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Leadership Skills (44)

  • The Catalyst Effect: 12 Skills and Behaviors to Boost Your Impact and Elevate Team Performance

    By Jerry Toomer, Craig Caldwell, Steve Weitzenkorn and Chelsea Clark

    15 MINS

  • Leading Beyond the Ego: How to Become a Transpersonal Leader

    By John Knights, Danielle Grant, and Greg Young

    15 MINS

  • Creating Magic

    By Lee Cockerell 

    15 MINS

  • Leadership Therapy

    By Anna Rowley 

    15 MINS

  • Followership

    By Barbara Kellerman 

    15 MINS

  • The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker

    By Peter Drucker  

    15 MINS

  • Leadership in the Crucible of Work: Discovering the Interior Life of an Authentic Leader

    By Sandy Shugart, PhD.

    15 MINS

  • Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

    By Paul Polman and Andrew Winston

    15 MINS

  • Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work

    By Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock and Emily Field

    15 MINS

  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and They Will Follow You

    By John C. Maxwell

    15 MINS

  • Superbosses

    By Sydney Finkelstein

    15 MINS

  • Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life

    By Stewart D. Friedman and Alyssa F. Westring

    15 MINS

  • The Differentiated Workforce

    By Brian Becker, Mark Huselid and Richard Beatty 

    15 MINS

  • Brave Leadership: Unleash Your Most Confident, Powerful, and Authentic Self to Get the Results You Need

    By

    15 MINS

  • The Why of Work

    By Dave and Wendy Ulrich 

    15 MINS

  • Great by Choice

    By Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen 

    15 MINS

  • The 100-Mile Walk

    By Sander and Jonathan Flaum

    15 MINS

  • Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

    By Simon Sinek

    15 MINS

  • The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line

    By David Horsager 

    15 MINS

  • Ethical Intelligence

    By Bruce Weinstein 

    15 MINS

  • Appreciate: Celebrating People, Inspiring Greatness

    By David Sturt, Todd Nordstrom, Kevin Ames, and Gary Beckstrand

    15 MINS

  • Lead Right for Your Company's Type: How to Connect Your Culture with Your Customer Promise

    By William Schneider

    15 MINS

  • Leaders Don't Command: Inspire Growth, Ingenuity and Collaboration

    By Jorge Cuervo

    15 MINS

  • Who's in the Room?

    By Bob Frisch 

    15 MINS

  • Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

    By Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown 

    15 MINS

  • The First 90 Days

    By Michael Watkins 

    15 MINS

  • Rebel Talent

    By Francesca Gino

    15 MINS

  • That's Not How We Do It Here: A Story About How Organizations Rise and Fall - and Can Rise Again

    By John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber

    15 MINS

  • A Year With Peter Drucker: Fifty-Two Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness

    By Joseph A. Maciariello

    15 MINS

  • Leadership Conversations

    By Alan S. Berson and Richard G. Stieglitz 

    15 MINS

  • Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

    By James Kouzes and Barry Posner

    15 MINS

  • Take the Lead

    By Betsy Myers

    15 MINS

  • The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth

    By Chris Zook and James Allen

    15 MINS

  • Winning Minds

    By Simon Lancaster

    15 MINS

  • Delivering Happiness

    By Tony Hsieh 

    15 MINS

  • People Follow You

    By Jeb Blount 

    15 MINS

  • What Happy Companies Know

    By Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg and Collins Hemingway

    15 MINS

  • The Trusted Advisor, by David Maister, Charles Green and Robert Galford

    By David Maister, Charles Green and Robert Galford

    15 MINS

  • The Positive Leader

    By Jan Mühlfeit and Melina Costi

    15 MINS

  • Collaboration

    By Morten T Hansen

    15 MINS

  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t

    By Simon Sinek

    15 MINS

  • Taking People With You

    By David Novak 

    15 MINS

  • The Joy of Leadership: How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World

    By Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway

    15 MINS

  • Strengths Based Leadership

    By Tom Rath and Barry Conchie 

    15 MINS

Team Management (48)

  • The Diversity Bonus

    By Scott E. Page

    15 MINS

  • The Inspiration Code

    By Kristi Hedges

    15 MINS

  • How Did That Happen?

