Off the Shelf - Book Club: Themes Creative Thinking – April 2024
Off the Shelf:
Monthly Selection:
- 19 Books | 47h 13m
- 16 Audiobooks | 95h 15m 20s
- 6 Books | 29h 39m
- 3 Audiobooks | 14h 43m 10s
- 8 Books | 11h 10m
- 3 Audiobooks | 24h 48m 29s
- 6 Books | 35h 48m
- 6 Audiobooks | 38h 40m 53s
- 6 Books | 7h 25m
- 3 Audiobooks | 15h 45m 44s
- 5 Books | 13h 10m
- 5 Audiobooks | 30h 20m 52s
- 3 Books | 5h 2m
- 7 Audiobooks | 34h 11m 57s
- 7 Books | 22h 41m
- 4 Audiobooks | 23h 5m 18s
- 6 Books | 14h 32m
- 2 Audiobooks | 12h 21m 6s
- 3 Books | 11h 35m
- 7 Audiobooks | 47h 21m 36s
- 4 Books | 16h 42m
- 6 Audiobooks | 39h 46m 51s
- 8 Books | 18h 26m
- 9 Books | 20h 12m
- 4 Audiobooks | 28h 2m 5s
- 8 Books | 25h 52m
- 1 Audiobook | 5h 24s
- 5 Books | 14h 54m
- 5 Audiobooks | 26h 45m 26s
- 8 Books | 26h 28m
- 5 Audiobooks | 34h 43m 48s
- 4 Books | 17h 46m
- 6 Audiobooks | 29h 20m 25s
- 6 Books | 21h 23m
- 11 Audiobooks | 60h 48m 12s
- 7 Books | 35h 8m
- 2 Audiobooks | 18h 56m
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Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a DifferenceIn Think Remarkable, tech titan Guy Kawasaki teams up with Madisun Nuismer, producer of the Remarkable People podcast, to share invaluable knowledge from more than 40 years of working with game-changing organizations such as Apple, Canva, Google, Mercedes Benz, and Wikipedia, and delivers insights from a collection of amazing interviews that'll kick you into high gear and get you ready to start showing the world your best, most amazing self. Together the authors show you how to lead a fulfilling life by drawing on insights from working closely with some of the world's most remarkable people.
2h 46m
By Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer
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The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and InspireThe Perfect Story will help you take your stories and make them perfect. Learn how to take any story and make it perfect--from storytelling expert Karen Eber, whose TED Talk on the subject has nearly two million views.
4h 14m
By Karen Eber
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The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible TechnologyThe misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide-this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.
3h 5m
By Art Kleiner, Juliette Powell
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The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible TechnologyThe AI Dilemma by Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner explores the risks associated with AI applications and how to prevent them from causing harm. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Art Kleiner, Juliette Powell
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The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders: Invest in People Like Your Future Depends on ItIn The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders, Maxwell teaches everything leaders need to know about how to develop leaders in their team or organization.
3h 5m
By John C. Maxwell
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The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship: 13 Roles to Making a True ImpactEasy, practical guidance on how to make the most out of your mentorship journey.
2h 9m
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
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The Breakthrough Manifesto: 10 Principles to Spark Transformative InnovationInnovation is a process by which new ideas, services, and sources of value are brought to life. Yet approaches to the pursuit of innovation often rely on stale methodologies.
2h 55m
By Kim Christfort, Suzanne Vickberg
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Lead Through Anything: Harness Purpose, Vitality, and Agility to Thrive in the Face of Unrelenting ChangeThe logical, inspirational, and simplified approach you need to lead through unprecedented chaos-and help your teams and organizations thrive
3h 21m
By Dustin Seale, Ed Manfre
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The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of ChangeIn The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of Change, accomplished author, professor, and consultant Jay Sullivan delivers a clear, tangible, and actionable guide to implementing flexibility and creativity in your enterprise.
3h
By Jay Sullivan
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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, Second EditionDiscover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein.
2h 28m
By Edgar Schein, Peter A. Schein
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Leading with Questions: How Leaders Discover Powerful Answers by Knowing How and What to Ask, Third EditionIn this newly revised third edition of Leading with Questions, renowned global leadership consultants Michael Marquardt and Bob Tiede describe how to ask powerful questions that generate short-term and long-term results and success.
