Find Your Happy at Work
If you hate your job and want change, the starting point is with you! Bev’s new book will help you get unstuck, move past boredom, and discover how to flourish at work. This book is for anyone stuck in a rut, burned out, or just plain tired. It will help you refresh your work life, whether or not you want to shift jobs.
Yes, aspects of your career are beyond your control. But you have more power than you realize. Throughout 50 fast-paced chapters, Find Your Happy at Work offers practical strategies to help you feel more enthusiastic and gratified on the job, whether that’s in the office or at home. These include:
- A simple model for creating career engagement that will improve your performance at work and help you develop deeper relationships with others.
- Ways to support happiness and success by becoming more positive and caring for your well-being.
- Techniques for addressing workplace challenges like difficult colleagues, tedious tasks, daunting projects, and gloomy environments.
- Strategies for strengthening your network, building expertise, and laying other groundwork for a resilient career whether you are starting your first job or planning your “unretirement.”
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"Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO"
50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work"
Pub Date: December 2015, U.S. $15.99 (Can. $18.95), 6 x 9, 224 pp., ISBN-10: 1632650177, ISBN-13: 978-1632650177, Category: Career, Rights: World
More about this book
For a thriving, durable career, you need to be adaptable and resilient. That means knowing how and when to tweak your performance, try new approach, or create stronger relationships with colleagues. Having career resilience means you can spot risks and become comfortable with change. It involves absorbing hard knocks, repeatedly rebuilding your confidence, and bouncing back when the worst happens.
A key characteristic of resilient professionals is that they think like entrepreneurs, even if they work in large organizations. And they tend to behave like CEOs, wherever they are on the career path.
Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO is available around the world, in multiple editions and in languages including Simple Chinese, Arabic and Vietnamese. The book is a practical guide to help you become more nimble and successful in the workplace. Its 50 chapters offer true stories and practical strategies to help you overcome workplace predicaments and capture opportunities, one by one. Every chapter offers you simple tips for tackling a career question that may be keeping you awake at night.
Read some of the comments about Bev & her first book
Kerry Hannon, author of Great Jobs for Everyone 50+ and Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness:
One keystone of Beverly Jones’ motivational and knowledgeable counsel to her clients is to know that you ‘own your career.’ And in her superb and enlightening book, Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO, she has woven her concise advice together to offer hope and help to all of us. [The book] starts your personal passage to a better working life. Read this book for the inspiration, guidance, and tools to help you discover smart ways to take control and get your career in gear.”
Pulitzer Prize-Winning syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page: “Looking to reinvent and energize your career? Check out Bev Jones’ new book. Her stories and strategies have helped many professionals to refresh their goals, recover from setbacks and re-launch themselves with new confidence, energy and ultimately, success.”
NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty in her 2016 book, Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity Midlife, featuring a detailed account of Jones’ coaching:
“Beverly Jones… has coached hundreds of people through their career transitions…Over the next six months, Nancy and Bev will re-envision Nancy’s future, exploring paths the college professor never considered…I admit, I am surprised. Anecdotes in the media are often this neat, but life rarely is…I think this is how Nancy and Bev charted Nancy’s future. No dramatic swings; Nancy is not leaping from law to dog therapy. She is just making tiny adjustments within the areas she excels at and loves... and bit by bit, she nears her mark. When she arrives at their final session, I am struck by how these tweaks have guided her to this place.”>
Sandra J. Anderson, in Ohio Lawyer
"The book is packed with well-organized practical tips that are thought provoking and attitude changing. Jones writes with crystal clarity, efficiency and charm."
Terri Schichenmeyer, in the Journal Record
"When you're having problems at work, there's a short list of things you can do: you can grit your teeth, take antacids, bonk your head on your desk, or read “Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO."
Amy Lindgren, in The News-Sentinel:
"Jones has a good idea here. It's smart to look at what makes successful entrepreneurs and business leaders tick so that you can apply the appropriate lessons to your own life. Her direct style of writing, peppered with "get over it" and 'suck it up' phraseology keeps things on the narrow road between precious and philosophical, which I appreciate. It’s a good book for workers who want to transform themselves into leaders."
Arlean Leland, Associate General Counsel, Civil Rights, Labor and Employment Law, U.S. Department of Agriculture
"This phenomenal woman has blessed me with her knowledge and expertise to become a better manager and a better person. With this book she can do the same for you."
Ira Chaleff, Author of "The Courageous Follower" and of "Intelligent Disobedience"
"Reading a career tip chapter by Bev Jones is like having a wise counselor with a gently authoritative voice sitting next to you offering the best advice that money can buy and that you can realistically follow. A pure pleasure."
Richard Eisenberg, Work & Purpose Editor, Nextavenue.org
"Career coach Beverly Jones will show you how to handle tricky challenges at work, make change your friend and, most of all, have the career you want and deserve."
