Work Leadership

Whether you're an aspiring leader, a seasoned manager, or stepping into a new role, this comprehensive guide is your roadmap to confident and effective leadership. Packed with actionable strategies and 15 FREE downloadable resources, this book equips you with the tools to master communication, ethical leadership, and team building, ensuring your success in today’s dynamic workplace.

Modern employees are tired of command and control management. Employees are looking for personal growth, purpose, and a different lifestyle than prior generations of employees. These employees are in a market where they can have flexibility in how and where they work. They want and can demand choices in the work environment.

In her fifth #1 New York Times Bestseller, Brené Brown digs deep into the paradoxical strength that lies at the heart of vulnerability, encouraging readers to find the courage to embrace daring leadership. Dare to Lead is a step-by-step user manual to bring joy, fairness, and authenticity into the workplace. Brown presents clear strategies to help readers become more effective leaders by understanding basic human psychology and the need for connection.

Authority can be visually compelling, yet it carries immense responsibility. Gavin Appleby's book, The Manager's Problem Solving Handbook for Almost Every Managerial Work Matter, directs listeners through the complications of leadership. It is an indispensable guide for converting challenges into possibilities for evolution and effective management, whether you're a seasoned executive or new to leadership.

Building or running a business is more than a journey. It’s an adventure. Adventure assumes there is risk in the air. For many business owners, the adventure of building a business is a long one, and there are many lessons to be learned over that extended period of time. That takes unwavering...

HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ), and shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity—in work and life—via her three-step path toward EQ Fitness. Emotions can sink us, or they can power us like fuel to succeed...

ChatGPT Day Job Killer 2025 reveals 20 PROVEN AI-powered income methods that allow you to make money on autopilot, scale your earnings, and replace your day job—without coding, big investments, or years of experience.

Companies with the best cultures generate stock market returns of twice the general market and enjoy half the employee turnover of their peers. Their staff innovate more, deliver better customer service, and, hands-down, beat the competition. These companies outperform and disrupt their markets. Build It has found these rebels and the rule breakers. From small startups to global powerhouses, this book shows that courage, commitment and a people-centric mindset, rather than money and resources, are what you need to turn an average business into a category leader.

It’s not enough to hire an executive assistant and hope for the best. They can be your project manager, personal assistant, and chief of staff—if you know how to cultivate a partnership. In The 29-Hour Work Day, EA specialists and ProAssisting founders Ethan Bull and Stephanie Bull reveal their framework for building an alliance with the right EA to support your professional and personal growth. Their five performance multipliers show how to hire a trustworthy assistant, establish expectations, and set guidelines that will enable you both to accomplish goals.

Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been...

In Leading Through the Crossfire, Lt. Col. Pike shares his experiences and those of others who have faced and conquered toxic leadership. He provides practical advice on how to approach agencies responsible for addressing leadership failings and explores alternative routes when official channels fail. By the end of this book, listeners will have gained the skills needed to identify, manage, and ultimately overcome the challenges posed by toxic leaders in their work environments.

Whether you're negotiating a salary, a deal with a supplier, or your workload, thoughtful preparation increases your confidence, resilience—and results. But it's not just numbers and strategies. Advocating for yourself, your team, and your business can feel personal, so you also need to manage the emotions that arise during the process. Next-Level Negotiating provides the research, advice, and practical tips you need to counter the harmful stereotypes about women and negotiation to communicate clearly who you are and what you need.

Do you need to get ahead in life by working with others and desire to better convince them? Do you feel that you need to influence and analyze people? Do you feel like you lack leadership skills, and would like to develop them to stay ahead of the pack? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, keep reading. This audiobook will guide you on becoming a leader (even if you do not know anything about leadership) and a person of value.

When women we admire such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg advise "Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes" and Vice President Kamala Harris has to remind a room full of men "I'm speaking," it can feel as though having our own voices heard at work can be a lost cause. Whether we're confronting a colleague about an inappropriate comment or trying to avoid being talked over by a male colleague—again—we can find ways to have our voices heard at work. Speak Up, Speak Out helps listeners use their voices more effectively to sound off on issues large and small.

Virtual Training is the definitive guide to delivering virtual training that engages learners and makes new skills and behavioral changes stick. Jeb Blount, one of the most celebrated trainers and authors of our generation, walks you step-by-step through the seven elements of effective, engaging virtual learning experiences.

For most salespeople, "accountability" is a terrifying word. It usually conjures up images of micromanagers controlling their employees' every move. In Accountability the Sandler Way, Hamish Knox shows how sales managers can create an accountability-driven work culture for their teams and themselves...by investing just 20 minutes a week in the classic Sandler sales and management principles. Sandler clients - both managers and salespeople - discover that sustainable success in the world of sales comes from being accountable to specific, measurable actions.

This book will give you a head start if your goal is to start using work visualization tools such as Kanban for your business. The methods discussed in this book have been proven effective for several businesses and learning about them might just give you an advantage over your competitors who have yet to adopt to this kind of thinking.

Two Robert Updegraff classics in work and business come together for the first time to show a new generation of visionaries and entrepreneurs how to truly work smarter and not harder! The Subconscious Mind in Business: A Six Hour Day for Executives explains how business executives and owners can lower hours worked while boosting productivity by employing both minds: conscious and subconscious. Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman is the enduring classic about a young man whose ability to spot the obvious raises his position high up in the ranks in the advertising world.

Some of the world's most successful companies - Google, Disney, Starbucks - are not simply profit-driven, but purpose-driven. They identify the purpose behind why they do what they do and let their "why" drive what they do every day. Nicholas Pearce argues that we all should do the same: discover our "why" and commit to the journey of aligning our daily work with our life's work. The Purpose Path is for people in any field who long to have more than just a job or a career, but a true vocation that allows them to connect their soul with their role.

Your boss plays an important role in your career. So how do you navigate this delicate, significant professional relationship without playing political games or compromising your character? Managing Up offers concise, expert tips.