3h 55m
By Bob Tiede, Michael J. Marquardt
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Communication Intelligence: Leverage Your Strengths and Optimize Every Interaction to Work Best with OthersNow, more than ever, Communication Intelligence is essential for workers at all levels. The good news is that you can learn to develop and master this vital competency. If you're interested in being your best through effective communication, that's exactly what you will find in the pages of Communication Intelligence.
3h 26m
By Claude D’Val Morgan
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The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered WorkforceIn The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce, Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley team up again to deliver a guidebook for leaders navigating the uncertainty of a post pandemic world in a sequel to their successful book The Adaptation Advantage.
4h 6m
By Chris Shipley, Heather E. McGowan
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Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and LivingLeading futurist Bob Johansen and workplace architect Joseph Press guide organizations and individuals on how to weather the inevitable future of office shocks.
4h 29m
By Bob Johansen, Christine Bullen, Joseph Press
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Evergreen Talent: A Guide to Hiring and Cultivating a Sustainable WorkplaceFilled with pragmatic advice, case studies, and best practices, this book challenges leaders to think differently about their approach to growing a sustainable workforce-one that will regenerate regularly, with minimal effort on their part.
2h 34m
By Roberta Chinsky Matuson
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Superpower: An Inspiring Story to Overcome Self-Doubt and Unleash Your Authentic GreatnessIn Superpower, bestselling author Kate Leavell delivers a compelling story of self-love, appreciation, and the power of sharing and connecting with those around us through vulnerability and understanding.
1h 4m
By Kate Leavell
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Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social PresenceIn Being Present, Professor Jeanine Turner explores the effects that constant digital interactions have on our ability to connect mindfully with people around us. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Jeanine W. Turner
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Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our FutureRadically Human provides a fresh glimpse at the latest AI-driven technologies that are transforming our lives and the ways in which we conduct business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By H. James Wilson, Paul R. Daugherty
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The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered WorkforceBased on The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce by Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley, we discuss how to navigate the new world of work and lead your workforce to success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Chris Shipley, Heather E. McGowan
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Engage in Mental Health and Well-BeingIn this issue of TD at Work, Catherine Wemette guides readers in helping others understand the importance of focusing on mental health in the workplace.
30m
By Catherine Wemette
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Mental Illness at Work: A Manager's Guide to Identifying, Managing and Preventing Psychological Problems in the WorkplaceAuthored by leading psychologists, this timely and informative book explores the psychiatric classification of mental illness and offers practical and solid advice on the identification, mitigation and prevention of mental illness in the workplace.
4h 50m
By Adrian Furnham, Mary-Clare Race
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The Cambridge Handbook of Stigma and Mental HealthThe Handbook provides a compelling case for the benefits reaped from current research and intervention, and shows why continued work is needed.
10h 48m
By David L. Vogel, Nathaniel G. Wade
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The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital CityIn The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and psychiatry about these critical questions.
7h 6m
By Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose
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Your Health at Work: An Indispensable Guide to Physical and Mental WellbeingYour fully researched and up-to-date guide to the most common health risks at work in the UK and how you can tackle them, this comprehensive book expertly explains your legal rights, how to avoid injury and illness and what support is available to you.
3h 49m
By Becky Allen, Howard Fidderman
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Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind: Life-Changing Tools for Managing Stress and Improving Mental Health At Work and In LifeReduce your stress level and become happier and more productive in work and personal life
2h 36m
By Pandit Dasa
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The Leadership Challenge:How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Seventh EditionIn the new seventh edition of The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, best-selling leadership authors and business scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an essential strategic playbook for effective leadership.
7h 31m
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Role of Culture in Enabling ChangeLeaders can shift their organization's culture to better translate strategy into behavior and reinforce change priorities.
7m
By B. Tom Hunsaker, Jonathan Knowles, Melanie Hughes
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Deep Talent: How to Transform Your Organization and Empower Your Employees Through AIA groundbreaking guide to how you can transform your workplace culture, improve your workforce and boost your revenue with the support of talent intelligence software.