    By Roger Connors and Tom Smith 

    15 MINS

  • The Speed of Trust

    By Stephen M R Covey

    15 MINS

  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    By Daniel H Pink 

    15 MINS

  • Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done

    By Ian Ayres 

    15 MINS

  • The Ideal Team Player

    By Patrick Lencioni

    15 MINS

  • Profit From the Positive

    By Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin

    15 MINS

  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

    By Patrick Lencioni 

    15 MINS

  • The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace

    By Gary Chapman and Paul White 

    15 MINS

  • Managing, by Henry Mintzberg

    By Henry Mintzberg 

    15 MINS

  • Radical Candor - How to Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

    By Kim Scott

    15 MINS

  • The Future of Management

    By Gary Hamel  

    15 MINS

  • The Improvisation Edge

    By Karen Hough 

    15 MINS

  • Nice Teams Finish Last

    By Brian Cole Miller 

    15 MINS

  • Courageous Training

    By Tim Mooney and Robert O Brinkerhoff 

    15 MINS

  • Toyota Talent

    By Jeffrey K Liker and David P Meier  

    15 MINS

  • Telling Ain't Training

    By Harold D Stolovitch and Erica J Keeps  

    15 MINS

  • One Page Talent Management

    By Marc Effron and Miriam Ort 

    15 MINS

  • Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management

    By Michael Armstrong

    15 MINS

  • Measure What Matters

    By John Doerr

    15 MINS

  • Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

    By Matthew Syed

    15 MINS

  • Toxic: A Guide to Rebuilding Respect and Tolerance in a Hostile Workplace

    By Clive Lewis

    15 MINS

  • Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

    By Laszlo Bock

    15 MINS

  • FISH!

    By Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen

    15 MINS

  • The Commitment Engine

    By John Jantsch 

    15 MINS

  • Work Happy

    By Jill Geisler 

    15 MINS

  • All In

    By Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton 

    15 MINS

  • The Best Place to Work

    By Ron Friedman

    15 MINS

  • The Coaching Habit

    By Michael Bungay Stanier

    15 MINS

  • From Bud to Boss

    By Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris

    15 MINS

  • Build an A-Team

    By Whitney Johnson

    15 MINS

  • Onboarding: Getting New Hires off to a Flying Start

    By Christian Harpelund

    15 MINS

  • Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts

    By Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood

    15 MINS

  • Do Nothing

    By J. Keith Murnighan 

    15 MINS

  • Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World that Never Stops Changing

    By Frank V. Cespedes

    15 MINS

  • The Complete Guide to Mentoring

    By Hilarie Owens 

    15 MINS

  • The Lean Turnaround

    By Art Byrne 

    15 MINS

  • The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance

    By Jim Whitehurst

    15 MINS

  • Extreme Teaming

    By Amy Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

    15 MINS

  • An Everyone Culture

    By Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

    15 MINS

  • Bias Interrupted and The End of Bias

    By Joan C. Williams and Jessica Nordell

    15 MINS

  • The Silo Effect

    By Gillian Tett

    15 MINS

  • The Star Factor: Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently

    By William Seidman and Richard Grbavac

    15 MINS

  • Adversaries Into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion

    By Bob Burg

    15 MINS

  • The New One Minute Manager

    By Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

    15 MINS

  • Building the Future

    By Amy Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds

    15 MINS

  • The Long-Distance Leader

    By Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel

    15 MINS

Strategy Tools (74)

  • Superconsumers

    By Eddie Yoon

    15 MINS

  • Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

    By Jeff Bezos

    15 MINS

  • Uncharted: How to Map the Future

    By Margaret Heffernan

    15 MINS

  • Design a Better Business

    By Patrick van der Pijl, Justin Lokitz, and Lisa Kay Solomon

    15 MINS

  • Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management System That Abolishes Hierarchy

