Alysia Edith Silberg Ms

In Unemployable, Alysia Silberg, a startup Investor, AI expert, entrepreneur, and executive coach, shares her powerful story of survival and success, aided by the great equalizer – technology. Growing up in poverty in South Africa, Alysia experienced violence, abuse, and even a gunshot wound. Through determination and an unwavering commitment to learning, she made her way to America and Silicon Valley, becoming a lover and funder of startups, with a passion for AI.

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Jesse Krieger Mr.

Take a journey with Jesse Krieger through two decades of entrepreneurship, from a rock band and record label in Nashville, to becoming a bestselling author and publishing 100+ books before it all came crashing down. Ride the highs and lows of turning ideas into businesses and get first-hand accounts of far-flung international destinations in Autobiography of an Entrepreneur.

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David G. Henkin

Thomas Bertels

Work is broken but it can be fixed.
Fixing Work is a clarion call for managers and executives at all levels. Instead of treating employees like automatons and discouraging creativity, ownership, and engagement, it helps leaders rethink how work gets done and structure jobs to be intrinsically motivating. Not only does motivational work design increase employee engagement; it also improves productivity and the customer experience, strengthening companies as a whole - a triple win.
Drawing from decades of research, executive and entrepreneur David Henkin and management consultant Thomas Bertels take us on an investigative journey to make work more productive, satisfying, and meaningful. Through their allegorical tale of a typical office, people see themselves in the characters while learning strategies to create better jobs and perform at higher levels. Fixing Work provides a road map to using work design to provide meaningfulness, autonomy, and feedback to employees in any organization.

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Michael McCathren

In 6 Ps of Essential Innovation, Michael McCathren combines research and personal anecdotes to guide aspiring entrepreneurs who know they want to pursue innovation but just aren’t sure where to start. McCathren, the innovation leader for Chick-fil-A, uncovers the shortcomings endemic in many corporate cultures and lays out every step in the path to becoming a resilient, innovative organization. Throughout the book, McCathren lays out exercises and action plans for leaders to take tangible steps for their businesses to run more efficiently and sustainably, as well as deliver more value for their customers. By the end of this book, readers will have gained a deeper understanding of what an innovation organization entails, as well as the skills to lead one.

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David Lingelbach

Valentina Rodríguez Guerra

This is the first ever guide to oligarchs as a global and historical phenomenon. Today, more than twenty oligarchs serve as heads of state or government in countries such as Russia, South Africa, Lebanon, and El Salvador. Many have a net worth in excess of $1 billion, and they all – whether directly or indirectly – impact our daily lives. Who are they and how have they dominated our world? What lessons can we learn from them, and what might the future hold? In this book, entrepreneurship professor David Lingelbach and oligarch researcher Valentina Rodríguez Guerra draw upon more than 25 years of research (including conversations with Vladimir Putin and other oligarchs), 16 case studies, and dozens of historical examples to develop the first-ever model revealing the strategies oligarchs employ to fuse wealth and power, and transition between the two. This model gives insight into how oligarchs use multiple control mechanisms to exploit an increasingly uncertain world.

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Scott Wozniak

In Make Your Brand Legendary, Scott Wozniak leverages his decades of brand-building experience within some of America’s most-loved companies to show you how to create world-class customer experience. After years of battle-tested work, Scott realized that there was a set of systems that all the great brands used to create raving fans. He captured these practices in an engine diagram, a simple tool to help leaders become legends.

If you use this approach, you can build a Customer Experience Engine that will create those same kinds of raving fans that always seem to dominate dinner-party conversations and water-cooler chats. Only this time, they’ll be talking about your business. This isn't a hype book. It's a how-to book. Greatness is possible, if you build the right engine.

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Patty Civalleri

Infuse your organization with a distinct personality and culture that draws customers in a way that simply competing on price cannot.
Joe Coulombe founded what would become Trader Joe’s in the late 1960s and helped shape it into the beloved, quirky food chain it is today. Realizing early on that he could not compete and win by playing the same game his bigger competitors were playing, he decided to build a store for educated people of somewhat modest means. He brought in unusual products from around the world and promoted them in the Fearless Flyer, providing customers with background on how they were sourced and their nutritional value. He also gave the stores a tiki theme to reinforce the exotic trader ship concept with employees wearing Hawaiian shirts.

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Mary Childs

Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school.

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April Armstrong

I discovered early in my career there is a huge gap between what many of us learn in school and what it takes to be a successful executive. The Day One Executive aims to close that gap, empower you to be the chief executive of your life and stand out as a future executive in your job starting on “Day One.”

When you choose to be a Day One Executive, you are in the driver’s seat of your career. You expand your sphere of influence and become someone who can make things happen. You won’t stay stuck in a bad job or working for a bad boss, because you know you have the power to create, and recreate, your career at all times. Your work has greater impact, which is its own reward, and you also increase your earning power.

Best of all, you get to live your legacy—and you can start right now, wherever you are.

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Alan Patterson

The main takeaway: There is only one person responsible for your career development. You.

