Navigating the Pandemic – Archives Books

It's official. For the first time, the World Health Organization has classified burnout as a health problem. Renowned motivational speaker Eileen McDargh proposes that to tackle it, we must learn to break out of energy-draining thoughts and behaviors.

By Eileen McDargh

A must-read for organizations facing the coronavirus threat, this book reveals what you should do to mitigate the risk, and limit the damage, of pandemic incidents, and provides guidance on creating and validating a pandemic plan for your business.

By Robert A. Clark

Packed full of case studies, practical exercises and key insights, this must-read book explains how leaders can guide their employees to achieve career satisfaction by taking an active, dynamic and ongoing interest in their development.

By Greg Smith

This book provides the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions.

By John Adair

Including case studies, practical exercises, and inspiring stories, this book is an indispensable resource for women seeking to build the confidence and conviction to secure the seat at the table they've earned and create a welcoming workplace for everyone.

By Joan Kuhl

Digging into more than fifty detailed case studies and years of McKinsey experience and data, the authors, along with a group of expert contributors, show how companies can move beyond incremental change to transform the business where the greatest value is generated-at its core.

By Anand Swaminathan, Jürgen Meffert

Being a leader is about much more than title and management skills-it's fundamentally a question of who we are as human beings. This book offers a concrete and comprehensive program for becoming an authentic leader, and shows how to chart your path to leadership success.

By Bill George

There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list-and there never will be. Explaining how to use technology to remind yourself what's most important and protect yourself from what's least important, this productivity-boosting guide offers advice for maintaining focus in our era of constant distractions, electronic and otherwise.

By Brian Tracy

Full of tools, tips and advice, this practical guide will help HR professionals and business leaders motivate, support and develop their staff to achieve exceptional individual and organizational performance.

By Ben Whitter

Written by an international team of leading practitioners, academics and business leaders, this comprehensive guide covers current developments in employee support and provides guidance to inform everyday practice in the workplace.

By Andrew Kinder, Cary L. Cooper (eds), Rick Hughes

Using real-world examples, this book shows you how to train your brain differently in order to change your behavior and your approach to life so you're ready to take on the world.

By Jez Rose

Women are acculturated within systems that encourage them to sabotage one another. This book shows how they can break free of this cultural programming and use whatever privilege and power they have to raise each other up.

By Joy L. Wiggins, Kami J. Anderson

Make business decisions with the same confidence and clarity as the world's best sports coaches.

By David Meltzer

With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, this book identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.

By Rachel Hollis

Presenting strategies and real workplace vignettes that demonstrate the benefits and results that can be gleaned from simple shifts and actions, this book will empower you with the knowledge that no matter the circumstance, you can think, act, and feel in ways that create purpose, success, and, yes, happiness.

By Jim Donovan

This report discusses how the wellness of workers has a big impact on everything from absenteeism rates to job performance to healthcare costs.

By Lorrie Lykins

This book offers advice on how companies can succeed in the new digital business environment.

By MIT Sloan Management Review

A guide to awakening the power of learning that lies within each of us, this accessible book offers deep, research-based insights into the ideal process of learning and guides you in identifying your dominant style.

By David A. Kolb, Kay Peterson

The African innovations that have emerged over the past ten years are directly linked to a managerial model that perfectly meets the demands of the digital era. These innovations are discussed and analyzed in this book.

By Soufyane Frimousse

By showing you what to do-and what to avoid-in any given sales or marketing situation, this informative guide provides the expert knowledge you need to gather data in diverse cultures, properly present your products, and close deals around the world.

By Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway

Drawing on the author's years of working in countries and organizations around the world, this book outlines an approach that enables leaders to transcend internal and external boundaries and help people to collaborate, even people over whom they technically have no power.

By Dean Williams

An unmatched resource fit for our new decade, this book analyzes detailed case studies so you will see how understanding your identity paves the way to achieving emancipation, capability, and autonomy.

