Human Resources Library

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Explore books and resources to support your professional growth and personal development. We’ve got books regarding leadership, management, mental health, communication, and so much more!

  • All Brazos County Employees are encouraged to check out books
  • Books can be picked up in the HR office located in the Administration Building, Suite 206

HR Library Checkout Policy

  • Library materials may be checked out by Brazos County Employees only. Each employee may borrow up to one book/resource at a time.
  • Employees will complete an online request form (JotForm) when checking out material. Books may be checked out for two weeks and may be renewed unless another employee has requested the item. All materials must be returned by the due date.
  • Employees are responsible for the care of borrowed materials. Notify HR about lost, damaged, or stolen items immediately. Lost or damaged books must be paid for or replaced at the library’s discretion.
  • This library is provided as a shared resource for learning, growth, and enjoyment. It operates on an honor system and mutual respect, and we encourage everyone to utilize our resources and support professional and personal growth.

HR Library Catalog

Communication

10 Skills for Effective Business Communication: Practical Strategies from the World’s Greatest Leaders

Jessica Higgins JD MBA BB, Ben Way

Equal parts research and actionable advice, this book applies effective strategies from the world’s most successful professionals to common workplace scenarios. With step-by-step guidance and simple exercises, you’ll learn why, how, and when to use fundamental communication skills to successfully navigate any situation.

4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work–Anywhere!: Including the “12-Day Communication Challenge!”

Bento C. Leal III

Styp-by-step guide If you’re ready to communicate with greater clarity, empathy, and confidence—and build healthier, stronger relationships in love, life, and work.

Communication Skills Training: How to Talk to Anyone, Connect Effortlessly, Develop Charisma, and Become a People Person

James Williams

This is a comprehensive guide on how you can quickly move through conversations and express yourself in a manner that is conducive to relationship-building and productivity.

Conflict Resolution Playbook: Practical Communication Skills for Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict

Jeremy Pollack

You’ll discover real-life solutions to everyday problems and develop communication skills that can help you make breakthroughs at work, improve your relationships at home, and lead to significant personal growth.

Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

This reading shows you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing good behavior.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition

Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

This reading teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

Difficult Conversations Don’t Have to Be Difficult: A Simple, Smart Way to Make Your Relationships and Team Better (Jon Gordon)

Jon Gordon, Amy Kelly

Gordon and Kelly deliver an engaging and inspiring new take on how to make tough workplace conversations an asset in building a stronger team and organization.

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen, Bruce Patton

This book walks you through a step-by-step approach for how to have your toughest conversations with less stress and more success. You’ll learn how to Decipher the underlying structure and challenge of every difficult conversation, manage emotions, Raise tough issues without triggering defensiveness, and so much more!

Effective Communication at Work: Speaking and Writing Well in the Modern Workplace

Vicki McLeod

This book has everything you need to help boost your workplace performance and productivity. Learn how to build stronger relationships and advance your career by mastering the art of effective communication

Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals: A Guide to Successful Evaluations

James Neal Jr.

This guide is designed to help the appraiser in selecting phrases and words that accurately describe a broad range of critical rating factors. The phrases contained in this handbook are extremely positive and reflect superior performance. 

Fostering Effective Communication in the Workplace: A Competency-Based Approach that Boosts Your Ability to Get and Give Information (Competency-Based Workbooks for Structured Learning)

Dr. Wesley Donahue

This competency-based workbook gives you what you need to know to build your skills. It’s a hands-on practical guide that examines how interpersonal communication is key to your success as a supervisory leader.

How to Talk to Anyone About Anything: Improve Your Social Skills, Master Small Talk, Connect Effortlessly, and Make Real Friends (Communication Skills Training)

James W. Williams

Have you always struggled with making small talk and want to stop feeling awkward? Do you wish to be able to tell stories where your listeners hang on to your every word? Do you wish you had the courage, the confidence, and the charisma to meet new people and make friends with them? The chapters within this book cover everything you need to know to fully embrace your true self and become the most enthralling conversationalist in ANY room!

How to Talk to Anyone: Healthy Approach to Raise Confidence and Charisma, to Improve Communication and Social Skills, and to Master Small Talk (Make Real Friends and Build Meaningful Relationships)

Paul Newcomer

Insightful and practical guide, you’ll explore the relationship between communication skills, self-esteem, and emotional intelligence. You’ll learn to express empathy more effectively, set healthy boundaries, and deal confidently with difficult people.

Intentional Communication: Emotional Validation, Listening, Empathy, and the Art of Harmonious Relationships (How to be More Likable and Charismatic)

Patrick King

This book is about the most important skill you can ever possess: how to clearly communicate your thoughts and feelings and receive the same from others.

