Success Humans

Master the art of thinking with Mental Models: An AI's Guide to 100 Thinking Tools Humans Overlook. This book transforms complex concepts into actionable strategies, making life’s toughest decisions easier to tackle. Ever felt stuck in a problem, unsure how to navigate the noise? Or missed opportunities because you didn’t see all the angles? This book is your shortcut to clarity and creativity.

Based on more than 25 years of experience, best-selling author and facilitator Ernest Holm Svendsen takes you on the most important journey of your life. The journey from the prison of your mind to the vitality and aliveness of the present moment. In his down-to-earth style and using practical exercises and experiments, Ernest shows you exactly how to change your life by shutting down your autopilot and waking up to the spontaneous joy of being in the present moment.

This ambitious book will help you gain a new and deeper insight into your life and the inspiring role you were born to play—as a leader, parent, sibling, offspring, friend, citizen (and human being, because you are this foremost). You will learn how to inspire yourself, and as a result, everyone else in your life. Inspiration will once again shine through the windows of your world. Let Lance Secretan be your guide on an uplifting journey to reclaim what has been lost—the sense of inspiration you knew as a child, so that you can live again, childlike, filled with innocence, not cynicism.

After suffering horrific, nearly-fatal injuries while covering the war in Ukraine in 2022, Benjamin Hall was told he’d need to spend two years in a hospital learning how to walk again. Instead, he made it home to his family in just six months. Sustained by his positive attitude and relentless will to keep moving forward, Hall impressed and inspired all those who followed his story and progress, with many wondering how they could bottle his seemingly superhuman resolve.

Many people today are so dazzled by the long-term potential for artificial intelligence that they overlook the much clearer and more immediate potential for a new form of "collective intelligence": the intelligence of groups of people and computers working together. In Superminds, Thomas Malone explains what we need to do to take advantage of this potential. Groundbreaking and utterly fascinating, Superminds will change the way you work - both with others and with computers - for the better.

Based on his work at some of the world's largest companies, including Ford, Adidas, and Chanel, Christian Madsbjerg's Sensemaking is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, and an urgent, overdue defense of human intelligence. Christian Madsbjerg argues that our fixation with data often masks stunning deficiencies, and the risks for humankind are enormous. Blind devotion to number crunching imperils our businesses, our educations, our governments, and our life savings.

As technology races ahead, what will people do better than computers? It’s easy to imagine a nightmare scenario in which computers simply take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do. The best-selling author of Talent Is Overrated explains how the skills the economy values are changing in historic ways. The abilities that will prove most essential to our success are no longer the technical, classroom-taught left-brain skills that economic advances have demanded from workers in the past.

Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions.

Self-motivation is a subject that has always fascinated me. It can be the differentiator between being energized by life, rather than controlled by its circumstances. Charging the Human Battery is filled with stories and quotes that are designed to engage your brain and your heart, to think about life in a new way...because one idea, if you're ready for it, can change your life forever. Just remember...people are like sticks of dynamite; the power's on the inside but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit. So take a few moments to light your fuse today...and see how high your life can soar.

Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels across the world in search of meaning. In a quest to find answers, she turns off the soundtrack of the media, rids herself of technology, and with little more than books as carry-on luggage, she journeys from Buenos Aires to Paris, from Barcelona to Byron Bay, seeking guidance from ancient philosophers and modern-day psychologists on what is a good life, and what is a life worth living.

In The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation, veteran emerging technology expert Kamales Lardi delivers an essential and practical exploration of the real-world implementation of digital transformation. The book teaches listeners how to drive digital business transformation success by addressing a key element—the people side of transformation. This includes managing internal stakeholders, such as leadership teams and employees, as well as external stakeholders, such as customers, partners, and suppliers.

This anthology of interdisciplinary writings looks at the integration of mind, body, and spirit as it plays out in the workplace—whether in birth coaching, teaching parents, assisting the terminally ill, or working in the military, the classroom, or the corporation. These essays reveal what gets in the way of our humanity in the work world and how to rediscover that humanity.

In this provocative yet practical book, renowned speaking coach and communication expert Nick Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others--subtle gestures, sounds, and signals--that elicit emotion. He then provides a clear, useful framework of seven "power cues" that will be essential for any leader in business, the public sector, or almost any context. You'll learn crucial skills, from measuring nonverbal signs of confidence to the art and practice of gestures and vocal tones.

Presenting a clear, accessible guide to solving important leadership challenges through human resources-focused and other data analytics, this engaging audiobook tells you how to transform the HR function and overall organizational effectiveness by using data to make decisions grounded in facts vs opinions, identify root causes behind your company's thorniest problems, and move toward a winning, future-focused business strategy.

Every human is born with multifarious potential. Why, then, do parents, schools, and employers insist that we restrict our many talents and interests - that we "specialize" in just one? Following a series of exchanges with the world's greatest historians, futurists, philosophers, and scientists, Waqas Ahmed has weaved together a narrative of history and a vision for the future that seeks to disrupt this prevailing system of unwarranted "hyper-specialization".

Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose? Sheena Iyengar's award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound.

A Friendly Human in Presales is your definitive guide to mastering the human side of technical sales. Authored by Ron Whitson, a distinguished presales leader with decades of experience, this audiobook identifies the Seven Timeless Behaviors essential for excelling in presales.

Embark on a transformative odyssey through this indispensable course, meticulously crafted to empower individuals in mastering the art of self-improvement and achieving unparalleled success in life and commerce.

There is an awesome human within every single one of us. The Awesome Human Project is the essential guidebook to help you embrace your awesome human and become the best version of yourself - with courage and compassion.

Internationally-known actress and dog mom Anjali Bhimani (Ms. Marvel, Overwatch, Apex Legends, Modern Family), I Am Fun Size, and So Are You! is a series of essays—part memoir, part life map— all combined to lead you through your own personal challenges and toward a fuller, bigger life.