Management

Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted - all while getting paid very well - would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did, and with Ready, Fire, Aim he'll show you how to do the same. Whether you're thinking about...

*New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold* *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the...

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and...

The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition. Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization...

*New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold* *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the...

Read this book and you will learn the principles it takes most business professionals a lifetime of trial and error to master....

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s...

Eat That Frog! shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively. The core of what is vital to effective time management is: decision, discipline, and determination....

In the years following the publication of Patrick Lencioni's best seller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, fans have been clamoring for more information on how to implement the ideas outlined in the book. In Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni offers more specific, practical...

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific...

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals. Both...

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under...

New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are....

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that will change the way we think about work and teams forever. The 6 Types of Working Genius is the fastest way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy, and avoid work...

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand....

Leadership Mindset 2.0 is the seemingly counterintuitive, yet most effective approach to quickly becoming a top-tier leader. The kind of leader that is truly confident, strategically effective, and creates highly engaged, skilled, and productive teams in any organization lucky enough to have them.

Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well....

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak....

Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you....

Successfully grow your business and improve customer and employee happiness with this New York Times bestseller book written by the CEO of Zappos. As the CEO of one of Fortune Magazine's "Best Companies to Work For," Tony Hsieh knows that keeping people happy is the key to professional growth...

Shay was still angry but shrugged nonchalantly as if to say, it's not that big of a deal. "So, what am I wrong about?" "You're not going to want to hear this, but I have to tell you anyway." Liam paused before finishing. "You might be working hard, but you're not doing it for the company." ...

Transform your business with one pivotal role that changes everything. Most business owners think they must document every process themselves. But systems expert David Jenyns has discovered another way. Real transformation comes from empowering the right person to champion this mission.

In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful...

The control-freak, the narcissist, the slacker, the cynic... Difficult people are the worst part of a manager's job. Whether it comes from direct reports or people above, outbursts, irrational demands, griping, and other disruptions need to be dealt with - and it's your responsibility to do it...

What makes high achievers truly different from everyone else? Embrace the single greatest factor in success for you and your team. Bestselling business and leadership author John C. Maxwell will help you deeply understand that the biggest difference lies in how we face adversity. High achievers...

In the Age of AI, the constraint has shifted from producing outputs to delivering outcomes. As AI automates knowledge work at unprecedented scale, most organizations remain trapped measuring the wrong things—lines of code, features delivered, and other outputs that AI can now produce almost for free. The real constraint has shifted to organizational structure and the ability to turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Richard V. Lowney Jr. spent his career building software that millions of people used without knowing his name. The other thing he was building, without realizing it, is what kept him alive. He grew up in one of Boston's toughest neighborhoods, the son of a factory worker and the grandson of an Irish immigrant who died on the Charlestown docks. He enlisted in the Army during Vietnam, worked with early computing systems in Cold War Germany, and came home to a country that had changed while he was gone.

Artificial Intelligence for Leaders & Professionals is four complete books—four systems, one question: how do you become the person AI makes more valuable, instead of less?

If you're a therapist struggling to grow your private practice—or simply wondering why you're still exhausted, underpaid, or unsure of your next step—From Broke to Booked offers a clear, ethical roadmap for building a business that supports you as much as it serves your clients. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Josi Mara Smith, EMDR certified and trained in IFS and EFT, went from a broke single mom to a fully booked therapist with a thriving and financially sustainable practice.

Aidan Mayer is the guy you call when a business is on the brink. At 43, he’s a rising star in the defense industry—a no-nonsense turnaround expert known for his spotless record, relentless drive, and willingness to do whatever it takes to get results. When he's handed the reins of the crown jewel company in defense giant, Krake-McLane Inc (KMI), in his hometown of Boston, it feels like a homecoming and a victory lap all in one.

Master the Art of Leading Unionized Teams in an AI-Driven World. Managing unionized workforces has never been more challenging —or more essential —than in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. Leading Unionized Workforces in the Age of AI is the essential guide for managers, HR professionals, union stewards, and executives seeking to lead skilled and unskilled labor with confidence, clarity, and integrity. Dr. Nick E.

Every company needs leaders who can spot and seize on opportunities at a moment’s notice. Every organization needs leaders who can rally teams together around new opportunities. Those who can see important, emerging trends foresee the coming disruption and harness those forces, translate them into actionable insights and motivation to fuel their company’s march into the future rather than ignoring or running or hiding from opportunities.

Start smart. Grow strong. Make it matter. Wild, Bold, and Ambitious is a practical business playbook for entrepreneurs, startup founders, and small business owners ready to move from idea to execution and build something meaningful. This book is for you if you are looking for guidance to take the next step with confidence.

What happens to the organization when I’m not in it? Written as a leadership fable, this book strips away theory and jargon to reveal why succession so often fails, and why the answers are usually simpler than we expect. Simple, however, does not mean easy. Ron and his peers have wrestled with these questions in real businesses, under real pressure, with real consequences. In this book, you’ll discover where the answer truly lies, and what it takes to build an organization strong enough to thrive without you.

Is your team passively hoping for a random lightning strike of innovation, or are you deliberately tracking the storm and strategically building lightning rods? In Innovate: Igniting a Culture of Curiosity and Perpetual Improvement, international keynote speaker Steve Lerch dismantles the myth that innovation is a magical accident reserved for Silicon Valley executives, engineers, and scientists. Innovation isn’t an idea to be chased and hoped for; it’s a cultural philosophy to be built. This book is a definitive guide for leaders ready to fight “terminal contentment.

