Shine : how to survive and thrive at work / Chris Baréz-Brown.

Chris Baréz-Brown is on a mission to bring creativity, energy and engagement to the business world. Formerly with Carling Black Label and the ?What If! Innovation and ideas agency, he now runs Upping Your Elvis, a firm that helps organizations and individuals shine more brightly and release their genius. He works with companies like Coca- Cola, Nike, and Citigroup to help their teams make an extraordinary impact. He lives in London.

Shine bright -- Who's Elvis around here? -- Understand that you are amazing -- Choose to stand out -- Abundant thinking -- Filters of fantasy stop the knee-jerks -- Slow down -- Perception flip -- Be human and screw up -- Go with the flow, unless... -- Perspective practice 1: you aren't you -- Know what you stand for The sultan's elephant The good fight -- Down with desks -- Notice when others are great Make it personal -- 747 heaven -- Know your north star -- Assume everyone is an angel -- Rest -- Give your meetings teeth Agenda items -- Perspective practice 2: be true to yourself -- Live it, don't think it get struck in -- Buy less crap -- Get fresh -- Take a look at your habits inside and outside work -- Beware anaesthetics -- Pain and pleasure -- Don't have all the answers -- Perspective practice 3: question your assumptions -- Surround yourself with interesting people -- Using your position to control others -- Three choices -- If it ain't fun, stop doing it -- One big thing -- Be a dick, not a cock -- Commit -- Travel -- Hang out with resonators, not vampires -- Do iconic -- Chill and laugh -- Make friends and dump some -- You wear it well -- Really feely -- Feedback with funk Stage one: check-in Stage two: data Stage three: interpretation Stage four: reaction Stage five: land it -- Daydream -- Gang of three -- Thoughts don't change the world - ideas do idea wizardry -- What do they want from you? Do favours -- Make stuff simple -- speak in pictures -- Have a thing -- Leadership me, times three -- Be in the picture -- Do something physical -- Everything is energy -- Know what you need -- Back to basics -- Standards, my dear, standards -- Be consistent, be inconsistent -- You have a choice: you are free -- Surround yourself with talent, and be merciless it doesn't end with the handshake -- Never have to remember -- Diary neverland -- Lie down when you can -- The rabbit hole of e-mail -- Have killer numbers -- Be a brand -- Do what you love and are great at -- Be a grown-up, have a chat pressure valves -- Admin alchemy -- Stop taking - listen! (silence is really golden) -- Not just work -- Getting unstuck -- Feed the machine -- Killing fear -- Nice trumps nasty -- Checking in -- Stage fright delight -- Dream your way to genius -- Believe -- Shiny acknowledgement -- How does it feel?

We all have good days and bad days at work. Some days you feel bullet-proof. People listen to you, your meetings run like clockwork, and you keep having new ideas. Other days are like wading through quicksand. You can’t get anything done, and when the printer jams (again) you want to quit.

Wouldn’t it be great if every day went your way? If you jumped out of bed every morning ready for anything?

You can stand out, break the rules, and making things happen. You can be a bit more ‘Elvis.’ You can love every minute. The only limitation is you: your energy, your belief, your perspective. - Publisher