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Artificial Death of a Career helps people become better and more successful by showing them how to adapt, grow, and lead in a world reshaped by AI. Through the story of Shey Sinope’s professional upheaval, the book turns abstract disruption into a practical, human guide for reinvention. Readers learn how to recognize early signs of career stagnation, proactively reskill, and shift their mindset from fear to opportunity. Grounded in behavioral science and real-world leadership experience, the authors provide clear strategies for continuous learning, resilience, and confidence amid rapid change. The book emphasizes building a future-ready identity—one rooted in authenticity, adaptability, and inclusion—so professionals remain valuable even as roles evolve. By blending insight, humor, and actionable advice, it empowers readers to take control of their careers, redefine success on their own terms, and thrive rather than merely survive in the age of AI.

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Sophie Bretag

The Kind Way helps people create a more fulfilling and sustainable way to live, work and succeed, without constantly sacrificing themselves in the process. It challenges the idea that happiness sits on the other side of achieving more, doing more or pushing harder. Instead, it helps readers reconnect with themselves, understand what truly matters, protect their energy and capacity and make more conscious choices about how they live and lead. Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology, emotional intelligence and almost two decades of HR and leadership experience, the book provides practical tools to build self-awareness, set healthier boundaries, strengthen relationships and bring greater kindness into everyday life. It helps people redefine success beyond achievement alone, creating more space for connection, meaning, wellbeing and joy. It shows that self-kindness isn't stepping away from ambition. It's a way of pursuing a successful life without losing yourself along the way.

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Sonja Frey

The Light Behind the Wall helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or uncertain about their direction understand what may be keeping them from moving forward—and discover practical ways to change. The book teaches readers to recognize survival-mode patterns, listen to their body’s signals, calm overwhelm, and reconnect with their own inner guidance. Through simple somatic practices, reflection exercises, nervous-system awareness, and intuitive tools, readers gain ways to move through fear, break repetitive patterns, and make clearer, more conscious choices.

At its heart, the book offers a new perspective on stuckness: instead of seeing it as failure or something being wrong with them, readers can begin to see it as information. This shift can help them regain a sense of agency, trust themselves again, and take meaningful steps toward greater purpose, alignment, and fulfillment in everyday life.

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Caroline Alonzo

Burnout. Decreased funding. Structural barriers. A lack of hope. Social changemakers and non-profit leaders who want to make meaningful, measurable impact in their communities are struggling to see a brighter future for themselves, their teams, and the people they serve. Yet real change happens by believing in a better world and consistently taking the next step toward making it a reality. The Changemaker’s Toolkit explores why hope is fading in our rapidly changing world—yet also reveals how today’s conditions offer unprecedented opportunities for impact. To harness this potential, Alonzo provides a framework and four powerful tools—Vision, Action, Values, and Conviction— you can use throughout your changemaking career to move forward with purpose when optimism is under threat.

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Brent Rittersdorf

Everyone talks about purpose. Few people actually know what theirs is. "The Point Is in the Purpose" helps readers define, identify, and achieve their greater purpose, and live more thoughtfully and intentionally. Drawing on the night he converted ten consecutive free throws in a state semifinal game, keynote speaker Brent Rittersdorf offers a proven 10-shot framework for achieving their greater purpose. Readers learn how to define their purpose using a simple leadership principle most people get wrong, discover the unexpected way to identify what they're truly meant to do, and understand the difference between working for money and working for purpose.

Written by an everyday person who has navigated career setbacks, family crises, unexpected wins, and crushing defeats, the book helps anyone, whether climbing the corporate ladder, starting a business, or simply trying to figure out what they're supposed to do with their life, trade surface-level success for real fulfillment.

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Sneha Villalva

What is the cost of carrying too much? Cut to the Essence challenges this belief: that more achievement, more productivity, and more striving make us more. Counterintuitively, it proposes this: intentional subtraction. Through stories of burnout and hard-won wisdom, Sneha Villalva shows readers that overload is about identity, not merely productivity. Through the CUT Method—Clarify your values, Uncover the essence, Treasure the time—readers learn to discern what matters, protect what is essential, and lead with greater depth, restraint, and intention. Cut to the Essence reframes saying no as advancement not retreat, and subtraction as strength not loss. Readers report rethinking success, setting healthier boundaries, examining their motives as leaders, and incorporating subtraction into their overcommitted lives, saying the principles are “surprisingly transferable” to leadership and decision-making. The book offers a different equation for life and leadership: We subtract to multiply.

