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Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

Jerry Colonna - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

One of the start-up world's most in-demand executive coaches - hailed as the "CEO Whisperer" (Gimlet Media) - reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with...
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Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place

Jane Mosbacher Morris - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

Eager to change the world? Learn how you can have a greater social impact through your everyday purchases.The money we routinely spend on food, clothes, gifts, and even indulgences is an untapped superpower. What would happen if we slowed down to make more thoughtful decisions about what...
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Snakes in Suits, Revised Edition: Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office

Paul Babiak - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths in the workplace - how to spot their destructive behavior and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organization.Over the past...
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The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are

Alicia Menendez - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means?Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental...
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Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolutionand Why America Might Miss It

Susan Crawford - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we'll be able to send and receive through fiberoptic connections will enable a degree...
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Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

Dave Asprey - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Head Strong and The Bulletproof Diet answers the question, "How can I kick more ass at life?" by culling the wisdom of world-class thought leaders, maverick scientists, and disruptive entrepreneurs to provide proven techniques for becoming happier, healthier,...
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis - the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time - and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat...
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The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life

Todd Herman - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

A top performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down.There's only one person in the way of you untapping your potential: You. There's also one person who can move you out of the way so you can perform...
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Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

Gary John Bishop - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Unfu*k Yourself Gary John Bishop presents a no-holds-barred guide to breaking through our cycles of self-sabotage to get what we want out of life.In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop told us it was time to stop making excuses...
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Do the F*cking Work: Lowbrow Advice for High-Level Creativity

Brian Buirge - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover

A wake-up call for creatives who need that inspiring kick to finally create the thing they've been meaning to make, while celebrating the journey of trying, learning, and failing.Over the last eight years, Jason Bacher and Brian Buirge of Good F*cking Design Advice (GFDA) have made...
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The Deals That Made the World: Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business

Jacques Peretti - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Filled with startling observations and thought-provoking findings, an award-winning BBC investigative reporter's compelling and informative look at twelve business deals that have transformed the modern world.While the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much...
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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

PAUL COLLIER - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies:...
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The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change

Jon Gordon - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Jon Gordon and rising star Damon West comes The Coffee Bean: an illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change. Life is often difficult. It can be harsh, stressful, and feel...
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

Clayton M Christensen - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator's Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity,...
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The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

Thomas Philippon - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inevitabilities of globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits...
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The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines

JAY W RICHARDS - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and economist Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption.For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work...
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This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear

Bobby Hundreds - MCD
Format: Hardcover

The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himselfStreetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with Nike, a tattoo artist, Louis...
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The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace

Lindsey Pollak - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal and Financial Times book of the monthMillennials have become the largest generation in the U.S. workforce, and Generation Z workers are right behind them. Leaders and organizations must embrace the new ways of working that appeal to the digital-first generations, while...
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Out of the Maze: An A-mazing Way to Get Unstuck

P SPENCER JOHNSON - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The posthumous sequel to Who Moved My Cheese?, the classic parable that became a worldwide sensation.Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers...
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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

Scott Young - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.In...
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Aesthetic Intelligence: How to Boost It and Use It in Business and Beyond

Pauline Brown - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Longtime leader in the luxury goods sector and former Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton North America reinvents the art and science of brand-building under the rubric of Aesthetic Intelligence. In a world in which people have cheap and easy access to most goods and services,...
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The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need

Laura Brown - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A must-have guide for writing at work, with practical applications for getting your point across quickly, coherently, and efficiently.A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business...
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Woman of Influence: 9 Steps to Build Your Brand, Establish Your Legacy, and Thrive

Jo Miller - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

Reinvent yourself as a woman of influence -- and be the leader you aspire to beHave you ever felt like your organization's best-kept secret? Are you the go-to person for work that downplays your potential? Do you want to hone your leadership skills while still staying true to who you are?...
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Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide

Alan S Blinder - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policiesAmerican economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political...
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Stop Mugging Grandma: The 'Generation Wars' and Why Boomer Blaming Won't Solve Anything

Jennie Bristow - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A decisive intervention in the "war" between generations, asking who stands to gain from conflict between baby boomers and millennials Millennials have been incited to regard their parents' generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural...
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100 Side Hustles: Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job

CHRIS GUILLEBEAU - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents an ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do. This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban...
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Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

Ruth Soukup - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

What would you do if fear no longer stood in your wayWhat would happen if you were no longer afraid to dive in, head first, and go after your dreams, instead of feeling like you were sitting on the sidelines of your own lifeWhat thenWe tell ourselves we are too busy to pursue our dreams....
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Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

Scott Adams
Format: Hardcover


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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Julie Zhuo - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager...
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Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea

Oren Klaff - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PITCH ANYTHING IS BACK TO FLIP YOUR ENTIRE APPROACH TO PERSUASION.Is there anything worse than a high-pressure salesperson pushing you to say "yes" (then sign on the dotted line) before you're ready?If there's one lesson Oren Klaff has learned...
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Ninja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation

Gary Shapiro - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, casts his eye toward the future, charting how the innovative technologies of today will transform not only the way business is done but society itselfDuring his more than three decades at the head of the Consumer...
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Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business

Thomas Erikson - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Hardcover

A runaway bestseller in Sweden that has sold more than a million copies worldwide, Surrounded by Idiots shares a simple, revolutionary method of understanding the people around you that will change how you interact with everyone from your coworkers to your spouse. Author Thomas Erikson...
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The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

Gary Chapman - Northfield Publishing
Format: Paperback

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,...
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No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

Liz Fosslien - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

"A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet A hilarious guide to effectively expressing your emotions at the office, finding fulfillment, and defining work-life balance on your own terms.How do you stop the office...
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The Infinite Desire for Growth

DANIEL COHEN - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come -- is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population...
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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

Gabriel Weinberg - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!"You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've got to have models in your head."- Charlie Munger, investor,...
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone...
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Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

Hamish McKenzie - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

"You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?" --Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a West Coast start-up's audacious dream came true. Elon Musk created a car company that would go up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit...
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The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Bina Venkataraman - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"How might we mitigate losses caused by shortsightedness? Bina Venkataraman, a former climate adviser to the Obama administration, brings a storyteller's eye to this question. . . . She is also deeply informed about the relevant science." - The New York Times Book Review...
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Chasing the Bright Side: Embrace Optimism, Activate Your Purpose, and Write Your Own Story

Jess Ekstrom - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

One flicker of hope. That's all it takes to catapult yourself into the life you've always imagined.Success is not born out of skill, school, where we're from, who we know, or what we scored on the SAT. None of us were born ready. None of us started life knowing how to fly a plane or launch...
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The Infinite Game

SIMON SINEK - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Do you know how to play the game you're in? In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified. In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go, the rules...
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Executive Presence, Second Edition: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO

Harrison Monarth - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

Be the kind of leader that other leaders envy by strategically harnessing the extraordinary power of perception.One of today's most in-demand leadership consultants, Harrison Monarth, has coached executives and CEOs in various industries, from technology, medicine and law, to hospitality,...
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Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

Paul Jarvis - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook

What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better - and smarter - solution is simply...
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Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

Aaron Dignan - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Aaron Dignan is the driver behind some of today's most agile, fastest-scaling companies. In this book, he reveals his tested strategies for eliminating red tape, dissolving bureaucracy, and doing the best work of your life.He's found that nearly everyone, from Wall Street to Silicon...
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Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

Richard Snow - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined...
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The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Andy Andrews - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

This is how it's done. This is why it's done this way. This is the result you can expect if you do it.These three pieces of information inform a conclusion about every part of each of our lives. Yet it is these three pieces of information that most often set an insidious trap - a trap...
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Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership

Edward Morrison - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

Ten skills for agile leadership Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges - challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single entity. Today's leaders need a set of tools specifically designed to harness the power of collaborative...
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The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Life on Your Own Terms

Dr. Paul Napper - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Introducing The Power of Agency, a science-backed approach to living life on your own terms. Agency is the ability to act as an effective agent for yourself -- reflecting, making creative choices, and constructing a meaningful life. Grounded in extensive psychological research, The...
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Boss Up!: This Ain't Your Mama's Business Book

Lindsay Teague Moreno - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Stay-at-home mom turned multimillion-dollar-producing business owner Lindsay Teague Moreno doesn't just have a passion for entrepreneurship. She has a deep passion for helping women of all walks of life gain the confidence and skills to tap into their ambition and achieve success in their...
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Dont Keep Your Day Job: How to Turn Your Passion into Your Career

Cathy Heller - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of the #1 podcast "Dont Keep Your Day Job," an inspiring book about turning your passion into profit . "Heller pivots effortlessly from encouraging readers to accept "miraculous changes," find their bliss, and examine their authentic selves to practical...
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Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear

Richard Sheridan - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The founder of Menlo Innovations and author of the business culture cult classic Joy, Inc offers an inspirational guide to leaders seeking joy in the challenge of leading others.Rich Sheridan's Joy, Inc. told the story of how his tiny software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan achieved...
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Retail Therapy: Why the Retail Industry is Broken – and What Can Be Done to Fix It

