Work Performance

**As featured on The Oprah Podcast, NPR's Hidden Brain, and in The New York Times** A “fascinating” (Charles Duhigg) and “must-read” (Annie Duke) book about WHAT we believe and HOW we experience the world is shaped by WHO we're around – and how to use that insight to rebuild the trust...

Your entire career depends on communication. When you can communicate effectively, you already have the foundation for being not just a good leader, but a great one…. A leader who inspires…. A leader who motivates…. A leader who is remembered. Whether you’re leading an entire organization, you’re an entry-level manager, or you’re considering beginning your journey into leadership, it all starts with communication.… And you’re about to uncover its secrets.

The Greatness Guide is a strikingly powerful and enormously practical handbook that will inspire you to get to world-class in both your personal and professional life. Written by Robin Sharma, one of the planet’s top success coaches and a man whose ideas have been embraced by celebrity CEOs, leading entrepreneurs, rock stars and royalty, as well as by many Fortune 500 companies, this book contains a proven formula that will help you meet your highest potential and live an extraordinary life.

Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and wellbeing. Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once, increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance.

WHAT IF YOU COULD UNLOCK LASER-LIKE FOCUS SCIENTIFICALLY, NOT BY CHANCE Distractions, fatigue, and mental fog aren't personal flaws—they're signs of misaligned brain rhythms. This audiobook reveals how to recalibrate your neural patterns using sound, translating cutting-edge neuroscience into...

Bloomsbury presents The Right to Speak, written and read by Patsy Rodenburg. "It shouldn’t surprise us that politicians, clerics, rock singers as well as actors queue up to train their voices under the supervision of Patsy Rodenburg. This book will explain her popularity among her pupils." –...

Set yourself on the path to greatness. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on performing at your highest level, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you focus on what matters, manage your...

Why you are a different you at different times and how that’s both normal and healthy Reveals that each of us is made up of multiple selves, any of which can come to the forefront in different situations Offers examples of healthy multiple selves from psychology, neuroscience, pop...

Why do some people thrive while others just get by? What's their secret to peak performance and maximum happiness? Some call it the zest, the gusto, or the extra edge in life. The ancient Indian spiritual tradition Vedanta calls it prana, or life force. We can call it vital force. By any name...

THESE ARE THE PRODUCTIVITY INSIGHTS YOU NEED TO GET AHEAD WHAT DO PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE REST OF US DON'T? Do they have a secret recipe for success? Is there a special alchemy to being productive? The 50 secrets in this book will help you become the kind of person who gets things done -...

In Put Happiness to Work, Karpinski draws on his deep experience at the intersection of business and psychology to lay out a step-by-step program that includes specific activities to enhance engagement and generate happiness at work. Utilizing existing work habits and meetings, these dynamic yet simple tools will hardwire effective changes into leaders' and employees' behavior, creating long-term, sustainable engagement.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the high-octane, high stakes world of F1, these are the key lessons learned at the top level of the sport – and how to take them out of the pitlane and make them work for you Foreword by JAKE HUMPHREY, author of HIGH PERFORMANCE F1 teams operate at the highest...

Perfunctory efforts to show investment in a business relationship don't cut it anymore. Business professionals working across national and cultural boundaries need to form authentic relationships that drive rapport, camaraderie, and optimal team performance—and Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce provides the most thorough and practical approach to date on this issue. Renowned academics in the field of intercultural relationship-building Andy Molinsky and Melissa Hahn deliver an easy-to-understand approach to help you supercharge your global relationship-building skills.

Do you find yourself constantly juggling multiple tasks, feeling overwhelmed by deadlines, and struggling to find balance in your busy schedule? Imagine a world where you could conquer your to-do list with ease, reclaim your time, and boost your efficiency like never before. In today's fast-paced world productivity is essential to succeed. Introducing Increasing Productivity, an essential guide offering practical strategies and insights to help you unlock your full productivity potential, make the most of every moment, and confidently achieve your goals.

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning educator Ron Clark applies his successful leadership principles to the business world in this effective and accessible guidebook, perfect for any manager looking to inspire and motivate his or her team. Includes a foreword by bestselling author...

Unlock your leadership potential by leveraging the power of workplace relationships to increase creativity, productivity, and genuine connection. Work has never been more connected — or more lonely. Today’s managers are told that the solution to renewing collaboration and a sense of...

Most of us want to make a lasting and meaningful difference at work and in our personal lives. But we’re daunted by the size of the challenges, afraid of the cost or commitment, and quite frankly, unsure of where to start. This book uncovers eight steps to unlocking high performance and the life you want to lead. Immediately after listening this book, you will be compelled to abandon the baggage of traditional hierarchy and adopt a new approach that creates freedom, results, and satisfaction.

Being a manager is no easy task. You must set and meet team goals that match business objectives while also ensuring growth and development opportunities for your people. You have to be the voice of authority and a key decision-maker while simultaneously giving your employees autonomy and flexibility. How do you navigate these tensions?

Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers.

Written by renowned talent development consultant Amy P. Kelly, Work Is Personal: How Authenticity Drives Performance and Culture dispels the notion that work is separated from employees' personal lives and instead argues that employers must meet employees on a personal level to earn their loyalty and increase their effectiveness and productivity.