Great gift books

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

In the newly updated edition of this classic empowerment business fable—over 400,000 copies sold—Ken Blanchard and John C...

A Simpler Way

Margaret J. Wheatley and coauthor Myron Kellner-Rogers explore the question: "How could we organize human endeavor if we ...

A Peacock in the Land of Penguins

This classic pioneering book provides keen insight into workplace diversity. With new tips, tools, and strategies for pea...

The Hamster Revolution

The Hamster Revolution is a timely solution to both the widespread problem of email overload as well as most people’s ine...

Full Steam Ahead!

Through a beautifully written and engaging story about two people struggling to create visions—both for the company where...

Managing by Values

More than recognizing values are important, how can you make them part of the work you do every day?

A Higher Standard of Leadership

Would you like to know the secrets of Gandhi's inspirational leadership style?

I Moved Your Cheese

Who Moved My Cheese? – the biggest selling business book of all time with over 25 million copies in print — has some dece...

The 4-Dimensional Manager

How can managers learn to support people with all different working styles?

The Introverted Leader

As an introvert, do you feel excluded, overlooked, or misunderstood in the workplace?

Magnetic Service

What turns an ordinary customer into a devoted brand evangelist?

On-The-Level

Do you believe honest, face-to-face conversation is crucial in the workplace?

Transferring Learning to Behavior

Could you get the people you train to apply what they learn when the training is over?

The Future of Staff Groups

Who are the overlooked power brokers in corporations?

Escape from Management Hell

Do you ever feel like you're trapped in management hell?

Be BIG

From diversity experts Judith Katz and Frederick Miller comes an illustrated guide to being your full-sized self in a ver...

Executive Coaching for Results

Cutting through the confusion and disinformation about the fastest-growing corporate learning methodology, EXECUTIVE COAC...

Intrapreneuring in Action

How can you identify the natural entrepreneurs among your employees & harness their creative energy?

Artful Work

Do you think work become better and more fulfilling when you approach it artistically?

You Don't Have To Do It Alone

Everyone needs to involve other people in order to accomplish their tasks and achieve their goals. It doesn't matter if y...

Memoirs of a Recovering Autocrat

How can you manage your inner control freak?

Managing for People Who Hate Managing

Help is on the way for the legions of managers who woke up and found out they're in charge. Based on her background as a ...

True Partnership

How can you reframe your understanding of partnership to make your organization thrive?

Leading in Turbulent Times

Times are tough. What should you do as a leader to make sure your business stays on course? Illustrated with fascinating ...

Helping Your New Employee Succeed

How can new hires be MOST effective- and shouldn't their training go beyond the how-to of menial tasks?

Predictive Evaluation

How can you measure the business effects of your training program?

On Target

What systematic follow-up on your business plan is needed to keep your organization on-target?

Dial 9 to Get Out!

Do you desperately need to see the absurd and funny side of business life?

Online Learning Today

For what purposes should an organization use e-learning?

Crisis at Santa's Workshop

Have you ever wondered how Santa Claus, that paragon of efficiency, runs his workshop?

10 Steps to Successful Teams

Would you like to learn the best way to coach teams to success?

Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline

How can smaller companies create effective Leadership Development programs?

Coaching Up & Down the Generations

What adaptations should you make to your coaching style to speak to different generations?

The Heart of Leadership

In this short, easy-to-read fable, bestselling author Mark Miller reveals five habits that underlie leadership character ...

ZIP! Tips

How can we be productive when our work lives are stressful and overwhelming?

Power Through Partnership

Female partnerships are deeply rewarding and a powerful way for women to advance in a world still suffering from gender b...

The Hamster Revolution for Meetings

On the heels of the tremendously successful "Hamster Revolution" (over 40,000 copies sold in English and tens of thousand...

The Idea-Driven Organization (Audio)

Some businesses use front line worker ideas to help profits skyrocket- how do they do it?

Let's Stop Meeting Like This (Audio)

Is it possible to hold meetings that actually maximize productivity?

Your Leadership Story (Audio)

How can you better understand the dynamic ways your leadership effects others?

Crunch Time

High-pressure situations can make us panic—but if we can change our perspective, what seemed impossible can suddenly beco...

Capitalists Arise!

Peter Georgescu explains how his American Dream journey—from refugee to the CEO of Young & Rubicam—is no longer possi...

Ask Outrageously!

Are you asking for what you want or just taking what you are given? Chances are, it’s the latter. Linda Swindling will te...

Eat That Frog! Cards

Will these cards really help me stop procrastinating?

Eat That Frog! Action Workbook

The workbook version of this international bestseller guides you through getting more of the important things done. You’l...

We Can't Talk about That at Work!

Instead of shutting down any mention of taboo topics, Mary-Frances Winters shows how to structure intentional conversatio...

The Memo

America’s poor, working poor, and middle class are in a waiting game they cannot win. Jobs will not come, times will not ...

Up Is Not the Only Way

Bestselling author Beverly Kaye (Love ’Em or Lose ’Em—700,000 copies sold), joins coauthors Lynn Cowart and Lindy William...

The Power of Having Fun

Most of us put work first and leave fun for last, as an afterthought. But speaker, trainer, consultant, and bestselling a...

