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Crucial Influence: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change, 3rd Edition

The world-renowned leadership experts that brought us the leadership classic Crucial Conversations have fully updated their bestselling Crucial Influence (originally published as Influencer). In these pages, they reveal that fewer than one in eight behavior change efforts is successful―and most produce nothing more than wasted resources and organization-wide cynicism.

The solution to this challenge isn’t easy, but it is simple. It’s all about the strategic application of influence―systematic and intentional actions aimed at helping people improve results by changing their behavior―a practice most leaders have yet to fully understand and embrace.

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.

Lift Your Impact: Transform Your Mindset, Influence, and Future to Elevate Your Work, Team, and Life

In Lift Your Impact, Richard Newman shares the groundbreaking communication techniques that can help you gain the results and respect you deserve. Inside, you'll discover a toolkit of proven, thoroughly researched and tested techniques that can help you: lift your values, to give you internal confidence, alignment, and purpose; lift your vision to create a better future and gain motivation and fulfilment; lift your potential to overcome limiting habits and explore your true capabilities; lift your storytelling to engage and influence people with your words; lift your stakeholders to help those around you create greater success; lift your message to inspire and motivate people to act on your ideas; lift your presence to naturally captivate those around you; lift your performance to thrive in the moments that matter; and lift your momentum to elevate your work, life, and legacy.

Lift Your Impact will provide you with a simple, practical approach that allows you to remove the challenges that are holding you back from success and build the future you truly desire.

Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You the Most

Doing the right job the right way is critical to your professional success. Influence and Impact provides an easy-to-follow, common-sense approach to building influence at any level of an organization. Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt offer a fresh perspective on: evaluating what values, strengths and capabilities you bring to your role; how you can develop new skills to increase your influence; and determining if you are in the right place to have the greatest impact.

Through a trifecta of clear frameworks, accessible anecdotes, and pragmatic solutions, Influence and Impact 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.

Amplify Your Influence: Transform How You Communicate and Lead

In Amplify Your Influence, celebrated keynote speaker, trainer and leadership coach Rene Rodriguez delivers an eye-opening roadmap to using applied neuroscience to improve readers’ communication ability, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and leadership skills.

Based in the author’s proprietary AMPLIFII system and methodologies he has taught to over 100,000 participants around the world, the book offers practical tips, useful frameworks, guided practice, and simple application exercises to help readers create new and lasting behaviors that effect change in their life and work.

Amplify Your Influence shows leaders how to: leverage various human motivators for positive outcomes and results; frame and communicate their ideas in a way that encourages engagement and gets an active response; and intentionally choose a communication style based on their influence objective.

Perfect for executives, managers, sales professionals, and other business leaders, Amplify Your Influence is required reading for anyone seeking to improve their ability to effect change in the people around them, whether they’re in the office, the boardroom, the classroom, or at home.

Extraordinary Influence: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others

The age-old question for every leader―how do we bring out the best in those we lead? Anyone who has run a company, raised a family, lead an army, or coached a team struggles to find the key to help others excel and realize their potential. It is surprising how often we resort to criticism vs. an approach that actually results in a better worker and a better person.

Science in recent years discovered that affirmation sets in motion huge positive changes in the brain. It releases certain neuro chemicals associated with well-being and higher performance. Amazingly, criticism creates just the opposite neural reaction. The most primitive part of the brain goes into hyper defense mode, compromising our performance, torpedoing our motivation and limiting access to our higher-order strengths.

How do we redirect employees who are out-of-line without engaging our natural “negativity bias?” Leaders must forever ban the term, “Constructive Criticism.” 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.

Contagious You: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want

The quality of our leadership is based upon our intentions, energy, and presence. By emphasizing authorship, self-care, and response-ability (not responsibility) as leadership skills and therefore cultural amplifiers, Contagious You shows you how to walk the path of more effective leadership while navigating the road blocks in your way. Whether these road blocks are working with negative co-workers with secret agendas and unrealistic expectations, or just the general “busyness” of life and its excessive demands, this book will take you on a journey to create more space, more courageous leadership, and stronger collaboration to influence others and create the impact you desire.

The common denominator is YOU. No matter what level you’re on, your intentions, energy, and presence impact your ability to do anything within your life. Contagious You is an invitation to UNLOCK your own power. YOU set the tone. YOU are the culture. So show up, lead, and intentionally become the change you wish to see.

Leading From Your Best Self: Develop Executive Poise, Presence, and Influence to Maximize Your Potential

Are you showing up as the best version of yourself? Are you aware of how others experience you? By cultivating executive poise and presence, we not only improve how others see us but enhance our capacity to lead a life of our choosing. While leadership styles may vary, all great leaders are able to connect with others while staying true to themselves. Rob Salafia cultivated a mindset of excellence and learned how to truly connect with his audiences by tapping into and developing his own intrinsic gifts as a performer. He realized that these skills could be put to great use in the business world where it is just as important to build authentic connections with key stakeholders―in this case, employees, bosses, and customers. Now, he shares his insights with you, making this book the next best thing to having your own personal executive coach.

Through specific techniques, activities, and personal stories, Salafia illustrates how to tap into your own inner resources and experiences, show up with greater self-confidence, and make the shift to more inclusive modes of leading. He shares exercises and narratives from real-life clients who have struggled and succeeded to break past their self-imposed limitations.

Impact Redefined: Transforming Partnerships, Social Moments, and Personal Connections to Drive Change

In Impact Redefined, social entrepreneur and advisor Nick Lynch delivers an insightful exploration of how to use a variety of social opportunities to your advantage. Easy-to-understand, this book is for folks who desire positive change and are looking for strategies to create long-lasting impact via partnerships, real-life opportunities, and social media. You’ll discover the importance of self-branding, nurturing healthy collaborations and connections, championing empathy, and multiplying impact through relationships.

In the book, you’ll find: methods for developing social moments to foster connection and build community; tips for building and maintaining successful partnerships and collaborations with influencers and other people; and ways to nurture human connections to form a wider network that benefits your social organization

A can’t-miss roadmap to maximizing your impact on your community and the wider world around you, Impact Redefined is an essential resource for social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and other philanthropically minded professionals.

Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career

“Where do you see yourself in five years?” This question can make even the most ambitious of us feel a little nauseous. Starting out in the working world is hard enough, but thinking long-term about our careers—and whether we even want a capital-C “Career”—can be daunting. Luckily, there are steps we can take to build careers that fit our individual interests, needs, and skills.

Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer questions like: Should I choose to follow my passion, my purpose, or my values? How will I know if a job is really right for me? What's the best way to use my network? And how can I make big decisions about my career?

This book will help you define the career that fits you, so you can align your passions and values with your daily work.

Confident AI: The Essential Skills for Working with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our everyday lives. But it remains an elusive, complex and intimidating technology that has hundreds of iterations and nuances. With Confident AI, build your confidence when working with AI by learning the fundamentals and discovering the intricacies of the industry.

Andy Pardoe has spent decades working with AI, not only as an influential academic but also within corporations and as a consultant and accelerator for AI start-ups. He draws upon his expertise and lived experience to offer the essential skills and tools that you need to succeed with Artificial Intelligence, whether you are pursuing it as a career or simply working with AI in your work-life.

Effective Career Development: Advice for Establishing an Enjoyable Career

Career development is no longer a case of climbing the corporate ladder. The world of work has changed dramatically in the last decade, and so has our expectations. Changing jobs, roles, locations, sectors, and careers is becoming the new normal. Furthermore, the shift to remote working due to the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the working world, and for many, has led to reflection and a desire for a career change.

The book includes exercises and activities to help you understand what is important to you in a job and how to attain your career goals. The author outlines the role of mentoring in career development, how to build your personal brand, present yourself professionally online and in person, and find the resources you need to achieve your development goals. The book also provides a practical example of a career development path in the cyber security sector.

Career Anchors Reimagined: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work

In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices.

This book will help you: explore how your work choices now relate to your family and self-development; explore how the rapidly changing world of work and business emphasizes globalization, competition, technology, organizational instability, uncertainty, and shifting values; engage in a powerful relationship mapping process that helps you to consider how your work and career choices now interact with your relationships with family, friends, and community; and review the career anchor values and examine how these values have changed, so you can make better choices of what, when, where, and how to work as you look ahead.

The Upskilling Imperative: 5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We Work

Keeping up with the pace of change may seem impossible, but it’s not. The secret is to make continuous learning a top value for every person on the team so when change happens, everyone is prepared.

In The Upskilling Imperative, Shelley Osborne, Udemy’s Vice President of Learning, reveals the methods she uses to help many of today’s leading companies―from Adidas to PayPal to Barclays―build and sustain a culture of learning. With techniques supported by the latest learning science, she takes you through five steps for transforming your business into an industry powerhouse: create an environment of freedom, opportunity, and love of learning; use honest, forthright feedback to fuel your new learning culture; clearly communicate the rewards that come when we approach our job as a learning adventure; build learning into the everyday workflows and operations; and manage your new learning culture in a sustainable way.

With this new, evolved mindset, you and your workforce will approach the next inevitable workplace upheaval or technology with skill and confidence―not confusion and dread.

The Future is BIG: How Emerging Technologies are Transforming Industry and Societies

From the daggers and axes of the cavemen societies to today’s spacecraft, self-driving cars, metaverses, and AI-filled societies, technology has significantly emerged and brought about a massive transformation to our lives. The pace of this innovation has been particularly colossal in this industrial era, continuously disrupting our lives. Where will this imminent tech take us in the future?

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. You will gain a 360 degree view by getting a historical perspective of technology because discussions about the future are seldom complete without history.

The ongoing debate on whether technology will replace our jobs is causing great panic. However, failure to catch up to technology is guaranteed to be catastrophic. This book will provide a freight of the latest tech-driven trends to equip everyone to face the future, like a one-time software upgrade.

Create the Future: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking

Create the Future is an exciting guidebook for disruptive thinking, innovation, and change, paired with The Innovation Handbook, an updated version of the award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos. The bestseller is loaded with the same tactics, tools, and frameworks that Gutsche's team uses to accelerate 700 of the world's most powerful brands, billionaires, CEOs, and NASA. Throughout history, we know that chaos reshuffles the deck, changes consumer needs, switches who is in the lead, and creates unprecedented risk and opportunity. Chaos causes most people to retreat--but not always. Disney, CNN, Square, HP, Apple, Fortune Magazine, Uber, and AirBnB are just a few examples of companies that started during periods of rampant chaos and global economic recession. Crisis and chaos create opportunity, if you know where to look. The challenge is that your own success, neurological wiring, past decisions, and "7 Traps of Path Dependency" make it more difficult for you to realize your full potential. In our post-COVID era of chaos and disruptive innovation, there are so many great opportunities within reach; however, most smart and successful people miss out because of these proven proven traps.

The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce

by Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley

In the decade before the Covid-19 pandemic, change was coming so quickly and across so many vectors that most business leaders – so busy tackling one new challenge after another - missed the trendlines that would collide in the early months of 2020 and forever change their workforce and how they lead it for generations to come.

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.

In this book, you will learn about the five interlocking trends that brought us the empowered workforce: The Great Resignation, the Great Refusal, the Great Reshuffle, the Great Retirement, and the Great Relocation collectively delivered the Great Reset. These trends, building for a decade prior to the pandemic, saw employees leading jobs; restructuring where and how they work, accelerating retirement, and reordering the role of work in their lives.

The Empathy Effect: Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences

by Helen Riess

Empathy is undergoing a new evolution. In a global and interconnected culture, we can no longer afford to identify only with people who seem to be a part of our “tribe.” As Dr. Helen Riess has learned, our capacity for empathy is not just an innate trait - it is also a skill that we can learn and expand. With The Empathy Effect, Dr. Riess presents a definitive resource on empathy: the science behind how it works, new research on how empathy develops from birth to adulthood, and tools for building your capacity to create authentic emotional connection with others in any situation.

“Nourishing empathy lets us help not just ourselves,” says Dr. Riess, “but also everyone we interact with, whether for a moment or a lifetime.” The Empathy Effect is a life-changing book that will revolutionize the way you understand yourself, relate to your loved ones, and connect to every person in your life.

The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job

by Katharine Manning

This book is crucial for every manager or HR representative who shouldn’t just prepare to one day be faced with a report of a traumatic experience at work, but plan on it. This five-step method will help managers make survivors feel supported and understood. The Empathetic Workplace guides supervisors of any level through an understanding of how stories of trauma impact the brain of both the survivor and the listener, as well as the tools to handle the interaction appropriately, to help the listener, the organization, and most importantly, the survivor.

The easy-to-follow LASER method outlined in these pages includes the following elements that all managers should know and understand. The LASER technique can benefit all who are responsible for others, from top-tier managers at Fortune 500 companies to Residence Advisors in college dormitories.

Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation At a Time

by Rob Volpe

Empathy is in short supply these days―and it's hurting us. From leadership failures and workplace challenges to our collective inability to overcome differences and to increased anxiety and depression, a lack of empathy for one another is wearing away at the gears of society, grinding us down to the nubs. The very technology that is supposed to keep us connected is actually driving us apart, with face-to-face interactions on the decline, and news filtered through an echo chamber that shelters us from other points of view.

But all is not lost. Just as physical workouts strengthen your body, there are ways to build up your empathy as well. In Tell Me More About That, brand strategist and thought leader Rob Volpe draws on his years conducting thousands of in-home interviews with everyday people to illustrate the 5 Steps to Empathy―the actions you can take to build a strong and reflexive empathy muscle.

Adaptive Listening: How to Cultivate Trust and Traction at Work

by Nancy Duarte, Nicole Lowenbraun, and Maegen Stephens

Not just another book on communication. Adaptive Listening helps you up-level the under-trained side of communication amidst the realities of a hectic workday. Researched and tested exclusively in the work setting, Adaptive Listening moves you beyond active listening, embracing easy-to-remember techniques that strengthen relationships and get work done more effectively.

Leaders at all levels can improve listening skills. Aspiring, emerging, and established leaders can build more awareness about their own listening style and the impact it has on their workday. Only then can they adapt the way they listen to meet the goals and needs of direct reports, peers, managers, customers, and stakeholders, all while contributing to a positive workplace culture.

If you enjoyed You're Not Listening, Just Listen, Listen Like You Mean It, Power Listening, Nonviolent Communication, or Crucial Conversations, you'll love Adaptive Listening.

How to Listen and How to Be Heard: Inclusive Conversations at Work

by Alissa Carpenter

There’s no denying that our workplaces are more diverse than ever. Age, race, gender―there are so many different perspectives and experiences being brought to the table. And the best employees and leaders know that harnessing the power of these differences will build stronger teams, ideas, and organizations. But how do we do this? If we all think, feel, and act so differently, how do we get anything done?

The first step is recognizing that these differences exist. And that they’re here to stay. We need to respect and embrace our varied viewpoints, and then we can start to communicate across (not against) them.

How to Listen and How to Be Heard shows you how to bridge the conversation gap and use your unique voice to start powerful conversations. This book is about learning how to communicate with, through, and alongside what makes us different. It’s about open dialogue and practical tools that get everyone on the same page―or at least in the same room.

Listen Up! How to Tune in to Customers and Turn Down the Noise

by Karen Mangia

There's one voice that matters more than any other: the voice of the customer. Learn how to fully understand the number one source of your organization's prosperity, profits, and productivity. These actionable insights will help you to better connect with your customers and gain an undeniable lead over your competition.

Listen Up! reveals how to create a customer experience that's built on listening and designed for engagement. Author and Salesforce executive Karen Mangia has created a practical and comprehensive examination of how best-of-breed companies listen and respond to customer demands - creating a foundation of customer success, loyalty, and brand evolution.

Listen Up! features discussions about: how to go beyond the survey: best practices associated with customer understanding, customer experience, and customer service; how to move from deep listening to data-based insights into customer behavior; the statistics and stories behind companies, organizations, and even city governments that have created a customer-centric culture—with a fresh look at the future of customer service, customer success, and customer satisfaction.

The Art of Active Listening: How People At Work Feel Heard, Valued, and Understood

by Heather R. Younger

When employees, colleagues, and customers are not being heard, organizational culture, employee happiness, and overall organizational success will suffer. How well do you listen?

