Career Change

Storytelling is humanity's oldest way of connecting to others. But for businesses and managers, it can also be a powerful tool to help organizations grow and thrive.

Too many businesses miss opportunity after opportunity to design, plan, and achieve intentional business change. Why? Because they charter projects focused on delivering software products: IT projects. But as this groundbreaking book points out, there’s no such thing as an IT project - or at least there shouldn’t be. It’s always about intentional business change, or what’s the point? It’s time to stop providing simplistic, one-dimensional, all-you-gotta-do panaceas.

Change is difficult but essential - Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws people into the process so that instead of resisting change, they embrace it. Even if you don’t have change management in your job description, your job involves change. Change is a given as modern organizations respond to market and technology advances, make improvements, and evolve practices...Esther Derby offers change by attraction, an approach that is adaptive and responsive and engages people in learning, evolving, and owning the new way.

Tama Kieves knows a thing or two about dramatic changes. Tama left an unfulfilling life at a prestigious law firm to pursue her passion as a writer and inspirational speaker. Now, she dedicates her time to helping people face their fears, tackle uncertainty, and shift their mindset to achieve the extraordinary. Thriving Through Uncertainty proves that the moment your plans fall apart is precisely when your true destiny begins. With Tama's guidance, you can take hold of the blessings and opportunities hidden within uncertain transitional periods and begin to move forward.

When I was 15, all I wanted to do was sing. It was all I wanted, until the day that it wasn’t. Then I had a decision to make. I had been focused on singing for so long that this was all I was known for. Now I was about to change everything and I panicked. What would people think? Would they think less of me? What if I failed? When you make a major life change, these are the things that will go through your mind. All I can say is do not shy away from who you are and what you aspire to be.

Resilience isn’t superhuman internal strength. True resilience is letting go of the “old way of doing things” and rewriting a script for success that gives you the fastest and best path from where you are to where you’re going. Backed by data-driven research, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for blazing a new path to achieve your goal when the goalposts move on you. You will learn to acquire resilience through adaptive thinking, a three-part process involving flexibility, creativity, and openness to possibility.

Work shouldn't be a burden that takes place outside of your “real life". It should, and can, be a source of happiness and authentic meaning. In The Full Body Yes, LinkedIn’s Head of Mindfulness and Compassion Programs Scott Shute shows how the evolution within companies lies in the evolution of ourselves. Through a four-step action plan, he demonstrates how the journey to a working life of happiness and authentic meaning is fueled by compassion.

تقسم دائماً إنك ستكون حازماً ولن تستسلم للطلبات غير المعقولة، وهل تجد نفسك متخاذلاً عندما تواجه حاجة ماسة إلى اتخاذ قرار مهم؟ إن كنت خائفاً أن يسبب قولك «لا» ردة فعل عنيفة معادية من قبل الأصدقاء وأفراد العائلة وزملاء العمل، فدعني أخبرك أنك ستتلقى مفاجأة سارة عندما تعلم أن كلمة «لا» قد تكون رداً مفيداً! وقد يكون هذا سبباً في سيطرتك على أي وضع مهما كان، دون أن تظهر بمظهر الشخص اللئيم.

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.

Whether you are a new graduate, between jobs, underemployed, searching for something better, or a seasoned veteran who has lost his passion, Turning Your Job Search into Career Success will lead you through a journey of rediscovering yourself, resolving old hurts, reclaiming your personal power, and giving yourself permission to allow the good you seek to come to you.

Less than 10 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and the pace of growth is shockingly slow, made worse by COVID-19 and its aftermath. What does it take for women to ascend permanently into leadership roles? In Her Own Voice sheds some light on this timely topic. Based on twenty-five years of research, Jennifer McCollum offers sage advice for the unique hurdles facing women in business, from contending with our own inner critic to having to navigate the often-intimidating world of negotiating for ourselves.

If you as a leader hold on too tightly—to your people, to everyday decision-making, to the past, and more—you will cut off vital oxygen necessary for growth. The solution: stop being a control freak and instead empower your employees, get out of your own way, and establish a clear vision for the future. Embrace the growth paradox to get unstuck and grow your company to the next level. By leaning into some key, counterintuitive business ideas, you’ll make space for changes that will lead to nonlinear growth.

In her first book, What Your Customer Wants and Can't Tell You, author and behavioral economics specialist Melina Palmer, applies the science of behavioral economics to unlocking what is behind customer decisions. Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. Now, in her sequel, What Your Employees Need and Can't Tell You, she offers a highly actionable roadmap for business executives and managers faced with the task of instituting successful organizational change.

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling with an always-relevant message.

In A Good Time to Be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club, which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women.

100 Ways to Be Kind is a road map of practical, simple, and immediately actionable ways to be kind including how to be kinder to yourself, to others, and to nature. Theresa debunks the damaging myth that being kind is a weakness and shows that it is not anger or aggression that brings out our true inner grit, but kindness. Science has proven that there are powerful, potentially lifesaving, reasons to be kind. The kinder you are, the more likely you are to experience happiness. Kindness is the simple and scientifically proven remedy that everyone needs to administer right now.

Transformation is hard. And most efforts fail. After thirty-five years of leading transformation efforts with multiple organizations and teams, Mamie Jones has developed a proven playbook for anyone who wants to drive dramatic change and produce extraordinary results. It’s time to take your organization or team to the next level through learning how to: Adjust your own mindset and approach to leadership so you can transform the mindset of others.

Change initiatives fail because humans are hardwired to return to what's worked for us in the past. This book offers a straightforward process for rewiring ourselves and those we lead to be more change-capable.

The only thing you can rely on in today’s workplace is uncertainty. Between mergers and acquisitions, layoffs and team shuffles, pandemics and recessions, only the nimble survive. Change on the Run is your secret weapon to navigating it all. Change on the Run provides a laser-focused guide to navigating your way through disruption, without any time-consuming fluff or theory. Change-management expert Phil Buckley gives you 44 tried-and-true survival strategies for responding to transitions and disruptions as quickly as possible.

In his years as a professional ice-skater, Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton learned to embrace the mind-set of working hard to "beat" the competition. But it seems competition has gotten a bad rap these days. We've bought in to the belief that it is unfair to participants to rank performance. Yet competition is in fact a good thing because it's about working toward excellence. Finish First is a wake-up call for business leaders, entrepreneurs, spouses, parents, and even students to stop settling for mediocre and strive to go for the win.