    By Brian J. Robertson

    15 MINS

  • Myself and Other More Important Matters

    By Charles Handy  

    15 MINS

  • Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the World

    By Mike Hoefflinger

    15 MINS

  • What Is Strategy?: An Illustrated Guide to Michael Porter

    By Joan Magretta and Emile Holmewood

    15 MINS

  • The Success Case Method: Find Out Quickly What's Wrong and What's Not

    By Robert O. Brinkerhoff

    15 MINS

  • The Lean Entrepreneur

    By Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits 

    15 MINS

  • Gamify: How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary Things

    By Brian Burke

    15 MINS

  • Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work

    By Jeff Schwartz and Suzanne Riss

    15 MINS

  • Disruptive Analytics

    By Thomas W. Dinsmore

    15 MINS

  • Driving Digital Strategy

    By Sunil Gupta

    15 MINS

  • The Power of Little Ideas

    By David Robertson, with Kent Lineback

    15 MINS

  • Sense and Respond, By Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

    By Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

    15 MINS

  • Magnetic

    By Joe Calloway

    15 MINS

  • The Strategy Book

    By Max Mckeown

    15 MINS

  • The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business

    By Rita Gunther McGrath

    15 MINS

  • Antifragile

    By Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

    15 MINS

  • Anticipate: Knowing What Customers Need Before They Do

    By Bill Thomas and Jeff Tobe

    15 MINS

  • Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations

    By Daniel Denison, Robert Hooijberg, Nancy Lane, and Colleen Lief

    15 MINS

  • The Advantage

    By Patrick Lencioni 

    15 MINS

  • Uncommon Service

    By Frances Frei and Anne Morriss 

    15 MINS

  • The Four Disciplines of Execution

    By Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling 

    15 MINS

  • The Two-Second Advantage

    By Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney 

    15 MINS

  • Free Marketing

    By Jim Cockrum 

    15 MINS

  • Strategy Execution Heroes

    By Jeroen De Flander 

    15 MINS

  • The Lords of Strategy

    By Walter Kiechel III 

    15 MINS

  • The Art of Strategy

    By Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff 

    15 MINS

  • The Ultimate Question

    By Fred Reichheld  

    15 MINS

  • Being Strategic

    By Erika Andersen 

    15 MINS

  • Executing Your Strategy

    By Mark Morgan, Raymond E Levitt, and William Malek  

    15 MINS

  • Three Moves Ahead

    By Bob Rice 

    15 MINS

  • In Search of Excellence

    By Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jnr

    15 MINS

  • Googled

    By Ken Auletta 

    15 MINS

  • C-Scape

    By Larry Cramer 

    15 MINS

  • Performance at the Limit

    By Mark Jenkins, Ken Pasternak, and Richard West 

    15 MINS

  • The Turnaround Kid

    By Steve Miller 

    15 MINS

  • Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic

    By Leonard Berry and Kent Seltman 

    15 MINS

  • One Billion Customers

    By James McGregor

    15 MINS

  • Riding the Indian Tiger

    By William Nobrega and Ashish Sinha  

    15 MINS

  • Outstanding! 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional

    By John Miller 

    15 MINS

  • Think Big, Act Small

    By Jason Jennings  

    15 MINS

  • Reality Check

    By Guy Kawasaki 

    15 MINS

  • Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed

    By Gregg Easterbrook 

    15 MINS

  • Where Keynes Went Wrong

    By Hunter Lewis 

    15 MINS

  • Revolutionary Wealth

    By Alvin and Heidi Toffler  

    15 MINS

  • Here Comes Everybody

    By Clay Shirky 

    15 MINS

  • Chaotics

    By Philip Kotler and John Caslione 

    15 MINS

  • The Return of Depression Economics

    By Paul Krugman 

    15 MINS

  • The Snowball

    By Alice Schroeder 

    15 MINS

  • Business Stripped Bare, by Richard Branson

    By Richard Branson 

    15 MINS

  • Winning, by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch

    By Jack and Suzy Welch

    15 MINS

  • Faster Cheaper Better

    By Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman

    15 MINS

  • Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less

    By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao

    15 MINS

  • The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change

    By James Kerr

    15 MINS

  • What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles That Separate the Best From the Rest

    By Denise Lee Yohn

    15 MINS

  • Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

    By John P. Kotter

    15 MINS

  • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

    By Eric Ries

    15 MINS

  • The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success

    By Rich Karlgaard

    15 MINS

  • Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation, by George Westerman

    By George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee

    15 MINS

  • Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty that Keeps Your Business Thriving

