Career Resilience

Leaders today must navigate their teams and organizations through unprecedented levels of uncertainty. It feels like every year there is some-game changing technology or catastrophe that gives rise to a “new normal” and sends businesses scrambling for how to rethink themselves to operate under these new conditions. K. Scott Griffith, a former airline pilot, socio-technical physicist, and author of the first independently audited high reliability and just culture model, offers practical and proven methods to build processes that will withstand the winds of uncertainty while driving success.

As a salesperson and sales manager, you know that it's harder to sell in tough times - whether it's a global pandemic, recession, or industry-wide challenge. But somehow there are always successful "tough-timers" that not only survive but thrive through tough times. What do they have - and what do they know - that keeps them on top?

This is the first comprehensive practical book on developing emotional resilience. Pressure, stress and annoying problems are all part of life, especially at work. By developing your emotional resilience you can be bulletproof, prepare yourself against even the most challenging situations, and focus fully on achieving your goals, getting things done, moving ahead and being the best you can be.

Professional athletes, surgeons, first responders - all perform remarkable feats in the face of intense stress. Why do they thrive under pressure while others succumb? What separates the two is attitude. Resilient people meet adversity head on and bounce back from setbacks. They seem to naturally exude an inner strength - but studies show that resilience is something that anyone can build.

You’ve finally decided to step away from the 9-5 grind and pursue your passion... It’s a big first step, but the question is: What comes next? You have a great business idea, but how do you launch it and turn it into something profitable and poised for growth? How do you move past the fear of uncertainty and navigate the challenges ahead? Every successful entrepreneur has been right where you are now. That means there’s no reason you can’t succeed too. This practical guide will show you how.

Management teams and boards are facing disruption on all sides, from morphing customer preferences to the COVID pandemic to climate change. At the same time they are floundering in strategy confusion with too many concepts and not enough clarity. In this book, strategy expert and regular Harvard Business Review author Graham Kenny releases managers and directors from their strategy haze. His simple and effective framework allows managers to navigate the current maze of ideas and approaches and maximize their competitive advantage.

Many struggle for what they deserve. Sometimes you fake it until you make it. But does that make you truly successful? Your definition of quality leads you to one extremely valuable question: What drives you? Resilience: The Beauty of Presence answers that question every day.

Ineffective crisis leadership of your operations and, most importantly, your human capital will cripple your organization. The dysfunction, disengaged employees, suffering productivity and dismal operational performance that result can create a crucial gap.

How important is it that you're happy? We can't be happy all the time, but happy people get sick less often, have more energy, are better motivated and more creative. They're more fun to be around, too. So why would you not want to let a little more happiness into your life? Liggy Webb is an expert when it comes to understanding what makes people tick; she's worked with huge companies, national bodies, and the United Nations, helping people to develop their confidence, appreciation, resilience, and communication so that they're happier, healthier, and more effective.

Resilience by Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World delivers the world's most detailed and research-backed how-to manual to integrate advances from neuroscience and complexity theory with real world expertise, providing practical techniques that you'll want to use every day.

Well-Being in the Workplace: A Guide to Resilience for Individuals and Teams is aimed at managers who need to build resilience in both themselves and their team, and improve their own and others’ well-being. Managers, team leaders, those in HR roles, and employees looking to adapt to new ways of working will find this book invaluable.

As a leader, do you feel you face a straight choice between high performance versus wellbeing? Strategic resilience allows you to achieve both, without compromise. At The Resilience Engine, we believe that everyone deserves to perform well without compromising their wellbeing. We know our approach works because it’s backed up by 10 years of research and experience with thousands of clients in more than 75 organisations.

This book draws on the insights of the author's earlier book, Lessons from Mars, providing a set of the powerful tools and exercises developed within the Mars Corporation to create high performance teams. These tools have been adapted for teams suddenly forced to work apart, in many cases for the first time. These simple secrets and tested techniques have been used by thousands of teams who know that creating a foundation of team identity and shared meaning makes them resilient, even in a time of crisis.

Does going to work fire you up or drain the life out of you? Do you flourish or flounder when faced with change? Do you have the energy you need or are you running on empty? Resilience has become a necessary business competency - key to not just surviving, but thriving in our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) work environment. Being resilient boosts your ability to manage career obstacles, make sense of organization changes, and manage transition, while continuing to be productive and satisfied in your career, all of which give you a career advantage.

Change happens, whether it’s forced on us or we create it. But too often, people get caught up in the challenges of change, creating anxiety and getting stuck. If this sounds familiar, there’s good news ahead.

Build resilience in your company to weather the greatest crises. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the 10 most important ones to help your company prepare for and overcome disruption, social upheaval, and disaster.

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.

A Call to Life aims to help veterinary caregivers increase self-efficacy, decrease unnecessary suffering, and increase sustainability in their mission to support animal health around the world. The veterinary profession is powered by dedicated, bright, and selfless individuals. Unfortunately, the long-standing and dysfunctional culture in classrooms and practices around the world expects veterinary caregivers to be ready to sacrifice everything in the name of being deemed qualified and 'worthy.'

In an era marked by rapid technological advancements, global interconnectedness, and unprecedented challenges, "Leading with Resilience: Mastering the Art of Adaptive Leadership in the Modern World" emerges as a vital guide for current and aspiring leaders. This insightful book delves into the heart of what it takes to lead effectively in today's complex and ever-evolving landscape.

In this captivating audiobook on resilience, Ria walks you through her own horrific story of more than seven years of sexual abuse by her father. She then shares how she learned not only to survive, but also to thrive in spite of her past. Learn how to overcome challenges, obstacles, and adversity in your own life by building a bridge out of the past and into the future.