Liat Ben-Zur

This book offers clear, actionable strategies teaching high performers like you who are stalled by legacy power structures how to do the following: decode the hidden architecture of power and command your narrative, leverage AI as a force multiplier without sacrificing your crucial human judgment, reposition yourself at the center of the new power structure, and transform difference into a durable, competitive advantage.

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Ilene Fischer

Innovation Ecosystems helps leaders stop reacting to change and start using it as a catalyst for growth. Drawing on decades of experience with Fortune 500 companies and innovative organizations, Ilene Fischer provides a practical systems-thinking framework that transforms how businesses respond to disruption. Readers will learn how to build collaborative, agile organizations where innovation becomes part of everyday culture, employees are empowered to drive change, and teams align around a shared purpose. By connecting people, culture, strategy, and technology, the book helps organizations navigate uncertainty, accelerate growth, and improve transformation success. The result is a more resilient, adaptive organization equipped to thrive in today's fast-changing world.

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Jay Kiew

Part parable, part playbook, Change Fluency equips managers, executives, and leaders to discover what’s possible, design the future, and differentiate from the standard when everything feels the same. Complete with practical exercises and a companion AI coach, this isn’t just another change management book. It’s your guide to making innovation work for you. Drawing from over $2 billion in transformation impact from more than four hundred organizations, Kiew uses a Change Fluency model to show how the most successful leaders don’t just manage change, they become fluent in it. Just as you master a new language, you can use Change Fluency to translate uncertainty from challenge into opportunity.

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Ed Essey

Inspired by the narrative style of a heist story, The Inside Job combines practical advice and engaging storytelling from a mastermind intrapreneur. It shows you the essential skills you need to create change. Filled with examples from intrapreneurs who have been coached by Essey himself, The Inside Job uses real-world cases to illustrate concepts. Each chapter provides strategies, tools, and moves that you can immediately apply to foster innovation within your organization. Hand-drawn images add a personal and visual touch. Ed Essey, a senior director at The Microsoft Garage with decades of experience in driving innovation, offers a game-changing guide for high performers and innovation leaders who refuse to settle and want to empower their crew so bold ideas flourish.

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Jack Myers

Readers of The Tao of Leadership gain a navigational compass for becoming effective leaders built on 3,000-year-old Taoist principles. With accelerating technology overwhelming traditional structures, the book offers a practical Blueprint for Leadership in the AI Era, focused on embracing AI without becoming subservient to it and pursuing innovation without losing empathy, ethics, or purpose. The Tao of Leadership is grounded in the Taoist principles of harmony, flexibility, balance, simplicity, and integrity, translating them into the FusionFlow Process, a tutorial for breaking down organizational silos, accelerating ideas into action, and building cultures of continuous learning. Readers who are navigating the role and influence of AI in their own lives, their organizations, and in civilization will learn that leadership in the AI age is not about mastering machines. It is about understanding how to embrace change and remain grounded in human judgment, empathy, purpose, and integrity

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Tom Pullen

Innovation has the power to solve the world’s most important problems. INNOVATOR helps more people do exactly that by giving them the confidence and practical skills to innovate successfully. Its 10-step INNOVATOR Way® makes innovation accessible beyond visionaries and specialists, helping leaders and team members identify genuine customer needs, develop stronger ideas, test them quickly, reduce wasted time and resources, and turn the best solutions into reality. The book is deliberately action-oriented, equipping readers with practical tools, power questions and action steps they can apply immediately to real-life projects. The methodology at the heart of the book is already trusted by business leaders and managers in 40+ countries, including at leading companies such as Toyota, LVMH, Rexel and Danone. INNOVATOR’s ultimate aim is simple: help organizations grow by enabling more people to create products, services and solutions that truly improve people's lives.

