Successful People Read!
According to Business Insider: “A young Elon Musk read for 10 hours each day before growing up to become Tesla CEO. These days, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates reads a new book every week. There’s no question, part of the recipe for success is reading.”
For the past few years Harold has been writing almost exclusively for BookBoon. BookBoon provides books, covering topics from Engineering and IT to Economics and Business. Their books average about 50 pages so you can consume a lot of information in a very short time!
They work with industry-leading authors to give you, as a professional, exclusive access to an incredibly easy-to-use library with hundreds of practical eBooks on soft skills and personal development. Below are Harold’s books that are currently available on the BookBoon platform:
How to Build Trust and Respect in the Workplace
This book explains how to build trust & respect into an organization, resulting in higher productivity, improved morale, and a healthy, successful and profitable company.
How to Be a Top Performer
In this book, the author explains how the successful practicing techniques of world-class musicians and athletes can be applied at work to increase personal performance.
Project management for entrepreneurs
In this practical book, time management authority and entrepreneur Harold Taylor will take you through a simplified five-step project management process using forms he has developed for this purpose.
eBooks by Harold Taylor:
How to increase the effectiveness of your training
Whether you are a public speaker, corporate trainer, freelance workshop leader, teacher or manager, there is something for you in this book.
Sleep: a time management strategy
In this brief book, Harold discusses the importance of sleep and its impact on personal productivity, organizing skills, and health and well-being.
Time to be productive
In this digital age of speed, technology offers challenges as well as benefits.
Strengthen your brain’s executive skills
You can cope with any weaknesses and even strengthen them. This book shows you how.
An Introduction To Holistic Time Management
Just as holistic medicine treats the whole person, so holistic time management goes beyond efficiency and effectiveness and applies the strategies necessary to lead a healthier and fulfilling life.
Manage your personal energy
Much has been written on managing time; but any gains will be neutralized if you don’t also manage your energy. This book explains how to generate more energy and avoid energy loss.
Procrastinate less & get more done
95% of people admit that they procrastinate, and it is impossible t
o stop completely; but by simply reducing procrastination, they can greatly increase personal productivity.
o stop completely; but by simply reducing procrastination, they can greatly increase personal productivity.
How to Excel Through Self-Development
Everything from choosing courses that are right for you to how to excel in school work, study, writing exams, managing stress, memorizing information and managing time.
Internal time management: slowing the pace of life
In this book, time management expert Harold Taylor uses a holistic approach to time management to explain how you can prevent this from happening by managing your internal time.
The process of delegation
A how-to book on delegating effectively for maximum results while developing and motivating your staff, and freeing up time for the critical functions of management.
Make your meetings more productive
Focusing on how to receive maximum value for time invested, this book summarizes how the actions of both the chairperson and the participants can impact the success of business meetings.
Managing the use of technology
This book reviews the good, the bad and the ugly of technology, identifies how and where it consumes excessive amounts of time, and suggests how we can manage the use of technology.
How to Write Articles for Self-Promotion
This book explains how publishing articles in trade journals, newsletters and other publications serving your target market can build credibility and visibility for you, your company.
Develop a Goal-Setting Mindset
Goal-setting simplified. The process is easy since we are all goal-oriented by nature. This book shows you how.
Creativity in action
The aim of this book is to release the innate creativity within you, and to provide actual exercises and examples of creativity in action.
How to keep your life in balance
This book presents a variety of suggestions and strategies – including organization, simplification and mindfulness – so that you can keep work and busyness from threatening a balanced lifestyle.
How work environment impacts productivity
This book goes beyond physical office layout and organization and explains the impact of everything from sound and office greenery to colors on your personal productivity, health and well-being.
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How to organize your work, home and life
Time is an important non-renewable resource that can be used more effectively by organizing your work, your office and yourself. In this book, time management expert H.Taylor explains step-by-step.
How to say no when you want to say yes
Most people realize that it’s virtually impossible to say “yes” to everything and still get their own work done properly. But it is difficult to say no. This book explains how you can resist the urge.
How to Write a Non-Fiction Book & get it Published
Whether a beginning writer or an established author, this book offers information and advice on all aspects of writing, publishing and promoting your non-fiction book.
100 Low-Cost Ways to Promote your Business
This eBook draws on recent research and the author’s own experiences as an entrepreneur to provide inexpensive ways of promoting your products and services that will impact the bottom line.
Accomplish More by Doing Less
Getting more done by doing less requires focusing on those areas of your job or business where the 80/20 Rule is evident, and taking the necessary action to change the ratio.
Communication in the Workplace
Learn to communicate effectively applying the 3 C’s of communication (clarity, conciseness, and credibility) to the main communication media and workplace activities requiring effective communication.
How to Keep on Top of Your Job
You can stop playing catch-up at work and eliminate the stress of urgent tasks, an ever-increasing backlog, and last minute interruptions by being more proactive at work. This book tells you how.
Making Stress Work for You
This book provides the information and strategies necessary to reduce or nullify the impact of stress on your health and performance.
Making Deadlines Work for You
This book is a guide for time-conscious individuals who want to meet deadlines on a consistent basis without harmful stress or reduction in the quality of output.
Focus: How to Ignore Distractions & Get More Done
One of the biggest reasons for a reduction in productivity in this digital age of speed are the distractions. This book shows you how to focus on your priority tasks despite them.
How to Set Up an Office at Home
This book outlines how to convert a room at home into a work oriented office, and suggests ways of making money while you sleep through e-commerce on your website.
Escaping the Tyranny of the Urgent
This eBook explains how to escape the tyranny of urgent tasks that keep you from working on the important ones – primarily by preventing them from becoming urgent in the first place.
Time Investments That Get Results
Just as financial investments can earn more money, time investments can free up more time to use on priority tasks and activities. This book shows you how.
A Positive Attitude Gets Positive Results
How to develop a positive attitude that will increase your effectiveness at work and put a positive spin on negative situations, which in turn will improve your results.
How to Become a Proactive Person
This book provides an explanation and examples of proactivity and explains how to develop seven habits that can transform you into a highly proactive person.
The Proactive Manager
This book expands on the author’s 2020 book, How to be a Proactive Person, with more suggestions and ideas and an introduction to our innate proactive brain, and how to help it become more proactive.
Monotasking
Multitasking is a myth, and a very costly one in terms of productivity and quality of output. Monotasking allows you to accomplish more, with less stress, less effort, and in less time.
Boundaries at Work
The result of boundaries at work is increased productivity due to the freedom to focus on the priorities of your job with fewer energy draining distractions, interruptions, and needless sidetracking.
How to Build Character
This book explains how you can modify your innate and acquired personality traits, referred by the author as “softer skills,” and use them to create a motivated, fully engaged workforce.
Boost your memory – and sharpen your mind
This book explains how to increase your powers of memory and recall by using your brain’s natural ability to visualize and associate.
Reframing in Business and Life
This book explains how reframing – changing the way one looks at a situation without changing the facts – can influence your own behavior as well as that of customers, employees, and others.
Time Management for Authors and Writers
A brief explanation of how our brains work, and how the information can be used to improve both the creativity and productivity of those involved in writing.