The skills and strategies working dads need to find succeed at work and at home.Provides practical tips and advice for working fathers for how they can succeed in taking care of work needs and family needs.Includes a mix of recognizable experts with new voices to give readers a variety of angles and guidance.Includes real-life examples that readers can relate to and see that they're not alone in their struggles.Provides a quick reading experience...

Have you taken time for yourself today?Too many working parents focus solely on those around them—their families, their work, and a never-ending list of other commitments—only to lose sight of what they need themselves. But neglecting your own needs and wants can prevent you from being happy, healthy, and productive.Taking Care of Yourself provides expert advice to help you identify what you value most at work and at home, make choices that align w...

“Profit from the Positive is a rare business book that is deeply credible and compels you to act right away. If you put its tools and techniques into practice, you will become a better leader.”Tom Rath, from the ForewordYou're constantly challenged to grow your business, increase productivity, and improve quality—all while reducing or keeping budgets flat. So what's a manager to do?You've streamlined processes. You've restructured. You’ve so...

BURN BRIGHT, NOT OUT.Stress has been called the "Health Epidemic of the 21st Century" by the World Health Organization. It is estimated to cost North American businesses more than $320 billion a year, and studies show we are working longer and harder than ever before, leaving very little time for much else. With everything competing for your time, energy, and attention, stress is unavoidable.But how do you manage stress without sacrificing the things you want to a...

A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike: Influential and award-winning business leader Margaret Heffernan reveals how organizations can build ideal workplace cultures and create seismic shifts by making deceptively small changes.By implementing sweeping changes, businesses often think it’s possible to do better, to earn more, and have happier employees. So why does engagement prove so difficult and productivity so elusive?In Beyond Measure,

Tempted to Give Up? Here’s How to Keep GoingIf you browse through the interviews with some of the most successful people on Earth, you’ll find one common piece of advice shared by virtually all of them:They never give up on their big goals.Research shows that grit is a better predictor for success than any other factor. The ability to keep going despite setbacks is more important than your IQ, character or other ext...

Are you a good boss—or a great one?Good bosses can handle the day-to-day work of running a team. Great bosses go beyond that, finding ways to help employees become better versions of themselves as people and professionals. But as a manager, how do you reach that next level?The HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss contains practical tips and advice to help you become a more well-rounded leader, one who sparks creativity, engagement, collaboration...

“Filled with tools, strategies, and checklists and written with a fine understanding of the problems adults with ADD face daily. This book is a gift to all who read it.” —Edward Hollowell, M.D., bestselling author of Driven to DistractionWritten by two expert ADD coaches with more than 30 years experience, this practical handbook offers adults with ADD practical techniques for coping with common everyday challenges. These simple proven strategies can help ...

Achieving happiness while excelling at your career.What is the nature of human happiness, and how do we achieve it in the course of our professional lives? And is it even worth pursuing?This book explores answers to these questions with research into how happiness is measured, frameworks for personal behaviors, management techniques that build happiness in the workplace—and warnings that highlight where the happiness hype has been overblown.This vol...

" 21 Days to Resilience gives us a powerful map we can apply to grab ahold of radical wellbeing and happiness in our daily lives, for real." —Tara Stiles, bestselling author of Clean Mind, Clean BodyHappiness is not about wishful thinking, good luck, or avoiding negative thoughts. In fact, the only path to true happiness requires seeing challenges as opportunities and discovering emotional strength during times of struggle. In other words, it's abo...

The New York Times bestselling author of Reality-Based Leadership rejects the current fad of "engaging" employees and the emotional drama of "meeting their needs"--returning leadership to leaders and productivity to businesses.For years now, leaders in almost every industry have accepted two completely false assumptions--that change is hard, and that engagement drives results. Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to shield employees from change, involve ...

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the “right” college to hustle and grinding our lives, we celebrate our drive, even as we gatekeep wh...