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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Change at work is not your enemy. Learn to turn it into the driving force behind the best version of your professional self. Do you feel that every change at work leaves you exhausted, frustrated, and with the sense that you no longer perform as you once did? A new software system that makes you feel clumsy, an unfamiliar manager who dismantles your methods, a transfer that forces you to start from scratch. And the worst part is not the change itself, but that small inner voice that keeps asking, “Am I the problem?” No, you are not. This book reveals that this wear and tear is not a ...

AI is moving faster than most organizations can structure it. Tools are being introduced. Outputs are multiplying. Leaders are being told to move quickly, adopt widely, and treat AI as a strategy. It is not. AI Adoption Is Not Workforce Strategy is a practical guide to using AI inside real work without confusing the tool for leadership, work design, or decision-making. Artemis Ellis makes the case that AI can support work powerfully by accelerating analysis, synthesizing information, and reducing time spent on repetitive tasks—but it does not define what work matters, who owns a decision,...

The New York Times best-selling author of The No Asshole Rule reads his guide on how to preserve civility, sanity, and success when facing a business world full of difficult people. Since The No Asshole Rule became a national best seller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has been asked, in a thousand different ways, the best way to deal with an asshole. This new guide presents Sutton's signature prescriptive advice.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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?...

Derek Rydall, the author behind The Abundance Project, offers an empowering and actionable guide for workers, creators, leaders, and educators to unlock their full potential and not only survive but thrive in the AI era. As AI accelerates beyond human capabilities, the real threat isn’t that...

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 ...