Career Growth

Transform Your IT Leadership with AI-Powered Efficiency Struggling to balance strategic planning with daily operational chaos? Lead IT with AI is your essential playbook for using generative AI—like ChatGPT—to automate routine tasks, clarify communication, and lead smarter in fast-paced IT environments. Whether you're managing hybrid teams, overseeing critical infrastructure, or responding to stakeholder demands, this guide gives you proven, real-world GPT prompt templates built for IT Managers and Directors. What You’ll Learn: Build a custom AI prompt library to save hours every week...

Business leader Jeff Henderson is your guide to pursuing your next best step in life and work. In What to Do Next, he helps you assess if you're ready for change, equips you with tools to prepare, shows you which pitfalls to avoid as you make your move, and replaces fear and doubt with confidence and purpose as you build an exciting future.

Going from small business to successful start-up to scalable growth takes more than just good luck, it takes a system. Over the last 34 years franchising consultant and growth expert Mark Siebert has been sought out by more than 70,000 executives looking to expanding their company. Out of those 70,000, only 5,000 had the right systems in place to go from successful to scalable.

Today, brands have become even more important than the products they represent: Their stories travel with lightning speed through social media and the Internet and across countries and diverse cultures. A brand must be elastic enough to allow for reasonable category and product-line extensions, flexible enough to change with dynamic market conditions, consistent enough so that consumers who travel physically or virtually won’t be confused, and focused enough to provide clear differentiation from the competition.

In a rapidly changing world, preparing children for the future means equipping them for careers that might not even exist yet. "Thriving in the Unknown: Preparing Children for Careers That Don't Exist Yet" is a ground-breaking guide that empowers parents, educators, and mentors with insights and tools to navigate this daunting yet exciting task. This book provides an in-depth exploration into the dynamic evolution of careers, offering invaluable strategies and practical skills necessary for children to flourish in the unknown terrain of future professions. The author transcends traditional ...

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well—or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills. This in-depth book shows you how to understand your role, manage your time, master strategic thinking, and set the standard for technical work.

Master Life with Logic, Discipline, and Purpose—The Ultimate Guide for ISTJs Are you an ISTJ looking to better understand yourself, navigate life with confidence, and make the most of your strengths? How to Navigate the World as an ISTJ is your practical, no-nonsense roadmap to success, built specifically for the Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging personality type. ISTJs—often known as the “Logisticians” of the MBTI® world—thrive on structure, responsibility, and rational thought. But in a world that often rewards spontaneity and emotional expression, your logical, ...

With the developed world facing slow economic growth, successfully competing for a limited customer base means using creative and strategic marketing strategies. Market Your Way to Growth presents eight effective ways to grow in even the slowest economy. They include how to increase your market share, develop enthusiastic customers, build your brand, innovate, expand internationally, acquire other businesses, build a great reputation for social responsibility, and more.

In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard-trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. Before Happiness is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.

The days of mission-driven purpose are over. Saving the planet, fostering rights, showing the human side of your company—these are merely table stakes for any business that wants to thrive in a caring world. But when it comes to your organization’s purpose, the truth is, it is all about driving growth. In The Purpose of Purpose, bestselling author and renowned creative advertising director Ron Tite shows how his powerful Think, Do, Say approach can be applied to growth—for individuals, for teams, and for your entire organization.

Live a Life of Quiet Strength, Purpose, and Connection—Tailored for the ISFJ Personality Type Are you an ISFJ—a compassionate, detail-oriented, and thoughtful person—trying to find peace and purpose in a world that often feels too loud, too fast, and too unstructured? How to Navigate the World as an ISFJ is your trusted companion for turning your natural strengths into a grounded, fulfilling life. Whether you're striving to deepen your relationships, advance your career, or simply care for yourself the way you care for others, this guide will meet you with understanding, practical ...

It took an on-stage panic attack for productivity expert Chris Bailey to recognize how critical it is to invest in calm at the same time that we invest in becoming more productive. Productivity advice works—and we need it now more than ever—but it’s just as vital that we develop our capacity for calm.

This book, written by Michael R. Watson, covers a wide range of topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the job market, personal life, and society as a whole. Raised by military parents who served in the Air Force, Marines, and Navy, Michael has gained a unique perspective on the importance of adapting to change and being open to new opportunities throughout his life and career. After working in corporate HR and talent acquisition for over 20 years for companies such as Aerotek, Robert Half, Polycom, Western Digital, Workday, Rambus, and Gigamon, Michael made a ...

"Mid-Career Transitions: A Comprehensive Guide - Volume Two" dives into advanced strategies for navigating career changes with confidence and resilience. Building on the foundations of Volume One, this guide equips mid-career professionals to handle complexities like managing current roles, overcoming age-related biases, and building a sustainable career path. Volume Two begins with Managing Your Current Role During Transition, offering strategies to maintain performance and professional relationships while preparing for a career change. Readers gain tips on setting boundaries, timing their...

"MBA ASAP is outstanding. John covers the foundations of sales, marketing, negotiation, strategy, and much more in the book. Additionally, he simplifies complex subjects so that anyone can grasp them." Sebastian R Cousins provides a comprehensive overview of business principles and practices. It’s a must-read for anyone looking to start their own business or advance their career in the business world. Business schools don't develop true leaders. Instead, they create themselves by acquiring the information, abilities, and experiences necessary for success. By reading this book, you can ...

Book Description: Important Life Lessons to Teach My "Daughter" Are you looking for the ultimate guide to empower, inspire, and prepare your daughter, Love One, ward, Friend and or Student for the challenges of growing up? This book provides practical, heartfelt advice on everything from puberty and emotional resilience to self-esteem and digital wellness. Whether you're a parent or mentor, this book is filled with tools to help young women navigate the journey of self-discovery and personal growth. 📚 Why You Should Buy This Book: ☑ Empowers young women to embrace body positivity, ...

The training to become a fighter pilot is among the most competitive and difficult in the world with less than one-in-a-thousand succeeding. Pushing a cutting-edge jet to its limits at over 1,000 mph means that every split-second decision can have catastrophic consequences. This extreme environment has forged a group of warriors who for the last 50 years have been considered at the apex of decision-making theory and practice. In The Art of Clear Thinking Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft.

Are You Feeling Overwhelmed by Life's Changes? Discover the Peace and Purpose You've Been Searching For! Life is a series of seasons, each bringing its own set of challenges and opportunities. Whether you're celebrating a milestone birthday, transitioning into a new phase, starting something fresh, or feeling stuck in the mundane, Shifting Seasons is here to guide you with daily inspiration. This devotional is crafted just for you—designed to help you embrace the possibilities that lie ahead with faith and confidence. Shifting Seasons: 365 Devotions for Growth, Grace, and New Beginnings A...

Ilya Strebulaev has spent the last two decades at Stanford studying VCs’ counterintuitive approaches to decision-making, and the reasons behind the success and failure of corporate innovation efforts. Alex Dang, a senior leader at McKinsey and Amazon, has seen up close the impact VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can have on a business’ success. Together in The Venture Mindset, they present nine distinct principles that can help anyone looking to transform their business and achieve extraordinary results, no matter the industry.

Addressing diverse issues depends on improving your soft skills - such as time management, team-building, communication and listening, creative-thinking, and problem-solving. But this isn’t as easy as it may seem. Sue Ashford has the solution. In this timely book, she introduces Flexing - a technique individuals, teams, and entire organizations can use to learn, grow, and develop their skills and knowledge with every new project, work assignment, and problem. Flexing empowers you to embrace any challenge and adapt to any change, yielding valuable takeaways that ensure growth.