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A revolutionary blueprint for navigating the new world of work

Today, the career escalator is jammed at every level.  Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Wages are virtually stagnant. Global competition for jobs is fierce.  The employer-employee pact is over; job security doesn’t exist.
 
Here, LinkedIn co-founder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author  Ben Casnocha  reveal a revolutionary new blueprint for how to survive and thrive in this new career landscape.  How? By learning to thinking and act like an entrepreneur. In other words, the secret to moving up that jammed escalator, they say, is to run your career like it’s a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.
 
Why? Start-ups and entrepreneurs are nimble. They are innovative. They invest in themselves. They are self-reliant, yet build strong networks to amplify their strengths. They assess the needs of their target customers. They leverage their competitive advantages in the marketplace.
 
These are the very same skills needed to get ahead in today’s fractured world of work. 
 
You will learn the best practices of some of the most successful start-ups on the planet, and how these entrepreneurial strategies can be applied to your career. Because whether you work for a giant multinational corporation, a mid-size company in a rural city, or a two-person operation run out of a garage, you need to know how to:
 
-Launch career plans in conditions of tremendous uncertainty – and be nimble enough to iterate on these plans quickly if current ones aren’t working
-Invest in your assets and establish a competitive advantage 
-Capitalize on breakout opportunities – and effectively manage the risk inherent in those opportunities
-Develop genuine relationships and map these relationships into an effective  professional network.
-Tap your network for the information and intelligence that will lead to you smarter career decisions
-And much more
 
A groundbreaking guide to  flourishing in the world we live in today, the Start-Up of You empowers each one of us to be the founder of and CEO our own career, and take control of our professional future.
 

The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

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Demystifying the practice of meditation, Pragito Dove presents an enjoyable and uncomplicated way to find relief from our busy, overstressed daily lives. Adapting ancient traditions-both Eastern and Western-into a modern and accessible approach, Dove explains how to bring awareness to our everyday actions by meditating while eating, working, laughing, humming, or just standing still. She uses practical, down-to-earth strategies, simple reminders, and flexible plans to help everyone-from beginners to advanced meditators-develop an individualized practice that includes relaxing, practicing nonjudgment, developing patience, discovering trust, and opening up to love and compassion.

“I highly recommend this extraordinary book.” (Margot Anand, author of The Art of Everyday Ecstasy)

“A reminder that spiritual practice can be a natural, spontaneous part of everyday life. Pragito Dove is a wise, gentle guide.” (Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words and Reinventing Medicine)Amazon.com Review
We need meditation now more than ever, according to Pragito Dove in Lunchtime Enlightenment. Dove, who has 20 years of experience in stress management and mediation counseling in the San Francisco area, believes that “Meditation can give us the inner anchor, a touchstone of sanity in an increasingly crazy world.” As modern-day life becomes intensely scheduled and busy, meditation is a sure-fire way to find “the serenity and joy we seek,” says Dove. Her teaching skills are evident in her easy-to-follow meditation instructions. Some meditations involve sitting (no worries–she discusses comfortable postures) and take more than an hour. Others take less than five minutes, and all can be done at just about any time of day. The resounding message is that meditation can easily be incorporated into daily life, whether it is a workplace, backyard, bustling airport, or bedroom. Simply “eating with awareness” or “sitting beneath a tree” can lead to lunchtime calm, if not enlightenment. Dove even shows readers how to meditate while dancing, running, jogging, or working out at the gym. While Dove’s spiritual wisdom shines in the later chapters–as she demonstrates how mediation creates more trust, forgiveness, faith, and compassion–you never feel as though Dove has a mystical or religious agenda. More than anything else, this excellent book (with a deceptively gimmicky title) helps us slow our minds down, so life stops passing us by. –Gail Hudson

Lunchtime Enlightenment: Meditations to Transform Your Life NOW–at Work, at Home, at Play

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