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Good Habits (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

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Good Habits (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) offers insights on how to build effective habits for success in personal and professional life. The book features key strategies and perspectives from leading authors and experts in the field of emotional intelligence. It focuses on understanding the science of habit formation, identifying behaviours that drive success, and implementing changes to foster a more productive and fulfilling work environment.
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You might enjoy this book if you’re interested in transforming your personal and professional life by mastering the art of habit formation. It offers practical strategies and insights from influential thinkers to help you build and sustain good habits that can enhance productivity and well-being in the workplace.

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Improve the way you work - and feel - by forming better habits.

We all have habits. Some of them we've carefully established; others we may have simply fallen into. Some help us get our work done; others hold us back.

This book explores how to change your behaviour to break counterproductive tendencies, combat everyday stressors, and ultimately reach your goals at work and in life.

This volume includes the work of:

  • James Clear
  • Rasmus Hougaard
  • Jacqueline Carter
  • Whitney Johnson

How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Series: HBR Emotional Intelligence Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781647825034

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 12 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

You can find HBR at: hbr.org
Twitter: @HarvardBiz
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review
Facebook: @HBR
Instagram: @harvard_business_review
YouTube: youtube.com/user/harvardbusinessreview

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