How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life

About this book

InHow to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb--economist and former partner at consulting powerhouse McKinsey--shows us how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology and neuroscience to transform our approach toeveryday working life. Her science-based techniques have boosted workplace performance and enjoyment for people in hundreds of organizations. Here, Webb shows us how to build these powerful tools into our own daily routines, to give us more control over the quality of our days. The book is arranged around seven practices that are central to having a good day: setting the right priorities, making productive use of our time, having effective conversations, doing our very best work, achieving great personal impact, being resilient to setbacks, and sustaining our energy. Throughout, Webb teaches us how to be at our best even under pressure, and equips us to handle common challenges such as co-worker conflicts and difficult deadlines. Filled with real stories of people who have used the Webb's insights to improve their working lives, and drawing on cutting-edge ideas from the latest research in behavioral science, How to Have a Good Day is the book people wanted to read when they finished Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow, and were looking for practical ways to apply what they had learned to their own lives and careers.