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JW Radford

Driven by Desire: The Path to Unstoppable Success helps people turn ambition into meaningful action. It shows readers how to identify what they truly want, develop the mindset and discipline needed to pursue it, and keep moving forward despite setbacks, fear, or failure. Drawing on real-life lessons of adversity, resilience, and achievement, the book emphasizes personal accountability, intentional decision-making, and consistent action. Rather than defining success only by money or status, Driven by Desire challenges readers to create their own definition of success and build a practical path toward it. Ultimately, the book delivers a powerful message: your circumstances may influence where you start, but your desire, choices, and determination can change where you finish.

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Scott Schieman

Have you ever found yourself considering what your life would be like in the absence of work? Would you feel a sense of loss past the finances? More people than ever before believe that a job is just a way of earning money – nothing more. While the popularity of this transactional mindset is understandable, I Want M.O.R.E. argues that it depletes our vision of our professional lives. Sociologist Scott Schieman has drawn upon decades of research to investigate what people think and feel about work. He has distilled the essence of that data to create M.O.R.E., which stands for Mooring, Opening, Relating, and Exceeding. Mooring navigates identity, structure, and purpose. Opening explores ability, agency, and creativity. Relating explains connection, support, and respect. And Exceeding focuses on recognition, reputation, and status. Helping readers harness their sense of self and better their quality of life, the M.O.R.E. framework catalogues each element, along with metrics to assess you

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Eziah Syed

By Chance & Design is a compelling exploration of how innovation truly happens, through curiosity, imagination, and a deliberate openness to chance. Drawing from the author’s entrepreneurial and corporate journey alongside historical breakthroughs and modern innovation frameworks, the book shows how serendipity can be intentionally cultivated and transformed into progress. Rather than chasing certainty, readers learn how to design environments that surface opportunity, connect ideas across disciplines, and turn moments of surprise into meaningful impact. For entrepreneurs, leaders, and creatives navigating an accelerating era of change, By Chance & Design offers a powerful new way to think about growth, resilience, and possibility.

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Margie Goldsmith

This book is written for anyone who has ever felt less than or not good enough -- it was written to let readers know they ARE good enough and can achieve anything they want. By reading "Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce" readers also learn how to challenge themselves to do things that scare them; because even if they fail at the attempt, they become a better person.

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Nancy Yuskaitis

Hi Mom, It's Me: Hope, Love, and the Afterlife helps readers navigate the devastating weight of grief and discover a path toward profound emotional healing. By sharing a deeply personal journey through the loss of two daughters, the book serves as a genuine bridge between sorrow and spiritual comfort. It empowers and provides hope to anyone facing the loneliness of bereavement complete with actionable exercises in mindfulness, meditation, journaling and creative art transforming their grief into a softer, more intuitive way to live with loss. This book blends emotional vulnerability with mystical hope, inspiring readers to recognize their own signs of connection from the other side and ultimately to feel uplifted and encouraged in ways to carry their loved one forward with them in this life. Writing this book was my lifeline meant to be shared with a community of grieving parents and others seeking confirmation of the continuation of life after loss.

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Miyoki Chan

The book is a heart-centered lifeline for families navigating the beautiful, often isolating journey of parenting a child with disabilities or someone dealing with sudden identity shifts. As a coach and a parent who has walked this exact path, I share my vulnerable story alongside the structured Break Through framework to help parents heal their own unaddressed wounds. Instead of clinical advice, this guide provides an encouraging, compassionate community space and actionable coaching tools. Learning to heal their own inner world, parents gain the emotional resilience to break generational cycles, overcome burnout, and show up fully for their children with deep joy. This book turns personal survival into shared community healing, proving that a parent's self-care is the greatest gift they can give their family.

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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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JW Radford

Driven by Desire: The Path to Unstoppable Success helps people turn ambition into meaningful action. It shows readers how to identify what they truly want, develop the mindset and discipline needed to pursue it, and keep moving forward despite setbacks, fear, or failure. Drawing on real-life lessons of adversity, resilience, and achievement, the book emphasizes personal accountability, intentional decision-making, and consistent action. Rather than defining success only by money or status, Driven by Desire challenges readers to create their own definition of success and build a practical path toward it. Ultimately, the book delivers a powerful message: your circumstances may influence where you start, but your desire, choices, and determination can change where you finish.

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Kenneth Carnesi, Sr

The whole book is built on one core idea. The time you have left is not a consolation prize. It's not the leftover scraps after real life was lived. It's an opportunity. A real, specific, powerful opportunity to do the things that matter most. To say what needs to be said. To heal what can still be healed. To become, even now, more fully the person you were always meant to be. That idea sounds simple. But if you let it sink all the way in, if you really let yourself believe it, it changes everything about how you wake up tomorrow morning. And the morning after that. And every morning that comes after. The unfinished business in your life is not a list of failures. It's a map.