By Bar Schwartz

With techniques, exercises, and thought experiments designed to tame the chaos, and positively and productively navigate our day-to-day lives, this book will help us to prioritize what matters, and live our digital and physical lives with intention and true happiness.

By Brian Solis

Guiding you through what she has learned on the career battlefield and what it means for other working women today, the author takes you through the treacherous-and often entertaining-landscape of the modern workplace, covering virtually every situation you're likely to experience.

By Dion Lim

Develop a resilient and effective strategy for your career by using the tools and methods which organizations use for their strategic planning.

By Kathryn Bishop

A practical, real-world training manual for mid-level management, this book presents a leadership guide for those in the middle, offers a wealth of resources for leadership guidance, and provides much-needed tools and techniques for building a high-performing team.

By Kim Turnage, Larry Sternberg

Decoding digital business at the strategy level, this book shows how powerful combinations of disruptive technologies, together with platform business models, and a mastery of digital services are enabling breakthrough results.

By Nicholas D. Evans

In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how companies should approach the question of diversity, and the best way to approach new leadership in an international business climate.

By MIT Sloan Management Review

In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn what makes a good leader, and what steps you can take to be both fair to and respected by your employees.

By MIT Sloan Management Review

In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn the role influence can play in an organization, and how much persuasive power executives possess inside their companies as well as externally.

By MIT Sloan Management Review

Featuring case studies based on exclusive interviews with leaders from a range of organizations, this book presents compelling research into how having a clearly defined purpose as part of business strategy is a vital element in business success, longevity, and inspired teams.

By Kevin Murray

Use this completely revised and updated edition to learn how to establish a strategic human resources plan that will contribute to your organization's business plan and ensure you outperform your competitors.

By H.C. Kazanas, William J. Rothwell

Filled with case studies and all-too-familiar examples, this groundbreaking book will enable you to release resistance to change, build more emotionally agile teams, and mobilize the entire organization quickly and efficiently toward a clear and common goal.

By Christine Comaford

Adversity is an inescapable part of life, but it's how you deal with it that really counts. This book shows you that resilience is about using those challenges, however large or small, to reset your course and create the life you want.

By Psychologies Magazine

Illustrated by scenarios taken from real-life situations, this book offers concrete actions team members, leaders, and organizations can take to build and maintain a productive, collaborative, and innovative environment in which people do their best work individually and collectively.

By Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz

An overview of the visual presentation process, as well as hints, tips and tricks for creating memorable, effective charts.

By Gene Zelazny

Following the stories of three diverse characters in a large modern organization - a top executive, a middle manager, and an individual contributor, this book provides an important, step-by-step template for leaders who are interested in creating and leveraging diversity and inclusion within their organizations.

By Mark Kaplan, Mason Donovan

Delivered with no-holds-barred honesty, humor and compassion, this practical book is THE no-nonsense guide for a generation of women who secretly muse about what might be possible in their careers, health and relationships but don't know where to start or are too afraid to.

By Bella Zanesco

Featuring straightforward guidance for anyone who needs help building new connections with new people, this book includes real stories that reveal how often chance meetings and conversations develop into profitable business relationships.

By Linda Coles

Maintaining balance is paramount to living a happy, healthy, and stress-free life. Constantly feeling out of balance is no way to spend your time. This book provides 60 tips that will help you stay balanced at work and at home.</

By Jeff Davidson

Presenting a new approach to risk management, this book enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an ever more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

By Emanuel V. Lauria, John Bugalla, Kristina Narvaez, Paul C. Godfrey

Analyzing the heroic exploits of U.S. Navy Seals and others who succeed against all odds, this book identifies five factors that combine to unlock deep reserves of personal power, and explores the science behind resilience and explains how you can develop this vital trait for yourself.

By Dennis K. McCormack, Douglas A. Strouse, George S. Everly Jr

By educating HR professionals about sustainability, sustainability professionals about HR, and business leaders about how to marry the two to accelerate progress on both fronts, this book demonstrates how leading companies are using sustainability to strengthen core HR functions.

