Work Leadership

When we do better work, we live better lives. Share before you’re ready. Get more agreements. Have difficult conversations. These are a few of the practical but profound ideas Lessonly CEO Max Yoder shares in Do Better Work. No matter your rank or role, if you want to see more understanding, accountability, and progress on your team, these stories and examples are for you.

No single factor - not sales, marketing, finance, strategy, or operations - has more influence over the ultimate success of an organization than its culture. In the game-changing first edition of Culture by Design, David Friedman cut through the fog and provided a simple, clear, and practical road map that thousands of organizations have now used to build high-performing cultures. In this new updated edition, you'll learn how to take the strategies he originally taught and adapt them to meet the unique challenges presented by today's remote work environment.

Self-Leadership: Become the CEO of Your Own Career takes a unique approach to the self-improvement genre, delivering a wealth of practical advice through a blend of well-crafted fiction and a structured, in-depth analysis of the key concepts explored in the narrative, specifically professional development. Two logical sections, “The Story” and “The Lesson,” first introduce readers to a series of characters all grappling with questions of how to break out of their respective ruts and improve their lives. The characters are authentic and highly relatable, and readers will have no ...

Whether you’re stuck in your current job, starting your first job and wondering how you can use it as a stepping-stone toward your dream career, or mid-career and wanting to finally be recognized for promotion or a leadership role, this book is for you. For the first time, Ann Hiatt shares both the daily habits and long-game strategies she learned working side-by-side for decades with the giants of technology at Amazon and Google.

Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Florida, isn’t average in any way. When Tom D’Eri and his father John bought the location in 2013, it was struggling. Now it’s one of the highest-volume washes in Florida. Its employee retention rate is five times that of its competitors. It has spun off into two additional locations that have been immediately successful, and the business is absurdly profitable.

Few organizations solve as many impossible problems as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and nobody knows more about leading rocket scientists to unlikely breakthroughs than Adam Steltzner. As the phase lead and development manager for EDL (entry, descent, and landing) of the Curiosity rover to Mars, Steltzner spearheaded the creation of one of engineering's wackiest kluges - the sky crane, which allowed the heaviest rover in the history of space exploration to land on Mars unscathed.

Stephen R. Covey spent his long and storied career inspiring millions of individuals to make their lives more effective, compassionate, and meaningful. Near the end of his life, Covey felt there was a final component to his work: How do you live your best life no matter your age? Live Life in Crescendo is Covey’s directive to live life in crescendo, meaning to continually grow in contribution, learning, and influence. In the same way that music builds on previous notes but leaves us anticipating the next note, a life builds on the past but unfolds in the future.

Have you noticed that on some days, everything seems to go so smoothly? Those times when everybody shares the same deadline and all of a sudden everything gets done. What’s going on here? What’s different in these scenarios? At the core of each situation is a replicable occurrence, a behavior pattern, or a trend you can understand and utilize. In fact, with just a little bit of heightened awareness and increased focus on your situation, you can pinpoint these exact patterns and recreate them at will.

This no-compromise biblical clarion call to revival is timeless. Leonard Ravenhill clearly shows how the church can be brought from where it is to where it ought to be. The church still needs his message, first published in 1983, for as Ravenhill said, "We live in a generation which has never known revival God's way." The message is drastic, fearless, and often radical. His goal for the church is nothing less than full restoration to the glory, power, holiness, and dignity that Christ intended for it.

The most successful leaders are storytellers. By mastering business storytelling, they achieve extraordinary business results. As a modern-day leader, you know you should develop this skill, but you don't have the time to do this in an ad-hoc way. What you need is a practical, reliable method to follow, one that will allow your business to reap the benefits of storytelling as soon as possible. In Putting Stories to Work, Shawn Callahan gives you a clear process for mastering business storytelling. He demolishes the thinking that storytelling has no place at work.

ChatGPT Day Job Killer 2025 reveals 20 PROVEN AI-powered income methods that allow you to make money on autopilot, scale your earnings, and replace your day job—without coding, big investments, or years of experience.

“Do it Like a Pilot” takes the reader into the flight deck – one of the most complicated workplaces ever designed and operated by among the most efficient teams ever trained. The success of flight crews can be attributed to clarity, simplicity and process. This involves taking what may seem to be involved and overwhelming, or even life-threatening tasks and breaking them down into smaller, logical and achievable steps. Simple and concise - this book will explain these methods and offers a framework that can be overlaid upon your business, or your life.

Church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin, with cowriter Warren Bird, makes the case that mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital, momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church. In this new audiobook, they provide a complete, practical, hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches so that they can understand the issues, develop strategies, and execute a variety of forms of merger for church expansion and renewal to reinvigorate declining churches and give them a "second life".

Let’s Get Civil – Expanded Leadership Guide (2025) A practical playbook for building trust, clarity, and accountability at work. Are workplace culture issues eroding your team’s trust, morale, or momentum? Are you tired of surface-level leadership advice that ignores the real power dynamics at play? Let’s Get Civil isn’t just a leadership book—it’s a culture repair toolkit for managers, HR leaders, DEI practitioners, executive coaches, and team facilitators who are ready to move beyond "nice" and into clarity-centered, trust-driven leadership. Inside, Dr. Martina Carroll-...

There are many strategies a manager can use to manage a team properly. Some of these strategies tend to be on the more human side while others are on the more professional. A balance needs to be applied if we want to create the most significant impact in our departments and companies. Throughout the years, I have had a few great managers and others, not so great. I have had the chance to be a manager myself, and throughout this book, I want to present 11 techniques great managers use to make the most significant impact within their team. But this book should not only be read by managers. It...

Build Better Relationships by Improving Your Emotional and Social Skills! ***Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Download Now!*** What is Emotional Intelligence? What benefits can you gain by developing it? Can you really improve your emotional and social skills, or are you just "wired" a certain way? When you download Emotional Intelligence: Influence All Social Situations With Social Intelligence and Interpersonal Communication, you'll learn how to understand and regulate your emotions - and also function better in relationships with others. You can teach yourself to be a better...

Whether it shows up as stress, top-down leadership styles, drama, or uncertainty, fear kills good decision-making, dampens morale, lowers employee engagement, and hurts bottom-line growth. The good news is that there's an antidote: Freedom at Work. In this groundbreaking book, Traci Fenton brings together decades of original research, based on her team's work with hundreds of top companies around the world, such as The WD-40 Company, Mindvalley, DaVita, Menlo Innovations, Zappos, HCL Technologies, and more, revealing the proven pathway to leadership success.

A New York Times best-selling author reveals how to find the right words for every situation. Whether you are making a budget request, interviewing for a job, ending a relationship, or talking to children about divorce, the crux of success in those and other crucial situations is planned, effective communication.

Building a successful career in the world of remote work, hybrid schedules, and a lack of work/life balance is not easy. In fact it’s difficult and often seems impossible. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. By confronting the lies we are told about building a career, this book will bring you one step closer to the epiphany that will change your life.

The Effective CEO 2.0: Take Back Control of Your Time, Focus, and Leadership You didn’t become a CEO to spend your days drowning in meetings, emails, and fires. But if you’re like most leaders I work with, your schedule owns you, instead of the other way around. The Effective CEO 2.0 is your step-by-step guide to reclaim your time, sharpen your focus, and become the strategic, confident leader your business needs. Whether you’re stuck in the weeds, constantly reacting to problems, or looking back on “busy” weeks wondering what you actually accomplished, this book will show you a ...