Human Leadership

This practical guide to becoming a better leader takes you through a journey of self discovery. It requires leaders to be honest with the most important person in their lives, themselves. Listeners will learn how to become more intentional humans and partners. Are you up for the challenge?

Follow this Path shows you how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls The Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses.

Reap the benefits of a diverse workforce. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you create a culture that seeks and celebrates difference. This book will inspire you to: identify and address bias; short-circuit discrimination instead of unintentionally feeding it; attract, retain, and engage talented people who represent myriad identities; ensure that everyone has equal access to growth opportunities; trade outdated policies for practices that are proven to foster inclusion; and more.

We are oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own suffering. We replay past anguish, anticipate future distress, and stew in self-righteous anger. In Hard to Be Human, Ted Cadsby focuses on five cognitive design flaws that foster underthinking and overreacting, and reveals powerful strategies to overcome them.

Maybe you know a little about human design, but have not considered its impact on your role as a leader. You’re drawn to leadership. People recognize you as a leader at work, but there are times you doubt yourself, especially when it comes to your personal life.

So can we end human trafficking? The answer is a resounding YES! What it will take is an effort by all community partners...., law enforcement, non-profits, schools, service clubs and churches. The main role of the church is to prevent human trafficking so it never happens to begin with! Given that only 2% of victim are ever rescued, if we don't prevent human trafficking, it will never end!

A business memoir that explains Nortel Networks' demise. It is told from the perspective of Organization Development, by the former head of OD. In January of 2009, Nortel Networks, a hundred-year-old company with a market capitalization of over $200 Billion, that had peaked at $30 Billion in sales and employed over 100,000 people worldwide, declared bankruptcy! Unwilling to restructure, it liquidated its assets, bringing an astounding $8 Billion into the estate, mostly from the value of its intellectual property, its patents and products. Unfortunately, this money languishes in escrow, ...

What if a simple understanding of how the mind works was all you needed to build a business that inspired innovation, productivity, loyalty, and the ability to continually solve complex business problems? What if you never needed to study "proven strategies" or buy into someone else's success story? Humans Working presents a deep yet straightforward understanding of the most important asset in business - the human mind - and illustrates implications for you as a business leader, contributor, parent, partner, and beyond.

Practical. Challenging. Well-researched and unflinchingly candid, this book—based on a decade-long study—provides leaders at all levels an actionable framework for building cultures that support higher levels of engagement and innovation. Choose Love, Not Fear challenges listeners to overcome a history of fear-based processes that unnecessarily render us less capable, restrict what we see, and narrow what we believe is possible. This book shows how the best leaders build teams where love and positive emotion are the foundation of making the rhetoric of engagement a reality.

From Tokenism to Inclusion: A Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace is an essential resource for leaders, HR professionals, and anyone committed to creating truly inclusive environments where all employees can thrive. In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is no longer just a goal—it’s a business imperative. However, many organizations still struggle with moving beyond surface-level diversity efforts, leaving employees feeling undervalued and unheard. This book goes beyond the buzzwords to offer practical, ...

After years of having motivational smoke blown up our collective backsides, we've started to act as if we are all generous, bold, and intelligent - all of the time! We've designed our organizations, teams, systems, products, relationships, and lives so we can succeed only under ideal 'laboratory' conditions. Anything less than perfection often means catastrophe. The problem is that's not how human beings work at all.

As a workplace strategist and business coach, Erica Keswin has spent over 20 years working with top business leaders and executives to build successful organizations that honor relationships. Featuring case studies from top brands such as, Lyft, Starbucks, Mogul, and SoulCycle, to name a few, Bring Your Human to Work distills the key practices of the most human companies into applicable advice that any business leader can use to build a “human workplace”.

Good leaders get the job done, but great leaders inspire. They're confident in their ability, compassionate with others, and clear about their mission. Above all, great leaders care about the people they're leading—and they show it. In Connected, Jami Varela explains how to become an impactful leader with tested strategies and personal insight.

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) - the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process.

Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management presents a holistic approach to performance management, drawing on Michael Armstrong's vast research and experience. Most organizations have performance management processes in one form or another, but these are often based on formal annual reviews, forced rankings and directly linked to pay decisions. These traditional approaches are often at the expense of ongoing, continuous feedback and focus on looking back at what has or has not been achieved rather than looking forward.

In today's fast-paced, high-stakes world, unlocking our human potential has never been more critical. "Mindset Zone: Actualize Your Human Potential" by Ana Melikian, Ph.D., offers a transformative exploration into the power of mindsets to shape our lives, work, and the world around us. With compelling insights and actionable strategies, Dr. Melikian guides listeners through the intricacies of what mindsets are, the impact of our beliefs, the power of information-processing styles, and the influence of our worldviews.

To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness are the keys to thriving in any environment.

Are you stuck in your home-based business? Have you tried sharing, but it’s not leading anywhere? Is your life an endless chain of no’s? Then, it’s time to get unstuck. Find your unique way of sharing. Get over the fear of talking to people you’ve never met with specific action steps. It’s time to grow! This is the year you get unstuck.

The Art of Manipulation offers you a framework to master powerful and practical ways to influence and control people’s behavior, negotiate better, make your pitch, and manipulate others to get what you want. The Art of Manipulation will reshape the way you think about influencing people and getting what you want. You will get tools and effective strategies - not mere theories, but real practical strategies and how-to’s to start transforming your thinking and behavior, influencing people, and thus, get desired results faster.

Change is everywhere and coming for us fast. This isn’t breaking news. Yet, despite knowing this -seeing the impact on our businesses and livelihoods - our human instinct is to resist. Instead of choosing change, we choose the status quo and ride it off a cliff. It needn’t be this way. What if we could see change as good?