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Miki Feldman Simon

Most leadership approaches focus on how to lead others. CORE Leadership starts from a different premise: leadership starts with leading yourself. It helps leaders create a clear vision of the person and leader they want to be and gives them practical tools to put that vision into action. Through the four-step CORE framework, readers clarify what matters to them, translate it into everyday behaviors, recognize where they have choice, and evaluate the impact they are having. Readers have shared how the framework has helped them clarify their purpose, become more aware of their impact, see choices they hadn’t previously recognized, and make intentional changes in how they lead and live. As leaders become more intentional and exercise greater agency over how they show up, the impact extends beyond them, strengthening relationships, creating healthier teams and workplaces, and positively affecting the people they lead, work with, and live with.

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Lisa Hurley

Space To Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life responds to one of the defining challenges of modern life: burnout normalized as success. Lisa Hurley introduces readers to her Exhalation Point framework—Know Yourself, Love Yourself, Be Yourself—a human-centered model for restoring balance without abandoning ambition. Through this framework, readers are guided to develop self-awareness, practice self-compassion, and make aligned choices that support mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Rather than offering productivity hacks, the book emphasizes sustainable self-care habits and redefines success in ways that honor one’s capacity.

Grounded in lived experience and cultural insights, Space To Exhale supports meaningful shifts in how readers engage with work and life. Its real-world impact has been recognized with a Gold Anthem Award, underscoring the book’s relevance as a timely and actionable resource for cultivating enduring work-life balance.

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Jess Ekstrom

A refreshingly honest guide to chasing goals without losing your sanity - rediscover joy, stay motivated, and build a life that feels as good as it looks. Through unfiltered storytelling, practical tools, and a few “yep, been there” moments, Jess helps readers rediscover what it actually feels like to enjoy their work, stay motivated without the meltdown, and build a life that feels as good as it looks on LinkedIn. Smart, funny, and with grounded strategies you can implement right now, Making It Without Losing It is a must-read for anyone who's done trading their peace for performance. If you're craving a version of success that includes joy, you’ve come to the right place.

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Max Mckeown

In a world of relentless change and complexity, it’s not enough to simply survive—you must learn to thrive. In Superadaptability, Max Mckeown introduces the transformative RUN loop: Recognise, Understand, Necessary Action to help you transcend the challenges around you, adapt to cope with uncertainty, embrace change as an opportunity for growth, and shape the future on your own terms. Through vivid storytelling and real-world examples from the world of business, leadership and innovation, Superadaptability reveals how you can strategically harness the power of change to create extraordinary outcomes. The RUN loop empowers you to recognize shifting circumstances, understand their implications, and take the necessary actions to adapt smarter and faster than ever before. This is an invaluable guide to mastering the art of adaptation and unlocking a future defined by purpose, fulfillment, and success.

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Cynthia J Young

I wrote this book because I understand what it’s like to work hard, follow the rules, and help others shine, only to feel invisible when it comes time for recognition and promotion. It's for every woman who is tired of being overlooked despite her contributions. It’s for every introvert who is told to speak up more, network harder, or go out for drinks to fit in. I provide my six-step Career G.R.O.W.T.H. StrategyTM framework, with actions readers can take to be seen and heard, and to get promoted without playing office politics.

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Phil Buckley

In When People Throw Wrenches, award-winning author Phil Buckley draws on more than thirty-five years of experience managing thirty-two large-scale change programs to show you the ways people inevitably react to changes, and how you can anticipate and respond to these behaviors to ensure your initiative will succeed. When People Throw Wrenches is an essential resource for leaders, change practitioners, and project managers working on high-stakes change initiatives, including operating model redesigns, organizational restructures, mergers and acquisitions, culture resets, and systems implementations. This book will help you spot self-interested behavior early (before it takes hold), decode the emotional drivers that motivate self-protection or gain, and respond in ways that protect credibility, relationships, and results.

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Jack Myers

Readers of Creativity Unleashed discover how AI can provide a creative advantage in their careers and daily lives. Through 130 practical tips, tools, and ideas, everyone can overcome their fear and make AI work for them without the jargon or fluff. They learn to tap into their creative competence by collaborating with machine intelligence to generate original ideas, overcome creative blocks, solve problems, strengthen their individual voice, and transform imagination into meaningful action. The book honors and amplifies the importance of what technology cannot replace: human intuition, emotion, originality, judgment, and purpose. It helps elevate and unlock human potential, showing that creativity is not a rare gift reserved for artists, innovators, or technology experts. Through practical exercises and accessible guidance, readers build confidence, break down creative barriers, and learn to use AI responsibly without sacrificing authenticity.

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