Off the Shelf - Book Club Books

This book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in MBA programs studying project management, human resource management, and strategic leadership. This book is also of direct interest to many practitioners, particularly management consultants and project managers of virtual, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary project teams.

By Catalina Dumitru

ChatGPT For Dummies demystifies the artificial intelligence tool that can answer questions, write essays, and generate just about any kind of text it's asked for. This powerful example of generative AI is widely predicted to upend education and business. In this book, you'll learn how ChatGPT works and how you can operate it in a way that yields satisfactory results.

By Pam Baker

The book challenges readers to examine their own financial and personal dreams and find the strength and resilience they need to achieve them.

By Bola Sokunbi

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

This book is a compass for leaders lost in the paradoxical space between being showing people compassion and holding them accountable.

By Nate Regier Ph.D.

Discover new skills, expand your knowledge and build your confidence through this fascinating and accessible guide to working with AI.

By Andy Pardoe

The world is more digitally connected than ever before and, with this connectivity, comes vulnerability. This book will equip you with all the skills and insights you need to understand cyber security and kickstart a prosperous career.

By Jessica Barker

Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity is a practical leadership guidebook outlining a new strategy for improving organizational cybersecurity and mitigating cyber risk.

By Eric Rosenbach, Gregory J. Falco

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

In Conscious Accountability, Yale faculty, psychologists and leadership consultants David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon, and Daryn H. David invite you to think about yourself and your working relationships more completely and integrate a practice of conscious accountability in your daily life.

By Daryn H. David, David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon

For anyone who's sought to create change, or felt sucked into the drama and chaos of a toxic work environment, this book will advance the notion that everyone at an organization is a leader and that leaders have tremendous power to influence those who follow their example.

By Anese Cavanaugh

In Courage, Clarity, and Confidence: Redefine Success and the Way You Work, accomplished Executive Career and Leadership Development Coach Gala Jackson delivers a comprehensive playbook to help women reconnect with, or meet for the very first time, the strongest, boldest, and most courageous version of themselves.

By Gala Jackson

Crucial Influence walks you through the process of identifying the personal, social, and structural levers that influence both motivation and ability, then engaging these levers for directed behavior change.

By Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan

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 comprehensive overview for directors aiming to meet their cybersecurity responsibilities

By Bart R. McDonough

We live in a world where technology and vast quantities of data play a considerable role in everyday life, both personal and professional.

By Alan Calder

Through the medium of this book, we have tried to introduce you to this new world-its components, features and drawbacks. Crimes related to this are referred to as Cyber Crimes.

By Dr Krishan Kumar Goyal, Prof Amit Garg

This book aims to prepare you to defend yourself against the tactics cybercriminals use, and gives you advice on what you can do if you, or your business, does fall victim to cybercrime.

By Todd Wade

Written in an easy to understand, "self-teaching" format, this book is designed to provide the reader with the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity and cybercrime.

By C. P. Gupta, K. K. Goyal

Thought leader John Adair provides the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions.

By John Adair

Digitally Curious is perfect for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders. It is the ideal resource for anyone looking for a simple and straightforward explanation of how new and upcoming tech and digital trends will impact you at work and in broader society.

By Andrew Grill

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

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

By reading this book, you will be able to assess the advantages and disadvantages of different career paths and set clear career development goals.

By Sarah Cook

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

In the Executive's Guide to Cyber Risk: Securing the Future Today, distinguished information security and data privacy expert Siegfried Moyo delivers an incisive and foundational guidance for executives tasked with making sound decisions regarding cyber risk management.

By Siegfried Moyo

Brain science tells us that we can establish a connection between the employee's work and his or her aspirations. This book calls for a new approach to align workers with an organization's mission, strategy and goals, called Alliance Feedback.

By Tim Irwin

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

As a leader, understand how you can navigate from behaviours that solely lead to profit, profit, profit, to behaviours that lead to profit, people, purpose and planet.

By John Blakey

Strategies to achieve meaningful and lasting conflict resolution

By Mariah Levison, Robert Fersh

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

In Generative AI in Practice, renowned futurist Bernard Marr offers readers a deep dive into the captivating universe of GenAI. This comprehensive guide introduces you to the basics of this groundbreaking technology and outlines the profound impact that GenAI will have on business and society. Professionals, technophiles, and anyone with an interest in the future will need to understand how GenAI is set to redefine jobs, revolutionize business, and question the foundations everything we do.