2h 56m
By Alexandra Levit, Ashutosh Garg, Kamal Ahluwalia
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The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AIIn The Threshold, author Nick Chatrath delves into the leadership skills that are necessary to help organizations successfully transition into the age of artificial intelligence, or AI. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Nick Chatrath
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Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things HappenIn Influence is Your Superpower, author Zoe Chance explores the art and science of influence, presenting an ethical and empathetic discussion on how to use persuasion in a way that's both effective and respectful. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Zoe Chance
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Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying LessIn Brief, author Joseph McCormack provides an insightful look into the importance of brevity in the workplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
4m
By Joseph McCormack
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and LeadIn Daring Greatly, Brown sets out to convince readers that the myth of vulnerability equating to weakness is what blocks innovation and prevents us from making life-sustaining connections with co-workers and family members. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Brené Brown
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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Seventh EditionBased on The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, we discuss ways in which today's leaders can motivate their employees and maintain a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business landscape. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative PotentialThe New Art of Ideas is designed to help readers consistently produce worthwhile ideas by becoming nimble and imaginative thinkers better equipped to compete and produce in a global economy.
2h 35m
By Robin Landa
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Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group Level Influences, Second EditionHandbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group Level Influences, Second Edition covers creativity from many perspectives in two unique volumes, including artificial Intelligence work, creativity within specific applied domains (e.g., engineering, science, therapy), and coverage of leadership.
16h 59m
By Roni Reiter-Palmon, Sam Hunter
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Balancing Acts: Unleashing the Power of Creativity in Your Life and WorkCirque du Soliel CEO Daniel Lamarre shares what it takes for anyone, regardless of position or industry, to embrace the value of creative leadership.
4h 3m
By Daniel Lamarre
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Unlocking Creativity: How to Solve Any Problem and Make the Best Decisions by Shifting Creative MindsetsHighly relevant to the growth crises many enterprises face in today's economic landscape, this insightful and informative book examines how to break barriers to spark creativity and foster new ideas.
3h 21m
By Michael A. Roberto
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How Creativity Rules the World: The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas into GoldLearn to make creativity work for your career. Maria Brito illustrates how creativity is merely a series of habits, actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop---regardless of who you are or what you do.
4h 43m
By Maria Brito
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The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business, Second EditionLearn how to think creatively with this comprehensive handbook, packed with advice, practical tools, useful templates and a tried-and-tested problem-solving model.
4h 7m
By Caragh Medlicott, Chris Griffiths, Melina Costi
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Positively Purple: Build an Inclusive World Where People with Disabilities Can FlourishDevelop an inclusive culture where people can flourish in the world of business while navigating the experience of ill health, disability, accident or injury.
3h 52m
By Kate Nash
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Disability Friendly: How to Move from Clueless to InclusiveDisability Friendly is a clarion call to businesses around the world to realize the opportunities presented by employing people with disabilities. It explains the potential of disabled employees, how to create a culture of inclusion, and, in the process, help people with disabilities become proud contributors.
3h 5m
By John D. Kemp
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First CenturyDisability Visibility features the rousing narratives from 37 individuals with disabilities to celebrate their victories and underscore the injustices that this diverse group of people (and other people with disabilities) have withstood, as told in their own words. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Alice Wong (ed)
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Disability Friendly: How to Move from Clueless to InclusiveIn Disability Friendly, author John D. Kemp examines how businesses can improve their diversity and inclusion efforts, while recognizing that people with disabilities are motivated, dedicated, and valuable employees who have the potential to have a significant impact on the organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By John D. Kemp
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Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an AllyDemystifying Disability takes readers from defining disability through its complex history and the ableist environment disabled people have to navigate, to ways in which we all can be allies in the pursuit of equity. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Emily Ladau
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Swimming Against the Tide: True Story of Para Swimmer Madhavi LathaIn Swimming Against the Tide, Madhavi Latha Prathigudupu candidly shares personal insights and life-altering moments that gave rise to her illustrious career as a disability rights activist, banker, public speaker, and champion para swimmer. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
6m
By Madhavi Latha Prathigudupu
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The Rebuilders: Going from Setback to Comeback in Business and BeyondThis book is your companion to facing challenges at work and in life with pragmatism and a healthy dose of inspiration.
3h 51m
By Anna Vogt, Sara Tate
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Lead Through Anything: Harness Purpose, Vitality, and Agility to Thrive in the Face of Unrelenting ChangeThe logical, inspirational, and simplified approach you need to lead through unprecedented chaos-and help your teams and organizations thrive
3h 21m
By Dustin Seale, Ed Manfre
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A.G.I.L.E. Thinking Demystified: Mindset Over MechanicsIn order to make the full transition to thinking in an A.G.I.L.E way, you will need to challenge everything you think you know about leading and working in large organizations. This book takes you on that journey.
