Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career

Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career

by Art Markman
Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career

Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career

by Art Markman

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Overview

To succeed at work, first you need to understand your own brain

If you're in a job interview, how should you think about the mindset of the interviewer? If you've just been promoted, how do you handle the tensions of managing former peers? And what are the telltale mental signs that it's time to start planning your next career move?

We know that psychology can teach us much about behaviors and challenges relevant to work, such as making better decisions, influencing people, and dealing with stress. But many popular books on these topics analyze them as universal human phenomena without providing real-life, constructive career help.

Bring Your Brain to Work changes all that. Professor, author, and popular radio host Art Markman focuses on three essential elements of a successful career—getting a job, excelling at work, and finding your next position—and expertly illustrates how cognitive science, especially psychology, sheds fascinating and useful light on each of these elements.

To succeed at a job interview, for example, you need to understand the mindset of the interviewer and know how to come across as exactly the individual the company wants to hire. To keep that job, it's critical to master the mental challenge of learning every day. Finally, careers require constant development, so you need to be able to sense when it's time to move up or out and to prepare yourself for the move. So many of the hurdles you face throughout your career are, first and foremost, psychological challenges, and Markman shows you how to use your different mental systems—motivational, social, and cognitive—to manage them more effectively.

Integrating the latest research with engaging stories and examples from across the professional spectrum, Bring Your Brain to Work gets inside your head, helping you to succeed through a better understanding of yourself and those around you.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781633696112
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 06/11/2019
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,090,736
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the Universityof Texas at Austin, where he is also the executive director of the IC2 Institute. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done, and is cohost of the popular radio show and podcast Two Guys on Your Head (@2GoYH) on KUT radio in Austin.

Author social media/website info:
smartthinkingbook.com/
twitter.com/abmarkman linkedin.com/in/art-markman-93aa6a22/

Table of Contents

1 The Path to Success Runs through Cognitive Science 1

Part 1 Getting a Job

2 Finding Opportunities You'll Value 17

3 Applying and Interviewing 35

4 From the Offer to the Decision 57

Part 2 Succeeding at Work

5 Learning 83

6 Communicating 103

7 Producing 125

8 Leading 149

Part 3 Managing Your Career

9 Move Away, Move On, or Move Up 177

10 Your Career 199

Epilogue: Write Your Story 217

Bibliography 221

Index 229

Acknowledgments 241

About the Author 243

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