Let’s Talk About It: Turning Confrontation into Collaboration at Work

Paul Marciano

Ready-to-use sample scripts, real-world scenarios of common workplace disagreements, and proven psychological methods for diffusing conflicts effectively. Delivers everything you need to deal with the most challenging people and situations―confidently, competently, and collaboratively.

Performance Conversations: How to Use Questions to Coach Employees, Improve Productivity, and Boost Confidence (Without Appraisals!)

Christopher Lee

Offers a new model rooted in proven management science and tailored to today’s workplace. Moving beyond ad hoc alternatives, this approach provides a unified framework for enhancing employee performance through continuous, manager-led practices

Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities

Renee Evenson

Definitive phrasebook on how to confront the situations that can arise when dealing with difficult personalities and bring about a positive outcome packed with practical and easy-to-use tactics.

Simply Said: Communicating Better at Work and Beyond

Jay Sullivan

This book presents an all-encompassing guide to improving your communication, based on the Exec|Comm philosophy: we are all better communicators when we focus less on ourselves and more on other people. More than just a list of tips, this book connects skills with scenarios and purpose to help you hear and be heard.

Solve Employee Problems Before They Start: Resolving Conflict in the Real World

Scott Warrick

Distills conflict resolution to just three simple moves: Empathic Listening, Parroting, and Rewards (EPR). Because no one can use their EPR skills unless they can control themselves, he also shows you how to become an Emotionally Intelligent communicator

Surrounded by Idiots: Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life)

Thomas Erikson

Offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with – in and out of the office – based on four personality types and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information.

Talk to Me: How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro

Dean Nelson

Walks readers through each step of the journey from deciding whom to interview and structuring questions, to the nitty gritty of how to use a recording device and effective note-taking strategies, to the ethical dilemmas of interviewing people you love (and loathe).

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

The authors explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, offering a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace.

Workbook: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High: Practical Implementation of Joseph Greeny & Kerry Patterson’s Book

Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Emily Gregory, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

Teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

Generational and Workforce Trends

Gen Z @ Work: How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace

David Stillman, Jonah Stillman

The first comprehensive, serious look at what the next generation of workers looks like, and what that means for the rest of us. This book unpacks the seven surprising traits that define this new generation.

Generation Z in the Workplace: Helping the Newest Generation in the Workforce Build Successful Working Relationships and Career Path

Dr. Candace Steele Flippin

Multigenerational workplace scholar, Dr. Candace Steele Flippin, offers research-based insights and easy to follow suggestions aimed at helping young workers and their supervisors build working relationships and productive work environments.

Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

Tim Elmore

 If you are struggling to connect with and lead them, you are not alone. The latest research presented in this book, however, illuminates a surprising reality: The success of the next generation doesn’t depend entirely on them.

Managing Generation Z: How to Recruit, Onboard, Develop, and Retain the Newest Generation in the Workplace

Robin Paggi, Kat Clowes

These renowned professional authors join forces to give employers and managers a practical, easy-to-understand guide to the new generation defining the future of work.

Millennials’ Guide to Management & Leadership: What No One Ever Told You About How to Excel as a Leader

Jennifer Wisdom

Helps Millennials launch to become skilled managers and leaders who are prepared to tackle the complex problems of the future. In the next decade, Millennials will become 60% of the U.S. workforce.

Sticking Points: How to Get 5 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart

Haydn Shaw

A must-read book with insights that will help you understand the generational differences you encounter. It also teaches us how we can learn to speak one another’s language, engage with different generational personalities, and get better results together.

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time.

The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace

Lindsay Pollak

This resource shows you how to adapt and win through proven strategies that improve employee retention and serve all generations’ needs. The result is a workplace that blends the best of each generation’s ideas to design a smarter, more inclusive work environment.

HR, Management, and Leadership

101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination

Paul Falcone

Readers will find new information on laying the groundwork for a tidy dismissal; tying progressive discipline to annual performance reviews; formally addressing intermittent FMLA abuse; ways to avoid drafting documenta

96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire

Paul Falcone

Falcone shares strategic questions that uncover the qualities and key criteria you seek in your next hire, including: Achievement-anchored questions and Holistic questions that invite self-assessment and so much more!

A Busy Leader’s Guide for Caring Leadership

Joe Dicianno

You will develop your ability to show that you care for and about others in the workplace, helping you become a better leader, capable of executing the principles of caring leadership day in and day out.

A Guide to the Human Resource Body of Knowledge (HRBoK)

Sandra Reed

An essential reference book for HR professionals and a must-have guide for those who wish to further their expertise and career in the HR field.

