Sustainable Career

As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, and still turn a profit.

Are you encountering resistance when trying to identify and recruit extraordinary but elusive, passive candidates that your competitors ultimately attract? Do your executive searches close with marginal candidates? It's time to transform your approach and results with a proven action plan. In the richly rewarding executive search business, it's not just about filling vacant positions but finding the perfect match between executive and company.

"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...

Klaus Kleinfeld draws on decades of global business experience from large scale to startups across a wide range of industries. He reveals how to win both the Outer Game of business success and the Inner Game of personal fulfillment. Leading to Thrive charts a transformative path of preserving and recovering your energy, achieving balance, and finding true purpose and meaning. It then goes into showing how to build an inspiring vision, create competitive advantages, and develop world-class teams.

Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman explores how we can make more ethical choices by aspiring to be better, not perfect.

Your Ultimate Guide to Writing, Editing, and Self-Publishing Success Have you dreamed of becoming a self-published author, but felt overwhelmed by the process? Whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your skills, this comprehensive guide is your roadmap to turning your writing aspirations into reality. Packed with expert insights, step-by-step instructions, and actionable strategies, this book is designed to help you transform your ideas into a professionally polished eBook—and get it in front of the readers who will love it. Learn the Essentials of Crafting an Engaging ...

Entrepreneur, bestselling author, and business coach Jadah Sellner knows what it’s like to be burned out, in debt, and just barely holding on to a new business. In the process of launching and building multiple companies, she realized today’s aggressive 24/7 hustle culture wasn’t working for her—or for her clients. In She Builds, Sellner shares a new entrepreneurial model for women, centered on sustainable leadership—a practical framework they can use to create a business on their own terms, prioritize their well-being, and break free from the toxic culture that leads to burnout.

In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity requirements on the same salary but with a 20 percent cut in work hours. The outcomes of this trial, which no business leader had previously attempted on these terms, were stunning.

How did the 360-year-old scissor company, Fiskars, double its profit in key markets just by realizing its customers had already formed a community of avid scrapbookers? How is Best Buy planning to dominate the musical-instruments market? By understanding the "Brains on Fire" model of tapping movements and stepping away from the old-school marketing "campaign" mentality.

Every day, a new silver bullet comes out, promising to grow your business, increase your profit margins, and make your life as a business owner easier. Unfortunately, most of them don't work, wasting your time and money. Plus, they take your attention away from other more worthwhile opportunities. The ones that do work for others just never seem to work for you. Blanket prescriptions are like that - never quite hitting the mark for all but the few with the exact symptoms.

For hardworking and dedicated professional service providers, Make Them Smile offers a way out of the grind of living hour to billable hour, providing a road map for how to build a scalable, standardized brand that provides a consistent, repeatable, and high-quality customer experience.

In Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, accomplished leadership expert Clarke Murphy shares a can't-miss toolkit for delivering remarkable sustainability results. You'll learn what it takes to become a sustainable leader and how you can turn your sustainability promises into tangible action on the ground.

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working together. In its current form, lean has been radically effective, but its true powers have yet to be harnessed. The Lean Strategy harnesses that power and delivers a new way of creating value from lean.

Whether you're just starting to explore circularity, or you are already actively advancing a circular business agenda, this book caters to your unique journey. It introduces a set of circular business model patterns as a pathway to transformation and creating value in a circular economy. It offers over 100 real-world case studies of circular business model innovation to highlight emerging trends, new opportunities, and the pathway to sustainable change.

Launch to Last is the value-first roadmap for modern entrepreneurs who want to build meaningful, profitable, and lasting businesses—without burning out or selling their soul. In this practical, no-fluff guide, you’ll discover a step-by-step blueprint to go from idea to scalable business—with real validation, real systems, and real customer connection.

For 50 years, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshalled its 50 years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career - until now.

In The Adventure of Sustainable Performance, the authors share their many years of experience serving clients and driving performance as the world transitions to a net zero carbon future. A future that uses resources sustainably and that seeks social justice. Perfect for executives, managers, directors, and other business leaders, The Adventure of Sustainable Performance is an actionable guidebook for the implementation of value-add sustainability programs.

In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key "development bargain," whereby a country's elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future.

For business owners and listeners interested in creating a business that serves its owners, "Sustainable: A Fable About Creating a Personally and Economically Sustainable Business" offers much more than just a good listen. It’s a guidebook filled with wisdom and practical solutions for building a business that can thrive well into the future. And it's not another how-to book; there's a great story that you can use to learn from the Aardvark family.

What if you knew, that in a few short weeks, you could finally unlock what’s inside of you and offer a program/service to exactly the client you are meant to serve? You and the horses you work with are the catalysts to making a difference and inviting real change into the lives of your future clients and ultimately contributing to mindful, contagious kindness in every corner of the world!