The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Dare to Lead

Brené Brown · 332 pages

The One Minute Manager

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson · 111 pages

Details a simple, yet effective management system based on three fundamental strategies for earning raises, promotions, and power in business.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 308 pages

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems--the rational mind and the emotional mind--that compete for control

Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion

Richard E. Boyatzis · 304 pages

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

Tim Sanders, Gene Stone · 224 pages

Argues that the key to business success is to use one's knowledge, network, and compassion to support colleagues and encourage their growth, offering tips on learning from books, developing a network of contacts, and becoming kinder.

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson · 95 pages

Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy. Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "little people" -- beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw. "Cheese" is a metaph

Principles

Ray Dalio · 592 pages

Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith · 256 pages

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time

Susan Scott · 272 pages

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

The Arbinger Institute · 199 pages

This phenomenal bestseller * over 700,000 copies sold * changes readers? lives and helps them transform their organizations. In this new edition, the text has been updated and revised throughout to make it even more readable and powerful and a new section has been added that details the many different ways that people are using the book.

The Fred Factor

Mark Sanborn · 128 pages

Seize the chance to be extraordinary.Who has made the biggest difference in your life? Whose words and actions have uplifted and motivated you to excel? Chances are it was someone like Fred the postman--so outstanding in his service that Mark Sanborn realized this mail carrier could be an example for any person wanting to be extraordinary.The "Fred factor" is summarized by four principles that wil

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck · 277 pages

Mindset is one of those rare books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way.A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. I

Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

The authors of the New York Times bestseller Crucial Conversations show you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing good behaviorDiscover skills to resolve touchy, controversial, and complex issues at work and at home--now available in this follow-up to the internationally popular Crucial Conversations.B

Our Iceberg Is Melting

John P. Kotter, Holger Rathgeber · 147 pages

Our Iceberg is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations. The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastat

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni · 134 pages

Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness

Annie McKee · 256 pages

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle · 240 pages

The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Stephen M.R. Covey · 384 pages

This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg · 240 pages

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root ca

The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance

Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy

Sam Walton: Made In America

Sam Walton, John Huey · 272 pages

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achie

Principle-Centered Leadership

Stephen R. Covey · 334 pages

How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves and others in the midst of pressure? Is it realistic to believe that balance among personal, fam

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam M. Grant · 336 pages

""Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world."--Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown · 288 pages

Do you make those around you smarter? We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who