Work Success

You can have fun at work and achieve personal freedom! Whether your dream is to enjoy a four-hour work week or you love the 80-hour hustle, your definition of freedom is what’s right for you. No matter how you define happiness, there are basic planning and organization skills that must be in place to achieve your goals. You can enjoy your work rather than becoming a slave to it. No more incomplete projects and unfulfilled dreams if you follow some simple steps. In his book, Fun at Work, Greg Winteregg teaches you how to enjoy your business and your life.

This audiobook invites you to explore principles of conscious living and to practice communication strategies for you to live a more authentic and connected life. This audiobook shows you how to be in more honest satisfying relationships, deepen self-awareness, and learn how to live a life of purposeful action. You will be guided to recognize patterns of assumptions by which you've been living your life and to replace unhealthy and ineffective belief systems with truths and principles rooted in your core spiritual identity.

As a working mother you often draw the short straw. Bosses and coworkers assume that since you're focused on your family, you don't prioritize work, and they give crucial opportunities to those around you. Advice for Working Moms can help you alleviate this stress. Drawing on the wisdom of experts and parents alike, it will help you strike the right balance between family and work, all while navigating the long-standing bias against mothers and, more broadly, women in the workforce.

The Book on Partnerships is a practical guide on what partnerships are and how partners can help your startup beat the competition. The right partnerships can make or break your business. I learned this lesson the hard way when one of my first partnerships nearly ended in a lawsuit. Yet soon after, our company, Hopin, formed hundreds of successful partnerships that fuelled our meteoric rise. Within two years, Hopin was valued at $7. 75 billion, which earned us the title of “Europe’s fastest growing startup of all times”.

In this second edition of We Can't Talk about That at Work!, bestselling author Mary-Frances Winters and new coauthor Mareisha N. Reese of The Winters Group, Inc., provide fresh examples, updated research, and compelling insights. Featuring a new chapter on how two organizations have actualized the model for Bold, Inclusive Conversations as well as a discussion guide, this modern classic offers step-by-step guidance for conducting structured conversations around polarizing topics.

Are you a self-employed service provider looking to build a bulletproof business? Struggling to develop a strong, consistent client base? Do you want to take your independent career to the next level but don't know how? Writer, coach, and public speaker Laura Briggs has helped thousands of enthusiastic entrepreneurs find the liberating freedom and flexibility of the contractor model. And now she's here to share her battle-tested guide from working with companies like Microsoft and Business Insider to help you scale your enterprise and soar to new financial heights.

When the global pandemic hit, older workers fortunate enough to retain their jobs once again had to navigate enormous upheaval, virtually overnight. Working from home, often in isolation, over-fifties found themselves facing daunting technological and social challenges. If this scenario is all too familiar, In Control at 50+ shows how to make the new normal work for you. Kerry Hannon, a workplace futurist and renowned expert on business, careers, and personal finance, combines all her insights and skills to help you actively shape your work future into what you want it to be.

From the imagination stage to actually making the magic happen, writer-producer-actress Issa Rae is a multitasking phenomenon. She’s also an inveterate procrastinator. But even that’s part of her creative strategy. Blending personal anecdotes with practical insights, Issa explores the challenges of having to constantly deliver, the importance of “workations,” and the value of embracing a unique creative rhythm in an increasingly demanding world.

Remember a mortifying moment that made you self-aware? Honestly, Issa Rae remembers a few. In this illuminating essay, Issa follows her shoulda/coulda/woulda journey from awkward schoolgirl to a Hollywood life under the spotlight. Along the way she offers unfiltered insights into unwittingly courting controversy, curating a cautious but always authentic identity, and navigating the gap between private truth and public perception.

Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can directly affect business results. Yet most managers lack a real sense of how to put this new approach to use for issues other than product development and sales growth. Solving Problems with Design Thinking details 10 real-world examples of managers who successfully applied design methods at 3M, Toyota, IBM, Intuit, and SAP; entrepreneurial start-ups such as MeYou Health; and government and social sector organizations.

In Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom, and Fulfillment, soul coach and visionary career consultant Rha Goddess reveals a proven blueprint, already used by hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries, and social entrepreneurs, to radically and thrillingly reset your life by renegotiating your relationship to work. Drawing on personal anecdotes from highly successful individuals Rha has worked with across industries and roles, this book delivers strategies to intentionally reconsider what you do, why you do it, and how you do it.

How do business owners extinguish burnout, regain control, and create an intolerance for unconscionable overtime hours? What if you could make that change by tomorrow? In The 3.3 Rule, John Briggs shows how to fix the demand for nonstop work for business owners and their team. Not the demand from having clients, but the demand from self that pushes the nonstop work.

Data Leadership for Everyone is a game-changing book for anyone who believes in the power of data and is ready to create revolutionary change in their organization. Whether you're a C-suite executive, a manager, or an individual contributor, this book will propel your career by unlocking the mystery of how raw data transforms into real outcomes.

Many people are asked to coach others at work, but they're rarely given adequate training in how to do so. In order to coach someone with credibility and authenticity, there are three key concepts about yourself to consider. We are professional coaches with 20-plus years of experience with our thousands of clients. We'll share what the concepts are and how to implement them.

Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley deliver a guidebook for leaders navigating the uncertainty of a post pandemic world in this sequel to The Adaptation Advantage. Leaders today must acknowledge and respond to the fundamental shifts that lay the foundation for effective leadership: From managing people to enabling success, from viewing peers as competitors to seeing them as collaborators, from applying extrinsic pressure on workers to unlocking intrinsic motivation, and from driving productivity with unquestioned authority to inspiring value creation by leading with empathy.

Constant complainers take up resources, time, and mental bandwidth in the workplace. When you change a culture of complainers to one of contributors, you boost morale, increase productivity, and promote effective communication. In short, you get more done with less drama. In Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers, workplace communication expert Linda Swindling shares her expertise in negotiating tough situations in the workplace. Discover how to influence others to accomplish your purpose.

Empathy is credited as a factor in improved relationships and even better product development. But while it's easy to say "just put yourself in someone else's shoes", the reality is that understanding the motivations and emotions of others often proves elusive. This collection of articles from HBR includes "What Is Empathy?" by Daniel Goleman; "Why Compassion Is a Better Managerial Tactic Than Toughness" by Emma Seppala; and much more.

Meaningful relationships are a must-have to sustain and further your career. A network built on reciprocity, depth, and trust isn’t merely helpful to your career growth; it is absolutely necessary. Your skills, work ethic, education, lived experience, passions—all these will only achieve their full potential when paired with meaningful relationships. Your Invisible Network provides a practical, nuanced plan for building and sustaining a network that will supercharge your growth—from author Michael Urtuzuástegui Melcher, an internationally acclaimed executive coach and leadership expert.

What if you could automate your most time-consuming business tasks, scale your income, and lead your industry—all by harnessing the power of intelligent AI agents? AI Agent Mastery shows you exactly how. In this clear and actionable audiobook, AI strategist Jordan M. Chandler walks you through the exciting world of Agentic AI—autonomous digital agents that work alongside you to drive productivity, profitability, and innovation.

Do you feel like you’re always busy but never progressing? Unchain yourself from the grip of delay and dive into "Time Management for Procrastinators," the essential guide for those constantly postponing tasks and grappling with the elusive tick-tock of the clock. This transformative book exposes the root causes of procrastination and arms you with practical strategies. Reclaim your work-life balance.