Bücher von David Rock

In this revised edition updated with new findings, a researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workdayΓÇörevealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients'' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.In Your Brain at Work, David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul''s brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting. By analyzing what is going on in their heads, he offers solutions Emily and Paul (and all of us) can use to survive and thrive in today''s hyperbusy work environmentΓÇöand still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.In Your Brain at Work, Rock explores issues such as:why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resourceswhy it''s so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractionshow to maximize the chance of finding insights to solve seemingly insurmountable problemshow to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possiblehow to collaborate more effectively with otherswhy providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easierhow to be more effective at changing other people''s behaviorand much more.

This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930, when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader, Hipolito Yrigoyen, became President. Dr Rock discusses the origins and course of this experiment in representative government, and the distribution of power and political benefits under the new system in the light of the society created by the growth of the primary export economy: how it came about that the established political elite ceded control to the Radicals; whom they represented and towards which groups they directed their attentions. The work also deals with the methods of organization and mobilization used by them in a complex urban environment to develop and uphold their political support. It examines in some detail the class conflicts of the wartime period, the strikes whereby the workers sought to guard against the erosion of their wages by inflation, and the counter-mobilization of elite and middle-class groups, most notably in the bloody 'Tragic Week' of 1919.

Organisieren, führen, entscheiden, kreative Lösungen finden: Die Aufgaben unseres Arbeitsalltags fordern uns und unserem Gehirn Höchstleistungen ab. Doch gerade in kritischen Situationen ist unser Gehirn oft blockiert, gehemmt, überlastet. Warum sind wir nicht in der Lage, unser ganzes Potenzial abzurufen? David Rock kennt die Antwort. Er zeigt uns, wie wir mithilfe der Neurowissenschaft die Mechanismen unseres Gehirns effektiv nutzen und so zu Spitzenleistungen gelangen können. Fundierte wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse gepaart mit langjähriger Coachingerfahrung und sympathischen, glaubwürdigen Praxisbeispielen machen dieses Buch zu einer ebenso wertvollen wie unterhaltsamen Lektüre. Damit Ihr Kopf zeigen kann, was wirklich in ihm steckt.

Drawing on largely unexplored nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources, this book offers an in-depth study of Britain's presence in Argentina. Finally, the book traces links between British multinationals and the political breakdown in Argentina of the 1970s and early 1980s, leading into dictatorship and the Falklands War.