When Faster Harder Smarter Is Not Enough

by Kathryn D. Cramer

Overview

When Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough draws upon Dr. Kathryn Cramer's quarter century of research into how people thrive under pressure. She explains that the real keys to professional and personal success in today's rapid-fire world are found in readers' deep, untapped reservoirs of creativity and intuition and describes a revolutionary six-step approach to tapping into those latent powers and turning stress into success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071415767
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/22/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Kathryn D. Cramer, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and founder of The Cramer Institute, a consulting firm that offers customized change management, leadership development and coaching processes, keynote addresses, and signature programs. Clients include MasterCard, The United States Air Force, DuPont, Bank of America, and many major hospitals and associations. Visit Dr. Cramer on the web at www.fasterhardersmarter.com or www.cramerinstitute.com.

Table of Contents

	How to Read This Book	v
	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction: Richer, Deeper, Wiser	1
	The Premise
	The Promise
	The Prescription
Step 1	Take Your Blinders Off: How to See What You Don't See	27
	Question Reality
	Feel What You Feel
Step 2	Be Outrageously Optimistic: How to See Potential, Not Problems	75
	Scout for Opportunties
	See the Glass as Half Full ... with a Pitcher of Water on the Way!
Step 3	Make the Future Happen Inside You: How to Walk Your Talk	115
	Think Big, Think New
	Be the Change You Want to See
Step 4	Get Others on Board: How to Speak and Act from Your Heart	155
	Build Strong Alliances
	Communicate to Motivate
Step 5	Stack the Odds in Your Favor: How to Build Momentum	201
	Overcome Obstacles
	Have Courageous Conversations
Step 6	Celebrate Every Victory, Large and Small: How to Leverage Your Success and Wake Up to What's Next	247
	Don't Go Back to Sleep
	The Best Is Next!
	Bibliography	265
	Index	271

Editorial Reviews

It's a vicious cycle: In our tense and hectic world, people respond to stress by relying more and more on left-brain qualities such as organization, control, and rational intelligence. But if stress-management counselor Dr. Kathryn Cramer is correct, such narrow strategies only undercut our effectiveness and rob us of job satisfaction. In When Faster Harder Smarter Is Not Enough, she teaches you to tap your previously untouched springs of creativity and intuition in six easy steps.

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