Great gift books

10 Steps to Successful Teams

Would you like to learn the best way to coach teams to success?

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Change is difficult but essential—Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws p...

A Higher Standard of Leadership

Would you like to know the secrets of Gandhi's inspirational leadership style?

A Peacock in the Land of Penguins

This classic pioneering book provides keen insight into workplace diversity. With new tips, tools, and strategies for pea...

A Simpler Way

Margaret J. Wheatley and coauthor Myron Kellner-Rogers explore the question: "How could we organize human endeavor if we ...

All Together Now

As the new century unfolds, we face a host of economic and social challenges--jobs lost to "off shoring," a huge and grow...

America As Empire

In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputa...

Answering Your Call

So many people today feel "called" to find more in their lives beyond the usual definitions of success, to live lives of ...

Artful Work

Do you think work become better and more fulfilling when you approach it artistically?

Ask Outrageously!

Are you asking for what you want or just taking what you are given? Chances are, it’s the latter. Linda Swindling will te...

Be a Project Motivator

How do project managers achieve spectacular results when they have no direct authority over their team members? Here’s a ...

Be BIG

From diversity experts Judith Katz and Frederick Miller comes an illustrated guide to being your full-sized self in a ver...

Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever

Everything you think you know about presentations is turned on its head in this funny, wise, and immensely useful book. W...

Bedtime Stories for Managers

In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and on...

Best Care Anywhere

It's shocking but true. The VA health system has quietly accomplished everything that the country expected from health re...

Black Fatigue

This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physic...

Breaking Through Gridlock

Conversations about social change devolve quickly into conflict when participants don’t agree. Experienced practitioners ...

Building Better Ideas

Why do teams settle for bad ideas or kill good ones? Popular consultant B. Kim Barnes’s unique process of constructive de...

Burnout to Breakthrough

“Eileen delivers a new perspective on the burnout crisis with humor, good sense, and unique ideas on how to manage our br...

Capitalism 3.0

Working Assets Co-founder and successful journalist Peter Barnes details a revolutionary market-based approach to “upgrad...

Capitalists Arise!

Peter Georgescu explains how his American Dream journey—from refugee to the CEO of Young & Rubicam—is no longer possi...

Catch!

Seattle locals and tourists alike flock to Pike Place each day to watch the fish fly. But Pike Place Fish is about more t...

Change Is Everybody's Business

Change Is Everybody's Business challenges readers to realize the power they have to make things happen-to support, stymie...

Change the Story, Change the Future

Every society is governed by stories—overarching cultural frameworks that determine what people value and how they unders...

Citizen Capitalism

Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practi...

Citizen Wealth

Charismatic activist and chief organizer for ACORN (the nation’s largest grassroots community organization, with more tha...

Claiming Your Place At the Fire

Richard Leider and David Shapiro helped hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people discover the true purpose of the...

Coaching to Win

Are you tired of the same old, outdated management techniques?

Coaching Up & Down the Generations

What adaptations should you make to your coaching style to speak to different generations?

Collective Visioning

Drawing on Linda Stout's thirty years of experience training organizers, advocates, activists, and coalition groups, "Col...

Conversations Worth Having, Second Edition

Now in a second edition, this classic book shows how to make conversations generative and productive rather than critical...

Covert Processes At Work

The first and only guidebook that specifically outlines methodologies for diagnosing and dealing with all of the “hidden”...

Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces

"This important book offers organizations the keys to introvert inclusion." —Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling autho...

Crisis at Santa's Workshop

Have you ever wondered how Santa Claus, that paragon of efficiency, runs his workshop?

Crunch Time

High-pressure situations can make us panic—but if we can change our perspective, what seemed impossible can suddenly beco...

Dear Black Girl

“Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not alwa...

Dial 9 to Get Out!

Do you desperately need to see the absurd and funny side of business life?

Diversity Beyond Lip Service

"La’Wana Harris has opened this coach’s eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inc...

Do What Matters Most

Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the habits and processes used by top leaders w...

Dot Calm

For millions of people, technology is making their lives harder, not easier. They're bombarded with so much information t...

Eat That Frog! Action Workbook

The workbook version of this international bestseller guides you through getting more of the important things done. You’l...

Eat That Frog! Cards

Will these cards really help me stop procrastinating?

Eat That Frog! for Students

Adapted from Brian Tracy's international time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog!, this book will give today's stressed...

El corazón del liderazgo

What makes for a truly exceptional leader? Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of i...

Employee Surveys That Work

Alec Levenson’s immensely practical guide shows every organization that uses employee surveys or is considering using the...

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

In the newly updated edition of this classic empowerment business fable—over 400,000 copies sold—Ken Blanchard and John C...

