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The First, the Few, the Only
How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America
A deeply personal call to action for women of color to find their own power and join together in community, advocating for a new corporate environment where belonging is never conditional. More »
The Super Age
Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
Demographic and aging expert Bradley Schurman describes the Super Age, the time when there will be more people older than sixty-five than younger, what that means for our collective future. More »
Impact Players
How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact
Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Multipliers explains why some employees develop reputations as the most valuable player, what they do differently that makes them so irreplaceable, and how other employees can emulate their behaviors to make their teams more productive. More »
The Power of Flexing
How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth
A productivity and learning expert shows readers how they can change their behavior, develop their soft skills, and achieve personal and professional growth through a series of small experiments she calls “Flexing.” More »
Fair Pay
How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses
The American worker is suffering and fewer and fewer individuals are earning a living wage. In FAIR PAY, compensation expert David Buckmaster diagnoses the problems with our current compensation model, demistifies pay practices, and gives readers practical information for negotiating their salaries. More »
You're Invited
The Art and Science of Connection, Trust, and Belonging
The founder of a network of influencers from the worlds of business, science, art, sports, and nonprofits, Jon Levy, explains the social science behind connecting with people and creating lasting communities. More »
Anxiety at Work
8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done
Executive coaches Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton detail seven steps for managers to mitigate work anxiety and for employees to cope with their anxiety. More »
Influence, New and Expanded
The Psychology of Persuasion
The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold—now revised, adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications. More »
Huddle
How Women Unlock Their Collective Power
CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin shines a light on the power women have when they huddle together to support and uplift each other, their organizations, and the world. More »
Remote Work Revolution
Succeeding from Anywhere
A Harvard Business School professor and leading expert in virtual and global work provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations. More »
Recalculating
Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work
A leading expert on the millennial generation and today's multigenerational workplace provides a new career playbook for recent graduates in this next era of workplace culture. More »
Skip the Line
The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals
Entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author James Altucher busts the myth of the 10,000-hour rule to achieving mastery by offering dozens of techniques that will inspire entrepreneurs, mid-career professionals, and those just starting out to experiment with their passions, pursue their dreams, and quickly master the skills they need to succeed. More »
Power Moms
How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life
Wall Street Journal reporter, author of Earning It, and power mom Joann Lublin reveals how boomer and millennial women navigate the emotional and professional challenges of careers and families through the generations. More »
Power Moves
How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose
POWER MOVES, a career guide for women stuck in unfulfilling jobs developed from the lessons on the Career Contessa website, featuring inspirational stories from impressive women in a variety of fields, exercises in how to make big life changes, and a discussion of how to find a meaningful career, from Career Contessa founder Lauren McGoodwin. More »
Reprogramming the American Dream
From Rural America to Silicon Valley—Making AI Serve Us All
In this essential book written by a rural native and Silicon Valley veteran, Microsoft’s Chief technology officer tackles one of the most critical issues facing society today: the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be realistically used to promote growth, even in a shifting employment landscape. More »
Above the Line
Living and Leading with Heart
A leadership consultant and neuropsychologist identify the universal habits of the heart and mind that unlock our true potential, eliminate restrictive behavior patterns, and reveal our best selves. More »
The Likeability Trap
How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are
An investigation of why a potentially misguided focus on being likeable holds many women back despite their superior educations and suitability for leadership—from "Broadcast Journalism's New Gladiator" (Elle) and a co-host of Amanpour & Company (PBS). More »
The Confidence Code for Girls Journal
A Guide to Embracing Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self
Discover your confidence with this fun and empowering journal based on the #1 bestseller The Confidence Code for Girls. Do you want to take chances, live fearlessly, and become your most authentic self? This colorful, interactive journal makes it easy and exciting for girls to learn the confidence-building skills that will shape them into courageous young women.Based on the in-depth research of the bestselling phenomenon The Confidence… More »
What You Do Is Who You Are
How to Create Your Business Culture
Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. More »
The Turn-On
How the Powerful Make Us Like Them-from Washington to Wall Street to Hollywood
What makes us love Ellen DeGeneres and hate Anne Hathaway? How do politicians move away from policy talk and connect with their voters? Activist and former producer Steven Goldstein breaks down the industry of creating likability and how public figures manufacture their image. More »
Your Turn
Careers, Kids, and Comebacks—A Working Mother's Guide
A return-to-work manifesto for mothers after an extended family leave, from the founders of Après the leading career site for working parents. More »
Creative Calling
Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder Chase Jarvis reminds us that creativity isn't a skill—it's a habit available to everyone. Through small, daily actions we can supercharge our innate creativity and rediscover our personal power in life. Whether your ambition is a creative career, completing a creative project, or simply cultivating a creative mindset, Creative Calling will unlock your potential. More »
Snakes in Suits, Revised Edition
Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office
Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths in the workplace—how to spot their destructive behavior and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organization.Over the past decade, Snakes in Suits has become the definitive book on how to discover and defend yourself against psychopaths in the office. Now, Dr. Paul Babiak… More »