1h 24m
By Frank M. Forte
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Discoveries Through Personal AgilityTake a journey on a Personal Agility Boat to visualize options, alternatives, and opportunities. Visualization is the way to your shore's lighthouse.
1h 32m
By Michal Raczka, Raji Sivaraman
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Untapped Agility: Seven Leadership Moves to Take Your Transformation to the Next LevelNo, your transformation is not a failure. It turns out the buy-in, the talent, the alignment, and the growth you need to break through are already in front of you; it's all simply hidden under the surface-undiscovered, unutilized, and untapped.
3h 2m
By Jesse Fewell
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Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill: Essential Lessons for Using the Power of Positive ThinkingFilled with fascinating stories from iconic figures who have applied Napoleon Hill's principles to their own lives, such as Dolly Parton, Jeffrey Gitomer, Chief Poly Emenike, and Joe Dudley, Jr., this book explains how to uncover the secrets of growth, creativity, power, and achievement inside all of us.
2h 57m
By Don M. Green
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Positive Thinking: Find Happiness and Achieve Your Goals Through the Power of Positive ThoughtThe single most important step you can take to reach your goals is to train your brain to think positively. This practical book is your program for learning the new language of positive thought and finding the strength in those beliefs to act and make things happen.
2h
By Gill Hasson
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at WorkBased on Shawn Achor's own fascinating research at Harvard University, The Happiness Advantage clearly and amusingly demonstrates how a happy and positive outlook is the starting point for any successful outcome. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
5m
By Shawn Achor
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Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your GoalsThrough practical exercises and eye-opening stories, this book draws on the latest empirical research to show that high-quality, optimal motivation is a skill that you can learn and apply.
2h 38m
By Susan Fowler
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Rebooting Your Brain: Using Motivational Intelligence to Adjust Your Mindset, Reach Your Goals, and Realize Unlimited SuccessThe book presents an easy to leverage framework that allows people to understand the exact steps necessary to let go the limiting beliefs and perspectives that create unhappiness, dissatisfaction and mediocrity.
4h 36m
By David Naylor
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This Book Will Motivate You: 100 Ways to Kick-Start Your Life GoalsThis Book Will Motivate You by master life coach, Steve Chandler, helps you create an action plan for living your vision, in business and in life.
3h 21m
By Steve Chandler
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The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your TeamGiven the changes in the way business is being conducted today, leadership is increasingly important. John C. Maxwell offers a blend of advice and personal wisdom to show how to increase awareness of your skills when it comes to leading those around you, helping you to help them be better as well.
1h 46m
By John C. Maxwell
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Getting Real: 10 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic LifeThe author of this detailed book provides simple yet practical awareness practices that require individuals to "let go" of the need to be right, safe, and certain in order to become an effective communicator--in business and personal relationships.
4h 2m
By Susan Campbell
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Coach Yourself!: Increase Awareness, Change Behavior and ThriveBecome the best version of yourself using these practical frameworks exploring the power of performance coaching from a Top NYC Executive Coach.
2h 34m
By Antonia Bowring
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Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and LifeRevealing a profound truth about modern-day change, this book shows that being conscious helps us think deeper, learn faster, and collaborate better and the more conscious we are, the faster we adapt, and the higher performing we become.
3h 44m
By Bob Rosen, Emma-Kate Swann
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Learning for Life: How Continuous Education Will Keep Us Competitive in the Global Knowledge EconomyGathering insights from key thought leaders and exemplary programs, this book examines how America's existing educational models are failing employees and employers; the policies and programs that are working in the U.S. and abroad; and the shift from content knowledge toward new ways of thinking and working.
4h 20m
By Jason Wingard, Michelle LaPointe
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Focus on Moments That Matter in Employees' Learning JourneysMany industries today are putting humans at the center of the business. The same is true for L&D. Use the Moments That Matter in Corporate Learning Framework to put people at the center of learning.
26m
By Ariel Wrona, Grzegorz Plezia, CPTD, Marek Hyla, Natalia Kmiec-Braun
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The Upskilling Imperative: 5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We WorkWith techniques supported by the latest learning science, this book takes you through five steps for transforming your business into an industry powerhouse.
