SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

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HBR = Harvard Business Review

CHAPTER 1

WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE? H. Kimsey-House, K. Kimsey-House, P. Sandahl, and L. Whitworth, Co-Active Coaching, 3rd ed., Boston, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011, http://www.coactive.com.

MORE OR LESS SUCCESSFUL E. Diener and M. Seligman, “Beyond Money,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 5, no. 1 (2004), 1–31; P. Chen, P. C. Ellsworth, and N. Schwarz, “Finding a Fit or Developing It,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 41, no. 10 (2015), 1411–1424; D. De Clercq, B. Honig, and B. Martin, “The roles of learning orientation and passion for work in the formation of entrepreneurial intention,” International Small Business Journal 31, no. 6 (Sep 2013), 652–676.

KNOW YOUR OWN MIND B. George, P. Sims, A. N. McLean, and D. Mayer, “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership,” HBR (Feb 2007), 129–138; K. Cherry, “The Big Five Personality Traits,” Verywell.com, updated 10 Jan 2016; D. McClelland, Human Motivation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

A LIFELONG JOURNEY R. St. John, “8 Secrets of Success,” TED Talk, Feb 2005; E. Andersen, “Learning to Learn,” HBR (Mar 2016), 98–101; K. P. Cross, “Not can, but will college teaching be improved?,” New Directions for Higher Education 17 (Mar 1977), 1–15.

NAVIGATION SKILLS F. Cury, A. J. Elliot, D. Da Fonseca, and A. C. Moller, “The Social–Cognitive Model of Achievement Motivation and the 2 × 2 Achievement Goal Framework,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90, no. 4 (2006), 666–679; S. DeRue and K. M. Workman, “Driving Leadership Development with Positivity,” Center for Positive Organizations; B. Johnson, “The Goal-Setting Process Warren Buffett Uses To Say ‘No’ And Achieve More,” GoalsOnTrack.com, 10 Feb 2016.

I WILL NOT FOLLOW WHERE THE PATH MAY LEAD, BUT I WILL GO WHERE THERE IS NO PATH, AND I WILL LEAVE A TRAIL. M. Strode, “Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers.”

CLARIFYING YOUR AIMS F. Nickols, “The Goals Grid,” 2003, http://www.nickols.us; C. Dweck, “The power of believing that you can improve,” TED Talk, Nov 2014.

WORK-LIFE BALANCE B. Tracy, Eat that frog! London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2016; “How many people have mental health problems?,” Mind, http://www.mind.org.uk; “Work-life balance,” Mental Health Foundation, https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk; S. Friedman, Total Leadership, Boston, Harvard Business Review Press, 2014; “Kenexa Research Institute Finds That When It Comes To Work/Life Balance, Men and Women Are Not Created Equal,” 25 Jul 2007.

A WORKING LIFE A. Brown, J. Bimrose, S-A. Barnes, S. Kirpal, T. Grønning, and M. Dæhlen, “Changing patterns of working, learning and career development across Europe,” Brussels: Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, 2010; W. Johnson, “Disrupt Yourself,” HBR (Jul–Aug 2012), 147–150; A. Brown, J. Bimrose, S-A. Barnes, and D. Hughes, “The role of career adaptabilities for mid-career changers,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 80 (2012), 754–761; E. L. Goldberg, “The Changing Tides of Careers,” People & Strategy 35, no. 4 (2012), 52–58; C. Copeland, “Employee Tenure Trends, 1983–2014,” Employee Benefit Research Institute’s Notes 36, no. 2 (Feb 2015).

PEER PRESSURE P. Reuell, “Positive Peer Pressure More Effective Than Cash Incentives, Study Finds,” UC San Diego News Center, 11 Jun 2013; A. Mueller, “Goal keepers: The power of positive peer pressure,” St. Louis Business Journal, 12 Sep 2014; T. L. Webb and P. Sheeran, “Integrating concepts from goal theories to understand the achievement of personal goals,” European Journal of Social Psychology 35 (2005), 69–96; “Why Peer Pressure Doesn’t Add Up To Retirement Savings,” NPR, 31 Jul 2015; S. Bharatam, “Three ways to overcome peer pressure and excel in business world,” Business Daily Africa, 11 May 2015.

ACHIEVING EQUILIBRIUM L. Nash and H. Stevenson, “Success That Lasts,” HBR (Feb 2004), 102–109; W. Wood and D. T. Neal, “A New Look at Habits and the Habit-Goal Interface,” Psychological Review 114, no. 4 (Oct 2007), 843–863; B. Verplanken and S. Faes, “Good intentions, bad habits, and effects of forming implementation intentions on healthy eating,” European Journal of Social Psychology 29, no. 5–6 (Aug–Sep 1999), 591–604.

THE CHALLENGES OF GENDER M. McMahon, M. Watson, and J. Bimrose, “Career adaptability,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 80 (2012), 762–768; “Language Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much,” PBS, http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/prejudice/women/; W. D. A. Fernando and L. Cohen, “Exploring the interplay between gender, organizational context and career,” Career Development International 16, no. 6 (2011), 553–571.

