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Working Well: How to Build a Happier, Healthier Workplace Through the Science of Attunement

"A forward-thinking, practical guide to thriving at work through the next evolution of emotional intelligence-attunement-deepening connections and making others feel seen, heard, and valued in a healthier workplace Compartmentalization. Work-life separation. Work boundaries. This was traditionally the advice given to those who wanted to survive in the work world. But what happens when this arbitrary boundary is crossed, and your personal life begins to seep into your work life? In Working Well, work culture expert and therapist Nidhi Tewari argues that a thriving workplace is actually one that embraces people as whole, complex beings whose lives and work intersect--because suppressing your personal life and ignoring the personal lives of your teammates only leads to stress, anxiety, and burnout. Combining cutting-edge research, practical tools, and storytelling, Tewari provides a roadmap to both improve our relationships with our coworkers and improve the work we do as a result. Focusing on the science of attunement, this book will teach you first how to become attuned to yourself, and then how you can attune to your coworkers. In this essential read, you will: • Deepen self-awareness by exploring how your past shapes present interactions • Build emotional regulation through targeted exercises • Identify and bridge Connection Gaps in your workplace relationships • Navigate communication across neurotypical and neurodivergent perspectives • Apply the CHECK-IN framework to repair and strengthen team dynamics Whether you're a leader or team member, Working Well will transform how you build connections at work. It's time to start fueling your success and well-being and move from surviving to thriving."

Nidhi Tewari (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Manager Method

"A practical, real-world guide that helps managers lead with confidence using a proven 3-step framework-Pause, Consider, Act-to navigate challenges, build strong teams, and avoid burnout. Most managers are promoted because they excel at their jobs-but the moment they step into a new leadership role, they're expected to know how to motivate teams, navigate tough conversations, and drive results with little to no guidance. Manager Method fills this gap, and provides managers at any level with practical, real-world strategies to help them lead with clarity, confidence, and impact-without burning out. Built on Ashley Herd's proven 3-step framework-Pause, Consider, Act-this book simplifies leadership into an actionable process that helps managers make better decisions, set expectations, and build high-performing teams. Unlike theory-heavy leadership books, Manager Method is designed for busy professionals who need answers now and delivers the step-by-step techniques to make that happen now. With a background as a former Chief People Officer at McKinsey, employment attorney, and corporate strategist, Ashley has trained over 160,000 managers throughout her career. Manager Method delivers these tools directly to readers to help them lead effectively, build trust, and grow their careers without sacrificing their well-being."

Ashley Herd (Author), Ashley Herd (Narrator)

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The Category Creation Formula: Discover, Design, and Win New Market Categories

"Innovative concepts, tools and playbooks for discovering, defining and taking charge of new market categories, by two of the leaders of the category design movement. The most exciting—and often most valuable—companies create, develop and win new categories of products or services. Examples range from the Zamboni company a century ago to OpenAI today. Such companies can be giants like Amazon, creator of the online everything store category—or a niche player like Bob Chandler, creator of the monster truck category. Category creation and development should be the goal of any company that wants to make a difference. And the way to achieve that is through the discipline of strategic category design. Kevin Maney helped introduce category design in his bestseller Play Bigger. Now, he and Mike Damphousse—an experienced CEO, investor and marketing executive—share the secrets that they’ve learned over the past decade. Their advisory firm has worked on strategic category design projects with more than fifty companies and guided workshops for hundreds more at incubators and VC portfolio gatherings. The Category Creation Formula reveals the processes they rely on and the truths about categories that they’ve uncovered, clearly laid out so any entrepreneur or leadership team can benefit from them, too. The Category Creation Formula expands on ideas introduced in Play Bigger and enhances the discipline’s hands-on practices, including how to write a powerful category point of view and how to set the rules for a category so your company always maintains an advantage. From forming an initial category-winning strategy to relentlessly executing on that strategy, The Category Creation Formula is the crucial resource for anyone who has the ambition to change the way we live and work."

