Leadership and motivation

Think video games are kids' stuff? Think again. According to authors John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade all those hours immersed in game culture have created masses of employees with unique attributes. This new generation that's ninety-million strong has an...

Bringing groups together is a central and unrelenting task of leadership. CEOs must nudge their executives to rise above divisional turf battles, mayors try to cope with gangs in conflict, and leaders of many countries face the realities of sectarian...

How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we're doing, we...

In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs - along with the collective mind-sets in our organisations - combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us...

What is the relationship between leadership and innovation? How can some companies innovate again and again--continuously producing products and services that customers want--while most other firms cannot? How do you unleash consistent creativity in...

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Clay Christensen's work continues to underpin today's most innovative leaders and organizations. The bestselling...

Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds.If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you...

Are you at the top of your game - or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful 9 Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world's most successful people are on display - backed by...

The Heart of Change - now with refreshed packaging - is the engaging and practical follow-up to the worldwide bestseller Leading Change, unveiling a framework to help you implement the change Kotter talks about. The authors argue that change initiatives...

In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.  By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs...

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. It's up to you to carve out your place in...

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance...

Today's leaders don't use command-and-control. Instead, they leverage their communication, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills to inspire employees to ever higher levels of performance. Packed with practical tools and expert advice, Leading...

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership-and Leading Change, his seminal work, is widely recognized as the bible on leading transformational change. Needed more today than any time in the past,...

Accelerate, from bestselling author John P. Kotter (Leading Change, A Sense of Urgency, Our Iceberg Is Melting), offers a detailed explanation of his award-winning idea on a new "dual operating system" that allows organizations to move at the pace of...

It's not a revelation that work-related stress can bleed into every area of your life--making you irritable, disturbing your sleep, killing your diet - and that all these problems lead to even "more" stress on the job. But how do you stop the vicious...

The First 90 Days has become the bestselling, globally acknowledged bible of leadership and career transitions. In this updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition, author and expert Michael Watkins gives you the keys to successfully negotiating your...

When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need...

Today, your consumers, clients, prospects, and colleagues are inundated with promotional messaging, non-stop content, broken promises, endless product extensions, and the pressure to follow articles that state, “Here’s What Successful People Do Before...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In her latest book, Brene Brown writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This...

In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brene Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she's showing us how to put those ideas into...

The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek.  For the last two years, I've interviewed nearly two hundred world-class performers for my podcast,The Tim Ferriss Show. .The guests range...

No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you feel the flow. You're able to make a difference and achieve big goals. You feel confident and energised. On days like this, you're your best self — the leader you want to be. But on other days, you go...

Awaken the Courageous Leader Inside You True leaders inspire us with their confidence, dedication, and track record of achievementÑbut does their success arise from innate gifts, or qualities that we all can develop? ÒEach of us, no matter what our...

Want to get those difficult colleagues off your back and restore your sanity? NYU psychology professor Tessa West shows you how. Have you ever watched a colleague charm the pants off management while showing a competitive, Machiavellian side to the...

Expanding upon one of his high-level foundational teachings- Strategic Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan explains why achieving 10X growth is easier than going for 2X growth. Dan Sullivan, the world's leading coach for highly successful entrepreneurs, wants...

Leadership lessons from Captain Sandy Yawn, a renowned superyacht captain with over 30 years of international maritime experience, and star of the reality show Below Deck Mediterranean Everyone experiences a moment in life when they need to lead...

This isn't a book about BECOMING it's about BEING- noted psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy shows how to imagine the person you want to be, then BE that person now. When you do this, your imagined FUTURE directs your behaviour, rather than your past. Who...

Leadership is within everyone’s reach, everyone’s ability and everyone’s power. It's time to step up, and Holly Ransom will show you how. What does it mean to ‘be a leader’? What does true leadership look like in the 2020s, when we’re facing complexity...

An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. As a result of their broad experience on the world stage in politics,...

We need good leaders now more than ever: people who step forward, step up, and develop themselves in the emotionally skilled art of leading others. In The Thoughtful Leader, expert Fiona Buckland offers a practical approach to authentic leadership:...

TA new and fully updated edition of DK's practical guide to effective leadership for managers The practical guide that gives you all the skills you need to succeed as a leader. Discover how to improve your leadership skills by establishing a vision,...

“If there's anything this book should teach you, it's that the only thing stopping you from achieving lasting career and life happiness is you.” In his 2009 international bestseller, Crush It!, Gary insisted that a vibrant personal brand was one of the...