Equity

A fast and engaging read, Equity helps leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavi...

Erasing Institutional Bias

All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought after diversity consultant...

Escape from Management Hell

Do you ever feel like you're trapped in management hell?

Executive Coaching for Results

Cutting through the confusion and disinformation about the fastest-growing corporate learning methodology, EXECUTIVE COAC...

Expect the Unexpected Or You Won't Find It

Do you want to get your brain spinning creatively on novel solutions to the most intractable problems?

Facilitating Breakthrough

Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitati...

False Profits

Despite reports that the recession may be ending, the unemployment rate is sky high and home foreclosures are at record l...

Faster, Fewer, Better Emails

Business communication expert and bestselling author Dianna Booher shares practical wisdom on how to write effective emai...

Fear Your Strengths

Leaders have countless resources and books aimed at helping them discover their strengths–which is fantastic–but none of ...

Feedback (and Other Dirty Words)

A practical and irreverent guide to taking the sting out of feedback and reclaiming it as a motivating, empowering experi...

Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline

How can smaller companies create effective Leadership Development programs?

Flight Plan

In FLIGHT PLAN, bestselling author Brian Tracy (author of Eat That Frog, over half a million copies sold) explains the re...

Formula 2 + 2

In today’s fast-paced business environment, frequent feedback and “course correction” is absolutely vital. But about the ...

From the Ground Up

“Everyone in a hospital leadership role should read this book as it offers a wealth of practical advice for organizations...

Full Steam Ahead!

Through a beautifully written and engaging story about two people struggling to create visions—both for the company where...

Get Paid More and Promoted Faster

Bestselling author Brian Tracy reveals how, no matter what your current job, you can apply the secrets and strategies use...

Gifts from the Mountain

“Wonderfully profound …. It’s as if Thoreau meets Lao Tzu on the trail and we are fortunate enough to overhear their wisd...

Go Team!

Coauthored by the legendary, bestselling author Ken Blanchard, Go Team! (over 22,000 copies sold) explains how too many p...

Going Horizontal

For every company like Zappos that has achieved the Utopia of an egalitarian business model, there are thousands that rem...

Growing Local Value

Hanna Andersson founder Gun Denhart and BALLE co-founder Laury Hammel show how every aspect of a business (from product ...

Haz lo que más importa

Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the habits and processes used by top leaders w...

Hello, My Name Is Awesome

Naming a business or product has always been challenging—and sometimes costly—for entrepreneurs and inventors, but it’s o...

Hello, My Name Is Awesome

The ultimate guide to naming your product or business has been updated throughout with twice as many resources as before,...

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

The new edition of the bestselling employee development classic includes advice on engagement and retention in today’s mo...

Helping Your New Employee Succeed

How can new hires be MOST effective- and shouldn't their training go beyond the how-to of menial tasks?

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

This book has a simple message for business leaders: you help yourselves by helping the poor. Instead of feeling as if th...

How to Be an Inclusive Leader

We know why diversity is important, but how do we drive real change at work? Diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brow...

How to Succeed in Your First Job

Are you wondering how to make the most out of your new job?

Humble Inquiry, Second Edition

This worldwide bestseller offers simple guidance for building the kind of open and trusting relationships vital for tackl...

Humble Leadership

Bestselling author and father of organizational culture studies, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein trail-blaze with a creativ...

I Moved Your Cheese

Who Moved My Cheese? – the biggest selling business book of all time with over 25 million copies in print — has some dece...

In Defense of Public Service

“Dr. Alexander . . . brings to this book an acute understanding of both why our cherished form of government—and those wh...

Intrapreneuring in Action

How can you identify the natural entrepreneurs among your employees & harness their creative energy?

Invisible Capital

Writer, consultant and speaker Chris Rabb coined the term "invisible capital" to represent those unseen forces that drama...

Just Good Business

Written by an emerging star in the field of corporate social responsibility, Kellie McElhaney’s Just Good Business identi...

Leading in Turbulent Times

Times are tough. What should you do as a leader to make sure your business stays on course? Illustrated with fascinating ...

Leading with Love and Laughter

Leadership has for too long been treated as a function and not as a relationship. Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone argue tha...

Learning to Use What You Already Know

What if correctly using your current knowledge could power as much innovation as NEW learning?

Let's Stop Meeting Like This (Audio)

Is it possible to hold meetings that actually maximize productivity?

Life Reimagined

For hundreds of millions of people around the world, there is a new life phase between middle age and old age: life reima...

Living Beyond “What If?”

Free yourself from self-limiting beliefs and fears that keep you stuck. This book lays out a blueprint for how to take co...