Raise Capital on Your Own Terms

New businesses need money, but entrepreneurs are sometimes anxious about raising capital from traditional sources like ve...

The Innovation Code

Innovation comes from creative tension, not harmonious interaction, says “Dean of Innovation” Jeff DeGraff. He identifies...

The Innovation Code Card Game

Am I an Artist, Athlete, Sage, or Engineer?

The Long-Distance Leader

Leadership First, Locations Second. As more organizations adopt a remote workforce, the challenges of leading at a distan...

The Magic of Tiny Business

In The Magic of Tiny Business, by ECOBAGS® founder and pioneering green business champion, Sharon Rowe shows entrepreneur...

Humble Leadership

Bestselling author and father of organizational culture studies, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein trail-blaze with a creativ...

Going Horizontal

For every company like Zappos that has achieved the Utopia of an egalitarian business model, there are thousands that rem...

Turning People into Teams

"Project and team leaders, do yourself a favor and make this book required reading by each member of your team!" —HR Prof...

Why People Don’t Believe You…

For some, projecting confidence and credibility is second nature. For others, it seems like a foreign language they’ll ne...

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

The new edition of the bestselling employee development classic includes advice on engagement and retention in today’s mo...

Erasing Institutional Bias

All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought after diversity consultant...

Be a Project Motivator

How do project managers achieve spectacular results when they have no direct authority over their team members? Here’s a ...

Safe Enough to Soar (Audio)

Bestselling authors and renowned diversity consultants Fred Miller and Judith Katz bring their long-awaited new book that...

Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Second Edition

A new edition of Devora Zack’s classic bestseller (over 120,000 sold in 15 languages) on networking techniques that lever...

Master Your Motivation

If you want to accomplish what’s important to you, discipline and willpower won’t get you where you need to go. In this i...

Diversity Beyond Lip Service

"La’Wana Harris has opened this coach’s eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inc...

Bedtime Stories for Managers

In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and on...

Win the Heart

Employee engagement is shockingly low—but it’s not an employee problem; it’s a leadership problem. Bestselling author Mar...

El corazón del liderazgo

What makes for a truly exceptional leader? Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of i...

Faster, Fewer, Better Emails

Business communication expert and bestselling author Dianna Booher shares practical wisdom on how to write effective emai...

How to Be an Inclusive Leader

We know why diversity is important, but how do we drive real change at work? Diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brow...

Feedback (and Other Dirty Words)

A practical and irreverent guide to taking the sting out of feedback and reclaiming it as a motivating, empowering experi...

The Real-Time Revolution

Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers’ time more effectively than compet...

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Change is difficult but essential—Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws p...

Hello, My Name Is Awesome

The ultimate guide to naming your product or business has been updated throughout with twice as many resources as before,...

Building Better Ideas

Why do teams settle for bad ideas or kill good ones? Popular consultant B. Kim Barnes’s unique process of constructive de...

Navigating the Impossible

World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show ...

Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership

This is the first book to describe in detail the principles of Outward Bound, told through the stories of former instruct...

Subtle Acts of Exclusion

The first practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all ...

Win Every Day

Great ideas don’t matter if you can’t execute—bestselling leadership expert Mark Miller offers a proven, research-based m...

Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces

"This important book offers organizations the keys to introvert inclusion." —Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling autho...

Saving Face

“Maya Hu-Chan shares a blueprint for becoming a more empathetic, self-aware, and inclusive leader. Saving Face guides us ...

The Remote Facilitator's Pocket Guide

This approach to remote facilitation makes virtual meetings powerful means of collaboration using proven techniques to ac...

Burnout to Breakthrough

“Eileen delivers a new perspective on the burnout crisis with humor, good sense, and unique ideas on how to manage our br...

The Six New Rules of Business

The rules of business are changing dramatically. The Aspen Institute’s Judy Samuelson describes the profound shifts in at...

Humble Inquiry, Second Edition

This worldwide bestseller offers simple guidance for building the kind of open and trusting relationships vital for tackl...

Do What Matters Most

Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the habits and processes used by top leaders w...

The Knowledge Café

Knowledge Café is a process for sharing information, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledg...

The 6 Enablers of Business Agility

Adopting the latest agile tools and practices won’t be enough to respond to rapid market change. Leaders must first lay t...

Make It, Don't Fake It

An award-winning CEO and communications expert shows how authentic leadership eliminates the need for the shortcuts that ...

The Language of Leadership

Convey the essence of leadership with every communication.  

Leading with Love and Laughter

Leadership has for too long been treated as a function and not as a relationship. Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone argue tha...

Conversations Worth Having, Second Edition

Now in a second edition, this classic book shows how to make conversations generative and productive rather than critical...

Equity

A fast and engaging read, Equity helps leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavi...

Facilitating Breakthrough

Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitati...

The Cactus and Snowflake at Work

This hilarious and profound workplace guide proves the rigorously rational and the supremely sympathetic can meet in the ...

Simple Truths of Leadership

Leadership legend and bestselling author Ken Blanchard and trust expert and thought leader Randy Conley present this care...

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Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the habits and processes used by top leaders w...