What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success

Managers burned too often by following the latest highly touted formula for business success will welcome this cogent summary of a wide-ranging, systematic study about fundamental practices associated with long-term corporate health. In What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success, Joyce, a Dartmouth business professor, and...
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Keep ANY Promise: a blueprint for designing your future

Keep ANY Promise by Karim H. Ismail. In this best-seller, Ismail shows how individuals and organizations can easily create a blueprint for sustained success. His easy-to-implement strategies and practical insights are based on the thinking, tools and techniques he developed over 20 years of guiding the development of over $750 million...
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Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success

Happiness at Work by Jessica Pryce-Jones. Sharing the results of her four-year research journey in simple, jargon-free language, Pryce-Jones exposes the secrets of being happy at work. Focuses on what happiness really means in a work context and why it matters to individuals and organizations in both human and financial terms Equips readers...
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor. Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent...
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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don’t change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren’t enough: even when it’s literally a matter of life or death, the ability...
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

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. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that...
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The Inspiration Factor: How You Can Revitalize Your Company Culture in 12 Weeks

The Inspiration Factor by Terry Barber. For managers and executives who are watching their employees struggle, there is a simple solution that can turn a workplace around in just twelve weeks–and grow the bottom line. The Inspiration Factor shows businesspeople how to inspire–not just motivate–others by tapping into their...
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Brand DNA: Uncover Your Organization’s Genetic Code for Competitive Advantage

Brand DNA by Carol Chapman and Suzanne Tulien. This step-by-step, brand-defining methodology guides you and your employee teams toward...
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The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. The lure of this book’s promise starts with the assumption in its title. Possibility–that big, all-encompassing, wide-open-door concept–is an art? Well, who doesn’t want to be a skilled artist, whether in the director’s chair, the...
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip...
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The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni. Allegories and parables...
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Rework

Rework by Jason Fried and  David Hansso. Seth Godin Reviews Rework Seth Godin is the author of Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, Purple Cow, All...
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Blue Ocean Strategy  Kim W. Chan and Renée Mauborgne’s blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike “red oceans,” which are well explored and crowded with competitors, “blue oceans” represent...
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Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Much of what we think will improve our wellbeing is either misguided or just plain wrong. Contrary to what many people believe, wellbeing isn’t just about being happy. Nor is it only about being wealthy or successful. And it’s certainly not limited to physical health and wellness. In fact, focusing on any of these elements in isolation may drive us to frustration and even a sense of failure. When striving to improve our lives, we are quick to buy into programs that promise to help...
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

In Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, psychologist...
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