Career Resilience

In this engaging and insightful book, management strategist and Wharton Fellow Baba Prasad sheds new light on the subject, and offers practical advice for executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone else who'll need the skills to face the unpredictability, risk, and deep uncertainty that lies ahead. Filled with vivid examples and insights from around the world and throughout history - from the Brazilian rainforest and the "frugal innovation" of 19th century Indian engineers to Ericsson, Lego, Burt's Bees, and Zara - Nimble reveals what sets the most nimble leaders and organizations apart.

Leading is inevitably frustrating and emotionally demanding, yet leaders get little training in how to deal with painful emotions. Since the pandemic, stresses on leaders have only grown. To lead effectively in an age of anxiety, leaders must build the capacity to act in spite of unpleasant emotions, and bring a learning mindset to challenges that can otherwise feel overwhelming. Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone draws on a wide body of research to show how well-being and resilience emerges from this struggle; leaders grow by adopting a learning mindset in the face of unpleasant emotions.

Simplify DORA (EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act) compliance with our concise and insightful guide. Designed for busy professionals, this guide distils key principles and compliance strategies into an easily digestible format.

After his family was torn apart—twice—former journalist Mark Briggs launched a full-scale investigation into work-life balance. What he discovered was a surprising framework of small, simple changes that can send powerful ripple effects throughout your life—both at work and at home. In researching The Butterfly Impact, Mark interviewed over 100 people at the prime of their careers—including industry leaders at Starbucks, Facebook, Google, Amazon, REI, the Gates Foundation, and more. Here, you’ll listen to their relatable stories of resilience, grit, and triumph.

Rising to the challenges of corporate culture and leadership can feel like an impossible challenge, especially when you're striving to align your team with the company’s core values. Guess what? Creating a thriving, motivated, and resilient organization that aligns fully with your corporate vision is entirely achievable. This book is your roadmap for realizing that vision. Drawing from years of hands-on experience, the author shares insights and strategies as someone who has been in your position and understands exactly what it takes to transform your organization.

Thrive Through It is a powerful, practical, and paradigm-shifting guide that will help you prioritize wellness in your resilience. If you're navigating a transition or ready for one, Brittany shares The Resilience Roadmap® to help you redefine resilience to thrive through change, challenge, and loss with authenticity, purpose, courage, and joy.

Imagine you get the best tools to accomplish that in once place. Your search can finally end and your journey to success, high-performance, and wellbeing begins. Successful Under Pressure provides you with 52 time-tested techniques for relieving stress, improving resilience, optimizing performance and increasing personal energy when facing challenges. It gives you the answer to the question: “What techniques and strategies I can use, to be the best, when it matters most?"

This audiobook will change the way you live your life. No matter the circumstance, by nurturing the seven skills of adaptability, critical thinking, empathy, integrity, being proactive, optimism, and resilience you will immediately feel more in control, enjoy great personal and professional relationships, do work you truly love and enjoy and most of all, be happier and more robust. This audiobook is for anyone interested in personal development, improving their life, and finding small but hugely impactful tweaks that make a real difference to well-being, productivity, and happiness.

Do you want to lead and influence others more effectively? Whether you’re a new or aspiring leader—looking for your first step in building a professional career, or a manager working to recover from corporate setbacks, sluggish direct reports, bad bosses, and economic downturns—you’ll find hope, encouragement, and support to further your leadership career in this allegorical tale. The authors, both business experts, coaches and trainers, tell the story of Sam, who encounters unexpected challenges in her first job as a manager.

The future of work swept in sooner than expected, accelerated by COVID-19, creating an urgent need for new maps, new mindsets, new strategies - and most importantly, a trusted guide to take us on this journey. That guide is Jeff Schwartz. A founding partner of Deloitte Consulting's Future of Work practice, Schwartz brings clarity, humor, wisdom, and practical advice to the future of work, a topic surrounded by misinformation, fear, and confusion.

Drawing on the insights of 50 inspiring people who have suffered a wide range of trauma but are thriving nonetheless, Emma J. Bell has extracted nine enlightening secrets from their experiences. You’ll listen as they talk about how they found renewed purpose in life; how they learned to forgive rather than hold on to resentment; and how they developed practices to create calm and live authentically.

Many of us remember where we were in the moments of 9/11, however few of us can say we personally know someone who was impacted by this tragedy. Payton Lynch, the author of Rise from the Ashes: Stories of Trauma, Resilience, and Growth from the Children of 9/11, shares the story of her husband Jon Lynch and other 9/11 surviving children. Their stories are a few of the 3,000 stories (not including the 2,000 adult-age people who lost a parent that day and the countless others who have gone on to lose a parent due to 9/11 illnesses) that need to be told.

Renowned management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an exciting and illuminating discussion of how to build resilience and agility into our lives and businesses. As rapid and foundational change becomes ever more constant, a state of constant disruption increasingly becomes our new normal. Certain Uncertainty collects advice and fresh thinking from accomplished business leaders to help managers and executives navigate contemporary markets.

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments.

Punit Dhillon was nine when he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Punit lives by the philosophy of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations. In Catapult, he gives you an insider’s look at the lessons we learn by turning obstacles into opportunities. Taking you through his years of global business experience, Punit shares ten principles for a purpose-driven life and career, linking together the athletic strengths that will help you succeed in the business world.

Struggling to Keep Up in a Digital World? Here’s How to Take Control.Does it feel like you're constantly being pulled in every direction? Do endless distractions keep you from focusing on what truly matters? Is maintaining balance in an always-on world feeling impossible? If you’re nodding along, this book is for you! 7 Life Habits for Thriving in a Digital Age will show you how to take back control, find clarity, and build resilience in today’s hyper-connected world.

Trust Yourself First: Cultivating Self-Awareness, Confidence and Resilience, seasoned executive coach Doris Sew Hoy shares her expertise, research, and original tools of the trade curated to help you unlock your personal and professional potential. This guidebook poses thought-provoking and incisive questions to ask yourself, interspersed with Doris’ own candid musings.

The Emotional Intelligence Advantage is your guide to understanding and harnessing the power of emotional intelligence (EQ) to transform every aspect of your life. Whether you’re navigating workplace challenges, building stronger personal relationships, or striving for self-awareness, this book offers practical strategies and actionable insights to help you thrive.

Based on author Scott Glassman's A Happier You® wellness program, this uplifting guide offers seven skills in seven weeks to supercharge your positivity and short-circuit the cycle of negative thinking.

Discover how the nation’s largest senior living operator answered the call posed by the greatest public health crisis in 100 years with courage and resilience. CEO Cindy Baier shares a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes look at how Brookdale Senior Living navigated the COVID-19 pandemic as she stood at the helm of a company with $3.5 billion of revenue in 2020. Woven together with her own personal accounts, Cindy highlights the broad symphony of voices and diverse cast of players who proved pivotal in helping save lives.