SMALL STEPS T. Amabile and S. Kramer, “The Power of Small Wins,” HBR 89, no. 5 (May 2011), 70–80; T. Amabile and S. Kramer, “Do Happier People Work Harder?,” The New York Times, 3 Sep 2011; “Research & Articles,” Teresa Amabile, http://progressprinciple.com/research.

SUSTAINING CLARITY C. Johnson, “Four Tips for How to Become More Consistent,” http://www.chalenejohnson.com; A. Wrzesniewski and B. Schwartz, “The Secret of Effective Motivation,” The New York Times, 4 Jul 2014.

MAINTAINING YOUR ROUTINE R. F. Baumeister, E. Bratslavsky, M. Muraven, and D. M. Tice, “Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource?,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74, no. 5 (1998), 1252–1265; M. Inzlicht and B. J. Schmeichel, “What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control,” Perspectives on Psychological Science 7, no. 5 (Sep 2012), 450–463; D. McGinn, “Being More Productive,” HBR (May 2011), 83–87; A. Salis, “The science of ‘hangry’,” The Conversation, 20 Jul 2015; “How Much Sleep Do We Really Need?,” National Sleep Foundation.

LEARNING FROM MISTAKES K. Schulz, “On being wrong,” TED Talk, Mar 2011; S. Lewis, “Embrace the near win,” TED Talk, Mar 2014; C. Chabris and D. Simons, The Invisible Gorilla, London, HarperCollins, 2010.

CHAPTER 2

FULFILLMENT IN THE ROUND M. Seligman, Building the State of Wellbeing, South Australia, Government of South Australia, 2013; “The A in PERMA,” The Positive Psychology Foundation, 8 Aug 2011, http://www.positivepsyc.com; R. Waldinger, “What makes a good life?,” TED Talk, Jan 2016; A. Adler, M. L. Kern, L. E. Waters, and M. A. White, “A multidimensional approach to measuring well-being in students,” The Journal of Positive Psychology 10, no. 3 (2015), 262–271; P. O’Grady, “Achievement vs Accomplishment,” Psychology Today, 11 Nov 2012.

POSITIVE HABITS T. Bradberry, “Why You Should Spend Your Money on Experiences, Not Things,” http://www.talentsmart.com; M. E. P. Seligman, T. A. Steen, N. Park, and C. Peterson, “Positive Psychology Progress,” American Psychologist 60, no. 5 (2005), 410–421; S. Achor, “Positive Intelligence,” HBR (Jan–Feb 2012), 100–102.

TRUE AND ACTUAL SELVES R. Biswas-Diener, T. B. Kashdan, and G. Minhas, “A dynamic approach to psychological strength development and intervention,” The Journal of Positive Psychology 6, no. 2 (2011), 106–118; D. R. Vago and D. A. Silbersweig, “Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART),” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 25 Oct 2012, http://journal.frontiersin.org.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE R. Habib, “Emotional Intelligence,” TEDx Talk, Feb 2015; D. Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 10th anniversary ed., New York, Bantam, 2006.

THE SIDEWAYS MIRROR H. Armson, K. Eva, E. Holmboe, J. Lockyer, E. Loney, K. Mann, and J. Sargeant, “Factors influencing responsiveness to feedback,” Advances in Health Sciences Education 17, no. 1 (2012), 15–26; T. Bradberry, “9 Habits of Profoundly Influential People”.

DELVE DEEP D. Dunning and J. Kruger, “Unskilled and Unaware of It,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77, no. 6 (1999), 1121–1134; B. Barker, J. Dutton, E. Heaphy, L. M. Roberts, G. Spreitzer, and R. Quinn, “How To Play To Your Strengths,” HBR (Jan 2005), 74–80.

THE POWER OF GRIT C. S. Dweck and D. S. Yeager, “Mindsets That Promote Resilience,” Educational Psychologist 47, no. 4 (2012), 301–314; D. Perkins-Gough, “The Significance of Grit,” Educational Leadership 71, no. 1 (2013), 14–20; T. Bradberry, “8 Ways Smart People Use Failure to Their Advantage”.

IN ORDER TO SUCCEED, PEOPLE NEED A SENSE OF SELF-EFFICACY, TO STRUGGLE TOGETHER WITH RESILIENCE TO MEET THE INEVITABLE OBSTACLES AND INEQUITIES OF LIFE. A. Bandura, “Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change,” Psychological Review 84, no. 2 (1977), 191–215.

AT EASE WITH YOUR MIND T. Lomas, D. Ridge, T. Cartwright, and T. Edginton, “Engagement with meditation as a positive health trajectory,” Psychology & Health 29, no. 2 (2014), 218–236; P. J. Davis, A. O’Donovan, and C. A. Pepping, “The positive effects of mindfulness on self-esteem,” The Journal of Positive Psychology 8, no. 5 (2013), 376–386; J. Hunter and D. W. McCormick, “Mindfulness in the Workplace,” paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 2008; L. Wasmer Andrews, “Four Good Times of Day to Meditate (And One to Avoid),” Psychology Today, 6 Mar 2012; T. Bradberry, “5 Ways Mindfulness Will Turbocharge Your Career”; J. Dixon, R. McCorkle, P. H. Van Ness, and A. Williams, “Determinants of Meditation Practice Inventory,” Alternative Therapies 17, no. 5 (Sep–Oct 2011), 16–23.