Active listening is the doorway to increased belonging, loyalty, profitability, innovation, and so much more. It is the difference between thinking we understand what people want and knowing what they want. Want to build stronger relationships, avoid misunderstandings, and anticipate problems before they surface at work?

All you have to do is listen.

Backed by her personal review of over 30,000 employee and customer surveys and facilitation of 100’s of focus groups, Younger discovered one universal truth: We all want to be heard. We want our voices to matter. We want the work we do to matter.

When we get this right - when we listen to our employees and customers and care about them not just for what they can do but for who they ARE - they can and will move mountains.

Cybersecurity: A Self-Teaching Introduction

by C.P. Gupta and K.K. Goyal

This book is designed to provide the reader with the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity and cybercrime in an easy to understand, “self-teaching” format. It introduces all of the major subjects related to cybersecurity, including data security, threats and viruses, malicious software, firewalls and VPNs, security architecture and design, security policies, cyberlaw, cloud security, and more.

Cybersecurity provides an overview of cybersecurity and cybercrime subjects in an easy to understand, “self-teaching” format. It covers security related to emerging technologies such as cloud security, IoT, AES, and grid challenges. Cybersecurity also includes discussion of information systems, cryptography, data and network security, threats and viruses, electronic payment systems, malicious software, firewalls and VPNs, security architecture and design, security policies, cyberlaw, and more.

Cyber Guardians: Empowering Board Members for Effective Cybersecurity

by Bart. R. McDonough

In Cyber Guardians: Empowering Board Members for Effective Cybersecurity, veteran cybersecurity advisor Bart McDonough delivers a comprehensive and hands-on roadmap to effective cybersecurity oversight for directors and board members at organizations of all sizes. The author includes real-world case studies, examples, frameworks, and blueprints that address relevant cybersecurity risks, including the industrialized ransomware attacks so commonly found in today’s headlines.

In the book, you’ll explore the modern cybersecurity landscape, legal and regulatory requirements, risk management and assessment techniques, and the specific role played by board members in developing and promoting a culture of cybersecurity.

A practical and accessible resource for board members at firms of all shapes and sizes, Cyber Guardians is relevant across industries and sectors and a must-read guide for anyone with a stake in robust organizational cybersecurity.

Cyber Security, Second Edition

by Amit Garg and Krishan Kumar Goyal

The subject 'Cyber Security' has been made compulsory and considered a core subject in every branch of B. Tech, MBA and MCA in almost all universities. This book has been designed with an aim to provide a common platform to students of all streams. This book has been written in a very simple and easily understandable language so that students can get complete acquaintance with the basic concepts and make preparation for exams and interviews.

Why do students learn Cyber Security? Nowadays, the entire globe is moving towards the world of Information Technology. But we are almost unaware of this new upcoming world. 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.

After reading this book, students shall get a brief idea about what the cyber crime is, how it can be dealt with and what its do's and don'ts are while being a part of IT Country.

Cyber Resilience: Defence-in-Depth Principles

by Alan Calder

We live in a world where technology and vast quantities of data play a considerable role in everyday life, both personal and professional.For the foreseeable future (and perhaps beyond), the growth and prominence of data in business shows no signs of slowing down, even if the technology in question will likely change in ways perhaps unimaginable today. Naturally, all this innovation brings huge opportunities and benefits to organisations and people alike. However, these come at more than just a financial cost.In the world as we know it, you can be attacked both physically and virtually. For today's organisations, which rely so heavily on technology – particularly the Internet – to do business, the latter attack is the far more threatening of the two. The cyber threat landscape is complex and constantly changing. For every vulnerability fixed, another pops up, ripe for exploitation. Worse, when a vulnerability is identified, a tool that can exploit it is often developed and used within hours – faster than the time it normally takes for the vendor to release a patch, and certainly quicker than the time many organisations take to install that patch.

Cybercrime: Protecting Your Business, Your Family and Yourself

by Todd Wade

Cybercrime is a sad, ever-developing reality of our digital lives. We are all in danger of falling victim to their tricks, which can lead to serious consequences for our business, our family and ourselves. 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, falls victim to cybercrime. With a focus on cyber fraud and cyber extortion, this book explores cybercrime from attack methods to impact, with the use of real-world case studies alongside practical suggestions on preventative measures, warning signs of cybercrime and next steps if you find yourself a victim.

Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity

by Gregory Falco and Eric Rosenback

Cyberattacks continue to grow in number, intensity, and sophistication. While attackers persistently adapt, business leaders have suffered from employing the same cyber risk management strategies for decades. Organizations must learn how to move past temporary solutions and invest in long-term resiliency measures to thrive in the future cyber economy.

Confronting Cyber Risk is a practical leadership guidebook outlining a new strategy for improving organizational cybersecurity and mitigating cyber risk. Veteran cybersecurity experts Falco and Rosenbach introduce the Embedded Endurance strategy as a systems-level approach to cyber risk management which addresses interdependent components of organizational risk and prepares organizations for the inevitability of cyber threats over the long-term. Using real world examples from SolarWinds to the Colonial Pipeline attack, the authors extend beyond hardware and software to provide a thoughtful ten-step process for organizations to address the simultaneous operational, reputational, and litigation risks common to cyberattacks. They conclude with helpful "cryptograms" from the future, in which business leaders are confronted with the next generation of cyber risk challenges.

Confident Cyber Security: The Essential Insights and How to Protect From Threats

by Jessica Barker

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.

Confident Cyber Security is here to help. From the human side to the technical and physical implications, this book takes you through the fundamentals: how to keep secrets safe, how to stop people being manipulated and how to protect people, businesses and countries from those who wish to do harm.

Featuring real-world case studies including Disney, the NHS, Taylor Swift and Frank Abagnale, this book is packed with clear explanations, sound advice and practical exercises to help you understand and apply the principles of cyber security. This new edition covers increasingly important topics such as deepfakes, AI and blockchain technology.

Executive’s Guide to Cyber Risk: Securing the Future Today

by Siegfried Moyo

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. The book offers non-technical, business-side executives with the key information they need to understand the nature of cyber risk and its impact on organizations and their growth.

In the book, readers will find: strategies for leading with foresight (as opposed to hindsight) while maintaining the company’s vision and objectives; focused, jargon-free explanations of cyber risk that liken it to any other business risk; and comprehensive discussions of the fundamentals of cyber risk that enable executive leadership to make well-informed choices

Perfect for chief executives in any functional area, the Executive’s Guide to Cyber Risk also belongs in the libraries of board members, directors, managers, and other business leaders seeking to mitigate the risks posed by malicious actors or from the failure of its information systems.

To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and Purpose

by Ron A. Carucci | ‎Kogan Page

Based on 15 years of research, To Be Honest explains how four factors (Clear Identity, Accountability, Governance and Cross-Functional Relationships) affect honesty, justice and purpose within a company. When these factors are absent or ineffective, the organizational conditions compel employees to choose dishonesty and self-interest. But when done well, the organization is 16 times more likely to have people tell the truth, behave fairly and serve a greater good.

To Be Honest shares the stories of leaders who have acted with purpose, honesty and justice even when it was difficult to do so. In-depth interviews with CEOs and senior executives from exemplar companies such as Patagonia, Cabot Creamery, Microsoft and others reveal what it takes to build purpose-driven companies of honesty and justice.

Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work

by Harvard Business Review | Ascent Audio

We're complex people. Professionally, we're recent graduates, employees, star performers, and first-time managers. But we're also best friends, devoted family members, sports fans, pet parents, social justice activists, or any other combination of these and other traits. How much of ourselves—from cultural self-expression, to thinking style and beliefs, to gender identity—should we bring to the workplace?

Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer this and other questions like: What does authenticity really mean at work? How do I disclose personal information without oversharing? In what ways can I overcome feelings of imposter syndrome? What should I do when who I am conflicts with those around me?

This book will help you figure out how much of "you" to bring to work so that you feel more comfortable and confident in who you are and what you're bringing to your career.

Winning Conditions: How to Achieve the Professional Success You Deserve by Managing the Details That Matter

by Christine Hofbeck | Tantor Audio

Let's face it - professional success isn't built only on the work itself. Instead, it's often largely influenced by the manner in which you share or present your work. Small improvements in delivery can result in substantial improvements in outcome.

People succeed not simply because they deliver a winning work product or idea, but also because they deliver their work or idea in a winning way.

Winning Conditions is a joyful, insightful, and empowering book about delivering your work and ideas so that they (and you!) are more likely to be recognized, accepted, and celebrated. By consciously implementing these ideas, you'll see your colleagues and customers respond more positively to you and your great work. Your strong reputation and overall success will grow. You will begin to win.

With Winning Conditions, you can show the world what you're capable of - it's probably more than you ever thought possible.

Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact

by Liz Wiseman | ‎ Harper Business

In every organization there are Impact Players—those indispensable colleagues who can be counted on in critical situations and who consistently receive high-profile assignments and new opportunities. Whether they are on center stage or behind the scenes, managers know who these top players are, understand their worth, and want more of them on their team. While their impact is obvious, it’s not always clear what actually makes these professionals different from their peers.

In Impact Players, New York Times bestselling author and researcher Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level. Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Wiseman explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact, and why—with a little coaching—this mindset is available to everyone who wants to contribute at their highest level.

Results: Get Clarity, Achieve Results

by Jamie Smart | Capston

Bestselling author of Clarity and The Little Book of Clarity goes one step further with Results by using his Clarity Coaching Model to help you de-clog your mind so you can make better decisions, prioritise and focus on achieving those important goals. Develop a deeper understanding of why you act the way you do and awaken your inner potential.

Jamie's transformational coaching techniques will help you improve in all areas of your life, from developing your listening skills during meetings at work to reducing the levels of stress in your life. These techniques will see you through three important changes – your personal transformation that will see you gaining confidence and understanding your own behaviour, your interpersonal transformation to guide you in having an impact on those around you, and lastly your commercial transformation to get your professional life moving in the direction you want.

Results is full of helpful examples and exercises to get you on the road to the results you need.

The Art and Science of Results: The 9 Most Powerful Ways to Clear Blocks to Your Ultimate Success

by Joe Vitale | G&D Media

In this fascinating, mind stretching and empowering new book, bestselling author Dr. Joe Vitale, one of the stars of the hit movie The Secret, provides the surprising answers for achieving your goals faster than ever-even the biggest goals you can imagine!

Let Dr. Vitale lead you on a journey to clear your mind of blocks and beliefs, and achieve the results that you deserve. Let him teach you The Art and Science of Results. Dr. Joe Vitale is a globally famous author, marketing guru, movie, TV, and radio personality, musician, and one of the top 50 inspirational speakers in the world. His many bestselling books include The Attractor Factor, Attract Money Now, and Zero Limits. A popular, leading expert on the law of attraction in many hit movies, including The Secret, Dr. Vitale discovered the "missing secret" not revealed in the movie. He's been on CNN, CNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News: Fox & Friends and Extra TV. He's also been featured in The New York Times and Newsweek.

Taking Up Space: Get Heard, Deliver Results, and Make a Difference

by Karen S. Lynch | McGraw Hill

Karen S. Lynch went from a childhood filled with loss and instability in a stark mill town in Massachusetts to leading one of the nation’s largest health care companies, where she has been instrumental in transforming how people access affordable quality care. After being named CEO of the Fortune 500’s sixth largest company, CVS Health, she is now the most powerful woman on that revered list. In Taking Up Space, she tells her trailblazing story―and delivers powerful lessons you can use to become the leader you’re meant to be.

Lynch explains how to use your voice and earn influence in places and situations that tend to shut you out so you can drive positive change. She shows how to create value in your organization by making your approach to businesses more personal and empathic―but still professional and accountable.

Never Say Whatever: How Small Decisions Make a Big Difference

by Richard A. Moran | McGraw Hill

Calling in late to a Zoom meeting with kids playing in the background. Avoiding optional meetings. Dodging low-profile assignments. Giving H.R. lunch-and-learns a hard pass. There are countless ways we've become the apathetic version of our corporate selves―dismissing what seems unimportant with a big shrug emoji. Whatever. Who cares?

Written with unflinching honesty, humor, and interviews with corporate decision makers, Never Say Whatever offers a blueprint to help everyone understand why and how the choices we make, even the minor ones, are in fact pivotal to professional development and career trajectory. For young graduates just starting out to seasoned professionals seeking ways to reenergize their careers, it's a timely call to get on track, and stay on track, with boosted productivity, an impressive personal brand, and a fortified gameplan for a supercharged career.

Active Listening Techniques: 30 Practical Skills to Hone Your Communication Skills

by Nixaly Leonardo | Tantor Audio

To listen actively is to listen with complete attention and an engaged mind and body. And, while it may come naturally to some, it's also a skill that can be honed through practice. Active Listening Techniques will help you do just that, so you can ensure the people around you feel respected, understood, and heard.

Through 30 practical communication tools, you'll acquire the skills you need to better get your message across, allowing you to cultivate healthier personal relationships, achieve greater career success, and more.

This guide to listening skills for adults helps you: learn the basics, put your skills to use, manage conflict, and learn how to develop stronger connections through these simple and effective listening exercises.

Communication Essentials: The Tools You Need to Master Every Type of Professional Interaction

by Trey Guinn | McGraw Hill

No matter how great your knowledge, expertise or experience, poor communication skills undermine your ability to get your message across, achieve your objectives, and build crucial relationships. To advance your career―and succeed in other aspects of life, as well―building theses skills is essential.

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.

Packed with insights, anecdotes, exercises, and Essential Takeaways to wrap up each chapter, Communication Essentials ensures you'll walk away feeling fully equipped and prepared to put your skills into action right away.

Managing Conflict: A Practical Guide to Resolution in the Workplace, 2^nd Edition

by David Liddle | ‎Kogan Page

The second edition of Managing Conflict shows HR professionals how to tackle these problems by not only resolving current issues, but also preventing future instances of conflict. It includes the latest research and case studies showing how conflict management has been impacted by hybrid working models and digitalization. There are also updates to reflect how resolution is a driver of trust in organizations, enabling people to disagree more constructively in a safe environment.

This book covers the causes and costs of conflict, the impact of the psychological contract and the legal framework for managing workplace disputes both in the UK and internationally. It shows how to design a conflict management strategy, develop a formal resolution process and engage stakeholders and training managers in resolution and mediation skills. Packed with best practice examples from organizations such as Tesco, Burberry and Nationwide Building Society as well as conflict resolution resources and toolkits, this book is essential reading for all HR professionals looking to resolve conflict in the workplace.

The Champion Leader: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Build High Performing Teams

by Christopher D. Connors | Ascent Audio

In The Champion Leader, bestselling author Christopher D. Connors delivers an invaluable, inspiring discussion of how to adapt to the rapidly changing rules of engagement in the modern workplace. You'll find out why so many employees feel disconnected from their leaders in today's remote and hybrid working environments and how to address that disconnect.

Connors explains how to prioritize one-on-one and team conversations focused on understanding employee needs, career development, and well-being to help foster a future-focused organization. He also walks you through how to maximize your emotional intelligence and enhance your leadership skills to assist in the development of a high-performing organization that delivers superior results.

Negotiation Essentials: The Tools You Need to Find Common Ground and Walk Away a Winner

by Keld Jensen | McGraw Hill

Negotiations can be a perplexing and often-intimidating endeavor. Are there aspects about the process that are hiding beneath the surface, unknown to even experienced negotiators? Or insider tools that would change your game considerably? The answer is yes―and they’re all revealed in this practical guide from a world-renowned negotiation expert.

Negotiation Essentials demystifies this all-important subject, helping you break the process down into easily digestible parts. It covers the most important negotiating concepts, including the critical differences among great, good, and bad negotiators; choosing when, where, and how to negotiate; the art of saying no; understanding body language; how emotions, stress, and personal chemistry affect decision making; and behavioral patterns of the most successful negotiators.

Filled with essential takeaways wrapping up each chapter, assessments, illustrations, color illustrations, and clear action steps, Negotiation Essentials concludes with a Negotiating Essentials Toolkit, which includes the professional negotiators pre- and post-negotiation checklists.

Move Fast & Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems

by Charles Conn and Robert McLean | Recorded Books

Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future.

Leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed—and that it keeps you from building a great company. Helping executives and entrepreneurs solve their toughest problems over the past decade, Frei and Morriss learned that the trade-off between speed and excellence is false. The best leaders solve hard problems with fierce urgency while making their organizations—employees, customers, and shareholders—even stronger. They move fast and fix things.