Make It, Don't Fake It

An award-winning CEO and communications expert shows how authentic leadership eliminates the need for the shortcuts that ...

Make Talent Your Business

Most managers focus on near-term results, struggling to find the time and motivation to develop direct reports in any sig...

Managing by Values

More than recognizing values are important, how can you make them part of the work you do every day?

Managing for People Who Hate Managing

Help is on the way for the legions of managers who woke up and found out they're in charge. Based on her background as a ...

Master Your Motivation

If you want to accomplish what’s important to you, discipline and willpower won’t get you where you need to go. In this i...

Memoirs of a Recovering Autocrat

How can you manage your inner control freak?

Navigating the Impossible

World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show ...

Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Second Edition

A new edition of Devora Zack’s classic bestseller (over 120,000 sold in 15 languages) on networking techniques that lever...

No More Regrets!

We all want to live a life without regrets, but few of us succeed. Marc Muchnick, bestselling coauthor of The Leadership ...

On Our Own Terms

How do female CEOs make it to the top?

On Target

What systematic follow-up on your business plan is needed to keep your organization on-target?

On-The-Level

Do you believe honest, face-to-face conversation is crucial in the workplace?

Online Learning Today

For what purposes should an organization use e-learning?

Open Space Technology

A revised and updated edition of an acknowledged classic of the Organizational Development literature. Over 30,000 of fi...

Our Common Wealth

The most lucid and compelling examination yet written for the role and value of the commons in our world and why the comm...

Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership

This is the first book to describe in detail the principles of Outward Bound, told through the stories of former instruct...

Perseverance

In this inspiring and beautifully illustrated book, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley offers guidance to people everyw...

Plunder and Blunder

For the second time this decade, the U.S. economy is sinking into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. ...

Positive Leadership

This is the bestselling and leading introduction to the new field of positive leadership, which helps leaders in all type...

Power and Love

War and peace are the two main ways that people try to solve our toughest group, community, and societal conflicts. Kaha...

Power Through Partnership

Female partnerships are deeply rewarding and a powerful way for women to advance in a world still suffering from gender b...

Practicing Positive Leadership

The first practical guide to implementing positive leadership, which helps leaders in all types of organizations reach be...

Predictive Evaluation

A long-time leader, practitioner, and pioneer in evaluating training programs offers a powerful and proven new approach t...

Priceless

What is the secret to delivering great customer service?

Professionalizing Business Analysis

Learn both the strategic and tactical roles of the business analyst!

Project Leadership

Why is Project Leadership Important? Can you have a successful project without it? Read this book to find out!

Project Risk Management

Gain the insight you need to clarify real requirements before you initiate project work

Prosper

What does it really mean to be truly prosperous and happy?

Raise Capital on Your Own Terms

New businesses need money, but entrepreneurs are sometimes anxious about raising capital from traditional sources like ve...

Rebalancing Society

Internationally renowned bestselling author Henry Mintzberg offers an original and compelling analysis of the roots of ou...

Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace

The authors of the award-winning (2007 Nautilus Book Award and 2008 Axiom Book Award) and bestselling book Trust and Betr...

Refire! Don't Retire

Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and leading psychologist Morton Shaevitz offer advice, based on both research and person...

Refire! Don't Retire (Audio)

How can retirement be less about winding down, and more about carrying out new dreams?

Responsible Restructuring

Firms that restructure through downsizing are not more profitable than those that don't, and often end up hurting themsel...

Rooftop Revolution

We're at a tipping point in our global movement from dirty, big-industry electricity-- countries like Germany have 25% of...

Safe Enough to Soar (Audio)

Bestselling authors and renowned diversity consultants Fred Miller and Judith Katz bring their long-awaited new book that...

Saving Face

“Maya Hu-Chan shares a blueprint for becoming a more empathetic, self-aware, and inclusive leader. Saving Face guides us ...

Seeing Red Cars

Speaker, corporate trainer, film-maker, coach, and producer of the popular training video "Seeing Red Cars," Laura Goodri...

Share This!

Blogger, tech guru, and leading thinker on the convergence of media, activism, and technology Deanna Zandt shows how the ...

Shift into a Higher Gear

Kick fear-based living to the curb and discover exactly how to manifest the life of your dreams!

Simple Truths of Leadership

Leadership legend and bestselling author Ken Blanchard and trust expert and thought leader Randy Conley present this care...

Small Change

In this hard-hitting and controversial exposé, activist, writer, and former Ford Foundation officer Michael Edwards criti...

Smart Videoconferencing

Smart Videoconferencing is the first book to show people how to participate effectively in videoconferences, rather than ...