FINDING YOUR PASSION D. Pink, “The puzzle of motivation,” TED Talk, Aug 2009; S. Dinsmore, “How to find work you love,” TED Talk, Sep 2015; J. M. Berg, J. E. Dutton, and A. Wrzesniewski, “Managing Yourself,” HBR (Jun 2010), 114–117.

WHEN DISAGREEMENTS ARISE M. Heffernan, “Dare to disagree,” TED Talk, Aug 2012.

TAKING STOCK OF YOUR STRENGTHS “What is character?,” Via Institute on Character,www.viacharacter.org; N. Mayerson, “‘Characterizing the Workplace,’” Via Institute on Character, 2015, www.viacharacter.org; C. Peterson and M. Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2004; “The Via Survey,” Via Institute on Character, www.viacharacter.org; The Science of Character (8min “Cloud Film”) [online video], 2014, https://www.youtube.com; “The VIA classification of character strengths,” © Copyright 2004–2016, VIA Institute on Character. All rights reserved. Used with permission. www.viacharacter.org.

NATURE VERSUS NURTURE D. Bradley, “Why Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule is wrong,” BBC, 14 Nov 2012, http://www.bbc.com; K. Anders Ericsson, “Training history, deliberate practise and elite sports performance,” British Journal of Sports Medicine, 29 Oct 2014, http://bjsm.bmj.com; R. Nuwer, “The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real,” Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug 2014, http://www.smithsonianmag.com; J. R. Lim, “Is Musical Talent Rooted in Genes?,” Live Science, 5 Aug 2014, http://www.livescience.com; K. R. Von Culin, E. Tsukayama, and A. L. Duckworth, “Unpacking grit,” The Journal of Positive Psychology 9, no. 4 (2014), 306–312; M. Seligman, Authentic Happiness, New York, Free Press, 2002.

CHAPTER 3

BEATING NEGATIVE THINKING D. D. Burns, Feeling Good, New York, Avon Books, HarperCollins, 1980.

LEARNING TO TRUST YOURSELF I. Joseph, “4 Ways to Build Self-Confidence and Boost Your Performance,” Huffington Post, 7 Dec 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.ca; A. Cuddy, “Your body language shapes who you are,” TED Talk, Jun 2012.

THE VALUE OF LEISURE A. D. Joudrey and J. E. Wallace, “Leisure as a coping resource,” Human Relations 62, no. 2 (2009), 195–217; M. Wang and M. C. Sunny Wong, “Happiness and Leisure Across Countries,” Journal of Happiness Studies 15, no. 1 (2014), 85–118; R. Hunicke, M. LeBlanc, and R. Zubek, “MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research,” paper presented at the Challenges in Games AI Workshop, Nineteenth National Conference of Artificial Intelligence, 2004; Aesthetics of Play – Redefining Genres in Gaming – Extra Credits [online video], 2012, https://www.youtube.com.

AT EASE WITH YOURSELF H. Adam and A. D. Galinsky, “Enclothed cognition,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48, no. 4 (2012), 918–925; T. Shafir, “How Your Body Affects Your Happiness,” TEDx Talk, Nov 2013; K. Hefferon, “The Body 2.0,” paper presented at Canadian Positive Psychology Conference, 2014.

WILD HORSES L. Deschene, “How to Deal with Uncomfortable Feelings & Create Positive Ones,” Tiny Buddha, http://tinybuddha.com; J. T. Cacioppo, J. M. Ernst, M. H. Burleson, M. K. McClintock, W. B. Malarkey, L. C. Hawkley, R. B. Kowalewski, A. Paulsen, J. A. Hobson, K. Hugdahl, D. Spiegel, and G. G. Berntson, “Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes,” International Journal of Psychophysiology 35, no. 2–3 (2000), 143–154; M. Tartakovsky, “How to Manage Emotions More Effectively,” Psych Central, 3 Jul 2012, http://psychcentral.com; K. Dahlgren, “Don’t Go Wasting Your Emotion,” Emotion on the Brain, 10 Oct 2012, https://sites.tufts.edu; A. Bechara, “The role of emotion in decision-making,” Brain and Cognition 55 (2004), 30–40.

ONE CAN CHOOSE TO GO BACK TOWARD SAFETY OR FORWARD TOWARD GROWTH. GROWTH MUST BE CHOSEN AGAIN AND AGAIN; FEAR MUST BE OVERCOME AGAIN AND AGAIN. A. Maslow, The Psychology of Science, London, Harper & Row, 1966.