Kevin Maney, Mike Damphousse (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done

"From Rebecca Hinds, PhD—organizational expert who has helped Fortune 500 companies fix their fractured collaboration—comes a bold, battle-tested blueprint for tackling the workplace's biggest time-wasters: meetings. Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures—designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today's digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn't just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations. Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration. The secret? Treat them like products. Using seven product design principles, you'll turn your meetings into well-designed products that actually drive work forward and serve your most important users—the people in your organization. You'll learn: - Why every organization needs a "Meeting Doomsday" to reset collaboration, and how to strategically orchestrate one at your company. - How to fix your communication system so meetings are a last resort, not a knee-jerk default. - Which meeting metrics matter—and which do more harm than good. - How to inject moments of delight into your meetings so people genuinely want to show up. - When to integrate technology into your meetings so you enhance collaboration, rather detract from it. More than just a practical guide, Your Best Meeting Ever is a rallying call to rethink how we collaborate in the modern workplace. Whether you're a leader or an individual contributor, this powerful book will nudge you to be audacious—to challenge the existing norms and embrace new paradigms—so you'll never dread another meeting again."

Rebecca Hinds (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Moms in Labor: An Employment Lawyer’s Secrets To Protect Your Baby and Your Career (That HR Won’t Te

"Embrace motherhood without compromising your career. During attorney Daphne Delvaux's first pregnancy, she learned first-hand how the system was set up to make it as difficult as possible for women to juggle a challenging career along with all the responsibilities of being a new mother. The needlessly stressful (and often humiliating) experiences forced upon her by the juggling act of being an attorney and the exclusive source of nutrition for her new baby led her to draft a new maternity leave policy for her firm. Later in her career, she specialized in representing mothers, helping them navigate the competing demands of work and family life. Her goal was to protect their rights while ensuring their careers stayed on track. With this invaluable guide for mothers in the workplace, Daphne outlines everything that new and expectant mothers need to understand about: - Pregnancy rights - Parental leave rights, and - Back-to-work rights You'll learn how to advocate for yourself, see through the sometimes purposely confusing corporate policies, and communicate effectively with your boss and Human Resources to ensure a smooth transition for both you and your employer."

Daphne Delvaux (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Future Begins with Z: Nine Strategies to Lead Generation Z as They Disrupt the Workplace

"What if your greatest challenge could become your greatest solution? Generation Z has entered the workforce and are challenging leaders in ways they have never experienced before. Gen Zers often bring little work experience following college graduation, with parents encouraging them to focus on academics. Plus, having grown up on screens, they frequently bring lower levels of emotional intelligence than previous youth generations. Today, 4 in 5 hiring managers say Generation Z is the most difficult population to manage. Almost one in three avoid hiring them altogether. We cannot walk away from this challenge as these young teammates represent the future. While the boss has visibility on the past, they have visibility on the future. This resource, The Future Begins with Z, offers nine strategies to inspire and connect with the next generation of workers as they transform the workforce. Some of those strategies involve: - How to attract and onboard them so they'll want to stay. - How to offer firm feedback to a fragile young employee. - How to uniquely motivate and incentivize them. - How to cultivate full engagement in Gen Z teammates. - How to equip them to manage their mental health challenges. If we lead them well, we'll find young professionals often enter their careers with a greater insight into social media and how to monetize it; they seem to understand what young consumers want, and they possess deeper intuition on where culture is going. They are not tied to expectations for how work is done and are more open to new ideas. To succeed, today's leaders will need to listen more and to coach more than we once did. The future is in our hands. Let's make the very most of it. Charts and reflection prompts can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download."