Building High-Performance Local Governments: Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels

Anton Gardner, John Pickering, Philip Harnden, Gerald Brokaw

Here you’ll find case studies of local governments—demonstrating how Commonwealth Centers for High-Performance Organizations’ (CCHPO) model has been applied in the past to improve performance. This model will be an indispensable tool for any person looking to make significant improvements throughout their organization.

Crucial Influence, Third Edition: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change

Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

This reading walks you through the process of identifying the personal, social, and structural levers that influence both motivation and ability, then engaging these levers for directed behavior change.

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brene Brown

Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions for  leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?

Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)

Julie Dirksen

Discover how to use the key principles behind learning, memory, and attention to create materials that enable your audience to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills you’re sharing.

Engaging Government Employees: Motivate and Inspire Your People to Achieve Superior Performance

Robert Lavigna

Rejects the typical one-size-fits-all approach to motivation. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence, this indispensable resource shows how America’s largest employer can apply the science of engagement to get team members passionate about the agency’s mission and committed to its success.

Foundations of Human Resource Development, Third Edition

Richard Swanson

This new edition has been updated throughout and contains new chapters on assessment, technology, globalization, and future challenges. Examples of best practices are included, along with variations in core thinking, processes, interventions, tools, and much more.

Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, Evvel Van Oosten

Presents a clear and hopeful message to help someone learn and change, they say, cannot be focused primarily on fixing problems, but instead must connect to that person’s positive vision of themselves or an inspiring dream or goal they’ve long held.

Hire Right, Fire Right: A Leader’s Guide to Finding and Keeping Your Best People

Roxi Bahar Hewertson

Provides insights and advice for avoiding these all-too-common business bumps in the road. She defines and explores the ARC employee life cycle: Acquisition (hire right), Retention (nurture right), Closure (fire right).

Hire to Win: Manager’s Practical Guide for Attracting and Interviewing Top Talent

Tatiyana Cure

A step-by-step playbook including ready-to-use templates and tools, recruiter’s insider tips, as well as valuable lessons for hiring teams.

HIRE with FIRE: The Relationship-Driven Interview and Hiring Method

Denise Wilkerson, Randy Wilkerson, Carlos Lemons

Offers a proven method to help you confidently make the best hiring decisions. Develop great teams and an engaging workforce, learn how to hire top performers, and gain a more systematic approach to recruiting and hiring.

How Leaders Can Strengthen Their Organization’s Culture: 28 Simple and Effective Ways

Tim Burningham

This book provides leaders with loads of answers to solve their company culture problems. It contains proven strategies that will have an enormous impact on the direction of any organization.

HR on Purpose: Developing Deliberate People Passion

Steve Browne

The author invites readers to rethink what HR is and reimagine what it could be. Through a series of engaging stories, personal reflections and practical takeaways, he shows how to embrace HR not just as a profession but as a calling.

Human Resource Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Self-learning Management)

Jaquina Gilbert

This book guides readers through the challenges of human resource management and provides tools to address those challenges. It provides an understanding of areas including the concept of HRM, organizational development, health and safety, etc.

Improving the Performance of Government Employees: A Manager’s Guide

Stewart Liff

You’ll learn how to deliver consistent messages to all employees, hold others accountable through clear expectations and measurable goals, and work with a strong leadership team to maintain, adjust, and improve all procedures.

It’s Okay to Be the Boss: The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming the Manager Your Employees Need

Bruce Tulgan

This guide provides the proven, step-by-step framework for becoming the manager your employees need

Lead the Way in Five Minutes a Day: Sparking High Performance in Yourself and Your Team

Jo Anne Preston, Ginny Whitelaw, PhD

Preston and Whitelaw skip the complex theories and jargon and gets right to practical solutions. You will learn how to develop skills that can be applied immediately to meet any challenge. Although this book can be read from cover to cover, its handy organization by topic allows for a quick read of battle-tested tips. 

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t

Simon Sinek

Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories that range from the military to big business, from government to investment banking.

Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration

Keith Ferrazzi, Noel Weyrich

Draws on over a decade of research and over thirty years helping CEOs and senior leaders drive innovation and build high-performing teams to show how we can all turn our colleagues and partners into teammates and truly reboot the way we work together.

Managing Government Employees: How to Motivate Your People, Deal with Difficult Issues, and Achieve Tangible Results

Stewart Liff

Offers dozens of techniques for meeting the challenges and stressful situations supervisors face on a daily basis. Major topics include how to: * get maximum dedication and productivity from employees * improve results of poor performers and discipline or fire them when necessary

Map It: The hands-on guide to strategic training design

Cathy Moore

Using humor and lots of examples, Map It walks you through action mapping, a visual approach to needs analysis and training design. Organizations around the world use action mapping to improve performance with targeted, efficient training.

Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Scott

Using Radical Candor―avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy―you can be kind and clear at the same time.

Recruiting Sucks…But It Doesn’t Have To: Breaking Through the Myths That Got Us Here

Steve Lowisz

The author shares a groundbreaking approach to attracting, developing, and retaining an accomplished and vibrant workplace. You will prioritize behavior over skills, look beyond LinkedIn, be a marketer, find real ways to inspire employees, take responsibility, avoid reliance on technology, embrace diversity, and more.

Seeking Civility: How leaders, managers and HR can create a workplace free of bullying and abusive conduct

Catherine Mattice

Will provide guidance to any supervisor or manager, human resources professional, employee assistance professional, consultant, business owner, executive, CEO, or anyone else interested in ending bullying in their workplace.

She Thinks Like a Boss: Leadership: 9 Essential Skills for New Female Leaders in Business and the Workplace. How to Influence Teams Effectively and C

Jemma Roedel

Easy, proven skills and traits that will help you gradually develop your self-esteem, sharpen your trust, and hone your boundary-setting and communication skills.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. This shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does.

The 27 Challenges Managers Face: Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems

Bruce Tulgan

Shows exactly how to break the vicious cycle and gain control of management relationships. The very best managers hold ongoing one-on-one conversations that make expectations clear, track performance, offer feedback, and hold people accountable.

The 5 Roles of Leadership: Tools & best practices for personable and effective leaders

Wladislaw Jachtchenko

Whether you’re new to leadership or a seasoned pro, this book on leadership will help you to understand the key principles of primal leadership, strategic leadership, and educational leadership.

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stainer

Coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. He reveals how to unlock your people’s potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

The Contemporary Servant as Leader

Kent Keith

This describes some of the characteristics and activities of servant-leaders, providing examples which show that individual efforts, inspired by vision and a servant ethic, can make a substantial difference in the quality of society.

The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Managers, 2nd Edition: How managers create an environment to maximize employee commitment, engagement, performance, and retention

Tim Nolan

Combines current research and experience with over 10,000 managers to drive consistently high levels of employee commitment, engagement, performance, and retention.

The Essential HR Handbook, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional

Sharon Armstrong, Barbara Mitchell

Will help you handle any personnel problem–from onboarding to outplacement–quickly and easily. This fully updated edition is packed with information, tools, checklists, sample forms, and timely tips to guide you through the maze of personnel issues in today’s complex business environment.

The First-Time Manager

Jim McCormick

You will learn essential skills including: leading employees, hiring employees, motivating others, actively listening, overcoming resistance, etc.

The First-Time Manager (First-Time Manager Series)

Jim McCormick

Learn to conquer every challenge like a seasoned pro with clear, candid advice in The First-Time Manager. For nearly four decades, this expert guide has brought newcomers up to speed on the realities of managing people.

The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength

Jennifer Kahnweiler

This book lays out a well-tested four-step strategy introverts can use to build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power.

The New Manager’s Workbook: A Crash Course in Effective Management

Randy Clark

A Crash course in Effective Management is a workbook and guidebook to help new managers navigate the intricacies and pitfalls of being at a position of power over employees. 

The New One Minute Manager (The One Minute Manager)

Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson M.D.

Introduce the book’s powerful, important lessons to a new generation. In their concise, easy-to-read story, they teach readers three very practical secrets for developing effective leadership skills—and explain why these techniques continue to work so well.

The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance

Zach Mercurio

The essential guide for leaders who want to transform their teams, retain top talent, and ensure every employee feels valued and indispensable.

The Talent Fix: A Leader’s Guide to Recruiting Great Talent

Tim Sackett

Presents a proven, practical, and scalable recruiting model for talent acquisition leaders and practitioners and shows how organizations can build and sustain a great talent acquisition function.

The Way of the HR Warrior: Leading the CHARGE to Transform Your Career and Organization

Monica Frede, Keri Ohlrich

A guide for HR professionals who really care to demonstrate the true power of the HR department to influence business strategy, the gig economy, the knowledge economy, the rise of conscious consumerism, and increasing regulations.

Motivation and Self Improvement

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

This offers a proven framework for improving every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

Belonging At Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization

Rhodes Perry

This book empowers business leaders, change agents, visionaries, and those on their way to joining them with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to build inclusive organizations. The personal stories, case studies, and practical strategies featured in the book offer everything you need to cultivate workplace culture

Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, Revised and Expanded Third Edition: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

Rick Kirschner, Rick Brinkman

Learn how to get things done and get along when you’re dealing with people who have the uncanny ability to sabotage, derail, and interfere with your plans, needs, and wants. 

