Bøger af Caroline Adams Miller

Now this classic in goal setting s back, reissued with a new introduction, a new cover, and a fresh new interior design!

PRAISE FOR BIG GOALS "This is the best book on goal setting. Period." --BRIAN JOHNSON, Co-Founder and CEO of Heroic and author of Areté "Big Goals is a practical guide to the modern science of goal setting and comes to you from one of the most respected and admired applied positive psychologists on the planet!" --ANGELA DUCKWORTH, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Grit, winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, and co-director of Behavior Change for Good Initiative "Caroline Adams Miller has done a superb job of translating my theory of goal setting I developed with Edwin Locke, into every day meaningful, memorable language so you can put our findings into practice immediately." --GARY LATHAM, Co-Founder of Goal Setting Theory and author of Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager "Empirically grounded and splendidly accessible, Big Goals is the best and most timely book I've read on goal setting, because it links all of the most important science together while making it relevant to a rapidly changing 21st century world." --SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of Happiness "This book is the perfect guide to take any reader from theory to action, including dozens of worksheets that will inspire you to do more than you've done before!" --SONYA LOONEY, Mountain Biking World Champion and 4x USA National Champion "I was blown away by the practical, step-by-step process Caroline Miller lays out in Big Goals. I will undoubtedly be using Caroline's methodologies with athletes and coaches at all levels to help them unlock their full potential." --BRANDON GUYER, 7-year Major League Baseball veteran and Founder of Major League Mindset "In her best work yet, Caroline Miller applies real science to the art of goal achievement! Her brilliant BRIDGE methodology is a game-changer for achieving all of your business and life goals." --KEVIN BROWN, author of The Hero Effect and ranked a top ten motivational speaker by SpeakInc in 2021

This book is a celebration of women. It is an invitation to journey from #MeToo to thriving women via appreciative inquiry, dialogue, and story telling. It addresses topics, through an appreciative lens, that may be difficult to talk about, yet must be talked about to heal social wounds and create conditions for women to thrive worldwide.The book includes a foreword by Taos Institute, co-founder, Mary Gergen, PhD, a chapter describing ways to use the question in the book, and nine chapters containing 94 Appreciative Inquiry questions, poems, stories and specific practices to make a positive difference in the lives of women and girls at home, at school and at work. The final chapter puts forth five Arts of Thriving that emerged in the writing of the book: Curating Life-Affirming Stories, Creating Meaningful Disruptions, Caretaking Generative Relationships, Celebrating Strengths and Successes, and Cultivating Conditions for Thriving.Thriving Women Thriving World is written to be user friendly for women and men, in separate conversations and together. It is intended to foster relationship enhancing conversations and collaborative actions among people in a wide range of settings around the world. It is a valuable resource for coaches, consultants, facilitators, educators, leaders, and parents - for anyone seeking resources for compassionate conversations about gender issues. About the authors: The nine authors that collaborated to write this book range in age from 35 to 70. They live in South Africa, Canada, Mexico, and the United States and work on all 7 continents. They bring together expertise in consulting, executive coaching, organizational development, education, community organizing, Appreciative Inquiry, and positive psychology.

Research shows that grit is the quality that makes more of a difference for success and happiness than IQ or other factors, and that it can be cultivated. Here positive psychologist Caroline Miller offers a resource-rich, evidence-based guide of prescriptive practices for people of all walks of life to grow their grit.