Workplace Management

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. **Over 6,000 copies sold!** 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 can rise above. You do have options. Do you work in a toxic environment or have a toxic boss? You’re not alone! Today, unattainable expectations, emotional harassment, and demands to do more with less often leave employees overworked, underpaid, insecure, and out of options. Must you...

ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) - Audit and Certification for Compliance Transform the power of a safer, healthier workplace with this comprehensive guide to ISO 45001—the international standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS). Written by Dr. Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, this book provides a step-by-step roadmap for organizations to implement ISO 45001, ensuring a robust safety culture, legal compliance, and the protection of your most valuable asset—your employees. Whether you're just starting your journey toward ISO 45001 ...

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are.

In celebration of thirty years since the first publication of Eliyahu Goldratt’s essential business classic, HighBridge is proud to present an expanded audio edition of The Goal, featuring the original novel, plus case study reviews, and the author’s highly regarded essay “Standing on the...

Nate Halloway died the way he lived: arguing about a security deposit. One minute he's re-caulking a bathroom in a building the city keeps threatening to condemn. The next, the afterlife boots up like 2008 property-management software and cheerfully informs him: Congratulations on your new property. He's a rock now. Specifically, he's a Dungeon Core, a fist-sized, faintly glowing stone wedged into the wall of the worst dungeon on the block. His staff is one sarcastic, unpaid goblin. His treasury is zero. His rating is zero. And the vast magical bureaucracy that runs this world treats his ...

Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of organization and change. This updated edition focuses on today's business realities.

In business and life we avoid sensitive yet crucial topics at our own peril. Harvard Business School's Christina Wing provides tools for navigating and communicating with clarity and compassion. We live in a world where the list of off-limits topics keeps growing—at work, at home, and even...

Finalist in the Business Book of the Year 2024 awards! The Chief People Officer role has finally taken its rightful place on the Executive Committee and human resource management is recognised as a true differentiator of success for modern organisations. However, CPOs face a challenge. In a world of increasing regulation and litigation, and with greater expectations than ever of how organisations should support their people, the HR role risks being overwhelmed. Managers are drowning under the weight of people-related tasks, while staff demand ever more from their workplace. CEOs and Boards ...

Unlock a Safe and Productive Workplace Environment, even if You’ve Struggled for Years with Resistance and Communication Barriers! You may be asking yourself how to communicate safety practices to multicultural teams and motivate your workforce to value safety more without sacrificing efficiency. These challenges are common, but they need not define your organizational journey. “Workplace Safety Culture Success” unveils empowering strategies to ensure your workplace embraces safety without sacrificing productivity. Here’s just a peek at what you’ll discover: A comprehensive guide ...

Is your brain running a 24/7 anxiety podcast you never subscribed to? Yeah. This book is for you. Shut Up Brain! is a refreshingly honest, laugh-out-loud guide to calming your mind without the fluff, guilt, or toxic positivity. Written like a sassy best friend who actually knows what they’re talking about, this book helps you quiet the mental chaos while keeping your personality firmly intact. Inside, you’ll discover: Practical, science-backed strategies to manage anxiety and overthinking Real-life scenarios that make you say, “Oh wow, that’s me” Tools you can use at 3 a.m., ...

Based on the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages(over 12 million copies sold), Dramatically improve workplace relationships simply by learning your coworkers’ language of appreciation. This book will give you the tools to improve staff morale, create a more positive workplace...

If you are bringing in your first intern, or growing your program to 1,000 interns, Intern Management is required reading to maximize the experience for both you and your interns. —Gregory V. Jaros, Co-Founder of InternConnect, Co-Founder of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Are you interested in taking your internship program to a new level? If so, this book is for you. Intern Management shares a set of guiding principles that ensure you host an exceptional internship - every time. Intern Management outlines nine principles for designing an exceptional internship with dignity. ...

In Work for What's Next, researcher and entrepreneur Amanda Schneider delivers a modern and accessible framework for building trust across generational, geographic, and digital divides. Schneider exposes how outdated, unwritten norms are holding us back―and what to do instead. The book reveals...

A new generation of business leaders is turning to mindfulness as a cutting-edge leadership tool. Scientific research suggests that the practice of mindfulness (a technique for learning to live in the present moment) can help individuals to gain clarity, reduce stress, optimize performance, and develop a greater sense of well-being. In The Mindful Leader, Michael Carroll explains what mindfulness is and how to develop it in the hectic and often stressful environment of the twenty-first century workplace.

Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and assigning blame, but nothing happened to solve Swan’s mounting problems. It felt as though they were working harder than ever but with less impact. The company Eileen and Vic had founded and built for 10 years was a different place. It just wasn’t fun anymore.

Now a New York Times bestseller This program is read by the author. "Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and...

Feedback is one of the most powerful management tools you have. But it only works when you do it well. Done badly, it damages relationships, reduces motivation, and leaves people feeling confused or defensive. Yet, when you do it well, you build trust, improve performance, develop people, and help everyone do their best work. This short, practical book gives you the confidence and skills to make feedback a positive force in your workplace. This Management Courses Introduction has 20 chapters, each covering an aspect of workplace feedback, in a concise, easy-to-read way. It’s split into ...

The costs of workplace injuries and property damage are increasing every day. It is essential to identify actions you can take to reduce these costs. The author of this book has twenty years of experience managing safety and occupational health programs that target the causes of workplace accidents to prevent them and bring down costs. Principles of management that can help safety and occupational health managers be successful. This book received a five-star review from Readers' Favorite.

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.