Unit - 5: PART V: INFLUENCE Maximizing the Impact of All You Say and Do Chapter - 14: FOURTEEN: Getting Through Their Filters Chapter - 15: FIFTEEN: Making Things Happen Chapter - 16: SIXTEEN: Conveying Confidence Unit - 6: PART VI: RESILIENCE Sailing Through Setbacks and Annoyances Chapter - 17: SEVENTEEN: Keeping a Cool Head Chapter - 18: EIGHTEEN: Moving On Chapter - 19: NINETEEN: Staying Strong Unit - 7: PART VII: ENERGY Boosting Your Enthusiasm and Enjoyment Chapter - 20: TWENTY: Topping Up the Tank Chapter - 21: TWENTY-ONE: Playing to Your Strengths Section - vi: POSTSCRIPT: MAKING IT STICK Section - vii: APPENDIX A: How to Be Good at Meetings Section - viii: APPENDIX B: How to Be Good at Email Section - ix: APPENDIX C: How to Reinvigorate Your Routine Section - x: SUGGESTED FURTHER READING Section - xi: GLOSSARY Acknowledgements - xii: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Section - xiii: NOTES Index - xiv: INDEX
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 has been featured in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, Forbes, and the BBC.
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 *
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*
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*
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*
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*
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*
A powerful toolkit to improve both work and well-being. 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*
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, author of Grit to Great*
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*
Wise, fun and humane. The best behavioural self-help book by far.
Everyone should read it.
*Cass R. Sunstein, co-author of Nudge*
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