Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity

Keith Sawyer 
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A science-backed method to maximize creative potential in any sphere of life

With the prevalence of computer technology and outsourcing, new jobs and fulfilling lives will rely heavily on creativity and innovation. Keith Sawyer draws from his expansive research of the creative journey, exceptional creators, creative abilities, and world-changing innovations to create an accessible, eight-step program to increasing anyone's creative potential. Sawyer reveals the surprising secrets of highly creative people (such as learning to ask better questions when faced with a problem), demonstrates how to come up with better ideas, and explains how to carry those ideas to fruition most effectively.

This science-backed, step-by step method can maximize our creative potential in any sphere of life.

• Offers a proven method for developing new ideas and creative problem-solving no matter what your profession
• Includes an eight-step method, 30 practices, and more than 100 techniques that can be launched at any point in a creative journey
• Psychologist, jazz pianist, and author Keith Sawyer studied with world-famous creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Sawyer's book offers a wealth of easy to apply strategies and ideas for anyone who wants to tap into their creative power.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

創造力7次方 : 世界最偉大的7位天才的創造力分析 (Creating Minds)

霍華德·加德納 (Howard Gardner) 著
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本書既代表了一個頂點，也是一個起點。說它是頂點，因為它凝聚了我的一生興趣所在，呈現了我所致力研究的創造力現象及某些歷史特別問題的興趣所在；說它是一個起點，因為它為人們研究人類的創造性努力開闢了一條新途徑，這是一條基於社會科學及人文傳統的新途徑。這是一本我在做學生時就非常想得到的書，它同時又是一本我經歷了四分之一世紀的曲折歷程後才能寫成的書。

作為一個成長於20世紀50年代的賓夕法尼亞州斯格拉頓市的年輕人，我勤奮好學，熱愛讀書，其中最吸引我的是那些來自不同國度、不同人物的自傳和歷史書籍。其中最吸引我的是西歐部分，因為我們全家都來自那個地方；其次是美國部分，因為它是我們新家所在的地方。在進大學時。我幾乎沒聽說過心理學，很自然就選擇了歷史作為主修課。但是。當我接觸到埃裡克森的心理歷史學和心理自傳學作品後，才真正找到了智慧的家園。於是，我將研究領域轉向社會關係(大體上說就是社會或行為科學)，並且發現自己越來越被人類發展心理學所吸引。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World's Most Inspiring Presentations

Jeremey Donovan
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DELIVER THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR LIFE--AND LAUNCH YOUR CAREER

A nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers to give "the speech of their lives" in 18 minutes or less. The more than 14,000 talks on TED.com have been viewed over 1 billion times and include those by such luminaries as Tony Robbins, Dan Pink, and Sheryl Sandberg.

Now you can learn how to give a TED-style talk to achieve your personal and business goals.

How to Deliver a TED Talk provides more than 100 invaluable tips--everything from opening with an explicit statement of audience benefits to framing your idea as an action-outcome response to a question worth asking. Whether you're presenting to an audience of 1 or 1,000, this book is an indispensable resource for any public speaker.

"Not just for TED talks, it's a great book for any presentation you have to make. If you want to deeply engage and impress your audience, this is a quick, informative, and brilliant guide." -- PETER BREGMAN, TEDx talker and author of 18 Minutes

"Jeremey's advice was key to my successful TED talk at TEDMED." -- AMANDA BENNETT, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Executive Editor/Projects and Investigations for Bloomberg News

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

商務傳播: 溝通的藝術 (Communicating at Work)

羅納德・B・阿德勒 (Ronald B. Adler), 珍妮・瑪庫特・埃爾霍斯特 (Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst)
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在本書中，作者詳細介紹了如何構造正式與非正式的溝通網絡，如何選擇最合適的溝通渠道，如何處理多元文化及組織文化對溝通的影響，如何妥善利用溝通中的語言與非語言信息，如何有效傾聽，如何建立積極的人際關係、應對批評、管理沖突以及順利談判，如何準備面試，如何在集體與團隊中與他人合作，如何有效開會，如何培養表達能力，如何在演講中組織觀點、設計結構以及針對不同類型演講有效傳播信息等內容。

作者在書中為商務溝通的普遍情境提供了豐富切實的溝通策略，每章都附有職場提示，並配有大量鮮活案例和圖表，行文生動曉暢，實用好讀，可供傳播學、公共關係、經濟管理等相關專業師生教學使用，同時可作為其他專業用以培養學生人際交往、商務溝通能力的通識教材，也是一般職場人士實現自我提升的重要參考書。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Communication

The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life

Tal Ben-Shahar
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DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO BE PERFECT?

We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness.

OR DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY?
Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology-the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University-Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT TO BE PERFECTLY HAPPY!
In The Pursuit of Perfect, Tal Ben-Shahar offers an optimal way of thinking about failure and success--and the very way we live. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and “Time-Ins” to help you rediscover what you really want out of life.

Praise for Tal Ben-Shahar's Happier:
“This fine book shimmers with a rare brand of good sense that is embedded in scientific knowledge about how to increase happiness. It is easy to see how this is the backbone of the most popular course at Harvard today.”
-Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人性的弱點全集 (How to Win Friends and Influence People)

戴爾・卡耐基 (Dale Carnegie) 著
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《人性的弱點全集》是當今世界最偉大的成功學家——卡耐基的思想精華和最激動人心的內容。他以對人性的深刻洞見，利用大量普通人不斷努力取得成功的故事，激勵人們取得輝煌的成功。不論你是甚麼職業、性別、年齡，這部充滿力量、充滿智慧的書，在生活中一定會給你啟迪，使你勇敢地克服自己的弱點，發揮自己的優點，成為人際交往的高手，擁有美好、快樂、成功的人生！

(摘錄自amazon.cn)