    By Noah Fleming

    15 MINS

  • Disrupting Digital Business: Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Economy

    By R. Ray Wang

    15 MINS

  • The Four Intelligences of the Business Mind: How to Rewire Your Brain for Business Success

    By Valeh Nazemoff

    15 MINS

  • Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach

    By Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes and Janmejaya Sinha

    15 MINS

  • The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work

    By John Danner and Mark Coopersmith

    15 MINS

  • Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

    By David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano

    15 MINS

  • No Ordinary Disruption

    By Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel

    15 MINS

  • The Manager's Dilemma

    By Jesse Sostrin

    15 MINS

  • Five Star Service

    By Michael Heppel

    15 MINS

  • Digital Selling

    By Grant Leboff

    15 MINS

  • The Customer Experience Book, By Alan Pennington

    By Alan Pennington

    15 MINS

  • Superforecasting

    By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

    15 MINS

Problem Solving (10)

  • Big Data: Does Size Matter?

    By Timandra Harkness

    15 MINS

  • Behind Every Good Decision: How Anyone Can Use Business Analytics to Turn Data Into Profitable Insight

    By Piyanka Jain and Puneet Sharma

    15 MINS

  • Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement

    By James Vincent

    15 MINS

  • SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

    By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 

    15 MINS

  • Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

    By Adam Kahane (Foreword by Peter Senge) 

    15 MINS

  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

    By Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox 

    15 MINS

  • Good Charts and Good Charts Workbook

    By Scott Berinato

    15 MINS

  • The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

    By Max McKeown

    15 MINS

  • Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity Without Getting Complicated

    By Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman

    15 MINS

  • Theory U: Leading From the Future as It Emerges

    By C. Otto Scharmer

    15 MINS

Decision Making (7)

  • Factfulness

    By Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

    15 MINS

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    By Daniel Kahneman 

    15 MINS

  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

    By Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

    15 MINS

  • 10-10-10, by Suzy Welch

    By Suzy Welch 

    15 MINS

  • Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

    By Margaret Heffernan

    15 MINS

  • Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

    By Chip and Dan Heath

    15 MINS

  • Principles

    By Ray Dalio

    15 MINS

Project Management (7)

  • The Relational Lens: Understanding, Managing and Measuring Stakeholder Relationships

    By John Ashcroft, Roy Childs, Alison Myers, and Michael Schluter

    15 MINS

  • Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner

    By Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn

    15 MINS

  • How to Succeed With Continuous Improvement - Book Insight

    By Joakim Ahlstrom

    15 MINS

  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

    By Chip Heath and Dan Heath

    15 MINS

  • The Three Laws of Performance

    By Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan 

    15 MINS

  • A Sense of Urgency

    By John P Kotter 

    15 MINS

  • The Six Secrets of Change

    By Michael Fullan 

    15 MINS

Time Management (22)

  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    By Greg McKeown

    15 MINS

  • Long Fuse, Big Bang

    By Eric Haseltine  

    15 MINS

  • The 12 Week Year

    By Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

    15 MINS

  • Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative

    By Scott Eblin

    15 MINS

  • The Multi-Hyphen Method: Work Less, Create More, and Design a Career that Works For You

    By Emma Gannon

    15 MINS

  • 168 Hours: You Have More Time than You Think

    By Laura Vanderkam  

    15 MINS

  • The Way We're Working Isn't Working

    By Tony Schwartz, with Jean Gomes, and Catherine McCarthy  

    15 MINS

  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

    By David Allen 

    15 MINS

  • Do More Great Work

    By Michael Bungay Stanier 

    15 MINS

  • Simply Effective

    By Ron Ashkenas 

    15 MINS

  • Getting More

    By Stuart Diamond 

    15 MINS

  • The Now Habit at Work

    By Neil Fiore

    15 MINS

  • Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge

    By Geoffrey M Bellman

    15 MINS

  • The Power of Small

    By Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval 

    15 MINS

  • The Procrastination Equation

    By Piers Steel

    15 MINS

  • Focus

    By Daniel Goleman

    15 MINS

  • Your Best Just Got Better

    By Jason Womack 

    15 MINS

  • Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention

    By Johann Hari

    15 MINS

  • Remote

    By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

    15 MINS

  • Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive

    By Charles Duhigg

    15 MINS

  • When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

    By Daniel H. Pink

    15 MINS

  • Procrastinate on Purpose: Five Permissions to Multiply Your Time

    By Rory Vaden

    15 MINS

Stress Management (20)

  • Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

    By Dr Edward Hallowell

    15 MINS

  • The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in the Age of Longevity

    By Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott

    15 MINS

  • Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness

    By Joe Moran

    15 MINS

  • Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

    By Matthew Walker

    15 MINS

  • The Pressure Principle: Handle Stress, Harness Energy, and Perform When It Counts

    By Dr Dave Alred

    15 MINS

  • The 100-Year Life and The New Long Life

    By Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton

    15 MINS

  • Overcoming Low Self-Esteem: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

    By Melanie Fennell

    15 MINS

  • The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact

    By Chip Heath and Dan Heath

    15 MINS

  • How to Have a Good Day: Think Bigger, Feel Better and Transform Your Working Life

    By Caroline Webb

    15 MINS

  • Stress in the Spotlight: Managing and Coping with Stress in the Workplace

    By Brian Claridge and Cary Cooper

    15 MINS

  • Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

    By Susan Cain

    15 MINS

  • How to Fail and Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong

    By Elizabeth Day

    15 MINS

  • 8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness

    By Andrea Brandt

    15 MINS

  • Happier

    By Tal Ben-Shahar 

    15 MINS

  • Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

    By Martin Seligman

    15 MINS

  • Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

    By Martin Seligman

    15 MINS

  • Is Work Killing You? A Doctor’s Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

    By David Posen 

    15 MINS

  • No Hard Feelings and Big Feelings

    By Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy

    15 MINS

  • Lifeshocks: And How to Love Them

    By Sophie Sabbage

    15 MINS

  • The Imposter Cure: How to Stop Feeling like a Fraud and Escape the Mind-Trap of Imposter Syndrome

    By Dr Jessamy Hibberd

    15 MINS

Communication Skills (46)

  • You've Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World

    By Paul Hellman

    15 MINS

  • Can You Hear Me? How to Connect With People in a Virtual World

    By Nick Morgan

    15 MINS

  • How to Speak So People Really Listen

    By Paul McGee

    15 MINS

  • Perfecting Your Pitch: How to Succeed in Business and in Life by Finding Words That Work

    By Ronald M. Shapiro

    15 MINS

  • The Customer Service Survival Kit: What to Say to Defuse Even the Worst Customer Situations

    By Richard S. Gallagher

    15 MINS

  • Getting (More of) What You Want

    By Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys

    15 MINS

  • Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life

    By Mark Goulston

    15 MINS

  • Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others

    By Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas

    15 MINS

  • The Truth Doesn't Have to Hurt: How to Use Criticism to Strengthen Relationships, Improve Performance, and Promote Change

    By Deb Bright, PhD

    15 MINS

  • Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both

    By Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer

    15 MINS

  • TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

    By Chris Anderson

    15 MINS

  • Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative World

    By Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon, André Alphonso, and Jim Wylde