Tim Elmore (Author), Sean Patrick Hopkins (Narrator)

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The Fairfax Way: Inside Prem Watsa's Secret to Lasting Success

"The rise and stall-and rise again-of corporate Canada's least well-known spectacular success Even those who have heard of Prem Watsa and Fairfax Financial probably don't understand them. The company sprawls across more than 100 countries and is known for its complex finances-so complex, they once attracted a who's-who of Wall Street short sellers who misread the company as the next Enron and decided it could be profitably pushed into an open grave. The hedge funds even had Bob Dylan lined up to sing at the company's funeral party. Fairfax stared down regulators and fought back. Dylan never got the chance to sing. Watsa, now 75, stole a page from Warren Buffett in building a $45 billion global empire built on value investing and insurance assets. Its bold and creative trades are legendary, often moving against the herd and making billions while others lose their shirts. These days, the company is back winning billion-dollar bets, but away from the headlines. The Fairfax Way explores the lessons learned and why skies are now blue above a transformed company. In its 39-year history, Fairfax's annual compound return of 19.2% trounces the S&P 500's 11.3%. Lately, it is outperforming even Silicon Valley tech stocks and winning back an investor following. It's time to get to know Fairfax better. The company's holdings include strategic investments like Bauer hockey sticks, William Ashley wedding gifts, Sleep Country mattresses, Golf Town stores, and Seaspan container ships. If you took home Swiss Chalet chicken last week or went for steak at the Keg, you ate at Fairfax restaurants. It's time to get to know Prem Watsa better, too. People long misjudged him as a recluse. Truth is, he simply always wanted to build a business, not talk to the media. After 40 years, he and his executives have finally decided it's a good time to open up. For all the colourful dealmaking, billion-dollar bets, high-stakes hedge fund wars, Thomas reveals an inspiring story for our current troubled times. What emerges is that many people just had trouble believing Fairfax had the audacity to build a company culture based on the golden rule-treat others as you would have them treat you. The Fairfax Way captures the inside story of how a culture of treating people right can be a secret competitive moat to long-term outperformance."

David Thomas (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Collaborating with the Enemy, Second Edition

"In today's fractured world, collaboration is increasingly difficult yet more crucial than ever. Often, to get something done that really matters, we need to work with people we don't agree with, like, or trust. Drawing from thirty-plus years of experience working with leaders in over fifty countries, Adam Kahane shows why conventional collaboration—requiring harmony and agreement—is obsolete. Instead, he provides a groundbreaking approach that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation. Kahane introduces three key stretches to navigate difficult collaborations: ● Stretch to embrace conflict and connection ● Stretch to experiment and learn ● Stretch to step into the game This substantially revised second edition adds multiple new chapters exploring how to work across deepening divides and with those we may never agree with. Using new case studies, a discussion guide, and frameworks for navigating permanent plurality in our polarized times, Kahane offers essential tools for transforming conflict into positive change."

Adam Kahane (Author), Laura English (Narrator)

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Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose

"How would you describe your organization's culture? Are you happy with it? Do you think you fully understand it? Do you know the risks and opportunities it creates? Most important, have you done anything to shape or change that culture, by design? If you haven't, you must. Business leaders are at a crossroads, pulled into a divided world and expected to take a stand, and they face real economic and social consequences when they don't. They are struggling to stay aligned to their true north while catering to employees, shareholders, and consumers. Gen Z has entered the workforce with new expectations. AI is a looming specter. In this climate, a weak culture will lead to a lack of trust and a lack of commitment from workers and customers. And a weak culture leads to weak results. It's time to get intentional about your organizational culture, to shape it yourself and make it strong. This book shows you how, with a proven framework and deeply practical advice for doing the work. By combining design-thinking principles with inclusive-leadership best practices, Culture Design teaches you how to shape a culture that is resilient, inclusive, powerful, and effective."

