Human Leadership

A seasoned peacebuilder and acclaimed expert on violence explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war and how to interrupt that deadly process It’s easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone...

Everything you’ve been taught about leadership is backward, beginning with the costly mistake that causes you to sacrifice money, time, and human capital day after day. It’s not a calculation error or a problem with management style—it’s repeatedly choosing revenue and results over connection and team.

The Executive Coaching Guide is packed with real coaching scenarios, tips and tricks to help HR professionals prepare for their coaching sessions, and tons of examples of effective and powerful coaching questions to illustrate the different stages of the coaching models during a professional coaching engagement, The Executive Coaching Guide will help HR managers enhance their coaching skills while developing an effective leadership style that is all their own.

Algorithms. Artificial intelligence. Big data. No matter what your industry, you can't escape the influence of technology in every facet of your business. But in spite of their incredible potential, these and similar technologies are forcing us to face a vital question: are we in danger of gaining the world but losing our souls?

Arthashastra' is one of the oldest books with immense historical significance written by Kautilya or Arya Chanakya as he was popularly known. This book is one of the most effective books ever written on the art of statecraft and the science of everyday living. Originally written in Sanskrit...

A bold manifesto arguing that the most complex challenges we face today—as individuals, businesses, and a society—require us to ask deeper questions, not seek easier answers “With this beautifully written book, Seth Goldenberg awakens the gifts we all possess: wonder, optimism, and the...

From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over...

Researcher and lecturer Carl Lorenz Cervantes explores the timeless wisdom, ancestral worldviews, and spiritual tools of Filipino psychology and culture—and offers Indigenous ways of knowing for all readers, Filipino and non-Filipino alike. Drawing from folklore, language, ethnography, and...

Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional...

In their groundbreaking book, Women Don’t Ask, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever uncovered a startling fact: even women who negotiate brilliantly on behalf of others often falter when it comes to asking for themselves. Now they’ve developed the action plan that women all over the country...

"The Mean Genes message is optimistic . . . a self-help book for the merely average human being." (The Washington Post Book World) "An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." (The New Yorker) Why do we want-and do-so many things that are bad for us? In Mean...

Internationally acclaimed author and entrepreneurial mindset expert Gary G. Schoeniger combines insights gleaned from hundreds of everyday entrepreneurs with cutting-edge research to create a practical how-to guide that not only shows us how to be more innovative and entrepreneurial in our own lives but also how to unlock the untapped entrepreneurial potential in others.

An illuminating look at the surprising upside of ambiguity—and how, properly harnessed, it can inspire learning, creativity, even empathy Life today feels more overwhelming and chaotic than ever. Whether it’s a confounding work problem or a faltering relationship or an unclear medical...

Hunters, Farmers, and Teamers by Joel Hubbard and Jim Zartman is rooted in the primal instincts that have shaped humanity’s progress for millennia. This elemental blueprint reveals the three instinctual drives that have built civilizations and continue to drive human achievement: Hunting, the instinct for innovation and risk-taking; Farming, the instinct for sustainability and resourcefulness; and Teaming, the instinct for collaboration and cooperation.

In The Smart Negotiator: Unlocking the Power of AI and Human Insight, internationally renowned trainer, speaker, and professor Dr. Keld Jensen takes you on a groundbreaking journey to redefine what it means to be a smart negotiator in a world where human skills meet the transformative capabilities of artificial intelligence. Through engaging commentary, real-world case studies, and AI-driven examples, this book unveils a new perspective on strategic negotiation—where timeless principles like trust and cooperation are amplified by cutting-edge technology.

In this groundbreaking book, the author draws on decades of military experience and cutting-edge technology to explore the world of leadership through the lens of both human and artificial intelligence. The book offers a thought-provoking comparison of the leadership styles, philosophies, and strategies of these two vastly different entities.

Emotional intelligence is about knowing enough about your emotions that you are able to turn them into positive energy that enhances, as opposed to undermines, your work efficiency. You definitely will love learning about your emotions. You will know that the best place to start with dealing with others as a leader is from within yourself. Yet, as you understand yourself, you get ideas about others, and you can recognize their emotional states. This way, you can guide your employees on the same and path, too.

Extensively revised, the second edition of The Manager's Guide to HR covers all the key areas and brings listeners up to speed on current developments in employment law, including: how social media is changing the recruitment landscape; shifting labor standards regarding compensation and benefits; the National Labor Relations Board's stance on work-related employee speech on social media; and much more. Featuring step-by-step guidance on everything from COBRA compliance to privacy issues, this trusted resource is now - once again - the most up to date.

What if those we lead found great purpose in what they do and worked at their jobs with all their heart? Ultimately, don't we hope to foster intrinsic motivation so that the individuals we lead become better employees, better students, or better athletes? Recent discoveries of brain science and the wisdom of top CEOs that Dr. Tim Irwin interviewed for this audiobook give us the answers we've long sought. Science in recent years discovered that affirmation sets in motion huge positive changes in the brain. It releases neurochemicals associated with well-being and higher performance.

If you want to succeed in life or career; regardless of your industry, profession (not just marketing or sales profession), location, age, gender, or any other aspect, you need to become more persuasive, you need to influence people. You cannot do it all on your own - you need people to leverage your efforts and get results faster. Persuasion is not merely for marketing and sales people - it’s the basic life skill that every human being needs to sell their view point, ideas, and get people along - everyone is into salesmanship.