With a one-week plan to fix your problems on a fast cycle time of one step per day, this book is your guide to maximizing impact and reinventing your approach to change. By the end of the week, you won't just have a road map for solving your company's toughest problems—you'll already be well on your way, improving your company at exhilarating speed.

Teams That Work: The Seven Drivers of Team Effectiveness

by Scott Tannenbaum and Eduardo Salas | Ascent Audio

In the modern workplace, employees collaborate. Managers are expected to be effective team leaders and employees are expected to be valued teammates. But many teams struggle. Being part of a struggling team can be unpleasant, but it can also hurt your career and waste company resources.

In Teams That Work, Scott Tannenbaum and Eduardo Salas present the seven drivers of team effectiveness and the clearest recommendations on what really makes teams great. Applying the lessons they've learned from working with high-stakes, high-risk team situations to any kind of organization, they will dispel some of the most enduring myths (e.g., can you be both a star and a great team player?), feature the most useful psychological research, and share real-world illustrations of effective teams in action. Listeners will find actionable, evidence-based tips for being an effective team leader, a great team member, a supportive senior leader, or an impactful consultant.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Education

DEI&B education refers to “training, courses, and other forms of learning that an organization offers its employees to promote the understanding and application of its DEI&B policies, practices, and expectations.” Drawing upon a sample of 1,048 talent development professionals, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Education investigates key questions to provide benchmark data and highlights best practices about DEI&B education. 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. To add context to the findings and make these results more actionable, this report also includes examples and insights from other organizations and professionals.

Inclusive Education for the 21st Century: Theory, Policy and Practice

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. How can teachers and schools create genuinely inclusive classrooms that meet the needs of every student?

Research evidence indicates the strategies that make schools inclusive for students with disability benefit all students. Yet many schools are still operating under twentieth-century models that disadvantage students, especially those with disability.

Inclusive Education for the 21st Century provides a rigorous overview of the foundational principles of inclusive education, and the barriers to access and participation. It explores evidence-based strategies to support diverse learners, including specific changes in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices, and the use of data. It addresses the needs of children with physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities, as well as those with complex learning profiles, including mental health issues.

DEI&B Education for Employees

In recent years, many organizations have launched new diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B) initiatives and expanded existing ones to educate employees around DEI&B concepts, skills, and policies. This report uses statistical analysis to identify DEI&B education practices and policies linked to better outcomes. The research also provides key benchmarking data to help readers understand how other organizations are implementing and supporting their DEI&B education initiatives. To investigate, ATD surveyed talent development professionals from 392 organizations, asking about organizational policies and practices for DEI&B education.

What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change.

Minouche Shafik 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. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return.

Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society―together.

Leading Equity: Becoming an Advocate for All Students

That the typical modern classroom lacks equity will come as no surprise to many educators. But few resources explain how to remedy that situation in the here and now.

Leading Equity delivers an eye-opening and actionable discussion of how to transform a classroom or school into a more equitable place. Through explorations of ten concrete steps that you can take right now, Dr. Sheldon L. Eakins offers you the skills, resources, and concepts you'll need to address common equity deficiencies in education.

You'll learn about: things you can do today to advance the cause of equity in your classroom, from reconsidering your language choices to getting to know yourself and your students; using social justice as the basis for your advocacy for equity; and how to promote a decolonial atmosphere and model vulnerability and humility for your students and colleagues.

Ideal for educators and educational leaders at all stages of their careers, Leading Equity will help you improve your ability to offer an equitable environment to all of your students.

The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions

With clarity and wit, The Power of Difference brings together the author's own experiences with the latest research to explain why inclusion is more than just being nice to people, why unconscious bias training isn't the fix we need and why listening to all individual voices, not just assuming that one viewpoint represents a group, is key.

Offering insight, analysis and practical solutions, The Power of Difference is a must read for all managers, leaders and HR professionals as well as anyone looking to engage with the topic, who doesn't know where to start. Exploring how to confront bias, question assumptions and avoid generalizations, 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.

Written in an engaging yet practical style, this book courageously tackles some of the most significant issues at work today.

Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity: The Keys to Successful Equity Implementation

While efforts to achieve equity in education are prominent in school districts across this country, the effective implementation that results in meaningful change remains elusive. Even with access to compelling theories and approaches such as multicultural education, culturally responsive teaching, culturally relevant instruction, culturally sustaining pedagogy, schools still struggle to implement equitable change that reshapes the academic experiences of students marginalized by the prevailing history, culture, and traditions in public education. In Belonging through a Culture of Dignity, Cobb and Krownapple argue that the cause of these struggles are largely based on the failure of educators to consider the foundational elements upon which educational equity is based, belonging and dignity. Once these fundamental human needs are understood, educators can gain clarity of the barriers to meaningful student relationships, especially across dimensions of difference such as race, class, and culture. Cobb and Krownapple challenge that normalization and offer three concepts as keys to successful equity initiatives: inclusion, belonging, and dignity. Through their work, the authors aim to equip educators with the tools necessary to deliver the promise of democracy through schools by breaking the cycle of equity dysfunction once and for all.

What Goes Unspoken: How School Leaders Address DEI Beyond Race

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. With these resources, you'll learn how to ensure that DEI is embedded in your strategic planning to create schools and education organizations that are transformative, inclusive, and equitable for both children and adults.

In the current cultural and sociopolitical climate, What Goes Unspoken is a must-read for leaders and administrators of public and private schools, as well as district personnel and educational leadership training programs

Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in a Digital World

by Bernard Marr

The working world has changed dramatically in the last twenty years and it's going to continue to transform at an even faster pace. How can the average professional stay afloat in an ocean of constant change and technological revolution?

In Future Skills bestselling author and futurist Bernard Marr delivers an engaging and insightful discussion of how you can prepare yourself for the digital future of work. You'll learn which skills will be in the highest demand, why they'll command a premium price, and how to develop them.

A can't-miss book for every working professional seeking not just to survive – but to thrive – in the coming years, Future Skills belongs in the libraries of company leaders, managers, human resources professionals, educators, and anyone else with an interest in the future of work and how humanity fits within it.

Our Next Reality: How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World

by Alvin W. Graylin and Louis Rosenberg

We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.

This book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as artificial intelligence and spatial computing accelerates the digitization of our world.

Rise of Generative AI and ChatGPT: Understand How Generative AI and ChatGPT Are Transforming and Reshaping the Business World

by Sumit Kumar, Utpal Chakraborty, and Soumyadeep Roy

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.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of Generative AI and ChatGPT, the cutting-edge technologies that have gained significant attention in recent times. The book aims to provide a thorough understanding of these technologies, architectures, and training methods, including their background, development process, and current state. The book helps discover innovative ways in which these technologies have been implemented to achieve measurable benefits, including improved efficiency, customer satisfaction, security, and revenue growth and its potential application across different industries and use cases.

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Doing Digital: The Guide to Digital for Non-Technical Leaders

by Ved Sen

Every business is a digital business and understanding digital is probably the most critical skill of the decade, as the pandemic has accelerated the journey to digital work and lifestyles.

Digital includes design, data, and numerous technologies, from APIs to Blockchain and from Cloud to Artificial Intelligence, and it can be daunting for non-technology people to work through the concepts as well as all the jargon. We can’t all be experts on these areas but for most of us, whatever our profession, doing digital is no longer optional.

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.

The Digital Mindset: What it Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

by Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neely

This book introduces three approaches—Collaboration, Computation, Change—that you need for a digital mindset, and the perspectives and actions within each approach that will enable you to develop digital skills you need. With the digital mindset, you can ask the right questions, make smart decisions and appreciate new possibilities for a digital future. Leaders who adopt these approaches will be able to develop their organization's talent to prepare their company for successful and continued digital transformation.

The surprising and welcome secret is that developing a digital mindset isn't as hard as we think. Most people can become digitally savvy if they follow the "30% rule," or the minimum threshold that gives us just enough digital literacy to understand and take advantage of the digital fabric woven into our world.

Think Like a CTO

by Alan Williamson

Becoming a CTO is an incredible accomplishment. It’s also one of the hardest transitions a technologist can make. This high-power and high-pressure role demands skills that are rarely developed as a software engineer. Think Like a CTO shines a light on all the areas an aspiring CTO needs to master to succeed.

You’ll learn how to build incredible working relationships with the rest of the C-suite, transform a company with private equity, and recruit and manage your development team. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly become a trusted leader figure with an inspiring vision for your company.

Disruptive Technologies: A Framework to Understand, Evaluate and Respond to Digital Disruption

by Paul Armstrong

Disruptive Technologies offers a three-step framework that enables readers to choose how their business responds to technological upheaval rather than being led by changes forced upon them. Showing how to understand a new technology, evaluate the challenge it poses, and finally respond to it, readers will come away secure in the knowledge that they have a workable system with which they can navigate ongoing technological disruption. This second edition features new chapters on the Metaverse and Web 3.0, as well as case studies and discussions of emerging technologies such as NFTs, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, graphene and 3D/4D printing.

If companies do not grasp how developing technologies will impact their operations, supply chains, people and products, they have little hope of weathering the ongoing storm of digital disruption. Disruptive Technologies is your essential guide to creating a stable response to constant technological upheaval.

Future Tech: How to Capture Value From Disruptive Industry Trends

by Tronde Arne Undheim

Future Tech explains how the four forces of technology, policy, business models and social dynamics work together to create industry disruption and how this understanding can help to predict what is coming next. Technology is generally viewed as the single force that disrupts markets. However, history is rife with stories of technologies that have failed to meet such hyped expectations. In Future Tech, the author reveals that true change only results from combining the forces of science and technology, policy and regulation, new business models (i.e. sharing economy) and social dynamics (whether or not people adopt it). Whether these four forces align explains why some technologies, such as AI, blockchain, robotics, synthetic biology and 3D printing, stick and why others fail. With an understanding of these four forces, business executives and policymakers can explain what technology is likely to stick and even anticipate what is coming next.

Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

In this powerful, practical audiobook, emotional intelligence expert Richard Boyatzis and Weatherhead School of Management colleagues Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten present a clear and hopeful message. The way to help someone learn and change, they say, cannot be focused primarily on fixing problems, but instead must connect to that person's positive vision of themselves or an inspiring dream or goal they've long held. This is what great coaches do - they know that people draw energy from their visions and dreams, and that same energy sustains their efforts to change, even through difficult times. In contrast, problem-centered approaches trigger physiological responses that make a person defensive and less open to new ideas.

Learning for Life: How Continuous Education Will Keep Us Competitive in the Global Knowledge Economy

Today's global knowledge economy requires individuals and companies alike to quickly adapt to new tools and strategies. To remain competitive, both must continually upgrade their skills. In the United States, however, support for ongoing education lags far behind other developed nations, creating a crippling skills gap. How did we get to this point, and why are other countries faring markedly better? What keeps our nation's vast network of corporate training, workforce development, and K-12 and college education so fragmented and inefficient? In a constantly changing world, the stakes are high to ensure our workforce performs. Learning for Life points to the most promising pathways for getting there.

Focus on Moments That Matter in Employees’ Learning Journeys

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. In this issue of TD at Work, Marek Hyla, Ariel Wrona, Grzegorz Plezia, and Natalia Kmieć-Braun explain the six moments, associated experiences, and the individuals involved who are part of the learning journey. Further, they: Detail why each moment is important and how to create an effective experience. Suggest questions to ask learners along the way to create the best learning journey. Offer considerations that can facilitate or detract from learning. The Tools & Resources in this issue is the Moments That Matter checklist for instructional designers.

The Upskilling Imperative 5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We Work

Make continuous learning part of your company’s DNA―and growth, profits, and sustainability will follow.

Keeping up with the pace of change may seem impossible, but it’s not. The secret is to make continuous learning a top value for every person on the team so when change happens, everyone is prepared.

In The Upskilling Imperative, Shelley Osborne, Udemy’s Vice President of Learning, reveals the methods she uses to help many of today’s leading companies―from Adidas to PayPal to Barclays―build and sustain a culture of learning. With this new, evolved mindset, you and your workforce will approach the next inevitable workplace upheaval or technology with skill and confidence―not confusion and dread.

Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in the Digital World

The working world has changed dramatically in the last twenty years and it's going to continue to transform at an even faster pace. How can the average professional stay afloat in an ocean of constant change and technological revolution?

In Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in a Digital World bestselling author and futurist Bernard Marr delivers an engaging and insightful discussion of how you can prepare yourself for the digital future of work. You'll learn which skills will be in the highest demand, why they'll command a premium price, and how to develop them.

Future Skills belongs in the libraries of company leaders, managers, human resources professionals, educators, and anyone else with an interest in the future of work and how humanity fits within it.

MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Continuous Learning

Why is learning important in the business world? Does continuous learning support innovation and growth? How can you incorporate a philosophy of learning into your organization’s culture? And how is learning influenced by the demands of a digital world?

In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn: How a culture of lifelong learning can be created through the combined efforts of people, governments, and companies; The need to develop lean principles in employees; How to develop skills in employees who show potential; The role of government in skills development; Some characteristics of leaders in a digitized age; and How global organizations are operating in the current digital world.

Remaining Relevant: Achieving Lifelong Professional Success

Remaining Relevant is an inspirational playbook for professionals who want to remain relevant, significant, and credible contributors regardless of their age.

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.

Chock full of self-assessments, checklists, and activities, Remaining Relevant presents practical and concise tips to help the reader create an action plan for self-development and reinvention. Readers will gain valuable insight to help them remain at the top of their game throughout their lifetime. Chapters address how to: stay sharp, communicate clearly, stay connected, update your image, get physical, seek harmony, keep up with technology, and reinvent yourself.

Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive

We now live in a learning economy, says Brad Staats, and while learning has always been important, the returns on lifetime learning are greater than ever.

Our primary focus must be on our ability to learn. We must strive to develop new skills to create more value - or be left behind. As Jeff Immelt, chairman and former CEO of GE, has noted, "You never hire somebody, no matter what the job you're hiring for, for what they know. You're hiring them for how fast you think they can learn."

In Never Stop Learning, Staats outlines the framework that will help you become more effective as a lifelong learner.

Positive Thinking Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Happy and Successful Life

Positive thinking is an approach and a set of skills that we can all learn. But it’s not just about how and what you think; you've got to do something! In a range of situations, positive thinking needs to be followed by positive action. The good news is that whatever life has thrown at you in the past and whatever is you want to achieve in the future, the Positive Thinking Pocketbook will help you think and behave more positively.

Inside, you’ll find out how to use tips, techniques and advice on creating a positive mindset and developing your positive thinking. Next, you'll find out how to apply that positive thinking to a range of potentially difficult situations.

Whenever you want a shot of positivity, simply pick out a few ideas, tips and techniques that appeal to you and give them a try!

Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill

In 1937, one man changed the face of entrepreneurship forever with a single b

Napoleon Hill's landmark Think and Grow Rich remains one of the biggest bestsellers of all time, with over 20 million copies in print and translated into more than 30 languages. Hill's philosophy of personal achievement, wealth, and empowerment created millionaires the world over. At the present time, the principles behind Think and Grow Rich are more vital--and relevant--than ever before.

Are you ready to put the power of Napoleon Hill to work for you?

In this new book, the Napoleon Hill Foundation's own executive director puts Hill's essential principles right at your fingertips.

Filled with fascinating stories from Dolly Parton, Jeffrey Gitomer, Chief Poly Emenike, and Joe Dudley, Jr.--iconic figures who each applied Hill's principles to their own lives, Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill lays out the tools needed to uncover the secrets of growth, creativity, power, and achievement inside all of us. It's an essential playbook for any business professional seeking the knowledge and inspiration necessary to discard fear and attain the goals of personal and professional triumph.

The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity

In The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity, Dr. Catherine Sanderson breaks down the science of thought and shows how our mindset—or thought pattern—exerts a substantial influence on our psychological and physical health. Most important, this book demonstrates how, no matter what our natural tendency, with practice we can make minor tweaks in our mindset that will improve the quality—and longevity—of our life.

The Simple Shift: How Useful Thinking Changes the Way You See Everything

There is a mountain of hype around positive thinking. But have you noticed that positive thinking doesn't, well, work? That's because positivity is just an emotion, and at the end of the day it doesn't change the reality of the situations we face. The Simple Shift turns positive thinking on its head and transforms it into something practical - a way of adopting beliefs that can change the way you see reality and make major obstacles into easily resolvable issues.