    15 MINS

  • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

    By Brené Brown

    15 MINS

  • Answer Intelligence: Raise Your AQ

    By Dr Brian Glibkowski

    15 MINS

  • Tell to Win

    By Peter Guber 

    15 MINS

  • The Triangle of Truth

    By Lisa McLeod 

    15 MINS

  • Never Lose Again

    By Steven Babitsky and James Mangraviti

    15 MINS

  • The One Minute Negotiator

    By Don Hutson and George Lucas  

    15 MINS

  • Influencer

    By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler  

    15 MINS

  • Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation

    By Sally Hogshead 

    15 MINS

  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

    By Chip and Dan Heath

    15 MINS

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People

    By Dale Carnegie  

    15 MINS

  • Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

    By Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff  

    15 MINS

  • The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

    By Carmine Gallo 

    15 MINS

  • Be a Brilliant Business Writer

    By Jane Curry and Dianna Young 

    15 MINS

  • The Back of the Napkin

    By Dan Roam 

    15 MINS

  • How to Be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening

    By Julian Treasure

    15 MINS

  • What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-reading People

    By Joe Navarro 

    15 MINS

  • The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter

    By Tonya Reiman  

    15 MINS

  • Crucial Conversations

    By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

    15 MINS

  • The Exceptional Presenter

    By Timothy J Koegel  

    15 MINS

  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

    By Susan Cain 

    15 MINS

  • Smart Trust

    By Stephen M. R. Covey and Greg Link

    15 MINS

  • Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do

    By Euan Semple 

    15 MINS

  • Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace

    By Sally Helgesen

    15 MINS

  • Will There be Donuts? Start a Business Revolution One Meeting at a Time

    By David Pearl

    15 MINS

  • How to Listen: Tools for Opening up Conversations When It Matters Most

    By Katie Colombus and the Samaritans

    15 MINS

  • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

    By Edgar Schein

    15 MINS

  • The New Influencing Toolkit: Capabilities for Communicating With Influence

    By Tim Baker

    15 MINS

  • Small Message, Big Impact: The Elevator Speech Effect

    By Terri Sjodinn 

    15 MINS

  • Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations

    By Dan Roam

    15 MINS

  • Sandbox Strategies for the New Workplace

    By Penny Tremblay

    15 MINS

  • The Art of Selling Yourself: The Simple Step-by-Step Process for Success in Business and in Life

    By Adam Riccoboni and Daniel Callaghan 

    15 MINS

  • Win the Customer: 70 Simple Rules for Sensational Service

    By Flavio Martins

    15 MINS

  • Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

    By Robert Cialdini

    15 MINS

  • Audience: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers

    By Jeffrey K. Rohrs

    15 MINS

Creativity Tools (19)

  • Creative Intelligence

    By Bruce Nussbaum

    15 MINS

  • Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses ‘No, But’ Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration

    By Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton

    15 MINS

  • Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

    By Jon Kolko

    15 MINS

  • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

    By Stefan H. Thomke

    15 MINS

  • The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

    By Ainissa Ramirez

    15 MINS

  • Beyond the Idea: Simple, Powerful Rules for Successful Innovation

    By Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble

    15 MINS

  • The Creative Thinking Handbook

    By Chris Griffiths with Melina Costi

    15 MINS

  • Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

    By Tim Harford

    15 MINS

  • Developing New Products and Services

    By G. Lawrence Sanders 

    15 MINS

  • Gamestorming

    By Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo 

    15 MINS

  • Little Bets

    By Peter Sims 

    15 MINS

  • Brainsteering

    By Kevin and Shawn Coyle

    15 MINS

  • Innovation to the Core

    By Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson 

    15 MINS

  • Wired to Create

    By Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire

    15 MINS

  • The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

    By Guy Kawasaki

    15 MINS

  • The Net And The Butterfly

    By Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack

    15 MINS

  • Red Thread Thinking

    By Debra Kaye

    15 MINS

  • The Art of Insight

    By Charles Kiefer and Malcolm Constable 

    15 MINS

  • Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

    By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback

    15 MINS

Learning Skills (6)

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management

    By Melissie Clemens Rumizen

    15 MINS

  • Unstoppable You: Adopt the New Learning 4.0 Mindset and Change Your Life

    By Patricia McLagan

    15 MINS

  • Learn Your Way to Success

    By Daniel Tobin 

    15 MINS

  • Curious

    By Ian Leslie

    15 MINS

  • Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average

    By Joseph Hallinan 

    15 MINS

  • Train Your Brain for Success

    By Roger Seip

    15 MINS

Career Skills (65)

  • Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

    By Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica 

    15 MINS

  • Reinforcements

    By Heidi Grant

    15 MINS

  • The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing and Take Command of Your Life

    By Bernard Roth

    15 MINS

  • How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers

    By Mihir Desai

    15 MINS

  • Trust Works!