THE ART OF SELF-CONTROL A. Duckworth and J. J. Gross, “Self-Control and Grit,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 23, no. 5 (2014), 319–325; J. Urist, “What the Marshmallow Test Really Teaches About Self-Control,” The Atlantic, 24 Sep 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com; M. Severns, “Reconsidering the Marshmallow Test,” Slate, 16 Oct 2012, http://www.slate.com; “The Marshmallow Study Revisited,” University of Rochester, 11 Oct 2012, http://www.rochester.edu; “Emotional Intelligence,” Mind Tools, https://www.mindtools.com.

THE WARP FACTOR Team of experts at American Psychological Association, “Stress in America: Paying With Our Health,” American Psychological Association, 4 Feb 2015, https://www.apa.org; “Stressed Out By Work? You’re Not Alone,” Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, 30 Oct 2014, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu.

MANAGING STRESS V. I. Lohr, C. H. Pearson-Mims, and G. K. Goodwin, “Interior plants may improve worker productivity and reduce stress in a windowless environment,” Journal of Environmental Horticulture 14, no. 2 (1996), 97–100; “Stress and wellbeing,” Australian Psychological Society, 2015, https://www.psychology.org.au; Team of experts at American Psychological Association, “Stress in America: Paying With Our Health,” American Psychological Association, 4 Feb 2015, https://www.apa.org.

IN THE ZONE K. McGonigal, “How to make stress your friend,” TED Talk, Sep 2013; A. W. Brooks, “Get Excited,” Journal of Experimental Psychology 143, no. 3 (2014), 1144–1158; L. Bambrick, “The Yerkes-whatzy law of who now?,” Secret Geek, 17 May 2007, http://www.secretgeek.net; D. Levitin, “How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed,” TEDGlobal, Sep 2015; D. G. Dutton and A. P. Aron, “Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 30, no. 4 (Oct 1974), 510–517.

THE ENEMY WITHIN L. Babauta, “A Roadmap to Overcoming Insecurities,” Zen Habits, 14 Mar 2016, http://zenhabits.net.

IMPOSTOR SYNDROME K. Bahn, “Women, Academe, and Imposter Syndrome,” Chronicle of Higher Education 60, no. 30 (2014), A51–A51; J. Nelson, “What’s behind the imposter syndrome,” Canadian Business 84, no. 18 (2011), p.129; M. Price, “‘Imposters’ Downshift Career Goals,” Science Magazine, 4 Sep 2013, http://www.sciencemag.org.

WANT TO WIN OR SCARED TO LOSE? J. Morgan and D. Sisak, “Aspiring to succeed,” Journal of Business Venturing 31 (2016), 1–21; T. A. Pychyl, “Fear of Failure,” Psychology Today, 13 Feb 2009; G. Cacciotti, J. C. Hayton, J. R. Mitchell, and A. Giazitzoglu, “A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Venturing 31 (2016), 302–325.

COPING WITH FAILURE A. Ledgerwood, “Getting stuck in the negatives (and how to get unstuck),” TEDx Talk, Jun 2013; B. Brown, “The power of vulnerability,” TED Talk, Dec 2010; B. Brown, “Listening to shame,” TED Talk, Mar 2012; C. Cadwalladr, “Brené Brown: ‘People will find a million reasons to tear your work down,’” The Guardian, 22 Nov 2015.

THE TERRIFIED WINNER J. Wooden, “The difference between winning and succeeding,” TED Talk, Mar 2009; D. R. Deeter-Schmelz and R. P. Ramsey, “Fear of Success in Salespeople,” paper presented at American Marketing Association, 2001, 248–255; S. Babbel, “Fear of Success,” Psychology Today, 3 Jan 2011.

CHAPTER 4

A REED IN THE WIND “Adaptability and Flexibility,” University of Bradford, http://www.bradford.ac.uk; C. Bergland, “New Paradigm of Thought Demystifies Cognitive Flexibility,” Psychology Today, 7 Sep 2015; S. Beilock, “Want to Successfully Manage Your Emotions? Be Flexible,” Psychology Today, 2 Nov 2011.

MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK “Be Happy: How to Make Your Own Luck,” Women’s Health, 28 Mar 2014; R. Wiseman, “The Luck Factor,” Skeptical Inquirer 27, no. 3 (2003); C. N. Lazarus, “Four Simple Ways to Increase Your Psychological Flexibility,” Psychology Today, 20 Mar 2014; H. Sohn and E. Lee, Integrated Korean: Advanced Intermediate 2, University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2003, p.22; R. Smith, “It Takes Patience to Know Bad Luck From Good Luck,” Psychology Today, 19 Mar 2015; D. Collinson, “Go Luck Yourself!” Psychology Today, 27 Apr 2016.

TAKING IT IN STRIDE L. Babauta, “Why We Struggle With Change,” Zen Habits, 19 Feb 2016, http://zenhabits.net; C. McHugh, “The art of being yourself,” TEDx Talk, Feb 2013; K. Hall, “Got a Problem? The Good News Is You Only Have Four Options,” Psychology Today, 7 Feb 2012; K. Hall, “Three Blocks to Radical Acceptance,” Psychology Today, 15 Dec 2013; S. A. Diamond, “Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy,” Psychology Today, 26 Jun 2008.

