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Cracking Health Costs: How to Cut Your Company’s Health Costs and Provide Employees Better Care by Tom Emerick, Al Lewis

Cracking Health Costs: How to Cut Your Company’s Health Costs and Provide Employees Better Care by Tom Emerick, Al Lewis

Cracking Health Costs reveals the best ways for companies and small businesses to fight back, right now, against rising health care costs. This book proposes multiple, practical steps that you can take to control costs and increase the effectiveness of the health benefit.

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Shared Values – Shared Results: Positive Organizational Health as a Win-Win Philosophy by Dee Edington

Shared Values – Shared Results: Positive Organizational Health as a Win-Win Philosophy by Dee Edington

Shared Values–Shared Results is the follow-up to the influential 2009 business philosophy book Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy.

Taking workplace wellness to the next level, involves a vision of shared values that bring shared results for both employees and organizations. The book combines supporting research and science with practical solutions for implementing positive health as an organizational strategy.

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Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy by Dee Edington

Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy by Dee Edington

In today's fragile economic climate, organizations cannot afford to have runaway healthcare costs, let alone a sick workplace. Dee Edington, PhD proposes three key strategies for reducing the total medical and productivity-related cost trends that are bankrupting American business: don't get worse, keep healthy employees healthy, and create a culture of health.

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How to Build a Thriving Culture at Work, Featuring the 7 Points of Transformation by Rosie Ward & Jon Robison

How to Build a Thriving Culture at Work, Featuring the 7 Points of Transformation by Rosie Ward & Jon Robison

Regardless of size, location, or industry, every company wants to have a competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Despite this desire, many businesses don't focus on what would truly set them apart: creating the conditions for both organizational and employee wellbeing to thrive. When a company and its employees are thriving, everyone wins

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Workplace Wellness that Works: 10 Steps to Infuse Well-Being and Vitality into Any Organization by Laura Putnam

Workplace Wellness that Works: 10 Steps to Infuse Well-Being and Vitality into Any Organization by Laura Putnam

A smarter framework for designing more effective workplace wellness programs
Workplace Wellness That Works provides a fresh perspective on how to promote employee well-being in the workplace. In addressing the interconnectivity between wellness and organizational culture, this book shows you how to integrate wellness into your existing employee development strategy in more creative, humane, and effective ways.

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Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility by Ellen Langer

Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility by Ellen Langer

Genre: Mindfulness

If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents the answer: Opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of presuming impossibility, can lead to better health–at any age.

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

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How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America by Otis Webb Brawley & Paul Goldberg

How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America by Otis Webb Brawley & Paul Goldberg

How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today―the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm.

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The Citizen Patient: Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman) by Nortin M. Hadler

The Citizen Patient: Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman) by Nortin M. Hadler

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like.

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Surviving Workplace Wellness…: With Your Dignity, Finances and (Major) Organs Intact by Al Lewis, Vik Khanna, Tom Emerick (Foreword)

Surviving Workplace Wellness…: With Your Dignity, Finances and (Major) Organs Intact by Al Lewis, Vik Khanna, Tom Emerick (Foreword)

If you work for a large company or a government agency, you are probably one of over 50 million Americans subject to a workplace wellness program. This number grows daily, and if you work for a smaller firm, workplace wellness is headed your way soon. It’s hard to believe that something as pure sounding as “workplace wellness” could be bad for you, but conventional workplace wellness programs are proof that nightmares are real.

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The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science

The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science

In collaboration with the world's leading experts on compassion, CCARE is excited and proud to announce the release of The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science - the very first academic handbook exclusively dedicated to the topic of compassion. Gathering insights from top compassion researchers (neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, sociologists and more), the chapters cover a wide range of topics from parenting to health.

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