In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you: redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions ; diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders ; and become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly outdated—leadership style to evolve... Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define your most pressing leadership...

How do you get to what's real? Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring...

This book gives you the confidence and knowledge you need to achieve your goals in an ever-changing world.

Explains that positive change is only possible to the extent that one understands that some endings are necessary and is willing to take action.

How can business leaders and organization development professionals enable their companies to succeed in a digital age? Use the second edition of Agile Transformation to improve business performance. Packed full of practical advice, this new edition features updates on data-driven decision-making and the importance of putting it at the centre of mindset change and transformation to empower teams to make decisions. As well as updates to case studies,...

Disrupt Yourself will help people cope with the unpredictability of disruption, and use it to their competitive advantage. --

"When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewhere in Silicon Valley. McCord advocates practicing radical honesty in the workplace, saying good-bye to...

Adam Grant examines how we can champion our best ideas--and how leaders can encourage others to think differently and speak up. --Publisher

It?s time we change the conversation. It?s time to talk about how being human has never been more critical and how we have more agency in applying our talents than at any other time in history. We need to have more real and honest conversations about how to build a better model of the future of work, one in which both employers and employees feel safe and energized.

"Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He's jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate's leg, and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. He's written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his they'd ever read. Outside of the SEALs, he's run meetings...