This audiobook helps you develop the self-awareness to know when and how your thoughts are holding you back. Instead of just trying to ignore negative thoughts or pretend that problems don't exist, why not actually change them, using useful thinking? Control your perception and start to turn your life around with The Simple Shift.

This audiobook provides a clear and practical path for retraining your brain to see opportunities rather than obstacles. It's not about putting on rose-coloured glasses and pretending that problems don't exist. Rather, you can choose to train your mindset towards what is useful, guiding you to better outcomes in life, love, and work.

Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation

While optimism can help us alleviate immediate suffering and persevere in challenging times, merely dreaming about the future actually makes people more frustrated and unhappy over the long term and less likely to achieve their goals. In fact, the pleasure we gain from positive fantasies allows us to fulfill our wishes virtually, sapping our energy to perform the hard work of meeting challenges and achieving goals in real life.

Practical Happiness: Four Principles to Improve Your Life

Learn how to think differently about your happiness with a philosophy for creating a realistic yet joyful life.

People think happiness is a singular feeling, but it isn't. The real way to feel happier is to expand your definition of happiness and manage your Happiness Zappers.

Pamela Gail Johnson, founder of the Society of Happy People, identified the four practical happiness principles that have helped thousands of people shift their mindsets so they naturally notice more happiness, whether it feels sparse, abundant, or somewhere in between. Pamela shares real stories from real people who put the four practical happiness principles into action. With thought-provoking workbook-style questions, you can immediately apply these principles to your life. You'll discover how happiness is unique to you and your circumstances; how to manage common experiences that zap your happiness; how happiness changes; and 31 types of happiness.

If you're tired of positive thinking, to-do lists, or science-based books about happiness, you'll love the simple and realistic approach Practical Happiness takes for you to improve your life. It should come with a warning label - Caution: You will feel happier.

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.

In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG—to fix this broken formula. Using stories and case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.

Positive Thinking: Find Happiness and Achieve Your Goals Through the Power of Positive Thought

Are you stuck in a rut? Do you feel plagued by negative thoughts and emotions every day? Gill Hasson, the bestselling author of Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence, is back to help you move on from those pesky negative emotions and focus on the positive instead. Gill's practical and reassuring approach to the benefits of positive thinking will have you applying it to your own life every day.

If you struggle to see past setbacks both at work and at home, it can be tricky not to let those negative emotions affect you in every area of your life. This book will give readers the tools to view life with a positive outlook and charge ahead in achieving goals that once seemed out of reach.

The power of positive thinking is not a new idea; it's been around long enough to become almost a cliché, but there's a reason behind its longevity: positivity works. This book shows you how to break through the clouds today, and start working toward the life you want.

Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your Goals

If you want to accomplish what's important to you, discipline and willpower won't get you where you need to go. In this iconoclastic new book, Susan Fowler reveals compelling insights and actions to help you master and maintain your motivation.

Susan Fowler says motivation is energy, and what matters is the quality, not the quantity. Traditional “motivators” such as fear, guilt, or the promise of a reward provide low-quality, short-term energy. Drawing on the latest empirical research, she proves that high-quality, optimal motivation is a skill that you can learn and apply.

Through practical exercises and eye-opening stories, Fowler shows you how to identify and shift the quality of your motivation. The skill to master your motivation is important—it may be your greatest opportunity to evolve, grow in wisdom, and be the light the world so desperately needs.

Rebooting Your Brain: Using Motivational Intelligence to Adjust Your Mindset, Reach Your Goals, and Realize Unlimited Success

In Rebooting Your Brain: Using Motivational Intelligence to Adjust Your Mindset, Reach Your Goals, and Realize Unlimited Success, leadership development and sales expert, David Naylor delivers an incisive exploration of why people struggle and how to escape the shackles that hold individuals and organizations back. Leveraging the latest insights of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology, 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.

Relying on the author’s unique and effective 2logical motivational intelligence-based solutions, readers will discover how to build greater success in both their career and personal life.

An essential and practical book perfect for team leaders, managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Rebooting Your Brain is the evidence- and cognitive science-based resource that leaders everywhere have been waiting for.

This Book Will Motivate You: 100 Ways to Kick-Start Your Life Goals

Understanding Java from the JVM up gives you a solid foundation to grow your expertise and take on advanced techniques for performance, concurrency, containerization, and more.

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. It features more than 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act—methods based on feedback from the hundreds of thousands of corporate and public seminar attendees Chandler speaks to each year. The book also includes techniques and breakthroughs he has created for individual coaching clients.

This Book Will Motivate You will help you break through the negative barriers and banish the pessimistic thoughts that are preventing you from fulfilling your lifelong goals and dreams. This edition also contains mental and spiritual techniques that give readers more immediate access to action and results in their lives. If you’re ready to finally make a change, leave burnout in the dust, and reach your goals, Steve Chandler challenges you to turn your defeatist attitude into energetic, optimistic, enthusiastic accomplishments.

The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths and Unleash Your Team

Lack of self-awareness is the single greatest obstacle leaders face in their development, effectiveness, and advancement. Dr. John C. Maxwell will help any leader become more self-aware, focused, and confident.

With fifty years of leading and teaching experience, influential leadership expert and speaker John C. Maxwell can help you become your best leadership self.

Self-awareness is key for new and seasoned leaders who want to avoid micro-managing, handle criticism with grace, and give others the credit they deserve. Maxwell also aims to help current and new managers looking to identify their strengths, become a better learner, and improve listening skills.

When leaders don’t see themselves clearly, understand their strengths and weaknesses, or recognize their negative interactions with their team, they limit their influence and undermine their own effectiveness. What’s the solution? Become a self-aware leader.

Getting Real: 10 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life

Everyone values honest communication, but how many of us have the necessary skills? Getting Real provides a set of simple yet effective awareness practices that will help you:

discover the freedom that comes from relating more and controlling less
say what you really feel without losing your friends, your mate, or your job
stop worrying about how others might react to your honesty
let go of shoulds and discover your authentic voice
become an effective communicator in both business and personal relationships

Shine: Ignite Your Inner Game to Lead Consciously at Work and In the World

With Shine: Ignite Your Inner Game to Lead Consciously at Work and in the World, Carley Hauck distills the research-based methods and game-changing skills she's brought to corporate settings such as LinkedIn, Pixar, Genentech, Clif Bar, and more. Here you'll learn tools and practices for cultivating the six "inner game skills" for conscious leadership: self-awareness - understand your strengths, blind spots, motivations, and behaviors, and how these impact others; emotional intelligence - learn how to navigate challenging feelings and develop the qualities of empathy and attunement; resilience - how to adapt gracefully to the constant state of change in business and the world; love - lead from the heart, create a caring and collaborative workplace, and build lasting connections based on shared passion and ideals; well-being - self-care techniques to prevent burnout in the workplace and promote sustainability for the planet; and authenticity - embracing the shadow sides of yourself and your workplace through vulnerability, forgiveness, and trust.

Coach Yourself! Increase Awareness, Change Behavior and Thrive

Coach Yourself! is a guide for people who are committed to increasing their awareness about behaviors that aren’t serving them at work or in the rest of their lives, and then taking the necessary actions to move forward. If you’re ready to explore changing habits and behaviors to improve how you show up in work and life, this book is for you. With practical and accessible frameworks exploring the power of performance coaching, Top NYC Executive Coach Antonia Bowring teaches readers to use her performance coaching formula: increased awareness + changed behavior = flourishing individual and thriving work performance.

While this will be an essential guide for professionals and leaders, anyone can pick up this book and apply the frameworks to various aspects of their life. The essence of coaching is that we have the answers inside ourselves, and the role of the coach is to help us access our own answers.

Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and in Life

Our world is changing faster than our ability to adapt. Ambushed by speed, complexity, and uncertainty, many of us are unprepared for this acceleration. We act on autopilot as new challenges confront us. We are too reactive to problems and miss out on opportunities. We get hijacked by conflicting values and polarizing relationships. We face uncertainty with fear and mistrust. Stress and burnout are pervasive as many of us do not perform up to our potential.

Organizations are not adapting well either. Seventy percent of change efforts fail. Slow execution, unrealized growth, unhealthy cultures, and obsession with short-term results undermine long-term success.

CONSCIOUS is our wake-up call – to be aware, awake, and accountable. Nothing is more important than understanding ourselves, our relationships, and our surroundings. Being conscious helps us think deeper, learn faster, and collaborate better.

All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically

In All Pride, No Ego, celebrated corporate leader James Fielding delivers an inspirational leadership story told from the perspective of an out and proud LGBTQ+ executive. In the book, you’ll explore a call-to-action for authentic servant leadership that encourages people to own their truth and bring out the best in themselves and their communities.

The author explains his key decisions and inflection points and highlights how his leadership style, learnings, successes, and failures informed his rise through the rungs of the corporate ladder.

An essential resource for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, All Pride, No Ego will also earn a place on the bookshelves of young, aspiring leaders seeking practical and impactful strategies for real-world leadership.

GaYme Changer: How the LGBT+ Community and Their Allies are Changing the Global Economy

The LGBT+ community: for a long time marginalized, stigmatized, and criminalized – today the ultimate champions of creativity, diversity, and innovation in a highly competitive world. In addition, corporate social responsibility and ethical demands for inclusivity have now become economic directives every organization would like to attain. Gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer individuals are symbols of diversity and economic power – true GaYme Changers developing the global economy faster and for the better. Supported by up-to-date research and illustrated by fascinating stories, Jens Schadendorf has traced the LGBT+ community and an increasing number of their allies from across the globe to discover the start of a revolution

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World

The Book of Pride is a captivating testimony to the strength of the human spirit in prevailing despite opposition as well as the power of embracing one’s true identity. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.

Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination

In Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace, Alison Ash Fogarty and Lily Zheng explore the various forms of discrimination and prejudice that gender-diverse people struggle with in their careers and suggest practical strategies for organizations to become truly inclusive of all gender identities. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America

Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Careerrectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of state aggression, vulnerable to employer exploitation, Margot Canaday positions employment and fear of job loss as central to gay life in postwar America.

Queer Careershows how LGBT history helps us understand the recent history of capitalism and labor and rewrites our understanding of the queer past.

Be an Inclusion Ally: The ABC’s of LGBTQ+

In Be An Inclusion Ally, author Lisa Koenecke helps us become LGBTQ+ literate by methodically unpacking in alphabetical order what it means to be(come) a supportive LGBTQ+ ally. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate

In The Savvy Ally, Jeannie Gainsburg offers much-needed insight and pragmatic advice on how to offer their support and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community in a respectful and helpful manner. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.

Pride Leadership: Strategies for LGBTQ+ Leaders to be the King or Queen of Their Jungle

Whether you’re a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community or a straight professional looking to add to your inclusive leader toolbox, author Steven Yacovelli will teach you about leading with pride. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.

Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking

Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of “the elite few” and into the company culture as whole. It offers a simple, proven approach to analyzing and solving old or new challenges and provides a common language anyone at any level in the organization can understand.

Dealing with Difficult People: HBR Emotional Intelligence Series

Learn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients.

At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their—and your own—emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with?

This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive.

Training the Brain: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson explains how the brain's social and emotional circuitry becomes shaped to give each of us a unique "brain style" in reacting to life: hair trigger or slow to react, feeling strongly or weakly, recovering quickly or slowly. Davidson's research on meditators suggests we can take a more active role in reshaping our brains, and our emotional response, for the better.

Authentic Leadership: HBR Emotional Intelligence Series

What does it mean to be yourself at work? As a leader, how do you strike the right balance between vulnerability and authority?

This book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropriate, how conforming to specific standards can hurt you, and when you need to feel like a fake.

#Girlboss

#GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.

Remote: Office Not Required

According to Reuters, one in five global workers telecommutes frequently and nearly ten percent work from home every day.

Remotewill convince readers that letting all or part of work teams function remotely is a great idea--and it shows precisely how a remote work setup can be accomplished.

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on it's head, the 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.

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.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution

4DX is not theory. It is a proven set of practices that have been tested and refined by hundreds of organizations and thousands of teams over many years. When a company or an individual adheres to these disciplines, they achieve superb results—regardless of the goal. 4DX represents a new way of thinking and working that is essential to thriving in today’s competitive climate.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High, 3rd Edition

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s communication challenges. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, Crucial Conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a Crucial Conversation again.

Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability

In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Katie Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities. The stories she tells are universal: the fear of stigma, the fight for accommodations, and the raw reality of living with mental illness in a world that pushes mental health to the margins.

With candor and grace, these essays discuss the disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. While harrowing at times, Pryal’s story is ultimately one of hope. With this memoir, she aims to make higher education—and all of our society—more humane.

Engage in Mental Health and Well Being

Starting conversations around mental health can be challenging. More often than not, simply asking a question and showing you genuinely care will be enough to start the conversation, even if not with the perfect words. 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 and how to do that by explaining the scope of mental health; outlining how talent development professionals, managers, and others can begin mental health conversations in the workplace; and offering tips for understanding when TD professionals and others in the organization need to escalate the conversation to a trained healthcare professional.

NOTE: This issue of TD at Work is not intended to provide professional mental healthcare advice but rather to guide workplace conversations around supporting better mental well-being.

Mental Illness at Work: A Manager’s Guide to Identifying, Managing and Preventing Psychological Problems in the Workplace

It is argued that the incidence of mental illness in the workplace is more common than many realize, ranging from stress to schizophrenia. In this book leading psychologists Adrian Furnham and Mary-Clare Race explore the psychiatric classification of illness and how symptoms can be identified to help develop mental health literate organizations.

Written by leading psychologists Mary-Clare Race and Adrian Furnham, this 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. It will help managers to minimize risk and harmful effects to the individual and the business, and ultimately to develop a mental health literate organization.

The Cambridge Handbook of Stigma and Mental Health

The persistence of stigma of mental illness and seeking therapy perpetuates suffering and keeps people from getting the help they need and deserve. This volume, analysing the most up-to-date research on this process and ways to intervene, is designed to give those who are working to overcome stigma a strong, research-based foundation for their work.

Chapters address stigma reduction efforts at the individual, community, and national levels, and discuss what works and what doesn't. Others explore how holding different stigmatized identities compounds the burden of stigma and suggest ways to attend to these differences. Throughout, there is a focus on the current state of the research knowledge in the field, its applications, and recommendations for future research. The Handbook provides a compelling case for the benefits reaped from current research and intervention, and shows why continued work is needed.

The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City

Most of the world’s people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today?

Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion, racism, and inequality. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants. But the split between the social and life sciences has hindered understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies and brains of urbanites.

In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald explore the ways cities shape the mental health and illness of those who inhabit them.

Your Health at Work: An Indispensable Guide to Physical and Mental Wellbeing

Your Health at Work is 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. The TUC expertly explains your legal rights, how to avoid injury and illness and what support is available to you.

Covering the full range of industries, Your Health at Work provides guidance for everyone. Both physical health (e.g. aches and strains, hazardous substances, accidents) and mental health (anxiety, depression, bullying) are comprehensively discussed to provide you with reliable help and advice on the full range of potential health problems at work. The stories of real workers who have encountered health issues at work are included to make sure that this book is fully representative of real life and gives practical, and sometimes inspirational, insights to support you and your health every day at work.

Mindfulness for the Wandering Mind: Life-Changing Tools for Managing Stress and Improving Mental Health at Work

Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru, Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It’s all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism. This book will show you how to identify and close the “apps” that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily life.

Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind is for anyone who is looking for a solution to the constant feelings overwhelm, distraction, and anxiety that plague us in today’s fast-paced, media-saturated world. Teach your brain how to block out the noise and find focus, and observe the radical transformation that mindfulness can make in your life.

Can’t Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself From Obsessive Rumination

Are you a chronic overthinker? Do you obsess to the point of feeling anxious, hopeless, angry, or stressed out? Have you ever tried to “think your way out” of one of these negative thought spirals, only to fall in deeper? Let’s face it: trying to escape your thoughts—or control them—just doesn’t work, and can actually make you more miserable in the long run. So, how can you overcome your addiction to thinking?

