When Faster Harder Smarter Is Not EnoughWhen Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough draws upon Dr. Kathryn Cramer's quarter century of research into how people thrive under pressure. She explains that the real keys to professional and personal success in today's rapid-fire world are found in readers' deep, untapped reservoirs of creativity and intuition and describes a revolutionary six-step approach to tapping into those latent powers and turning stress into success. |
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... Feel What You Feel STEP TWO Be Outrageously Optimistic 75 How to See Potential, Not Problems Scout for Opportunties • See the Glass as Half Full ... with a Pitcher of Water on the Way! STEP THREE Make the Future Happen Inside You 115 ...
... Feel What You Feel STEP TWO Be Outrageously Optimistic 75 How to See Potential, Not Problems Scout for Opportunties • See the Glass as Half Full ... with a Pitcher of Water on the Way! STEP THREE Make the Future Happen Inside You 115 ...
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Kathryn D. Cramer. INTRODUCTION. Richer,. Deeper,. Wiser. Do you ever feel like you are whitewater rafting through your day, just hoping you can make it to evening without capsizing? Most of us use familiar faster-harder-smarter techniques ...
Kathryn D. Cramer. INTRODUCTION. Richer,. Deeper,. Wiser. Do you ever feel like you are whitewater rafting through your day, just hoping you can make it to evening without capsizing? Most of us use familiar faster-harder-smarter techniques ...
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... one executive wryly told me, “I can't work any harder or faster. I can already feel my clutch burning.” Sometimes being on automatic pilot is good enough, but faster, 5 Introduction Riding the carousel that never stops.
... one executive wryly told me, “I can't work any harder or faster. I can already feel my clutch burning.” Sometimes being on automatic pilot is good enough, but faster, 5 Introduction Riding the carousel that never stops.
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... feel very nervous. If you're the kind of person who wants a written guarantee in advance, have faith. You will be surprised (from Composing a life involves a continual reimagining of the future and reinter- pretation of the past to give ...
... feel very nervous. If you're the kind of person who wants a written guarantee in advance, have faith. You will be surprised (from Composing a life involves a continual reimagining of the future and reinter- pretation of the past to give ...
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... feel optimistic that this situation actually could increase his boss's confidence in him. If not, Ben could consider ... feeling overwhelmed, angry, and backed into a corner, they could have been enthusiastic about creating ways of ...
... feel optimistic that this situation actually could increase his boss's confidence in him. If not, Ben could consider ... feeling overwhelmed, angry, and backed into a corner, they could have been enthusiastic about creating ways of ...
Contents
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STEP TWO Be Outrageously Optimistic | 75 |
STEP THREE Make the Future Happen Inside You | 115 |
STEP FOUR Get Others on Board | 155 |
STEP FIVE Stack the Odds in Your Favor | 201 |
STEP SIX Celebrate Every Victory Large and Small | 247 |
Bibliography | 265 |
INDEX | 271 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 278 |
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When Faster-harder-smarter is Not Enough: Six Steps for Achieving what You ... Kathryn D. Cramer No preview available - 2002 |
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Page 266 - To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to...
Page 266 - To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.
Page 92 - I wanted you to see something about her — I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Page 29 - The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives
Page 158 - I found that the more I worked -with them the bigger and bigger [they] got, and when I was really working with them I wasn't outside, I -was down there. I -was part of the system. I was right down there with them, and everything got big.
Page 158 - As you look at these things, they become part of you. And you forget yourself.
Page 120 - A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.
Page 12 - Composing a life involves a continual reimagining of the future and reinterpretation of the past to give meaning to the present.
Page 118 - The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be 'voluntarily
Page 249 - The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.