So You're New Again

How can you succeed when you change jobs?

Spiritual Capital

Our world is at a crossroads; we must choose between two alternatives. The first is capitalism as we know it today-an amo...

Stand up to Stigma

Celebrated AIDS activist and nonprofit CEO Dr. Pernessa Seele demands that it’s time to stop stigmatizing others. She out...

Subtle Acts of Exclusion

The first practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all ...

Sustainable Happiness

Sarah van Gelder and the staff of Yes! Magazine marshal fascinating research, indepth essays and compelling personal stor...

Take Charge of Your Talent

Silicon Valley CEO, Don Maruska, and Coach University co-founder, Jay Perry, turn talent development in organizations on ...

Tell Me About Yourself

For creatives, entrepreneurs, job seekers, leaders, public figures, and speakers, Holley Murchison offers a proven six-st...

The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires

Do you ever hear about a self-made millionaire in the news and wonder: how did they achieve it? In this book, Brian Tracy...

The 4-Dimensional Manager

How can managers learn to support people with all different working styles?

The 6 Enablers of Business Agility

Adopting the latest agile tools and practices won’t be enough to respond to rapid market change. Leaders must first lay t...

The Abundant Community

Bestselling authors John McKnight and Peter Block offer compelling new understanding of how and why community has been lo...

The Art of Convening

Craig and Patricia Neal share, for the first time, the processes, tools, and techniques that they have developed in hundr...

The Art of Insight

A concise guide to simple actions that can help any person have more frequent and timely insights to make better decision...

The Body is Not an Apology

New York Times bestseller! "To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love eve...

The Cactus and Snowflake at Work

This hilarious and profound workplace guide proves the rigorously rational and the supremely sympathetic can meet in the ...

The Connect Effect

Entrepreneur and executive development expert Mike Dulworth's THE CONNECT EFFECT provides readers with a simple framework...

The Female Vision

Women see, understand, and value what goes on in their workplaces and organizations in dramatically different ways than d...

The Five Legends

Drawing on 30 years of helping families, this profound fable by the Anasazi Foundation illustrates the true anguish of co...

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

“What brought you the greatest joy? What do you wish you had learned sooner? What ultimately mattered and what didn’t?” a...

The Future of Staff Groups

Who are the overlooked power brokers in corporations?

The Government Manager's Guide to Strategic Planning

Create a work flow to account for the issues you expect and the problems you don't!

The Hamster Revolution

The Hamster Revolution is a timely solution to both the widespread problem of email overload as well as most people’s ine...

The Hamster Revolution for Meetings

On the heels of the tremendously successful "Hamster Revolution" (over 40,000 copies sold in English and tens of thousand...

The Heart of Leadership

In this short, easy-to-read fable, bestselling author Mark Miller reveals five habits that underlie leadership character ...

The Highest Goal

How can finding your higher purpose help unlock your creativity?

The Idea-Driven Organization

In their much-anticipated sequel to the bestseller Ideas Are Free (over 50,000 copies sold), Alan Robinson and Dean Schro...

The Idea-Driven Organization (Audio)

Some businesses use front line worker ideas to help profits skyrocket- how do they do it?

The Improvisation Edge

To help leaders, managers, and front-line workers build greater trust within the organization, trainer, speaker, and perf...

The Innovation Code

Innovation comes from creative tension, not harmonious interaction, says “Dean of Innovation” Jeff DeGraff. He identifies...

The Innovation Code Card Game

Am I an Artist, Athlete, Sage, or Engineer?

The Intelligent Optimist's Guide to Life

Studies show that being an optimist can make a dramatic difference in how healthy, happy and productive we are. Jurriaan ...

The Introverted Leader

As an introvert, do you feel excluded, overlooked, or misunderstood in the workplace?

The Knowledge Café

Knowledge Café is a process for sharing information, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledg...

The Language of Leadership

Convey the essence of leadership with every communication.  

The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus

A new edition of the bestselling book (75,000 copies sold) that shows how the teachings of Jesus can bring a new angle to...

The Long-Distance Leader

Leadership First, Locations Second. As more organizations adopt a remote workforce, the challenges of leading at a distan...

The Magic of Tiny Business

In The Magic of Tiny Business, by ECOBAGS® founder and pioneering green business champion, Sharon Rowe shows entrepreneur...

The Making of a Democratic Economy

Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecolog...

The Memo

America’s poor, working poor, and middle class are in a waiting game they cannot win. Jobs will not come, times will not ...

The Nonviolence Handbook (Audio)

What will convince people that nonviolence is not the path of the weak but the path of the strong?