In Can’t Stop Thinking, psychotherapist and spiritual counselor Nancy Colier offers the keys to breaking free from the obsessive rumination that drives stress, worry, and anxiety. Using powerful tools grounded in the ancient wisdom of mindfulness and evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), you’ll learn how to observe and gain distance from troubling thoughts, put an end to harsh self-criticism, and manage difficult feelings like resentment and shame.

Break Proof: 7 Strategies to Build Resilience and Achieve Your Life Goals

Discover resilience in adversity. Break Proof chronicles Jenn Drummond's pursuit to conquer the Seven Second Summits, despite no mountain climbing experience. Through this emotional and physical journey toward that audacious goal, the world record-holding mountaineer provides lessons on never giving up, cultivating resilience, and finding strength in the face of life's greatest challenges.

Inside, discover actionable strategies and exercises to take the first steps, build resilience, and handle life's challenges; the importance of goal setting and continuous self-improvement and personal growth; ways to troubleshoot seemingly insurmountable obstacles; and inspiration for becoming a go-getter, never giving up, embracing life balance, and living life to the fullest.

The Art of Bouncing Back: Find Your Flow to Thrive at Work and Life Any Time You’re Off Your Game

As a mental skills coach, Coach Dar specializes in helping the best of the best get up and get going again after suffering setbacks. In The Art of Bouncing Back, she shares these proven strategies and techniques so you can ensure the obstacles and setbacks you face morph into setups for your next success.

Every chapter provides a blueprint that helps you learn more about yourself, so you can identify the exact pivot you need to push forward, start reframing your setbacks, and cultivate the strength you need to handle future adversity better.

Packed with strategies and exercises to help you achieve the life-changing results her clients see, The Art of Bouncing Back is what you need to see that the adversity in your life can create opportunities from any setback.

What Makes You Stronger: How to Thrive in the Face of Change and Uncertainty Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Change can happen so slowly that you might not even notice it. And sometimes, it can happen in an instant, causing your world to come crashing down. But while burying our heads in the sand can provide some short-term relief, our fear can grow and manifest itself in life-altering ways like stress, anxiety, or depression. The good news is that you can learn to transform how you respond to unwanted change.

In What Makes You Stronger, you'll learn to apply the authors' proven-effective DNA-v model (Discoverer, Noticer, Advisor, Value, and Vitality)—a potent blend of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and positive psychology to gain resilience in the face of change. Using this simple six-step process, you'll not only cope with change and adversity—but grow stronger from it!

The Rebuilders: Going from Setback to Comeback in Business and Beyond

Failure...we've all been there. In business and in life. Whether you've done it to yourself or have been negatively impacted by external situations, this book is a guide to building resilience and turning obstacles into opportunities.

Failure can often be the first step forward. The Rebuilders is here to help us accept setbacks for what they are and explores not just how to get back up and get through to the other side, but also recognize the creative potential found in the rubble of disappointment. This book is your companion to facing challenges at work and in life with pragmatism and a healthy dose of inspiration.

The Rebuilders will show you how to overcome setbacks and put learnings to good use in your professional and personal journey.

Lead Through Anything: Harness Purpose, Vitality, and Agility to Thrive in the Face of Unrelenting Change

In today’s world of near-constant disruption, every leader faces a slew of conflicting demands involving employees of different generations, cultures, and age groups; one of history’s tightest labor markets; and never-ending geopolitical, climate, financial, and health challenges.

Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader. It walks you through the process of developing a leadership mentality that balances three key elements to achieve sustainable success: purpose, vitality, and agility. The book focuses on a wide variety of skills, such as aligning people and energy to a common cause, building effective teams and helping them work together more selflessly, establishing positive confidence more often in oneself and others, increasing engagement and retaining top talent, and shaping a positive, impact-driven organizational culture.

A.G.I.L.E Thinking Demystified: Mindset Over Mechanics

This book provides the missing link of how to shift mindsets on how to work effectively. This shift requires an investigation of how we can move organizations in the way they think about work–especially work that does not easily conform to the traditional plan-driven approach.

The author takes the reader on a journey to be able to think in an A.G.I.L.E way. The approach taken is reflective and allows time for the insight to understand how to think differently about teams, work, and even organizations. It is said that all organizations are technology organizations, if that is true it brings risks and opportunities that many organizations have not seen before. The framework of the book will help grow a new way of thinking and is anchored in: Adaptability; Growth; Improvement; Leadership; Experience.

Discoveries Through Personal Agility

Agility brings personal value, leadership navigation, managing the tides of knowledge, and putting on the captain's hat of resilience. As the winds change and the tides swell high, the Personal Agility Lighthouse (PALH™) model in this book will guide you to safe shores. Navigating through the seven colors of agility, the anchor is dropped effortlessly. It is built on these seven competencies, and by using the Individual Personal Agility self-analysis assessment (see Appendix), swaying personal visions leading them up to organizational goals.

Measuring performance metrics aptly is the rudder of strategy management and stability. Organizational goals and personal development are the strong pillars that will steer you to your organizational agility, getting you ready for opportunities and changes when your company trademark needs it. Visualization is the way to your shore's lighthouse.

Untapped Agility: Seven Leadership Moves to Take Your Transformation to the Next Level

Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What's going on?

Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the “quick-fix” hype of agile theory and explains a recurring transformational pattern that unpacks what holds organizations back. The boost is the initial gains from logical first steps; the barrier is the unavoidable roadblock that must come next; and the rebound is the way forward to further gains by leaning against the concept of the original boost.

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.

The Power of Understanding Yourself: The Key to Self-Discovery, Personal Development, and Being the Best You

Discover your true self and align your life journey around your core beliefs, values and perspective.

Designed as both a companion piece to the author's previous book, The Power of Understanding People, and a stand-alone work, The Power of Understanding Yourself 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.

It explores personal attributes related to interactive style, diving deeper into the concepts from the author's previous book, provides exercises for exploring how to connect your current life status to a desired future state and encourages readers to engage in a deep exploration of their core values, beliefs, mission and vision to become their best self. The Power of Understanding Yourself is an empowering tool to help you find your best possible self and flourish.

The Ultimate Glow Up Guide: A Guide to Self-Growth, Self-Care, and Becoming the Best Version of You

How to have a glow up-made easy. Author Elicia Goguen, creator of The Glow Up Secrets YouTube channel, shares her personal glow-up journey and how to have a glow up yourself, giving tips on changing thoughts of self-hate or sabotage into self improvement for real women. No more indulging in body shaming or unhealthy diet culture while focusing on your outer appearance with this women's empowerment book.

Glow up from within. This shadow work book guides women back to their unique selves, healing their inner child along the way. Break unhealthy habits and relationships by connecting with your authentic self. Women can glow up with this self growth book for lasting change. It's your time to start creating your story from a place of self acceptance and self love.

Stop Playing Safe: Rethink Risk, Unlock the Power of Courage, Achieve Outstanding Success

In an increasingly uncertain, competitive and accelerated world, we are hard-wired  to avoid risk but the true key to success is courage--the courage to speak up and challenge the status quo, the courage to take risks, the courage to trust in yourself more deeply and seize the opportunities all around us. So what's stopping you?

Best-selling author, media commentator and master coach, Margie Warrell shares powerful tools and techniques to overcome fear and achieve greater success and fulfillment at work and beyond.

Discover how to define your sense of purpose and pursue more inspiring goals, embrace a 'Courage Mindset' and speak up with confidence, navigate uncertainty with clarity and take smart risks, not just safe ones, and create daily rituals to build your resilience and ability to bounce back faster and stronger when life doesn't go to plan.

Stop Checking Your Likes: Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life

In the age of social media, too many people obsess over Facebook likes, Twitter retweets, and other digital tokens of popularity. That habit is a symptom of a deeper problem: the need for constant approval.

Too often we live our lives for an audience and miss out on the kind of life we really desire. In Stop Checking Your Likes, author and life coach Susie Moore shows listeners how to escape the "approval trap" and accept themselves as they are right now. With warmth and down-to-earth humor, Moore reveals 14 principles for developing unshakable self-confidence, illustrating her lessons with stories from her experience as a young executive and self-made entrepreneur.

Along the way, she encourages listeners to celebrate their talents, reaffirm their self-worth, and laugh off trolls and naysayers.

You’ve Got This! The Life-Changing Power of Trusting Yourself

Does fear hold you back? We all have moments when we succumb to doubt and let our fears call the shots. Each time they do, we limit our lives. It's why learning to trust in ourselves is crucial to rising above our biggest challenges and enjoying true happiness and success.

Written with heart and humor but grounded in research, You've Got This! is a handbook for unleashing our untapped potential and passion, creativity and courage, to thrive in today's uncertain world. Filled with compelling stories and hard-won wisdom, author Margie Warrell draws on her background in business, coaching, and doctoral studies, as well as her challenges raising four children while living and working around the world.

Hailed as a "high five to the human spirit," You've Got This! is a must-listen for everyone.

Start Now, Get Perfect Later: How to Make Smarter, Faster & Bigger Decisions & Banish Procrastination

If you have a burning ambition, brilliant business idea or creative passion: What are you waiting for? Now is the time to get going!

Hardly anyone gets it right the first time, but many of us are crippled by indecision and fear of failure. The desire to get it right can inhibit us from getting started. Don't wait around for everything to fall magically into place - get started, get going and get perfect later. It's the fastest route to success.

In this book, Rob Moore, the bestselling author of MONEY, shows 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. Get perfect later, get started NOW.

How to Live an Awesome Life: The 11 Step Formula for Fulfilment and Success

Living a life of passion, purpose and fulfilment, on your own terms, in your own way, is the key to happiness - so why are you waiting around and not taking bold action? Why hide behind upbeat selfies, making excuses instead of following your dreams? If your life isn't inspiring you, it's time to change.

In 11 inspiring, actionable steps, this book will help you set BIG achievable goals that shape the life you want to live. You'll discover how to be fitter, happier and more successful, to live with vitality and zest for all that's in your life, and to ultimately live a life of fulfilment, accomplishing all your dream of, with zero regrets. Life success isn't a secret. It's a blueprint. And it's in this book.

How to Think Bigger Than You Ever Thought You Could Think

When Mark Victor Hansen had to conquer his own setbacks in order to seize success, he discovered how to harness and leverage the power of the human mind and then to fuel it with enthusiasm and passion. His explorations took him beyond the normal confines of human thought, into the realms of imagination and possibility. Mark now travels the world in high demand as a keynote speaker, coaching people to wake up, to recognize their power to make a difference, and to re-create their reality by living their dreams.

If you have ever experienced roadblocks and you have been looking for a way through, this program can be your road map. Mark's secrets, discoveries, and techniques will assist you in crushing your obstacles and helping to reveal true solutions. You'll learn powerful methods of creating passion, focus, and vision in your life.

The New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

In a world with a surplus of ideas, what separates a good idea from a bad one? Learn how to cultivate a mindset that produces the kind of ideas people can't turn down.

Most professionals cannot generate a solid idea. They either offer up tired or reused ones, or they generate lots of ideas but none that are worth pursuing. A great idea presents a well-formulated thought or plan of action that spurs growth, change, advancement, adaptation, or new insight. Worthwhile ideas move the needle; they change the playing field altogether.

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. Robin Landa identifies the Three Gs of every good idea: goal, gap, and gain.

HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity

Without creativity, innovation is impossible. Creativity is the key driver of innovation, but too many teams and projects are organized in ways that stifle new ideas. It's your job as a manager to create the right conditions for creativity to thrive—and to be part of the process yourself.

Fortunately, anyone can use a method-driven approach to teach and learn to be more creative. The HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity will show you how to design a work environment that allows you and your team to change how you think, reach your creative potential, and achieve groundbreaking results.

This guide will help you: get out of a creativity rut; overcome the fear that blocks creativity; balance creativity with productivity; model a creative mindset for your team; encourage curiosity and experimentation; avoid breakdowns in creative collaboration; and bring breakthrough ideas to life.

Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group-Level Influences, 2nd Edition

Handbook of Organizational Creativity 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. The book includes individual, team and organizational level factors and includes organizational interventions to facilitate creativity (such as training). Chapters focus on creative abilities and creative problem-solving processes, along with individual differences such as motivation, affect and personality. New chapters include the neuroscience of creativity, creativity and meaning, morality/ethicality and creativity, and creative self-beliefs.

Sections on group level phenomena examine team cognition, team social processes, team diversity, social networks, and multi-team systems and creativity. Final coverage includes different types and approaches to leadership, such as transformational leadership, ambidextrous leadership leader-follower relations, and more.

Breakthrough: A Sure-Fire Guide to Realizing Your Potential, Pushing Through Limitations, and Achieving Things You Didn't Know Were Possible

Have you ever sat down at your desk with an impossible deadline or an insurmountable obstacle staring you directly in the face and an expectation that you'll come up with a groundbreaking idea and solution?

Best-selling author, acclaimed speaker, and life optimization coach David Nurse provides an actionable and clearly organized structure for maximizing your breakthrough ideas. He outlines easy-to-follow steps for outperforming your potential: an accessible blueprint-backed by scientific data and years of case studies with the top athletes, entrepreneurial minds, and leaders throughout the world-to unlocking your creative potential; conclusive proof that busts the myths of the lone genius, unpredictable "a-ha" lightbulb moments, and little happy accidents; and ways to promote an environment and mindset in which groundbreaking new ideas can flow and occur naturally and seamlessly based on a repeatable formula.

Balancing Acts: Unleashing the Power of Creativity in Your Life and Work

Vice Chairman Daniel Lamarre shares his experiences leading the awe-inspiring Cirque du Soleil, and teaches readers what it takes for anyone, regardless of position or industry, to embrace the value of creative leadership.

Without creativity, there is no business. At the core of Cirque du Soleil’s lavish, multi-million-dollar productions is Vice Chairman Daniel Lamarre, who has mastered the ability to bring business and creativity together across multiple languages and cultures in a way that has never been seen before. The secrets he shares in Balancing Acts are rooted in tremendous faith in your own creative skills, even if you are convinced you have none, and those of the sharpest minds within your organization.

In this book, Daniel shares the untold stories behind Cirques biggest shows, including Beatles Love, Michael Jackson One, the aquatic marvel, O, and many more.

Unlocking Creativity: How to Solve Any Problem and Make the Best Decisions by Shifting Creative Mindsets

Tear down the obstacles to creative innovation in your organization

Unlocking Creativity is an exploration of the creative process and how organizations can clear the way for innovation. In many organizations, creative individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives oftentimes reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. Questioning established practices or challenging prevailing sentiments is frequently met with stiff resistance. In this climate of stifled creativity and inflexible adherence to conventional wisdom, potentially game-changing ideas are dismissed outright. Senior leaders claim to value creativity, yet often lack the knowledge to provide a creative framework. Unlocking Creativity offers effective methods and real-world examples of how the most successful organizations create cultures of innovation and experimentation.

Best-selling author and scholar Michael Roberto presents a thorough investigation of organizational obstacles to creative thought.

How Creativity Rules the World: The Art & Business of Turning Your Ideas Into Gold

There has never been a more crucial time than now to develop your creativity and your ability to innovate. Coming up with original ideas of value is today’s most precious skill.

How Creativity Rules the World shows that, despite contrary beliefs, creativity can be taught and learned by anyone. Creativity is an inexhaustible resource that is the key to thriving in the business world and beyond. This timeless guide promises to make the creative process of successful seven-figure artists and billion-dollar entrepreneurs—as well as Maria’s own—accessible and actionable for you to take the power of their ideas to the next level.

With revealing studies and stories spanning business and art, this book is a deep dive into history, culture, psychology, science, and entrepreneurship; analyzing the elements used by some of the most creative minds today and throughout the last 600 years.

The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business

by Chris Griffiths with Melina Costi and Caragh Medlicott

Creativity directly impacts results and productivity, yet few of us understand how it happens or how to put it into practice. This book shows you not only how to get things done, but how to do them better and more creatively.

The Creative Thinking Handbook provides the correct application for creative thinking and action, by offering clear, practical tools and strategies so that you can develop creative thinking skills and help find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge.

Based on research and proven-to-work creative thinking models, Chris Griffiths and Melina Costi present a clear introduction to what creative thinking is, explain why we all need to do it and will help you generate ideas and make better decisions.

The Creative Thinking Handbook gets you to think differently by thinking creatively.

Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce: Build Rapport, Camaraderie, and Optimal Performance No Matter the Time Zone

Perfunctory efforts to show investment in a business relationship—detailed in so many books about global work and cultural intelligence—don't cut it anymore. Business professionals working across national and cultural boundaries need to form authentic relationships that drive rapport, camaraderie, and optimal team performance—and Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce provides the most thorough and practical approach to date on this issue.

Business success today requires deeper engagement than ever. Apply the lessons of Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce to build lasting connections and drive career and organizational success in a truly global economy.

Win Business with Relationships: Communication Strategies Inspired by Entrepreneurs and Taoism

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.

This business development “guidebook” illustrates relationship building and leadership strategies with quotations from entrepreneurs, communication theories, business case studies, Taoism metaphors, and real-life stories. Businesspeople and students can apply ideas from this book for career success and work-life harmony.

Connect! How to Build Trust-Based Relationships

Now that the citizens of our world have made radical shifts because of the global pandemic, and adjusted to remote work and social distancing, the ways we used to connect with others may seem distant or even obsolete. We yearn for real connection, deep and meaningful interactions that are based on commonality instead of what we can get from one another.

Connections can happen anywhere and can range from the simple to the profound. They are what adds the seasoning to the stew of life. They are the things that can make their day, and make ours, and leave us smiling. And who doesn’t want to smile?

The truth is, it’s easier to change ourselves than our circumstances. And, we can change our circumstances by changing ourselves.

Communication Essentials: The Tools You Need to Master Any Professional Interaction

No matter how great your knowledge, expertise or experience, poor communication skills undermine your ability to get your message across, achieve your objectives, and build crucial relationships. To advance your career―and succeed in other aspects of life, as well―building theses skills is essential. 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.

Packed with insights, anecdotes, exercises, and Essential Takeaways to wrap up each chapter, you'll walk away feeling fully equipped and prepared to put your skills into action right away.

Bridge the Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships from Challenging to Collaborative

Human beings are born to connect―but in today’s increasingly polarized world, we’re losing sight of the importance of building and maintaining professional relationships. And that’s bad for business. In Bridge the Gap, two prominent Fortune 500 coaches explore how your biology and biography define and refine your behavior in relationships where you struggle to connect. Focusing on personal responsibility and awareness, meta-cognition, and curiosity, they provide a reliable and replicable framework to enhance open communication. And they illuminate the inner workings of the human brain and mind, and how they impact the way you connect, communicate, and collaborate.

Filled with practical exercises, colorful stories, and illustrative case studies, Bridge the Gap reveals how to harness the real and raw power of your mind to build solid workplace relationships in any situation.

Curve Benders: How Strategic Relationships Can Power Your Non-linear Growth in the Future of Work

Curve Benders is a personal growth roadmap. It will guide you through the complicated intersection of work, life, play, and giving. Countless new forces will shape the future, so the strategic relationships we form in these areas of life are, of necessity, changing. This book will show you how to move into the future and dramatically alter your growth trajectory in both its direction and ultimate destination. David Nour, the author of Relationship Economics and a top thought leader on business relationships, has identified 15 forces that will heavily influence what we do and how and where we engage our current and prospective relationships to create value and make a difference in the lives of others.

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.

Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom Lines

For years, companies have been implementing programs that promote social responsibility and improve employee health, both of which benefit the financial bottom line. Now it’s time to focus on positive social interactions and relationships in the workplace. Why? Research shows that authentic, trust-based relationships increase job satisfaction, engagement, productivity, and retention―and even decreased healthcare costs.

In Work Better Together, two experts from Deloitte explain how working remotely, over-relying on digital communication, and always being “on” is fast-increasing feelings of isolation and burnout―and how a work culture driven by quality relationships can reverse these trends. The authors show how to cultivate positive relationships.

Work Better Together walks you through the process of implementing change and fueling a much-needed corporate movement towards humanity in the workplace.

Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You with Anyone

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. Discover the true potential of kindness and harness its power.

Through years of developing her own kindness practices and studying those of others, Good Morning America correspondent and ABC News journalist Adrienne Bankert has experienced firsthand the unbeatable power of kindness and witnessed its transformative impact on others.

Adjusting our perspective from being closed off and self-centered to a mindset of kindness ripples into a staggering amount of personal fulfillment and growth.

No matter our age or ethnicity, where we come from, or how much money we make, every one of us can be kind. Every one of us can be a change agent.

POSITIVELY PURPLE: BUILD AN INCLUSIVE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CAN FLOURISH

For many people with a disability, either visible or invisible, that experience is hard to navigate in the context of work. Champion change, for yourself and others, challenge stigma and become Positively Purple.

Sharing a compelling personal story, Kate Nash offers practical advice for how employers can build environments of trust and support for those with disabilities, how employees with disabilities can advocate for themselves and flourish in the workplace and how those without disabilities can be true allies.

Don't become guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to disabled colleagues, employees and customers. Build disability confidence and help create spaces where people with disabilities feel valued and included.

DISABILITY VISIBILITY: FIRST-PERSON STORIES FROM THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community.

DISABILITY FRIENDLY: HOW TO MOVE FROM CLUELESS TO INCLUSIVE

Although progress has been made around equality for many marginalized groups, people with disabilities are still massively underrepresented in organizations’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts. People with disabilities make up at least 15% of the population, yet they are still too often overlooked. Many people with disabilities are highly motivated, create fantastic work, and add tremendous value to organizations.

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.

DEMYSTIFYING DISABILITY: WHAT TO KNOW, WHAT TO SAY, AND HOW TO BE AN ALLY

People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about, including: How to appropriately think, talk, and ask about disability, Practicing good disability etiquette, and Ensuring accessibility becomes your standard practice, from everyday communication to planning special events.

Authored by celebrated disability rights advocate, speaker, and writer Emily Ladau, this practical, intersectional guide offers all readers a welcoming place to understand disability as part of the human experience.

LIFE OF THE MIND INTERRUPTED: ESSAYS ON MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY

In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities. The stories she tells are universal: the fear of stigma, the fight for accommodations, and the raw reality of living with mental illness in a world that pushes mental health to the margins.

People carelessly call each other “schizo” and “bipolar.” A colleague is fired for “instability.” Pryal learned that, as a psychiatrically disabled person working in higher education, her very livelihood could be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others.

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE: TRUE STORY OF PARA SWIMMER MADHAVI LATHA

Swimming Against the Tide is an inspirational story about an ordinary woman with extraordinary grit who set out to create a fair and inclusive world for the persons with disability.

When she was seven months old, a massive polio attack left Madhavi paralyzed below the shoulder. But her parents refused to leave her to her fate. With their most powerful wealth―patience and love―they gave Madhavi the wings to set out and conquer the world on her own terms.

Triumphing over a near-death situation with hydrotherapy, she eventually became a national champion in para swimming. She then started a movement called ‘Yes, We Too Can!!!’ and co-opted other athletes with disabilities to realize their dreams through access to sports.

VISION STATEMENT: A BLIND MAN’S VIEW OF LIFE FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Life as experienced from the inside out, rather than the outside in, offers us a path to the elimination of labels that cripple our ability to love and care for each other with open hearts and open minds.

With a life in show business touched by relationships with stars like Michael Landon, Robin Williams, and the incomparable Betty White, Tom’s personal stories weave a tapestry that offer the listener concrete examples of his unique approach to inside-out vision. At a time when we are being torn apart by unspeakable violence, social injustice, and political cronyism, this book stands as a beacon of hope reminding us of the light that shines out from inside each of us.

YOUR BRAIN’S NOT BROKEN: STRATEGIES FOR NAVIGATING YOUR EMOTIONS AND LIFE WITH ADHD

If you have ADHD, your brain doesn't work in the same way as a "normal" or neurotypical brain does because it's wired differently. You and others may see this difference in circuitry as somehow wrong or incomplete. It isn't. It does present you with significant challenges like time management, organization skills, forgetfulness, trouble completing tasks, mood swings, and relationship problems.

In Your Brain's Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier explains how ADHD affects every aspect of your life. You'll finally understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. Dr. Rosier applies her years of coaching others to offer you the critical practical tools that can dramatically improve your life and relationships.

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THE THRESHOLD: LEADING IN THE AGE OF AI

In the face of increasingly intelligent technology, old models of leadership are becoming obsolete. In The Threshold, accomplished leadership consultant Nick Chatrath interweaves an analysis of antiquated leadership models—the ones that leave AI-Era organizations exposed and ineffective with colleagues frustrated, unmotivated, and burnt-out—with his newly developed strategies for more effective “threshold” leadership methods. Supported with anecdotes, research, and a practical toolkit, The Threshold demonstrates that adaptive, effective organizations can be built with human, emotional intelligence: cultivating stillness, nurturing independent thinking, finding rhythms of rest and performance, and raising leadership consciousness. The Threshold illuminates how accessing advanced stages of human development can be both competitive and harmonious with AI’s growing insinuation into our working world.

INFLUENCE IS YOUR SUPERPOWER: THE SCIENCE OF WINNING HEARTS, SPARKING CHANGE, AND MAKING GOOD THINGS HAPPEN

You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Award-winning Yale professor Zoe Chance will show you how to rediscover the superpower that brings great ideas to life.

Influence doesn’t work the way you think because you don’t think the way you think. Move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential. Discover the one thing that influences behavior more than anything else. Learn to cultivate charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late.

THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE: HOW TO MAKE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS HAPPEN IN ORGANIZATIONS, 7TH EDITION

In the new seventh edition ofThe Leadership Challenge, best-selling leadership authors and business scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an essential strategic playbook for effective leadership. The book’s actionable advice is grounded in robust research and deep insights into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace.

Premier authorities in the field, the authors frame leadership as both a skill to be learned and as a relationship to be nurtured. They demonstrate how to achieve extraordinary results in the face of contemporary business challenges with engaging stories, current case studies, and straightforward frameworks for those who seek continuous, incremental improvement.

[BRIEF]: MAKE A BIGGER IMPACT

The only way to survive in business today is to be a lean communicator. Buried in information and barraged by non-stop interruptions, executives don’t have time to waste. So, throw them a lifeline and be brief.

In his book with Wiley & Sons, Joe McCormack tackles the impact of brevity in business. And related Brief Lab workshops complement the recommendations in the book.

The mastery of BRIEF requires three awareness, discipline and decisiveness. You need to do the groundwork to make your message tight and to the point. Brevity isn’t a nicety, it’s a necessity. If you’re serious about mastering concise communication, order the book and get started today.

MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW ARTICLE ON THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN ENABLING CHANGE

Culture is often described as “how we do things around here” — a passive reflection of legacy norms and behaviors. It’s more helpful to think of culture as the nervous system of an organization. In biology, the central nervous system is the pathway by which thoughts in our brains are translated into actions by our muscles, and how our experience of acting in the world updates our brain’s understanding of the world. In organizations, this means thinking of culture as the transmission mechanism by which a company both communicates its intended strategy to the front lines and receives feedback and intelligence from the field about whether the strategy is achieving the intended outcomes in the market.

GOOD POWER: LEADING POSITIVE CHANGE IN OUR LIVES, WORK, AND WORLD

One of the world's most respected leaders, former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty overcame childhood and financial struggles to embark on a groundbreaking career.

The book begins with raw, vivid memories from Rometty's youth and early professional life as she reflects on the trauma and role models that influenced how she later thought about good power. Rometty then shares how she strived to use good power during her career and as a transformative CEO. Five principles-be in service of many stakeholders, build belief among skeptics, make tough choices, champion tech ethics and inclusion, be resilient-show how to navigate tension and build trust on the path to real change.

DEEP TALENT: HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR ORGANIZATION AND EMPOWER YOUR EMPLOYEES THROUGH AI

It's vital that leaders do everything they can to hire, develop and keep the people who are driving their growth and help them recognize their skills, capabilities and potential. Deep Talent provides strategies and approaches that any business leader can adopt to reinvigorate their workforce. It highlights the rising significance of talent intelligence platforms which, when combined with human instinct, can streamline and enhance business practices.

Drawing upon fascinating case studies and first-hand research, Deep Talent provides clear strategies for supporting your workforce and using AI to its full potential. Uncover the cutting-edge ways in which you can reinvigorate the enthusiasm and productivity of your workforce and attract the best talent to your organization.

How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation

We may not realize it consciously, but negative feelings can be as toxic as physical poisons, wearing on us and causing depression, illness, and burnout. But how can we keep ourselves safe in a world too often ruled by resentment, jealousy, rage, and stress? How to Heal Toxic Thoughtsprovides the cure, and it lies in the ancient principle of alchemy. Many people think that the old alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. But in actuality, as Sandra Ingerman—a practicing shaman and psychologist—reveals, they were metaphorically working on transforming heavy leaded consciousness into gold light consciousness. Using their theories, Ingerman offers strategies for processing the harmful thoughts and emotions that hit us throughout our day. Instead of sending and receiving lethal energy, you will learn, through meditations, visualizations, and other exercises, how to radiate positive thoughts and shield yourself from those that are destructive. Her methods of simple . . . but they can change you, others, and the world.

The Self-Care Mindset: Rethinking How We Change and Grow, Harness Well-Being, and Reclaim Work-Life Quality

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. With Jeanette’s inclusive approach to self-care, you will receive the tools to protect and unlock our most important resource: our humanity. You’ll learn how to better manage stress, break free from living in survival mode, and navigate FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) so you can harness change and grow by reclaiming agency and recovering what you care about.

Happy Healthy You: Your Total Wellness Toolkit for Renewing Body, Soul, and Mind

We are all so busy nowadays, and tackling all those to-do lists can leave us drained, worn down, and lacking energy. When you take a deeper look inside, you will also discover patterns, old habits, and past events blocking self-growth.

Life coach extraordinaire, KJ Landis, helps identify how, why, and where we got stuck in the first place, and how we can utilize past trauma and drama as a springboard to becoming our most authentic, vibrant selves. As one of KJ's students enthuses, "She has taught me several tangible strategies to cope with stress...I am using KJ's simple techniques to achieve my lifelong health goals."

Yoga Classes for the Complete Beginner: 4 Yoga Classes Suitable for the Complete Beginner

This audio set contains four different yoga classes suitable for the complete beginner.

Yoga for the Complete Beginner is a gentle, nurturing class that lays a foundation and prepares the body and mind for regular yoga practice. More Yoga for the Complete Beginner naturally follows and includes a different selection of postures, adding variety to your practice. Yoga Flow for the Complete Beginner introduces the concept of vinyasa flow and moves the body gently through different postures whilst synchronizing the breath and movement. Yoga Nidra for the Complete Beginner introduces the ancient practice of yoga nidra.

#HEALTHY: Rewiring the Brain for Healthy Weight Loss

Finally, a guide on how to live the lifestyle of that girl on Instagram, without all the obnoxious hashtags!

Instead of doing an annoying diet and barraging people with #whole30 #keto #skinny, take a different approach and change your mindset to break food's grip on your life. In this program, you will learn to lose weight naturally as a result of changing how you think about food; gain more energy as your body naturally cleans and refreshes; feel better overall-your self-image, mind, and physical body together; and kick yourself into a better lifestyle and live the life of the skinny b!@#$ ... without annoying all your friends, family, and strangers in the process.

Your Brain on Exercise

Decades of research demonstrate that regular modest levels of exercise improve heart and lung function and may relieve joint pain. Regular daily exercise will help your body to regulate blood sugar levels and reduce inflammation, and many of these benefits are a consequence of reducing the amount of body fat you carry around. Your body clearly benefits in many ways from regular exercise. Your Brain on Exercise skillfully blends scholarship with illuminating insights and clarity. Without requiring any specialized knowledge about the brain, Your Brain on Exercise entertainingly illustrates the intersection between brain health, the consequences of exercise, and our need to eat in an entirely new light. An internationally renowned neuroscientist and medical researcher, Dr. Wenk has been educating college and medical students about the brain and lecturing around the world for more than forty years.

Techniques of Healthy Cooking, 4th Edition

Choosing a healthy eating pattern is vitally important, as diet directly influences health. From The Culinary Institute of America, Techniques of Healthy Cooking is a comprehensive kitchen reference for understanding nutrition concepts, creating healthy eating patterns, developing healthy recipes and menus, and cooking healthy recipes. From soups, salads, and appetizers to main dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, there are nearly 500 recipes with more than 150 four-color photographs of ingredients, techniques, and finished dishes.