WHEN TIMES GET TOUGH D. A. Olson, J. Liu, and K. S. Shultz, “The Influence of Facebook Usage on Perceptions of Social Support, Personal Efficacy, and Life Satisfaction,” Journal of Organizational Psychology 12, no. 3/4 (2012), 133–144; S. Duică, R. Balázsi, R. Ciulei, and A. Bivolaru, “The mediating role of coping strategies between achievement goals and competitive anxiety in elite sport,” Cognition, Brain, Behavior 18, no. 2 (2014), 109–124; “The Cost of Coping,” Psychology Today, 1 Nov 1998; J. C. Weitlauf, R. E. Smith, and D. Cervone, “Generalization Effects of Coping-Skills Training,” Journal of Applied Psychology 85, no. 4 (2000), 625–633; G. A. Bonanno, A. Papa, K. Lalande, M. Westphal, and K. Coifman, “The Importance of Being Flexible,” Psychological Science 15, no. 7 (2004), 482–487.

TIME MANAGEMENT B. J. C. Claessens, W. van Eerde, C. G. Rutte, and R. A. Roe, “A review of the time management literature,” Personnel Review 36, no. 2 (2007), 255–276; L. Evans, “The Exact Amount Of Time You Should Work Every Day,” Fast Company, 15 Sep 2014, http://www.fastcompany.com; H. E. Elsabahy, W. F. Sleem, and H. G. El Atroush, “Effect of Time Management Program on Job Satisfaction for Head Nurses,” Journal of Education and Practice 6, no. 32 (2015), 36–44; “Easy time-management tips,” NHS, reviewed 6 Jan 2016, http://www.nhs.uk.

UNTIL WE CAN MANAGE TIME, WE CAN MANAGE NOTHING ELSE. P. F. Drucker, The Effective Executive, New York, HarperCollins, 2006.

DEALING WITH DEADLINES R. Rugulies, M. H. T. Martin, A. H. Garde, R. Persson, and K. Albertsen, “Deadlines at Work and Sleep Quality,” American Journal of Industrial Medicine 55, (2012) 260–269; Y. Tu and D. Soman, “The Categorization of Time and Its Impact on Task Initiation,” Journal of Consumer Research 41, no. 3 (2014), 810–822; M. Blake Hargrove, D. L. Nelson, and C. L. Cooper, “Generating eustress by challenging employees,” Organizational Dynamics 42, no. 1 (2013), 61–69.

STANDING YOUR GROUND K. Ching Hei, “Moves in Refusal,” China Media Research 5, no. 3 (2009), 31–44; C. Freshman, “Don’t Just Say No,” Negotiation Journal 24, no. 1 (2008), 89–100; V. M. Patrick and H. Hagtvedt, “How to say ‘no’,” International Journal of Research in Marketing 29, no. 4 (2012), 390–394.

DECISION TIME B. Kane. “The Science of Analysis Paralysis,” Todoist, 8 Jul 2015, https://blog.todoist.com; E. Jones, “Analysis paralysis? 4 tips for making better decisions,” The HR Specialist, Nov 2015; R. Hertwig, and I. Erev, “The description–experience gap in risky choice,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13, no. 12 (2009), 517–523; “New Survey Reveals Extent, Impact of Information Overload on Workers,” Lexis Nexis, 20 Oct 2010, http://www.lexisnexis.com; C. K. Hsee, Y. Yang, X. Zheng, and H. Wang, “Lay Rationalism,” Journal of Marketing Research 52, no. 1 (2015), 134–146.

ACTIVE PLANNING W. D. Gray, C. R. Sims, W. T. Fu, and M. J. Schoelles, “The Soft Constraints Hypothesis,” Psychological Review 113, no. 3 (2006), 461–482; L. R. Weingart, “Impact of group goals, task component complexity, effort, and planning on group performance,” Journal of Applied Psychology 77, no. 5 (1992), 682–693; A. C. Montoya, D. R. Carter, J. Martin, and L. A. DeChurch, “The Five Perils of Team Planning” in M. D. Mumford, and M. Frese (eds.), The Psychology of Planning in Organizations, New York, London, Routledge, 2015.

TAKING THE STAGE P. Ni, “5 Tips to Reduce the Fear of Public Speaking,” Psychology Today, 6 Nov 2013; B. Richmond, “The Brain Takes Rejection Like Physical Pain,” Motherboard, 14 Oct 2013, http://motherboard.vice.com; B. D. Flaxington, “Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking,” Psychology Today, 16 Mar 2015; J. Treasure, “How to speak so that people want to listen,” TED Talk, Jun 2014.

MAKING A PITCH P. Fripp, “Selling Yourself and Your Ideas to Senior Management,” Contract Management 50, no. 4 (2010), 12–15; M. Owen, “Three statistics that can make or break your sales pitch,” TheBusiness, DueDil, 20 Oct 2015; K. D. Elsbach, “How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea,” HBR 81, no. 9 (Sep 2003), 117–123.