Ultralearning
Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by becoming an Ultralearner—the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. More »
Outspoken
Why Women's Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free
In the tradition of The Confidence Code, a big think, conversation-changing book, full of practical advice, about how women can better use their voices in the workplace and at home to be heard and respected. More »
The Skills
From First Job to Dream Job—What Every Woman Needs to Know
Acclaimed BBC anchor, Mishal Husain, inspires, champions, and encourages women to make their ambitions a reality by focusing on practical skills they can use throughout their careers, whether they are new graduates, working mothers, re-entering the workforce, or simply seeking a career change.When women are offered new opportunities, they often hesitate because of doubt—doubt that they… More »
The Alter Ego Effect
The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
A top performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down. There's only one person in the way of you untapping your potential: You. There's also one person who can move you out of the way so you can perform at your peak. That person is already inside you. You just need to unlock them.… More »
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today. More »
The Person You Mean to Be
How Good People Fight Bias
In the workplace, in the media, in the White House, in Hollywood: at every turn there is a new story of bias, sexism, racism, or and of the other -isms. From an award-winning social psychologist at NYU's Stern School of Business, this evidence-based guide to navigating situations of inequality and injustice offers answers for people who want to make a difference but don't know where to start. More »
- 2018 Nautilus Award Winner: GOLD in Social Science & Education
- Selected as a “Next Big Idea Club” Finalist for Fall 2018
The Confidence Code for Girls
Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self
Girls can rule the world—all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. More »
The Confidence Code
The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know
Following the success of Lean In and Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence—and learning how to achieve it—for women of all ages and at all stages of their career. More »
Dying for a Paycheck
How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop. In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that… More »
A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The Working Woman's Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy
A rallying cry for working mothers everywhere that demolishes the "distracted, emotional, weak" stereotype and definitively shows that these professionals are more focused, decisive, and stronger than any other force. Working mothers aren’t a liability. They are assets you—and every manager and executive—want in your company, in your investment portfolio, and in your corner. There is copious academic research showing the benefits… More »
WTF?
What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
What do self-driving cars, on-demand services, artificial intelligence, and income inequality have in common? They are telling us, loud and clear, that we are heading pell-mell toward a world shaped by technology in ways we don't understand and have many reasons to fear. More »
Weird in a World That's Not
A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures
An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want—from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world. Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward twenty-seven-year-old misfit, navigated her way through New York media and became a boss—an editor-in-chief, an editorial director, and a… More »
Spellbound
Seven Principles of Illusion to Captivate Audiences and Unlock the Secrets of Success
A professional magician and illusionist—the head magic consultant for the hit film Now You See Me—reveals how to bridge the gap between perception and reality to increase your powers of persuasion and influence. David Kwong has astounded corporate CEOs, TED talk audiences, and thousands of other hyper-rational people, making them see, believe, and even remember what he wants them to. Illusion is an ancient art that centers on… More »
Extreme You
Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
The former president of Gatorade and Equinox draws unconventional insights and kickass lessons from her personal and professional experiences and from a band of highly accomplished "Extremers" from business, sports, and entertainment to help you rock your career and live the boldest version of yourself. More »
Gen Z @ Work
How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace
A generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce—Generation Z—in this essential study, the first on the subject. They were born between between 1995 and 2012. At 72.8 million strong, Gen Z is about to make its presence known in the workplace in a major way—and employers need to understand… More »
Stretch
Unlock the Power of Less—and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness. We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns out we're wrong. More »
Earning It
Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World
More than fifty trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and surprising insights and lessons in this essential, in-the-trenches career guide from Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street Journal. Among the first female reporters at The Wall Street Journal, Joann S. Lublin faced a number of uphill battles in her career. She became deputy… More »
Writing Without Bullshit
Boost Your Career by Saying What You Mean
Joining the ranks of classics like The Elements of Style and On Writing Well, Writing Without Bullshit helps professionals get to the point to get ahead. It’s time for Writing Without Bullshit. Writing Without Bullshit is the first comprehensive guide to writing for today’s world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on a screen. The average news story now gets only 36 seconds of attention. Unless you change how… More »
Only Humans Need Apply
Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future. Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers—writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians—are threatened by accelerating… More »
Never Split the Difference
Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home. More »
The Power of the Other
The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond—and what to do about it
Wall Street Journal bestseller An expert on the psychology of leadership and the bestselling author of Integrity, Necessary Endings, and Boundaries For Leaders identifies the critical ingredient for personal and professional wellbeing. Most leadership coaching focuses on helping leaders build their skills and knowledge and close performance gaps. These are necessary, but not sufficient. Using evidence from neuroscience and his work with… More »
Workplace Poker
Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played?
