Workplace Changes

The best-laid plans are the most fun to break. After years of disappointing her parents, Emberleigh Hayes has finally worked up the courage to run from the man and the life they chose for her (well, not actually run—southern ladies do not sweat). Together with her best friend Ivy, she's armed...

Market volatility. AI. Regulatory uncertainty. Geopolitical risk. Leaders know they must adapt faster than ever—yet most transformation programs still fail to deliver their expected outcomes, with enormous costs to companies, shareholders, and the broader economy. But some companies do succeed...

Struggling in a toxic work environment? 'The Toxic Workplace Survival Guide' by Sara Baker is your lifeline. This isn't just a book; it's a practical, hands-on toolkit designed for real-world application. Inside, you'll discover: Identify & Tackle Toxicity: Our Comprehensive Toxic Workplace Checklist helps pinpoint issues, setting the stage for positive change. Strategies for Self-Protection: Learn to shield yourself from negativity and grow professionally. Dealing with Toxic Leadership and Toxic Coworkers: Gain insights into handling challenging superiors and colleagues. Survive and Thrive...

On a Monday Morning A Practical Roadmap for Reinventing Your Career, Building Financial Resilience, and Thriving in the Age of AI What if the email you receive next Monday morning changes everything? Your position has been eliminated. Your responsibilities have been automated. Your clients have stopped calling. Your contracts have dried up. Or perhaps nothing has happened...yet. Artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace faster than any technological shift in modern history. Every day, professionals are discovering that the knowledge and experience which brought success yesterday...

AI changed the task. That does not mean it erased your value. Work is changing quietly. Job titles remain familiar while responsibilities shift, expectations rise, roles compress, and familiar tasks begin disappearing into automation. For many professionals, especially experienced ones, that creates a specific kind of anxiety: If the work I know is changing, where do I still fit? AI Replaced the Work, Not You is a practical guide for staying useful when the work you do starts disappearing. Artemis Ellis helps readers separate their job title from their deeper value, understand what AI ...

Why does nothing change at work — even after a culture initiative? Culture isn’t what your company says it values. It’s what becomes normal — especially when work gets tense. You can see it in familiar moments: • risks raised late because speaking early isn’t safe • decisions revisited because ownership wasn’t clear • “urgent” work appearing at the last minute • the same mistakes repeating after every post-mortem • meetings where everyone agrees and nothing changes If you’ve ever sat through a values rollout, culture presentation, or behavior expectations ...

The Advice Trap is about getting to grips with how to actually change your behavior, so you stay curious a little bit longer. It sounds like it should be easy, but it’s not. To get there, leading coach and trainer Michael Bungay Stanier offers specific coaching strategies, particularly on how to focus on what matters most. The audiobook of The Advice Trap gives you tools to make your conversations, coaching, and otherwise, irresistible.

A career advisor explains why many talented, hard-working people often miss out on their full career potential, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game to win. While many careers have been impacted by economic downturns, failed...

From a certified somatic life coach, a feminist guide to reclaiming your self-worth and having healthier relationships—perfect for readers of Burnout and The Body Is Not an Apology. Do you say “yes” when you mean “no”? Do you end up in lopsided relationships, feeling resentful but not...

Consciousness, teaches Fred Kofman, is the capacity to observe, choose, and act in accord with your values. And conscious business means using that ability at every level of your work: in being aware of the needs of others and expressing your own in seeing the hidden emotional obstacles that may...

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on essential skills of I/O psychologists, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book designates and describes 12 essential skills of I/O psychologists. These skills include understanding, teaching, time management, social awareness, leadership, counseling, initiative, numeracy, research, problem-solving, critical thinking, and persuasion. Each skill is summarized by a paragraph containing the key point, and the book is written for easy understanding at all reader levels. If you are ...

Recharge your leadership potential with this essential roadmap to overcome challenges and establish yourself as a strong, effective leader. Are you stepping into a leadership role, yet doubting your abilities or struggling to overcome the barriers women often face in the workplace? You’re not alone. Women remain underrepresented in leadership roles globally, but with the right tools and mindset, you can unleash your leadership potential and succeed on your own terms.

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization's products or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

Culture transformation expert Siobhan McHale defines culture simply: “It’s how things work around here.” The secret to the success or failure of any business boils down to its culture. From disengaged employees to underserved customers, business failures invariably stem from a culture...

Karma’s a Bitch A dark gender transformation novel by Stacy Slade Ethan Cole thought karma was on his side. Nineteen years old and already night manager of a big-box store, he finally had power. When the rich girl who once humiliated him at a party walked onto his overnight shift as a stocker, he decided it was time to collect. He locked the office door, made her kneel, and told her karma was a bitch. He was right. The next night Lila Ross came prepared. One syringe of her father’s experimental nanites later, Ethan woke up naked in the manager’s office with a body that was no longer ...

A man can own the view, the name on the door, and the chair behind the desk—and still not own the lock. For twenty years, commercial real estate broker Charlonda Files has been the invisible foundation of her husband’s empire. She negotiated the deals, structured the holding companies, and quietly kept the glass ceiling of Darrin’s ego intact. She was content to be the silent architect of their success—until she discovers he’s been housing his mistress on the company dime and referring to the woman who built him as "just the bookkeeper." Darrin thinks he holds all the power, the ...

A personal and professional guide to the latest research on imposterism and psychological flexibility, this book is the professional’s handbook to combating “impostor syndrome” and overcoming self-doubt to achieve career success. Dr. Jill Stoddard is a recovered imposter. For years, she...

As a workplace strategist and business coach, Erica Keswin has spent over 20 years working with top business leaders and executives to build successful organizations that honor relationships. Featuring case studies from top brands such as, Lyft, Starbucks, Mogul, and SoulCycle, to name a few, Bring Your Human to Work distills the key practices of the most human companies into applicable advice that any business leader can use to build a “human workplace”.  

From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots. Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it?...

She said it loud enough for the whole bar to hear. He was standing right behind her. Wren Holloway doesn't embarrass easily. She does, however, occasionally say things she shouldn't to strangers in bars — especially after a brutal interview day and one drink too many. What she did not account for: the man she was loudly discussing turning out to be her new boss. Julian Cross is six-two, thirty-eight, and runs a tech empire from a glass office on the forty-second floor. He's composed in a way that feels slightly inhuman, cold to everyone in the building, and apparently amused by her. He ...