Dan Cable

Wield your power for greater influence and impact. With formal authority comes power. But few people realize that informal power--the kind that doesn't come with a title--can have just as much impact. How do you use your power for greater influence? This book explains how power affects our emotions, our behavior, and how we work with others. You'll learn how to use self-awareness to keep your power in check, connect with the right people to create more value, respond to abuses of power, and leave a lasting impression. This volume includes the work of:Dan CablePeter BregmanHarrison MonarthDacher KeltnerHOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Wield your power for greater influence and impact. With formal authority comes power. But few people realize that informal power--the kind that doesn't come with a title--can have just as much impact. How do you use your power for greater influence? This book explains how power affects our emotions, our behavior, and how we work with others. You'll learn how to use self-awareness to keep your power in check, connect with the right people to create more value, respond to abuses of power, and leave a lasting impression. This volume includes the work of:Dan CablePeter BregmanHarrison MonarthDacher KeltnerHOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

An extraordinary guide for using the secrets of motivation to help everyone in your organization love what they do. In his groundbreaking book Alive at Work, psychologist Dan Cable offered leaders a fascinating peek into the neuroscience of motivation and offered them the tools to help employees love what they do. Now, with Totally Alive, Wardley and his coauthor, Dan Cable, kick it up a notch: How do you scale happiness, enthusiasm, and engagement across a team, a department, and an entire organization? This capability is increasingly important as companies look to grow, respond to crises, and transform their businesses. To rise to these challenges, employees need to be agile, caring, and purpose-driven. Using cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology, Wardley and Cable offer a three-part framework for building teams of agile, adaptable, curious, and highly motivated people. This includes:Reset: Reduce the threat response by creating a safe environment for employeesIgnite: Create events or experiences that create flashes of insight and motivationFuel: Sustain people's motivation through repeatable actions, which will eventually result in new habitsPacked with fascinating research, on-the-ground stories, and new scientific findings&#8212along with tools, assessments, and exercises—Totally Alive is the guide you need to build an exceptional organization, full of people who are motivated to perform at their very best.