This first-of-its-kind resource shows how to cultivate trust and build solid connections with customers, colleagues and partners in today’s hyper globalized, digitized work world. Perfunctory efforts to show investment in a business relationship — detailed in so many books about global work and cultural intelligence— doesn’t cut it anymore. Business professionals working across … [More]
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
Conflict is increasing everywhere, threatening everything we hold dear. With this groundbreaking book, bestselling author and international negotiator William Ury shares a new “path to possible” — time-tested practices that will help readers unlock their power to constructively engage and transform conflict. Part memoir, part manual, part manifesto, Possible offers stories and … [More]
Failing Fast?: The Ten Secrets to Succeed Faster
While the world demands more meaningful innovation from business leaders, the current paradigm for delivering that innovation is not working anymore! The prevailing workplace culture has inadvertently slowed the pace of much-needed transformations. What do you expect to happen when the popular culture in business embraces the principle of “fail fast, fail often”? More success? … [More]
Winning with Data Science: A Handbook for Business Leaders
For everyone from a newly minted MBA to a project manager at a Fortune 500 company, data science will play a major role in their career. Knowing how to communicate effectively with data scientists in order to obtain maximum value from their expertise is essential. This book is a compelling and comprehensive guide to data science, emphasizing its real-world business applications … [More]
The BRAVE Leader: More courage. Less fear. Better decisions for inclusive leadership.
David McQueen has coached leaders across all sectors to step up to inclusive leadership, transforming their processes, policies and ways of working to support diversity and reap the rewards. Many leaders are terrified of doing the wrong thing, so they do nothing. That is not an option. McQueen’s book will help leaders discover how to think strategically about problem-solving … [More]
Prepare for Impact: Driving Growth and Serving Others through the Principles of Human-Centered Leadership
Prepare for Impact unpacks the playbook brothers Ryan and Chad Estis used to succeed, first by using 30 simple steps to achieve ambitious sales goals and then by following nine tactics that answer the question of how leaders can show up for their teams, help them achieve their potential, and find fulfillment at work and in life. Today, Ryan is a globally recognized sales and … [More]
Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few
Patrick Bet-David, No. 1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, founder of Valuetainment and host of The PBD Podcast, shows readers how to harness that emotion to turbocharge their business, dominate this year and grow for generations after. But first, they need to choose their enemies wisely. Bet-David has spent years perfecting the system that led to the knockout success of … [More]
All In: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams
It’s never been harder building successful teams. With challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-schedule and generational divides, business leaders bend over backwards searching for solutions that work. They’ve tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless team-building exercises and training — but nothing sticks. Now, in his long-awaited book for leaders at … [More]
No Worries: How to Live a Stress-Free Financial Life
This is not about millions of tiny decisions that drain the joy from life, like skipping daily coffee to save a few bucks. And it’s not simply about having more money. The secret lies in adopting the right attitude to money and getting a small number of big things right. In his unique style, drawing on decades of expertise, finance expert Jared Dillian tells the truths about … [More]
Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age
This is an insightful and practical new guide to how sustainable people management works in today’s global economy, with guidance on how to transform the way an organization recruits, hires, upskills and retains its people. In Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age, a team of business experts and workforce advisors give an incisive take on the staffing … [More]
Reconstructing DEI: A Practitioner’s Workbook
Author of the bestselling DEI Deconstructed returns with a companion workbook filled with practical and actionable techniques for changemakers at all stages of their DEI journey. Building on the knowledge base of DEI Deconstructed, Lily Zheng offers a workbook with 40 original exercises, worksheets and other tools to help guide leaders and their organizations toward more … [More]
The Human Behind the Coach: How great coaches transform themselves first
People may come away from a coaching session feeling it didn’t quite hit the mark despite their skills and knowledge. It’s not just the words we use; it’s the music, the lyrics and the dance of the conversation that make a difference to the quality of the outcome, and getting these right demands not just skill but humanity. This book explores the human qualities that great … [More]
The Restaurant Marketing Mindset: A Comprehensive Guide to Establishing Your Restaurant’s Brand, from Concept to Launch and Beyond
To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn’t get done. In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib reveals a marketing … [More]
Can Your Customer Service Do This?: Create an Anticipatory Customer Experience that Builds Loyalty Forever
Customer service done right is one of today’s most powerful competitive advantages. In Can Your Customer Service Do This, customer service turnaround wizard and renowned customer service training expert Micah Solomon — who has worked transforming the customer experience for brands from Auberge Resorts to Audi of America, from Cleveland Clinic to the NFL Players Association — … [More]
Which Way Is North: A Creative Compass for Makers, Marketers, and Mystics
Where does creativity come from? The answer is unique for each of us — our True North — and this book will help readers find theirs. As artificial intelligence gains an increasing foothold in our work and our lives, the need to find and maintain our uniquely human creativity is growing more urgent. This guide will ensure that individuals stay on course as they navigate through … [More]
Read The Tape
Follow Bennett’s journey of self-discovery as he listens to Mike’s podcast and applies the lessons learned to his own life. While feeling lost without direction and having a hard time finding success, Bennett “finds his inner genius,” a “Mikeism” he learns during one of the podcasts. Armed with these “Mikeisms,” along with newfound knowledge and fresh ambition, Bennett starts … [More]
Stronger Together
When we reach beyond our own professional networks to collaborate, those new relationships can make us more powerful. Stronger Together shows how reaching outside internal teams and enlisting the help of other organizations, even competitors — something author Nicole Mahoney refers to as co-opetition — can dramatically improve results. Research has proven that organizations … [More]
The Unlocked Leader
The most effective leaders are “human leaders: leading with empathy, vulnerability and authenticity.” But many still adhere to the outdated myth that leaders must be “superhero leaders: infallible, unflappable and fearless.” Tragically, their innate ability to inspire remains locked within, blunting their impact. In The Unlocked Leader, veteran executive leadership coach … [More]