    By Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead, and Martha Lawrence

    15 MINS

  • Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

    By Jon Acuff

    15 MINS

  • Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

    By Gretchen Rubin

    15 MINS

  • The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier

    By Cy Wakeman

    15 MINS

  • The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

    By Gary Keller, With Jay Papasan

    15 MINS

  • Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success

    By Denise Brosseau

    15 MINS

  • Emotional Agility

    By Susan David

    15 MINS

  • Thriving Abroad: The Definitive Guide to Professional and Personal Relocation Success

    By Louise Wiles and Evelyn Simpson

    15 MINS

  • Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success

    By Dan Schawbel

    15 MINS

  • Rise

    By Patty Azzarello 

    15 MINS

  • Deep Work

    By Cal Newport

    15 MINS

  • Before Happiness: The Five Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change

    By Shawn Achor

    15 MINS

  • Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do

    By Daniel M. Cable

    15 MINS

  • Triggers

    By Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter

    15 MINS

  • Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

    By Amy Cuddy

    15 MINS

  • Good Grief: Embracing Life at a Time of Death

    By Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird

    15 MINS

  • Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfill Your Potential

    By Dr Carol S. Dweck

    15 MINS

  • Master Your Next Move

    By Michael D. Watkins

    15 MINS

  • Up Is Not The Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility

    By Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams and Lynn Cowart

    15 MINS

  • Getting Ahead

    By Joel Garfinkle 

    15 MINS

  • No Excuses

    By Brian Tracy 

    15 MINS

  • Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't

    By Jeffrey Pfeffer 

    15 MINS

  • The Happiness Advantage

    By Shawn Achor 

    15 MINS

  • Networking for People Who Hate Networking

    By Devora Zack  

    15 MINS

  • StandOut

    By Marcus Buckingham 

    15 MINS

  • Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary

    By Frank Luntz 

    15 MINS

  • Networking Like a Pro

    By Ivan Misner, David Alexander, and Brian Hilliard

    15 MINS

  • Disaster Proof Your Career

    By Patrick Forsyth 

    15 MINS

  • Linchpin

    By Seth Godin 

    15 MINS

  • Emotional Intelligence

    By Daniel Goleman 

    15 MINS

  • The Encore Career Handbook

    By Marci Alboher 

    15 MINS

  • How Successful People Grow: 15 Ways to Get Ahead in Life

    By John C. Maxwell

    15 MINS

  • Talent Is Overrated

    By Geoff Colvin 

    15 MINS

  • Family Wars

    By Grant Gordon and Nigel Nicholson 

    15 MINS

  • What Color Is Your Parachute? (2019 edn)

    By Richard N. Bolles

    15 MINS

  • You, Inc.

    By Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith 

    15 MINS

  • The Long-Distance Teammate: Stay Engaged and Connected While Working Anywhere

    By Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel

    15 MINS

  • Five Minds for the Future

    By Howard Gardner 

    15 MINS

  • Get Out of Your Own Way at Work

    By Mark Goulston

    15 MINS

  • What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful!

    By Marshall Goldsmith

    15 MINS

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    By Stephen R. Covey

    15 MINS

  • Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success

    By Matthew Syed

    15 MINS

  • How Boards Work - and How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

    By Dambisa Moyo

    15 MINS

  • What is Your WHAT? Discover the One Amazing Thing You Were Born to Do

    By Steve Olsher

    15 MINS

  • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World

    By Timothy Ferriss

    15 MINS

  • Give and Take Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

    By Adam Grant

    15 MINS

  • Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work

    By Jim Detert

    15 MINS

  • The Sorites Principle: How to Harness the Power of Perseverance

    By Ian Gibbs

    15 MINS

  • Humankind: A Hopeful History

    By Rutger Bregman

    15 MINS

  • If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

    By Raj Raghunathan

    15 MINS

  • Live Large

    By Elizabeth B. Crook

    15 MINS

  • Indispensable: Becoming the Obvious Choice in Business and in Life

    By David Cottrell

    15 MINS

  • Peak

    By Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

    15 MINS

  • The Million Dollar Race

    By Kirk Hallowell 

    15 MINS

  • Reinventing You

    By Dorie Clark 

    15 MINS

  • No More Excuses

    By Sam Silverstein 

    15 MINS

  • QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question

    By John G Miller  

    15 MINS

  • Lead Your Boss

    By John Baldoni 

    15 MINS

  • People Styles at Work

    By Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton 

    15 MINS

  • Outliers

    By Malcolm Gladwell 

    15 MINS

  • Developing Mental Toughness

    By Graham Jones and Adrian Moorehouse 

    15 MINS