Personal Development Leadership

For years, a maxim of the United States Army was "Be all that you can be." While that familiar slogan may sound simple, there is great depth to the meaning behind it. in Achieving Personal Greatness, Tim Lavender offers his definition of "personal greatness" through three basic laws, and then...

Discover how to achieve professional and personal success by increasing your emotional intelligence. Improve your social skills, increase your charisma, and learn how to manage your emotions.

Garry Kasparov, el gran maestro del tablero, explica cómo las soluciones a los problemas cotidianos requieren de las mismas artes y técnicas que el ajedrez: conocimiento, preparación, estrategia y cálculo de las variantes.

The 25 Minute Meeting goes beyond "cut to the chase" and shows you how to take back your work day with smarter planning and more productive action. Meetings have become a de facto way of working, and as they pile up and stretch to interminable lengths, they eat up our days and sink productivity - if they are poorly planned and run. Done well, meetings are short, sharp, productive affairs that provide critical time and space for the interactions that drive business forward.

Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to FranklinCovey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people - the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the skills to coach your personnel from the ground up, maximizing their potential on a personal level, as members of the team, and as contributors to the organization as a whole.

A Wall Street Journal best-selling leadership consultant teams up with an acclaimed international speaker and mountain climber to deliver a landmark program for transforming adversity into a powerful advantage.

Tired of being underestimated, overworked, and overlooked? Ready to stop shrinking and step into the powerhouse leader you’re meant to be? You’ve worked hard, broken barriers, and built your success—but you're still expected to prove yourself over and over again. Leadership isn’t about playing by rules that weren’t designed for you. It’s about owning your power, making bold moves, and stepping into the leadership role you deserve—without sacrificing your peace, authenticity, or ambition. This book is your roadmap to becoming the leader you were born to be.

You’ve seen people walk into a room and instantly own it—without saying a word. They speak and everyone listens. They lead and people follow. They command attention, respect, and admiration like it’s wired into their DNA. And then there’s you. Smart. Capable. But somehow… invisible. Your ideas are solid—but they get ignored. You know what to say—but it lands flat. You try to connect—but you’re too nice or too passive. Here’s the brutal truth: In today’s world, influence beats intelligence.

The benefits of mindfulness include better performance, heightened creativity, deeper self-awareness, and increased charisma - not to mention greater peace of mind. This collection of articles from HBR includes "Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity", an interview with Ellen Langer by Alison Beard; "Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain", by Christina Congleton, Britta K. Hölzel, and Sara W. Lazar; "How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day", by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter; and much more.

From his own life journey, to those of Jeff Bezos, Misty Copeland, and other inspiring stories – author, speaker, and entrepreneur David R. Ibarra shows the real-world application of the Live Ready principles through the success of those who are living proof today. Live Ready – Beyond Think and Grow Rich follows the foundation laid in his novel Stop Drifting, to map out the complete path to lead you to the success you truly deserve.

The time is now for you to make a change and take charge of your life. Your goals are not going to achieve themselves. You don’t want to wake up and find half your life has gone by without reaching your goals. Nobody wants to be the richest person in the graveyard. You want to achieve your goals while youth is flowing through your blood. You want an extraordinary life, filled with abundance.

Have you ever wondered, “If I could go back in time and talk to my twenty-year-old self, what would I say?” In The Vagrant, a brash young executive finds himself asking that exact question when his world is turned upside down. From Dan Rockwell, creator of the popular Leadership Freak blog, and John David Mann, coauthor of the award-winning classic The Go-Giver, The Vagrant follows Bob, a bright, up-and-coming leader in the health care business who leads a team of forty at a large city hospital.

Communication expert and leadership coach Shawn Kent Hayashi has spent more than two decades studying how the things people say impact their business and professional lives. In her new book Conversations for Change: 12 Ways to Say It Right When It Matters Most, she not only identifies the 12 most important types of conversations people have, but shows readers how to reach their maximum potential by using these conversations effectively.

In the midst of a world filled with disagreements and disputes, the art of effective argumentation stands as a beacon of clarity. Doug Madden, in How to Argue Like a Lawyer, transforms the courtroom strategies used by seasoned attorneys into everyday tools for clear communication, productive disagreements, and mutual understanding.

This book is a call to action based on one simple concept - that personal freedom is a choice. Beth Kempton went from being a life-loving, risk-taking adventurer to a grown-up, settled down, mother-wife-business owner, before realizing the life she had built was suffocating her. She set out to...

Your perspective is EVERYTHING! The way you see life can create crisis or create opportunities. Everyday people miss out on greatness because they put the wrong frames on. Culture pushes us toward frames that look good but create blind vision. This book will help you flip your frames from pessimistic to optimistic, from greedy to generous, and from temporary to eternal. Frames will give you a new prescription to help you see clearer and have new vision for your life. Change Your Frames and You Can Change The Game!

Not getting what you want or living with what someone decides you deserve is exhausting and dispiriting. Linda Swindling provides principles, tactics, and strategies to help you show up powerfully to negotiate for the best deals at work and in life with confidence and integrity.

Get more of the communication ideas you want, from the authors you trust. With insights from leading experts, this book will inspire you to: rethink how you give feedback to employees; ask questions to encourage learning and the exchange of ideas; invest in the right virtual communication tools for your team or business; establish a language strategy for your company; negotiate effectively with anyone - including liars; and present data more powerfully using visualization.

Lead Like a Girl is a holistic look at how to achieve purpose and joy at work. It is about turning the world of work into a place where empathy, intuition, passion, and resilience take their rightful place, where women can lead like women and men can tap into their more feminine leadership traits and dare to lead (more) like a girl!

Edward Ficher, el autor del best-seller 7 claves para ser feliz, nos acerca su versión de El Arte de la Guerra de Sun Tzu, con sus comentarios y sus anotaciones. Un texto de 2,500 años de antigüedad, más actual que nunca.