Sharon Melnick - Success Under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying Calm, Confident, and Productive When the Pressures on

More Advance Praise for Success Under Stress

Keep this book handy! Sharon Melnicks tools and techniques really work. Our colleagues saw a truly positive change in their resilience to workplace stressors. Her able-to-use-NOW-in-the-stressful-moment techniques dissipate crowded thoughts, bulging project lists, and hyper-adrenalized physiology. They are powerful and immediately effective.

Anne Camille Talley
Retired Senior Director of Global Market Research
Professional Development for a major pharmaceutical company

From the advice in this book, I no longer feel overwhelmed by the growing list of things to do, nor the personalities, politics, or inevitable problems. I now approach situations with a level head and open mind, and come out ahead. No one else knows the secret to why I am successful; they just know that I am a better leader and communicator. I am more satisfied in my contribution and ultimately happier in my life. Read this book! Dr. Melnick is in your corner giving you the tools, power, and confidence to become a better and more effective version of you.

Elizabeth Lee
Director of Marketing, Pitney Bowes

Dr. Melnick has a unique gift of raising your perspective on what the true stumbling blocks to success really are, then lifts you out of the fog to reach your goals and objectives. In my years of exposure to many in the field of business development coaching, there is no one that stands out from the rest, and is more qualified than Sharon Melnick. Her book, Success Under Stress, will awaken the Sleeping Giant within.

Bruce Libman
President and CEO, Total Network Consulting

Dont get mad, get results! Sharon Melnick provides practical, holistic tools to help you avoid distracting noise and enables you to convert obstacles to opportunities. Read this book to achieve, and be valued!

J. Scott Berniker
a Sales & Market Development Vice President

Sharons stress-busting secrets have helped me launch to the next level in my career while creating an amazing home-life balance as well. Read what she says in this book, it will change your life.

Stacy Francis
President of Francis Financial, Inc.,
and Founder, Savvy Ladies

Sharon Melnicks presentations at our Working Mother national conferences have been among the highest-rated by our audience of women leaders, and diversity and work-life professionals, and her book is an absolute must-read. Success Under Stress contains truly fresh solutions for the challenges of working parents everywhere.

Janet Wigfield
Executive Director of Conferences+Events,
Working Mother Media

We face an epidemic of overwhelmed Superwomencausing hormone chaos, weight gain, and sleeplessness. With this book, at last Dr. Melnick delivers us a prescription for powerful choices that create balance amidst high-achievement and hyperbusy days.

Sara Gottfried, M.D.
Integrative Physician, author of The Hormone Cure:
Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Vitality, and Sex Drive
with The Gottfried Protocol

As a mother of two and an expat working in Beijing, stress had been part of my day for years. That is, until we learned Dr. Melnicks tools for Success Under Stress. They were extremely relevant and useful to better our daily life and career satisfaction. I recommend that women leaders or aspiring leaders learn the skills in this book, especially the ideas of Be Impeccable for your 50%; how to influence others, and the breathing techniques.

Fang Hu
Chemical Engineer, Procter and Gamble

The tools in this book are invigorating and inspiringa truly fresh look at common challenges.

Nora Cashion
Director at a Fortune 100 Company

In this age of rapid, unrelenting change, resilience is a core competency for sustaining productivity and projecting leadership presence. Success Under Stress provides turnkey strategies and cutting-edge techniques for being resilient regardless of external challenges. It is a must-read for men and women in business today.

Kelley Black
Managing Director, Balancing the Executive Life

Success Under Stress is the handbook for anyone who aspires to a full life, which, by definition, will be busy and often stressful! Sharons easy, and quick-to-implement techniques, combined with her explanations of the physiology underpinning our emotional reactions, have been revelatory for me. Managers, new graduates, business owners, and all those experiencing a professional challenge will find quiet power in the pages of this book. I only wish Id been able to read it a decade ago!

Rebecca Jackson
Startup Advisor/Consultant

I accomplish so much more now than I ever used to, with far more confidence and significantly less stress. The wealth of information contained in this book also helped me blow past my stuck-in-the-mud sense of powerlessness about not taking a career step to achieve my dreams. If youre feeling stressed-out, overwhelmed, not achieving your goals, or just wish you could be more confident in your life at home or at work, BUY THIS BOOK - IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Marti Boylan
artist

In todays pressure cooker world there is no better book than Success Under Stress for women entrepreneurs. Every woman CEO should buy it! Keep it at your desk. Use it daily, like I do!

Eli Davidson
Award-winning author, small business CEO mentor

Without focus or direction, time and the opportunities it brings can easily get frittered away. Before we know it, were exhausted or frustrated because we havent achieved our goals and were now a year older! Success Under Stress is a timely and much needed resource for busy adults who are constantly battling too many demands for their time. Sharon Melnick does a great job of helping us achieve clarity and the ability to practice the wisdom of serenity.

Helen Whelan
CEO, Success Television

Powerful Tools for Staying Calm,
Confident, and Productive
When the Pressures On

SHARON MELNICK, PhD

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Melnick, Sharon.

Success under stress : powerful tools for staying calm, confident, and productive when the pressures on / Sharon Melnick.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8144-3212-9

1. Job stress. 2. Stress management. 3. Success in business. 4. Quality of work life. I. Title.

HF5548.85.M45 2013

2013 Dr. Sharon Melnick.
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