Workplace Success

In Grab the Helm, you’ll learn the skills to take command of the moment and the life you were called to lead. You’ll gain the insights and confidence to grab hold of the life you want and make a lasting impact on your team and organization. This transformative journey begins by asking yourself a simple yet profound question: What is my purpose? The answer will emerge as you work through the eight spokes of the author’s Leading from the Helm model.

To achieve efficiency, productivity, and significant results, you need to make the best use of the resources available to you. Productivity expert Maura Thomas helps you nurture the crucial resource that is your work culture and build productive habits for yourself and your team, without letting work take over your life. Everyone Wants to Work Here empowers you to define what productivity means for your team and to create conditions that support your own productivity. Starting with yourself, Thomas's holistic advice will help you develop productive strategies for your whole team.

Something just isn’t right. The pressure, the politics, and the PowerPoints have left you perplexed, paralyzed, and maybe even panicked...“Is it actually possible to have the career I want and deserve?!” You Do You(ish) hurls aside the crusty, decades-old career advice you’ve likely heard for way too long: lean in, executive presence, network, blah, blah, blah. Instead, this book will help you see that there's a better way to have success and get great results. You succeed, you don’t sell out. Are you ready to stop settling for “good enough”?

Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers who repeatedly create and deliver breakthrough innovations and new products in large, mature organizations. These employees are organizational powerhouses who solve consumer problems and substantially contribute to the financial value to their firms.

In this short book, author Jeff Coker shares his secrets for developing and utilizing political skills to get more done at work. Take a look at the success formula at work. What defines "success" in your workplace? Once you understand the social landscape and how political capital works, then you can learn how to audit your own situation and make an action plan to improve your political skills.

Unlock the secret language of the corporate world with Mastering Corporate Body Language: A Guide to Workplace Success by Tom Welch. In today’s fast-paced business environment, words are not enough. Learn how to say more with less, build stronger relationships, and exude confidence—all without uttering a single word. From job interviews to boardroom presentations, this comprehensive guide reveals how the subtleties of body language can make or break your professional journey.

Kip Tindell, the founder and CEO of The Container Store, reveals the seven secrets to keeping both customers and employees happy and all fully engaged. In Uncontainable, Tindell reveals his approach for building a business where everyone associated with it thrives through embodying the tenets of conscious capitalism. Tindell's seven foundation principles are the road map that drives everyone at The Container Store to achieve the goals of the company.

The Healthy Office reimagines the concept of workspaces, advocating for a human-centric design approach that resonates with everyone—from business leaders and workspace designers to the individuals who use these spaces every day.

New York Times bestselling author and applied neuroscience expert Christine Comaford knows what it takes to move people from the Critter State into the Smart State, where they have full access to their own creativity, innovation, higher consciousness, and emotional engagement. When an entire culture maintains that state, it becomes what she calls a SmartTribe.

Making Work Work is Julie Morgenstern's most important book yet. Through the mastery of brand-new strategies, Morgenstern shows you how small changes in your thinking and behavior will help you achieve the seemingly impossible, boost your value, increase your job security, and afford you the time to still have a life.

Most organizations today strive for goals such as employee diversity, inclusive leadership, and younger and fresher ideas. But how do we get there? In her trailblazing Reverse Mentorship program, world-renowned executive coach and personal development advocate Patrice Gordon creates a safe and engaging culture by having senior leaders learn from junior employees. Reverse Mentoring offers various tips to make reverse mentorship work.

The world of work is changing at an unprecedented rate. At a time when constant innovation, agility and speed often mean the difference between success and failure, we can no longer afford to waste time navigating the complex bureaucracy present in most companies.... Number one New York Times best-selling author Keith Ferrazzi argues that in times like these the ability to lead without authority is the essential workplace competency.

Carla Harris is one of the world's most senior Black women in global finance. Highly successful and respected, in her first audiobook Expect to Win she shares advice, tips, and strategies for surviving in any workplace environment. While climbing the corporate ladder, Harris had her own missteps and celebrated numerous victories. She vowed that when she reached senior management, and people came to her for advice, she would provide them with the tools and strategies honed by her experience.

Are you ready to take back control? Would you like to learn how to communicate without feeling your heart pounding a million miles a minute in your chest? Even if you struggle now, you do not have to live that way forever. You are not doomed to a life of communication failure. The vast amount of information included will be worth it.

How to FIGHT Office Politics and Emerge as a Winner: A Guide to Navigate Corporate Minefields Are you exhausted from navigating the murky waters of office politics? Do you aspire to thrive in your career without compromising your values? How to FIGHT Office Politics and Emerge as a Winner is your ultimate guide to mastering corporate dynamics, fostering collaboration, and emerging victorious in even the most challenging workplace environments. This book delves deep into the psychology of workplace politics, exploring the key players, power dynamics, and the thin line between influence and ...

In an era when people and money are flowing fast across international boundaries, physically and virtually, culture crashes have become increasingly frequent, says international business consultant Michael Landers. A culture crash is what happens when someone unwittingly offends, frustrates or mystifies a person from a different culture. This can lead to lost business, hurt feelings, damaged relationships, even international incidents.

This is McCammon's honest, funny, and entertaining journey from impostor to authority - a story that begins with periods of debilitating workplace anxiety but leads to rich insights and practical advice from a guy who still remembers what it's like to feel entirely ill equipped for professional success.

In The Leap, bestselling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. As part of this engaging and deeply reported narrative, Boser visits a radio soap opera in Rwanda that aims to restore the country’s broken trust, profiles the man who brought honesty to one of the most corrupt cities in Latin America, and explains how a college dropout managed to con his way into American high society.

In Fix It, the authors present the startling results of their Workplace Accountability Study - conducted over three years, involving more than forty thousand participants from organizations across the globe: the most comprehensive study on workplace accountability ever conducted. When accountability is not working on the job, in the team or the organization as a whole, everyone is left asking how to fix it.

While it may not occur to us on a daily basis, there is a widespread cultural tendency toward quick decisions and quick action. Though the root cause is by no means malicious, we have begun to reward speed over quality, and the negative effects suffered in both our personal and professional lives are potentially catastrophic. Best-selling author and Chief Envisioner Dan Pontefract offers the solution to this predicament with what he coins "Open Thinking".