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Calvin Trillin can write just about anything--and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. But one of his favorite subjects across the years--a superbly good fit for Trillin's unique mélange of reportage and comedy--has been his own professional milieu: the American press. In The Lede, Trillin gathers over a half century...
3) Love @ Work
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Love@Work - Not Taboo... Transformational!
Why is the highest potential quality of human relationships (love) intentionally banned from the place where we spend the most time with each other (work)?
Love@Work delves into the overlooked power of love in our professional lives. Empowering organizational culture and leadership with love revolutionizes employee engagement and performance, and overall business success.
Navigate the balance between...
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An insightful and practical new guide to how sustainable people management works in today's global economy, with guidance on how to transform the way your organization recruits, hires, upskills, and retains its people.
In Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age, a team of business experts and workforce advisors give an incisive take on the staffing challenges facing leaders in the modern global economy. The audiobook reveals how executives...
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"Since we all work with humans it's important to humanize our workplaces, and this book shows you how."
-RICHARD SCHWARTZ, PhD, bestselling author of No Bad Parts and developer of the Internal Family Systems Model
Working With Humans explores and illuminates the essential-but generally ignored-management and communication tools needed to end the daily annoyances that make work harder than it needs to be.
Drawing from her three decades of workplace...
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Dive into the depths of your soul with "Shadow Work Journal - The Audiobook" now available as an immersive audiobook. This isn't just a guide; it's a transformative experience that speaks directly to your heart and soul.
Uncover the unique Marcus Method, a blend of traditional wisdom and personal insights, masterfully narrated to guide you through the intricacies of shadow work and inner healing. This method offers a new perspective on welcoming your...
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Unlock Your Peak Performance with "Mindful Deep Work" by Dr. Zayden Zander
Transform your work and life with the revolutionary approach of "Mindful Deep Work: Unlocking Focus and Serenity for Peak Performance." Authored by the renowned Dr. Zayden Zander, this audiobook is your gateway to unparalleled focus, productivity, and peace of mind. Dive into a method that merges the power of deep focus with the tranquility of mindfulness, designed to...
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A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States-and how we can fix it.
While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all. Instead, Americans-whose elders face the highest risk of poverty compared to workers in peer nations-are fed feel-good stories about Walmart clerks who can...
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WHY IT MATTERS: For many organizations, workplace culture is now as important as strategy and execution-many would argue it's even more important, since it drives everything from employee productivity to customer retention. But where do you start, and how do you know if it's working?
There's a surprisingly simple answer, and it's work anniversaries. Because unlike other paths to improving workplace culture, work anniversaries are (1) visible, (2)...
10) Why People Work
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Why do people work? This appears to be a very simple and obvious question. And when we ask this question to people, we usually get a simple and seemingly obvious answer – "DUH! They want to get a paycheck." The wise and insightful leader will go beyond this obvious response and come to grips with the fact that there are more complex and hidden human needs within the human spirit.
There are most likely thousands of leadership books written to...
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While it is true that more than half of psychiatrists are either morons or radically ill-willed or both, it is not true that psychiatry is an inherently useless branch of medicine. The truth is---psychiatry usually works. And it works so long as one very basic condition is met---the therapist wants to help the patient.
12) Forces at Work
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In Forces at Work, Missy Shopshire invites you to rediscover what really matters to you.
Are you stuck in a job or a situation that feels tired or that you no longer love?
Do you ever wonder if this is as good as it's going to get?
Do you have untapped potential but lack the motivation to pursue it?
As competent and capable leaders, we can easily become misaligned with our true purpose. We want to make a difference, but as commitments and responsibilities...
13) Work and Play
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I'm stuck sharing a house with my hot new boss...And I just walked in on him in the shower.
Landing a major interior design contract for the new winery in Dogwood Cove is supposed to be my fresh start. But sharing a house with the annoyingly sexy winemaker Finn McNeil? That wasn't part of the plan...
To make it worse, Finn's made it very clear he doesn't want me around-at work, or anywhere else.
I'm determined to win him over with my charm and professionalism....
14) Joy at Work
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Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more.
In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the...
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Difficult, prickly people seem to be everywhere: At work, at home, in restaurants, on the highway, every-friggin'-where! And there is an art to dealing with them. You can learn this art, so problem-people become easier to manage and have less impact on your life and work. Working With Porcupines gives you 24 easily learned proven tips, techniques and hacks for dealing with impossible bosses, idea-stealing work colleagues, almost-impossible relatives...
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You haven't looked at and built the most important relationship in your life (yet): The relationship with yourself.
Hello, beautiful being! You want to do Shadow Work but you don't know how or where to start? You came to the right place.
How can you know if your shadow is affecting your life?
- You're feeling that you have to shift between identities & masks, hold yourself back to "belong"
- You attract the same patterns over & over again and don't...
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It's time to liberate yourself from the allure of external validation, unearth
your inner strength, and nurture the growth of your enlightened self.
Embark on a journey to the heart of presence with the profound teachings, mindfulness practices, and meditation techniques in this insightful guide to empowerment. By engaging with this profound work, you will discover the true essence of presence and envelop yourself in a life of simplicity, authenticity,...
18) How to Stay Focused: 7 Easy Steps to Master Mental Focus, Self-Discipline, Work Concentration & A
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Are you someone who cannot focus on the task at hand because of a nagging thought at the back of your head? Are you finding it difficult to remember some important things?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, it may be time for you to learn the benefits of staying focused. Stop being a slave to your mind because that is not going to help you in any way in achieving your goals. If you want to take your productivity to the next level, you...
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Summary of Cal Newport's Deep Work describes a method of engaging with one's professional efforts in a full and immersive manner to produce better results. This type of focused effort does not require longer hours. Instead, a seasoned practitioner can accomplish more in a shorter time frame. Furthermore, the product of this working style will be of a higher quality than what others produce when they attempt to work while succumbing to the noise of...
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Do you wake up every morning dreading to go to work not because you hate your job but because your manager is just a nasty person? If you have answered yes to this question I sincerely apologize! I know exactly how you feel because I went through the same thing myself for several years before coming to an epiphany that I don't have to put up with this. Since I am speaking from experience I can say with confidence that the techniques in this book work....