By Andrew W. Savitz, Karl Weber

Commemorating the timeless wisdom and power of the 7 Habits book, this edition is presented in a highly readable and understandable, interactive format so you can enjoy and learn critical lessons about the habits of successful people that will enrich your life's experience.

By Stephen R. Covey

Providing specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization, this book shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mindset and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts.

By Pamela Meyer

Using a unique approach to examine what it means to be a strategic leader, this book will help you develop the qualities of strategic leadership and become an active contributor to the short- and long-term success of your organization.

By Stephanie S. Mead, Steven J. Stowell

Helping readers at all levels take responsibility for how they react and respond in a changing work environment, this book explains the stages of change and offers examples, tools, and success strategies so you can move resourcefully through each stage.

By Ann Salerno, Lillie Brock

Featuring interviews with some of the world's most successful networking experts to back up techniques and suggested strategies, this book demonstrates how to use networking in person and online together successfully for powerful results.

By Simon Ellinas, Simon Phillips

Filled with tips for immediate improvement and guidelines for building a long-term plan, this book is packed with real-life examples and the latest research proving that it pays to invest in your people's well-being and will help to boost the bottom line.

By Leigh Stringer

Providing framework to tap the bottom line impact that results from an inclusive culture, this book presents straightforward advice on how to achieve the kind of meritocracy that will result in a tangible dividend and move companies ahead of the competition.

By Mark Kaplan, Mason Donovan

Using straightforward, jargon-free language, this important resource provides a set of strategic questions every leader will need to ask and answer in order to prepare for the impending changes to the business landscape.

By Steve Brown

Helping women identify the 7 most damaging power gaps that are holding them back, this book outlines the key steps you can take today to access greater positive power, become the true author of your life, and reach your highest and most rewarding goals.

By Kathy Caprino

Giving you the tools you need to become an intentional, masterful relationship-builder, this book helps you establish common ground, focus on collaboration instead of command, put people before process, demonstrate worthy intent, and make every interaction matter.

By Ed Wallace

Filled with professional and personal stories, pragmatic research, powerful case studies, and practical actionable tools, this book is the formula to help each of us turn our challenges into our Resilience Advantage.

By Alan Weiss, Richard S. Citrin

Providing a roadmap to future-proof your business today for stronger performance tomorrow, this book offers a comprehensive approach to creating value and flexibility in an increasingly volatile business environment that presents both great risks and opportunities every day.

By Harsha Basnayake, Jeffrey R. Greene, Julie Hood, Steve Krouskos, William Casey

Offering managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions, this book explains why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.

By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky

The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms--this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.

By Gene Kim

Featuring case studies and references from companies in the USA, Mexico, Slovenia and the UK, this book is a blueprint for turning the HR function into a powerhouse for organizational success and creating more fulfilling experiences for people.

By Perry Timms

No, your transformation is not a failure. It turns out the buy-in, the talent, the alignment, and the growth you need to break through are already in front of you; it's all simply hidden under the surface-undiscovered, unutilized, and untapped.

By Jesse Fewell

This book guides listeners learn to understand urgency, become proactive rather than reactive, and lead teams to their fullest potential.

By Dermot Crowley

Presenting a series of stories that illustrate key concepts about diversity, inclusion, and the value of an open mind, this workshop-in-a-book will stimulate diversity dialogue and activities to help organizations practice new thinking and behaviors.

By Steve L. Robbins

Helping you develop talent within your organization, this concise yet foundational book interweaves best practices with the latest technology to offer many templates, tools, worksheets, and tips to help you explore how to support your organization into the future.

By Elaine Biech

This book gives you the keys to a successful digital transformation: a proven five-stage model and a disciplined process for executing it.

By Tony Saldanha

Based on the latest research and backed by real-world examples and case studies, this guide provides employers with the tools they need to start making a difference in their employees' health and happiness, and promoting an overall culture of well-being throughout the organization.

By Laura Putnam