Off the Shelf - Book Club Books

Become the best version of yourself using these practical frameworks exploring the power of performance coaching from a Top NYC Executive Coach.

By Antonia Bowring

In Communication Essentials, expert Trey Guinn takes you step-by-step through the process of improvement, from understanding the importance of message clarity to specific, goal-based strategies to develop and maximize your skills.

By Trey Guinn

Now, more than ever, Communication Intelligence is essential for workers at all levels. The good news is that you can learn to develop and master this vital competency. If you're interested in being your best through effective communication, that's exactly what you will find in the pages of Communication Intelligence.

By Claude D’Val Morgan

At Dale Carnegie Training, we agree that some things never change. After all, the timeless principles that our founder Dale Carnegie established are still as practical and relevant today as ever.

By Dale Carnegie & Associates

Revealing a profound truth about modern-day change, this book shows that being conscious helps us think deeper, learn faster, and collaborate better and the more conscious we are, the faster we adapt, and the higher performing we become.

By Bob Rosen, Emma-Kate Swann

This book aims to provide you with a step-by-step guide for personal, professional, and organizational growth. The author highlights how certain relationships enable a non-linear growth trajectory. These relationships, in addition to augmenting what we can accomplish, often shape who we become. These relationships are "curve benders," and this book will show you who and where they are, how to find and engage them, and, equally valuable, how you can become a curve bender to impact the lives and livelihoods of others profoundly.

By David Nour, Lin Wilson

A groundbreaking guide to how you can transform your workplace culture, improve your workforce and boost your revenue with the support of talent intelligence software.

By Alexandra Levit, Ashutosh Garg, Kamal Ahluwalia

Disability Friendly is a clarion call to businesses around the world to realize the opportunities presented by employing people with disabilities. It explains the potential of disabled employees, how to create a culture of inclusion, and, in the process, help people with disabilities become proud contributors.

By John D. Kemp

Take a journey on a Personal Agility Boat to visualize options, alternatives, and opportunities. Visualization is the way to your shore's lighthouse.

By Michal Raczka, Raji Sivaraman

Acquire a framework to understand, evaluate and respond to emerging technologies in order to future-proof your organization against technological disruption.

By Paul Armstrong

The research focused on how organizations were providing education opportunities, DEI&B budgets, the challenges of offering DEI&B education, and differences between organizations that had DEI&B education and those that did not.

By ATD Research

This book will give you both a conceptual framework to understand digital, as well as an execution model (Connect-Quantify-Optimize) to actually do digital, in a simple and engaging way.

By Ved Sen

In this issue of TD at Work, Catherine Wemette guides readers in helping others understand the importance of focusing on mental health in the workplace.

By Catherine Wemette

Filled with pragmatic advice, case studies, and best practices, this book challenges leaders to think differently about their approach to growing a sustainable workforce-one that will regenerate regularly, with minimal effort on their part.

By Roberta Chinsky Matuson

Filled with fascinating stories from iconic figures who have applied Napoleon Hill's principles to their own lives, such as Dolly Parton, Jeffrey Gitomer, Chief Poly Emenike, and Joe Dudley, Jr., this book explains how to uncover the secrets of growth, creativity, power, and achievement inside all of us.

By Don M. Green

Many industries today are putting humans at the center of the business. The same is true for L&D. Use the Moments That Matter in Corporate Learning Framework to put people at the center of learning.

By Ariel Wrona, Grzegorz Plezia, CPTD, Marek Hyla, Natalia Kmiec-Braun

The Brand NEW Book from Bernard Marr, bestselling author behind Business Trends in Practice - Winner of Business Book of the Year 2022.

By Bernard Marr

New technologies alone don't always cause industry changes. This book helps leaders and entrepreneurs capitalize on the opportunity for new products and services presented by the changes caused by science and technology, policy and regulation, business models and social dynamics.

By Trond Arne Undheim

Supported by up-to-date research and illustrated by fascinating stories, this book argues that the LGBT+ community is now a powerful factor in the global economy, one that is not going to be returned to the shadows and cannot be ignored.

