Who's in the Picture?: Take a Closer Look at Over 20 Famous Paintings
This simple engaging introduction to art combines superb reproductions of an imaginative selection of artworks by artists ranging from Rousseau and Seurat to Mondrian and Van Gogh. With beautifully pitched text supported by friendly cartoon-style illustrations Who's in the Picture? invites young children to search for particular people or animals or other detail in the paintings displayed. Further questions encourage children to examine each artwork and to explain very simply what is happening in the pictures.
Tiny Habits: Why Starting Small Makes Lasting Change Easy
Improving your life is much easier than you think. Whether its losing weight sleeping more or restoring your work/life balance the secret is to start small.For years weve been told that being more healthy and productive is a matter of willpower: that we should follow the latest fad and make constant changes to our lifestyles. But whether in our diets fitness plans or jobs radical overhauls never work. Instead we should start with quick wins ? and embed new tiny habits into our everyday routines.The world expert on this is Silicon Valley legend BJ Fogg pioneering research psychologist and founder of the iconic Behaviour Design Lab at Stanford. Now anyone can use his science-based approach to make changes that are simple to achieve and sticky enough to last.In the hugely anticipated Tiny Habits BJ Fogg shows us how to change our lives for the better one tiny habit at a time. Based on twenty years research and his experience coaching over 40000 people it cracks the code of habit formation. Focus on what is easy to change not what is hard; focus on what you want to do not what you should do. At the heart of this is a startling truth ? that creating happier healthier lives can be easy and surprisingly fun.
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
No idea what you're doing? No problem. Good managers are made not born. Top tech executive Julie Zhuo remembers the moment when she was asked to lead a team. She felt like shed won the golden ticket until reality came crashing in. She was just 25 and had barely any experience being managed let alone managing others. Her co-workers became her employees overnight and she faced a series of anxiety-inducing firsts including agonising over whether to hire an interviewee; seeking the respect of reports who were cleverer than her; and having to fire someone she liked. Like most first-time managers she wasnt given any formal training and had no resources to turn to for help. It took her years to find her way but now shes offering you the short-cut to success.This is the book she wishes she had on day one. Here she offers practical accessible advice like: Dont hide thorny problems from your own manager; youre better off seeking help quickly and honestly Before you fire someone for failure to collaborate figure out if the problem is temperamental or just a lack of training or coaching Dont offer critical feedback in a compliment sandwich theres a better way!Whether you're new to the job a veteran leader or looking to be promoted this is the handbook you need to be the kind of manager you've always wanted.
This Is Our World: From Alaska to the Amazon Meet 20 Children Just Like You
This Is Our World written by Tracey Turner is a colourful celebration of our planets cultural and environmental diversity an unforgettable journey that brings the people customs and wildlife of twenty places around the world vividly to life for young readers. The guides are children who tell us about the animals plants and weather that they encounter; the feasts and festivals they enjoy; and the clothes they wear the way they learn the languages they speak and the sports and games they play. The tour is truly global as we journey from Australias desolate Red Centre to bustling Beijing from the windswept Outer Hebrides to the rock houses of Cappadocia in Turkey via the Amazon rainforest New York City the Siberian tundra and a floating village in Cambodia.This is both a beautiful gift book and a highly-accessible home reference sure to foster an interest in the wider world in travel in diversity and in conservation. It teaches us that despite its countless languages customs and traditions it really is a small world after all.
Power Play: Elon Musk Tesla and the Bet of the Century
Inside the outrageous come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary and to others he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. When Tesla was founded in the 2000s electric cars were novelties trotted out and thrown on the scrap heap by carmakers for more than a century. But where most onlookers saw only failure a small band of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential and they pitted themselves against the biggest fiercest business rivals in the world setting out to make a car that was quicker sexier smoother cleaner than the competition. Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years beset by rivals pressured by investors hobbled by whistleblowers buoyed by its loyal supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla's worst enemy--his antics repeatedly taking the company he had funded himself to the brink of collapse. Was he an underdog an antihero a conman or some combination of the three? Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups wrestling for control meltdowns and the unlikeliest outcome of all success. A story of power recklessness struggle and triumph Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds... and changed the future.