James D. White, Krista White (Author), Janelle Tedesco (Narrator)

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The Future Is Collective: Effective Workplace Strategies for Building a Culture of Care--Frameworks

"Transform workplace structures and empower cultures of care-a practical guide for nonprofit leaders and social justice organizations This book is a powerful call for nonprofits and movement organizations to rethink their internal systems and processes-and to bring workplace culture and management into alignment with their political values and liberatory missions. Drawing on two decades of experience in community organizing and nonprofit leadership, Niloufar Khonsari guides us in transforming our workplaces by decentralizing power; implementing collective governance structures; and centering principles of transparency, equity, and mutual care. Khonsari demystifies collective management for fellow activists, nonprofit workers, and community leaders. This book is not a one-size-fits-all plan; instead, readers are encouraged to draw from its rich collection of real-world examples, case studies, sample workplace policies, tools developed by activist collectives, and personal reflections of movement leaders to explore what works best for their organization at its current stage of growth and evolution. Khonsari also address how to communicate workplace changes to funding bodies-and why this is an essential part of your movement work. Crucially, this book looks at how to handle challenging workplace dynamics, everyday conflicts, and job terminations using a compassionate justice-centered approach. Khonsari calls for nonprofit and movement leaders to embrace conflict resolution as a generative practice-one that builds and strengthens us, nurturing both individual autonomy and collective responsibility. Inspiring and hopeful, The Future is Collective guides nonprofit workers, activists, and community leaders toward a workplace culture of care that truly models the relational systems we want to see in the world."

Niloufar Khonsari (Author), Niloufar Khonsari (Narrator)

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Be Yourself at Work: The Groundbreaking Power of Showing Up, Standing Out, and Leading from the Hear

"A powerful, timely, and inspiring guide for embracing your most authentic self at work—and why it matters—from the first-ever Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX. Featuring a foreword by Gary Vaynerchuk In a world obsessed with perfection—and workplaces wired for efficiency over humanity—Claude Silver offers a new language for the beautiful mess of being human at work: showing up as your true self. No matter our role, seniority, or generation, we all want the same things: to feel valued, trusted, respected, and like we belong. When we stop performing and start being, we unlock our capacity to connect, thrive, and do our best work. Not only is this shift liberating—it’s the antidote to burnout, an end to the myth of “fitting in,” and a proven path to building bold, human-first teams. Through her experience as the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX, Silver offers a compelling vision for how authenticity and connection transform leadership, ignite innovation, and elevate workplace culture. Silver draws on research and thousands of hours of direct experience—listening, coaching, testing, team building, and speaking—and introduces a new framework based on three pillars: Emotional Optimism – leading with hope and possibility Emotional Bravery – having the hard conversations with heart Emotional Efficiency – driving clarity through compassion and focus Be Yourself at Work provides actionable insights, relatable stories, and a practical roadmap to navigate a workplace where the old models are failing. In an era where technology evolves faster than we can imagine, humanity is our greatest asset. Authentic presence is the currency of the future—a game-changer for individuals and organizations alike. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook."

Claude Silver (Author), Allyson Ryan, Claude Silver (Narrator)

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Team Intelligence: How Brilliant Leaders Unlock Collective Genius

"The New York Times bestselling author debunks the myths of what makes great leaders and effective teams, revealing the simple habits that help leaders unlock team intelligence. Ever wonder why some of our most effective leaders aren’t known for the skills we’ve been told are essential for great leadership? Would you describe Elon Musk or Steve Jobs as having empathy or humility? Of course not, and yet they’ve led teams that achieved extraordinary results. So, what leadership attributes, habits, and skills do cause teams to become more than the sum of their parts? Why does a team made of up superstars often underperform? What causes teams to work together effectively and produce high team intelligence? For the past fifteen years behavioral scientist and New York Times bestselling author Jon Levy has gathered thousands of the most respected leaders from across industry—Nobel Laureates, Olympic team captains, astronauts who commanded the ISS, military leaders, and corporate CEOs—to find answers to these questions. In Team Intelligence, he unpacks the myths that hold leaders and their teams back and points out the paradox of success: focusing on creating teams that operate well is what makes an effective leader, but focusing purely on the leader does almost nothing for the team. In Team Intelligence, discover cutting-edge research, surprising stories, and the essential habits that unlock collective genius. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook."

Jon Levy (Author), Jon Levy (Narrator)

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