Work Leadership

Emotional Intelligence by Brandon Goleman Unlock the Power of Emotional Intelligence: Transform Your Life, Build Meaningful Relationships, and Achieve Lasting Success Do you want to understand yourself better, improve your relationships, and achieve success that lasts? Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the key — and it matters even more than IQ. In this book, you will discover how to: Master your emotions and stop letting stress, anxiety, and negative thoughts control your life. Read people effectively, understand their emotions, and build instant connections. Communicate with confidence, ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and...

Bestselling author and transformational speaker Ryan Leak shares research-based strategies for working with even the most challenging people to create more collaborative and productive teams.

“I can unequivocally say that this is the book every man needs.” —Mark Groves, human connection specialist and founder of Create The Love Suck it up. Stuff it down. Pour a bottle of whiskey over the top. Rinse and repeat until sufficiently numbed. This is the step-by-step doctrine men are...

Whether your brand new to management or an experienced supervisor, this book is your guide to becoming one of the best supervisors. Covering a range of topics from managerial training, managing Millennials, and slowing employee turnover, People First Productivity Solutions president Deb Calvert will show you how to be the kind of manager employees are eager to work for.

New York Times Bestselling Author Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the unique lessons that shaped his life and career It Worked for Me is a collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that shaped four star-general and former Secretary of State Colin...

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious. Today, Google is a global icon that regularly...

Ask yourself, "Would you follow you?" Unlike other books, Becoming a Leader of Character simply and boldly tells us how to develop our character instead of just telling us we need to have it. Developing character is not complicated, but it is hard. Growing always requires a little sweat!

Value stream mapping - an essential but underused methodology - is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than a tool to eliminate operational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric work flow. Business performance improvement experts Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done - in any environment - and how to design improved work systems.

Millions of copies sold! The bestselling modern classic that sparked a worldwide conversation about the value of concentration—and the true costs of fractured attention. “I’m handing you the answer to the overwhelm you feel, and his name is Dr. Cal Newport.” —Mel Robbins, The Mel...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This is a...

New and Improved Edition Gallup found 31% of American employees were engaged at work so nearly 7 out of 10 employees are indifferent at work. They need a boss who knows how to inspire them. Most new managers are promoted because they are good at their jobs—not because athey know how to lead people. Then reality hits. Employees miss expectations. Communication breaks down. Accountability fades. Workplace drama grows. The manager gets frustrated, and wonders why people can't do their jobs. Leadership Skills for Managers Simplified—Second Edition is the practical, no-nonsense guide for ...

In Hope Is the Strategy, bestselling author and leader in the corporate wellbeing movement Jen Fisher shows how the future of work demands a fundamentally new approach to how we think about, structure, and support human flourishing in the workplace.

Despite the progress we have made, women are still faced with discrimination and bias in the workplace every day. The only way to prove our capabilities is to be great leaders! Women have more challenges when it comes to leadership roles with gender bias being one of the biggest hurdles. Women are either seen as dainty, proper ladies who are too quiet to lead or as the other extreme: bossy, aggressive, and unladylike.

If you’ve ever felt invisible in a room, struggled to keep a conversation going, or watched others effortlessly connect while you felt awkward, How to Talk to People in a Way That Works is for you. This book reveals why some people are remembered, why some speak with confidence, and why others feel stuck. You’ll find ways to communicate effectively, listen better, and build authentic connections without force. Charisma isn’t a performance—it’s a frequency. Some people shift the energy in a room naturally, while others try harder and still feel unnoticed. This book shows you the ...

Boss Isn’t a Dirty Word Most businesses don’t fail because the owner didn’t work hard enough. They fail because the owner never learned when to stop. In Blue-Collar Boss, Mark Stoner challenges the modern myth that being a “leader” means avoiding authority, confrontation, and hard decisions. In blue-collar work, that myth doesn’t just fail—it gets people hurt and destroys good companies. This book isn’t about hustle. It’s about responsibility. Built on nearly 40 years in the trades, real businesses grown through chaos, recessions, and rapid scale, and thousands of hard ...

In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend. Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is the most elusive. This is especially apparent in an age where...

A sea change is occurring—a change so monumental that it is making us re-invent the traditional ideas of where work is done, when work is done, why work is done, and even what work itself is. We have a choice. We can either be reactive and struggle to adjust to transformational events on the...

Work Conflict Resolution: A Practical Guide to Handling Tough Conversations, Improving Communication Skills, and Reducing Stress gives you the strategies you need to turn tense situations into opportunities for growth. From understanding why conflict happens to mastering communication and emotional intelligence, this book provides step-by-step tools for real-world workplace challenges.

From one of our most visionary leadership coaches comes a bold new framework for successfully navigating complicated interactions at work, at home, and in all our relationships—featuring a foreword by Brené Brown. “Drawing on her years of coaching experience, Bethea names what is often left...