Eliminate Negative Thinking: How to Overcome Negativity, Control Your Thoughts, And Stop Overthinking. Shift Your Focus into Positive Thinking, Self-Acceptance, And Radical Self Love

Derick Howell

This book offers a comprehensive toolkit of actionable strategies and techniques that will help you eliminate the deep-seated causes of your anxiety, manage your day-to-day worries, stop overthinking in its tracks, and finally love yourself the way you deserve to be loved.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Dr. Travis Bradberry, Dr. Jean Greaves

In a noisy world full of quick fixes, one skill remains your strongest edge: emotional intelligence. This book serves as a foundational guide trusted by millions to unlock their potential and achieve lasting success — at work and in life.

Equip to Lead: The Extraordinary Power of Emotional Intelligence

Mike Lejeune, Thecia Jenkins

Filled with real world insights for increasing awareness of your own strengths and blind spots, you are guided with practical, immediately applicable techniques for engaging, coaching or even challenging co-workers.

Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

Jennie Allen

A Christian based book where the author inspires and equips us to transform our emotions, our outlook, and even our circumstances by taking control of our thoughts.

How to be a Coffee Bean: 111 Life-Changing Ways to Create Positive Change (Jon Gordon)

Jon Gordon, Damon West

Present 111 simple and effective strategies to help you lead a coffee bean lifestyle―one full of healthy habits, encouragement, and genuine happiness.

How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Katy Milkman, Angela Duckworth

Whether you’re a manager, coach, or teacher aiming to help others change for the better or are struggling to kick-start change yourself, How to Change offers an invaluable, science-based blueprint for achieving your goals, once and for all.

Improve Your People Skills: How to Connect with Anyone, Communicate Effectively, Develop Deep Relationships, and Become a People Person (How to be More Likable and Charismatic)

Patrick King

A book of action that allows you to understand others and speak their language. It will fundamentally change your approach to others, and you’ll instantly understand where you’ve gone wrong. It goes beyond social intelligence and gives you a blueprint to the psychology of people.

Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal

Katherine Crowley, Kathi Elster

Packed with proven advice from two of today’s leading experts in workplace relationships, this one-of-a-kind guide gives women the tools they need to navigate difficult situations unique to women-to-women relationships

Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Carol Tarvis, Ellion Aronson

The reading offers a fascinating explanation of self-justification&;how it works, the damage it can cause, and how we can overcome it. This updated edition features new examples and concludes with an extended discussion of how we can live with dissonance, learn from it, and perhaps, eventually, forgive ourselves.

Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety (Retrain Your Brain with CBT)

Seth J. Gillihan, PhD

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective techniques for finding relief from depression and anxiety. With this CBT workbook for mental health, psychologist Dr. Seth Gillihan uses his 15 years of experience treating patients to develop a 7-week plan that teaches you practical CBT techniques to help you feel better.

Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to Overcome Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

Catherine M. Pittman, PhD & Elizabeth M. Karle, MLIS

In the book, Pittman and Karle provide specific examples of how to manage fear by tapping into both pathways in the brain. You’ll gain a greater understanding of how anxiety is created in the brain, and as a result, you will feel empowered and motivated to overcome it. 

Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication

Oren Jay Sofer

In this groundbreaking synthesis of mindfulness, somatics, and Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer offers simple yet powerful practices to develop healthy, effective, and satisfying ways of communicating. 

Social Skills for the Overthinker: Beat Self-Sabotage, Escape Your Comfort Zone, and Get Out Of Your Head (The Path to Calm)

Nick Trenton

A reading about more than what to say and when to say it, it is about how to gain your freedom. This book takes a much more clinical route than any others of its kind. We gain an understanding of the issues that hold you back, how to overcome them, and an action plan for success in the future.

Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm)

Nick Trenton

A book that understands where you’ve been through,the exhausting situation you’ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress.

Take Your Lunch Break: Helpful Tips for Relieving Work-Related Stress

Massoma Alam Chochran

The author’s personal story of how anxiety almost cost her job and mental health, plus tons of research and original interviews with mental health professionals and high-performing leaders.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (30th Anniversary Edition)

Stephen Cpvey, Jim Collons, Sean Covey

Presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity

The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change

Jon Gordon, Damon West

An inspiring tale that follows Abe, a young man filled with stress and fear as he faces challenges and pressure at school and home. It is purposely written and designed for readers of all ages so that everyone can benefit from this transformational lesson with a message that, when read has the power to change your life and the world around you.

