Standard Culture

The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization.

“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from a new vantage point with field-leading economics. How did the labor market stop working for so many in the...

Culture does not decline through announcements. It changes through behavior. Standards are not removed. They are adjusted quietly inside teams. Deadlines are missed without consequence. Underperformance is discussed but not corrected. High performers compensate for others. Difficult conversations are postponed. Nothing appears broken. But inside the team, something has already shifted. In The Hidden Culture Mistakes That Erode Performance, Amit Dharmendra Singh examines how everyday team behaviors gradually redefine standards, accountability, and performance. This book focuses on what ...

Pierre Bourdieu and Education: How Schools Reproduce Inequality Through Culture, Testing, and Institutional Power explains why schools often reward more than knowledge and effort. Students arrive with different ways of speaking, acting, interpreting authority, and navigating institutions. Those differences are often treated as signs of ability, maturity, or promise. This Practical Atlas guide introduces Bourdieu’s core ideas in plain language and shows how they operate in classrooms, report cards, disciplinary systems, tracking, standardized exams, and college admissions. A central focus ...

This program is read by the author. GIRLS: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything is a passionate, provocative, and deeply personal journey into the pressures shaping young lives today. Freya India shows that age-old anxieties of girlhood are now being amplified by modern life and...

Where does culture actually come from? Why does it drift even when a leader says all the right things — and when it needs fixing, where do you push first? In The Cultural Training Loop, executive and advisor Michael A. Bruggeman makes a claim most leaders have felt but never had language for: culture isn't set by mission statements, town halls, or the values on the wall. It's trained, moment by moment, in the seconds right after something goes wrong. Drawing on more than twenty years of running teams and turning around underperforming ones under pressure that never let up, Bruggeman ...

“Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” —Esquire A “carefully researched and reported work of cultural history” (The New York Times) that explores how one body part has influenced the female—and human—experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals...

This program is read by the author. A generation-defining exposé of toxic beauty culture—from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flips and editing apps—and the realities of coming of age online We live in a new age of beauty. With advancements in cosmetic surgery, walk-in treatments...

If your team keeps slipping, it is rarely a talent problem, it is a standards problem. Standards Make the Leader is a practical leadership guide for anyone who wants better performance without becoming louder, harsher, or permanently exhausted. You stop negotiating, you start setting the bar. You will see how standards shape behaviour, and how your everyday choices either raise the bar or quietly lower it. The tone in the room starts with you, even when you say nothing at all. Expectations do the heavy lifting, and unspoken rules beat policy documents every day of the week. Clarity makes ...

Accountability Leadership Mastery Build the Culture, Hold the Standard, Lead with Integrity Accountability is the difference between teams that talk about excellence… and teams that deliver it. In a world full of excuses, shifting standards, and inconsistent leadership, the organizations that win are the ones built on clarity, ownership, and unwavering integrity. Accountability Leadership Mastery is your blueprint for building a culture where standards rise, performance accelerates, and people take responsibility for results — not because they’re forced to, but because they’re ...

Leadership is tested long before the big presentation, the promotion, or the crisis. It is tested in ordinary moments, when pressure rises, moods spread, priorities shift, and people quietly watch how you respond. The Leader’s Upgrade is a practical leadership book for people who want to lead with more clarity, more steadiness, and far better results, without hiding behind job titles, management jargon, or empty motivational fluff. If your working life feels louder than it should, this book will feel immediately relevant. It shows you how to turn uncertainty into direction, standards into...

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025 ELLE BEST BOOKS OF 2025 'Essential reading' Irish Independent 'Fascinating and powerfully argued' Daily Telegraph 'A captivating must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why misogyny is as powerful a force as ever'...

Mission matters. People matter. Leadership rarely grants the luxury of caring deeply about only one. Leadership often presents itself as a tension. Standards matter. Accountability matters. Results matter. Yet people matter too. So what happens when those responsibilities collide? In Mission First, People Always, Paul J. Ferguson reflects on one of leadership’s oldest and most difficult tensions: how leaders balance purpose and people when neither responsibility can simply be ignored. Drawing from decades of leadership experience across military service, organizational transformation, ...

Our beauty rituals are so often based around things we think we need to fix, grow, and develop—sometimes tipping into dangerous obsession. So, what seismic shift does it take to break free from this mentality? In Ugly, Anita uncovers where these beauty standards started, unpicks why they've been perpetuated, and unmasks the structures that continue to support them. From the ever-growing cosmetic surgery industry, to the hidden pitfalls of "pretty privilege," it is time to finally break free from those limiting beauty standards.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself. Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is...

Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs. Improved STEM literacy. Greater achievement for inner-city children. Happiness for all children. So why are liberals spending billions of dollars working against those goals? In Race to the Bottom, Luke Rosiak uncovers the...

Perfection is the enemy of parenting. Jim Daly sees and hears from mothers and fathers trying hard to pursue perfection. They listen to the best experts and read all the right books. When someone gives them a “World’s Best Mom” or “No. 1 Dad” coffee mug, they want it to be true. And...

Western culture hates the fact that we have bodies-from evangelical culture, which insists "you are a soul and have a body," to wellness culture that turns your control over your body into a moral test, to transphobic activism that insists any step taken to change one's body is an immoral act, to the treatment of disabled bodies in a profoundly ableist culture.

I AM WOMAN ‘HEAR’ ME ROAR, by: author Reneé Drummond-Brown specifically taps into the sense of sound challenging the reader to drown out outside noises to fully take in and appreciate the authors expressed tone in literature. Therefore, he who has an ear let him and/or her hear Drummond-Brown’s poems blaring from this book across the solemn-silent white pages.

How Nixon’s break from the gold standard set America on the path to economic ruin. “Paul Stone’s passion for the common American is as powerful as his disdain for massive, centralized government. The story told in this book has never been shared before, offering incredible distinctions between modern economic policy and fundamental realities. While Paul’s perspectives will challenge supporters of money printing, everyday Americans will gain a new understanding of the root causes of the struggles they face.” — Larry Kudlow, Host of Kudlow on Fox Business Network “1971 offers a ...