A Walk in the Wood: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh

The benefits of mindfulness are well recognized: greater peace of mind, less stress, and the opportunity to work through and transform thoughts, memories, and worries. It also fosters equanimity, helping us accept the changes and challenges life brings.

In our frantic world, who better to guide listeners through this transformative practice than a long-beloved bear who has perfected the art of simply being? (And, not coincidentally, he lives in the woods.

There is a growing acknowledgment of the benefits of deeply experiencing nature. The calming quality of sounds like running water and rustling leaves, the soothing properties of smells like lavender and chamomile, and the emotional comfort of beautiful natural vistas are well known.

THE NEW AUTOMATION MINDSET: THE LEADERSHIP BLUEPRINT FOR THE ERA OF AI-FOR-ALL

Digital transformation of the business landscape is well underway, and businesses are being reshaped faster than ever before. Agility and adaptability are now critical components of these business' survival. But building these traits requires a holistic approach with an unrelenting focus on automation. How does one go about developing that focus?

In The New Automation Mindset: The Leadership Blueprint for the Era of AI-for-All, renowned entrepreneur and tech strategists Vijay Tella, Scott Brinker, and Massimo Pezzini deliver a guide to implementing automation in the real world, avoiding jargon and vague bromides in favor of concrete examples of the successful integration of automated technologies and descriptions of the positive results they had on the companies that deployed them.

ChatGPT FOR DUMMIES

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. You’ll also explore the ethics of using AI-generated content for various purposes. Written by a journalist who's been on the front lines of artificial intelligence for over a decade, this book dives deep into ChatGPT’s potential, so you can make informed decisions―without asking ChatGPT for help.

This just-in-time Dummies title is perfect for any life or career may be impacted by ChatGPT and other AI. ChatGPT is just the tip of the iceberg, and this book can help you prepare for the future.

THE AGE OF AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

Are robots going to take my job? How are smartphones affecting my kids? Do I need to worry about privacy when I get online or ask Siri for directions? Whatever questions you have about AI, The Age of AI gives you insights on how to navigate this brand-new world as you apply God's ageless truths to your life and future.

We interact with artificial intelligence, or AI, nearly every moment of the day without knowing it. From our Twitter and Facebook social media feeds to our online carts to smart thermostats and Alexa and Google Home, AI is everywhere. In The Age of AI, Jason Thacker helps us navigate our digital age in this thoughtful exploration of the social, moral, and ethical challenges of our ongoing interactions with artificial intelligence.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DAILY LIFE

Given the exponential growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the past few decades, AI and its related applications have become part of daily life in ways that we could never have dreamt of only a century ago. Our routines have been changed beyond measure by robotics and AI, which are now used in a vast array of services. This book introduces readers to basic Artificial Intelligence concepts, and helps them understand the relationship between AI and daily life.

Part I (AI Concepts) presents fundamental concepts of and information on AI, Part II (AI Technology) introduces the five core AI Technologies that provide the building blocks for various AI application, Part III (AI Applications) reviews contemporary applications, and Part IV (Beyond AI) addresses topics that are vital to the future development of AI.

OUR PLANET POWERED BY AI

In Our Planet Powered by AI, renowned AI strategist and pioneer Mark Minevich delivers an exciting and practical discussion of how to implement groundbreaking artificial intelligence technologies at every level of your organization. You’ll learn to create sustainable, effective competitive advantage by introducing previously unheard-of levels of adaptability, resilience, and innovation into your company.

Using real-world case studies from a variety of well-known industry leaders, the author explains the strategic archetypes, technological infrastructures, and cultures of sustainability you’ll need to ensure your firm’s next-level digital transformation takes root. Our Planet Powered by AI is an engaging and hands-on exploration of how to take your firm to new levels of dynamism and growth.

THE THRESHOLD: LEADING IN THE AGE OF AI

Are you uncertain about leading in a technological era but eager to embrace new models of leadership? Do you want to learn how to build an adaptive, effective organization? Perhaps you’re keen on leveraging the qualities that make us innately human, as we stand on the brink of an age of AI superintelligence? This book is for individuals at all levels―from the C-suite to the mail room ―who are ready to merge humanness and leadership in the world of AI.

Nick Chatrath delves into the leadership skills that are necessary to help organizations successfully transition into the age of artificial intelligence, or AI. According to the author, navigating this unfamiliar and turbulent world requires a fundamental change in mindset and leadership approach.

Rise Of Generative AI and ChatGPT

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.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of Generative AI and ChatGPT, the cutting-edge technologies that have gained significant attention in recent times. The book aims to provide a thorough understanding of these technologies, architectures, and training methods, including their background, development process, and current state. The book helps discover innovative ways in which these technologies have been implemented to achieve measurable benefits, including improved efficiency, customer satisfaction, security, and revenue growth and its potential application across different industries and use cases.

LIFE 3.0: BEING HUMAN IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want?

This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.

Beating Burnout, Finding Balance

Never-ending to-do lists, constant deadlines, intense workloads and the guilty feeling you’re not doing enough—does this sound all too familiar? If so, it’s time to take a step back and find a better balance for your work and life. In this book, you’ll discover the simple practices that will help you create a healthy mindset, boost your wellbeing and prevent overwhelm. So say goodbye to fatigue: with Beating Burnout, Finding Balance, you’ll rediscover the energy you need to thrive. Through inspirational stories and proven techniques, from mountaintop monasteries to executive boardrooms, Beating Burnout, Finding Balance gives you the tools to achieve your goals and live more meaningfully and mindfully.

Embracing the Calm in the Chaos: How to Find Success in Business and Life Through Perseverance, Connection, and Collaboration

Stacy Igel, founder of the global fashion line BOY MEETS GIRL®, walks you through the highs and lows of creating a business: how to establish a brand and attract customers, hire and fire employees, collaborate with business partners, rise up from the midst of discouragement, and not just survive the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship—but thrive.

Stacy shares her twenty-year journey of growing her company from the ground up while powering through life’s challenges. Today, with her clothing sold in Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, and other stores worldwide, Stacy has climbed to the top of the ladder—but instead of pausing to look at the view, she’s pulling other women up with her.

Chained to a Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Work-Life Balance

Americans love a hard worker. The employee who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and, ultimately, physical and mental burnout. Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World provides an inside look at the impact of work stress on those who live and work with workaholics—partners, spouses, children, and colleagues—as well as the appropriate techniques for clinicians who treat them.

Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World both counsels and consoles. It provides a step-by-step guide to help listeners spot, understand, and ultimately recover from workaholism.

Powered by Me: From Burned Out to Fully Charged at Work and Life

This global epidemic is not merely a case of working too hard or feeling physically exhausted for an extended period of time. According to physician, executive coach, and speaker Neha Sangwan—an expert empowering corporate leaders and organizational teams to excel under pressure—burnout is due to prolonged stress and an ongoing net drain of energy on one or more of five levels: physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual. When we burn out, our productivity suffers, our health declines, and we’re more reactive in our relationships. Not having the resources to handle challenging circumstances, address conflict, or maintain healthy boundaries worsens stress and dysfunction in our professional and personal lives.

The Self-Care Mindset: How We Change and Grow, Harness Well-Being, And Reclaim Work-Life Quality

The world has changed, our lives have changed, and in recent years, our work has changed. Despite the disruption, our relationship and understanding of self-care have remained the same as we still see it as something fluffy or a perfect list of habits that we “do” alone outside of work to recover. But what if self-care wasn’t something we “do”? What if self-care is a mindset that allows us to achieve peak performance, engagement, and growth without burning out and sacrificing our health and joy?

A can’t-miss resource for busy professionals and business leaders everywhere, The Self-Care Mindset will find its way into the hands of managers, executives, board members, and anyone else who struggles to be busy and find fulfillment and happiness in their working lives at the same time.

The Work-Life Balance Myth: Rethinking Your Optimal Balance For Success

An empowering guide that will show you how to shed the myth of the “work-life balance” by merging the seven key components that make up your life to attain harmony and whole-life success.

“All of us have Seven Slices in our lives: our Family Slice, our Professional Slice, our Personal Slice, our Physical Slice, our Intellectual Slice, our Emotional Slice, and our Spiritual Slice. These all need to be served in some fashion―and in serving them, they, in turn, serve us.”

What this book will do is provide you with proven new ways of framing your life, seeing stress for what it is, and vastly improving your ability to navigate the emotional challenges that will inevitably arise in a way that serves your Seven Slices.

Balance is BS: How to Have a Work. Life. Blend.

Balance is B.S. is an unflinching and honest look at the challenges today’s working woman faces in balancing her professional and personal lives. In the United States, women comprise over 40% of household income. Increased gender diversity in the modern business landscape continues to have a positive impact on bottom lines and revenue reports across the economy, and offers significant benefits for ambitious women in the workplace. This increase of women in the workforce does present a serious problem—women are working longer and harder outside of the home, but their workload has not lessened inside of the home. While their career prospects rise, expectations of their family and personal lives remain flat. Women pursue the mythical “work-life” balance, and feel guilty for not reaching it. There is a better way.

The Golden Apple: Redefining Work-Life Balance for a Diverse Workforce

Organizations are coming to the reality that work-life balance is no longer solely an issue for working women. As we progress further into the 21st century, workers and ways of working are changing. We have four generations operating together in the workplace, and a tremendous variety of professional expectations, values, goals, and needs. People want to work, but more and more need work to work better in their lives. Backed by 20 years of talent engagement expertise, The Golden Apple bridges the gap between awareness and action, giving leaders practical solutions they can take for immediate impact. In short, the book shows how full engagement of a diverse, inclusive workforce is the competitive advantage of our time.

Beating Burnout, Finding Balance

Never-ending to-do lists, constant deadlines, intense workloads and the guilty feeling you’re not doing enough—does this sound all too familiar? If so, it’s time to take a step back and find a better balance for your work and life. In this book, you’ll discover the simple practices that will help you create a healthy mindset, boost your well-being and prevent overwhelm. So say goodbye to fatigue: with Beating Burnout, Finding Balance, you’ll rediscover the energy you need to thrive.

Mindfulness for the Wandering Mind: Life-Changing Tools for Managing Stress and Improving Mental Health at Work and In Life

Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru, Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It's all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism. This book will show you how to identify and close the "apps" that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily life.

Rewire Your Brain 2.0: Five Healthy Factors to a Better Life

In the newly revised Rewire Your Brain 2.0, distinguished psychologist Dr. John B. Arden delivers an essential discussion of how to apply the latest developments in neuroscience, epigenetics, and immunology to help improve your mood, memory, lives, longevity, and relationships. You’ll learn to overcome mild depression and anxiety, procrastination, burnout, compassion fatigue, and a variety of other negative thought patterns. A practical and hands-on roadmap to applying new advances in neuroscience, psychology, gene expression, and immune system research to everyday problems we all face.

Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama: How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead

Everyone wishes life could be simpler in this fast-paced world, but that often feels impossible. It doesn't have to. Janice and Jason Fraser have been using their method for decades to help all kinds of people—including Navy SEALs, startup CEOs, and Fortune 100 executives—make progress in both their professional and personal lives by solving hard problems with grace. The approach is simple but powerful, calling on listeners to: orient honestly, value outcomes, leverage brains, and make durable decisions. Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama offers theory alongside hands-on exercises, formulas, and frameworks that can all be adapted to real-life situations.

Overcoming Stress-Induced Brain Fog: 10 Simple Ways to Find Focus, Improve Memory, and Feel Grounded

Do you ever feel spaced out or stuck in a rut, like you just can't think, or you're moving in slow motion? Perhaps you feel detached or disengaged, defeated and hopeless, or just not fully yourself. If you're struggling with a lack of mental clarity, energy, and belief in yourself and your capabilities, you may be experiencing the dreaded brain fog—a very real issue that can result from the exhaustion, overstimulation, and the stress of modern life.

Based on cutting-edge research, Overcoming Stress-Induced Brain Fog offers quick solutions you can put to work right away, including exercises based in awareness, mindfulness and acceptance, and self-compassion.

Burnout for Dummies

Chronic, unmanaged stress—at work, at home, or in other areas of life—can lead to burnout. Burnout For Dummies shows you the way toward understanding and overcoming this all-to-common condition of modern life. Many of us find ourselves living in a state of constant resignation, which sucks the joy out of life and can be detrimental to our physical health. The tips and exercises in this book can help you minimize stress, become more resilient and create a happier, healthier, and more satisfying life.

Mindfulness and resilience guru Dr. Eva Selhub offers a science-based plan that you can use to destress, build inner resources and coping skills, and start enjoying life (and work) again.

The Inclusive Organization: Real Solutions, Impactful Change, and Meaningful Diversity

DEI is an 8-billion dollar industry that is not yet accessing its full potential through real solutions and results. However, through a powerful formula of policies and practices that motivate employees to be more socially and self-aware, The Inclusive Organization is a revolutionary yet practical resource for individuals at any stage of their career. Jenkins discusses human behavior, workplace psychology, and shares her DEI-tested framework for success. You'll read about: the "how" of DEI implementation with actionable steps, creating your own customized DEI roadmap with worksheet examples and toolkits, and stories with firsthand observations that bring to life important concepts.

Building a Culture of Inclusivity: Effective Internal Communication for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) have never been so important in organizations and yet many feel inadequately prepared. In this guide, the authors combine their expert knowledge to provide a practical approach to bridge this skills and knowledge gap for those delivering Internal Communications. Navigating DEI language can be difficult, but Building a Culture of Inclusivity will help Internal Communication professionals, HR and business leaders engage employees in driving culture change to ensure everyone feels valued and like they belong. This book provides a roadmap to manage tangible change consistently throughout the year and techniques that avoid inauthenticity.

The Equity Mindset: Designing Human Spaces Through Journeys, Reflections, and Practices

In The Equity Mindset, celebrated researcher, attorney, and activist Ifeomasinachi Ike delivers a moving and impactful exploration of why equity is so important, the shortcomings of institutional diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and how we creatively and boldly design cultures centering the expertise of those who know first-hand how inequity has shaped work culture. The book examines the dynamics of normalized institutional oppression, offers real-world case studies, and provides readers with new practices, key performance indicators (KPIs), and milestones for measuring the success of modern DEI efforts. At its core,The Equity Mindset is about adopting a problem-solving mentality to address social inequities to ensure we all thrive.

HOW TO BE A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AMBASSADOR: EVERYONE’S ROLE IN HELPING ALL FEEL ACCEPTED, ENGAGED, AND VALUED

Using a proven three-part framework, this book shows how anyone—from a CEO to frontline employee—can play a pivotal role in creating a diverse and welcoming workplace. Creating a diverse workplace needs to be an ongoing effort, not just the subject of occasional training. As Celeste Warren says, needed change won't take place unless all employees feel that they have a role to play in creating the culture they would like to see in their organization. Regardless of what position you hold, you have the ability to impact change and create a more inclusive environment.

DIVERSITY BEYOND LIP SERVICE: A COACHING GUIDE FOR CHALLENGING BIAS

The ugly truth about diversity is that some people worry they must give up their power for others to have a chance. La'Wana Harris's Inclusion Coaching method helps people realize that sharing power isn't the same as losing it. La'Wana Harris introduces Inclusion Coaching, a new tool based on cutting-edge research that identifies the stages of preparation, implementation, and “self-work” necessary to help individuals, teams, and organizations build a sustainable culture of inclusion. Harris's six-stage COMMIT model provides a proven process for making people aware of their own conscious and unconscious biases and concrete steps to make inclusion an embedded reality.

AUTHENTIC DIVERSITY: HOW TO CHANGE THE WORKPLACE FOR GOOD

In Authentic Diversity, culture change expert and diversity speaker Michelle Silverthorn explains how to transform diversity and inclusion from mere lip service into the very heart of leadership. Following the journey of a Black woman in the workplace, leaders learn the old rules of diversity that keep failing her and millions like her again and again, and the new rules they must put in place to make success a reality for everyone. A millennial, immigrant, and Black woman in America, Michelle will show you how to lead a space centered on equity, allyship, and inclusion and how together we can build a new organization, and nation, centered on justice.

