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<p><b>I: Bags of Energy Now</b></p> <p>1 Boosting Your Physical and Mental Energy</p> <p>2 Meditation: Relaxing Your Mind</p> <p>3 Exercise for Boundless Energy</p> <p>4 Nutrition for a Healthy Body</p> <p>5 Blissful Sleep</p> <p>6 "Hands-On"</p> <p>7 Understand the Journey</p> <p>8 Group Connect</p> <p>9 Switch Your Perspective</p> <p>10 Your Action Plan</p> <p><b>II: Boost Your Productivity</b></p> <p>1 The Philosophy</p> <p>2 Decide Your Bigger Picture</p> <p>3 Set Your Compass</p> <p>4 Make the Right Stuff Happen</p> <p>5 Being More Productive at Work</p> <p>6 Getting Things Done Despite People</p> <p>7 Getting Things Done in a Virtual World</p> <p>8 Being More Productive at Home</p> <p>9 Paradoxical Productivity</p> <p>10 Your Action Plan</p> <p><b>III: Give Great Presentations (And Without a Slide Deck)</b></p> <p>1 Why Present?</p> <p>2 Structure</p> <p>3 Why You Should Create a Storyboard</p> <p>4 Become a Good Storyteller</p> <p>5 Slides: Less is More</p> <p>6 Gaining Confidence</p> <p>7 Challenges</p> <p>8 The Other Presentations</p> <p>9 Media: What Else is Available?</p> <p>10 Your Action Plan About the Author</p> <p><b>IV: Go Home Email Free</b></p> <p>1 Back to Basics</p> <p>2 Hang On. Who's in Charge Here?</p> <p>3 The Big Breakthrough: Find Your Zone</p> <p>4 Multiple Breakthroughs</p> <p>5 We Need To Talk</p> <p>6 Admit It, You're an E-holic</p> <p>7 Fix It! Overcoming Obstacles</p> <p>8 Great Work Practices</p> <p>9 Great Home Routines</p> <p>10 Your Action Plan</p> <p><b>V: Make Better Decisions More Often</b></p> <p>1 The Decision Process</p> <p>2 Tools to Decision Making 1: Data and evidence</p> <p>3 Tools to Decision Making 2: Analysis</p> <p>4 Tools to Decision Making 3: Brainstorm and incubation</p> <p>5 Tools to Decision Making 4: Boosting creativity</p> <p>6 Tools to Decision Making 5: Take action</p> <p>7 Decisions at Work 1: Teamwork</p> <p>8 Decisions at Work 2: Persuading, convincing and selling</p> <p>9 Decisions at Home</p> <p>10 Your Action Plan</p>

<b>Nicholas Bate</b> runs Strategic Edge, a consultancy specialising in creating long-term leadership competitive advantage for its clients including Microsoft, Marks and Spencer, The BBC, Royal Sun Alliance, Oxfam and Warwick University amongst others.<br />He is a thought leader and keynote speaker on the subject of personal excellence. He teaches around the world to audiences of 50-1500 and works as coach to many senior people in global organisations. He is also visiting lecturer at Warwick University Business School, teaching on the full-time and IBM specific MBA programmes.<br />He has produced and teaches five courses: Personal Excellence; Brilliant at the Basics; Personal Presence and Leadership Excellence. His new course Instant MBA was launched in September 2011 to rave reviews.<br />He is the author of 15 books and self-published mini books.

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