The Power of Good News

The media’s bias toward stories of conflict, violence, and division is bad for your health. Hal Urban shows how to find t...

The Power of Having Fun

Most of us put work first and leave fun for last, as an afterthought. But speaker, trainer, consultant, and bestselling a...

The Power of Purpose

Purpose is fundamental and gives life meaning. It gives us the will to live and to live long and well. In this new editio...

The Quest for Authentic Power

Could you achieving your deepest desires without manipulation, coercion, or intimidation?

The Real-Time Revolution

Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers’ time more effectively than compet...

The Remote Facilitator's Pocket Guide

This approach to remote facilitation makes virtual meetings powerful means of collaboration using proven techniques to ac...

The Resilient Investor

Socially responsible investors try to avoid putting their assets in companies that do damage in the world. Resilient inve...

The Self-Made Myth

This book debunks one of America’s most influential myths: the idea that successful people achieve their status entirely ...

The Sergeant Major Syndrome

How can you stop pressing your face against the glass ceiling and find the stairs?

The Serving Leader

"Serving leaders" lead by serving others, not by using them.

The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition

A slew of harmful stereotypes continues to follow Black women. The second edition of this bestseller debunks vicious misc...

The Six New Rules of Business

The rules of business are changing dramatically. The Aspen Institute’s Judy Samuelson describes the profound shifts in at...

The Six Secrets of Raising Capital

The only book on raising startup capital written by a professional who has himself raised over a billion dollars that goe...

The Social Labs Revolution

This is the first book on social laboratories, a new methodology for addressing complex societal challenges. The book in...

The Wisdom of Solomon at Work

What lessons are there in the Hebrew Bible for Leaders today?

This Changes Everything

YES! Magazine has been at the forefront of reporting on the Occupy Wall Street/99% movement that has spread all over the ...

Thriving in the Fight

Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denis...

True Partnership

How can you reframe your understanding of partnership to make your organization thrive?

True To Yourself

How do you build the kind of company you've always wanted to work in--one that serves people and the planet while being f...

Turning People into Teams

"Project and team leaders, do yourself a favor and make this book required reading by each member of your team!" —HR Prof...

Turning to One Another

Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, over 250,000 copies sold) proposes that we use the ...

Unite and Conquer

Progressives have been using divide-and-conquer tactics stolen from conservatives to further their own cause with limited...

Up Is Not the Only Way

Bestselling author Beverly Kaye (Love ’Em or Lose ’Em—700,000 copies sold), joins coauthors Lynn Cowart and Lindy William...

Values Sell

Nadine Thompson, president and CEO of Warm Spirit, authors Values Sell, a ready-to-use guide for creative sales and distr...

We Can't Talk about That at Work!

Instead of shutting down any mention of taboo topics, Mary-Frances Winters shows how to structure intentional conversatio...

Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?

Grow old on purpose. This book invites readers to navigate a purposeful path from adulthood to elderhood with choice, cur...

Who Kidnapped Excellence?

In this entertaining parable, bestselling authors Harry Paul, John Britt, and Ed Jent tell how to give and be your best i...

Why People Don’t Believe You…

For some, projecting confidence and credibility is second nature. For others, it seems like a foreign language they’ll ne...

Why Wait to be Great?

How do you get past what's holding you back and embrace the power of your best self?

Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths–And How We Can Stop!

Bestselling author, therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous, high-conflict personalities have g...

Win Every Day

Great ideas don’t matter if you can’t execute—bestselling leadership expert Mark Miller offers a proven, research-based m...

Win the Heart

Employee engagement is shockingly low—but it’s not an employee problem; it’s a leadership problem. Bestselling author Mar...

You Don't Have To Do It Alone

Everyone needs to involve other people in order to accomplish their tasks and achieve their goals. It doesn't matter if y...

You Unstuck

With his trademark wit and warmth, global superstar blogger Seth Adam Smith inspires readers to take ownership of their l...

You Unstuck (Audio)

What's keeping you trapped, unable to move forward in work or life?

You're Addicted to You

In this lively guide to kicking your self-addictions, executive coach Noah Blumenthal gives readers the tools to break ou...

Your Happiness Was Hacked

“Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most ...

Your Leadership Story (Audio)

How can you better understand the dynamic ways your leadership effects others?

Zenobia

Part Alice in Wonderland and part business fable, this creatively illustrated work about the adventures of a new hire's i...

ZIP! Tips

How can we be productive when our work lives are stressful and overwhelming?

50 Jobs in 50 States

In this amazing account, Daniel Seddiqui tells of working fifty different jobs in fifty states in fifty weeks. Working as...

Managing

The definitive title on management from legendary and best-selling author Henry Mintzberg.