Who is the most complicated person you work with? You probably don’t have to think very hard to answer that question. You already know their name, their job title, their quirks, and their flaws. You have firsthand experience with the mental and emotional fallout they leave in their wake. You’ve seen the problems their complexity creates for everyone on their team. You wish you could fix them, solve them, ignore them, or teleport them to a parallel dimension. But you can’t. You have to work with them. (You could quit, but your next job will have a complicated person waiting for you.)

That means you need effective strategies to collaborate with (nearly) anyone. Especially the picky, prickly, problematic ones. Drawing from his global consulting experience with teams and leaders from the glitz of sports and entertainment, to the number-crunching world of finance, to the meticulous realms of insurance, pharma, and manufacturing, Ryan Leak provides proven strategies for…

• Seeing challenging individuals as human beings to understand rather than problems to solve
• Detoxing unrealistic expectations and getting comfortable with complicated
• Learning to communicate effectively in complex environments
• Embracing healthy disagreement as a tool to discover better solutions
• Setting boundaries that let people into your world without letting them run your world

“The process of learning to collaborate with difficult individuals is transformative—it’s a gateway to greater creativity, stronger teams, and increased productivity,” Leak explains. “On the other side of complicated is the wonderful, wide-open world of effective collaboration and a workplace you love.”

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Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men do and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens: Upon entering the workforce, they immediately lose their advantage. When the first promotions come around, the slide continues–for every 100 men who are promoted to manager, only 87 women and 73 women of color get promoted.

This is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez call “the broken rung,” and its effects compound throughout women’s careers, causing women to fall behind at the start and keeping them from catching up.

In this groundbreaking book, the authors reveal the problem’s underlying cause: while about half of a person’s lifetime earnings come from education and half from experience, men get more value from their experience than women do. As the authors show, it is also here, in one’s experience, that the solution lies: How can women build their “experience capital” to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential?

Based on over a decade of research, conversations with more than 50 remarkable leaders, and their own experiences as senior partners and as the first three consecutive chief diversity and inclusion officers for McKinsey, the authors weave data on the potential pitfalls across a career with inspiring and instructive stories of women who have climbed over the broken rung by using strategies that increased their experience capital.

Leaders and companies must do more to address structural gender inequalities in the workplace–but you don’t have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide, right now, for moving up the corporate ladder and reaching your full potential at work.

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For generations, when we’ve needed to innovate and grow, we’ve been told to “think bigger”–it’s now time to Lead Bigger. In a world that’s become more interconnected yet polarized, inclusion has been overly politicized and narrowly defined to issues of gender and race. As a result, we need a new approach to inclusive leadership that goes beyond DEI, harnessing its power for innovation and growth.

In Lead Bigger, Anne Chow reframes inclusion as the required leadership competency of expanding our perspectives for greater performance in our work, workforce, and workplace. As former CEO of AT&T Business, she was the first woman of color to hold the position of CEO in the company’s over 140-year history.

Chow draws from her expertise in transforming organizations to teach you how to create a dynamic environment that engages everyone you and your company interact with–as well as those you wish to be connected to–while adapting to the ever-changing world.

This book equips you with the necessary tools to expand your inclusive leadership skills, including prompts, tactics, and enriching insights from leadership visionaries General Stanley McChrystal, Arianna Huffington, and Adam Grant.

Chow illuminates a seismic shift in the business world, in which a more humanistic approach is required as technology upends work as we know it. If you’re committed to advancing work that matters, engaging a dynamic workforce, and fostering an agile workplace, you’re ready to Lead Bigger.

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You are a Unicorn. You are inspiring, innovative, and powerful–and your idea has the potential to be the next big thing. But whether it’s a product, a service, or a brilliant upgrade that your company could make, you need the right team to make it happen.

Renowned brand strategist and entrepreneur Jen Kem will show you how to identify your Unicorn Leadership Type so that you can build and lead the most collaborative, harmonious, and motivated team of Unicorns to achieve extraordinary results. This values-driven approach to vision, strategy, and mobilization will revolutionize your company culture, enhance employee satisfaction, and drive organizational growth.

This indispensable guide reveals:

• The Unicorn Innovation Model(TM) Pick the best idea to pursue, rally the right people, and make it rapidly happen
• The 9 types of Unicorns: Discover your leadership style and who your team needs to complement each other
• How to achieve Unicorn Energy(TM) Reach the flow state where your team works together fluidly, confidently, and successfully

Human beings make the difference between an idea that goes nowhere and an idea that changes the world. Are you ready to turn your great idea into concrete reality?

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It is clear that leaders carry a unique burden. They are guardians, protectors, providers, judges, helpers, servants, counselors, and friends–and only a Giant can be all those at one time. Leaders live and die with the actual results they create, and those results are created with and through the people they lead.

Dave Durand spent 35 years founding, leading, and selling companies with more than a billion dollars in combined sales. Having led hundreds of thousands of people, he distills leadership influence in usable terms. Leading Giants illuminates the Four Superpowers of a Leader, how to rapidly expand your influence, and that in order to succeed, strangely, you have to “think like a criminal.”

In addition to building greatness in yourself, your team, and your organization, Leading Giants will help you:

• Become a Giant–someone who has unlocked their maximum potential in business and in life
• Inspire great results in those around you–creating profit and long-term wealth for your business
• Attract and retain incredible talent (other Giants)–keeping all the best players on your team
• WIN against your competitors

By learning to serve as a firm but compassionate leader in the face of challenges, you will do the right things, the right way, and reap the benefits. Because life and business are full of good people engaging in destructive behavior, influencing people away from vice and into virtue is the key to peace, prosperity, and profits.

