Captivating fable to help you grow, discover yourself, succeed, and lead a more fulfilling lifeThe Call to Climb is a transformative fable about self-discovery and personal growth that gives readers all of the tools they need to navigate their own challenges, embrace stillness, and rediscover the joy and meaning in their lives.We step into Riley's journey stranded in a remote Bolivian village in the Andes, a moment before a life-changing journey up...

The Globe & Mail's #1 Business Book of the Year!"ALL IN, ALL THE TIME"Low performance and high turnover is not the result of lazy, apathetic workers. It's not about decreasing budgets. And it's not about a terrible economy.It's about leadership that doesn't engage employees.In Nine Minutes on Monday, leadership guru James Robbins argues that employee engagement comes down to one thing: a constant dedication to meeting the...

Winner of the 2025 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsLate in 1862, amid the horrors of the U.S. Civil War, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, with President Lincoln’s approval, authorized the recruitment of Black soldiers for the Union cause. In January of 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was born. On February 7, 1863, Massachusetts governor John Andrew commissioned Boston-bred John W. M. Appleton the first of the white officers in ...

Named a Top Ten Book of 2023 by *Civil War Books and AuthorsAgents of Empire* expands the historiographical scope of Civil War studies to include the war’s intersection with the history of the American West, demonstrating how the war was transcontinental in scope. Much more than a traditional Civil War regimental history, James Robbins Jewell’s work delves into the operational and social conditions under which the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment was formed. In response to ongoing ten...

Today’s Goat, the celebrated West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, carries on a long and storied tradition. George Custer’s contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to blow post” at night to carouse at local taverns also motivated his dramatic cavalry attacks in the Civil War and afterwards. And the same willingness to stoically accept punishment for his hijinks at the Academy also sent George Pickett marching into the teeth of...

The Globe & Mail's #1 Business Book of the Year!"ALL IN, ALL THE TIME"Low performance and high turnover is not the result of lazy, apathetic workers. It's not about decreasing budgets. And it's not about a terrible economy.It's about leadership that doesn't engage employees.In Nine Minutes on Monday, leadership guru James Robbins argues that employee engagement comes down to one thing: a constant dedication to meeting the...

The Call to Climb is a transformative fable about self-discovery and personal growth that gives listeners all of the tools they need to navigate their own challenges, embrace stillness, and rediscover the joy and meaning in their lives.We step into Riley's journey stranded in a remote Bolivian village in the Andes, a moment before a life-changing journey up a mystical mountain begins. Guided by Santiago, a man of the mountains, Riley embarks on a climb that challenges more...

This book was previously titled, Be Excellent at Anything.The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work ever...

A Story About Positive Ways to Turn Complaints Into Solutions, Innovations, and SuccessEvery complaint represents an opportunity to turn something negative into a positive!It’s Tuesday morning and Hope walks into her office with puffy eyes, a swollen head, and a broken heart. But unfortunately, her company—EZ Tech—is in worse shape than she is. The fact that their computer batteries are catching on fire is the least of their problems. Employees have been posting negative com...

"Embrace the importance of now, and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions...The cost of inaction is vast. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty."Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow to do our most important and valuable work. We fill our days with frantic activity, bouncing from task to task, scrambling to make deadlines and chase t...

Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment -- and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it.In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shares the ways in which to get -- and keep -- our Mojo. Our professional and pers...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, hailed as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century, The 3rd Alternative introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving.There are many methods of “conflict resolution,” but most involve compromise, a low-level accommodation that stops the fight without breaking through to new and innovative results....