Career Resilience

Have you ever dreaded Sunday night, got a pit in your stomach on the way to work, or had your heartbeat speed up at the sound of your boss’s voice? If so, you may have had anxiety at work. In this empathetic and wise guide, executive coaches and gurus of gratitude Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton explore the causes of workplace stress and anxiety and the management practices that have proven successful in reducing tension and cultivating calm.

Have you ever been in a position when you felt compelled to break emotionally? Do you ever wonder why your emotions get the best of you at times? Have you ever pondered over what the term "emotional flexibility" means and why it is so vital to health? Wesley Holland has highlighted the most fundamental characteristics of creating emotional flexibility in his book, Emotional Flexibility: Essential Guide to Master Stress and Build Resilience for a Better Life. This book not only explains but also teaches the notion of bending rather than breaking.

"Backpack to Rucksack - Insight into Leadership and Resilience by Military Experts" is a powerful book that offers practical and actionable guidance on leadership and resilience from the perspective of military experts. Drawing on his extensive knowledge and experiences, the author provides valuable insights and relatable anecdotes that make the concepts accessible and applicable to a wide range of listeners.

Two former Harvard faculty—one an internationally-recognized negotiator and conflict management expert from Harvard Law, the other a leading behavioral neurologist and cutting-edge scientist from Harvard Med—join forces to introduce conflict resilience: the radical act of sitting in and growing from conflict to break the bad habits that sabotage our politics, workplaces, and most important relationships.

In Post-Traumatic Thriving: The Art, Science & Stories of Resilience, world-renowned expert on disasters and trauma Dr. Randall Bell interweaves science and academic research with stories of people who have not just survived, but have used their trauma as their fuel to thrive.

How important is it that you're happy? We can't be happy all the time, but happy people get sick less often, have more energy, are better motivated and more creative. They're more fun to be around, too. So why would you not want to let a little more happiness into your life? Liggy Webb is an expert when it comes to understanding what makes people tick; she's worked with huge companies, national bodies, and the United Nations, helping people to develop their confidence, appreciation, resilience, and communication so that they're happier, healthier, and more effective.

Resilience by Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World delivers the world's most detailed and research-backed how-to manual to integrate advances from neuroscience and complexity theory with real world expertise, providing practical techniques that you'll want to use every day.

Why do some people get stressed while others stay calm, cool, and collected under pressure? According to renowned stress researcher Dr. Derek Roger, the answer lies in resilience - your ability to cope with challenges and thrive under adversity - rather than ruminating and obsessing over them. In lab-controlled studies, he discovered that the key to “managing” stress is to stop it before it starts. To be resilient, flexible, and ready for anything.

In this engaging and insightful book, management strategist and Wharton Fellow Baba Prasad sheds new light on the subject, and offers practical advice for executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone else who'll need the skills to face the unpredictability, risk, and deep uncertainty that lies ahead. Filled with vivid examples and insights from around the world and throughout history - from the Brazilian rainforest and the "frugal innovation" of 19th century Indian engineers to Ericsson, Lego, Burt's Bees, and Zara - Nimble reveals what sets the most nimble leaders and organizations apart.

Turn debilitating stress into remarkable strength through proven resilience routines taught by a critical incident instructor and first responder leader. Transform your personal and professional life with insights gained from some of the most stressful professions you can imagine.

How do you know if you're going through a setback? And once you realize you're in one, how do you work through it? Some of the world's most prominent leaders attribute their setbacks to the reason they found success. Their lowest moments paved the way for their creative rebirth. Through the four phases of The Setback Cycle—Establish, Embrace, Explore, and Emerge—Amy Shoenthal guides listeners on how to make sense of their experiences, gain clarity on what comes next, and move confidently into future endeavors.

Calm Your Emotions is the rare book that understands where you’ve been, the obstacles you’ve overcome, and what you need to make sure you are in full control of your life at all times. This is a stunningly detailed and insightful guide into our emotions, our triggers, and why we act against our own interests so frequently. The key to our emotions is not to just “think calm and meditate” or “be mindful and grateful”.

Burnout has become one of the most talked-about workplace topics, and its impact is far-reaching. The 24-7 pace of work, constant demands, and scant resources can easily put busy professionals on a path to burnout, a cycle that has only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet most attempts to help focus on quick-fix strategies aimed at individuals. Something is missing. In Beating Burnout at Work, Paula Davis, founder of the Stress & Resilience Institute, provides a new framework to help organizations prevent employee burnout.

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Being unhappy is a choice: Discover how to stop sabotaging yourself and build mental resilience. No matter what you do, the world will keep throwing challenges at you: Difficult co-workers, hard decisions, devastating personal tragedies...You cannot change that. But what you can change is how you respond to it. To be able to deal with life on your own terms, you need to know how to protect yourself from the enemies of happiness: Negative thoughts, low self-esteem, and victim mentality, to name a few.

Boyd Clewis has defied the odds and gravity. He was born dead, changed schools and homes as a child more times than he can count, became a teenage father and a track star, had more than one close brush with the law, and endured unimaginable family tragedy—all by the time he was barely old enough to drink. He found a brief silver lining in the darkness.

In this audiobook, you will learn the benefits of emotional intelligence, particularly how you can use it to develop self-discipline. You will learn how to increase your mental toughness, willpower, and your self-control, and this will help your chances of succeeding in all areas of life. It teaches dozens of techniques that you can use to increase your emotional intelligence, and for each technique, and it has more than 80 exercises. Additionally, it contains a 30-day program of structured daily tasks and exercises which you can follow to acquire the best self-discipline habits.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. And over 640 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius. Increase your wisdom tenfold by listening to golden nuggets dropped by this roman emperor.

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments.

A recession-proof framework that lays out strategies to not only survive but thrive, allowing you to skip the angst and get right to growing your business regardless of economic conditions. The book is broken into seven strategic sections—mindset, security, operations, offer, sales, and financials. At the end of each section, there are 100 tactical action items you can explore, experiment with, and immediately implement. With each tactical implementation, your business will be that much stronger and on the road to long term resiliency and success.