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Ben Soltoff

Bill Aulet, Tod Hynes, Francis O'Sullivan, Libby Wayman

Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures (DE4CEV) helps people turn ideas into scalable solutions at the intersection of people, planet, and profit. Climate and energy entrepreneurs face challenges that traditional entrepreneurship guides rarely address, including capital-intensive technologies, long development timelines, complex regulation, and the need to deliver both financial and environmental results. Until now, there has been no comprehensive guidebook designed specifically for these challenges. DE4CEV provides a practical, step-by-step framework for identifying customers, evaluating technologies and economics, developing products, attracting capital, managing risk, and scaling organizations. By making climate and energy entrepreneurship more accessible and systematic, it helps innovators translate promising ideas into measurable real-world impact.

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Tonya Fitzpatrick

Tourism does more than move people and money; it distributes opportunity, visibility, and power. It can determine which businesses prosper, whose history is remembered, whose culture is presented to the world, and who has a voice in shaping a place’s future. Drawing on Tonya Fitzpatrick’s experience in law, civil-rights policy, travel journalism, and tourism governance, the book challenges an industry accustomed to measuring success through arrivals, hotel occupancy, and visitor spending alone. Through research, global case studies, expert interviews, decision frameworks, and measurement tools, Fitzpatrick shows leaders how to build stewardship into governance, finance, procurement, workforce development, cultural storytelling, and performance measurement.

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Scott Doyne

"Navigating the Quarterlife Career Crisis" helps 18- to 25-year-olds struggling with uncertainty reduce their stress and make progress towards a fulfilling life and career. Too often, young adults' career anxiety is dismissed. This book validates that stress as real, and answers it with real solutions. Drawing on research and real stories, including interviews and surveys with hundreds of young professionals, author Scott Doyne, an ICF-certified career coach and Emmy-winning former sports media executive, names the stressors holding this generation back: fear of failure, career path uncertainty, and feeling stuck or lost.

It delivers practical, peer-sourced solutions: stress relief, mentoring, networking, job and internship search strategies, and campus career resources, plus guidance on social media, AI, family pressure, financial stress, and entrepreneurship. Its message: you have what it takes to thrive, even when

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Julian Lighton

We spend around 90,000 hours of our lives at work, yet many people invest more time planning a holiday than deciding what they really want from their career. Navigating Your Next gives readers the tools to change that. At a time of AI-driven disruption, layoffs, hiring freezes and shifting career paths, the book helps people move from uncertainty to clarity and take greater control of what comes next. Its practical seven-step framework enables readers to identify what they genuinely want from work, understand and articulate their value, recognise the skills and behaviours they need to develop, and pursue opportunities that align with their ambitions.

Drawing on Julian Lighton’s 35 years of experience hiring, leading and coaching people, it supports readers at every career stage – from those starting out to experienced professionals considering a reinvention. Rather than prescribing one definition of success, it equips people to define their own and build a realistic path towards it.

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Julie Smith

Coach Yourself Confident helps capable people stop paying the self-doubt tax: the cost of low confidence, levied in missed opportunities or in overwork and exhaustion. Real-life stories reassure readers that they are far from alone in doubting themselves. Clear prompts for self-reflection surface fresh insights on their confidence and their doubt. The book goes much further than deepening awareness; it supports readers to take action. Its 38 practical activities (“gold dust” according to a reviewer) take the learning from the page into real life. The result for one reader: "The biggest change? If I don't feel confident BEFORE I give something a go, I still go ahead and do it."

Throughout, gentle provocation is blended with encouragement and empathy. Described by a reader as "a personal coach on your desk", the book provides on-demand access to the benefits of executive coaching, otherwise out of reach for so many.

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Mike Wysocki

My book tackles the issue of career readiness. The bridge from education to the workforce is broken. Schools are not preparing the students for the workforce and industry is complaining but not helping. Students are drowning in debt and are confused and depressed. My book offers students suggestions on workforce preparation. Since I did not prepare, I did not enjoy my profession so I inform the students on the way I should have prepared which I learned in 30+ years in industry. To add, the students and educations can read about 101 careers by the people that worked them. From CEO to actuary to accountant and so many more. Chapters are divided into Hollands Occupational Themes.

