Monday, October 21, 2024

How Leaders Learn: Master the Habits of the World's Most Successful People

David Novak; with Lari Bishop
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER

The differentiating mindset and habits that help you turn insight into action.


When you put learning at the center of everything you do, you grow your career, your leadership, your relationships, and your joy and fulfillment in life. But even for people who are naturally curious and interested in solving problems, being an effective learner who can turn their learning into action takes insight and practice.

With infectious enthusiasm and optimism, David Novak shows you how to master active learning. A trailer-park kid who lived in twenty-three states before entering high school, Novak rapidly ascended the ranks at PepsiCo to become cofounder and CEO of one of the largest corporations in the world, the global restaurant icon Yum! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut). And he credits active learning with getting him there. This compilation of wisdom and practical habits from Novak's life and from some of the most successful leaders in the world—CEOs from many industries, military and political leaders, sports greats, experts, and coaches—is your active-learning practice manual. Chapter by chapter, Novak and his all-star roster of leaders share how they've climbed to the highest levels in their fields.

Through stories of wins and losses, missteps and miracle saves, challenges tackled, and problems solved, Novak shows you all the ways, big and small, that you can become an active learner. A leadership devotional for the modern age, How Leaders Learn will inspire you to reach new levels of success in your own life and work.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

影響力習慣 : 5種心態x15個習慣, 從邊緣人變成最有價值的關鍵人物 (Impact Players)

莉茲.懷斯曼 (Liz Wiseman)
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★榮獲「50大管理思想家」(Thinkers50)年度10大職場好書★

——《給予》、《逆思維》作者亞當.格蘭特——
如果想在生涯中及早脫穎而出,本書是必讀指南。

有能力,不代表能發揮影響力。
從520名經理人和25位影響力成員的訪談,
歸納出從A晉升A+的工作心態和習慣,
不必更費力,就能忙得有意義。



影響力,
決定你是有價值的成員,
還是只能遊走在邊緣


解讀職場的潛規則,
為自己贏得改寫規則的權力


把握創造價值的機會,
啟動為自己帶來投資的迴圈,
任何人都可以贏得長久的勝利

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, October 14, 2024

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023

“Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times

“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal

Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.

When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.

Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.

Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delu­sions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort.

Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

尋蹤覓蹟 : 香港古宅故事

陳國豪
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倖存下來的古宅隱藏了甚麼家族故事和香港回憶?

作者以文字和影像結合的形式,記錄古宅舊物、故人舊情,更側寫香港百多年來的奮鬥歷史。

由尋找隱世客家古屋荔枝窩開始,回顧舊時客家人、香港原居民的傳承故事,再逐一探索大學堂、林邊屋、虎豹別墅這些歷盡滄桑的大宅豪苑,如數家珍地道出混雜華洋建築風格的時代密碼。

本書既是看建築,也是讀人,
從中窺視香港人的辛酸苦樂,
反思在城市激烈變化之中,
到底古蹟文物是否必然為發展而讓路。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


Monday, October 7, 2024

The Miracle Morning : The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) (Updated and Expanded Edition)

Hal Elrod
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USA Today Bestseller

Start waking up to your full potential every single day with the updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book with more than 2 million copies sold.


Getting everything you want out of life isn’t about doing more. It’s about becoming more. Hal Elrod and The Miracle Morning have helped millions of people become the person they need to be to create the life they’ve always wanted. Now, it’s your turn.

Hal’s revolutionary S.A.V.E.R.S. method is a simple, effective step-by-step process to transform your life in as little as six minutes per day:
  • Silence: Reduce stress and improve mental clarity by beginning each day with peaceful, purposeful quiet
  • Affirmations: Reprogram your mind to overcome any fears or beliefs that are limiting your potential or causing you to suffer
  • Visualization: Experience the power of mentally rehearsing yourself showing up at your best each day
  • Exercise: Boost your mental and physical energy in as little as 60 seconds
  • Reading: Acquire knowledge and expand your abilities by learning from experts
  • Scribing: Keep a journal to deepen gratitude, gain insights, track progress, and increase your productivity by getting clear on your top priorities

This updated and expanded edition has more than 40 pages of new content, including:
  • The Miracle Evening: Optimize your bedtime and sleep to wake up every day feeling refreshed and energized for your Miracle Morning
  • The Miracle Life: Begin your path to inner freedom so you can truly be happy and learn to love the life you have while you create the life you want

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

乾隆的百寶箱:清宮寶藏與京城時尚

賴惠敏
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晚明是由士大夫引導流行時尚,而清代是北京的宮廷領導流行!
透過朝貢和貿易等途徑,大量異域文明的物質成果進入中國宮廷視野,
當清宮收藏的舶來品亦通行於北京城市,宮廷的品味甚至影響到北京市民,
在在證明乾隆不只是戰功赫赫的十全老人,更是十八世紀兼容中西時尚唯一頂流!


本書便是針對各種中西物資的清宮寶藏進入京城,再由皇帝訂立禮器規範、工匠成做器物,再流傳北京及全國各地的過程及其造成的貿易行為進行探討。

充滿開放和探索精神的清廷正是利用全球化貿易和朝貢體系,從日本、歐洲、蒙古和西藏等地引進大量異域材料、產品、工藝技術以及工匠,從而雄心勃勃地打造出十八世紀的滿洲式宮廷時尚,並風行於整個帝國。

本書作者為中研院近代史研究所賴惠敏教授,以清代商貿史為研究專長的賴教授把研究重點放在引領時尚的幕後,特別利用內務府檔案及其他文獻資料,經過綿密的統計和分析,呈現出清代皇室的「數字化管理」之思維和能力,輔以故宮典藏文物圖為對照,分章闡述各類清宮寶藏與工藝技術間的關連,描述和分析了乾隆時代清宮廷的美學、時尚和技術。

尤其是乾隆皇帝所引導的「時尚」生活在書中體現為毛皮、冠服、紡織品、珊瑚、金銀器、佛寺鍍金器物和金屬祭器等物品的商貿數據時,所用的材料分別為何、以及為何要引進技術、又是如何引進並進行精細而科學的工藝管理,更能使讀者深刻理解本書結合貿易分析與歷史研究的學術價值。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)