SAFEGUARDING YOUR TEAM O. Zwikael, R. Dutt Pathak, G. Singh, and S. Ahmed, “The moderating effect of risk on the relationship between planning and success,” International Journal of Project Management 32, no. 3 (2014), 435–441; K. A. Brown, N. Lea Hyer, and R. Ettenson, “The Question Every Project Team Should Answer,” MIT Sloan Management Review 55, no. 1 (2013), 49–57; D. Dvir and A. J. Shenhar, “What Great Projects Have in Common,” MIT Sloan Management Review 52, no. 3 (2011), 19–21.

TAKING CHARGE “The Tannenbaum-Schmidt Leadership Continuum,” Mind Tools, https://www.mindtools.com; A. Lebedeva, “Five Essential Project Management Skills,” Information Management 49, no. 5 (2015), 28–33; P. Ellis and J. Abbott, “Leadership and management skills in health care,” British Journal of Cardiac Nursing 8, no. 2 (2013), 96–99.

MAKING MEMORIES J. S. Nairne, M. Vasconcelos, and J. N. S. Pandeirada, “Adaptive Memory and Learning,” in N. M. Seel (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, New York, Springer, 2012, 118–121; J. S. Nairne and J. N. S. Pandeirada, “Adaptive Memory: Remembering With a Stone-Age Brain,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 17, no. 4 (2008), 239–243; D. Kahneman and J. Riis, “Living, and Thinking about it” in N. Baylis, F. A. Huppert, and B. Keverne (eds.), The Science of Well-Being, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, 285–301.

CRITICAL THINKING J. E. Van Loon, and H. L. Lai, “Information Literacy Skills as a Critical Thinking Framework in the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum,” Library Scholarly Publications, Paper 80, 1–8; D. McRaney, “Survivorship Bias,” You Are Not So Smart, 23 May 2013, https://youarenotsosmart.com.

KNOWING YOUR BLIND SPOTS M. Stange, M. Grau, S. Osazuwa, C. Graydon, and M. J. Dixon, “Reinforcing Small Wins and Frustrating Near-Misses,” Journal of Gambling Studies (2016), 1–17, http://link.springer.com; V. Denes-Raj and S. Epstein, “Conflict Between Intuitive and Rational Processing,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 66, no. 5 (1994), 819–829.

CHAPTER 5

MASTER OF YOUR FATE “Locus of Control,” Changing Minds, http://changingminds.org; T. W. H. Ng, K. L. Sorenson, and L. T. Eby, “Locus of control at work,” Journal of Organizational Behavior 27, no. 8 (2006), 1057–1087; D. D. Burns MD, Feeling Good, New York, HarperCollins, 1992 and 1999, p.125; A. Van den Broeck, W. Lens, H. De Witte, and H. Van Coillie, “Unraveling the importance of the quantity and the quality of workers’ motivation for well-being,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 82, no. 1 (2013), 69–78; T. Willner, I. Gati, and Y. Guan, “Career decision-making profiles and career decision-making difficulties,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 88 (2015), 143–153.

THINKING LIKE A WINNER B. Gaille, “17 Employee Motivation Statistics and Trends,” 10 Nov 2013, http://brandongaille.com; A. Adkins, “Majority of U.S. Employees Not Engaged Despite Gains in 2014,” Gallup, 28 Jan 2015, http://www.gallup.com.

BEATING PROCRASTINATION P. Steel, “The Nature of Procrastination,” Psychological Bulletin 133, no. 1 (2007), 65–94; D. Thompson, “The Procrastination Doom Loop—and How to Break It,” The Atlantic, 26 Aug 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com; E. Jaffe, “Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination,” Observer 26, no. 4 (2013); A. L. Wichman, P. Briñol, R. E. Petty, D. D. Rucker, Z. L. Tormala, and G. Weary, “Doubting one’s doubt,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 46, no. 2 (2010), 350–355; “10 Foolproof Tips for Overcoming Procrastination,” PsyBlog, 31 Mar 2014, http://www.spring.org.uk; “How to Avoid Procrastination,” PsyBlog, 29 Jan 2009, http://www.spring.org.uk; M. E. Beutel, E. M. Klein, S. Aufenanger, E. Brähler, M. Dreier, K. W. Müller, O. Ouiring, L. Reinecke, G. Schmutzer, B. Stark, and K. Wölfling, “Procrastination, Distress and Life Satisfaction across the Age Range,” PLoS ONE 11, no. 2 (2016).

THE PERILS OF PERFECTIONISM X. Gong, K. L. Fletcher, and J. H. Bolin, “Dimensions of Perfectionism Mediate the Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Coping,” Journal of Counseling & Development 93, no. 3 (2015), 259–268; P. Gaudreau, “Self-assessment of the four subtypes of perfectionism in the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism,” Personality and Individual Differences 84 (2015), 52–62.