The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life

Mike Rucker, PhD

Doesn’t it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes? There is an easy fix: fun is an action you can take here and now, practically anywhere, anytime. Through research and science, we know fun is enormously beneficial to our physical and psychological well-being, yet fun’s absence from our modern lives is striking. Whether you’re a frustrated high-achiever trying to find a better work-life balance or someone who is seeking relief from life’s overwhelming challenges, it is time you gain access to the best medicine available.

The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a new foreword and brand-new tools

Brene Brown

This book is an invitation to join a wholehearted revolution. A small, quiet, grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying, ‘My story matters because I matter.’ Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance.

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About

Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness, and ancient wisdom who champion The Let Them Theory every step of the way.

Who Moved My Cheese

Spencer Johnson MD,  Kenneth Blanchard PhD

Can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

Seven Myths About Money and the Truth About Finding Financial Freedom

Rob Dix

A leading investor debunks seven of the most common misconceptions about money, and explains why the true path to wealth is dramatically different from what you’ve been told. Confounding and eminently practical, Seven Myths About Money sketches out a radically new route to financial freedom – one fit for the twenty-first century.

Technology

Oracle PL / SQL For Dummies

Michael Rosenblum, Dr. Paul Dorsey

 You’ll find out about code structures, best practices, and code naming standards, how to use conditions and loops, where to place PL/SQL code in system projects, ways to manipulate data, and more.

Wellness

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body

Michael Matthews

Provides readers a clear, science-based plan to build muscle, lose fat, and get strong—without wasting time in the gym, living on bland food, or falling for “bro science.”

Cook Smart, Eat Well: Mayo Clinic recipes and strategies for healthy living

Jennifer Welper

Learn how to take a fresh approach to healthy eating by cooking more efficiently, using simple ingredients with bold flavors, and meal prepping with ease, so you can keep your family eating healthy and nutritious meals all week long.

Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep: 100+ Make-Ahead Recipes and Quick-Assembly Meals: A Gluten-Free Cookbook

Lisa Bryan

This cookbook is packed with 100+ simple and ingenious big-batch recipes that can either be frozen or repurposed into totally different, delicious meals.

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

Walter Willet, M.D. , P.J. Skerrett

Dr. Willett offers eye-opening new research on choosing foods with the best types of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and the relative importance of various food groups and supplements.

Eating, Drinking, Overthinking: The Toxic Triangle of Food, Alcohol, and Depression–and How Women Can Break Free

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

A pathbreaking and highly readable account of the ways in which eating, drinking, and overthinking, can wreak havoc on women’s emotional well-being, physical health, relationships, and careers.

I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

Barbara Sher, Barbara Smith

This book reveals how you can recapture “long lost” goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams forever. This is a guide to not to another unsatisfying job but to a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart’s desire.

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

Michael Pollan

Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives

Patricia Grabarek, Katina Sawyer

Through a straightforward, science-based approach, explains the steps to become a Generator―the type of leader who people want to work for and organizations want to hire―by leading in a way that fosters trust and positive connections with employees. 

Money Management for Young Adults: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Financial Independence and Building a Strong Financial Foundation in 30 Minutes a … Literacy, Money Management, and Real-World)

Al Parker

This engaging, practical guide will show you exactly how to save and manage money by providing foundational understanding of budgeting, credit, banking… and much more—so you can launch forward from a place of clear understanding.

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Robert Kiyosaki

While so much in our world is changing a high speed, the lessons about money and the principles of Rich Dad Poor Dad haven’t changed. Today, as money continues to play a key role in our daily lives, new generations who have found timeless wisdom and no-nonsense lessons can be applied to anyone’s life and their vision for a future that includes taking control of their finances.

Seven Myths About Money: And the Truth About Finding Financial Freedom

Rob Dix

In this book, a leading investor debunks seven of the most common misconceptions about money, and explains why the true path to wealth is dramatically different from what you’ve been told. Confounding and eminently practical, Seven Myths About Money sketches out a radically new route to financial freedom – one fit for the twenty-first century.

Skinnytaste Fast and Slow: Knockout Quick-Fix and Slow Cooker Recipes: A Cookbook

Gina Homolka, Heather Jones, R.D.

You can get a nutritious, flavor-packed, figure-friendly meal on the table any night of the week. Gina Homolka, founder of the widely adored blog Skinnytaste, shares 140 dishes that come together in a snap—whether in a slow cooker or in the oven or on the stovetop.

Skinnytaste Meal Prep: Healthy Make-Ahead Meals and Freezer Recipes to Simplify Your Life: A Cookbook

Gina Homolka

Delivers more than 120 healthy, diverse recipes that turn simple, easy-to-find ingredients into flavor-packed meals and snacks you’ll have ready at your fingertips for the week ahead and beyond.

