Work Success

The seemingly intractable problems we face today, says author Marty Neumeier, are symptoms of a more basic problem—our inability to deal with interconnected, nonlinear, amorphous challenges. Success in the post-industrial era asks that we move our thinking from the static, the linear, and the step-by-step to the dynamic, the holistic, and the creative. In this breathtaking vision of professional mastery, Neumeier presents five metaskills—feeling, seeing, dreaming, making, and learning—to help you reach your true potential in the creative workplace of the future.

Grant Botma provides a step-by-step guide to help you harmonize the personal and professional parts of your life so family and career work together and complement one another. Most books about balance tell you how to work less. In this audiobook, Grant provides practical examples you can use to cultivate harmony, respect, and love among you, your family, and your job. Your work is meaningful not just because it helps you provide for those you love, but because it’s important to you.

Can’t see the woods for the trees? Which best describes the working you? New to it all and feeling a bit lost? Stuck in a never-ending work loop? Coasting aimlessly, needing direction and motivation? Exhausting, isn’t it? Never-ending background noise from the social media jungle would have you believe that your life should be sorted, your goals set firmly in place and that you should be feeling fulfilled and grateful. But instead, you’re scratching your head and asking yourself…it wasn’t meant to feel like this and where do I really fit into the business world?

Modern work life is a maze, but you can find a shortcut through it. We are spending longer hours at work, although we desire more work-life balance. According to the World Population Review, the 10 countries with the longest workweeks averaged 42.2 hours. Given how much time you spend at work, wouldn’t it be better if you could be more efficient at your job? The Harvard Business Review says that workers spend as much as 41 percent of the average workday on tasks that don’t add value. Modern work poses its challenges.

In these tough times, there are few people who are completely happy with the current conditions. From business executives to the everyday Joe or Jane, everyone seems to be going through a rough economic and personal crunch. But Srikumar Rao, a former business school professor and the head of The Rao Institute, says that we can learn to create joy no matter what else may be going on around us.

The world of works needs linguists. Linguists possess a unique set of analytical skills that are applicable in any professional context. In this book, along with developmental activities to help you use the tools and skills you already possess to navigate your career next steps, author Anna Marie Trester shares stories of professional linguists to help answer the perennial question, "Linguistics? What can you do with that?"

Through anecdote, personal examples, and clear thinking, author Michael Tobin shows us that drawing on the combined strengths of life, love, and work creates a powerful new way of living. The result is a provocative, thoughtful manifesto which aims to alter forever the old school thinking of work-life balance and replace it with a far braver new world of work-life integration. Live, Love, Work, Prosper might just save your relationship, your career and your sanity.

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.

“I can’t wait to get to work!” When was the last time you felt that way? Have you ever? Mark McClain has and still does. He and his leadership teams have focused on creating companies that make the quality of their employees’ work experiences of equal importance to the quality of the solutions those employees create.

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.

Business executive Shundrawn Thomas reveals how work is intended to produce lasting value and should be meaningful and productive. A healthy attitude toward work and the workplace requires intentionality and effort. Thomas helps us to a greater understanding of our abilities and passions, which in turn will help us develop into the people we are meant to be. He addresses issues of work ethic, character formation, and work-life synergy to find better harmony between what we do and who we are.

Under the recent advice of social distancing and “stay safe, stay at home”, the advantage in today’s workforce lies with those people who are able to do real work from home. Because, let’s face it, this will not be the only instance in our lifetime where we will encounter the need to lock down and shelter in place. In my book, I show you over 100 ways you can have a successful career working from the comfort of your own home.

Quanto mais trocas positivas uma pessoa tem, mais o balde dela se enche e melhor a vida dela se torna. Dessa forma, você fortalece suas relações, aprimora seu desempenho no trabalho e passa a enxergar a vida de uma forma mais otimista, mesmo diante das adversidades. Repleto de descobertas científicas sobre o tema e histórias envolventes, este audiolivro inspirará mudanças duradouras em sua vida pessoal e no trabalho.

Burnout has become one of the most talked-about workplace topics, and its impact is far-reaching. The 24-7 pace of work, constant demands, and scant resources can easily put busy professionals on a path to burnout, a cycle that has only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet most attempts to help focus on quick-fix strategies aimed at individuals. Something is missing. In Beating Burnout at Work, Paula Davis, founder of the Stress & Resilience Institute, provides a new framework to help organizations prevent employee burnout.

Remote Work: Thrive in the New Age of Remote and Hybrid Careers is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals navigating the evolving landscape of remote and hybrid work. This book delves into the essentials of adapting to a digital workspace, mastering productivity outside traditional office settings, and building a sustainable work-life balance. Covering topics from virtual collaboration tools to effective time management strategies, it provides listeners with actionable insights to excel in remote roles.

Working from home on the Web is a dream that resides in the hearts of millions of people across the world. But, it's also a dream that's realized by only a small percentage of the population. That's because most people simply don't know where to turn when it comes to working on the Web. They get sucked into one get-rich-quick scheme after another. They chase empty promises and live unfulfilled lives as their once vivid dreams of working for themselves slip further and further away.

Every manager makes tough calls - it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas" - situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you've done the best analysis you can, and you still don't know what to do. But you have to make a decision. In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers a powerful, practical, and even radical way to resolve these problems.

Successful entrepreneur and business coach Joey Faucette, D.Min, arms overwhelmed business executives, managers, and sales professionals with the five core practices to creating success: perceive, conceive, believe, achieve, and receive. Empowered by these strategies, discover how to redefine your reality and change your focus from failures to successes, losses to leverages, and the negative to the positive, allowing you to achieve greater results in business and life.

Scientific research has found that your ability to resist the damaging effects of stress - your hardiness - can reduce stress-related illness and strengthen your ability to thrive under pressure. Hardiness, written by respected clinical and research psychologists, will help develop your psychological hardiness which, in turn, enables you to enjoy more of life's rewards. Mastering the 3 C's of hardiness - commitment, control, and challenge - is essential to increasing hardiness and responding effectively to stressful situations.

In Hate the Game, Fairweather fixes her expertise and service on navigating the earliest economic inflection points of adult life: whether to go to college and for how long; partnering, having kids, both, or neither; getting, keeping, and changing jobs; and where to live and how to pay for it. She speaks in actionable terms about what the economy means for individual people, especially those who have the sneaking suspicion they’re losing out.