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Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition
Well-intentioned leaders are inadvertently destroying innovation in their attempts to boost innovation. What if almost everything you know about creating a culture of innovation is hindering your progress? What if...
The Richest Man in Babylon
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"A man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he builds, the golden stream that continually flows into his purse and keeps...
The Trusted Advisor: 20th Anniversary Edition
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The 20th anniversary edition of the "brilliant and practical" (Tom Peters, author of The Professional Service 50 ) business classic--now updated to reflect the digital world--provides essential tools and wisdom...
Crisis Leadership: Using Military Lessons, Organizational Experiences,
Nothing tests a leader like a crisis. The highly charged, dramatic events surrounding a crisis profoundly affect the people in an organization and can even threaten the organization's survival. But...
Marketing in the Boardroom: Questions Directors Should Ask and Some of
Marketing in the Boardroom is an instructive and easy-to- use guide for board members and senior management interested in effective boardroom dialogue around brands and marketing. For most companies, brands...
The Fish Rots From The Head: The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing
A company's success or failure depends much on the performance of its board - an ancient Chinese saying is that 'the fish rots from the head'. Yet the vast majority...
Secrets of CEO'S: How to be a 21st Century Leader
A unique book in which more than 150 global chief executives explain, in their own words what it is really like to be a CEO - and the health warning...
The Little Book of Talent
52 ingenious rules for being better at whatever you turn your hand to. - Don't fall for the prodigy myth - Take off your watch - Embrace struggle - Take...
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
A revelatory exploration of the science of persuasion, from the author of the international bestseller, Influence. When it comes to persuasion, success can begin before you say a word. 'An...
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Even though everyone is talking about it, there is no concept in business today more muddled than 'strategy'. Richard Rumelt, described by McKinsey Quarterly as 'a giant in the field...
Own Your M.E.D.I.A
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Ever felt stuck chasing likes and algorithms, yet still wondering why your brand isn't growing? In Own Your M.E.D.I.A , Prosper Taruvinga delivers a direct, no-fluff guide to take back...
Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership
Winner of the 2023 Royal Society of Arts Career Book Award. 'A timely, actionable book on the virtues that every great leader needs to learn.' ADAM GRANT, #1 New York...
The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of
How to unleash "human magic" and achieve improbable results. Hubert Joly, former CEO of Best Buy and orchestrator of the retailer's spectacular turnaround, unveils his personal playbook for achieving extraordinary...
The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It
In this powerful book, happiness expert Jennifer Moss explains why burnout is so rampant - and provides simple, researched-based solutions for helping employees minimise stress and building happier workplaces. Research-based...
Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work
Have you ever wanted to disagree with your boss? Speak up about your company's lack of diversity or unequal pay practices? Make a tough decision you knew would be unpopular?...
Return on Character: The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win
In 2001, Jim Collins published research findings that identified the "blend of personal humility and professional will" that enabled the Level 5 Leader to drive an otherwise unremarkable organization to...
Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning
The updated third edition of "the essential handbook for all those who are trusted advisors to aspiring leaders" (Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge). This latest edition of the...
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want
Career development is a responsibility that managers know they should do and frequently even want to do. Despite that, it's always getting back-burnered. There are lots of reasons. But the...
12: The Elements of Great Managing
More than a decade ago, Gallup combed through its database of more than 1 million employee and manager interviews to identify the 12 elements most important for sustaining high performance....
Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without
What's the quickest way to ruin a friendship? Can bosses actually learn something from marriages? Are very close friendships in the workplace such a bad thing? These are just a...
It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every
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As one of America's most successful ad execs, Roy Spence is an expert on 'winning on purpose' - articulating a goal beyond making money that focuses an entire company. A...
The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas,
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was...
Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great
Will Your Organization Still Be Here in Ten Years? It's a familiar story: A company rises to become an industry leader. Competitors try to emulate it. Analysts rave about it....
Accountability - Freedom and Responsibility without Control
Accountability shows how to get people in organizations to be more personally accountable for high performance in their work and for the success of the organization - without resorting to...
Spiritual Capital - Wealth We Can Live By
Our capitalist culture and the business practices that operate within it are in crisis. Capitalism as we know it today-an amoral culture of short-term self-interest, profit maximization, emphasis on shareholder...
CEO Logic: How to Think and Act Like a Chief Executive
This book starts with the foundations of business success: the development of a business philosophy that works for you, and the strategic application of that philosophy in all areas of...
CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders
New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller From the world's most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs...
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
'Essential for any leader in any industry' - Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor Working Backwards gives an insider's account of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices...
The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See
From Harvard Business School Professor and Co-Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership: A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in the world around you,...
Inside the Box
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"The 'inside-the-box approach' can reveal key opportunities for innovation that are hiding in plain sight" (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive ). The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American...
Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
# 7 on THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Bestseller List Must professional accomplishments come at the expense of having a full life? Not according to Wharton professor and leadership and work-life...
IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain
Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed. These challenges call for...
Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their
How can leaders make their big or growing company feel small again? How can they recapture the 'magic'-the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement-that drove and animated...
The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results
Great CIOs consistently exceed key stakeholders' expectations and maximize the business value delivered through their company's technology. What's their secret? Sure, IT professionals need technological smarts, plus an understanding of...
Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
If you're a general manager or CFO, do you feel you're spending too much on IT or wishing you could get better returns from your IT investments? If so, it's...
Open Business Models: How To Thrive In The New Innovation Landscape
In his landmark book Open Innovation , Henry Chesbrough demonstrated that because useful knowledge is no longer concentrated in a few large organizations, business leaders must adopt a new, "open"...
The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great
Drawing on a wide body of research, including extensive in-depth interviews, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW reveals the central insights that lie at the core of: Great Managing,...
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become
Whether you are near the top of the ladder or still have a ways to climb, this book serves as an essential guide to help you eliminate your dysfunctions and...
Standout: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader
StandOut, the revolutionary new book and online assessment tool from Marcus Buckingham, is the result of extensive research, statistical testing, and analysis of the world's top performers. From the coauthor...
The Mindful Marketer: How to Stay Present and Profitable in a
It's a tough time to be a marketer. Many are drowning in data, disrupted by generative AI, overloaded with demands, bombarded with competing priorities, and underfunded to take on challenges....
Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the
Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Deliver Extraordinary Sustainability Results for Your Business In Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build...
Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told
Complete your leadership toolkit with this inside look at high-level, executive positions Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about...
Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business + Website
A definitive book for any CEO?first time or otherwise?of a high-growth company While big company CEOs are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren't?and they're often young...
Predictive Analytics: the Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie,
Mesmerizing & fascinating...The Seattle Post-Intelligencer "The Freakonomics of big data." Stein Kretsinger, founding executive of Advertising.com Award-winning | Used by over 30 universities | Translated into 9 languages An introduction...
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change,
This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a...
Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy
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We often (or even usually) know what we should be doing in both our personal and professional life. We also know why we should be doing it and (often) how...
Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The People Skills You
In order to run projects successfully, project managers need to master more than the requisite technical knowledge. The more complex the project, the more significant their interpersonal skills become to...
Winning Behavior: What the Smartest, Most Successful Companies Do
Winning Behavior gives companies a new way to increase business: by "outbehaving" rivals so that customers see a positive behavioral difference at every customer touchpoint - from product development and...