"Burn Ladders. Build Bridges." tears up any idea of a playbook and helps individuals explore ways to create impact and find meaning in their work—all while enjoying the journey. This book lights a spark within readers to stop waiting and take control of their career no matter what stage they’re in—college-to-career or an experienced professional. It especially resonates with women and other marginalized professionals seeking support and leadership development.

This book provides a balance of theory & practicality. It emphasizes skill development to build trust, expertise, and credibility, while also encouraging reflections to more deeply discover oneself (connecting head & heart). All of which, lead to an understanding that one’s measure of success in life is not “what you do for a living”—rather, it’s about who you are with the people around you that creates opportunities, meaning, and purpose.

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Connie Steele

In Building the Business of You, I share future of work trends so professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers, founders, and side hustlers can "skate to where the puck will be" and form their own career mashup.

The career mashup is my term for the career of the future (and increasingly the present) in which workers merge their skills, interests, passions, values, hobbies, opportunities, relationships, education, network, identity, and even multiple jobs and gigs. People no longer want to conform to one rigid and structured path. They want to reflect their multidimensional selves so they can realize their full potential.

And in this new, fluid and constantly changing world of work, the dream job is no longer something you get. It's something you create. In Building the Business of You, I provide professionals with a practical system and tools so they can create theirs.

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Matthew J Louis

Every year, 200k veterans leave the military - most of whom are unprepared for the transition. These service members have developed incredible leadership, problem-solving, and practical skills that are underutilized once they reach the civilian world, a detriment to both themselves and society. Mission Transition expertly fills this gap in support, enabling these national heroes to find full employment in optimal career fields, which - studies show - has the effect of nearly doubling their career earnings, rates of retention, and job satisfaction. Moreover, full employment is also directly correlated to suicidality in the post-9/11 veteran cohort. Put simply, this book saves lives!

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Ellen Connelly Taaffe

This book helps professional women feel seen, get unstuck, and courageously move into action. It helps them recognize how they might be holding themselves back with sky-high expectations and ingrained learned messages that no longer serve them, creating a distorted reflection that makes them think they aren't worthy or ready to take the risk whether that is to raise their hand or go for the next promotion. Through stories, research, and prompts, they build self-awareness and begin to take small steps. Readers learn the perils of the five success strategies (preparing to perfection, eagerly pleasing, fitting the mold, working pedal to the metal, and performing patiently awaiting to be noticed) and learn how they can drive performance, get sidelined with potential pitfalls personally or perceptually, and how to pivot into new actions. Readers learn to ask for help, set boundaries, show up more authentically, and ask for what they want. They build courage, community, and confidence.

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William Warren

The Conquering Creative, written and illustrated by William Warren, describes how creatives can build a real, thriving career or business out of their creative passions and dispels the myth that artists either have to sell out...or starve. They do, however, have to think critically about how their creative work is a product that creates marketplace value. As founder and CEO of The Sketch Effect, an illustration and animation company that provides businesses with creative visual communication goods and services, Warren draws upon his decades of experience in marrying the worlds of business and art. He leans on his own early struggles leaving his “real business job” at a Fortune 500 company, and lays out nine critical shifts creatives must use to build a sustainable business without sacrificing passion. This book will prove indispensable to anyone who refuses to become the “starving artist” stereotype.

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Chuen Chuen Yeo

This book helps managers and leaders adopt a new way of thinking in the volatile workplace, reducing stress, increasing a sense of ease and authenticity, and improving their resilience to excel and make a positive difference.

Readers globally have reached out to me after the book was published, sharing how the simple four-step model has offered them another perspective that is more constructive, resourceful and liberating. Many readers have also shared their insights with the rest of the world through my podcast, Agile Leaders Conversations. For some readers, the stories in the book gave them closure on the challenges they faced on their leadership journey.

In a nutshell, the stories coupled with the four-step model gives modern leaders a simple and systematic way to broaden their perpsectives, clarify their values and then leading with agility and ease. This helps them be ready for whatever changes that will come their way.

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Gary Lai

As Tom Gundy, the editor of Hong Kong Free Press, wrote: Gary Lai “addressed poverty by raising awareness of the different inequalities it has caused and proposing reforms to combat the worst forms of chronic deprivation.”

Lai’s birthplace is a dynamic city. But the contrast between the well-off and the poor is stark. Luxury brand bag-toting women can often be seen walking past beggars on the sidewalks of busy streets.

Inequality has been steadily increasing from 1976. Poverty makes people more vulnerable and corruptible. This book ascertains the extent of poverty in Hong Kong, in the context of the experiences in other parts of the world. The meditations in this book include essays that Gary has published in the popular media, thus proven to have relevance and influence. An eternal optimist, Lai believes that understanding the destitute in Hong Kong can yield something more universal.

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Anupam B Jena

Christopher Worsham

Relying on ingeniously devised natural experiments—random events that unknowingly turn us into experimental subjects—Jena and Worsham do more than offer readers colorful stories. They help us see the way our health is shaped by forces invisible to the untrained eye. Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Do you choose the veteran doctor or the rookie?  Do you really need the surgery your doctor recommends? These questions are rife with significance; their impact can be life changing. Addressing them in a style that’s both animated and enlightening, Random Acts of Medicine empowers you to see past the white coat and find out what really makes medicine work—and how it could work better.

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