Management & Leadership

Strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential. If you listen to nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you identify your social and emotional strengths and weaknesses, approach them with a learning mindset, and become a more effective leader today.

This book provides stories and strategies to create engaging messages to strengthen your connection with audiences. If you speak, you can be magnetic. Magnetism is a choice; do the work and see the results.

Together, 'The Burnout Fix' and 'The End of Burnout' form 'The Burnout Solution Bundle', providing a holistic approach to combating the burnout epidemic. This bundle is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand burnout and find sustainable solutions to it.

From Associate to Ambassador speaks to law students, summer associates and young associates who aspire not only to be elected a partner at a law firm but to achieve extraordinary outcomes in their careers. It is a roadmap for this journey that provides a collection of foundational values and principles to employ. You will have an interactive experience with the content of this book. You will be asked to reflect on key points and take action steps to embed these skills into your daily habits.

In the hybrid work environment, maintaining a positive mindset about your value and opportunities begins more actively with you than ever before. Now that everything has become more virtual, you probably miss the personal connections with your leader or co-workers that reinforce a sense of shared motivation and direction. This course empowers you to emphasize your assets, feel more at peace with your weaknesses and become more empowered about sharing your strengths. It will give you the courage and confidence to drive your opportunities rather than be driven.

What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. What lessons can we draw from its major successes and failures about the future of entertainment?

Taking a Career Break for Dummies shows you that a career break could be life-changing. Career breaks give us a chance to pause to identify opportunities and dreams, focus on the things we've been missing, and develop new skills.

Overcoming Ageism offers stories, research, and advice about navigating gendered age discrimination and bias at work. From advocating for yourself to ensuring continual learning and curiosity, you'll learn how to show others the unique expertise you bring to the organization and take back control of your career growth.

Most business books provide a one-size-fits-all approach to career advice that overlooks the unique barriers that women of color face. In The Memo, Minda Harts offers a much-needed career guide tailored specifically for women of color. Drawing on knowledge gained from her past career as a fundraising consultant to top colleges across the country, Harts now brings her powerhouse entrepreneurial experience as CEO of The Memo to this book. With wit and candor, she acknowledges "ugly truths" that keep women of color from having a seat at the table in corporate America.

Step into the world of leadership and empowerment with Ronica Watkins inspiring book, Winning at Leading—Women in Leadership. This thought-provoking guide navigates the multifaceted landscape of leadership, showcasing the remarkable potential of women in the realm of influence and decision-making. Watkins begins the journey by exploring leaderships essence, emphasizing its power to inspire, guide, and drive individuals toward shared objectives. As you delve deeper, you'll uncover the compelling story of women in leadership roles and the milestones they continue to achieve in diverse fields.

Society often admires the gift of gab, sidelining quieter introverts whose unique strengths are unappreciated and overlooked. The pressure to conform to extroverted norms can make you feel invisible and undervalued, which impacts your confidence, career, and happiness. But what if I told you that your introversion is not a hindrance, but your greatest strength? This book is tailor-made for individuals like you, who seek to create a space for quiet leadership in a world that often misunderstands silence for weakness.

From the boardroom to the newsroom, nearly every job requires speaking in front of a group. In this age of political correctness and viral social media moments, “winging it” can be a risky business. It’s no wonder that three out of four people suffer from speech anxiety. No Such Thing as OFF the Record is your survival guide for effective public speaking. It will arm you with the skills to navigate tricky Q&A scenarios and avoid unexpected pitfalls—like commenting off the record to a trusted source.

Discover how to break free from self-doubt and societal constraints to become the leader you were born to be. Are you a woman in leadership feeling undervalued and constrained? Join the movement to redefine leadership on your terms!

In Vol. 2, author Michael Coleman picks up where he left off and takes us through dozens more marketing communication insights, and on into: The Future of Messaging. He covers a range of tactics for overcoming our “media-induced ADD” and both the challenges and opportunities presented by AI and similar evolving technologies.

Frozens are the dark forces of an organization’s management team. But you already knew that—you just didn’t know what to call them. You know the Frozens. They are the people in management destroying dreams by two key methods: quietly impeding progress on everything (product, people, process and more), artificially hiring and promoting based almost solely on loyalty (instead of capability, outcomes, potential or other 'real' factors).