2h 27m
By Shelley Osborne
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Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in a Digital WorldThe Brand NEW Book from Bernard Marr, bestselling author behind Business Trends in Practice - Winner of Business Book of the Year 2022.
3h 58m
By Bernard Marr
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Continuous LearningIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn why learning is important in the business world, how continuous learning supports innovation and growth, how learning is influenced by the demands of a digital world, and more.
35m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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Remaining Relevant: Achieving Lifelong Professional SuccessThe book is based on research as well as interviews with over two dozen professional men and women from a variety of industries and disciplines.
2h 46m
By Karen Lawson
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The Power of Understanding Yourself: The Key to Self-Discovery, Personal Development, and Being the Best YouAn empowering tool to help you find your best possible self and flourish, this book provides readers with a blueprint for examining their true purpose and approach to life and a map for achieving greater personal happiness, professional success and self-awareness.
3h 19m
By Dave Mitchell
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Start Now, Get Perfect Later: How to Make Smarter, Faster & Bigger Decisions & Banish ProcrastinationShowing you that the quickest way to perfect is starting right now and improving as you go, this book will show you how to launch your business or idea, begin the next phase of your career, and overcome self-doubt - right away.
3h 19m
By Rob Moore
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How To Live An Awesome Life: The 11 Step Formula for Fulfilment and SuccessIf your own life isn't inspiring you - not enough time, energy or opportunity - this book is designed as the kickstart you need. It will show that you can try all your like to make more money, sleep better, eat healthier and think more clearly, but if the core foundations of your journey aren't in alignment with your true motivations, change will prove illusive.
4h 57m
By Ben Coomber
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Communication Essentials: The Tools You Need to Master Every Type of Professional InteractionIn Communication Essentials, expert Trey Guinn takes you step-by-step through the process of improvement, from understanding the importance of message clarity to specific, goal-based strategies to develop and maximize your skills.
3h 51m
By Trey Guinn
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Managing Conflict: A Practical Guide to Resolution in the Workplace, Second EditionUnderstand how to embed a coherent and collaborative approach to conflict management and prevention in the workplace with this practical guide for HR professionals.
5h 29m
By David Liddle
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The Champion Leader: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Build High-Performing TeamsReestablish the connection between your organization's talent and its leadership
4h 19m
By Christopher D. Connors
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Negotiation Essentials: The Tools You Need to Find Common Ground and Walk Away a WinnerActionable, easy-to-understand negotiating strategies you can use to dramatically improve your business, career, and personal life
3h 3m
By Keld Jensen
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All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive's Journey to Living and Leading AuthenticallyAn inspiring and personal roadmap to servant leadership
3h 31m
By Jim Fielding
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GaYme Changer: How the LGBT+ Community and Their Allies are Changing the Global EconomySupported by up-to-date research and illustrated by fascinating stories, this book argues that the LGBT+ community is now a powerful factor in the global economy, one that is not going to be returned to the shadows and cannot be ignored.
7h 4m
By Jens Schadendorf
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Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern AmericaQueer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce.
7h 14m
By Margot Canaday
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the WorldThe Book of Pride is a captivating testimony to the strength of the human spirit in prevailing despite opposition as well as the power of embracing one's true identity. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Mason Funk
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Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse DiscriminationIn Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace, Alison Ash Fogarty and Lily Zheng explore the various forms of discrimination and prejudice that gender-diverse people struggle with in their careers and suggest practical strategies for organizations to become truly inclusive of all gender identities. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Alison Ash Fogarty, Lily Zheng
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Be An Inclusion Ally: The ABCs of LGBTQ+In Be An Inclusion Ally, author Lisa Koenecke helps us become LGBTQ+ literate by methodically unpacking in alphabetical order what it means to be(come) a supportive LGBTQ+ ally. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Lisa Koenecke
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The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ AdvocateIn The Savvy Ally, Jeannie Gainsburg offers much-needed insight and pragmatic advice on how to offer their support and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community in a respectful and helpful manner. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Jeannie Gainsburg
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Pride Leadership: Strategies for LGBTQ+ Leaders to be the King or Queen of Their JungleWhether you're a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community or a straight professional looking to add to your inclusive leader toolbox, author Steven Yacovelli will teach you about leading with pride. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Steven Yacovelli
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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, Second EditionDiscover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein.
