Career Resilience

In times of despair, visualizing better days ahead can prove to be challenging. Grief has a way of making even the hardiest people believe that they're all alone and helpless in this vast, cruel world. More often than not, people allow their feelings of helplessness get the better of them, making them more susceptible to depression, anxiety, and inner turmoil.

Despite having a desire to succeed, we are so accustomed to working hard to reach our goals and produce results in the workplace, that many of us sacrifice our deeper humanity in the process. This timely book is ideally suited for the current era of anxiety and global upheaval that has awakened us to our collective dissatisfaction with the status quo.

"Backpack to Rucksack - Insight into Leadership and Resilience by Military Experts" is a powerful book that offers practical and actionable guidance on leadership and resilience from the perspective of military experts. Drawing on his extensive knowledge and experiences, the author provides valuable insights and relatable anecdotes that make the concepts accessible and applicable to a wide range of listeners.

Drawing on the insights of 50 inspiring people who have suffered a wide range of trauma but are thriving nonetheless, Emma J. Bell has extracted nine enlightening secrets from their experiences. You’ll listen as they talk about how they found renewed purpose in life; how they learned to forgive rather than hold on to resentment; and how they developed practices to create calm and live authentically.

In The Leaders You Need, Karen Brown shares the approach she has used to guide organizations from small nonprofits to the Global 500 on their journey to greater diversity in leadership and management. Her innovative, field-tested ABCD framework consists of four pillars: how to align diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts with business priorities; how to build strong partnerships with stakeholders; how to cultivate a culture of role models; and how to define objectives and outcomes with data.

Too Stupid to Fail is an examination of the effects self-consciousness, doubt, and anxiety have on one’s ability to succeed and achieve their goals. By challenging and eventually overcoming these barriers, one will gain a renewed self-confidence, leading to success in both personal and professional settings. Too Stupid to Fail is the completion of many years exploring the power and limits of human potential. A common narrative encourages people to work hard and go to school as a launching pad for success.

Change happens, whether it’s forced on us or we create it. But too often, people get caught up in the challenges of change, creating anxiety and getting stuck. If this sounds familiar, there’s good news ahead.

Performance facilitator and elite mindset coach Gareth Timmins was one of only 0.1% of Royal Marines Commando applicants to reach the end of the intensive and gruelling training, and to earn the coveted Green Beret, a world-renowned symbol of excellence. By drawing on his life experiences after reaching this elite status, his subsequent research into psychological theory and observations shared with him from many elite athletes, Timmins aims to break the commonly held assumption that people who achieve consistent successes, do so with ease.

Therapists are struggling to carve out a fulfilling, profitable niche, an event that has left many discouraged and even disheartened. In Cash Therapy Practice, Paul Potter, PT, looks at the private practice model and turns it on its head. Most therapists follow the cash-based model not for the money, but for patient connection, something that is decidedly lacking in modern healthcare. Potter diligently outlines in this manifesto how every therapist can benefit from the advantages of a cash-based practice.

While Erik Z. Severinghaus has been to the top of the physical world (literally climbing Everest) and the business world (exiting companies for hundreds of millions of dollars), what has defined his journey is not the successes...but rather, the hard times of loneliness and self-doubt that nearly cost him his accomplishments and his life. This guidebook passes along the lessons needed in those dark times, with the hope that it will help every entrepreneur who is going through this struggle understand their journey and build the mental resiliency to succeed.

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments.

Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees. In Talent Tectonics, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages. You'll find insights from a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe.

The Gift of Grit will not only elaborate how grit is the strongest predictor of success, it will teach you the practical steps to develop a growth mindset and belief system to pave the way to building a gritty you.

What factors help a burgeoning entrepreneur move forward and persevere through the hardships of the startup phase? Why do some entrepreneurs get stuck in the idea stage, while others are able to successfully implement their idea and grow their business? Why do serial entrepreneurs continue to start new businesses even after experiencing one failure after another? What helps existing small business owners weather the storms and bounce back from setbacks? These are some of the questions we explore in the Resilient Entrepreneur.

Barely into her 20s, since chairing the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, Holly has been working with and learning from the heads of countries, companies and charities to help them disrupt what they do and change the world for the better. In her fearless and widely-researched manifesto, this innovative young thinker shows how it is within everyone's reach, everyone's ability and everyone's power to be an effective leader - in business and beyond.

Why do some people get stressed while others stay calm, cool, and collected under pressure? According to renowned stress researcher Dr. Derek Roger, the answer lies in resilience - your ability to cope with challenges and thrive under adversity - rather than ruminating and obsessing over them. In lab-controlled studies, he discovered that the key to “managing” stress is to stop it before it starts. To be resilient, flexible, and ready for anything.

This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions. This is an audiobook written for every current and aspiring leader, revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about; the behind-the-scenes struggles. The women in these stories are powerful, internationally diverse and have impressive leadership accomplishments.

Ineffective crisis leadership of your operations and, most importantly, your human capital will cripple your organization. The dysfunction, disengaged employees, suffering productivity and dismal operational performance that result can create a crucial gap.

Working Relationships is an original exploration of the interplay between crisis, resilience, and employee experience in the workplace. The book delves into how working relationships - the relationships we develop with the work that we do, the people with whom we work, and the organizations for which we work - are formed and sustained, focusing on four key elements: continuity, reciprocity, purpose, and hope.

Las organizaciones están soportando actualmente una gran tensión. Con una recesión en el horizonte, los directivos se inclinan por la reducción de costes y la protección de los activos. Si bien este es un enfoque comprensible, la crisis presenta una oportunidad para que las organizaciones piensen estratégicamente cómo ganar resiliencia al aprovechar sus recursos.