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Success Equations by Jim Rohn

AUDIOBOOK: Learn how to design an extrodinary life and create abundance.
$13.97
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Harvard Business Review

MAGAZINE: Best practices, latest and greatest ideas about how to run anything. "I love it online and offline." ~ Janice, CEO Coaching Circles
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Managing with the Brain in Mind  
by David Rock


Naomi Eisenberger, a leading social neuroscience researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wanted to understand what goes on in the brain when people feel rejected by others. She designed an experiment in which volunteers played a computer game called Cyberball while having their brains scanned by a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine. Cyberball hearkens back to the nastiness of the school playground.

“People thought they were playing a ball-tossing game over the Internet with two other people,” Eisenberger explains. “They could see an avatar that represented themselves, and avatars [ostensibly] for two other people. Then, about halfway through this game of catch among the three of them, the subjects stopped receiving the ball and the two other supposed players threw the ball only to each other.” Even after they learned that no other human players were involved, the game players spoke of feeling angry, snubbed, or judged, as if the other avatars excluded them because they didn’t like something about them.

This reaction could be traced directly to the brain’s responses. “When people felt excluded,” says Eisenberger, “we saw activity in the dorsal portion of the anterior cingulate cortex — the neural region involved in the distressing component of pain, or what is sometimes referred to as the ‘suffering’ component of pain. Those people who felt the most rejected had the highest levels of activity in this region.” In other words, the feeling of being excluded provoked the same sort of reaction in the brain that physical pain might cause. (See Exhibit 1.)

Eisenberger’s fellow researcher Matthew Lieberman, also of UCLA, hypothesizes that human beings evolved this link between social connection and physical discomfort within the brain “because, to a mammal, being socially connected to caregivers is necessary for survival.” This study and many others now emerging have made one thing clear: The human brain is a social organ. Its physiological and neurological reactions are directly and profoundly shaped by social interaction. Indeed, as Lieberman puts it, “Most processes operating in the background when your brain is at rest are involved in thinking about other people and yourself.”

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Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership 
by Daniel Goleman and
Richard Boyatzis

New studies of the brain show that leaders can improve group performance by understanding the biology of empathy.
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A New Neuroscience of Leadership: Bringing Out More of the Best in People 
by Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D.

We know that leaders at all levels of an organization need vision, strategic focus, and a bias toward action. But to shine in today's complex and changing world, leaders also need new insights and skills that upend conventional thinking about human potential, trust, energy, initiative and commitment.
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“The Antidote to Burnout” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Stress is exacerbated by thought habits that act like a clogged water filter in the mind free
“Time to Mourn” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Corporate cost of time lost to bereavement leave is likely to increase free
“Work/Life Balance” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
How to keep work stress from damaging home relationships. free
“How to Stop Worrying” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Like water coursing downhill, anxiety can carve deep channels in a leader's very core -- with harmful effects on his organization free
“On Becoming a Leader” by Robert Gunn
Personal wake-up calls point to the kind of changes one must make on the somewhat mysterious quest to be a leader. free

100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful on ANY Diet Plan

BOOK: If you have ever struggled with excess weight and couldn't motivate yourself to stick with a diet for the long haul you should read this book.
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TOP 10 Books for Entrepreneurs: Apr '07

1. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It
By Michael Gerber
2. Instant Income
By Janet Switzer / Hardcover
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Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow

BOOK: "Light, clean, natural, and alive foods make you feel light, clean, and more alive. And sexy."
~ Sarma Melngailis
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