2h 28m
By Edgar Schein, Peter A. Schein
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ChatGPT For DummiesChatGPT For Dummies demystifies the artificial intelligence tool that can answer questions, write essays, and generate just about any kind of text it's asked for. This powerful example of generative AI is widely predicted to upend education and business. In this book, you'll learn how ChatGPT works and how you can operate it in a way that yields satisfactory results.
2h 8m
By Pam Baker
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The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of HumanityProviding a wide awareness of the current trends in AI, this book helps us navigate our digital age in this thoughtful exploration of the social, moral, and ethical challenges of our ongoing interactions with artificial intelligence.
2h 54m
By Jason Thacker
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Artificial Intelligence in Daily LifeThis book discusses a number of critical issues, such as AI ethics and privacy, the development of a conscious mind, and autonomous robotics in our daily lives.
5h 18m
By Raymond S. T. Lee
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Our Planet Powered by AI: How We Use Artificial Intelligence to Create a Sustainable Future for HumanityA hands-on guide to evolving your company with ethical AI along with thought-provoking insights and predictions from a variety of well-known industry leaders
4h 15m
By Mark Minevich
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Rise of Generative AI and ChatGPT: Understand How Generative AI and ChatGPT are Transforming and Reshaping the Business WorldGenerative AI and ChatGPT have the potential to transform industries and society by improving efficiency, enhancing creativity, and enabling more personalized experiences. If you are someone who is looking to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving digital age and utilize its potential, this book is for you.
2h 43m
By Soumyadeep Roy, Sumit Kumar, Utpal Chakraborty
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceIn Life 3.0, author Max Tegmark successfully demystifies the complexities of artificial intelligence, using a simple analogy to depict life on earth along an evolutionary continuum. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Max Tegmark
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The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AIIn The Threshold, author Nick Chatrath delves into the leadership skills that are necessary to help organizations successfully transition into the age of artificial intelligence, or AI. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Nick Chatrath
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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and TrustIn Humble Leadership, father and son duo Schein and Schein add to the conversation about the need for humility in the business world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Edgar H. Schein, Peter A. Schein
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Inclusive Education for the 21st CenturyPlacing a student on the autism spectrum in a busy classroom with a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and an aide to deal with the inevitable meltdowns is often done in the name of 'inclusion', but this is integration and not inclusive.
7h 18m
By Linda Graham
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging EducationThe research focused on how organizations were providing education opportunities, DEI&B budgets, the challenges of offering DEI&B education, and differences between organizations that had DEI&B education and those that did not.
30m
By ATD Research
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What We Owe Each OtherThis book takes us through stages of life we all experience-raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old-and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible.
5h 10m
By Minouche Shafik
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Leading Equity: Becoming an Advocate for All StudentsLeading Equity delivers an eye-opening and actionable discussion of how to transform a classroom or school into a more equitable place.
3h 10m
By Sheldon L. Eakins
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The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical SolutionsThis book illustrates why diversity should be part of the overall business strategy, not separate from it. It shows how for innovation and diversity to flourish, we must create spaces that are safe for disagreement, not from disagreement.
5h 38m
By Simon Fanshawe
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What Goes Unspoken: How School Leaders Address DEI Beyond RaceWhat Goes Unspoken is a must-have guide for any school or educational systems leader looking to comprehend and put into play an effective, equity-centered plan that champions students, teachers, and staff. Moving beyond the abundant resources that focus on DEI theories, author Krystal Hardy Allen shows leaders and administrators how to concretely center DEI within both practices and policies, as well as how to do the interpersonal work of becoming a self-aware and equity-focused leader.
3h 48m
By Krystal Hardy Allen
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What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better SocietyWhat We Owe Each Other explores how we can support each other through the various stages of our lives-from raising children to navigating old age-ultimately working together to build a better future for all. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Minouche Shafik
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The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical SolutionsIn The Power of Difference, author Simon Fanshawe presents strategies to promote true inclusion and diversity in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Simon Fanshawe
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To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and PurposeFilled with real-life examples, this insightful book offers actionable steps, practical tools and approaches that any leader or manager can use to create a culture of purpose, honesty and justice.
