Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two small children, Emily may be the recently advertised VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from customers’ offices as an unbiased IT advisor. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of email messages, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has turned into a seemingly insurmountable task.

In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul’s brains as about Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Conquering Distraction, Regaining Concentrate, and Working Smarter THE WHOLE DAY they attempt to kind the vast levels of details they’re offered, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it and act on it. Luckily for Emily and Paul, they’re in great hands: David Rock and roll knows the way the brain works-and more particularly, how it operates in a work setting. Rock displays how it’s possible for Emily and Paul, and therefore the reader, not merely to survive in today’s overwhelming work place but succeed in it-and still experience energized and accomplished at the end of your day.

YOUR BRAIN AT WORK explores issues such as for example:

– why our brains feel so taxed, and how to increase our mental assets

– why it’s so difficult to target, and how exactly to better manage interruptions

– how to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems

– how exactly to remain calm in any scenario, to enable you to make the very best decisions possible

– how to collaborate better with others

– why offering feedback is so difficult, and steps to make it easier

– how exactly to become more effective at changing other people’s behavior