Career Growth

“Gardner is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better. Chris Gardner is a knockout!” —Maya Angelou Chris Gardner’s astonishing memoir—the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Pursuit of Happyness, which...

Since the release of Halftime in 1994, more than 150,000 people have purchased that book and begun a journey from success to significance. In a way that no one could have predicted, Halftime started a widespread movement viewing midlife as an opportunity rather than a crisis. It helped men and...

Margie Haber will gently and compassionately guide you out of your comfort zone and into a life of bravery, risk-taking, and being the best version of yourself. With Margie’s help, you will learn how to transform your fear into personal power and approach life with empathy, humor, and curiosity. It will change everything. Whether in the intimate setting of her acting-intensive classes, in front of hundreds of corporate clients, or in this book, Margie teaches you how to happily live in the unknown and find the courage to be the lead in your own life.

How do you get something out of nothing? It seems like an obvious question, one that drives everything from spiritual creation stories to our understanding of the Big Bang. Yet it leaves us with a sense that underneath everything lies emptiness and lack. We can phrase this question in a new way...

With all the good stuff you need to know about maximizing your hours, Plan a Happy Life is a jumpstart to tackle an overloaded schedule and plan a happy and satisfying life. Today's everyday life can be busy, but it doesn't have to be mundane or chaotic! The creators of the Happy Planner...

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate listeners on one of the hottest trends in business development: "design thinking", or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Jeanne Liedtka's recent book, The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth, was named a Top Innovation and Design Thinking Book by Business Week. Tim Ogilvie has been hailed as a visionary for his pioneering contributions to service innovation, business model innovation, and customer experience design.

Small Church Essentials is for leaders of smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well, debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic, healthy small church. Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country, Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well and how to do it even better.

Due to its raw storytelling style, compelling content, and fast pace, Explosive Growth is a one-of-a-kind business book that transcends the narrow entrepreneurial audience to also appeal to listeners and business students looking to learn about startup life and entrepreneurship. It holds nothing back while detailing the highest highs and lowest lows of what it's really like to run a startup.

The days of HR-sponsored development plans are over. Managing your career—and the skills you need to be successful—is your responsibility. If you're looking to push yourself to the next level, it can be hard to determine where to start. The HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth will be your coach, transforming your abstract hopes and ideas into a concrete action plan.

The creator of the viral hit ""Empathy Cards"" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain. When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you...

Confident Career Conversations is the ultimate guide for any employer looking to create a workplace culture that fosters employee development and retention. In this book, multi-award-winning author and career expert Antoinette Oglethorpe offers proven strategies on empowering your employees and team members to take control of their careers and grow within your organisation, how career development has evolved and continues to do so, why career conversations are important, and the different roles played by employees, managers and HR and more.

An essential how-to for crafting a guiding motto that sets intentions, increases creativity, and helps accomplish your goals, from Stanford University's world-renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, aka the d.school. We all need agency to feel the power and joy of acting in the face of...

Reverend Dana Burnidge outlines a variety of methods of consciousness expansion, with self-examination skills and building awareness of what is happening around and within, to get the most out of life. From a perspective that straddles science, religion, and good old-fashioned philosophy, it contains answers on the nature of reality and our place in it, along with the keys to some of the lesser-known mysteries.

Is your pilot light lit? Is there a hunger for growth burning inside you to become your best self personally and professionally? In Driven to Succeed, Scott Biehl challenges you to get your fire burning white-hot so that you won’t want to miss a workout, you won’t want to miss a meeting at work, and you won’t want to miss a monthly goal. You’ll become so focused that the opportunity to be sabotaged becomes almost zero. You will be so busy crushing work and life that you simply will not have time for anything less than success.

Gary Hawkins, Sr., is no ordinary pastor. His out-of-the-box, cutting-edge creative thinking caused him to grow a church from 75 people to over 10,000 in less than five years! Being a new pastor, he turned his frustrations of "how to" grow ministry from the ground up into a simple step-by-step book of wisdom and knowledge that will grow any business. Voices of Faith Ministries has been named by Church Growth Magazine as the 25th fastest growing church in America. Gary has authored over 10 books that teach growth and development for ministry, business, or your personal life.

Mastering the Seven Decisions guides readers to a profound understanding of how to fully integrate seven life-changing Decisions into their daily lives.òThe Responsible Decision: The buck stops here. I accept responsibility for my past. I am responsible for my success. I will not let my history...

Claim your worth, unlock your full potential, and negotiate your way to the career success you deserve through proven strategies tailored for women. Women face unique challenges when it comes to negotiation, from internalized self-doubt to external barriers and discrimination. But the truth is, you have the power within you to shape your own destiny, overcome obstacles, and achieve extraordinary success.

Happiness is a beautiful feeling. It floods our heart with gratitude and enriches us with the exuberance of life. Happiness is what makes living worthwhile. That is why we pursue it in all we do. Yet despite our best efforts it remains elusive. Why? This is the puzzle we must solve in life. What...

Winning once is often achievable. Winning again and again, is where true greatness lies. Join The 0.1% Academy to learn how to maintain an elite mindset to consistently deliver a high performance and avoid burnout. Performance facilitator and elite mindset coach Gareth Timmins was one of only 0.1% of Royal Marines Commando applicants to reach the end of the intensive and gruelling training, and to earn the coveted Green Beret, a world-renowned symbol of excellence.

In Think Remarkable, tech titan and creator of the Remarkable People podcast Guy Kawasaki delivers a practical, tactical, and sometimes radical discussion of how to make a difference in the world and live a fulfilling life.