Office and workplace Books

Change your habits, change your life. A powerful new way to increase your emotional intelligence.Emotional Intelligence Habits is a groundbreaking new book from Dr. Travis Bradberry, author of the bestselling Emotional Intelligence 2.0 that has sold...

Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent the playbook for how to lead change - with a radical approach that moves fast, builds trust, and accelerates excellence.Speed has gotten a bad name in...

How do today's leaders shift from playing it safe to playing for great?In a volatile and complex world roiled by a climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies like AI, hyper-individualized leadership models no longer make sense. To...

Make DEI Training Foundational in Your OrganizationWhen done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on...

Elevate Your Work and Relationships Through Conscious AccountabilityResults and relationships-managers and leaders no longer have to prioritize one over the other to build a culture of exceptional accountability. You don't have to choose between being...

A timely update to a timeless model.is the most widely used training evaluation model in the world. Ask any group of trainers whether they rely on the model's four levels Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results in their practice, and you'll get an...

Seize the benefits of the five-generation workforce.Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organisations worldwide. Differences over communication style, technology preferences, identity, and politics are fuelling harmful stereotypes and...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The...

An essential work on teams - now updated with new research and tools and a new preface - X-Teams shows how an externally focused team model is the key to fuelling innovation and your organisation's success.You build a team around top-notch...

If you're thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again.'Middle manager.'The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast bureaucratic machine. In...

Inspiring conversations, advancing together.The HBR Women at Work series spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout their careers. With interviews from the popular podcast of the same name, and related articles, stories,...

Your Worth Is Not Measured by Your ProductionGrind culture refers to the false belief that to be considered valuable or worthy in our society, one must be productive. Lurking in the shadow of capitalism, grind culture is accepted as normal, even...

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Celebrate thirty-years of Blizzard Entertainment with the Blizzard 30th Anniversary Print Portfolio Binder with exclusive 8" x 10" print! Three-ring Binder Includes:Exclusive 8" x 10" Forging Worlds art print Six portfolio pages (holds twelve prints)...

Celebrate thirty-years of Blizzard Entertainment with the Blizzard 30th Anniversary Pin Portfolio Binder with exclusive Merchy the Murloc pin! Three-ring Binder Includes:Exclusive enamel Merchy the Murloc Pin! Three pin pages with felt backing and three...

The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues.If you have ever led an organization or participated on a team and felt...

The Center for Talent Innovation's new study, Mission Critical: Unlocking the Value of Veterans in the Workforce, reveals how companies can ensure their veteran talent thrives in the corporate world. Veterans represent a highly desirable talent pool when...

When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new...

As we look toward a future of hybrid or virtual offices, a timely call to rethink the very nature and design of the workplace.Over the past hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the architecture...

Anyone can think more creatively and unlock innovation.Creativity is the key to innovation, but too many projects and teams are organized in ways that stifle new ideas. You need to ensure that creativity can thrive-and that you are part of the process...

2022 PORCHLIGHT LEADERSHIP STRATEGY BOOK OF THE YEARA 2023 THINKERS50 BEST NEW MANAGEMENT BOOKA transformational book for trying times, Dare to Un-Lead will challenge the way you think and feel about the role of leadership in your life.What is revered as...

EXPERT IN THE FIELD: Carolyn Stern combines an academic foundation (she is a university professor) with practical hands-on experience to provide a to provide an encompassing system for improving ones leadership skill through understanding emotions. She...

HYPERAUTOMATION is a collection of expert essays on low-code development and the future of business process automation. In each chapter, an academic, analyst, implementer, or end-user examines different aspects of low-code and automation in the...

Manage your energy-and your mood.How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven...

Business success begins with trust.Trust is the basis for all that we do as leaders and as organisations. Employees who trust their employers are more productive and creative. Businesses that earn their customers' trust maintain better...

Improve the way you work - and feel - by forming better habits.We all have habits. Some of them we've carefully established; others we may have simply fallen into. Some help us get our work done; others hold us back.This book explores how to...

Everyone deserves to feel a sense of respect and belonging. And we all want our coworkers to feel safe, heard, and free to be their authentic selves at work. But being an inclusive colleague doesn't always come naturally.This book will teach you...

Find success in a workplace dominated by men.Sexism. Self-doubt. Invisibility. When you're one of the only women in your workplace, it can be difficult to gain your footing. Organizations need to change, but in the meantime, women can find...

Tackle complex situations with critical thinking.You're facing a problem at work. There are many ways you can approach the situation, but each comes with its own pros and cons. How do you sort through all the information so that you know...

Push through when procrastination calls.Some days you're on fire at work; other days you're burned out and easily distracted. How can you maintain your drive, make consistent progress, and expend your energy wisely?This book will help...

A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest...

If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up? HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication 2-Volume...

Are you a good boss - or a great one?Good bosses can handle the day-to-day work of running a team. Great bosses go beyond that, finding ways to help employees become better versions of themselves as people and professionals. But as a manager, how do you...

The future is here. How is your organization responding?Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing has been clear - work will no longer be the same. Employees now expect...

Seize this moment to advance racial justice at your organisation.In the wake of widespread anti-racism demonstrations across the world, many companies have spoken out forcefully. They've made unprecedented commitments to equity and launched ad campaigns...

Is your message getting through? The right communication tactics can motivate your people-and fuel your business.Get more of the ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (Vol. 2). We've...

Break down the barriers to effective collaboration.For cross-functional projects to work, you need to bring together diverse ideas and resources from across your organisation. But office politics, conflicting objectives, and lack of clear authority can...

Conduct more productive conversations.As a working parent, you lead meetings, advocate for your children, and make presentations that win clients&#8212all with ease. But when your personal life spills into your professional life&#8212whether...

Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to...

Create and sustain a culture of learning.If you read nothing else on learning, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you...

In this practical and easy-to-read guide, Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng breaks down the critical workplace skills needed for success and provides those new to the working world-or workers going through a professional transition-with tips, templates,...

How to unleash "human magic" and achieve improbable results.Hubert Joly, former CEO of Best Buy and orchestrator of the retailer's spectacular turnaround, unveils his personal playbook for achieving extraordinary outcomes by...

Are your organisation's ideas growing stale? Do your employees need to refresh their thinking?If you read nothing else on creativity, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected...

In today's volatile, disruptive, ultra-competitive business environment, Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus provide a new, useful, simple framework based on the popular Mobus negotiation training course used by more than half of the Fortune 500 including IBM,...

Command the room - whether you're speaking to an audience of one or to hundreds. If you read nothing else on public speaking and presenting, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review...

What's missing from gender equality efforts? Men. Women are at a disadvantage in the workplace, where they deal with unequal pay, sexual harassment, lack of credit for their contributions, and more. And while organisations are looking to address...

What's the secret to being indispensable, being a true go-to person in today's workplace? With new technology, flatter organisations, far-flung virtual teams, and constant change, getting things done at work is tougher and more complex than ever...

A Must Reads on building a better culture. Collects the best articles we've published on assessing and improving your company's culture, selected by HBR's editors. Provides readers with a mix of inspiration, research, frameworks, and case studies from...