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How many of you gym owners would love a team that thinks like owners, leads without a title, and treats every shift like it's game day? Every hand should go up. In the fitness world, most books are written for the owner. This one's written for the team. The Standard Is YOU is a clear, no-BS guide for gym employees who want to become indispensable. Whether you’re working the front desk, coaching sessions, or managing the studio, this book gives you the mindset, standards, and systems to stand out and step up.

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. 

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 ...

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.

When people feel safe, seen, and successful, trust takes root, ownership grows, and generosity flows. When Josh Block left the office on Friday, he was a regional sales representative. By Monday morning, he was president of the company. His unexpected promotion threw him into the deep end of leadership—facing the same challenges many leaders encounter daily: reengaging a disheartened team, restoring trust, and creating a culture where people love to work.

Winning the Inner Battle: Ultimate Collection brings together two bestselling, Christ-centered guides into one powerful audiobook focused on mental toughness, emotional resilience, and lasting freedom through faith in Jesus Christ. This collection addresses common inner struggles such as anxiety, fear, mental exhaustion, and unforgiveness—not as random experiences, but as battles of the mind and heart that can be understood, confronted, and overcome.

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 ...

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. 

Win in the Dark is another fable written in the same style as the viral sensations Chop Wood Carry Water and Pound the Stone....

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Managing up helps you build the sort of relationships that foster more communication, collaboration, cooperation, and understanding between people at different levels of power, with a variety of perspectives and skills. Managing Up is your personal manual for building this vital skill so you can begin building your best future. Real-world strategies give you a set of actionable steps, supplemented by expert advice from a top leadership consultant that helps you get on track to advancement.

THE BEST TECHNICAL SOLUTION DOESN'T ALWAYS WIN. THE BEST PROPOSAL DOES. You have the expertise. You have the data. You have the better solution. Yet, you watch inferior products win budget approval simply because they told a better story. For technical professionals, the ability to write persuasively is the difference between a stalled career and a seat at the leadership table. Traditional writing guides focus on grammar and syntax, ignoring the psychological realities of business. The Persuasive Professional flips the script. This is not a book about commas or passive voice. It is a field ...

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...

God's word will fix any situation! Words you speak over yourself (and your circumstances) that agree with the Word of God gets results! When you speak the word of God in faith, you unleash God’s mighty power to work on your behalf. But what scriptures do you apply to the different situations of life, and how do you "pray" these scriptures? With Scripture Works! learn to effectively use God's word in your prayer time. Be confident he hears you when you pray; and that your prayers are answered Scripture Works! is a practical book grouped into different life situations. This book serves as a...