By Jens Schadendorf

The author of this detailed book provides simple yet practical awareness practices that require individuals to "let go" of the need to be right, safe, and certain in order to become an effective communicator--in business and personal relationships.

By Susan Campbell

Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group Level Influences, Second Edition covers creativity from many perspectives in two unique volumes, including artificial Intelligence work, creativity within specific applied domains (e.g., engineering, science, therapy), and coverage of leadership.

By Roni Reiter-Palmon, Sam Hunter

Learn to make creativity work for your career. Maria Brito illustrates how creativity is merely a series of habits, actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop---regardless of who you are or what you do.

By Maria Brito

If your own life isn't inspiring you - not enough time, energy or opportunity - this book is designed as the kickstart you need. It will show that you can try all your like to make more money, sleep better, eat healthier and think more clearly, but if the core foundations of your journey aren't in alignment with your true motivations, change will prove illusive.

By Ben Coomber

Discover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein.

By Edgar Schein, Peter A. Schein

Placing a student on the autism spectrum in a busy classroom with a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and an aide to deal with the inevitable meltdowns is often done in the name of 'inclusion', but this is integration and not inclusive.

By Linda Graham

The logical, inspirational, and simplified approach you need to lead through unprecedented chaos-and help your teams and organizations thrive

By Dustin Seale, Ed Manfre

Leading Equity delivers an eye-opening and actionable discussion of how to transform a classroom or school into a more equitable place.

By Sheldon L. Eakins

In this newly revised third edition of Leading with Questions, renowned global leadership consultants Michael Marquardt and Bob Tiede describe how to ask powerful questions that generate short-term and long-term results and success.

By Bob Tiede, Michael J. Marquardt

Gathering insights from key thought leaders and exemplary programs, this book examines how America's existing educational models are failing employees and employers; the policies and programs that are working in the U.S. and abroad; and the shift from content knowledge toward new ways of thinking and working.

By Jason Wingard, Michelle LaPointe

Understand how to embed a coherent and collaborative approach to conflict management and prevention in the workplace with this practical guide for HR professionals.

By David Liddle

Through practical exercises and eye-opening stories, this book draws on the latest empirical research to show that high-quality, optimal motivation is a skill that you can learn and apply.

By Susan Fowler

Authored by leading psychologists, this timely and informative book explores the psychiatric classification of mental illness and offers practical and solid advice on the identification, mitigation and prevention of mental illness in the workplace.

By Adrian Furnham, Mary-Clare Race

Reduce your stress level and become happier and more productive in work and personal life

By Pandit Dasa

In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn why learning is important in the business world, how continuous learning supports innovation and growth, how learning is influenced by the demands of a digital world, and more.

By MIT Sloan Management Review

Leaders can shift their organization's culture to better translate strategy into behavior and reinforce change priorities.

By B. Tom Hunsaker, Jonathan Knowles, Melanie Hughes

Actionable, easy-to-understand negotiating strategies you can use to dramatically improve your business, career, and personal life

By Keld Jensen

In Never Say Whatever, LinkedIn Influencer Richard A. Moran delivers an important message: "You should care. You need to care." Moran wants you to make choices, no matter how small, in order to move ahead in your career and lead a satisfying life.

By Richard A. Moran

Leading futurist Bob Johansen and workplace architect Joseph Press guide organizations and individuals on how to weather the inevitable future of office shocks.

By Bob Johansen, Christine Bullen, Joseph Press

In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can.

By Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg

A hands-on guide to evolving your company with ethical AI along with thought-provoking insights and predictions from a variety of well-known industry leaders

By Mark Minevich

The single most important step you can take to reach your goals is to train your brain to think positively. This practical book is your program for learning the new language of positive thought and finding the strength in those beliefs to act and make things happen.

By Gill Hasson

Develop an inclusive culture where people can flourish in the world of business while navigating the experience of ill health, disability, accident or injury.

