Workplace Culture

Meredith Wilson's Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture simplifies workplace culture with a focus on actionable steps. This practical guide enables leaders to shape, shift, and strengthen workplace cultures through everyday actions.

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more....

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this "brilliant guide to what all business leaders need to know right now" (Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times and global bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There) When it comes to...

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...

Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior....

The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company....

It’s not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you. Why do some people achieve great personal success, yet never succeed in building a business or making an impact in...

Written by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth, this business self-help guide teaches listeners how to outmanoeuvre their colleagues and climb the corporate ladder with nothing more than an obnoxious LinkedIn profile, a pack of Post-it Notes and the phrase 'circle back'.

From a member of the Thinkers50 2024 Radar cohort of global management thinkers most likely to impact workplaces and the first person to have written for Harvard Business Review from an autistic perspective comes The Canary Code—a guide to win-win workplaces. Currently, despite their skills...

What really sets the best managers above the rest? It's their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine...

Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Work Relationships is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer questions like: What's the best way to have a tough conversation with my boss?

Learn how to develop the influence, character, service and vision that it takes to be a leader in every aspect of your life. First released in 1993, John C. Maxwell’s now-classic work revolutionized the way leaders are made. By examining the differences between leadership styles, Maxwell...

In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for uninstalling bureaucracy and reinventing management as we know it.

Drawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, best-selling author George Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives....

It’s time to take your business to the next level....

Once you realize the potential for change, the book's simple steps, examples, and scripts explain how to right even the most hopeless situations....

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.

The second installment of the Traction Library's EOS Mastery Series, People gives listeners all the tools they need to create a thriving workplace culture and shows why it's an absolutely essential part of any successful business.

Vivid Vision is a revolutionary tool that will help owners, CEOs, and senior managers create inspirational, detailed, and actionable three-year mission statements for their companies....

The average person has 70,000 thoughts every day, and many of those thoughts trigger a corresponding emotion. No wonder so many of us often feel like we're controlled by our emotions. Our lives would be much improved if we controlled them. In LIVING BEYOND YOUR FEELINGS, Joyce Meyer examines the...

How to be human at work. Each book in the HBR's Emotional Intelligence series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work...

What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth? Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have found and studied such...

New from the Arbinger Institute, the authors of the bestselling Leadership and Self-Deception, comes an updated edition of its transformative work on conflict resolution. What if the conflicts in our lives—from personal disagreements to workplace tensions to global divisions—all stem from...

A dynamic company culture starts with leadership. If you listen to nothing else on building a great culture, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand how to create a foundation of psychological safety...

Culture transformation expert Siobhan McHale defines culture simply: “It’s how things work around here.” The secret to the success or failure of any business boils down to its culture. From disengaged employees to underserved customers, business failures invariably stem from a culture...

A forward-thinking, practical guide to thriving at work through the next evolution of emotional intelligence—attunement—deepening connections and making others feel seen, heard, and valued in a healthier workplace Compartmentalization. Work-life separation. Work boundaries. This was...

Work isn’t broken. It’s just waiting to be better designed. What if the key to how we structure, organize, and lead work is already at our fingertips? Beneath the surface of our organizations lie hidden patterns: structures, rituals, and decisions that shape how work flows, who holds power, and what ultimately gets done. Drawing on insights from cutting-edge organizations, behavioral science, and real-world experimentation, Hidden Patterns uncovers the invisible systems that drive success and failure in modern workplaces.

Narrated by the author, Ed Howard, this is a book best experienced in audio and includes exclusive bonus content not available in the print edition: a guided practice exercise at the close of every chapter and a bonus section taking the technique beyond the office into every part of your day.

Are you mentally exhausted from thinking about everything… all the time? The 30-Day Overthinking Reset™ Companion Workbook is the guided, therapeutic extension of the bestselling reset framework for high-functioning women who are tired of anxiety running their lives. This is not just a journal. This is structured nervous system retraining.

A layoff isn’t just the loss of a paycheck; it’s the loss of stability, identity, and routine. It’s a deeply personal upheaval, one that triggers the same emotional responses as other major life transitions. In The Layoff Journey From Dismissal to Discovery: Navigating the Stages of Grief After a Job Loss, seasoned advertising and marketing executive Steve Jaffe—who has navigated the emotional and practical challenges of career transitions firsthand—guides listeners through the seven stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, reconstruction, and renewal.

This book offers practical frameworks, models, and case studies that will help leaders inspire and lead change effectively, making it an essential resource. It belongs on the desks of founders, entrepreneurs, CEOs, leadership teams, HR professionals, managers, and consultants across industries...

This bite-sized book has been designed to provide a useful overview of how to collaborate well with others and will help you to accomplish the following: understand the importance of collaboration.

In Empowerment for All, veteran tech executive and Director of Products for All at Google, Annie Jean-Baptiste, delivers a groundbreaking new approach to innovation and change management for all business professionals, not just executives and human resources practitioners. Jean-Baptiste explains...

The Enduring Impact by Kris Erickson is a practical guide for leaders seeking to create lasting organizational change through the employee experience. Drawing from one of the world’s largest databases of employee feedback, this book offers a data-driven framework for building workplaces where people feel engaged, fulfilled, and inspired to do their best work. Kris Erickson, cofounder of Workforce Science Associates, reveals six core drivers that consistently shape employee engagement across industries and cultures: Mission, Trust, Communication, Appreciation, Support, and Growth.

Companies across the globe struggle with associate retention and toxicity. Discussions of these challenges fill up our social media and business magazines worldwide. Yet, many efforts to fix these problems seem to only work temporarily, perhaps solving for the short term, but inevitably leading to more toxicity down the road. It’s time to put an end to the toxic cultures associates can’t wait to get away from.

The way you speak to your team shapes everything: your culture, your loyalty, the care your employees show one another, the way they treat your customers—even the quality of your product. In Be Kind, Gui Costin shows that leadership language is not soft. Thoughtful words can drive a hard-charging, high-performance culture without breeding burnout, fear, or toxicity. Speaking with clarity, respect, and intent builds an environment where people feel valued, trusted, and understood.

Let me guide you on a voyage into the realm of those celebrated as both genuine dreamers and accomplished executors—individuals who made their dent in the world and those today who firmly believe they can and will continue to change the world. Would you believe me if I said it all commences with just three unassuming words? Vision, Mission, and Values.

Tired of Finishing Last in the Race to Develop Talent? Are you a people leader who's exhausted from watching 70% of employees struggle with skills gaps while training programs change nothing? Are you ready to stop losing top talent to competitors and start winning with a work culture so compelling that 94% of your employees stay longer? Dr. Joey Faucette shares the secrets of champion people leaders who win the race to develop talent in today's accelerated business environment.

When AI systems generate polished analysis, balanced reasoning, and confident recommendations, work often improves on the surface. Decisions move faster. Outputs look better. Fewer errors appear. Yet many professionals experience a quieter shift beneath that efficiency: responsibility feels diffused, ownership feels thinner, and judgment is less often required for work to proceed. When AI Can Do Everything, What Value Do You Still Bring? explores that shift.

In this practical guide, Dr. Joey Faucette reveals how successful people leaders navigate today’s constant change. Drawing from powerful insights with nine culture architects featured on his Work Positive Podcast, he shows how the T.R.A.N.S.F.O.R.M. framework turns exhausting upheaval into energizing opportunity. Discover how to: Transform Turmoil into Triumph with crisis-tested flight plans. Relentless Vision Overcomes Uncertainty for competitive advantage. Adaptability Quotient (AQ) is Vital—build yours now. Need to Know Yourself through powerful self-awareness.