Workplace Management

In Rising Above a Toxic Workplace, you'll learn how to endure, cope, or quit if necessary. Drawing from authentic - sometimes horrific - real-life stories, authors Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra blend their expertise to give you practical guidance, empowering insight, and realistic hope. You'll discover: how workplaces can become unhealthy and how to avoid getting wounded; what drives toxic leaders and why they are so damaging to those around them.

Surrounded by incompetence? Feeling like you’re trapped in a never-ending meeting with clueless coworkers? Welcome to the survival guide you didn’t know you desperately needed. **Over 6,000 copies sold!** For anyone navigating today’s chaotic workplace filled with baffling decisions, endless meetings, and maddening mediocrity, How to Work with Stupid People offers a practical, witty, and research-backed blueprint to protect your sanity — and your career. Drawing on 30 years of experience inside corporate madhouses, JS Paxton unpacks the psychology of irrational behavior and gives ...

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are.

In this intriguing business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. Alex's attempts to find the path to profitability and to engage his employees in the struggle involve the listener; and thankfully the authors' economic models.

ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) - Audit and Certification for Compliance Transform the power of a safer, healthier workplace with this comprehensive guide to ISO 45001—the international standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS). Written by Dr. Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, this book provides a step-by-step roadmap for organizations to implement ISO 45001, ensuring a robust safety culture, legal compliance, and the protection of your most valuable asset—your employees. Whether you're just starting your journey toward ISO 45001 ...

Nate Halloway died the way he lived: arguing about a security deposit. One minute he's re-caulking a bathroom in a building the city keeps threatening to condemn. The next, the afterlife boots up like 2008 property-management software and cheerfully informs him: Congratulations on your new property. He's a rock now. Specifically, he's a Dungeon Core, a fist-sized, faintly glowing stone wedged into the wall of the worst dungeon on the block. His staff is one sarcastic, unpaid goblin. His treasury is zero. His rating is zero. And the vast magical bureaucracy that runs this world treats his ...

Finalist in the Business Book of the Year 2024 awards! The Chief People Officer role has finally taken its rightful place on the Executive Committee and human resource management is recognised as a true differentiator of success for modern organisations. However, CPOs face a challenge. In a world of increasing regulation and litigation, and with greater expectations than ever of how organisations should support their people, the HR role risks being overwhelmed. Managers are drowning under the weight of people-related tasks, while staff demand ever more from their workplace. CEOs and Boards ...

Unlock a Safe and Productive Workplace Environment, even if You’ve Struggled for Years with Resistance and Communication Barriers! You may be asking yourself how to communicate safety practices to multicultural teams and motivate your workforce to value safety more without sacrificing efficiency. These challenges are common, but they need not define your organizational journey. “Workplace Safety Culture Success” unveils empowering strategies to ensure your workplace embraces safety without sacrificing productivity. Here’s just a peek at what you’ll discover: A comprehensive guide ...

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

An updated new edition of the definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about...

Conquer career burnout and protect your mental health with actionable stress relief tactics for modern professionals. Whether you are navigating a chaotic office, juggling a hybrid schedule, or enduring a tense morning commute, this empowering audio guide provides real-time relief. Transform...

In Curiosity Redefines the Limits, business leader and innovator Rod Adkins delivers a compelling roadmap for turning life’s questions into fuel for growth, leadership, and impact. From his early days as a precocious child in Miami to the executive ranks of IBM and influential roles on global boards, Rod’s journey proves that curiosity isn’t just a trait—it’s a strategy. This insightful book combines personal storytelling with actionable insights to help listeners harness curiosity in every chapter of life.

Now a New York Times bestseller This program is read by the author. "Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and...

The Burnout Proof Workplace is for every manager who’s sick of fragile schedules, constant call-offs, and feeling like the only person holding the operation together. Most workplaces talk about burnout as a personal problem, but they quietly run systems that guarantee exhaustion: thin staffing, “perfect attendance” schedules, supervisors improvising every shift, and managers glued to their phones 24/7. This book shows you how to fix the systems behind the stress—so you can keep staff, reduce call-offs, and run a stable operation. You’ll learn how to: Turn fragile schedules into ...

Dramatically improve workplace relationships simply by learning your coworkers’ language of appreciation. Based on the number one New York Times best seller The 5 Love Languages® (over 12 million copies sold), this book will give you the tools to improve staff moral, create a more positive workplace, and increase employee engagement. How? By teaching you to effectively communicate authentic appreciation and encouragement to employees, coworkers, and leaders.

Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and assigning blame, but nothing happened to solve Swan’s mounting problems. It felt as though they were working harder than ever but with less impact. The company Eileen and Vic had founded and built for 10 years was a different place. It just wasn’t fun anymore.

Accountability isn’t about blame; it’s about empowerment. In Positive Accountability, April Sabral introduces a practical, people-first framework that transforms accountability from a dreaded task into a powerful leadership tool. Drawing on decades of experience leading global retail and service teams, April shows you how to create clarity, inspire ownership, and build cultures where people step up rather than step back. Through proven strategies, real-world examples, and her signature ACT methodology combined with the Nine Step Accountability Framework, you will learn how to drive ...

In Beyond High Performance, Jason Jaggard, along with the coaches of Novus Global and the faculty of the Meta Performance™ Institute, pull back the curtain to reveal the coaching tools they use to help the best get better. Their groundbreaking research shows there are two types of great leaders and teams: Those who achieve success once and then plateau or decline, and those who achieve success over and over again.

A C-Suite Executive’s Guide to Leading High-Performance Teams & Resolving Workplace Conflict! Are you a leader struggling with difficult team dynamics, unproductive employees, or workplace conflict? Do you want to enhance collaboration, build trust, and hold your team accountable—without micromanaging? What You’ll Gain from This Book: How to Handle Difficult Personalities – Learn to manage manipulators, passive-aggressors, narcissists, and workplace bullies with confidence. Conflict Resolution & Mediation Tactics – Turn workplace tension into opportunities for team growth and innovation.

Achieve calm and control at work in just minutes a day, even if your stress is sky-high and your schedule feels impossible. Are you overwhelmed by deadlines, difficult coworkers, or constant pressure to perform? Tried meditation apps or quick fixes, but nothing sticks? This book gives you real tools that fit into your busy day, so you can stay focused, balanced, and healthy without quitting your job. Inside you’ll get: Fast 60-second techniques to reset during chaos Scripts to set boundaries and handle tough conversations Smart ways to manage toxic environments or unfair expectations ...