Also, it's a fun and easy read. Career Readiness is an imperative subject and many of the books are dry so students avoid and end up getting career advice from social media. My book received endorsements from educators of Stanford, Harvard, UMass, BU, Northeastern and many more. Thank you.

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Stuart Taylor

Most people begin their careers in project management feeling unprepared, often because they never planned to be project managers.

They accidentally find themselves in a role, where they are being handed responsibility, pressure, meetings, politics, and high expectations long before they feel ready for them. And the theory they’ve learned often doesn’t match the reality they experience.

Becoming the Project Manager helps bridge that gap.

Rather than teaching rigid frameworks or textbook processes, the book shares the author’s real experiences, mistakes, pressures, and lessons; and helps readers understand that uncertainty is normal, confidence develops over time, and many of the challenges they face are shared by others in the profession.

The goal of the book is not just to help people manage projects more effectively, but to help them develop judgment, resilience, communication skills, and calm authority in complex working environments.

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Janet Wise

The Visibility Effect is a career strategy guide for ambitious professionals ready to stop waiting for recognition and start steering their own rise. Drawing on decades as a global head of learning, leadership, and talent development, Janet Wise reveals the career advantage hidden in plain sight: visibility. Through fifty bold, actionable “truths,” I show readers how to clarify their value, amplify their presence, and build a career that’s both visible and valuable. Combining insider HR insight with real-world leadership wisdom, The Visibility Effect helps readers navigate promotions, performance reviews, and high-stakes moments with strategy and confidence. The result is accelerated career growth, greater influence, and professional freedom, because visibility changes everything, when you know how to use it.

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Katherine Dudtschak

As one of Canada’s most senior and recognized corporate executives, Katherine Dudtschak had a masculine name and appearance that did not reflect her truth. But everything changed in a moment when a gender inclusivity poster spoke to a truth she’d buried deep inside. She saw Katherine: the woman and the essence of who she had always been. At 50, she affirmed her gender, coming out as Katherine to the corporate world in front of 80,000 colleagues. Her courage proved that authenticity and leadership are not only compatible but essential. Katherine ignited change, inspiring a more inclusive and compassionate approach to leadership. Sincerely, Katherine. is a story of resilience, self-love, and the profound impact of leading with authenticity, inclusivity, and purpose. She inspires each of us to foster a harmony within ourselves, and with each other and the natural world we are part of and share.

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Frank Giustra

From the mines to the movie studio to the global stage, Frank Giustra’s journey reveals what wealth can—and can’t—buy. A gripping story of reinvention, philanthropy, and finding meaning beyond money. The Money Dilemma recounts Giustra’s gradual understanding that the best use of excess wealth is to seek to improve the world that our children will inherit. It’s a warts-and-all account of a uniquely fascinating, never-boring life.

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Amber Renee Terschluse

The Grace in the Grind helps readers build meaningful success without sacrificing their faith, family, health, or purpose. Through real-life lessons from entrepreneurship, leadership, marriage, and personal growth, the book teaches readers how to navigate stress, uncertainty, and responsibility with resilience and grace. It encourages better decision-making, stronger leadership, healthier priorities, and a long-term perspective that can lead to greater personal and professional success. The book helps business owners avoid costly mistakes driven by burnout, fear, or misplaced priorities, while teaching stewardship, integrity, and sustainable growth. Readers learn how to manage pressure, protect relationships, and develop habits that support emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. Ultimately, The Grace in the Grind demonstrates that true success is not measured solely by profit or achievement, but by becoming the person God created you to be.

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Christian Anschuetz

Luis Serpa

Leadership is stuck in a "Groundhog Loop." Organizations restructure, reset strategies and chase efficiency, yet the same problems keep coming back. Underneath, something deeper has been lost: the promise of leadership itself. True Titans helps leaders restore it. It shows how fear, short-term thinking and inward-looking metrics cost organizations trust, customers and results, then introduces five Powers: Strategic Courage, Customer Heart, People Activation, Market Ingenuity and Torchbearer Leadership. Through business, military and historical examples, readers learn to make hard decisions early, see their business through customers' eyes, build cultures where people do extraordinary work, adapt before the market forces them to, and leave a legacy that outlasts them. Practical rituals turn each Power into lasting team habits. The result: organizations that win outside because they are led well inside.

