Management

Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology....

Robert Greene is a master guide for millions, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations....

Popular blogger Cal Newport reveals the new key to achieving success and true meaning in professional life....

In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life....

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years....

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated people for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators, and parents....

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe....

A modern day classic, it dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon....

Eat That Frog! shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively. The core of what is vital to effective time management is: decision, discipline, and determination....

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who...

In this audio edition of the totally revised underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business....

What valuable company is nobody building? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled....   

Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face....

Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long.... 

A revolutionary approach to long term business strategy from the best-selling author of start with why....

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup....

Running a business is ultimately about freedom. Scaling Up shows business leaders how to get their organizations moving in sync to create something significant and enjoy the ride....

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact....

Drawing on 25 years of research and interviews with top leaders of some of the world's most respected companies, CEO Excellence shows how the best CEOs think, adapt and approach challenges (never more relevant than in this extraordinary time)....

Throughout history, there's been one indelible quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared....

Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere....

This easy-to-follow guide starts with the search for your personal why, and then expands to helping your colleagues find your organization's why....

In Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty, business advisor Ram Charan describes steps you can take right now to steer your organization away from the pitfalls and position it for a new future. You'll find practical techniques that will help you cope with: cash and credit crunches, shrinking budgets, collapsing markets, sinking workforce morale, disappearing suppliers, and nervous stakeholders.

In this book, I'm going to walk you through the exact steps that I've taught hundreds of clients and students. I'll tell you about their successes, failures, challenges, and triumphs in the hope that you'll see yourself in their stories. My intention is that you will use the lessons and methods to improve your life so that you can have a thriving retail business, one you are thrilled to get up and run every single day you're open. By the end of listening to and implementing what's in this book, I hope that you will learn to love your business and yourself.

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. Anyone can commit to becoming an unofficial diversity and inclusion ambassador in his or her organization.

Growing up, the most influential coaches in my formative years always encouraged us to give 110 percent. Then I got to third grade, learned math, and was told it is a scientific impossibility to give more than 100 percent. I will never forget when Liz Wiseman told me my math teacher was wrong. Take that, Miss Fraser, you idiot. This book, Multipliers, clearly shows how you can get more than 100 percent out of your direct reports. The result is a higher-performing, efficient team which gets more done with fewer resources.

Being a business owner is not for the faint of heart. It takes a firm resolve, the ability to persevere and pivot during challenging times, the humility to admit mistakes, and empathy for the people around you. Understanding who you are is critical to that journey. In Broken to Better, Michael Kurland candidly shares every step of his own entrepreneurial odyssey—selling everything he owned, driving across the country to launch his new business, and ultimately building a purpose-driven culture that aligns purpose with profit.

Creation is disruptive: Something will end, and something new will take its place. Minimizing that disruption takes leadership that can create alignment, develop the capacity for growth, and ensure a high degree of coordination. In The Next Normal, Greg Giuliano provides an actionable framework for anyone who wants to rethink, reset, and renew their leadership to make a bigger impact, engage their people, and lead more successful transformations. Discover an approachable, replicable, and scalable management system to improve your transformation process.

Learn proven strategies to propel your career while dealing with every type of boss imaginable. This book provides an inside look into what each manager is looking for: simple-to-use techniques to build lasting and professional relationships; methods to increase exposure, grow your career, and most importantly, place you on a path for success.

We are taking some of the most famous books on leadership and creating a comedic summary with absurd and sometimes raunchy jokes mixed in with the valuable leadership advice. We need a conversational tone and someone with great comedic timing and delivery.

The College Devaluation Crisis makes the case that employers and other learning and development entities are emerging to innovate new approaches to training talent that, at times, relies on the higher education sector, but increasingly operates independently in order to satisfy talent needs more agilely and effectively. Targeted primarily toward managers, the book focuses on case studies from leading companies, including Google, Ernst & Young, IBM, and Marriott, to illustrate their innovative strategies for talent development across education, age, and background.

Communicating is tougher than ever. Our relationships are suffering. We are losing our ability to relate and interact with each other. Despite our advances in technology, people feel lonely and disconnected. Brett Keirstead, a 30-year sales professional, wants to do something about it. We Are All Sales, People teaches five key skills that anyone can adapt to dramatically improve the quality of their communication and relationships at home, at school, and at work. 

In America's small business landscape, the fail-success rate leans entirely too far in favor of failure, and past experiences provided the author with invaluable insight into many of the reasons. Adam Starks' Vultured is part autobiography, part self-help book, highlighting the dark side of entrepreneurship by identifying pitfalls in the decision-making process as it relates to starting and running a small business. Serving as a cautionary tale, the book warns against all such mistakes one can make that may result in landing on the failing side of a small business venture.  

It's the dawn of a new era. What we have always been told to "do" in order to be successful, valuable, and fulfilled is shifting. Many of us have been well-trained to follow the leader and do what the experts say. Yet, these same leaders and experts don't know any more than we do about what will work in this current time. We are being asked to learn how to be our own master and authority. Looking In provides compelling guidance for today's leader who wants to experience greater self-awareness and confidence to catalyze their true value, purpose, and potency. 

Imagine a world where companies can move successfully into the future, where these brittle solutions are replaced with a flexible, simple approach that also delivers enterprise-grade capabilities. This book introduces asset operations management (AOM), an operating principle founded on the belief that asset-intensive organizations have much to gain by adopting new approaches to data, collaboration, and communication—all supported by modern, consumer-grade technology experiences. 

“Everyone wants everyone else to change.” That is the fundamental reason why most organizational transformations fail. Leaders want their people to exhibit behaviors that they don’t exhibit themselves. Team members feel powerless to make significant change just because of where they are situated on the organization chart. Improvement Starts with I provides you with a framework to change this through a simple plan that, when followed, will deliver outstanding engagement, improvement, and results, helping you avoid the potholes into which countless companies have fallen.

As a leader, you’re always looking for ways to enhance the performance of your team. But as your responsibilities grow, your time and attention become more and more limited. If you’ve ever wished you could simply clone yourself, this is the book for you. In Spark Brilliance, Jackie Insinger uses her more than two decades of experience to introduce a revolutionary approach to leadership and team dynamics that will transform your team’s performance, productivity, and fulfillment. Create the spark, ignite your team’s potential, and watch the fireworks begin.