Product Description

A new generation of business guides for real people. This is a business book with a difference - learn to ease those workplace pressures with practical advice and fantastic illustrations. In the 21st-century business environment, stress has become a way of life - an accepted occupational hazard. Now is the time for change. Minimize Stress, Maximize Success is a personal development manual aimed at millions of stressed executives who need practical, effective strategies for dealing with the pressures of their careers. The author provides a wealth of practical guidance on how to boost your energy and resilience, how to put pressure in perspective and how to avoid energy fatigue. A whole chapter is dedicated to the most common complaints of the stressed executive. "Sounds Familiar" aims to banish any feelings of isolation and failure and help the reader work through and overcome common problems facing today's professional.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #613825 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
In the West, we expect body, mind and emotions to contribute to different areas of our lives. But while we concentrate on success and building intellectual capability our bodies are often neglected. In this book, teacher and counsellor Clare Harris offers a holistic approach to building the tools for success into our business lives, exploring the links between physical health and emotions and providing exercises to help readers find their stress points and create beneficial habits to deal with them. Work-related change, business surprises, threats and lack of opportunity all contribute to stress. So does our neglect of sedentary bodies while our minds are engaged and active. We come to each situation with our own experience, which may have left us with bad habits and feelings we need to deal with. Our desk environment may not be helping us. Our low confidence level or poor communication skills could hinder our chances of success, or we could simply have too much on our plate. Stress is the body's natural reaction to these situations. In the short term it helps but in the long term it is debilitating. Harris offers straightforward exercises that will help you manage your own time, goals, outlook, exercise and sleep. Their aim is to maintain health, give you a good understanding of yourself and your position and build confidence. The pages are laid out with coloured backgrounds to break the flow into readable chunks, although a lack of editing has resulted in annoying text and design errors. On the whole, however, this is an excellent practical introduction to stress management and positive thinking. (Kirkus UK)

Customer Reviews

Read it before it's too late!
Why I wanted to read this book is not because I was searching cure for stress, but strangely, because I was impressed by the glossy finish of the book when I came across it in a library. To my surprise, I had been hooked on this book for quite a while, especially the practical advice on dealing with the stress triggered by the hectic business environment in modern times. Some of the advices seem common-sense, but others don't. That's because we may be under different sort of stress.

Besides, I am fond of the abstract illustrations in this book, which can create tranquility when I read it.

Practical and useful as it may be, I am inclined to avoid giving the highest rate to self-help books, which can hardly convince me of all the advices.