Does your company or organization have trouble attracting and retaining people from diverse and underrepresented communities? Does your organizational culture suffer from low morale, exclusive cliques, or microaggressions you don’t know how to address? You Can Be Yourself Here lays out the deep psychology of our need to belong, its critical impact on workplace performance, and … [More]
Competing in the New World of Work
New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, … [More]
Cultures of Belonging
This book shows how to bypass the faulty processes and communication styles that make change impossible in so many organizations. Filled with actionable advice Alida Miranda-Wolff learned through her own struggles being an outsider in a work culture that did not value inclusion, and from her work since with more than 60 organizations to prioritize diversity, equity and … [More]
The Power of Fun
Journalist and screen/life balance expert Catherine Price argues persuasively that our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles have led us to obsess over intangible concepts such as happiness while obscuring the fact that real happiness lies in the everyday experience of fun. We claim to not have time for it, even as we find hours a day for what Price calls Fake Fun — bingeing on … [More]
Amp It Up
Amp It Up delivers an authoritative look at what it takes to transform an organization for maximum growth and scale. Frank Slootman shows that most leaders have significant room to improve their organization's performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure or fundamental business model — and they don’t need to bring in an army of consultants to do it. … [More]
Hero on a Mission
There are four characters in every story: the victim, the villain, the hero and the guide. These four characters live inside us. If we play the victim, we’re doomed to fail. If we play the villain, we will not create genuine bonds. But if we play the hero or guide, our lives will flourish. The hard part is being self-aware enough to know which character we are playing. In … [More]
Boundless Leadership
Boundless Leadership offers accessible, real-world applications to bring ease to leading oneself and others, and provides examples from the authors’ experience with clients, including CEOs of multibillion-dollar businesses, entrepreneurs and managers trying to balance the complex challenges of work and life in our interdependent age. Each section includes a range of practices … [More]
Uncommon Accountability
The implementation of true, organization-wide accountability has the potential to transform a firm’s — and an individual’s — performance. Unfortunately, the word “accountability” often has negative connotations, including blame, fear and conflict. In Uncommon Accountability, best-selling authors and leadership strategists Brian Moran and Michael Lennington compellingly argue … [More]
From Me to We
Shared value is a management strategy in which companies find business opportunities in social problems. While philanthropy and CSR focus efforts on “giving back” or minimizing the harm business has on society, shared value focuses company leaders on maximizing the competitive value of solving social problems in new customers and markets, cost savings, talent retention and … [More]
From Paycheck to Purpose
For those who question: “Does the work you do matter to you? Are you unsure what you want to do for a living? Are you in the right place but looking to advance?” No matter where we are in our career, we were born to do work we love. National bestselling author and career expert Ken Coleman was stuck in an unfulfilling career until he realized he didn’t have to be. In his latest … [More]
Ignite
Every entrepreneur starts with the same fears, doubts and anxieties about turning that small spark of an idea into a flaming success. From business planning to balancing well-being and hectic life schedules, this book breaks down the seemingly impossible journey into small manageable steps that can be covered over a matter of weeks, months or even years. Readers can use the … [More]
The Performance Curve
Many of us are striving to reach our full potential at work and beyond — to achieve our goals, rise to challenges and connect well with others. But how can we actively develop our performance while also taking care of our well-being and life satisfaction? The Performance Curve is a bold new holistic guide that effectively tackles this challenge, providing practical insights … [More]
Navigating Your Journey
We’ve all been in those moments when we feel stuck. It feels like life is just happening to us. Even in those hardest moments, there are always opportunities to take control and navigate purposefully toward our goals. In Navigating Your Journey, author Vicki Updike shares her personal experiences and lessons learned as she continues to help women in their careers. This book … [More]
Skin in the Game
Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand shows readers how to turn their unique traits and experiences —especially the ones they may think are their biggest setbacks — into the tools needed to make their dreams a reality. This is not a memoir. By sharing her journey, Jane offers a guide to readers of how they can find themselves and their purpose by harnessing the resilience and … [More]
Right Within
In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from racialized trauma, and find relief from invisible workplace burdens. Filled with Minda Harts’s signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past … [More]
An Audience of One
One-to-one marketing is the breakthrough strategy today’s top brands are using to generate meaningful conversations with customers on an individual basis, helping them grow their revenue while understanding and even anticipating consumer behavior. But with that enormous potential comes a common pitfall: alienating customers who value their privacy. In An Audience of One, … [More]
Gorillas Can Dance
Helping its readers achieve exceptional results with their organization’s next partnership for corporate innovation, in Gorillas Can Dance, distinguished international business strategy professor and expert Shameen Prashantham, Ph.D., delivers a proven roadmap for large corporations collaborating with startups. Drawing on more than a decade of international research, Dr. … [More]
Pick Up The Phone and Sell
Unlock the power of a simple phone call to boost sales with guidance from a world-renowned expert. In Pick Up The Phone and Sell: How Proactive Calls To Customers and Prospects Can Double Your Sales, sales expert, consultant and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Alex Goldfayn delivers a comprehensive roadmap to one of the most important weapons in any salesperson’s … [More]