GETTING TO DIVERSITY: WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN’T

Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it? Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather than individuals, two of the world's leading experts on workplace diversity show us a better way in the first comprehensive, data-driven analysis of what succeeds and what fails. The surprising results will change how America works. Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev draw on more than thirty years of data from eight hundred companies as well as in-depth interviews with managers.

THE ELEPHANT AND THE MOUSE: MOVING BEYOND THE ILLUSION OF INCLUSION TO CREATE A TRULY DIVERSE AND EQUITABLE WORKPLACE

In The Elephant and the Mouse, award-winning speaker and diversity and inclusion expert Laura Liswood delivers a thought-provoking and insightful new business guide that explores workplace diversity and offers new ideas for gaining the real benefits from your diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The Elephant and the Mouse refers to the dynamic in organizations that are roadblocks to consciously inclusive success. The Elephant, often dominant group leadership, knows little about the experiences of the Mouse, the non-dominant groups, while the Mouse knows so much more about the Elephant. In diverse workplaces, these two groups live in different worlds.

ONE STORY, ONE SONG

Whether the topic is learning from his fifth grade teacher about Martin Luther King Jr., gleaning understanding from a wolf track, lighting a fire for the first time without matches, or finding the universe in an eagle feather, these stories exhibit the warmth, wisdom, and generosity that made One Native Life so popular. As always, the land serves as Wagamese's guide. And as always, he finds that true home means not only community but conversation - good, straight-hearted talk about important things. We all need to tell our stories, he says. Every voice matters.

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation."

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Today in the United States, there are more than 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the 15 million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.

SAND TALK: HOW INDIGENOUS THINKING CAN SAVE THE WORLD

In Sand Talk, author Tyson Yunkaporta shares his views on how indigenous thinking can reshape our attitudes toward current global systems—economic, social ecological, technological, and political—to the betterment of all. Most of all it’s about a very special way of thinking, of learning to see from a native perspective, one that is spiritually and physically tied to the earth around us, and how it can save our world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION, 3^RD EDITION

Providing diagnostic tools, scenarios and case studies, Learning and Development demonstrates how to link learning to strategic business goals and explores both the benefits and complexities associated with L&D. This updated third edition features a new chapter on designing learning interventions, covering technology-led development and the impact of virtual learning. There is also guidance on making learning and development strategies accessible and inclusive for all employees, and information on metrics that can be used for measuring effectiveness.

ARMSTRONG’S HANDBOOK OF LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT: A GUIDE TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF L&D

Supported by case studies and examples to put the theory in context, reflective exercises to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions to broaden knowledge and engagement with the topic, Armstrong's Handbook of Learning and Development is crucial reading for academic success. The final part of the book includes additional aspects of L&D including apprenticeships, leadership development and personal and interpersonal skills development. Online resources include lecture slides for every chapter, a lecturer manual and student manual.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE IN THE WORKPLACE, 4^TH EDITION

This new edition of Learning and Development Practice in the Workplace has been fully updated, reflecting the new CIPD Profession Map, and now has dedicated chapters on the different approaches to learning delivery, including face-to-face training and facilitation, technology-based learning, coaching, mentoring and social and collaborative learning. There is also expert guidance on learner engagement including insights from neuroscience and psychology, as well as advice on evaluating the impact of L&D.

INCREASING LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT’S IMPACT THROUGH ACCREDITATION: HOW TO DRIVE-UP TRAINING QUALITY, EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION, AND ROI

This book provides a guide to the process of accrediting training programs, sets out how to achieve consistent measurement of the results of training, and explains why accreditation is critical for capturing and developing today’s workers’ skills, aiding retention, and boosting strategic organizational credibility with millennials. Workplace and executive training is a multi-billion dollar industry and yet an enormous percentage of that budget is spent on programs that have never been rigorously examined to ensure that they are fit for purpose and deliver value for the money.

THE UPSKILLING IMPERATIVE: 5 WAYS TO MAKE LEARNING CORE TO THE WAY WE WORK

Make continuous learning part of your company’s DNA―and growth, profits, and sustainability will follow. Keeping up with the pace of change may seem impossible, but it’s not. The secret is to make continuous learning a top value for every person on the team so when change happens, everyone is prepared. In The Upskilling Imperative, Shelley Osborne, Udemy’s Vice President of Learning, reveals the methods she uses to help many of today’s leading companies―from Adidas to PayPal to Barclays―build and sustain a culture of learning.

THE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT HANDBOOK: A LEARNING PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE

The skills needed in today's business world are not the same as they were in the past. Therefore, upskilling, reskilling and developing staff has never been more important. However, classroom training isn't the best way to achieve this with employees forgetting more than 70% of what they've been taught within just one day. The Learning and Development Handbook is a practical guide for L&D professionals wanting to move away from traditional classroom teaching but not sure where to start.

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: HOW TO UPSKILL FROM WITHIN AND TURN L&D INTO YOUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Collaborative Learning explains how to leverage the knowledge and experience of existing employees to upskill your entire workforce from within. This book is full of expert discussion about why collaborative learning is a culture enhancer and skills enabler, and contains advice for overcoming common obstacles when making collaborative learning part of a company's learning strategy. This book is a blueprint for all L&D professionals who are looking to embed collaborative learning in the workplace and upskill from within, but aren't sure where to start.

LEARNING AT SPEED: HOW TO UPSKILL AND RESKILL YOUR WORKFORCE AT PACE TO DRIVE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

Learning at Speed is a practical book which brings together the best from lean and agile methodologies to show how they can be applied to learning and development (L&D) to improve individual and organizational performance. This provides a people development framework which can be used to deconstruct a learning strategy and optimise each element for improved results. It shows how to identify learning barriers and possible solutions, leverage company data to understand learning needs and how to assess the most effective learning resources and delivery channels.

CRISIS-READY LEADERSHIP: BUILDING RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES

Crisis-ready Leadership provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make timely and effective decisions while managing a large-scale incident. Codifying the best practices from the successful FEMA-certified course On-Scene Crisis Leadership and Decision Making for HazMat Incidents, this comprehensive volume provides systematic guidance on best practices for improving situational awareness, adapting leadership styles, implementing incident command systems across political and organizational boundaries, and more.

TAMING THE RISK HURRICANE: PREPARING FOR MAJOR BUSINESS DISRUPTION

Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit, providing senior leaders with a forward-looking radar to scan the future and give early warnings of approaching threats and opportunities. However, even best-in-class organizations can falter in the face of extreme risk exposure. Special circumstances demand special responses, and extreme risk exposure needs very careful handling. Routine risk management approaches will fall short, but businesses that demonstrate a high degree of flexibility and resilience will have the competitive advantage and the ability to thrive where others fail.

BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND THE PANDEMIC THREAT: LEARNING FROM COVID-19 WHILE PREPARING FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC

COVID-19 has shown organizations that the threat of a pandemic needs to be taken seriously, emphasizing the importance of having a business continuity plan and a pandemic plan. Clark’s book focuses on how an organization can create a new or update an existing pandemic response plan. He highlights the similarities in managing different types of crisis, whether it is a pandemic, or other threats such as cyber attacks, floods, fires, civil disturbances, terrorism, etc.

RETHINKING READINESS: A BRIEF GUIDE TO TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY MEGADISASTERS

Rethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today, detailing the dangers of pandemics, climate change, infrastructure collapse, cyberattacks, and nuclear conflict. Drawing on the latest research from leading experts, he provides an accessible overview of the causes and potential effects of these looming megadisasters.

EXECUTING CRISIS: A C-SUITE CRISIS LEADERSHIP SURVIVAL GUIDE

Business leaders would be better served by understanding key crisis concepts and applying them to their own situation rather than relying on crisis advisors to swoop in to take care of a problem once it has become a crisis. Crisis management does not begin on the day the fire erupts, the hurricane barrels through, or the accident happens. Dr. Jo Robertson, a leading expert in heading off and containing crisis, lays out the key concepts that business leaders need to apply to their own organizations.

BECOMING RESILIENT: STAYING CONNECTED UNDER ADVERSITY

Recently we have seen several catastrophic events causing huge disruptions, losses, and panic. There is a growing likelihood that these natural disasters and physical and cyber warfare attacks will increase in frequency and lethality, increasingly impacting civilian infrastructure, due to global warming, increased civil unrest and global tensions as international competition increases. This book details how measures can be adapted to keep our systems operational and to rapidly reconstitute lost infrastructure.

DECISION SPRINT: THE NEW WAY TO INNOVATE INTO THE UNKNOWN AND MOVE FROM STRATEGY TO ACTION

In Decision Sprint, innovation and growth expert Atif Rafiq argues that while talent is critically important to any company’s success, the systems through which collaboration and decision-making happen are what separate industry leaders from the rest—and that systems designed to embrace unknowns are quickest and most enduring way to foster growth, continuous innovation, and realization of strategy. This groundbreaking guide walks readers through the process of embracing unknowns.

CRISIS COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES: PREPARE, RESPOND, AND RECOVER EFFECTIVELY IN UNPREDICTABLE AND URGENT SITUATIONS, 2^ND EDITION

Crisis Communication Strategies is a must-have guide that covers the whole span of a crisis from preparing and laying the groundwork before it occurs, during the incident and the aftermath, including the move to recovery and beyond. It guides readers through each phase, providing details of what to consider, what should be done, tips and checklists for improved responses. This second edition contains new content looking at the phases of crises, behavioral communication as a tactic and how to ensure diversity and inclusivity in tumultuous times.

COMING SOON

The Champion Leader: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Build High-Performing Teams

In The Champion Leader, bestselling author Christopher D. Connors delivers an invaluable, inspiring discussion of how to adapt to the rapidly changing rules of engagement in the modern workplace. You’ll find out why so many employees feel disconnected from their leaders in today’s remote and hybrid working environments and how to address that disconnect.

Connors explains how to prioritize one-on-one and team conversations focused on understanding employee needs, career development, and wellbeing to help foster a future-focused organization. He also walks you through how to maximize your emotional intelligence and enhance your leadership skills to assist in the development of a high-performing organization that delivers superior results.

The Champion Leader is an inspiring and insightful resource for managers, executives, and all business leaders seeking to become more emotionally intelligent for themselves―and to give that gift to everyone in their organization. The Champion Leader is an essential guide to solidifying your leadership foundation.

NOVEMBER 2024

Courage, Clarity, and Confidence: Redefine Success and the Way You Work

The career roadmap every woman has been searching for is finally here!

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. In her book, readers will explore their professional and personal journey; utilizing Gala’s ASCEND practice, readers will be able to define authentically aligned success and learn how to pursue it.

The author shares her experiences and anecdotes from clients to demonstrate what is possible for women when they ditch the traditional patriarchal job search and career advancement methodologies that only benefit men. She also provides thought-provoking exercises throughout the book designed to equip you with how to build a future for yourself with courage, clarity, and confidence, even amid the challenging landscape of women and work.

OCTOBER 2024

Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world—banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, manufacturing, and retail. But it has only just begun its odyssey toward cheaper, better, and faster predictions that drive strategic business decisions. When prediction is taken to the max, industries transform, and with such transformation comes disruption.

In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together in our minds, often without realizing it. The rise of AI is shifting prediction from humans to machines, relieving people from this cognitive load while increasing the speed and accuracy of decisions.

SEPTEMBER 2024

Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference

Ever wonder what sets people like Steve Wozniak, Stacey Abrams, Mark Rober, and Jane Goodall apart? Why do some people seem to eat, sleep, and breathe “awesome?”

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.

AUGUST 2024

The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire

We live in a story world. Stories are a memorable and engaging way to differentiate yourself, build connection and trust, create new thinking, bring meaning to data, and even influence decision-making. But how do you turn a good story into a great story that informs, influences, and inspires? Without relying on complicated models or one-size-fits-all prescriptions, The Perfect Story makes storytelling accessible with practical and impactful steps for anyone to tell the perfect story for any occasion.

JULY 2024

The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology

AI holds incredible promise to improve virtually every aspect of our lives, but we can't ignore its risks, mishaps and misuses. Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner offer seven principles for ensuring that machine learning supports human flourishing. They draw on Powell's research at Columbia University and use a wealth of real-world examples. Incorporating the perspectives of engineers, businesspeople, government officials, and social activists, The AI Dilemma will help us realize the unprecedented benefits and opportunities AI systems can provide.

JUNE 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders: Invest in People Like Your Future Depends on It

Being a great mentor leads to thriving, engaged employees on both sides of the mentor-mentee relationship and helps drive renewed purpose. The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship walks mentors through the mentorship journey, from setting initial expectations and goals, to tracking progress, to identifying when it is time to find new opportunities. Filled with practical sample plans and forms to make the experience much more impactful for all parties, this timely guide takes the ambiguity out of how to be a great mentor.

MAY 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship: 13 Roles to Making a True Impact

Being a great mentor leads to thriving, engaged employees on both sides of the mentor-mentee relationship and helps drive renewed purpose. The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship walks mentors through the mentorship journey, from setting initial expectations and goals, to tracking progress, to identifying when it is time to find new opportunities. Filled with practical sample plans and forms to make the experience much more impactful for all parties, this timely guide takes the ambiguity out of how to be a great mentor.

April 2024

The Breakthrough Manifesto: 10 Principles to Spark Transformative Innovation

Innovation is a process by which new ideas, services, and sources of value are brought to life. Transformative innovation requires something else. Not just methodologies, but mindsets. Not just focusing on known challenges, but on unknown opportunities. Not just hoping for breakthrough by default, but realizing breakthrough by design. In The Breakthrough Manifesto, a renowned business innovation leader teams up with a social-personality psychologist to offer that something else—a collection of 10 visionary principles to obliterate barriers to change and ignite a whole new level of creative problem-solving. Drawing upon decades of experience working with the world’s best-known organizations and their teams, the authors provide practical advice that goes beyond “business as usual” for successfully tackling intractable challenges.

March 2024

Lead Through Anything: Harness Purpose, Vitality, and Agility to Thrive in the Face of Unrelenting Change

In today’s world of near-constant disruption, every leader faces a slew of conflicting demands involving employees of different generations, cultures, and age groups; one of history’s tightest labor markets; and never-ending geopolitical, climate, financial, and health challenges. Lead Through Anything focuses on a wide variety of skills, such as aligning people and energy to a common cause, building effective teams and helping them work together more selflessly, establishing positive confidence more often in oneself and others, increasing engagement and retaining top talent, and shaping a positive, impact-driven organizational culture.

February 2024

The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of Change

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. Through interviews with senior leaders from a variety of industries and disciplines, the author shows you the trends and behaviors that allowed successful companies to navigate the changing realities and complexities that have defined recent years, including the COVID-19 crisis, the increasing awareness of racial injustice in society, and the January 6th insurrection.

The New Nimble demonstrates how organizations can internalize and institutionalize lessons from recent paradigm shifts in thinking and learn how to apply those lessons to their everyday operations and to prepare for the next major challenge.

January 2024

Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, 2nd Edition

by Peter A. Schein and Edgar Schein | Berrett-Koehler, 2023

Legendary organizational scholar Edgar Schein and former Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein say leadership today requires that people transcend their hierarchical roles and relate to each other as human beings-what they call humble leadership. In such relationships new ideas can flow freely, mistakes can come to light immediately, and course corrections can be made in real time rather than by committee or by order of the lone heroic CEO. Illustrated with examples from healthcare, government, the military, tech, and more, this is a compact, accessible guide to a leadership paradigm far better suited to a world that demands fast, nimble response to change, and a workplace hungry for mutual respect and trust.

DECEMBER 2023

Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence

As our ability to pay attention in a world of distractions vanishes, it's no wonder that our ability to be heard and understood ― to convey our messages ― is also threatened. Drawing from fifteen years of research, interviews, and experience from teaching students and executives, Jeanine W. Turner offers a framework to navigate social presence at work and at home. By exploring four primary communication choices ― budgeted, entitled, competitive, and invitational ― Turner shows when and where to employ each strategy to most effectively allocate our attention and command the attention of others.

NOVEMBER 2023

Leading with Questions: How Leaders Discover Powerful Answers by Knowing How and What to Ask, Third Edition

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. They show you how effective leaders use questions to encourage participation and teamwork, foster creative thinking, empower others, create relationships with customers, and solve problems. The authors offer step-by-step guidance on the process of learning the art of questioning and techniques―like active listening and follow-ups – you can use in myriad situations with individuals, teams, and entire organizations.

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