Introducing The Power of Agency, a science-backed approach to living life on your own terms. Agency is the ability to act as an effective agent for yourself—reflecting, making creative choices, and constructing a meaningful life. Grounded in extensive psychological research, The Power of Agency gives you the tools to help alleviate anxiety, manage competing demands and help you live your version of success. Renowned psychology experts Paul Napper and Anthony Rao will help you break through your state of overwhelm by showing you how to access your personal agency with seven empowering principles: control stimuli, associate selectively, move, position yourself as a learner, manage your emotions and beliefs, check your intuition, deliberate and then act. Featuring stories of people who have successfully applied these principles to improve their lives, The Power of Agency will give you the insights and skills to build your confidence, conquer challenges, and live more authentically.

Take ownership of your work and unleash the power of agency in your organization! To help give employees the power, influence, and voice necessary to truly excel in their workplace, organizational development experts Miller and Katz reveal the importance of agency and offer practical advice on how to achieve it. With more knowledge workers entering the workplace, many are being stifled by traditional employee-manager relationships that hamper their ability to fully contribute and feel engaged at work. And in a constantly changing and competitive world of work, organizations must evolve to keep up with worker satisfaction or else face a decrease in performance and loss in talent. The solution? Enabling your employees to exercise their individual agency in the workplace. Through an actionable roadmap that highlights common pitfalls and practical steps necessary for establishing a culture of greater agency, this book will provide individuals, teams, managers, and leaders with concrete ways to clarify their current level of agency and identifies specific actions they can take to exercise greater agency.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The more you manage your exposure to external stimuli, the better your thinking, judgment, and life will become. Most of us have had that moment when we’re sitting at lunch with a friend and find our fingers reaching for our smartphone or glancing over their shoulder at the baseball game on the TV screen over the bar. #2 The collateral damage of an ongoing war for our attention is information overload. We have a whole range of devices and apps designed to be addictive, but they ultimately overwhelm us and rob us of the agency necessary to do what we want to do or need to do. #3 The human brain has a tipping point for information overload. When our brains are taking in too much sensory information at any one moment, we experience information overload. We often overload our brains with information by multitasking. #4 External stimulation, when used properly, can help us survive and adapt to change. But when used improperly, it can tire us out and make us feel overwhelmed. We must learn to control it.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.