Leadership and motivation Books

Discover the transformative power of leisure to recapture your calm and creativity.We live in a time where busyness is often seen as a badge of honor. But are your busiest days really the ones that make you feel the most accomplished? If all of your hard...

How to Transform into a Modern Leader That Others Will Love to FollowImagine a workplace where your employees and co-workers are motivated to perform at the highest level. A workplace with:An environment where everyone chooses to bring passion and a...

Today's workplace is continually transforming while implementing creative strategies to stand out in a competitive world. Within diverse organizations, managers are ideally building talented teams whose members are utilizing their strengths, doing work...

Profit Works will help you unravel complexity!With Profit Works, discover how to create a simple and effective incentive plan with practical engagement tools to amplify your vision. The longer you delay, the longer you postpone profit. Simplicity...

Fast Forward Your Impact!You’re proud of what you have accomplished in your life. Yet there is a voice inside your head that says you should be further along than you are right now. So what’s holding you back from having the impact you...

Are you overwhelmed with advice on career development? There's always another book, conference, podcast, or program that claims it will help you level up your professional life. How do you consolidate all that content and apply it effectively in your...

Optimism x (Commitment + Persistence) = Resilience Change, suffering, disappointment, failure-these are inevitable life experiences. Your response to them, though, is a choice you make. Resilience in the midst of hardship is not an...

Does passion or resentment drive your workforce?Many employees find themselves along a spectrum, closer to either passion or resentment for their work. Even a little resentment, though, goes a long way in threatening engagement and derailing outcomes...

Talent doesn't make the team-the team makes the talent. Why are some teams more motivated, innovative, and successful than others? Why do some groups of talented people fall short against lesser teams? And how do you go about building a high-performing...

As chief innovator and problem solver, the CTO's value far exceeds technology skills. The CTO must lead as a highly visible, first-class citizen of the C-suite. Still, many technology experts operate in a reactive, support-oriented style, struggling to...

#1 on Entrepreneur Magazine's "Must-Read Books for 2021"Do you work with anyone who thinks or acts differently than you? Would you like to understand why they think and act that way? Would you like to have THE answer for how to build more productive...

How do we bring meaning to our work, instead of being defined by what we do? "Corporate mystic" Barry Rowan invites us to see our work as a chance to serve God by contributing to a better society. With forty short chapters, this book beckons us into a...

Conquering the North Face is an incredibly exciting and fast paced book about leadership in business and in life. This book presents an irreverent and iconoclastic challenge to conventional ideas about leadership creating a wide-open, have-fun approach...

Organizations are implementing virtual teams using web technologies as a cost-effective measure for training and project development. In Working at a Distance, Cassandra Smith provides a detailed, comprehensible virtual team business model for managers,...

Become the Cyber Guardian Your Organization Needs: Mastering the Art of Protecting the Digital RealmIn today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the role of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has never been more critical. Cyber Guardians: A...

This volume is focused on the social intelligence (SI) of leaders

Designed to help midlevel and senior managers in organizations dedicated to public purposes, this book provides trained self-awareness to deploy values to guide decisions and build the culture of their organizations. The book explores how all managing...

As businesses grow, culture can be created by accident or by design. This book is for coaches and consultants who want to support their clients to design their culture.

It draws on author's professional experience and published works in the areas of leadership, philosophy, psychology and management (among others) to discuss the 'softer' qualities of being a good lawyer. Qualities which are not taught or widely...

Small business owners do not have the time or resources to consult with so-called 'business experts' every time a particular issue comes up. It just takes too long for an 'outsider' to understand their particular business niche. Clearly legal and...

This book shows how systematic strategic planning (SSP) can be used on real-world projects for professionals at any skill level. It illustrates how this systematic methodology and its analysis tools -- using workshop and brainstorming approaches -- can...

Drawing on detailed primary research, the book examines the drivers of innovation in the Irish case and shows how the new state agency for workplace conflict resolution, the Workplace Relations Commission, operates and maintains the confidence of...

