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Love + Work
Marcus Buckingham
Harvard Business Review Press
60 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163
http://hbr.org/books
9781647821234, $28.00, HC, 320pp
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Work-Find-What-Rest/dp/1647821231
Synopsis: We have all been given the advice that we should "Do what you love." It sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love (i.e. what engages us and makes us thrive) and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others.
With the publications of "Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life", Marcus Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity -- how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.
How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you'll excel? Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: Choose the right role on the team; Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews; Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you; Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you; Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students.
Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives, our work, our teams, and our classrooms. It's time we brought love back in. "Love + Work" will show you how.
Critique: A 'real world practical' compendium of experience based insights, advice, commentaries, and information, "Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life" is a kind of DIY self-help with respect to discovering what the world of work can be shaped to offer in terms of satisfaction, success, personal and professional fulfillment. Basically an instruction manual for making that old truism "If you do what you enjoy you will never work a day in your life.", "Love + Work" is especially recommended for personal, professional, corporate, college, and university library Jobs/Careers and Business Management collections. It should be noted that "Love + Work" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.80).
Editorial Note: For over twenty-five years, Marcus Buckingham has been the world's leading researcher on strengths and human performance, as well as an entrepreneur, founding the strengths-based leadership development firm The Marcus Buckingham Company. He began his career at Gallup and was the co-creator, with Donald O. Clifton, of StrengthsFinder. He is also the author or co-author of ten books, including First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths; StandOut 2.0; and Nine Lies About Work. He is currently Head of People + Performance Research at the ADP Research Institute. He has two websites: www.loveandwork.org and www.marcusbuckingham.com/about
Fulfilled?
Wasim Hajjiri
Winsome Entertainment Group
9781513690490, $21.99, PB, 140pp
https://www.amazon.com/Fulfilled-Land-That-Aligns-Purpose/dp/1513690493
Synopsis: After years of working with job seekers and landing hundreds of offers with combined salaries of over 10M$, with the publication of "Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" Wasim Hajjiri summarizes the job search into simple steps that can help you land your dream job within a few weeks instead of many months.
"Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" addresses such fundamental issues as: How To Be Fulfilled in Your Job; Dealing with Failure, Rejection, and Ghosting; Balancing Mind, Body, and Spirit; Branding: LinkedIn, Resume and Job Board Success; Networking: How to connect with the right people to land interviews; Interview Prep: How to succeed in interviews and negotiate a winning salary.
Critique: As comprehensively informative and 'real world practical' as it is exceptionally 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, "Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" must be considered as an essential combination of DIY instruction manual and 'how-to' guide for anyone seeking more than just another job -- but employment as a stepping stone to a achieving a desired career and/or work-based life-style. While especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Jobs/Careers shelf, it should be noted for personal reading lists that "Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.99).
Editorial Note: Wasim Hajiri is an Executive Career Coach who helps professionals land their dream job, as well as a Forbes Career Coaches council member with numerous TV, Radio, and Magazine features including FORBES, FOX, CBS, Iheart Radio, and more. He also maintains a personal/professional website at: www.getyourdreamjob.net
The Language Teacher Rebel
Anneli Beronius Haake
https://www.annelihaake.com
Teach Yourself
c/o Hachette
https://www.hachette.co.uk
9781529381771, $17.99, PB, 240pp
https://www.amazon.com/Language-Teacher-Rebel-building-successful/dp/1529381770
Synopsis: Do you want to start teaching a language online, be your own boss and be able to work from anywhere that has wifi? Do you want to make a difference in the world by using your language skills to empower people and give them the confidence they need to develop?
With the timely publication of "The Language Teacher Rebel" by Dr. Anneli Beronius Haake offers an instructive guide to building a successful online teaching business covering everything needed to set up a successful online language teaching business, from creating the right mindset, tech and marketing, to designing products and services, finding students online, growing your business and more.
But more than just a 'how to' manual, "The Language Teacher Rebel" is also a rallying call for teachers (or language teaching rebels) to share cultural values beyond the traditional classroom and encourage integration on a worldwide scale.
Critique: An accompanying Language Teacher Rebel Toolkit offers a wealth of editable, effective and time-saving templates for all the essential documents needed to set up and run an online language teaching business, is available for sale at www.library.teachyourself.com. Including planners, email scripts and financial templates, this toolkit has everything you need to get organized and get teaching. Especially in this time of distance learning due to the pandemic and its aftermath, "The Language Teacher Rebel" is especially 'user friendly' in instructive commentary, organization and presentation. While highly recommended for community, college, and university library Education & Business collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that "The Language Teacher Rebel" is also available in an inexpensive digital book format (Kindle, $0.99).
