• The Management Models Pocketbook
• The Handling Resistance Pocketbook
• Brilliant Influence
• Brilliant Time Management
• Brilliant Stress Management

This is proving too complex, so I have decided to consolidate these into one blog, on my principal website at mikeclayton.co.uk.

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Here are two of the first six, sitting on my desk.  The other copies are already bespoken for.

Of course, I gave the first copy to my wife, Felicity, straight away.  The book is dedicated to her (as, by the way, was Brilliant Time Management).

“To Felicity, the happy woman”

You’ll be able to get your copies very soon. It will be formally published  mid-August, at £10.99, although all good bookshops, like Amazon, allow you to pre-order and get your copy as soon as it is available.

I am also very pleased that Brilliant Stress Management will be Brilliant Book of the Month for September, at WH Smith travel bookshops – meaning that there should be plenty in stock to buy as you travel around the country, getting stressed waiting for planes or trains.

“An easy read for an inner calm. This book is engaging, practical and packed with simple to achieve exercises that really do help you combat stress.”

Matthew Cole Clinical Director, York Stress & Trauma Centre

• A rise in your testosterone level, and
• A drop in your cortisol levels

As cortisol is a stress hormone, and testosterone increases aggression, these hormone changes will shift your mental and behavioural patterns.  Feel less stressed and more powerful in one go!

Research at Columbia

This was the finding of research led by Dr Dana Carney, a psychologist at Columbia Business School, with Andy Yap (also at Columbia) and Amy Cuddy at Harvard.  In their paper, Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance, they say we “express power through open, expansive postures, and they express powerlessness through closed, contractive postures.”  Their study confirmed that posing in dominant nonverbal displays causes hormonal and behavioural changes in both men and women. Along with the hormone changes, subjects felt “increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk”; while low-power posers exhibited the opposite pattern.

One Month to Publication…

… of Brilliant Stress Management.  But you can order your copy now:

• Amazon UK
• Amazon.com

I have also launched a daily digest of stress management blogs, called the Brilliant Stress Manager.

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My publisher and I decided that, although the book is about managing your stress by taking control, Brilliant Stress Management is a better name.  Anyway, the new artwork has just hit the online booksellers, and the manuscript is on track for September publication.

The ISBN hasn’t changed, so if you’ve pre-ordered it under the old name, don’t stress about it.  It’s OK.