A career advisor explains why many talented, hard-working people often miss out on their full career potential, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game to win. While many careers have been impacted by economic downturns, failed projects, downsizing and restructuring, or just bad bosses or bad timing, we all know of colleagues who continue to rise through every tough… More »
The Achievement Habit
Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life
The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible. More »
Becoming the Boss
New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders
The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to make the next step: becoming a leader. We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from Baby Boomers to Millennials. All grown up, the highly educated Generation Y is moving into executive positions in corporations and government, as well… More »
How the World Sees You
Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination
Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself. Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession in her early 20s, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Over the course of her ad career, Sally won hundreds of awards for creativity, copywriting, and branding, and was one of the most awarded advertising copywriters right from start of career, including almost every major… More »
The Glass Closet
Why Coming Out Is Good Business
Part memoir and part social criticism, The Glass Closet addresses the issue of homophobia that still pervades corporations around the world and underscores the immense challenges faced by LGBT employees. In The Glass Closet, Lord John Browne, former CEO of BP, seeks to unsettle business leaders by exposing the culture of homophobia that remains rampant in corporations around the world, and which prevents employees from showing their… More »
Executive Presence
The Missing Link Between Merit and Success
Are you “leadership material?” More importantly, do others perceive you to be? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a noted expert on workplace power and influence, shows you how to identify and embody the Executive Presence (EP) that you need to succeed.You can have the experience and qualifications of a leader, but without executive presence, you won't advance. EP is an amalgam of qualities that true leaders exude, a presence that telegraphs you're… More »
Welcome to the Real World
Finding Your Place, Perfecting Your Work, and Turning Your Job into Your Dream Career
The essential book every workplace novice needs—a smart, practical, and fun guide to help them navigate the minefield of personalities, learn to work with their boss, identify priorities, and ultimately kick butt at their first job. It’s a challenging time to be young and new in the workplace. Your parents can’t help—the rules have all changed, and faster than guide books can keep up. In Welcome to the Real World, career expert… More »
The Curriculum
Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts
From the mind of the ultimate corporate gunslinger comes this no-nonsense, real-world curriculum, designed to augment—if not replace—the more traditional path to achieving mastery of the business universe. Conquer this sharp, practical and often amusing course of study and save $250,000 of wasted business school tuition. Unlike those august, Ivy-encrusted factories that churn out masterful business administrators, The Curriculum will… More »
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve
“I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This is packed with practical lessons she’s learned over a long tenure as a leader.”— Fast Company Whether you’ve just settled into your first work cubicle and have no clue how to go after the success you crave, or you’ve already got a sweet little office but aren’t sure what’s required to take your career to the next level, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This gives you all the secrets you need… More »
Winning from Within
A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change
Winning from Within by leadership and negotiation expert Erica Ariel Fox presents a contemporary approach for getting more of what you want, improving relationships, and enjoying life's deeper rewards. With principles developed while teaching negotiation at Harvard Law School and coaching executives around the world, Fox provides a map for understanding your inner world and a method for sorting yourself out. Fox uses insights from… More »
Creative Intelligence
Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
Offering insights from the spheres of anthropology, psychology, education, design, and business, Creative Intelligence by Bruce Nussbaum, a leading thinker, commentator, and curator on the subjects of design, creativity, and innovation, is first book to identify and explore creative intelligence as a new form of cultural literacy and as a powerful method for problem-solving, driving innovation, and sparking start-up capitalism. Nussbaum… More »
The Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools
Revised and updated to answer the challenges of a rapidly changing business world, the 4th edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics taught at America's top business schools, from corporate ethics and compliance to financial planning and real estate to leadership and negotiation. With more than 400,000 copies sold around the world, this internationally acclaimed guide distills the lessons of the most popular business school… More »
How Will You Measure Your Life?
