Work Leadership

Gone are the days of leading through fear and control. Now more than ever, workplaces need to be people-focused, and Leaders Assemble is the guide to making that shift. Whether you're an aspiring, new, or established leader, this audiobook covers the essentials of great coaching, leadership, and simply being a good human in the workplace. This audiobook is for everyone, not just leaders, offering insights into what a healthy, inclusive, and safe work environment should feel like.

Stress doesn't have to control you or ruin your life. Managed properly, stress can become a positive factor in your life and contribute to your success and well-being. When you treat stress like an employee and get it to work for you instead of against you, your life will quickly improve. Filled with fascinating information and useful tools, Put Stress to Work, will revolutionize the way you view stress and provide practical tools to enlist it to help you achieve your life purpose. Written with compassion and understanding, Put Stress to Work is a book you'll listen to with a highlighter in hand and recommend to your friends.

Expand the Circle will transform how you think about your natural leadership ability, equip you with a suite of actionable tools, and inspire you to realize your full potential. With its unique blend of thought-provoking and entertaining stories, compelling research, and hands-on exercises, Expand the Circle is a lively listen and a clear roadmap to enlightened leadership.

Kelly Perdew, winner of The Apprentice 2, has what it takes to lead. His secret weapon: the principles he learned at West Point, as a U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and as an Airborne Ranger, principles that he's applied to business with the same firepower determination that makes our military the best on the battlefield.

As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance.

Change is never a stepwise or easily prescribed process. Rather, it is messy and complicated, and its outcomes are easily swayed by a host of factors. In this context, leaders need to develop and utilize realistic frameworks for organizational change. They need to implement a holistic change model that defines and justifies the proposed change, and takes account of both the abilities of those who will be asked to lead and carry out the change, and the context in which the change is to occur.

It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell argue that our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, and — ironically — less innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, The Innovation Delusion shows how the ideology of change for its own sake has proved a disaster.

According to studies, we all work for the same thing--and it's not just money. It's meaning. Through our work, we seek a sense of purpose, contribution, connection, value, and hope. Digging down to the meaning of work taps our resilience in hard times and our passion in good times. That's the simple but profound premise behind this groundbreaking book by renowned management expert Dave Ulrich and psychologist Wendy Ulrich.

Mindfulness at Work for Dummies provides essential guidance for employees at all levels of an organization who are seeking more focus and clarity in their work. The audiobook contains guided mindfulness exercises and meditations suited to workplace scenarios, a core feature of mindfulness programs.

How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people. The book offers the steps necessary to building the new principles and guardrails to empower flexible, high-performing teams. And it teaches listeners to lead with purpose, to manage and measure differently, and to believe that by letting go, they'll get more back than they thought possible.

With clear, jargon-free language, How Management Works is a definitive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of organisational management. Learn whether it is more effective to lead through influence or control, whether delegation is the key to productivity, and how to deal with different personalities.

Transform your coaching abilities and lead your team to success with this comprehensive guide.

Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing is clear - work will no longer be the same. The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking about creating a work-from-anywhere organization, harnessing AI as part of your team, creating an inclusive culture, and building a purpose-driven organization.

Throughout the history of business, employees had to adapt to managers and managers had to adapt to organizations. In the future, this is reversed with managers and organizations adapting to employees. This means that in order to succeed and thrive, organizations must rethink and challenge everything they know about work. The demographics of employees are changing and so are employee expectations, values, attitudes, and styles of working.

Tauche ein in die Welt von Max. Max kann es nicht fassen, er findet sich im Seminar Konfliktmanagement für Führungskräfte wieder. Seine Mitarbeiter haben sich beschwert, er sei cholerisch und aufbrausend. Das sieht Max nicht so. Wenn er sich in einem Wort beschreiben muss, sagt er: ergebnisorientiert. Im Seminar hingegen denken alle: lösungsorientiert. Max versteht nicht, was an einer soliden Konfrontation auszusetzen ist. Für ihn ist Karriere kein Klettergerüst, sondern eine Leiter, auf der man Sprosse für Sprosse aufsteigt. Wer als Erstes oben ist, hat gewonnen!

Sarcasm is so deliciously tempting, especially when there are so many possible things to skewer at work! Sarcasm is a higher-level intelligence function - you've got to be bright to do it well. However, there can be a huge perceptual cost to you for indulging in this behavior. We'll describe the price and suggest alternatives for using your intelligence that won't harm the way you're perceived.

There are times when anger and pride create tremendous issues in communication and productivity. Our pride can keep us from asking for the help we need at the time we need it most. Anger can not only linger for years but can inflict stress on the people around you. We'll help you look at forgiveness in a whole new way, allowing you to move on with your life at work.

Apocrypha is a Greek word that means "something hidden". The term is often used for writings of the church that are not generally accepted as authentic or inspired. It is unclear what the motivation was for writing many of these works. But often they fill in gaps of information where the Bible is silent.

We are in a period of change. We need to think and act differently. The new world of work is significantly more digitized and decentralized than before—a transformation accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. We need to orient ourselves differently to be successful, shifting from transactional to human-centric management, mindsets, and methods to deal with the faster pace of business developments, continuing uncertainties, more complex issues, and an increase in multidimensional projects.

The need for skills that defy disruption has never been so urgent, as traditional workplace models give way to confronting new rules of engagement. If you’re looking for job security, growth and acceleration in a radical new workforce, then Future Fit is the place to start. Award-winning author Andrea Clarke shares her experience, expertise and tactical advice on how to become truly future fit.