By Bernard Marr

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

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

How to Be a Leader is a 60-day daily reader that teaches aspiring and current leaders how to pursue goals, grow their mind-set, be creative, and bring out the best in others while also being the best version of themselves.

By David M. Cote

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

In this complementary workbook to How to Talk with Anyone about Anything, New York Times bestselling authors Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt give applicable tips on how to have Safe Conversations with everyone.

By Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., Helen LaKelly Hunt

Revealing the latest in neuroscience and psychology on how to make sure you reach every goal you set, this book provides a formula for setting goals, and explains how the way you define success can doom you to failure or propel you toward your goal.

By Nick Hall

The most essential component of every project manager's job is the ability to identify potential risks before they cause unnecessary headaches and turmoil all around.

By Tom Kendrick

Create opportunities for your nonprofit or social enterprise with partnerships and social media

By Nick Lynch

This book shows the reader how to apply well-tested coaching tools to becoming more influential and achieving impact at work. If you have never worked with an executive coach-or even if you have-this book provides the concepts, techniques, and provocative questions to unpack personal paths to success.

By Bill Berman, George B. Bradt

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

This book provides a fresh perspective on leadership and the steps required to achieve high performance. It explores how we create purpose by moving from vision and values through principles to action.

By David Sharpley

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

Create the work experience you want in the less-than-perfect job you already have.

By Elizabeth Lotardo

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

An exemplary leader must master many skills, but one of the most important is the ability to learn. Whether you're an experienced leader or someone new to the role, this comprehensive guide offers evidence-based strategies for taking charge of your own leadership development and unleashing the leader within.

By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes

In Lift Your Impact, Richard Newman shares the groundbreaking communication techniques that can help you gain the results and respect you deserve.

By Richard Newman

You'll find hilarious and insightful observations on everything from "The Six Sprinkles on the Leadership Cupcake" to seven underappreciated-and effective-ways to create a culture of fun and enthusiasm at work.

By Joel Zeff

This book presents ways to approach our life's decisions and how we interact and affect others.

By Sam Silverstein

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

Unlock the power of mentorship in your journey to success in this practical and inspiring guide

By Janice Omadeke

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

Companies must be prepared to meet their moral and business obligations when operations bump up against labor abuses - or worse.

By Jane Williams, Markus Scholz, N. Craig Smith

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

Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict is an essential resource for all employees who are looking for help on how to navigate frequent workplace conflicts, including with their boss and other difficult people, so they can rebuild trust, collaboration, and ultimately enjoy more influence at work.

By David Dye, Karin Hurt

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

A proven step-by-step approach to leveraging the unique power of relationships to your best business advantage.

By Zvi Band

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

The social challenges facing us in the 2020's are radically different than those we faced even one generation ago. Meet the new leaders who are moving us forward and learn how to apply their same effectiveness, qualities, and attributes to you own leadership.

By Paul Shoemaker

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

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

The bestselling book on being brilliant, now in an all new edition

By Amy Bradley, Andy Cope, Andy Whittaker

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

The book introduces concepts such as being like lions and chasing antelopes not field mice; Lawn Mower Managers who clear the path not clog it; the PIMP process for prioritisation and the Head Space model for understanding where your time goes.

By Zena Everett

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

This book will dissect how various aspects of our lives will be transformed in the years to come, with a particular focus on how to benefit from these emerging technologies.

By Uma Vanka

If you're a business leader looking to stay ahead of the curve, this book is an essential guide.

By Karin Mugnaini, Peter Lorange

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

Blending modern science, first-hand experience, and personal insight, this book shows you how to transform your decision-making abilities by correcting errors in thinking before they become errors in judgment.

By Michael Nicholas

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

The purpose of this book is to unveil insight as to the true meaning of leadership power - how to attain it, how to leverage it to add the greatest amount of value to humanity, how to weaponize it to marginalize and eliminate risk and how to share it with others so they can carry the torch once you step off the leadership stage.

By Casey J. Bedgood

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

This book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success.

By Clara Seeger, Patrick Forsyth, Stephen Evans-Howe

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 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

In Tiny Noticeable Things, best-selling author Adrian Webster shares his ideas along with the personal experiences of over 100 contributors to help you harness the power of TNTs and take your organisation and personal relationships to the next level.

By Adrian Webster

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

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

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

By Gary L. Wenk

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

In his new book, Carl has delved into the old to come up with the new. Your Time, Your Way simplifies the complexity of our modern world with advice that feels fresh, current, and applicable. Drawing from real-life examples, it has the power to help you start living your best life today.

By Carl Pullein