5h 45m
By Ron A. Carucci
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Results: Get Clarity. Achieve ResultsHelping you de-clog your mind so you can make better decisions, prioritize and focus on achieving important goals, this book will help you develop a deeper understanding of why you act the way you and awaken your inner potential.
3h 47m
By Jamie Smart
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The Art and Science of Results: The 9 Most Powerful Ways to Clear Blocks to Your Ultimate SuccessLeading you on a journey to clear your mind of blocks and beliefs, and getting the results that you deserve, this book provides the surprising answers for achieving your goals faster than ever-even the biggest goals you can imagine.
2h 21m
By Joe Vitale
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Never Say Whatever: How Small Decisions Make a Big DifferenceIn Never Say Whatever, LinkedIn Influencer Richard A. Moran delivers an important message: "You should care. You need to care." Moran wants you to make choices, no matter how small, in order to move ahead in your career and lead a satisfying life.
2h 54m
By Richard A. Moran
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Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your ImpactIn Impact Players author Liz Wiseman discusses how to make small but significant changes that take you from an ordinary performer to an indispensable asset. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Liz Wiseman
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Win Business with Relationships: Communication Strategies Inspired by Entrepreneurs & TaoismIn this FUN and data rich book, you will discover how you can WIN BUSINESS through cultivating meaningful RELATIONSHIPS, nourished by listening, respect, trust, and cultural sensitivity.
3h 58m
By May Hongmei Gao
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Connect!: How to Build Trust-Based RelationshipsAt Dale Carnegie Training, we agree that some things never change. After all, the timeless principles that our founder Dale Carnegie established are still as practical and relevant today as ever.
2h 44m
By Dale Carnegie & Associates
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Communication Essentials: The Tools You Need to Master Every Type of Professional InteractionIn Communication Essentials, expert Trey Guinn takes you step-by-step through the process of improvement, from understanding the importance of message clarity to specific, goal-based strategies to develop and maximize your skills.
3h 51m
By Trey Guinn
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Bridge the Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships From Challenging to CollaborativeFocusing on personal responsibility and awareness, meta-cognition, and curiosity, they provide a reliable and replicable framework to enhance open communication.
4h 9m
By Jennifer Edwards, Katie McCleary
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Curve Benders: How Strategic Relationships Can Power Your Non-linear Growth in the Future of WorkThis book aims to provide you with a step-by-step guide for personal, professional, and organizational growth. The author highlights how certain relationships enable a non-linear growth trajectory. These relationships, in addition to augmenting what we can accomplish, often shape who we become. These relationships are "curve benders," and this book will show you who and where they are, how to find and engage them, and, equally valuable, how you can become a curve bender to impact the lives and livelihoods of others profoundly.
4h 26m
By David Nour, Lin Wilson
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Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom LinesWalking you through the process of implementing change and fueling a much-needed corporate movement towards humanity in the workplace, this book helps you meet today's employees' most urgent needs, while benefitting your organization in real and measurable ways.
3h 54m
By Anh Phillips, Jen Fisher
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Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You with AnyoneKindness isn't merely about getting along with people and being nice. It's a game changer in business, the door-opener to opportunity, and the key to authenticity and confidence. This book shows you the unbeatable power of kindness and its transformative impact on others.
3h 16m
By Adrienne Bankert
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Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom LinesIn Work Better Together, authors Fisher and Phillips explore ways to leverage wellness as a means of improving business. In this summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Anh Phillips, Jen Fisher
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The Self-Care Mindset: Rethinking How We Change and Grow, Harness Well-Being, and Reclaim Work-Life QualityIn The Self-Care Mindset, celebrated well-being and mindset expert Jeanette Bronée delivers an actionable and groundbreaking approach that challenges us to rethink self-care at work so we no longer have to choose between being healthy and being successful.
4h 3m
By Jeanette Bronee
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Your Brain on ExerciseYour Brain on Exercise skillfully blends scholarship with illuminating insights and clarity.
3h 8m
By Gary L. Wenk
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Techniques of Healthy Cooking, Fourth EditionWith the latest information and a huge variety of recipes, this authoritative guide to healthy cooking covers a wide range of health- and environment-related topics of concern to today's diners, such as organic ingredients, local sourcing, farm-to-fork initiatives, and much more.
