Modern Workplace

Are you ready to build a workplace that thrives and inspires? Modern Workplace Culture Made Easy and Modern Workplace Diversity Made Easy are now available as a powerful bundle. Together, they provide leaders, managers, and teams with tools to create inclusive, innovative, and highly effective environments—no matter the challenges.

Are you a leader driven by the desire to inspire your team? Do you seek new strategies to improve team dynamics in today’s ever-evolving workplace? Are you challenged by resistance to change or aligning your values with your corporate culture? If these questions resonate with you, this book is for you. Modern Workplace Culture is more than just another leadership book—it’s a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of creating positive work environments using actionable, real-world strategies.

Are you navigating the challenges of building an inclusive workplace? Do you struggle with gaining leadership buy-in, addressing cultural resistance, or leveraging diverse talents to drive innovation? You’re not alone but closer to the solution than you think. Modern Workplace Diversity is your essential guide to overcoming the hurdles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Packed with actionable insights, this book offers practical tools to help you create an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute their best.

Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies: Successfully Navigating the Modern Workplace serves as an essential resource for today’s worker. It directly identifies and exposes the lies, half-truths and misperceptions that cause havoc and disruption in the workplace, offering time-tested principles addressing workplace challenges and facilitating workplace success and advancement.

I was hired to survive. A temp job. A paycheck. A few weeks inside the glass tower of a billionaire empire until my life stopped falling apart. Then I met Sebastian Archer. Cold. Controlled. Devastatingly untouchable. The kind of man who doesn’t make mistakes—except hiring me. One rumor. One reckless decision. One fake relationship meant to save us both. Rules were drawn. Lines were clear. No feelings. No truth. No real kisses. But lies don’t stay quiet in boardrooms, and desire doesn’t care about contracts. Now the media is watching, his enemies are circling, and my past is clawing...

In today's fast-paced and dynamic work environments, the success of organizations rests not only on the brilliance of their strategies, but also on the emotional well-being of their employees. Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Workplace is a thought-provoking and insightful guide that illuminates the significance of creating sustainable and effective organizations, where individuals feel safe, calm, and empowered to share their ideas, thoughts, and most importantly, their emotions.

Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of state aggression, vulnerable to employer exploitation, Margot Canaday positions employment and fear of job loss as central to gay life in postwar America.

Read FREE now on Kindle Unlimited! Slow down. Take a breath. And no—there are no monkeys, donkeys, or pails of water here. Let’s be honest. As comforting as traditional Zen parables can be, they don’t always land when your biggest challenge isn’t carrying water up a mountain—it’s answering emails, navigating relationships, overthinking everything, or wondering why you walked into the room in the first place. Daily Zen is a collection of zen stories for adults who live in the modern world—where enlightenment happens somewhere between your coffee getting cold and your phone ...

Our world is constantly changing, but something that always remains true? Manners matter. Etiquette is about more than just knowing which fork to use at a fancy dinner or how to write a thank-you note. Modern Etiquette For Dummies shows you how to navigate tricky interpersonal scenarios and tough workplace dilemmas with ease. With the help of Dummies, you'll toss aside stuffy old notions of etiquette and discover how to conduct yourself in various environments. This book is full of tips on tackling today's unique challenges.

You’ve rebuilt your energy, your routines, and your social world. Now it’s time to reclaim your work. For many late-identified autistic adults, the workplace is the most challenging environment to navigate. It’s where masking feels mandatory, where expectations are vague, and where sensory overload quietly drains your capacity before the day even ends. You may excel at the tasks yet still struggle with the noise, interruptions, social demands, and hidden expectations that shape most modern workplaces. Most workplace guides were written about autistic people—not for them. The Autism ...

Whether you talk, text, or email, Effective Communication at Work has everything you need to help boost your workplace performance and productivity. From honing listening to polishing speaking and writing skills, this essential guide delivers simple, powerful strategies and timely tips that can help you increase the impact of your business communication and correspondence both online and offline. Learn how to build stronger relationships and advance your career by mastering the art of effective communication.

Experience is making a comeback. Learn how to repurpose your wisdom. At age 52, after selling the company he founded and ran as CEO for 24 years, rebel boutique hotelier Chip Conley was looking at an open horizon in midlife. Then he received a call from the young founders of Airbnb, asking him...

Strong-willed and proudly single, an engineer walks out when her parents set her up with a lawyer -- but when work brings them together again, she just might give love a second chance. Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer, takeout enthusiast, and happily single woman. The moment she...

5X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, & Culture Global Thought Leader; Chair/Professor of Organizational Leadership; Change/OD/HR/Social Impact Consultant; Ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following topic areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar); ScholarGPS has ranked him the #18 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. The Art and Science of Organizational Leadership provides actionable frameworks to ...

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Everyone wants better meetings, but no one seems to know how—until now.” —Reid Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author and cofounder of LinkedIn “Warning: This read may save you countless hours.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author and...

In a world overflowing with frameworks, strategies, and motivational slogans, Let’s Talk Leadership invites you into the one conversation that truly matters: the one with yourself. Drawing on insights from psychology, neuroscience, and decades of executive coaching, Arvid Buit dismantles the myths of modern leadership. He exposes how organizations reward the wrong behaviours, how leaders perform instead of lead, and why growth begins not with performance, but with awareness.

This is a book about the unspoken scoreboard in modern offices: status. If you’ve seen meeting hijacks, “we’ve been thinking” openings, silence treated as consent, or ideas accepted while authors disappear—this is your map. You’ll get five repeatable tools: Pre‑commitment of roles Contemporaneous documentation that makes reality retrievable Public linkage tying names to outcomes Sponsor calibration with reusable phrasing Repair after drift without melodrama Use them to become harder to erase and easier to trust. Not court politics—clean structure. Not applause grabs—...

A powerful revelation that finding meaning at work is true driver of employee well-being, high performance, and even profit, and a practical roadmap to make it the cornerstone of your leadership approach. We’re in the middle of the most significant transformation in work in over a century...

Dive into the captivating e-book, 'The Art of Negotiation,' a comprehensive guide designed to empower you for any negotiation scenario. This ebook takes you on an exploration of negotiation as an essential skill needed to navigate the competitive professional landscape. The first part of your journey starts with an in-depth understanding of negotiation essentials. By breaking down negotiation tactics, it focuses on fostering self-awareness and empowers you to comprehend your true worth. In the following chapters, you will garner the essential knowledge on conducting preliminary market ...

This practical leadership and management book shows you how to lead people without turning into a bosshole—and without drowning in theory. If you’re responsible for people and results, you’ve probably felt the tension between getting things done and being the kind of leader people actually want to work for. Most leaders aren’t trying to be difficult. They’re usually doing their best with the role models they had—or repeating a command-and-control style that should have retired years ago. In People First: An (Un)Common Sense Approach to Modern Leadership, leadership expert ...