Highly reviewed career books

Choose a rewarding profession that tackles the most important problems of the societies, using this guide focused on five years of research at Oxford. During your career you will work 80000 hours: something like 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for around 40 years. This means that one of the most important choices you’ll ever take is your career choice. There’s very not much good guides out there for such an important call, remarkably. Some career counseling is about stuff like writing a curriculum vitae, and some of the rest are just misleading motivational like following your heart and passion. Most people we refer to don’t really have any suggestions about career because they’re not taking advices from professionals or simply trying to sort things out on their own. This book is geared at helping you pursue a job that you love, that you are good at, and that explores the most important concerns of the world.

Our highly awaited follow-up comes from the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance: brave, revolutionary, how-to direct the use of exponential technology, moonshot planning, and crowd-powered resources to generate incredible wealth while simultaneously making a positive effect on billions of lives. Bold is separated in three main sections. Part one reflects on the disruptive innovations that challenge today’s Fortune 500 businesses and how it enabled entrepreneurs to go from drafting an idea to run a billion-dollar business. Part two of the book reflects on psychology, building on perspectives from Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos, all billionaire businessmen. Finally, Bold ends by looking at the best practices that allow us to exploit the hyper-connected crowd of today as never before. There, the researchers explain how to model and use reward contests, initiate million-dollar fundraising campaigns to tap into ten’s of billions of dollars of money, and eventually how to create groups of massively empowered individuals ready and able to help today’s entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true. Bold is both a guide and a manifesto. This is the go-to platform for today’s businessmen on the use of new technology, planning on scale, and the immense potential of crowd-powered resources.

Achieve success with the guidance of a well-known specialist on economics, relationships, and religion. The Bible’s Business Secrets offer a new way of seeing and pursuing success based on the Bible’s core ideas which are remarkably simple. Written particularly for those finding fulfillment in the areas of money, friendships, and spirituality, this book helps readers to come to terms with their common failures and turn those mistakes into future victories. The narrator explains the strong connection between making money and spirituality, based on his experience and understanding of the Bible, and advises readers to concentrate on self-discipline, honesty, and strength of character in order to attain personal success. Let this book recognize and correct the mistakes that stop you from feeling fulfilled and happy.

Focus, one of our economy’s most important skill is becoming exceedingly rare. Deep work is the ability to concentrate on a cognitively difficult task without interruption. It’s a talent that helps you to learn complex data easily and with less time achieve good outcomes. Deep work should enhance your quality and give you the feeling of real satisfaction that comes from craftsmanship. In brief, in our highly dynamic twenty-first-century world, deep work is like a superpower. Still, many people lose the opportunity to enjoy their days profoundly alone in a frenzied swirl of email and social networks, not knowing better ways. A combination of cultural critique and actionable tips, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through unforgettable stories from Carl Jung. DEEP WORK is an invaluable roadmap for anybody in a busy environment looking for finding back their focus.

Jocko Willink’s techniques of achievement were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most heavily decorated special operations unit. The #1 New York Times bestselling author outlines how he practices the philosophy in Discipline Equals Freedom: the psychological and physical constraints he places on himself to gain independence in all facets of life. Most authors give guidance about how to overcome challenges and accomplish your goals, but the most important element too often misses this ingredient: discipline. There won’t be any real change without consistency and discipline. Discipline Equals Freedom includes everything from techniques and methods to combat vulnerability, procrastination, and fear, as well as practical athletic fitness for inexperienced, novice, and experienced athletes outlined in exercises, and also the right sleep patterns and food consumption prescribed to maximize efficiency.

In this instant bestseller of the New York Times, visionary therapist Angela Duckworth tells those aspiring to excel that it is not talent but a rare combination of enthusiasm and determination that she calls ‘grit.’ Drawing on her own compelling experience as the daughter of a physicist who has always experienced her lack of ‘genius,’ Duckworth, now a respected scholar and professor, outlines her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business advising, and psychology, contributing to the theory that what truly fuels achievement is not ‘genius,’ but rather a special blend of passion and persistence. Grit is a winningly intimate, profound, and sometimes life-changing book about what’s going through your mind when you fall down, and why it makes all the difference.

The best-selling New York Times author of The Power of Broke and Shark on ABCs hit show Shark Tank discusses how determination, dedication, and good old-fashioned hard work are the foundation of any productive company and person, and encourages readers to climb and pound their way to the top. While it might be tempting to think you can shortcut your way to the edge, Daymond John says, the fact is that if you want to get ahead and keep ahead, you have to get into the work. In the awaited follow-up to The Power of Broke, John takes a close look at the hard-charging habits and winning techniques of individuals who have risen to their life’s struggles and worked their way to the very tops of their sectors. He also explains along the way that determination and persistence both helped him overcome the challenges he encountered in life and finally propelled his rise.

Spin Sucks will show you how to connect with your clients, partners, investors, and cultures respectfully, professionally, freely, and authentically. Gini Dietrich runs the world’s number one PR website, spinsucks.com, where she posts cutting-edge ideas and resources for efficient, ethical interaction. Now, she’s distilled what she’s learned into a detailed, actionable roadmap for any company owner who wishes to master the modern rules of communications.

In his career as a technology designer, John Sonmez learned that technical knowledge alone is not sufficient to improve earnings – programmers need soft skills such as the ability to understand emerging technologies before the others, connect effectively to customers, negotiate rates, and bring teamwork to a win-win situation for all colloborators and colleagues. His success began when John invested in these talents, and he became a well paying, widely sought-after designer and trainer Today John helps over 1.4 million developers raise their earnings per year by cultivating this special mix of expertise. In this book you will find out what it is like to be a skilled computer developer, how to go from understanding any coding to getting the skills to work on a design team, how to speed up your training by avoiding typical pitfalls for beginners, and how to determine whether to invest in a programming degree or bootcamp.

Real estate agents all have one thing in common: we want to bring our business at the NEXT LEVEL. We need to bring to the next level our lives, our businesses, and ourselves. What if you were able to get there, quicker than you ever thought possible, only by adjusting a bit your morning routine? The first edition of Miracle Morning book rocked the real estate world, changing hundreds of thousands of agents lives and companies. Now, The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents adds the story of professionals Rick Masters and his wife, Michelle Masters struggling keeping up with both real estates performances and family life.
They attend a workshop and meet with other agents who use a basic 30-day challenge to change their lives socially and professionally. Despite the enthusiasm of Michelle, Rick remains cynical. Yet Rick decides to sign up with little to lose and everything to gain. He shows that in just 30 days you can truly change any and every aspect of your life.