Making those hard decisions in life can be emotionally draining. Knowing it will affect others and bring on the unknown is terrifying! Learn the four pillars of self-leadership that will allow you to courageously lead yourself and positively influence others. Shannon’s easy to remember Moments-to-Memory matrix are powerful exercises helping you assess how to be more present, and make the correct decisions for yourself.

Are you feeling lost or stuck in your career? For 18 to 25 year olds struggling with uncertainty, the challenges are unprecedented. AI disruption, social media pressures, economic instability, and post-COVID isolation have created a perfect storm. You're stressed out and searching for clarity. Drawing on new research and real stories from fellow students and young professionals, ICF-certified career coach Scott Doyne offers more than just another book of advice.

What if the only thing standing between you and your next breakthrough is a single decision? Before running the LA Marathon, Debbi DiMaggio had less than a month to prepare, no coach, and no formal training plan. What carried her across the finish line wasn't physical preparation —it was mindset. That experience became the foundation for a powerful approach to achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and creating lasting momentum. In Mindset in Motion, Debbi shares her proven 5-Step Mindset in Motion Method™: Goal, Believe, Internalize, Share, Activate.

Success is not random; it comes from patterns, process, and proven insight. This book gives you 99 of them.99 Proven Tips to Accelerate Your Masterpreneur™ Journey brings together shared wisdom from 33 expert guests from Andrew Frazier's Livestream/Podcast Leadership LIVE @ 8: 05! †¢ Talking Small Business with practical insights across the three most important business growth domains: Selling More, Maximizing Profit, and Financing Growth. These are simple, proven, high-impact ideas you can implement immediately, no theory, no fluff, no jargon.

True leadership doesn't come from titles; it grows from roots. Grounded Leadership: How to Lead with Influence Beyond Titles explores what it means for one to lead with integrity, humility, and conviction when authority is not guaranteed. Drawing on lessons from business, education, and ministry, Richard Englander shows how influence takes hold through trust, consistency, and service. Each chapter guides listeners to strengthen their core values, nurture the people around them, and create cultures where purpose outweighs position.

Does your business feel stuck? Does growth and innovation feel unattainable? It may not be the fault of your business or your team. A combination of company culture, innovation process, misguided expectations, or an unrealistic approach to growth could be the culprit. Innovating to drive growth is not easy, regardless of where a company is in its life cycle. It is not impossible, but it can certainly be made easier by acquiring disruption. This can transform the trajectory of a company faster. Sometimes you need to innovate your business model and do something dramatic to catalyze growth!

Leadership Art: Certain Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty makes the case that the most important competitive advantage any organization can build is not technology — it is the quality of its leaders. And it demonstrates, through real stories and real conversations, that human leadership does not mean soft leadership. The leaders in these pages set lofty goals, enforce high standards, and build organizations that generate real results. What they have discovered is that purpose, self-awareness, empathy, and character are not in tension with those outcomes. They are the engine of them.

"I love the people we serve," a nonprofit CEO once told me. "But I'm failing to lead the people who serve them." By every outward measure she was succeeding, yet her best staff kept leaving, and she was running on fumes. She wasn't uncommitted or unskilled. What she lacked wasn't heart. It was a...

Every organization has two versions of itself. There's the documented one — the processes, org charts, and values that make up the official story. Then there's the way things actually work: the workarounds people build because the real process doesn't fit, the spreadsheets no one asked for but everyone depends on, the conversations where someone finally says what they actually need. That second version has always been there. It's how businesses actually run. And AI just walked into the middle of it. An Inbox Between Us is not a framework, a productivity system, or a technology roadmap.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Leadership Questioning Techniques Mastery helps leaders transform everyday workplace conversations through the power of intentional questioning. Based on the author's evidence based research into leadership qualities that facilitate and undermine...

Most pitches fail not because the idea is weak — but because the story is missing. Are you walking into high-stakes rooms and watching decision-makers go politely blank behind their eyes? Are you loading your pitch with evidence and logic while investors and clients stay frustratingly unconvinced? Are you closing meetings with "we'll be in touch" instead of a yes?

A business can look like it is doing everything right and still be quietly losing what makes it valuable. In Lean Hostels, Ivan Amiguet presents a practical management method born in the hostel industry, but useful beyond it: for any business where experience, community, reputation, and human connection are part of the product. Hostels are the starting point because they make this truth impossible to ignore. A hostel does not compete on beds alone. It competes on atmosphere, connection, story, and the belonging that makes people remember, recommend, and pay more.

A single misaligned leader can poison an entire culture, one drop at a time. A single intentional leader can cultivate a team so magnetic that top talent lines up to join, refuses to leave, and does their best work inside. Which one are you? In D.R.E.A.M. Teams @ Work, Dr. Joey Faucette draws from Work Positive Podcast conversations with eight culture architects and his 40+ years of experience to empower you to transform accidental teams into intentional cultures with thisframework: Define Your Culture on Purpose rather than letting unexamined habits define it for you.

You’ve built a $50 Million (or larger) business. You are living in rarefied air. You’ve nailed your product-market fit and implemented all the basic business lessons about creating processes. You’ve celebrated multimillion-dollar benchmarks. You want to keep going, but the next steps...