In this book, you will learn about: -- Lean thinking. -- Lean mindset. -- The four Lean rules and five Lean principles. -- The Lean transformation roadmap. -- Lean leadership -- Five common Lean pitfalls and how to avoid them -- Kaizen workshops -- Daily...

The Age of Decentralization talks about various decentralization technologies including Web3, Decentralized Identity, and Decentralized Storage, and how they can be incorporated in traditional tech architectures to improve technical and business...

What will be the right place for humans in the new economy of AI, avatars, automation, and 3D virtual worlds? Our job will be to bring wisdom to our workplace and the marketplace, working with intelligent machines, and this book is the roadmap.

Stories matter. Written by renowned psychoanalyst, leadership scholar, and executive coach, Manfred Kets de Vries, this book uncovers, explains and captures the power and art of storytelling at work and in life, and how it can be applied in organizations...

This edited collection comprehensively explores Economy 5.0, focusing on critical aspects such as organizational development, intellectual capital, soft agent dynamics, and agility.

The need for restructuring and transforming business practices for the benefit of humanity and the environment is a major theme of this book. Interactivity and connectedness of people and things/data is transforming everything.

The principal focus of this book is on how games foster human playing, learning, and competing, including how we can design games to do this better. The author provides a wealth of real-world examples of how he created games for clients in the domains of...

The United States spends more than 17% of its GDP on health care, while other developed countries throughout the world average 8.7% of GDP on healthcare expenditures. By 2028, that percentage in the United States is projected to be 19.7% of GDP.

This book describes four key foundations and 25 different actions leaders can practice to become more effective in training their eyes to see things tomorrow that are currently invisible. It helps leaders and managers become better observers of their...

This is a concise introduction to leadership and governance theory and how they are applied in sport. Presenting a series of case studies from around the world, the book offers a detailed guide to best practice in the leadership of sport boards and...

This new edition provides a more current and timely view of change with the expansion of the section on the mindset of a WaveMaker and more current examples throughout the post-Covid world.

Throughout the book, the authors provide organizational executives with a systematic framework for thinking about strategic decision-making in a hostile environment leaning on analysis of real-world cases to draw out ontologies and methods for guiding...

This book demonstrates how generative AI, a form of sophisticated AI technology, is transforming our knowledge of how the human mind functions in relation to business leadership and decision-making. It describes the most recent findings and applications...

Professional Coaches - Do you want to be more effective and impactful with your clients?Executives/Leaders - Are you looking to sharpen your leadership potential to operate as a modern 21st century leader?If the answer is yes to one of these...

We are delighted to present this compilation of insightful contributions from the Global Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economy in an Era of Uncertainty (EEEU23) hosted by the International Research Center for Higher Education and Business...

This book looks into "responsible leadership" as leader's proactive actions towards attainment of sustainable development goals and overall wellbeing of organization and society. The book covers both theoretical and practical approaches towards...

This edited book is the second in the book series "Managing the Post-Colony". The book series is co-edited by Nimruji Jammulamadaka (IIM Calcutta, India) and Gavin Jack (Monash University, Australia). The book series seeks to present cutting-edge,...

Let's face it: change is hard. And yet, that's exactly what leaders are called to do-enable positive transformation for their organization, team, and team members. Traditionally, leaders have relied on a command-and-control approach to drive...

"The INth Degree" is an essential guide for entrepreneurs at any stage, emphasizing the power of going "All IN" to truly stand out. Acknowledging the exhilarating risks and the thrill of entrepreneurship, this book introduces a proven system to help...

A gem of a book-well researched, provocative, full of useful tools and guidance. A book that every leader should read and take action. Well done!"- EDUARDO SALAS, Rice University, co-author of Teams that Work"Anchored in the Toyota Production System,...

Have you ever wondered why some leaders seem to have the magic touch to inspire and guide their teams, while others constantly struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems and challenges? Stupid Leader is a book that will take you on an eye-opening...

This guide is an essential resource for professionals tasked with managing recruitment and onboarding processes within an organization. Whether you are directly involved in recruiting new staff or responsible for coordinating the process, this book...