Editorial Note: Dr Anneli Haake is a native Swedish language and culture specialist and translator. She is also the Director of Swedish Made Easy, an e-learning language school, and has taught Swedish to a wide range of students across the world.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
Love + Work
Marcus Buckingham
Harvard Business Review Press
60 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163
http://hbr.org/books
9781647821234, $28.00, HC, 320pp
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Work-Find-What-Rest/dp/1647821231
Synopsis: We have all been given the advice that we should "Do what you love." It sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love (i.e. what engages us and makes us thrive) and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others.
With the publications of "Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life", Marcus Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity -- how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.
How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you'll excel? Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: Choose the right role on the team; Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews; Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you; Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you; Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students.
Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives, our work, our teams, and our classrooms. It's time we brought love back in. "Love + Work" will show you how.
Critique: A 'real world practical' compendium of experience based insights, advice, commentaries, and information, "Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life" is a kind of DIY self-help with respect to discovering what the world of work can be shaped to offer in terms of satisfaction, success, personal and professional fulfillment. Basically an instruction manual for making that old truism "If you do what you enjoy you will never work a day in your life.", "Love + Work" is especially recommended for personal, professional, corporate, college, and university library Jobs/Careers and Business Management collections. It should be noted that "Love + Work" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.80).
Editorial Note: For over twenty-five years, Marcus Buckingham has been the world's leading researcher on strengths and human performance, as well as an entrepreneur, founding the strengths-based leadership development firm The Marcus Buckingham Company. He began his career at Gallup and was the co-creator, with Donald O. Clifton, of StrengthsFinder. He is also the author or co-author of ten books, including First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths; StandOut 2.0; and Nine Lies About Work. He is currently Head of People + Performance Research at the ADP Research Institute. He has two websites: www.loveandwork.org and www.marcusbuckingham.com/about
Fulfilled?
Wasim Hajjiri
Winsome Entertainment Group
9781513690490, $21.99, PB, 140pp
https://www.amazon.com/Fulfilled-Land-That-Aligns-Purpose/dp/1513690493
Synopsis: After years of working with job seekers and landing hundreds of offers with combined salaries of over 10M$, with the publication of "Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" Wasim Hajjiri summarizes the job search into simple steps that can help you land your dream job within a few weeks instead of many months.
"Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" addresses such fundamental issues as: How To Be Fulfilled in Your Job; Dealing with Failure, Rejection, and Ghosting; Balancing Mind, Body, and Spirit; Branding: LinkedIn, Resume and Job Board Success; Networking: How to connect with the right people to land interviews; Interview Prep: How to succeed in interviews and negotiate a winning salary.
Critique: As comprehensively informative and 'real world practical' as it is exceptionally 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, "Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" must be considered as an essential combination of DIY instruction manual and 'how-to' guide for anyone seeking more than just another job -- but employment as a stepping stone to a achieving a desired career and/or work-based life-style. While especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Jobs/Careers shelf, it should be noted for personal reading lists that "Fulfilled?: How to Land a Job That Aligns with Your Purpose" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.99).
Editorial Note: Wasim Hajiri is an Executive Career Coach who helps professionals land their dream job, as well as a Forbes Career Coaches council member with numerous TV, Radio, and Magazine features including FORBES, FOX, CBS, Iheart Radio, and more. He also maintains a personal/professional website at: www.getyourdreamjob.net
The Language Teacher Rebel
Anneli Beronius Haake
https://www.annelihaake.com
Teach Yourself
c/o Hachette
https://www.hachette.co.uk
9781529381771, $17.99, PB, 240pp
https://www.amazon.com/Language-Teacher-Rebel-building-successful/dp/1529381770
Synopsis: Do you want to start teaching a language online, be your own boss and be able to work from anywhere that has wifi? Do you want to make a difference in the world by using your language skills to empower people and give them the confidence they need to develop?
With the timely publication of "The Language Teacher Rebel" by Dr. Anneli Beronius Haake offers an instructive guide to building a successful online teaching business covering everything needed to set up a successful online language teaching business, from creating the right mindset, tech and marketing, to designing products and services, finding students online, growing your business and more.
But more than just a 'how to' manual, "The Language Teacher Rebel" is also a rallying call for teachers (or language teaching rebels) to share cultural values beyond the traditional classroom and encourage integration on a worldwide scale.
Critique: An accompanying Language Teacher Rebel Toolkit offers a wealth of editable, effective and time-saving templates for all the essential documents needed to set up and run an online language teaching business, is available for sale at www.library.teachyourself.com. Including planners, email scripts and financial templates, this toolkit has everything you need to get organized and get teaching. Especially in this time of distance learning due to the pandemic and its aftermath, "The Language Teacher Rebel" is especially 'user friendly' in instructive commentary, organization and presentation. While highly recommended for community, college, and university library Education & Business collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that "The Language Teacher Rebel" is also available in an inexpensive digital book format (Kindle, $0.99).
Editorial Note: Dr Anneli Haake is a native Swedish language and culture specialist and translator. She is also the Director of Swedish Made Easy, an e-learning language school, and has taught Swedish to a wide range of students across the world.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
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