Work Leadership

There is a massive recalibration taking place around how work fits into peoples’ lives. Winning the new war for talent requires a more humane employee experience, one that meets the needs and values of a changed workforce. Get this wrong, and the future of your organization is in jeopardy. Get this right, and you create an astounding competitive advantage around hiring and retention, while reaping all the benefits and business results that dedicated employees generate.

What does it take to achieve your personal and professional goals? When is the right time to take calculated risks, and how do you prepare for the moment when opportunity presents itself? If anyone can show you how to do this, it’s Nicole Lynn. As the first Black female agent to represent a top-three NFL draft pick, Nicole worked her way from childhood poverty to become a Wall Street financial analyst, then attorney, and now top agent to elite athletes and entertainers.

Around the world, product teams are waking up to the same uncomfortable truth: doing things “the right way” doesn’t matter if your team loses its funding or your company goes out of business. Simply put, product teams can no longer afford to be disconnected from the business impact of their work. And well-trodden “best practices” from Silicon Valley behemoths can only provide so much guidance for teams working across vastly different business and funding models.

From a novice translator to CEO of the champagne house Veuve Clicquot North America, Mireille Guiliano shares her insights and experiences on how to work well. Whether it's balancing career and personal life, the pros and cons of risk taking, qualities of leadership, mentoring, the undervalued art of communicating, passion, etiquette, or style, Guiliano gives us a refreshing guide filled with advice that every working woman will need in today's economic climate.

The 5-2-1 Principle is not a formulaic way to success rather it is an intuitive learnable way to achieve success in an integrated holistic way. The book will help the reader to dig deeper into understanding how they can achieve more and have a more interesting life.

Shorter tells the story of entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world who have discovered how to shrink the workweek without cutting salaries or sacrificing productivity or revenues. They show that by reducing distractions, eliminating inefficiencies, and creating time for high-quality focus and collaboration, four-day workweeks can boost recruitment and retention, make leaders more thoughtful and companies more sustainable, and improve work-life balance.

Rocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. But it's not. Rather, it's the apex of a certain thought process—a way to imagine the unimaginable and solve the unsolvable. It's the same thought process that enabled Neil Armstrong to take his giant leap for mankind, that allows spacecraft to travel millions of miles through outer space and land on a precise spot, and that brings us closer to colonizing other planets.

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.

Do you want to be more productive and enjoy your work more fully? The Now Habit at Work, written by top performance expert Neil Fiore, reveals how true time management goes hand-in-hand with greater ease, well-being, and success in business and life. Whatever your occupation, Fiore’s proven tools will empower you to overcome procrastination and engage your full creative potential on the job.

“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.

Have you ever dreaded Sunday night, got a pit in your stomach on the way to work, or had your heartbeat speed up at the sound of your boss’s voice? If so, you may have had anxiety at work. In this empathetic and wise guide, executive coaches and gurus of gratitude Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton explore the causes of workplace stress and anxiety and the management practices that have proven successful in reducing tension and cultivating calm.

In The Wake We Leave, leadership expert and transformational change agent Kim Eckels invites readers to reimagine what leadership could, and should, look like in today’s workplaces. With raw honesty and unflinching compassion, Eckels explores the emotional and cultural cost of performative leadership, toxic favoritism, and outdated power dynamics that leave high-performing employees disengaged and unseen. Drawing from over two decades of lived experience, from the front lines of customer service to executive leadership, Kim shares real stories, hard truths, and practical insights that ...

This book provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective on what it's like to be a CMO and will help C-level executives, agency owners, marketing team members, and others who interface and collaborate with marketing departments to understand how marketing drives growth at both startup and enterprise levels, and how marketing has moved from art to science. Trends in digital marketing, analytics, and marketing automation have pushed marketing to adopt data-driven approaches that would make a CFO's head swim.

Introducing a groundbreaking read that will change the way you understand the collective psyche of humanity! Understanding the Crowd Psychology is a comprehensive and insightful dive into the complex nature of group behavior. In today's world, it's more important than ever to comprehend how and why large groups behave the way they do. What makes certain crowds turn dangerous, while others remain peaceful? How do social norms and identity shape our behavior within a group? This book has all the answers to your questions and more. With sixteen extensive chapters, this book is a one-stop-shop ...

Jim Camp, the world’s number one negotiating coach, shows how to release the emotional pressure that’s part of any negotiation by using his proven system of safe, decision-based negotiation that enables you to meet all your objectives without needless, wasted compromises or giveaways. Saying no is not about being hard-nosed or intransigent. Rather, it stops everyone in their tracks, clears the air, and allows you to get at what the real issues are.

¿La carga de trabajo que tienes es un obstáculo en tu vida y en tu carrera? Esta guía muestra cómo realizar el trabajo importante, concentrando el tiempo y la energía allí donde pueden obtenerse mayores resultados. Ofrece un abanico de herramientas accesibles para emplearlas como modelo y experimentar con ellas, comprobando personalmente qué es lo que realmente funciona.

SuperLoop is a groundbreaking guide to transforming organizations and individuals from the inside out. Whether you're a CEO seeking to revitalize your company culture or an individual looking to maximize your impact, this book provides the framework to accelerate Actionable Awareness into reality.

Your entire career depends on communication. When you can communicate effectively, you already have the foundation for being not just a good leader, but a great one…. A leader who inspires…. A leader who motivates…. A leader who is remembered. Whether you’re leading an entire organization, you’re an entry-level manager, or you’re considering beginning your journey into leadership, it all starts with communication.… And you’re about to uncover its secrets.

Virtue is more than a word: it's a way for us all to live, a way to flourish as human beings. And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen relationships, and foster success in business. Picking up where the acclaimed Exception to the Rule left off, Better Humans, Better Performance connects the classical Greek virtues—Trust, Compassion, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom, and Hope—with authoritative science that can help you achieve the highest performance.

The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its cocreator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland. Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to health care in major American hospitals. In this major new book, its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.