Workplace & Organizational Behaviour

In this business fable from Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author, Jeff Rogers, we find a simple way to rekindle our lost sense of play...and use it at work. Meet Jerry Newcombe: a person who's struggling with a work-life balance that has him drowning in mediocrity. He’s tired, unfulfilled, and more than a little worried that he'll never reach his full potential. An intriguing question from an unusual source forces Jerry onto the path of discovery on how to unleash his true creative potential!

Many business leaders focus only on satisfying their customers as the best way to grow their business. Makes sense, right? Chad Peterman, President and CEO of Peterman Brothers, sees it differently. In his engaging new book, The Empowerment Project, Peterman delves into the concept of empowering employees by creating a supportive corporate culture, giving employees the authority to make decisions, providing training and career path planning, and showing employees that mistakes are opportunities for learning and growth.

This is the question Chip Higgins invites you to explore in The Bizzics Way: Powering Your Small Business to Maximum Momentum. Bizzics applies the laws of physics to business, providing a how-to guide for entrepreneurs that cuts through the corporate jargon and simplifies business best practices. Whether you're just thinking of starting a business or already growing a small company of your own, this book can help you achieve the holy grail that every business seeks momentum.

I have an enormous amount of respect for people who consider themselves entrepreneurs. People who, in most cases, take tremendous risks in hopes of experiencing tremendous rewards. Not only for themselves but for the world at large. Entrepreneurs hire the most people, drive the economy, create innovation, promote research and development, while shaping new products and services.

The modern working world doesn't leave much time for reflection. Leaders in particular are encouraged to speed ahead, make quick decisions, and seek swift solutions to any problem that may arise. However, the full-speed-ahead approach can backfire. By taking time to pause and reflect, it's possible to notice new pathways and develop innovative solutions that allow for impactful results. Executive coach Janet M. Harvey has worked with leaders and teams around the world to explore the common tensions that arise in the workplace.

The 3rd Paradigm provides a framework for businesses and individuals alike to innovate breakthrough solutions through a process of Co-Creation. Backed by original research involving more than 4,000 business professionals, the authors present the three paradigms of business, the five types of Co-Creation, and a four part step-by-step model that allows you to make the radical shift toward the 3rd Paradigm of Co-Creation—where all stakeholders play a meaningful part in greater success.

In The Humor Habit, veteran speaker, corporate trainer, and comedian Paul Osincup delivers a hilarious and effective new take on how to make yourself and your team more productive and resilient by focusing on the funny side of work and life. In the book, you'll learn why humor isn't an in-born quality you're either born with or without. Instead, it's a habit you can develop over time.

In Inclusion Revolution, workplace strategist and C-suite executive Daisy Auger-Dominguez delivers a timely, inspirational, and practical exploration of why mainstream efforts at diversity improvement tend to fail and what you can do today to successfully create a diverse and representative leadership team at your company.

Working Relationships is an original exploration of the interplay between crisis, resilience, and employee experience in the workplace. The book delves into how working relationships - the relationships we develop with the work that we do, the people with whom we work, and the organizations for which we work - are formed and sustained, focusing on four key elements: continuity, reciprocity, purpose, and hope.

Has anyone called you naive for suggesting that businesses can do more good and make a positive impact on not just profits, but also on employees, consumers, and the world? If so, you're in good company. Increasingly more employees, customers, and business leaders agree that how and why money is made is equally as important as the amount of money made. That fear can be paralyzing, ultimately keeping them from sharing and acting on their biggest and best ideas.

This isn't your typical leadership manual; it's your ticket to unlocking the secrets of the great leaders who have left an indelible mark on history. Picture yourself at the helm of a thriving, unstoppable team, making strategic decisions that propel your organization to victory. In this book, you won't find clichés and platitudes but a riveting exploration of the leadership principles that have forged empires and inspired greatness.

When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.

Basics in Communication 101 helps people to become better Communicators. The whole focus of the book is to identify key components of the communication process and to determine the best ways to deal with and communicate properly. A must listen for every family member and office person.

With this indispensable guide, you'll cultivate a values-driven approach to building a culture of sustained authentic inclusion where everyone can thrive; learn how to improve the interview process to avoid missing game-changing talent; develop a hybrid office protocol that works for everyone and a support infrastructure that aligns with universal design principles; uncover and eliminate the destructive influence of unconscious cognitive biases; understand unique problem-solving abilities such as lateral thinking, visual-spatial thinking, multisensory thinking, and much more.

MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills. As award winning physicians, educators, and mentors we hear the gamut of challenges with navigating the workplace. And when we learn a lesson we often wish we had learned it earlier. MicroSkills is packed with the privileged information that you want delivered to you as efficiently as possible.