Take Charge of Your Mind: Core Skills to Enhance Your Performance, Well-Being, and Integrity at Work [Hardcover]

Paul Hannam (Author), John Selby (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 16, 2006

In Take Charge of Your Mind, business entrepreneur and Oxford lecturer Paul Hannam and noted psychologist John Selby present well-researched and easily mastered "cognitive uplift" methods for consciously expanding your mental performance, personal power, and satisfaction at work.

This easy-to-master Take Charge process enables you to wake up your mind and truly shine at work. By unleashing the remarkable power of your integrated mental, emotional, and intuitive capacity, you'll gain creative brilliance and inner confidence, successful customer bonding, and a new sense of well-being and fulfillment.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The people who succeed at work best are those who succeed in focusing on the present moment." -- Lisa McLeod, syndicated columnist of "Forget Perfect," June 9, 2006

Extremely useful toolbook for employees who desire happier, healthier, more productive lives at work. Full of easily implemented exercises. -- Bookwatch, September 2006

Techniques to break inability to let go of past regrets and future worries in order to enjoy the present moment. -- Body & Soul, February 2007

The book offers a revolutionary toolkit that promises to radically transform the nature of how people cope at work. -- ForeWord, July/August 2006

About the Author

PAUL HANNAM is the owner and Chairman of a computer services corporation in the UK with annual sales of over $20 million, and he also owns a training business which has provided courses on leadership, change management, communication and sales. He has been hired to provide consultancy and training programmes for some of the world’s leading corporations such as Barclays Bank, British Airways, HSBC, BT, Canon, Fidelity Investments, Mars, Express Newspapers and many more. Between 2001 and 2005 Paul lectured in Organisational Behavior, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Change Management at Oxford University where he is an associate fellow.

JOHN SELBY is a psychologist, cognitive-science researcher, entrepreneur, and international speaker with thirty years experience developing these core mind-management techniques. He conducted groundbreaking cognitive research at the National Institutes of Health and the Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry and the New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute. Founder and former CEO of The BrightMind Network and currently head of Consciousness Management Systems, John is a specialist in creating online experiential-instruction formats that deliver effective and affordable training to organizations throughout the world.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing (May 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571744673
• ISBN-13: 978-1571744678
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #498,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Work and well-being, April 28, 2007

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Elijah Chingosho "Dr Elijah Chingosho" (Nairobi, Kenya) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Charge of Your Mind: Core Skills to Enhance Your Performance, Well-Being, and Integrity at Work (Hardcover)

This book does a terrific job of explaining how you can not only enhance your work performance but also enjoy it and enable you to live happy, contented and healthy life. Using simple and easy to follow writing style, Paul Hannam and John Selby distils this subject into simple, practical, take-away messages, that if adopted, can significantly change your outlook on work and well-being.

There are numerous books out there on this subject, but this one is no fluff. It is down-to-earth and practical and will help you gain control of your mind to enable you to control your reality

13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Self-improvement ideas that deliver, May 15, 2006

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Steven Taracevicz "Qabalist" (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Charge of Your Mind: Core Skills to Enhance Your Performance, Well-Being, and Integrity at Work (Hardcover)

I read this book, since I seek tools for self-improvement. "Control your mind, and you control your reality."

I first surveyed numerous other candidates, which I found complex and convoluted.

This book provides a straight-forward, non-secular approach from which any reader can quickly gain the benefits of a peaceful, focused mind. The authors demonstrate that you can achieve this mind-state, anywhere, and anytime. I find these tools very useful.

You will enjoy reading the book, but moreover, you will carry its learned tools forward: control your mind, and you control your reality...it works!

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An extremely useful 247 page toolbook for employees who desire to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives at work, September 9, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Take Charge of Your Mind: Core Skills to Enhance Your Performance, Well-Being, and Integrity at Work (Hardcover)

The collaborative effort of organizational behavior and leadership expert Paul Hannam and psychologist John Selby, Take Charge Of Your Mind: Core Skills To Enhance Your Performance, Well-Being, And Integrity At Work is an extremely useful 247 page toolbook for employees who desire to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives at work. The process laid out in Take Charge Of Your Mind includes a wake up strategy or program, a positive approach to enhancing peak performance, ways to practice and encourage creativity, insight, wisdom, and integrity, and finally specific work strategies to maintain continued self-empowerment and peak performance. Take Charge Of Your Mind is full of easily implemented exercises and approaches specific to goal areas. It presents in small, easily digested segments, and it covers most general areas of work or performance problems. Written by a business entrepreneur and a psychologist, Take Charge Of Your Mind presents the latest in practical 'cognitive uplift' methods for increasing employees' mental performance and satisfaction at work. Ideal for brainstorming sessions or team-building type in-service workshops, Take Charge Of Your Mind delivers what it promises.