Skinnytaste Simple: Easy, Healthy Recipes with 7 Ingredients or Fewer: A Cookbook

Gina Homolka, Heather Jones, R.D.

Skinnytaste Simple is the solution: recipes with minimum ingredients but maximum flavor and nutrition. These game-changing, no-fuss dinners use no more than seven ingredients each, allowing you to put easy, healthy meals on the table with little-to-no effort.

Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

William Davis, MD

Super Gut shows us how to fix your microbiome once and for all. It includes more than forty recipes, a diet plan, and resources so you can pinpoint your gut issues, correct them, and maintain your long-term health and well-being.

Tax-Free Wealth: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes (Wealthability Books)

Tom Wheeleright, CPA

This book is a comprehensive guide that unveils strategic approaches to minimizing tax liabilities and accumulating significant wealth. Readers are introduced to a wealth-building philosophy that revolves around using the tax code as a roadmap to building wealth in a way that makes taxes fun, easy, and understandable.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

In The Body Keeps the Score, Kolk uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.

The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners: A No-Stress Meal Plan with Easy Recipes to Heal the Immune System

Dorothy Calimeris, Lulu Cook RDN, Jennifer Lang MD

This beginner-friendly guide shows you exactly how to reduce inflammation through simple dietary changes that actually fit into your real life. No overwhelm, no confusion―just a clear 2-week plan, easy recipes, and the science-backed food choices that can help you feel better fast.

The Infographic Guide to Personal Finance: A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know (Infographic Guide Series)

Michele Cagan, CPA

Get your finances in shape! In The Infographic Guide to Personal Finance, you will learn all the skills you need to make good financial decisions and grow your personal wealth. With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to make good investments, save for big things like a house or college tuition, budget, and more!

The New Whole30: The Definitive Plan to Transform Your Health, Habits, and Relationship with Food

Melissa Urban

In this book, you’ll find completely updated rules, language, and success strategies for every phase of your journey. This book includes: the Original Whole30, the Plant-Based Whole30 for vegans, vegetarians, or anyone exploring a plant-based diet, 100 all-new recipes plus some updated Whole30 favorites, all of which are 100 percent gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and free of added sugar, and so much more!

The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Morgan Housel

Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave.This book contains19 short stories exploring the different ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.

The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded: A Proven Plan for Financial Peace – The Perfect Christian New Year’s Resolution Gift for Budgeting and Finances

Dave Ramsey

The simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely changing your finances, these principles are based on results. This book includes new content that will help you tackle marriage conflict, college debt, and so much more.

The Whole30 Fast & Easy Cookbook: 150 Simply Delicious Everyday Recipes for Your Whole30

Melissa Urban

This follow-up to the best-selling The Whole30 Cookbook is packed recipes designed to get you out of the kitchen fast, so you can enjoy all the benefits of your Whole30-inspired lifestyle.

The Whole30 Slow Cooker: 150 Totally Compliant Prep-and-Go Recipes for Your Whole30 with Instant Pot Recipes

Joe Dicianno, PhD

With the aid of The Busy Leader’s Guide to Caring Leadership , you will develop your ability to show that you care for and about others in the workplace, helping you become a better leader, capable of executing the principles of caring leadership day in and day out. Caring leadership creates a team and staff that brings their best selves to work every day-out of choice, not necessity.

Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body

Michael Matthews

Provides readers a clear, science-based plan made for women’s bodies and goals—without extreme dieting, endless cardio, or workouts that leave you dreading the gym.

This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More

Uma Naidoo, MD

Eat for your mental health and learn the fascinating science behind nutrition with this “must-read” guide from an expert psychiatrist.

Workplace Wellness that Works: 10 Steps to Infuse Well-Being and Vitality into Any Organization

Laura Putnam

Provides a fresh perspective on how to promote employee well-being in the workplace. In addressing the interconnectivity between wellness and organizational culture, this book shows you how to integrate wellness into your existing employee development strategy in more creative, humane, and effective ways.

Workplace Performance and Culture

Managing Performance at Work: A step-by-step guide

C. Southerland

A comprehensive workbook used by managers to set goals and manage the performance of employees. In here you will learn about understanding motivation, set goals, and review progress.

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

Robert Kegan

Dives deep into the worlds of three leading companies that embody this breakthrough approach. It reveals the design principles, concrete practices, and underlying science at the heart of DDOs from their disciplined approach to giving feedback, to how they use meetings, to the distinctive way that managers and leaders define their roles.