Mark Pilkington - Bloomsbury Business
Format: Paperback

An insightful review of the collapse of the traditional retail sector in the West, and a roadmap for its potential recovery.Almost weekly, the news is full of stories about disappearing retail chains--some of which have been around for decades. From ToysRUs, Aeropostale and A&P, recognized...
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Break Through the Noise: The Nine Rules to Capture Global Attention

Tim Staples - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The odds of getting a video onto YouTube's front page are 1-in-2,000,0000, but Tim Staples, founder and CEO of Shareability, knows how to make the algorithms of Youtube, Google, Facebook and Instagram work for you - and he has the results to prove it, with a thriving business that has gotten...
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cal Newport - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces far more value than the electronic busyness that defines the modern...
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Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America's Toughest Warriors

Jason Redman - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Retired Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Jason Redman divulges how to triumph over adversity using proven Special Operations habits and mindsets. Adversity can often catch you by surprise and leave you struggling with what to do next. What if you could confront any adversity,...
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Being Boss: Take Control of Your Work and Live Life on Your Own Terms

Emily Thompson - Running Press Adult
Format: Paperback

From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts...
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AI for Marketing and Product Innovation: Powerful New Tools for Predicting Trends, Connecting with Customers, and Closing Sales

A. K. Pradeep - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

Get on board the next massive marketing revolutionAI for Marketing and Product Innovation offers creatives and marketing professionals a non-tech guide to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) - twin technologies that stand poised to revolutionize the way we sell....
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The Soul of a Team: A Modern-Day Fable for Winning Teamwork

Tony Dungy - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mentor Leader and Quiet Strength comes a book sure to transform your team or organization!For most people, succeeding in life requires mastering the art of teamwork. Whether at work, school, church, or home, virtually...
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Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life

Guy Kawasaki - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life, and the lessons we can draw from them.Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom...
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Change Maker: Turn Your Passion for Health and Fitness into a Powerful Purpose and a Wildly Successful Career

John Berardi - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

The health and fitness industry is huge, highly competitive, and often confusing to navigate. This one-of-a-kind book helps you make sense of the chaos, laying out a clear roadmap for career success - for both established professionals and anyone just getting started. With thousands of certifications,...
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Optimizing Growth: Predictive and Profitable Strategies to Understand Demand and Outsmart Your Competitors

Jason Green - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

Leverage big data and demand into sustainable profitable growth Optimizing Growth is a handbook for how to succeed in the age of big data. Today's business environment looks dramatically different than it did even a decade ago, and it continues to evolve at an increasing rate;...
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Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life

Kerry E. Hannon - Wiley
Format: Paperback

Start a successful business mid-life When you think of someone launching a start-up, the image of a twenty-something techie probably springs to mind. However, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are just as likely to start businesses and reinvent themselves later in life. Never Too Old to Get Rich...
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The Art of Quiet Influence: Timeless Wisdom for Leading without Authority

Jocelyn Davis - Nicholas Brealey
Format: Paperback

"A tremendous and relevant read!" -Stephen M. R. Covey, New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of TrustDrawing on the enduring wisdom of the Buddha, Confucius, Rumi, Gandhi and others, The Art of Quiet Influence shows anyone,...
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The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

Zack Friedman - HarperCollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover

The secret to an extraordinary life starts with five simple changes that anyone can make. No matter who you are, where you come from, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, everyone has a shot at greatness. Zack Friedman has inspired millions with his powerful insights,...
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Safi Bahcall - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"This book has everything: new ideas, bold insights, entertaining history and convincing analysis. Not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand how ideas change the world." -- Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow What do James...
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The Neuroscience of Selling: Proven Sales Secrets to Win Over the Buyer's Heart and Mind

John Asher
Format: Hardcover


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The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine's Greatest Fishery?

Christopher P White - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Skipjack & The Melting World comes a mystery: the curious boom in America's beloved lobster industry and its probable crashMaine lobstermen have happened upon a bonanza along their rugged, picturesque coast. For the past five years, the lobster population...
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The End of Procrastination: How to Stop Postponing and Live a Fulfilled Life

Petr Ludwig - St. Martins Essentials
Format: Paperback

Over 100,000 copies sold worldwide, The End of Procrastination offers science-based, practical tools to stop procrastination . Even with overflowing inboxes and unmet deadlines, most people still cant manage to take control of their time and stop procrastinating. The End of Procrastination...
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The Rise of the Curator Class: Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Make Everything

Steffon Davis - Praeger
Format: Hardcover

Pairing "big ideas" in marketing with the popular activity of content curation, The Rise of the Curator Class positions curation as a "humanization" movement that is restructuring the internet* Describes the current state of content overload and how curation is solving...
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Building a Business with a Beat: Leadership Lessons from JazzerciseAn Empire Built on Passion, Purpose, and Heart

Judi Sheppard Missett - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

Transform your passion into a profitable business -- with the help of the legendary entrepreneur who turned an innovative idea into a $100 million global powerhouse.Judi Sheppard Missett is a fitness icon who, at just three years old, discovered a passion for dance that would eventually...
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It's the Manager: Gallup finds the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization's long-term success.