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Donna McGeorge

Red Brick Thinking helps others by shifting the default mindset from adding more to letting go of what no longer serves. We’re overloaded, overstretched, and over it and much of that pressure comes from outdated systems, unnecessary obligations, and sneaky habits that slow us down. Through Red Brick Thinking, individuals, leaders, and teams learn to identify and remove these “red bricks,” creating clarity, focus, and momentum. This practice of strategic subtraction reduces overwhelm and burnout, improves decision-making, and frees up time and energy for meaningful work. By challenging “we’ve always done it this way,” Red Brick Thinking supports healthier cultures, smarter ways of working, and progress with less friction so people can move forward lighter, clearer, and more intentionally.

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Jack Myers

Readers of The Tao of Leadership gain a navigational compass for becoming effective leaders built on 3,000-year-old Taoist principles. With accelerating technology overwhelming traditional structures, the book offers a practical Blueprint for Leadership in the AI Era, focused on embracing AI without becoming subservient to it and pursuing innovation without losing empathy, ethics, or purpose. The Tao of Leadership is grounded in the Taoist principles of harmony, flexibility, balance, simplicity, and integrity, translating them into the FusionFlow Process, a tutorial for breaking down organizational silos, accelerating ideas into action, and building cultures of continuous learning. Readers who are navigating the role and influence of AI in their own lives, their organizations, and in civilization will learn that leadership in the AI age is not about mastering machines. It is about understanding how to embrace change and remain grounded in human judgment, empathy, purpose, and integrity

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Gregg Feistman

Heather LaMarre

Raising Social Capital: Corporate Advocacy and Impact in a Time of Social Change combines expert interviews from industry insiders with data-driven insights from cutting-edge research, offering the keys to driving social impact and balancing risk with influence amidst uncertainty and rapidly changing conditions. Part strategy, part pragmatism and full of insights, the book provides a roadmap complete with a set of management tools for leaders, executives, and communications professionals navigating the perfect storm of political controversy, partisan media and social change facing today’s organizations and leaders. Raising Social Capital addresses topics including driving public engagement and building public trust; navigating controversy, political pushback and the partisan press; managing employee activism and workplace incivility; and balancing risk with influence while keeping an eye on the bottom line.

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Ritavan Ritavan

The System Gambit is a rigorous guide to the one strategic move that most investors and operators never make. They say companies get disrupted because they miss the signals. This is technically true, but it is besides the point. You are not missing the signals. You are reading them correctly and responding rationally, and the rational response is the trap. Every benchmark you hit is proof that you are excellent at a game whose rules have already changed. Nobody is going to tell you this. Your metrics cannot see it and your board is scoring the old game. Finding it is your job, and it is worth doing properly.

The move is a system crossing rather than a reallocation of resources, because the logic that wins in your current system is the same logic that blocks the position that compounds in the next one, and you cannot run both at once. This book maps the eight system crossings, the sacrifice each one demands, and how to defend that sacrifice to people still keeping score the old way.

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Edward Rowe

The Standard Model for Business helps leaders, founders and aspiring executives understand how organisations work as complete systems rather than collections of individual departments. Built around five stages of organisational development—Start, Stabilise, Grow, Govern and Assure—the book maps twenty core business functions and explains how they interact as an organisation evolves. This helps readers move beyond their own area of expertise and develop the broader perspective needed for effective leadership and decision-making.

Drawing on more than two decades of global experience, Edward Rowe uses practical examples to show how organisations are built, scaled and governed. The book helps readers identify capability gaps, understand changing priorities, and make better cross-functional decisions. By providing a clear view of the enterprise as an interconnected system, it equips leaders with the knowledge needed to build resilient, scalable and well-governed organisations.

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