Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams and Reinvent Collaboration
Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams and Reinvent Collaboration By Keith Ferrazzi (Author), Noe Weyrich (Author) When external pressures are mounting, and employees are working from far-flung locations across the globe, says bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, we can no longer afford to waste time navigating the complex chains of command or bureaucratic […]
The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness By Ichiro Kishimi (Author), FumitakeKoga (Author) Is happiness something you choose for yourself? The Courage to Be Disliked presents a simple and straightforward answer. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of nineteenth-century psychology alongside Freud and […]
The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations
The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations By The Arbinger Institute (Author) Without even being aware of it, many of us operate from an inward mindset, a single-minded focus on our own goals and objectives. This book points out the many ways, some quite subtle and deceptive, that this mindset invites tension and conflict. […]
Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time
Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time By Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Author) Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies the leadership paradigm […]
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload By Cal Newport (Author) Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations–a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. […]
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters By Kate Murphy (Author) At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation. On social media, we shape our personal narratives. At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians. We’re not listening. And no one is listening to us. Despite living in a world where technology allows constant digital communication and opportunities […]
Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way
In Taming Your Gremlin, author Rick Carson introduces a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs.
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander In a lively, sensible manual for turning life’s obstacles into possibilities, the Zanders introduce various “tools” for transformation, drawing on their extensive experiences with musicians, students and patients in therapy (Rosamund is a psychotherapist and painter; Benjamin is the […]
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long – lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of […]
Enlightened Leadership: Getting to the Heart of Change
Enlightened Leadership: Getting to the Heart of Change by Ed Oakley and Doug Krug Being able to change to keep pace with a rapidly changing world is the key to business success in the ’90s. Enlightened Leadership is a practical, hands-on guide to breaking through the barriers to organizational change. Doug Krug and Ed Oakley […]
