Work Win

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 ...

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. 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 you tactical strategies to ...

Playing to Win, a noted Wall Street Journal and Washington Post best seller, outlines the strategic approach Lafley, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, used to double P&G’s sales, quadruple its profits, and increase its market value by more than $100 billion when Lafley was first CEO (he led the company from 2000 to 2009). The book shows leaders in any type of organization how to guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business successwhere to play and how to win.

Whether you are a new player or a seasoned veteran, Secrets to Winning at Office Politics can help you increase your personal power without compromising your integrity or taking advantage of others. This smart, practical guide shows you how to stop wasting energy on things you can't change and start taking steps to get what you want. 

You hired the right person. So why does it still feel so hard? Whether you're the CEO or the Right Hand, you've probably felt it—the tension that creeps into meetings, the decisions that stall, the stress that follows you home on weekends. You're two capable leaders who genuinely want to work well together. So what's getting in the way?

"I know that I'll be evaluated in Seattle with wins and losses, as that is the nature of my profession for the last thirty-five years. But our record will not be what motivates me. Years ago I was asked, 'Pete, which is better: winning or competing?' My response was instantaneous: 'Competing...

Great leaders are driven to win. Yet career wins can come at great cost to your health, relationships, and personal well-being. Why does it seem impossible to both win at work and succeed at life? Michael Hyatt knows we can do better because he's seen it in his more than four decades as a successful executive and a loving and present husband and father. Today Michael and his daughter, Megan Hyatt Miller, coach leaders to live the double win. 

Are you living in chaos because you keep putting off important tasks until the last minute? Do you feel disorganized at home and at work? Are you experiencing feelings of anxiety, frustration, and helplessness because of all your unfinished projects? If so, it's time to break the procrastination habit and rewire your difficult work habits.

For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work. In the context of a world in flux and polycrisis, our diversity is a powerful force multiplier for good, if we debunk the stereotypes and know how to unlock it.

Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today's corporate world to create a corporate culture where valuable, essential, meaningful work is the norm.

Winner of the 2025 Thinkers50 Strategy Award What if we’ve misunderstood the real power of AI, not as a tool for doing tasks faster through automation, but as the missing mechanism to restructure economic systems by radically improving coordination? When machines gain the ability to perform knowledge work, the implications go far beyond efficiency. The balance of power shifts as new organizational forms emerge, products are reinvented, and industries are transformed around new vectors of competition. In Reshuffle, Sangeet Paul Choudary reframes one of the most hyped technologies of our ...

Only 21% of your employees are engaged, your best people keep leaving, and traditional performance management systems are failing you. Something is wrong at work. But some leaders Win @ Work. Now you can too. In this practical guide, Dr. Joey Faucette reveals the 6 play calls that transform underperforming cultures into peak performance powerhouses.

The #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—four chilling novellas that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post). ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers...

What really sets the best managers above the rest? It's their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly.

Winning Together By Tony Deoleo — Best Selling Author, The Fighting Entrepreneur Success isn’t a solo sport — it’s a team victory. In Winning Together, Tony Deoleo reveals the mindset, systems, and leadership strategies that transform ordinary groups into unstoppable, high‑performance teams. Drawing from years of entrepreneurial experience, Tony shows how collaboration, communication, and culture become the ultimate competitive advantage in business and in life. Inside this book, you’ll discover how to: Build trust fast and create a culture where people feel valued, aligned, and...

Are you tired of walking away from the roulette table empty-handed—wondering where your chips went and why your “lucky numbers” never seem to hit? You’re not alone. Most players lose not because roulette is unbeatable, but because they walk in with no plan, no bankroll strategy, and no idea how to read the table. It’s time to change that.

The most important characteristic that is needed to be successful in any leadership position – whether it’s in business, church, or your community - is the ability to work with people. Relationships are at the heart of every positive human experience. John C.Maxwell, a master communicator...

How can we fix what we can't see? The norms crushing innovation—and our joy—are finally made visible. All 24 of them. In Our Best Work, Nilofer Merchant names the 24 invisible norms—born of hierarchy, control, and a worn-out model of capitalism—that limit us all. Along the way, she...

The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in a drama of human...

In this provocative audiobook, Gill Whitty-Collins looks beyond the facts and figures on gender bias and uncovers the invisible discrimination that continues to sabotage us in the workplace and limits our shared success. Addressing both men and women and pulling no punches, she sets out the psychology of gender diversity from the perspective of real personal experience and shares her powerful insights on how to tackle the gender equality issue.