From the world’s leading thinker on innovation and New York Times bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, comes an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom for achieving a fulfilling life. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, notably the only business book that Apple’s Steve Jobs said “deeply influenced” him, is widely recognized as one of the most significant business books ever… More »
Getting from College to Career Rev Ed
Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World
“A well-written, lively and easy to follow guide.” —Time.com “Perfect for today’s students, who inevitably want what they want (and only that!) when they want it.” —Campus Career Advisor Getting from College to Career by Career Expert and Global Spokesperson for LinkedIn, Lindsey Pollak, is an insightful, essential world guide for college students and recent graduates who are preparing to embark upon a career beyond the… More »
The Peter Principle
Why Things Always Go Wrong
“The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.” —New York Times Back in 1969, Lawrence J. Peter created a cultural phenomenon with his brilliant, outrageous, hilarious, and all-too-true treatise on business and life, The Peter Principle—and his words and theories are as true today as they were then. By posing—and answering—the eternal question, “Why do things always go wrong?” Peter explores the incompetence that runs so… More »
Necessary Endings
The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
“If you’re hesitant to pull the trigger when things obviously aren't working out, Henry Cloud’s Necessary Endings may be the most important book you read all year.” —Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author of The Total Money Makeover “Cloud is a wise, experienced, and compassionate guide through [life’s] turbulent passages.” —Bob Buford, bestelling author of Halftime and Finishing Well; founder of the Leadership… More »
The One-Life Solution
Reclaim Your Personal Life While Achieving Greater Professional Success
“Dr. Cloud will show you how to produce the results you are looking for in your work and personal life.” —Dr. Phil McGraw, #1 New York Times bestselling author From Dr. Henry Cloud, the million-copy selling author of Boundaries and Integrity, comes The One-Life Solution, an essential handbook that demonstrates how establishing a successful, happy, and rewarding business career can be achieved by setting physical, mental, emotional… More »
The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business (Revised Edition)
Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur
“This fun and informative book shows aspiring young women how to build their own businesses from the ground up...and stand as tall as a Manhattan highrise.” —Barbara Corcoran, author of If You Don’t Have Large Breasts Wear Ribbons in Your Pigtails “This book will do for business what The Joy of Cooking did for the culinary world.” —Ella Brennan, owner, Commander's Palace The Girl’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business is a… More »
Power
Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
"Pfeffer [blends] academic rigor and practical genius into wonderfully readable text. The leading thinker on the topic of power, Pfeffer here distills his wisdom into an indispensable guide."—Jim Collins, New York Times bestselling author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall Some people have it, and… More »
The E-Myth Enterprise
How to Turn a Great Idea into a Thriving Business
“This excellent book is a must-read for current and aspiring entrepreneurs.” —Booklist Discover how to turn a great idea into a thriving business with The E-Myth Enterprise, using the proven methods that bestselling author Michael E. Gerber has developed over the course of his more than forty years as an entrepreneur and coach. Michael E.Gerber is THE #1 name in small business and his company, E-Myth Worldwide, boasts more than… More »
Womenomics
Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
"A personal, provocative, and challenging book for career women who want less guilt, more life."—Diane Sawyer Womenomics, the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, is an invaluable guide for this generation of professional women, provide knowledgeable advice on how to "Work… More »
Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office
Essential Wisdom from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Entrepreneurs
Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office uncovers the secrets behind the success of the great CEOs through their lives and personal stories. Why did Ray Kroc's plan for McDonald's thrive when all the other burger joints failed? How can we apply his lessons to Krispy Kreme? How did Walt Disney's most dismal day as a young cartoonist radically change his career direction? We learn about their biggest challenges and failures, and how they… More »
Mind Set!
