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Showing Up: How to Make a Greater Impact at Work
Show up and be counted!Don't just live for the weekends - enjoy what you do, feel enthusiastic about your job and really show up. Let Tim Robson inspire you to bring it every day - to really contribute at work, make a difference and feel good about yourself as a result. He will also show you how to instil that enthusiasm in others so you can be surrounded by a team who gives a damn and really makes things happen. Who wouldn't want to work in a place like that!?So whether feeling a little lack-lustre at work, or you're a manager with a team you want to get the most out of, Showing Up will give you real, practical steps you can take to really ignite some passion and start to drive forward at full force.Practical advice on how to engage at work and encourage engagement in others Addresses the dominant norms and practices that often get in the way of us really showing up and bringing our best selves to work How to shift your mindset from thinking about work as 'school with pay', to really wanting to get stuck in How to identify your strengths and be good at what you do
232 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
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April 24, 2018
The examples are packed in like sardines, but they're not all sardines - there are also goldfish, barramundi, cod, perch, snapper, and an emu.
That is what reading this book feels like. Metaphor after metaphor, jumbled in among a string of similes. I'm sure the messages are good, but I just can't finish it.
For example, the "Iceberg Dynamic" (all the metaphors are referred to using capital letters), where we don't show all of ourselves at work - we often just show the minimum (the top of the iceberg, above the water). If we put the "Plug In" (yes, capitals), then "the water-level around us rises and less of our personal Iceberg is visible to the outside world". I mean, that's not even how icebergs work - they float. To use a cliche that's probably in the book somewhere, "a rising tide lifts all boats".
The overuse of metaphors (many of them strained) makes the book unreadable for me. :(
That is what reading this book feels like. Metaphor after metaphor, jumbled in among a string of similes. I'm sure the messages are good, but I just can't finish it.
For example, the "Iceberg Dynamic" (all the metaphors are referred to using capital letters), where we don't show all of ourselves at work - we often just show the minimum (the top of the iceberg, above the water). If we put the "Plug In" (yes, capitals), then "the water-level around us rises and less of our personal Iceberg is visible to the outside world". I mean, that's not even how icebergs work - they float. To use a cliche that's probably in the book somewhere, "a rising tide lifts all boats".
The overuse of metaphors (many of them strained) makes the book unreadable for me. :(
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