Career Change

After three years of living his dream as a professional baseball pitcher, Mike Robbins had an arm injury that benched him for good, and when this happened, he had to figure out who he was without the identity of "baseball player" - a process fraught with emotional highs and lows. He quickly realized that the self-criticism and self-doubt he was feeling are epidemic in our culture. Too often we base our value on our external world - our jobs, finances, appearance, or various other factors.

Can a creative mind thrive in a corporate landscape? Can a business leader use creativity to guide teams more effectively? From one of today’s leading creative minds comes a book for modern rebels on building a rewarding life without losing your edge. Written for uncompromising creative thinkers and aspiring changemakers, The Art of Creative Rebellion encapsulates insights and wisdom collected over a life of creative and professional prosperity.

Traditional leadership frameworks emphasize control over making connections, but that underestimates the value of collaboration. By sharing the lessons of facilitative leadership, Invisible Leader gives you a new framework for tapping into your team’s potential. This book will show you how to approach, prepare, and guide team meetings to their best outcomes as well as how to use reflection to improve every stage of your work.

Lifestyle changes can be overwhelming: It’s hard to take on major goals without falling prey to self-doubt. But with kaizen, big goals become small, approachable steps. This Japanese method first made waves in the business world by launching Toyota to success; it also adds magic to Marie Kondo’s life-changing method of tidying up. As Kondo puts it: “You can take the first small step toward your dream today, and keep taking small steps to grow your passions.” Now, Sarah Harvey unlocks kaizen’s amazing potential to enhance our everyday lives.

In Steel Backbone, Soft Heart, Chief Diversity Officer at SmileDirectClub, Cheryl DeSantis, debunks the myth that you must be detached and unfeeling to be an effective leader. With 10 essential principles of heart-centered leadership, DeSantis helps business executives and managers champion and value the person first, over profit or production.

There's no shortage of advice out there on how to perform better, and better than others, at work. The problem is knowing which methods are actually proven to work-and how you should act on them to get the best results.

This program is read by the author. Tiffany Pham, founder and CEO of Mogul, created one of the most successful platforms for girls worldwide, reaching millions of people to enact true change in their lives, after receiving thousands of emails asking for advice. In Girl Mogul, she speaks directly to teens and young adults, sharing insights from her own life as well as from the lives of the most incredible and inspiring women on Mogul. Tiffany has proven that with the right attitude, the right people, and the right vision, there’s nothing girls can’t do.

Discover design strategies for using your own unique social identities and experiences as inspiration to challenge the status quo and create the kind of lasting change that leads to greater equity and social justice, from Stanford University's d.school.

Unlock your potential and transform your expertise into a thriving online business with "Online Course Mastery: The Ultimate Guide to Creating and Marketing Profitable Online Courses." This indispensable resource is crafted for educators, innovators, and anyone eager to share their unique skills with the world.

Discover eight powerful mindset shifts that enable leaders and those they lead to adapt and thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership, but recent events have seriously stress tested this idea. How do you find calm in the midst of all this chaos?

With extensive and inspiring examples of stories containing these attributes, the authors illustrate how listeners can harness the power of stories within their company in order to change or create a winning culture to align with any strategy.

Johnson provides an eminently practical framework for understanding how a business model actually works. Identifying its four fundamental building blocks, he lays out a structured and repeatable process for reinventing an existing business model or creating a new one and then incubating and scaling it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. In a new chapter on digital transformation, he shows how serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully.

In an age where persuasion is key and influence could be the difference between success and obscurity, Ronald Gill uncovers the greatest strokes of human psychology and leadership in his groundbreaking new book, "17 Rules of Influence and Power." Gill pulls a curtain on the fragile dance of human interactions, revealing the subtle nuances and potent strategies that impact our perceptions, decisions, and relationships.

Lead a winning team created on trust and success. Taking a page from Facebook, Eric Coryell has created a teamwork model that creates trust, success, and true accountability. How? By redefining your team's model to be customer-facing as opposed to reporting up! The strongest and most successful teams function through accountability and shared trust - two pillars that on paper, most teams claim to do but rarely accomplish when structured with traditional methods. With Eric's proven technique, you will see results and manage a team built on trust, shared success, and accountability.

From counselor and popular radio host Dr. Randy Carlson comes a new book containing the surprising truth: Living a better life is easier than you think! Instead of making big resolutions that quickly overwhelm you, The Power of One Thing invites you to begin moving toward change one daily, intentional step at a time. Youll learn how to figure out which positive change can make the biggest payoff in your life.

Imagine that you live your entire life in one room. Inside are all the people with whom you have ever had a relationship. The room is infinitely large, and anyone you let in will be in your room for the rest of your life. Neurologists report that as far as your brain is concerned, the metaphor is real—memories and emotions continue to influence you, for better or worse, long after their external cause has disappeared. So who do you want in your room?

In today's dynamic world of healthcare, where innovations surge forward and patient needs grow increasingly complex, there emerges a renewed emphasis on the value of teamwork. This isn't the teamwork of yesteryears, confined within silos of specializations. This is an intricate dance of collaboration where doctors, nurses, and professionals spanning the healthcare spectrum come together as a unified force, dedicated to delivering the best possible patient outcomes.

Have you ever felt trapped by your mind? Do you find yourself always worrying and questioning why it feels as if you're not in control of your life? If you answered yes, maybe it's time to move forward and change it. Changing Your Mind is crucial to the psychology of success. When you change your mind, you give yourself the ability to achieve the success you've always longed for.

In The Easiest Way to Live, you will find the keys to becoming your true self, being in harmony with life and pure in heart, which is a state of essential clarity. You will discover that most of the challenges you face are caused by past patterns and memories that keep replaying in your subconscious and block you from being who you really are. You will find that no problems exist outside of you, and since they are inside of you, you have the ability to take 100 percent responsibility for them and neutralize them.   

Small Boy Big Profits is mainly about the journey of an ambitious young guy who started from nothing to something, embracing the challenges through sheer determination and willpower; but through resilience, he managed to manifest and enact his desires.