By Kate Nash

Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce.

By Margot Canaday

The book presents an easy to leverage framework that allows people to understand the exact steps necessary to let go the limiting beliefs and perspectives that create unhappiness, dissatisfaction and mediocrity.

By David Naylor

The book is based on research as well as interviews with over two dozen professional men and women from a variety of industries and disciplines.

By Karen Lawson

Helping you de-clog your mind so you can make better decisions, prioritize and focus on achieving important goals, this book will help you develop a deeper understanding of why you act the way you and awaken your inner potential.

By Jamie Smart

Generative AI and ChatGPT have the potential to transform industries and society by improving efficiency, enhancing creativity, and enabling more personalized experiences. If you are someone who is looking to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving digital age and utilize its potential, this book is for you.

By Soumyadeep Roy, Sumit Kumar, Utpal Chakraborty

Showing you that the quickest way to perfect is starting right now and improving as you go, this book will show you how to launch your business or idea, begin the next phase of your career, and overcome self-doubt - right away.

By Rob Moore

In Superpower, bestselling author Kate Leavell delivers a compelling story of self-love, appreciation, and the power of sharing and connecting with those around us through vulnerability and understanding.

By Kate Leavell

With the latest information and a huge variety of recipes, this authoritative guide to healthy cooking covers a wide range of health- and environment-related topics of concern to today's diners, such as organic ingredients, local sourcing, farm-to-fork initiatives, and much more.

By The Culinary Institute of America

Providing a wide awareness of the current trends in AI, this book helps us navigate our digital age in this thoughtful exploration of the social, moral, and ethical challenges of our ongoing interactions with artificial intelligence.

By Jason Thacker

The misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide-this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.

By Art Kleiner, Juliette Powell

Leading you on a journey to clear your mind of blocks and beliefs, and getting the results that you deserve, this book provides the surprising answers for achieving your goals faster than ever-even the biggest goals you can imagine.

By Joe Vitale

Innovation is a process by which new ideas, services, and sources of value are brought to life. Yet approaches to the pursuit of innovation often rely on stale methodologies.

By Kim Christfort, Suzanne Vickberg

The Handbook provides a compelling case for the benefits reaped from current research and intervention, and shows why continued work is needed.

By David L. Vogel, Nathaniel G. Wade

Reestablish the connection between your organization's talent and its leadership

By Christopher D. Connors

Learn how to think creatively with this comprehensive handbook, packed with advice, practical tools, useful templates and a tried-and-tested problem-solving model.

By Caragh Medlicott, Chris Griffiths, Melina Costi

In The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce, Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley team up again to deliver a guidebook for leaders navigating the uncertainty of a post pandemic world in a sequel to their successful book The Adaptation Advantage.

By Chris Shipley, Heather E. McGowan

In the new seventh edition of The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, best-selling leadership authors and business scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an essential strategic playbook for effective leadership.

By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes

The New Art of Ideas is designed to help readers consistently produce worthwhile ideas by becoming nimble and imaginative thinkers better equipped to compete and produce in a global economy.

By Robin Landa

In The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of Change, accomplished author, professor, and consultant Jay Sullivan delivers a clear, tangible, and actionable guide to implementing flexibility and creativity in your enterprise.

By Jay Sullivan

The Perfect Story will help you take your stories and make them perfect. Learn how to take any story and make it perfect--from storytelling expert Karen Eber, whose TED Talk on the subject has nearly two million views.

By Karen Eber

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

By Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

By Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr

This book illustrates why diversity should be part of the overall business strategy, not separate from it. It shows how for innovation and diversity to flourish, we must create spaces that are safe for disagreement, not from disagreement.

By Simon Fanshawe

An empowering tool to help you find your best possible self and flourish, this book provides readers with a blueprint for examining their true purpose and approach to life and a map for achieving greater personal happiness, professional success and self-awareness.

By Dave Mitchell

This book is your companion to facing challenges at work and in life with pragmatism and a healthy dose of inspiration.

