Resilience at Work: How to Succeed No Matter What Life Throws at You
Author: Salvatore R Maddi
According to a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review, more than experience or training, it's a person's level of resilience in the face of stressful circumstances that will determine whether he succeeds or fails. Resilience at Work gives readers the courage and determination to face stressful problems instead of denying or avoiding them. Readers will learn proven techniques for:
* Increasing positive attitudes like commitment, control, and challenge, while decreasing those of isolation, powerlessness, and threat
* Developing patterns of support based on giving and getting assistance
Luckily, resilience is not simply an ability one is born with, but a skill anyone can learn and improve. Resilience at Work gives readers the motivation and tools to work constructively and remain hardy through difficult situations, and turn stressful changes in the workplace into golden opportunities.
Author Biography: Salvatore R. Maddi (Newport Beach, CA), an internationally recognized psychologist, founded the Hardiness Institute in 1984, where he works on the resilience approach he developed a decade earlier. Deborah M. Khoshaba (Newport Beach, CA) is Director of Program Development and Training at the Hardiness Institute. Together, they have appeared on CNN, and in the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.
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Coming Even Cleaner about Organizational Change
Author: Jerry L Patterson
An expanded, updated version of 1997's Coming Clean About Organizational Change, this version contains 50 percent new references and 40 percent new content including chapters on organizational culture, resilience, new conceptual frameworks on organizational change, and zones of individual performance. Readers will learn how to work within the reality of an imposed change and be true to the values of the change initiatives held as an educational leader.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| 1 | New Ways to Think about Organizational Change, Leadership, and Resilience | 1 |
| 2 | A Leader's Guide to Understanding Organizational Culture | 13 |
| 3 | Harsh Realities about People | 29 |
| 4 | Harsh Realities about Organizations | 57 |
| 5 | Strengthening Resilience in Others | 91 |
| 6 | Increasing Your Own Resilience | 105 |
| Epilogue | 121 | |
| References | 125 | |
| Index | 129 | |
| About the Author | 133 |
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