Business Resilience

This is a different book about leadership. Leadership where mistakes are made. Leadership where mistakes are learnt from. Over a period, Allan Sicard developed a leadership style that created a workplace and a community where people do their best because they know they are trusted, included, supported, and cared for.

Many struggle for what they deserve. Sometimes you fake it until you make it. But does that make you truly successful? Your definition of quality leads you to one extremely valuable question: What drives you? Resilience: The Beauty of Presence answers that question every day.

While on the campaign trail, Elizabeth Edwards met many others who have had to contend with serious adversity in their lives, and in Resilience, she draws on their experiences as well as her own, crafting an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life's biggest challenges.

Despite having a desire to succeed, we are so accustomed to working hard to reach our goals and produce results in the workplace, that many of us sacrifice our deeper humanity in the process. This timely book is ideally suited for the current era of anxiety and global upheaval that has awakened us to our collective dissatisfaction with the status quo.

The Rhythm Is Always There: How to Build, Adapt, and Survive When Everything Changes Move with time—go with the tide. Most people try to fight the tide. They cling to old strategies, old identities, and old systems—long after the rhythm has shifted. They build as if success is static. They panic as if failure is final. But the world doesn’t work that way. It moves in waves—economic, emotional, generational, and spiritual. And those who thrive are not the ones who resist change, but those who learn to work with it. The Rhythm Is Always There is not a list of tactics. It is a lens—a...

Breaking Through Success: A Guide to Overcoming the Hidden Obstacles Success isn’t always what it seems. While many people dream of achieving fame, fortune, and recognition, few are prepared for the hidden challenges that come with it. Breaking Through Success pulls back the curtain on the untold pressures of success—from perfectionism and public scrutiny to the fear of letting others down and the struggle to stay relevant in an ever-changing world. In this insightful and practical guide, you’ll discover how to overcome the mental and emotional obstacles that often accompany ...

Grace Under Pressure: Leading Through Change and Crisis focuses on three things leaders need to do when change and adversity strike: take care of their people, take care of themselves, and prepare for the future. And they must do it all with a sense of grace—calmly, collectedly, and compassionately. This book provides a roadmap for leaders seeking to create community as they meet the coming challenges with dignity and grace.

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments.

The future of work swept in sooner than expected, accelerated by COVID-19, creating an urgent need for new maps, new mindsets, new strategies - and most importantly, a trusted guide to take us on this journey. That guide is Jeff Schwartz. A founding partner of Deloitte Consulting's Future of Work practice, Schwartz brings clarity, humor, wisdom, and practical advice to the future of work, a topic surrounded by misinformation, fear, and confusion.

Corporate culture is ground zero for your organization. If left to chance, corporate culture will fall to the lowest common denominator or the loudest voice, resulting in inconsistency at best and volatility at worst. Scaling your company means scaling your culture first. You need a clear playbook with actionable steps to foster alignment and a results-driven team of passionate stakeholders. In Scaling Culture, Ron Lovett provides you with the key components you need to create a successful organization that lasts.

Barely into her 20s, since chairing the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, Holly has been working with and learning from the heads of countries, companies and charities to help them disrupt what they do and change the world for the better. In her fearless and widely-researched manifesto, this innovative young thinker shows how it is within everyone's reach, everyone's ability and everyone's power to be an effective leader - in business and beyond.

Trust Yourself First: Cultivating Self-Awareness, Confidence and Resilience, seasoned executive coach Doris Sew Hoy shares her expertise, research, and original tools of the trade curated to help you unlock your personal and professional potential. This guidebook poses thought-provoking and incisive questions to ask yourself, interspersed with Doris’ own candid musings.

When trauma enters the lives of the unsuspecting, it steals from their very soul. It not only robs them of peace and joy, it can take years and decades from their lives while they desperately try to fill the hole in their heart, pretending that their soul isn't leaking out of it. No one is ever prepared for trauma, and no one is ever left unchanged by traumatic events.

Many of us remember where we were in the moments of 9/11, however few of us can say we personally know someone who was impacted by this tragedy. Payton Lynch, the author of Rise from the Ashes: Stories of Trauma, Resilience, and Growth from the Children of 9/11, shares the story of her husband Jon Lynch and other 9/11 surviving children. Their stories are a few of the 3,000 stories (not including the 2,000 adult-age people who lost a parent that day and the countless others who have gone on to lose a parent due to 9/11 illnesses) that need to be told.

Why GAO did this study. The internet is a global system of interconnected networks used by billions of people across the world to perform personal, educational, commercial, and governmental tasks. The US Government over time has relinquished its oversight role of the internet. A global, multistakeholder community made up of many organizations shapes internet policy, operations, and security. But the ongoing and increasing reliance on the internet underscores the need to understand the risks to its underlying architecture.

Working Relationships is an original exploration of the interplay between crisis, resilience, and employee experience in the workplace. The book delves into how working relationships - the relationships we develop with the work that we do, the people with whom we work, and the organizations for which we work - are formed and sustained, focusing on four key elements: continuity, reciprocity, purpose, and hope.

Built for the boardroom. Proven in the classroom. Trusted by Fortune 50 leaders and top educators for over a decade. Now available to everyone — in print, ebook, and audio — for a fraction of the cost. Redefine leadership. Reimagine resilience. Rise above the IQ vs. EQ debate. The Resilient Leader: Embracing Resilience for Success offers a bold new approach to leadership in today’s complex world. Acclaimed leadership expert William R. Stanek takes you beyond the outdated IQ vs. EQ paradigm and introduces the power of holistic intelligence — a dynamic fusion of emotional, creative, ...

Drawing on the insights of 50 inspiring people who have suffered a wide range of trauma but are thriving nonetheless, Emma J. Bell has extracted nine enlightening secrets from their experiences. You’ll listen as they talk about how they found renewed purpose in life; how they learned to forgive rather than hold on to resentment; and how they developed practices to create calm and live authentically.

In What They Didn’t Tell Me, Jawad has translated the feedback he got and the lessons he learned along the way into actionable advice for leaders at every level. Drawing on his remarkable story, Jawad shows how charting your own course not only changes how others view you - it changes how you view yourself. If you’re ready to become a resilient leader at the helm of a high-performing team, this book is for you.

Struggling to Keep Up in a Digital World? Here’s How to Take Control.Does it feel like you're constantly being pulled in every direction? Do endless distractions keep you from focusing on what truly matters? Is maintaining balance in an always-on world feeling impossible? If you’re nodding along, this book is for you! 7 Life Habits for Thriving in a Digital Age will show you how to take back control, find clarity, and build resilience in today’s hyper-connected world.