Advantages: It's written in a clear, friendly, easy style. Disadvantages: You may have come across some of the material before on a management course
The Mind Gym is a book written by management consultant Octavius Black and business psychologist Sebastian Bailey, based on a series of workshops they had done for British companies such as Diageo, BT, GlaxoSmithKliene and Norwich Union. It's one of the few books in the business psychology genre written by Brits.
The aim of the book is to make you aware of how you think and behave with a view to sharpening your brain and therefore your performance. ... ...something out of it.
The book is divided into five sections:
* "Taking Control" is about understanding your mindset; it explains how your mindset affects how you perceive and this section explains how flaws in perception occur - people with undiluted optimism often duck responsibility for instance, whereas people with undiluted pessimism misallocate responsibility (they are often too hard on themselves). Once you are aware of how you think this ...
snowflake5 27.01.2006 (17.02.2006)
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