Jim Clifton - Gallup Press
Format: Hardcover

Packed with 52 discoveries from Gallup's largest study on the future of work, It's the Manager shows leaders how to adapt their organizations to rapid change, ranging from new workplace demands to managing remote employees, a diverse workforce, the rise of artificial intelligence,...
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Superfans: The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Successful Business

Pat Flynn - Get Smart Books
Format: Hardcover

Customers, followers, subscribers. It's easy to just look at the numbers. How many likes? How many purchases? How many email subscribers? But as entrepreneurs, we have to remember that there are people behind all that data. People who are looking to us to be a leader, to give advice,...
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Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit V. Banerjee - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps...
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Raise Your Game: High-Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best

Alan Stein - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Performance coach Alan Stein Jr. shares the secret principles used by world-class performers that will help you improve your productivity and achieve higher levels of success. High achievers are at the top of their game because of the discipline they have during the unseen hours. They have...
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Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace

John C. Maxwell - HarperCollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover

Internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell teaches readers how to shift their leadership to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others in today's fast-paced world.Change is so rapid today that leaders must do much more than stay the course to be successful....
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Innovating Innovation: Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen

David Morey - Mango
Format: Hardcover

Breakthrough Innovation Tools for Successful LeadershipInnovation needs innovation: Innovation is broken. Business leadership and management struggle to find ways to crack through their own corporate politics or bureaucratic silos, to move from defense to offense, to nurture real breakthrough,...
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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

Adam Savage - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

MythBusters' Adam Savage - Discovery Channel star and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully turning your idea into reality. Adam Savage is a maker. From Chewbacca's...
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Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

Gary P. Pisano - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth. Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate;...
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Reshma Saujani - Currency
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said...
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The Purpose Path: A Guide to Pursuing Your Authentic Life's Work

Nicholas Pearce - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Hardcover

Many of the world's most beloved companies -- Apple, Disney, Google -- are not simply profit-driven, but purpose-driven. They let the reason for which they were created drive what they do every day. But what about us - how do we define our purpose, the why behind the work we do? How can we find...
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The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

Robin Sharma - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming...
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Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen

Marc Lesser - New World Library
Format: Paperback

What would your work and your life look like if you knew how to stay focused yet flexible, if you got more of the right things done, and if you were helping to create a more peaceful world at the same time? "A mindful leader makes the work environment a generative social field in which...
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Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change

Rickey Gard Diamond - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

The personal is not only political, it's also economic and sexual: as a society, we're encouraged to view economics as objective science far removed from us -- when in reality it has concrete and far-reaching effects on our everyday lives. In Screwnomics, Rickey Gard Diamond shares...
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Take the Leap: Change Your Career, Change Your Life

Sara Bliss - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

A road map for landing your dream job.Take the Leap features inspiration and advice from more than sixty-five people who transformed their lives - and with this guide, so can you. These are game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers who once stood where you are now, wondering...
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Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled from the Junkyard

Roy Goble - NavPress
Format: Hardcover

Successful Silicon Valley real estate developer and wealth creator Roy Goble shares the surprising lessons he learned as a boy working in his family junkyard. Skillfully uniting the teachings of Jesus with the sometimes messy realities of leading people and getting things done, Salvaged...
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The Manager's Communication Toolkit: Tools and Techniques for Leading Difficult Personalities

Tina Kuhn - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW RELEASE IN BUSINESS CONFLICT RESOLUTION & MEDIATION How to Communicate with Difficult People in the Workplace and Successfully Lead Any Personality Type This is a clear and practical guide to high performance business communication. Successful managers keep their organizations...
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Be More Pirate: Or How to Take on the World and Win

Sam Conniff Allende - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

Pirates didn't just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn't just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn't just challenge the status-quo, they changed everyf*ckingthing. Pirates faced a self-interested establishment, a broken system, industrial scale disruption, and an uncertain...
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How to Be Better at Almost Everything: Learn Anything Quickly, Stack Your Skills, Dominate

Pat Flynn - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

Mastering one specific skill set might have been the key to success 20 years ago . . . but being the best at a single thing just doesn't cut it in today's global economy. Think about those people who somehow manage to be amazing at everything they do - the multimillionaire CEO with...
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