SEEING YOUR WAY D. DiSalvo, “Visualize Success if You Want to Fail,” Forbes, 8 Jun 2011, http://www.forbes.com; M. A. Conway, K. Meares, and S. Standart, “Images and goals,” Memory 12, no. 4 (2004), 525–531; C. K. Y. Chan and L. D. Cameron, “Promoting physical activity with goal-oriented mental imagery,” Journal of Behavioral Medicine 35, no. 3 (2011), 347–363; S. E. Taylor, L. B. Pham, I. D. Rivkin, and D. A. Armor, “Harnessing the Imagination,” American Psychologist 53, no. 4 (1998), 429–439.

CATCHING A MOOD J. Du, X. Fan, and T. Feng, “Multiple emotional contagions in service encounters,” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences 39, no. 3 (2011), 449–466; B. M. Staw, R. I. Sutton, and L. H. Pelled, “Employee Positive Emotion and Favorable Outcomes at the Workplace,” Organization Science 5, no. 1 (1994), 51–71; C. A. Bartel and R. Saavedra, “The Collective Construction of Work Group Moods,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 45, no. 2 (2000), 197–231.

FINDING FLOW S. Moss, “The dualistic model of passion,” http://www.sicotests.com; V. T. Ho, S. Wong, and C. Hoon Lee, “A Tale of Passion,” Journal of Management Studies 48, no. 1 (2011), 26–47; W. Davies, “Some Thoughts And Questions On Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow,” Science 2.0, 26 Sep 2010, http://www.science20.com; P. Dubreuil, J. Forest, and F. Courcy, “From strengths use to work performance,” The Journal of Positive Psychology 9, no. 4 (2014), 335–349.

ENJOYMENT APPEARS AT THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN BOREDOM AND ANXIETY, WHEN THE CHALLENGES ARE JUST BALANCED WITH THE PERSON’S CAPACITY TO ACT. M. Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, Harper Perennial, New York, 1990.

PERSONAL COST CONTROL S. McNerney, “Rethinking the Endowment Effect,” Big Think, http://bigthink.com; A. J. Elliot and K. M. Sheldon, “Avoidance Achievement Motivation,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 73, no. 1 (1997), 171–185.

YOUR EVOLVING NETWORK R. Yong Joo Chua, P. Ingram, and M. W. Morris, “From the head and the heart,” Academy of Management Journal 51, no. 3 (2008), 436–452; R. Hoffman and B. Casnocha, “The science of networking,” The Guardian, 13 Apr 2012; G. Soda, A. Usai, and A. Zaheer, “Network Memory,” Academy of Management Journal 47, no. 6 (2004), 893–906; M. Simmons, “The Surprising Science Behind How Super Connectors Scale Their Networks,” Forbes, 4 Sep 2013, http://www.forbes.com; S. Vozza, “The Science Behind Successful Networking,” Fast Company, 3 Oct 2015, http://www.fastcompany.com.

BUILDING YOUR SOCIAL CAPITAL M. K. Smith, “Social Capital,” The encylopaedia of informal education, 2000–2009, http://infed.org/mobi/social-capital; M. K. Smith, “Robert Putnam,” The encyclopaedia of informal education, 2001, 2007, www.infed.org/thinkers/putnam.htm; The World Bank, “The Initiative on Defining, Monitoring and Measuring Social Capital,” Social Capital Initiative Working Paper No. 2, 1998, p.5; M. K. Smith, “Social capital,” The encyclopaedia of informal education, 2000–2009, http://infed.org/mobi/social-capital; S. E. Seibert and M. L. Kraimer, “A social capital theory of career success,” Academy of Management Journal 44, no. 4 (2001), 291–237.

CREATIVE RESPONSES C. J. Neumann, “Fostering creativity,” EMBO Reports 8, no. 3 (2007), 202–206; E. Hulme, B. Thomas, and H. DeLaRosby, “Developing Creativity Ecosystems,” About Campus 19, no. 1 (2014), 14–23; S. Hebron, “John Keats and ‘negative capability’,” British Library, http://www.bl.uk; E. Grossman, “Why Science Needs People Who Cry,” TEDx Talk, Jan 2016; A. Massey, “Developing creativity for the world of work,” Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education 4, no. 1 (2005), 17–30; A. VanGundy, 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving, San Francisco, Pfeiffer, 2005, p.325.

LEARNING FROM FAILURES J. P. Eggers and L. Song, “Dealing with failure,” Academy of Management Journal 58, no. 6 (2015), 1785–1803; C. Argyris, “Teaching Smart People How to Learn,” HBR (May–June 1991), 99–109.

AVOIDING BURNOUT S. L. Parker, N. L. Jimmieson, and C. E. Amiot, “Self-determination as a moderator of demands and control,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 76, no. 1 (2010), 52–67.

