Amazon.com updates its list of the bestselling books every hour. Here is a snapshot of what is hot right now, this Monday morning, July 26, in the “Work Life Balance” subsection of the “Business Life” section in the “Business and Investing” category.
1. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. The authors maintain that just as athletes train, play, and then recover, people need to recognize their own energy levels. “Balancing stress and recovery is critical not just in competitive sports, but also in managing energy in all facets of our lives. Emotional depth and resilience depend on active engagement with others and with our own feelings.”
2. Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
by John C. Bogle. The founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund offers his insights on money, the values we should emulate in our business and professional callings, and what we should consider as the true treasures in our lives.
3. Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work’s Chaos
by Michael Carroll. Carroll — a meditation teacher, executive coach, and corporate director — shares Buddhist wisdom on how to transform the common hassles and anxieties of the workplace into valuable opportunities for heightened wisdom and enhanced effectiveness.
4. The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life
by Ken Blanchard, Marjorie Blanchard, and D.w. Edington. A blueprint for managing stress and making a lifetime commitment to fitness and well-being for busy, achieving people with overcrowded schedules.
5. The One-Life Solution: Reclaim Your Personal Life While Achieving Greater Professional Success
by Henry Cloud. Cloud, aconsultant and clinical psychologist, examines the workplace and offers strategies and scripts for moving toward a more unified, coherent sense of self and a life that fully encompasses work, family, and spirituality.
6. How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner … and Still Have a Life
by Bill Collier. Each of the book’s 20 chapters offers a lesson in setting goals, making plans for achieving your goals, and executing your plans.
7. Life Matters: Creating a dynamic balance of work, family, time, & money
by A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca Merrill. The authors show you how to navigate the critical relationships between time and money, work and family, to create a harmonious, success-enhancing dynamic between each.
8. If You Have Employees, You Really Need This Book
by Jerry Osteryoung and Timothy J. O’Brien. An action-oriented guide that helps you select, motivate, coach, train and retain a high energy and effective staff.
9. Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life
by Robert W. Drago. The author examines the deeply held but unexamined beliefs about work, womanhood, and society that are responsible for our out-of-balance lives, calling on us to challenge those beliefs and providing a road map for change.
10. Z.B.A.: Zen of Business Administration – How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work And Your Life
by Marc Lesser. The author follows the great spiritual tradition of teaching stories to beautifully describe the delicate path of living a working life as a spiritual practice.
