Office and workplace Books

Is this blue book more valuable than a business degreeMost people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing. It’s hard to...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER The U.S. Marines Corps is the greatest fighting force on the planet, but it’s so much more than that: it’s a factory for producing first-rate leaders, problem-solvers, and innovators. In 2006, John Warren and John...

Easy, practical guidance on how to make the most out of your mentorship journey.Being a great mentor leads to thriving, engaged employees on both sides of the mentor-mentee relationship and helps drive renewed purpose. There are growing expectations...

“Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood and Sweat is a myth-busting work of genius...

LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR“I often talk about the importance of trust when it comes to work: the trust of your employees and building trust with your customers. This book provides a blueprint for how to...

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide. Faced with tumultuous economic times and...

Whether you’re facing the glass ceiling, a toxic work environment, or anything in between, limit-breaking female founder Heather Monahan’s 3-Step BAK process will help you evaluate and eliminate any outside or self-defeating blockers between where you...

Experience a quantum leap in your personal mindset and career toolset through 30 transformative insights from our world’s greatest minds.Mining the best and brightest revelations from FranklinCovey’s global podcast, On Leadership With Scott Miller,...

How do you remember more and forget less?How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house?And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently?This is your shortcut to the art of the shortcut. Mathematics is full of better ways of...

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...

Eighty-three per cent of employees say it is up to the employer to facilitate well-being in the workplace. Well-being at work is a key priority for employees.   Over the last decade our world has increased its focus on individual well-being. There...

In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. As the historic 2020 Women's March attests, a generation of younger women are speaking...

National Bestseller. From Seth Godin, one of the world's most influential business thinkers and bestselling author of This is Marketing, comes an essential guide to thinking strategically in a complex, ever-changing world."With his signature clarity and...

Revamp your workplace culture with these 100 accessible strategies for creating a supportive, flexible, productive, and happy work environment, perfect for managers, human resource representatives, and other workplace leaders.It’s time to update your...

There are a lot of great advertising books, but none that get down in the dirt with you quite like this one. Thomas Kemeny made a career at some of the best ad agencies in America. In this book he shows how he got in, how he's stayed in, and how you can...

What are the selling secrets that raised Frank Bettger from initial failure to unparalleled success, and fame, as one of the highest paid salesmen in America? Encouraged to tell his story by admiring colleague Dale Carnegie, Bettger reveals his proven...

Make your professional growth a daily habit.With a packed schedule, personal and professional goals, and demands on your time and attention from every direction, it can be hard to set aside quiet time for reflection. Time to learn. Time to find...

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people.A leader at both Google and Stripe from their early days, Claire Hughes Johnson has worked with founders and company...

A curated collection of HBR's latest thinking for leaders and managers about the practices and policies that will make hybrid organizations successful.Curates the latest and most important thinking on organizational design and leadership competencies in...

Make the connections that will help you succeed - and advance faster.Networking doesn't stop once you've landed the job. Building a high-quality, diverse network is key to learning and growth, influencing others, and launching your...

Find a way to work that works for you.The 9-to-5 office routine no longer exists. Many employees have the option to work anywhere, any time. But how do you find the flexible arrangement that's right for you? And how do you manage a team when...

Be mindful, empathetic, and authentic-even on-screen.Managing your team, building relationships and trust, and facilitating effective meetings in a hybrid or fully remote workforce is challenging.Virtual EI explores how to develop, practice, and...

Build a mentally healthy workplace.Mental health is just as important as physical health. Yet being honest about depression, anxiety, and other psychological conditions at work can feel risky - and hasn't always been welcome. How can you ensure that you...

'What does a workplace utopia look like to you?'This is the question Dr. Ella F. Washington asks company leaders, and often she hears about an ideal vision of an organisation that values diversity and inclusion and wants employees to...

As organizations shift to depend more on team-basedstructures, the pressure to develop high-performing teams is more critical thanever. In the modern work environment, teams are expected to embrace change,navigate complexity, and collaborate well under...

Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame...

"Unleash Your Team & Unlock Their Potential" teaches readers how to set their people free to realize their potential. This book provides a unique and fresh perspective on team building that is timeless in its approach. The book clearly defines what...

Is your workplace toxic?Toxic workplaces take many forms. Whether you're dealing with a narcissistic boss, a backstabbing colleague, endless microaggressions, or a culture of overwork and burnout, it can feel impossible to know what to do...

The always-on, hustle culture creates an unhealthy, counterproductive relationship with work.Many workers believe that to compete with other top talent, they must embrace a culture that rewards long hours and a constant connection to work. Businesses and...

Interest in meditation and mindfulness has skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to neuroimaging and the body of scientific research that has validated the many benefits of these practices. Sadly, the legal community has for the most part been left...

Asa Rountree's memos helped shape generations of lawyers who had the good fortune to work with him. This book collects those memos, making them available to a wider audience to help spread his wisdom. Included in this book are Asa's memos on:...

Change your habits, change your life. A powerful new way to increase your emotional intelligence.Emotional Intelligence Habits is a groundbreaking new book from Dr. Travis Bradberry, author of the bestselling Emotional Intelligence 2.0 that has sold...

Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent the playbook for how to lead change - with a radical approach that moves fast, builds trust, and accelerates excellence.Speed has gotten a bad name in...

How do today's leaders shift from playing it safe to playing for great?In a volatile and complex world roiled by a climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies like AI, hyper-individualized leadership models no longer make sense. To...

Make DEI Training Foundational in Your OrganizationWhen done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on...

Elevate Your Work and Relationships Through Conscious AccountabilityResults and relationships-managers and leaders no longer have to prioritize one over the other to build a culture of exceptional accountability. You don't have to choose between being...

Seize the benefits of the five-generation workforce.Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organisations worldwide. Differences over communication style, technology preferences, identity, and politics are fuelling harmful stereotypes and...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The...

An essential work on teams - now updated with new research and tools and a new preface - X-Teams shows how an externally focused team model is the key to fuelling innovation and your organisation's success.You build a team around top-notch...

If you're thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again.'Middle manager.'The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast bureaucratic machine. In...

Take control of your life and of the people in your way - a scathingly satirical parody of business and career self-help books.Can you be manipulative or reckless? Do you occasionally experience a lack of guilt or empathy? Can you be impulsive, lack...

Inspiring conversations, advancing together.The HBR Women at Work series spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout their careers. With interviews from the popular podcast of the same name, and related articles, stories,...