Filled with personal stories from Durand’s decades of founding, leading, scaling, and selling businesses, plus actionable lessons readers can use to increase the impact of their leadership, Leading Giants offers a fresh and empowering perspective, helping readers set their sights on true success and providing them a practical guide for the journey.

If you want success, extraordinary results, and a winning culture, Leading Giants will show you how.

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In Leading Relationships, Steve McClatchy, esteemed leadership mentor and entrepreneur, offers a clear path to improving workplace dynamics. This essential guide tackles the pervasive problems of workplace drama and ineffective relationship management, providing readers with practical tools to build trust, confidence, and respect among colleagues.

Delving into his flagship Five Levels of Maturity framework, McClatchy outlines how to progress from basic interactions to deep, meaningful connections in both personal and professional contexts. The book equips leaders with strategies to handle common challenges such as accountability, conflict resolution, and feedback delivery. It also covers specific issues like managing public criticisms, direct disrespect, and workplace gossip, ensuring leaders can maintain a positive environment even in tough situations.

You’ll:

• Learn to recognize and enhance the maturity of your workplace relationships to foster a collaborative environment
• Master conflict resolution techniques that preserve integrity and respect among team members
• Gain practical advice on providing feedback that motivates and supports, rather than alienates, colleagues

Whether you’re a manager, executive, HR professional, or consultant, Leading Relationships is your definitive guide to cutting through workplace conflict and enhancing leadership efficacy. Transform your personal and professional relationships and create a more dynamic and supportive work environment by ordering your copy today.

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When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, it was like a business that had all the latest technology but only some of the productivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performance rested with him, he realized he had to improve his own leadership skills before he could improve his ship.

Within months, he created a crew of confident and inspired problem-solvers eager to take the initiative and responsibility for their actions. The slogan on board became “It’s your ship,” and Benfold was soon recognized far and wide as a model of naval efficiency. How did Abrashoff do it?

Against the backdrop of today’s United States Navy, Abrashoff shares his secrets of successful management including:

• See the ship through the eyes of the crew: By soliciting a sailor’s suggestions, Abrashoff drastically reduced tedious chores that provided little additional value.
• Communicate, communicate, communicate: The more Abrashoff communicated the plan, the better the crew’s performance. His crew eventually started calling him “Megaphone Mike,” since they heard from him so often.
• Create discipline by focusing on purpose: Discipline skyrocketed when Abrashoff’s crew believed that what they were doing was important.
• Listen aggressively: After learning that many sailors wanted to use the GI Bill, Abrashoff brought a test official aboard the ship-and held the SATs 40 miles off the Iraqi coast.

From achieving amazing cost savings to winning the highest gunnery score in the Pacific Fleet, Captain Abrashoff’s extraordinary campaign sent shock waves through the U.S. Navy. It can help you change the course of your ship, no matter where your business battles are fought.

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What if the key to happiness, success and love was as simple as two words? If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words–let them–will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you.

The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands–and this book will show you exactly how to do it.

In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins–New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s most respected experts on motivation, confidence and mindset–teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can’t control and start focusing on what truly matters: YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.

Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that’s made The Mel Robbins Podcast a global sensation, Robbins explains why The Let Them Theory is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact.

Within a few pages, you’ll realize how much energy and time you’ve been wasting trying to control the wrong things–at work, in relationships and in pursuing your goals–and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.

Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness and ancient wisdom who champion The Let Them Theory every step of the way.

Learn how to:

• Stop wasting energy on things you can’t control
• Stop comparing yourself to other people
• Break free from fear and self-doubt
• Release the grip of people’s expectations
• Build the best friendships of your life
• Create the love you deserve
• Pursue what truly matters to you with confidence
• Build resilience against everyday stressors and distractions
• Define your own path to success, joy and fulfillment

…and so much more. The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.

Order your copy of The Let Them Theory now, and discover how much power you truly have. It all begins with two simple words.

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Each year, an estimated 1 billion people switch jobs worldwide. A lucky few stumble into the role of their dreams, but hundreds of millions are disappointed. What if, when looking for a job, we could make more informed choices to better select the opportunity we seize? What if the power to move along our career paths lies with each of us, as opposed to hiring managers or the market?

According to the Jobs to Be Done theory of product design–customers don’t simply buy products; they recruit them to do specific jobs that solve a problem. Job Moves adopts this model to view jobs as positions we “hire” to help us make progress in our lives and careers.

Based on research conducted with more than a thousand professionals at all stages of their careers, Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta find that this notion bears out no matter your age, stage or trajectory.

Key to this new, universal approach is understanding our priorities at the specific moment when we make each move. This team has created a process to help individuals identify the current circumstances driving them to look for new opportunities, the experiences they hope to gain in a new job, what tradeoffs they’ll gladly make in return, and how to learn-before-switching if a new job will deliver. The result encourages job seekers to look beyond a title or company for a more holistic view and ask not what you can do in a job, but what a potential job can do for you.

Full of useful activities and tools, Job Moves offers the timeless framework of our generation to help anyone create a career that will be happier and more fulfilling.

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Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, Adam Grant investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, harness the advantages of impostor syndrome, bring nuance into charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces and communities of lifelong learners.

Think Again reveals that we don’t have to believe all our thoughts or internalize all our emotions. It’s an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility, humility and curiosity over consistency.

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