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
Discover the critical art of rethinking: how questioning your opinions can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in lifeIntelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn but in a rapidly changing world the most crucial skill may be the ability to rethink and unlearn. Recent global and political changes have forced many of us to re-evaluate our opinions and decisions. Yet we often still favour the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt and prefer opinions that make us feel good instead of ideas that make us think hard. Intelligence is no cure and can even be a curse. The brighter we are the blinder we can become to our own limitations.Adam Grant - Wharton's top-rated professor and #1 bestselling author - offers bold ideas and rigorous evidence to show how we can embrace the joy of being wrong encourage others to rethink topics as wide-ranging as abortion and climate change and build schools workplaces and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate and how a vaccine whisperer convinces anti-vaxxers to immunize their children. Think Again is an invitation to let go of stale opinions and prize mental flexibility humility and curiosity over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power knowing what you don't know is wisdom.
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
*** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year ***It's time to do things differently. Trust your team. Be radically honest. And never ever try to please your boss.These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 190 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation that rivals the likes of Disney.Finally Reed Hastings Netflix Chairman and CEO is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer he will explore his leadership philosophy - which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate - and how it plays out in practice at Netflix.From unlimited holidays to abolishing approvals Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organisation one far more in tune with an ever-changing fast-paced world. For anyone interested in creativity productivity and innovation the Netflix culture is something close to a holy grail. This book will make it and its creator fully accessible for the first time.
Lean In: Women Work and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandbergs Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Sandberg packed theatres dominated opinion pages appeared on every major television show and on the cover of Time magazine and sparked ferocious debate about women and leadership.Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise a promotion or equal pay and some reticence creeps in.The statistics although an improvement on previous decades are certainly not in women's favour of 197 heads of state only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally and in the world of big business a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. In Lean In Sheryl Sandberg Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business draws on her own experience of working in some of the world's most successful businesses and looks at what women can do to help themselves and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale.
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
'a compelling methodology... to increase market share quickly' -- Eric Ries bestselling author of THE LEAN STARTUP'a must-read for anyone in business' -- James Currier managing partner NFX Guild'will teach you how to think like a marketer of tomorrow' -- Josh Elman partner Greylock PartnersGrowth is now the first thing that investors shareholders and market analysts look for in assessing and valuing companies. HACKING GROWTH is a highly accessible practical method for growth that involves cross-functional teams and continuous testing and iteration. Hacking Growth does for marketshare growth what THE LEAN STARTUP does for product development and BUSINESS MODEL GENERATION does for strategy. HACKING GROWTH focuses on customers - how to attain them retain them engage them and monetize them - rather than product.Written by the method's pioneers this book is a comprehensive toolkit or 'bible' that any company in any industry can use to implement their own Growth Hacking strategy from how to set up and run growth teams to how to identify and test growth levers and how to evaluate and act on the results. It is designed for any company or leader looking to break out of the ruts of traditional marketing and become more collaborative less wasteful and achieve more consistent replicable and data-driven results.
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Most people want to be successful in life. And of course everyone wants to be happy. When it comes to the pursuit of success and happiness most people assume the same formula: if you work hard you will become successful and once you become successful then you'll be happy. The only problem is that a decade of cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology has proven that this formula is backwards. Success does not beget happiness.Based on the largest study ever conducted on happiness and human potential (a survey conducted by the author of more than 1600 students) Harvard lecturer Shawn Achor shares seven core principles of positive psychology that each one of us can use to improve our performance grow our careers and gain a competitive edge at work. He reveals how happiness actually fuels success and performance not the other way around. Why? Because when we are happier and more positive we are more engaged creative resilient to stress and productive. The Happiness Advantage will appeal to anyone who wants practical advice on how to become happier and also more successful.