Eleven Ways to Change the Way You See—and Create—the Future
In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world. Mind Set! goes beyond that by disclosing the secret of forecasting. Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selects his most effective tools, 11 Mindsets, and… More »
The Greatness Guide
101 Lessons for Making What’s Good at Work and in Life Even Better
Each one of us is called to greatness. We can have a significant impact on the world around us—if we so choose. If you are looking to craft an extraordinary life, The Greatness Guide is the powerful and practical handbook that will inspire you. Passionate, provocative, and full of big ideas that will challenge and transform, The Greatness Guide is one of those rare books that will release your potential and awaken your best self. Make… More »
The Hard Truth About Soft Skills
Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They'd Learned Sooner
What's the hard truth? Soft skills get little respect but will make or break your career. Master your soft skills and really get ahead at work!Fortune 500 coach Peggy Klaus encounters individuals every day who excel at their jobs but aren't getting where they want to go. It's rarely a shortfall in technical expertise that limits their careers, but rather a shortcoming in their social, communication, and self-management behaviors. In The… More »
Release Your Brilliance
The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World
In the tradition of Keith Harrell and T. Harv Eker, Simon T. Bailey shows each of us the potential within us and how to release it so it can shine free. Release Your Brilliance provides the combination to the vault where your brilliance is kept. More »
Overcoming Underearning(R)
A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life
When it comes to money, are you controlled by fear? Do you underestimate your worth? Are you ready to go to the next level, but can't seem to get there? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be an underearner. Underearners are self-saboteurs who don't live up to their earnings potential, says Barbara Stanny, a financial educator, motivational speaker, and career counselor. Whether they make $10 an hour or six figures a… More »
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, the organization will have established over… More »
Crazy Bosses
Fully Revised and Updated
Since the latter part of the century just past, Stanley Bing has been exploring the relationship between authority and madness. In one bestselling book after another, reporting from his hot-seat as an insider in a world-renowned multinational corporation, he has tried to understand the inner workings of those who lead us and to inquire why… More »
100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them
The scholarly discipline of Bullshit Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue across a wide range of professions. Now, best-selling author and lifelong practitioner Stanley Bing enters the field with a comprehensive look at the many attractive jobs now available to those who are serious about their bullshit and prepared to dedicate… More »
The Flight of the Creative Class
The New Global Competition for Talent
The most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class, skilled individuals ranging from money managers to make–up artists, software programmers to steady–cam operators who are in constant demand around the world. Florida's bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class identified these workers as the source of economic revitalization in American cities. In that book, he shows that investment in… More »
How to Talk So People Listen
Connecting in Today's Workplace
At a time when it's harder than ever to get and keep people's attention, we could all use some help. Enter Sonya Hamlin, author of the now classic How to Talk So People Listen (1988), and one of the country's leading communication experts. In this revised and updated edition, Sonya Hamlin, arguably America's leading communication expert, shows us how to successfully capture people's attention so that they listen, understand, and are… More »
Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling
Career Strategies for Asians
An essential career guide for every Asian American—and all their co-workers and managers—that explains how traditional Asian cultural values are at odds with Western corporate culture. More »
Sun Tzu Was a Sissy
Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War
We live in a vicious, highly competitive workplace environment, and things aren't getting any better. Jobs are few and far between, and people aren't any nicer now than they were when Ghengis Khan ran around in big furs killing people in unfriendly acquisitions. For thousands of years, people have been reading the writings of the deeply… More »
Integrity
The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality
Integrity—more than simple honesty, it's the key to success. A person with integrity has the ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances. Drawing on experiences from his work, Dr. Henry Cloud, a clinical psychologist, leadership coach, corporate consultant and nationally syndicated radio host, shows how our character can keep us from achieving all we want to (or could) be. In… More »
Attitude is Everything Rev Ed
10 Life-Changing Steps to Turning Attitude into Action
Mega-successful motivational speaker profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Keith Harrell shows how to put good atttitude to work to get ahead in all aspects of life Keith Harrell has been taking the corporate lecture circuit—and the media—by storm, and is poised to take his place among the motivational greats of the world. At six feet six inches, 43-year-old Harrell has the charisma of Tony Robbins, the intellect of Stephen Covey and… More »
Secrets of Six-Figure Women
Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life
Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success. In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker,and financial educator, identifies the seven key… More »
Throwing the Elephant
Zen and the Art of Managing Up
Sit down. Breathe deep. This is the last business book you will ever need. For in these pages, Stanley Bing solves the ultimate problem of your working life: How to manage the boss. The technique is simple . . . as simple as throwing an elephant. All it takes is the proper state of mind, a step-by-step plan, and a great leap of faith. This… More »
When Generations Collide
Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work
If your workplace feels like a battle zone and colleagues sometimes act like adversaries, you ore not alone. Today four generations glare at one another across the conference table, and the potential for conflict and confusion has never been greater. Traditionalist employees with their "heads down, onward and upward" attitude live out a work ethic shaped during the Great Depression. Eighty million Baby Boomers vacillate between their… More »
The Attitude Is Everything Workbook
Strategies and Tools for Developing Personal and Professional Success
In this companion to Attitude Is Everything, mega–successful motivational speaker Keith Harrell gives you practicall, step–by–step guidance on putting a good attitude to work in order to get ahead in life. Keith Harrell has taken his place among the motivational greats of the world. Regularly inspiring Fortune 500 companies with a 100 percent satisfaction rate, his message is simple yet powerful: attitude, whether positive or… More »
What Would Machiavelli Do?
The Ends Justify the Meanness
What Would Machiavelli Do? He would feast on other people's discord He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand either He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry He would kill people, but only if he… More »
How to Succeed in Business Without Being White
Straight Talk on Making It in America
African-Americans are entering the business world in unprecedented numbers, and Earl G. Graves serves as their role model and mentor. Graves, one of the most influential and well-known executives in the world, in this timely andimportant book shows how he, the son of a West Indian garment worker, became a multimillionaire entrepreneur… More »