FREE TIME A. Spiers and G. J. Walker, “The Effects of Ethnicity and Leisure Satisfaction on Happiness, Peacefulness, and Quality of Life,” Leisure Sciences 31, no. 1 (2008), 84–89; G. M. Schwartz and J. Campagna, “New meaning for the emotional state of the elderly, from a leisure standpoint,” Leisure Studies 27, no. 2 (2008), 207–211; W. Wang, C. Kao, T. Huan, and C. Wu, “Free Time Management Contributes to Better Quality of Life,” Journal of Happiness Studies 12, no. 4 (2011), 561–573; M. G. Ragheb and J. G. Beard, “Measuring Leisure Attitude,” Journal of Leisure Research 14, no. 2 (1982), 155–167; L. Grodzki, Building Your Ideal Private Practice, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

LIFELONG LEARNING H. Knipprath and K. De Rick, “How Social and Human Capital Predict Participation in Lifelong Learning,” Adult Education Quarterly 65, no. 1 (2015), 50–66; K. Steffens, “Competences, Learning Theories and MOOCs,” European Journal of Education 50, no. 1 (2015), 41–59; “Contemporary theories of learning,” National College for Teaching & Leadership, https://www.nationalcollege.org.uk.

DESIRE IS THE KEY TO MOTIVATION, BUT IT’S THE DETERMINATION AND COMMITMENT TO AN UNRELENTING PURSUIT OF YOUR GOAL—A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE—THAT WILL ENABLE YOU TO ATTAIN THE SUCCESS YOU SEEK. With thanks to Mario Andretti, and his publicist Patty Reid, for permission to use this quote.

FEEDBACK L. Li, X. Liu, and A. L. Steckelberg, “Assessor or assessee,” British Journal of Educational Technology 41, no. 3 (2010), 525–536; P. L. Harms, and D. B. Roebuck, “Teaching the art and craft of giving and receiving feedback,” Business Communication Quarterly 73, no. 4 (2010), 413–431.

LISTENING SKILLS G. D. Bodie, D. Worthington, M. Imhof, and L. O. Cooper, “What Would a Unified Field of Listening Look Like?,” International Journal of Listening 22, no. 2 (2008), 103–122.

MENTORS AND GUIDES D. A. Olson and J. Jackson, “Expanding Leadership Diversity Through Formal Mentoring Programs,” Journal of Leadership Studies 3, no. 1 (2009), 47–60; W. Gentry, S. Stawiski, G. Eckert, and M. Ruderman, “Crafting Your Career,” Center for Creative Leadership (2013), www.ccl.org.

CREDIBILITY S. Chaiken and D. Maheswaran, “Heuristic Processing Can Bias Systematic Processing,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 66, no. 3 (1994), 460–473; W. P. Bottom, K. Gibson, S. E. Daniels, and J. K. Murnighan, “When Talk Is Not Cheap,” Organization Science 13, no. 5 (2002), 497–513; T. Simons, “Behavioral Integrity,” Organization Science 13, no. 1 (2002), 18–35.

RESPECT L. Uziel, “Look at Me, I’m Happy and Creative,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 36, no. 12 (2010), 1591–1602; D. Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, New York, Melville House, 2011, p.110.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WEALTH K. T. Yamauchi and D. I. Templer, “The Development of a Money Attitude Scale,” Journal of Personality Assessment 46, no. 5 (1982) 522–528; T. Li-Ping Tang, “The Development of a Short Money Ethic Scale,” Personality and Individual Differences 19, no. 6 (1995), 809–816.

GOOD FRIENDS B. J. Gillespie, J. Lever, D. Frederick, and T. Royce, “Close adult friendships, gender, and the life cycle,” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 32, no. 6 (2014), 709–736; B. Fehr, “Intimacy Expectations in Same-Sex Friendships,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 86, no. 2 (2004), 265–284.

SUCCESSFUL IN LOVE? I. Schindler, C. P. Fagundes, and K. W. Murdock, “Predictors of romantic relationship formation,” Personal Relationships 17 (2012), 97–105; M. Demir, “Sweetheart, you really make me happy,” Journal of Happiness Studies 9, no. 2 (2008), 257–277.

CREATING A BALANCE S. L. Boyar and D. C. Mosley Jr., “The relationship between core self-evaluations and work and family satisfaction,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 71, no. 2 (2007), 265–281; Z. Chen and G. N. Powell, “No pain, no gain? A resource-based model of work-to-family enrichment and conflict,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 81 (2012), 89–98; F. A. Muna and N. Mansour, “Balancing work and personal life,” Journal of Management Development 28, no. 2 (2009), 121–133.

SUCCESS FOR LIFE J. K. Boehm and S. Lyubomirksy, “Does Happiness Promote Career Success?,” Journal of Career Assessment 16, no. 1 (2008), 101–116; S. Lyubomirsky, K. M. Sheldon, and D. Schkade, “Pursuing Happiness,” Review of General Psychology 9, no. 2 (2005), 111–131; C. D. Ryff and S. M. Heidrich, “Experience and Well-being,” International Journal of Behavioral Development 20, no. 2 (1997), 193–206; D. A. Olson and K. S. Shultz, “Employability and Career Success,” Industrial and Organizational Psychology 6, no. 1 (2013), 17–20.