By Anna Vogt, Sara Tate

Given the changes in the way business is being conducted today, leadership is increasingly important. John C. Maxwell offers a blend of advice and personal wisdom to show how to increase awareness of your skills when it comes to leading those around you, helping you to help them be better as well.

By John C. Maxwell

In The Self-Care Mindset, celebrated well-being and mindset expert Jeanette Bronée delivers an actionable and groundbreaking approach that challenges us to rethink self-care at work so we no longer have to choose between being healthy and being successful.

By Jeanette Bronee

In The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders, Maxwell teaches everything leaders need to know about how to develop leaders in their team or organization.

By John C. Maxwell

Easy, practical guidance on how to make the most out of your mentorship journey.

By Scott Jeffrey Miller

With techniques supported by the latest learning science, this book takes you through five steps for transforming your business into an industry powerhouse.

By Shelley Osborne

In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and psychiatry about these critical questions.

By Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose

Think Like a CTO shares hard-won lessons on how to thrive in the fast-paced role of Chief Technology Officer. Inside, you'll learn to establish successful technology platforms and teams, with practical frameworks for software selection and implementation, bias-free interviews and performance reviews, and earning your place at the table with other senior leaders.

By Alan Williamson

In Think Remarkable, tech titan Guy Kawasaki teams up with Madisun Nuismer, producer of the Remarkable People podcast, to share invaluable knowledge from more than 40 years of working with game-changing organizations such as Apple, Canva, Google, Mercedes Benz, and Wikipedia, and delivers insights from a collection of amazing interviews that'll kick you into high gear and get you ready to start showing the world your best, most amazing self. Together the authors show you how to lead a fulfilling life by drawing on insights from working closely with some of the world's most remarkable people.

By Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer

Helping business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of "the elite few" and into the company culture as whole, this book offers a simple, proven approach to analyzing and solving old or new challenges, and provides a common language at any level in the organization can understand.

By John Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein

This Book Will Motivate You by master life coach, Steve Chandler, helps you create an action plan for living your vision, in business and in life.

By Steve Chandler

Filled with real-life examples, this insightful book offers actionable steps, practical tools and approaches that any leader or manager can use to create a culture of purpose, honesty and justice.

By Ron A. Carucci

Highly relevant to the growth crises many enterprises face in today's economic landscape, this insightful and informative book examines how to break barriers to spark creativity and foster new ideas.

By Michael A. Roberto

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

What Goes Unspoken is a must-have guide for any school or educational systems leader looking to comprehend and put into play an effective, equity-centered plan that champions students, teachers, and staff. Moving beyond the abundant resources that focus on DEI theories, author Krystal Hardy Allen shows leaders and administrators how to concretely center DEI within both practices and policies, as well as how to do the interpersonal work of becoming a self-aware and equity-focused leader.

By Krystal Hardy Allen

This book takes us through stages of life we all experience-raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old-and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible.

By Minouche Shafik

In this FUN and data rich book, you will discover how you can WIN BUSINESS through cultivating meaningful RELATIONSHIPS, nourished by listening, respect, trust, and cultural sensitivity.

By May Hongmei Gao

Walking you through the process of implementing change and fueling a much-needed corporate movement towards humanity in the workplace, this book helps you meet today's employees' most urgent needs, while benefitting your organization in real and measurable ways.

By Anh Phillips, Jen Fisher

Your Brain on Exercise skillfully blends scholarship with illuminating insights and clarity.

By Gary L. Wenk

Your fully researched and up-to-date guide to the most common health risks at work in the UK and how you can tackle them, this comprehensive book expertly explains your legal rights, how to avoid injury and illness and what support is available to you.

By Becky Allen, Howard Fidderman

Kindness isn't merely about getting along with people and being nice. It's a game changer in business, the door-opener to opportunity, and the key to authenticity and confidence. This book shows you the unbeatable power of kindness and its transformative impact on others.

By Adrienne Bankert