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Working With Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

Do you have what it takes to succeed in your career? What distinguishes star performers from the mediocre is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is actually a set of skills that anyone can acquire, and in this practical guide, Daniel Goleman identifies them, explains their significance, and shows how they can be fostered. As Goleman documents, emotional intelligence is the essential ingredient for reaching and staying at the top in any field, even high-tech careers.

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Extraordinary Influence

How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others

by Tim Irwin

Tim Irwin reveals that the methods used in most organizations to provide feedback to employees, such as performance appraisal or multi-rater feedback systems, tend to engage a natural “negativity bias.

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Managing Up

How to Move Up, Win at Work and Succeed With Any Type of Boss

by Mary Abbajay

Managing Up is a guide to figuring out who you are, who your boss is and finding where you meet.

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Fusion

How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies

by Denise Lee Yohn

Brand and culture independently drive business. In Fusion, Denise Lee Yohn shows that when you fuse the two together and create an interdependent and mutually-reinforcing relationship between them, you create even more organizational power.

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Speed

How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution

by Joseph R. Folkman, John H. Zenger

Leadership experts Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman detail essential behaviors that anyone can adopt to improve speed and drive organizational effectiveness.

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Woo, Wow, and Win

Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight

by Patricia O'Connell, Thomas A. Stewart

Bestselling authors and business experts Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell focus on the importance of service design for companies.

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Yes, And

How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration

by Tom Yorton, Kelly Leonard

Executives from The Second City, the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation, provide a toolkit for individuals and organizations to use to thrive in a world increasingly shaped by speed, social communication, and decentralization.

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First, Fast, Fearless

How to Lead Like a Navy SEAL

by Brian Hiner

Brian "Iron Ed" Hiner tells what it’s like to be a SEAL and what shapes the intense sense of sacrifice, teamwork and mutual commitment they share. From his own 20-year career as a Navy SEAL and his hands-on experience of commanding hundreds of strategic combat missions and operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the globe, Hiner extracts business leadership lessons that can help leaders isolate what’s most important, especially in stressful times.

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5 Gears

How to Be Present and Productive When There is Never Enough Time

by Steve Cockram, Jeremie Kubicek

Kubicek and Cokram describe five gears that represent different modes of effectively connecting with others and balancing work and life in a meaningful and productive way. By shifting into the right gear at the right time, you can improve your relationships and increase your respect, influence and productivity.

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