Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy

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In Thriving on Overload world-leading futurist Ross Dawson shares powerful, actionable prescriptions on how to flourish in an accelerating world, showing you how to achieve superior outcomes in your career, ventures, investments, and life. Many universities around the world are seeing how they can use theories of positive psychology to help students cope well with the ever-increasing stresses of modern-day life and university. It is a helpful reminder that you can give yourself a break and embrace your imperfections—and have a happy, successful life at the same time.

Thriving is about the self-care lifestyle choices you make and those little extras that make all the difference to how you interact with our world.

Every day is like the perfect day,” she says, “but my favourite moment was when I overheard a child recommending a book to a child from another family.

The heart of this book is the five chapters that unpack these approaches to working with text: managing structure; managing sentences; managing punctuation patterns; managing momentum; and building a revision process. While including insightful reflections on their own paths, they are careful to also incorporate a range of other diverse voices in the “real-world reflections” sections written by different contributors.Thriving applies equally to nature, society, and the economy, encompassing our health, organizations, infrastructure, technologies, resources, and ecosystems. In August 1990 I embarked on one of the most exciting journeys of my life, flying from Cape Town, South Africa, where I was still an undergraduate taking a degree in business science, to Tokyo, Japan. The only blemishes are that the book is a little outdated (written way back in 1988) and also has some minor inconsistencies with respect to resource allocation issues. Tom Peters is a recognized guru on business excellence and management and the ability to love change, accept human resources as a major asset, stress quality and the use of building blocks as a strategy.