10h 27m
By The Culinary Institute of America
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The Self-Care Mindset: Rethinking How We Change and Grow, Harness Well-Being, and Reclaim Work-Life QualityIn The Self-Care Mindset, author Jeanette Bronée outlines a progressive and perfectly sensible pathway towards integrating work and life based on self-care. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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By Jeanette Bronee
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Beyond The Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution of DevOpsIn this transcript of the audio series, Gene Kim and John Willis present a nine-part discussion that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussions around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon.
4h 5m
By Gene Kim, John Willis
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, Fifth Anniversary EditionIn a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.
7h 33m
By Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, First EditionIn a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.
6h 38m
By Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic ThinkingHelping business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of "the elite few" and into the company culture as whole, this book offers a simple, proven approach to analyzing and solving old or new challenges, and provides a common language at any level in the organization can understand.
2h 47m
By John Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein
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Improve Your Communication Skills, 3rd EditionImprove Your Communication Skills offers a comprehensive overview of how you can dramatically develop your communication skills to help propel your career success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Alan Barker
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic ThinkingThink to Win teaches you how to leverage the power of strategic thinking to your advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By John F. Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein
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Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in a Digital WorldThe Brand NEW Book from Bernard Marr, bestselling author behind Business Trends in Practice - Winner of Business Book of the Year 2022.
3h 58m
By Bernard Marr
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Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the WorldIn Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can.
6h 38m
By Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg
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Rise of Generative AI and ChatGPT: Understand How Generative AI and ChatGPT are Transforming and Reshaping the Business WorldGenerative AI and ChatGPT have the potential to transform industries and society by improving efficiency, enhancing creativity, and enabling more personalized experiences. If you are someone who is looking to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving digital age and utilize its potential, this book is for you.
2h 43m
By Soumyadeep Roy, Sumit Kumar, Utpal Chakraborty
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Doing Digital: The Guide to Digital for Non-Technical LeadersThis book will give you both a conceptual framework to understand digital, as well as an execution model (Connect-Quantify-Optimize) to actually do digital, in a simple and engaging way.
4h 5m
By Ved Sen
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Think Like a CTOThink Like a CTO shares hard-won lessons on how to thrive in the fast-paced role of Chief Technology Officer. Inside, you'll learn to establish successful technology platforms and teams, with practical frameworks for software selection and implementation, bias-free interviews and performance reviews, and earning your place at the table with other senior leaders.
7h 17m
By Alan Williamson
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Disruptive Technologies: A Framework to Understand, Evaluate and Respond to Digital Disruption, Second EditionAcquire a framework to understand, evaluate and respond to emerging technologies in order to future-proof your organization against technological disruption.
4h 28m
By Paul Armstrong
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Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive Industry TrendsNew technologies alone don't always cause industry changes. This book helps leaders and entrepreneurs capitalize on the opportunity for new products and services presented by the changes caused by science and technology, policy and regulation, business models and social dynamics.
5h 59m
By Trond Arne Undheim
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Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a DifferenceIn Think Remarkable, tech titan and creator of the Remarkable People podcast Guy Kawasaki delivers a practical, tactical, and sometimes radical discussion of how to make a difference in the world and live a fulfilling life.
4h 46m 28s
By Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer
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The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and InspireThe Perfect Story will help you take your stories and make them perfect. Learn how to take any story and make it perfect--from storytelling expert Karen Eber, whose TED Talk on the subject has nearly two million views.
7h 31m 10s
By Karen Eber
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The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible TechnologyThe misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide-this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.
4h 54m 35s
By Art Kleiner, Juliette Powell
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The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders: Invest in People Like Your Future Depends on ItIn The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders, Maxwell teaches everything leaders need to know about how to develop leaders in their team or organization.
5h 16m 15s
By John C. Maxwell
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The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship: 13 Roles to Making a True ImpactEasy, practical guidance on how to make the most out of your mentorship journey.
4h 1m 43s
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
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The Breakthrough Manifesto: 10 Principles to Spark Transformative InnovationThe Breakthrough Manifesto explores why these principles are critical for the current times and how they can spark breakthrough and unlock potential for you and your teams.
6h 43m 29s
By Kim Christfort, Suzanne Vickberg
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Lead Through Anything: Harness Purpose, Vitality, and Agility to Thrive in the Face of Unrelenting ChangeLead Through Anything provides simple, tested, and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader.
5h 32m 5s
By Dustin Seale, Ed Manfre