Back Off! Your Guide to Ending Bullying at Work

Catherine Mattice

This book will arm you with the information and guidance you need to successfully navigate your way through the turmoil of dealing with workplace bullying and the managers who may deny your experiences are genuine.

Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

Geoffery Cohen

This book draws on the author’s own and others’ groundbreaking scientific research to offer simple, concrete solutions for fostering a sense of belonging. These solutions can generate surprisingly significant and long-lasting benefits.

Building A Winning Culture In Government: A Blueprint for Delivering Success in the Public Sector (Dysfunctional Team, Local Government, Culture Change

Patrick Leddin, Shawn Moon

This book pivots from the concept of a select few leaders to empowering every individual as a leader.

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust

Adam Kahane

A new approach to collaboration that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation

Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition (Paperback)

Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

This book teaches you how to deal with violated expectations in a way that solves the problem at hand without harming the relationship–and, in fact, even strengthens it.

Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

Scott Allan

Delivers a practical, no-nonsense framework to help you stop avoiding difficult tasks and start taking massive action—even when you don’t feel like it.

Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family

Bob Chapman, Raj Sisodia

Show how any organization can reject the traumatic consequences of rolling layoffs, dehumanizing rules, and hypercompetitive cultures.

Fully Staffed: The Definitive Guide to Finding & Keeping Great Employees in the Worst Labor Market Ever

Eric Chester

Packed full of comprehensive research on the resources and strategies available to today’s business owners, as well as the stories of business owners and leaders who have utilized them with great success, Fully Staffed lives up to its subtitle of being THE definitive guide to finding and keeping great employees in the worst labor market ever.

Harvard Business Review on Culture and Change (Harvard Business Review Paperbacks)

Harvard Business Press

The articles examine why there is resistance to change on the corporate and individual level and explains the effect of passive aversion to cultural problems on company performance.

Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini

A passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.

I Love It Here

Clint Pulver

Provides insights gleaned from thousands of undercover interviews with employees across the country, revealing the best methods for identifying talent, building a sense of ownership, and developing a successful workplace culture that employees will love.

Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

Mark Goulston

The author combines his background with the latest scientific research to help you turn the “impossible” and “unreachable” people in their lives into allies, devoted customers, loyal colleagues, and lifetime friends.

Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult People

Alan Willett

This book turns this seemingly difficult chore into a straight-forward process that gently, yet effectively, improves behaviors. It all begins with understanding a core truth: most people actually want to contribute results.

Managing Narcissists, Blamers, Dramatics and More…: Research-Driven Scripts For Managing Difficult Personalities At Work (Leadership IQ Fast Reads)

Mark Murphy

This book gives you the research-backed scripts to manage the most difficult personalities on your team! You’ll discover how to manage dramatic personalities, negative personalities, blamers, and so many other personality types.

Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace

Christine Porath

Combining scientific research with fascinating evidence from popular culture and fields such as neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, this book provides managers and employers with a much-needed wake-up call, while also reminding them of what they can do right now to improve the quality of their workplaces.

Organizational Behavior: Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace [Paperback] Colquitt

Micahel Wesson, Jason Colquitt

Offer a novel approach using an integrative model and road map to illustrate how individual, team, leader, and organizational factors shape employee attitudes, and how those attitudes impact performance and commitment.

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

Patrick Lencioni

Lencioni offers specific, practical guidance for overcoming the five dysfunctions, using tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples. He examines questions that all teams must ask themselves: Are we really a team?

Rapid Teamwork: 5 Essential Steps to Transform Any Group into a GREAT Team

Sean Glaze

This book is an entertaining parable that reveals the recipe for leaders to create a more engaged and productive team!

Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace

Brett Cooper, Evans Kerrigan

Explain the what, why and how of DISC-EQ, a powerful new framework that will equip you to master six essential workplace applications:

Stick Together: A Simple Lesson to Build a Stronger Team

Jon Gordon, Kate Leavell

This book delivers a crucial message about the power of belief, ownership, connection, love, inclusion, consistency, and hope. The authors guide individuals and teams on an inspiring journey to show them how to persevere through challenges, overcome obstacles, and create success together.

Team Emotional Intelligence 2.0: The Four Essential Skills of High Performing Teams

Dr. Jean Greaves, Evan Watkins

It delivers 53 strategies and a step-by-step process for increasing team EQ skills so team leaders and anyone who’s a member of a team can achieve peak performance and reach their goals.

Team of Teams Coaching: Using a Teaming Approach to Increase Business Impact

Peter Hawkins, Dr. Catherine Carr

A strategic guide for senior leaders, executives and organizational coaches who want to build a culture and structure that delivers enterprise-wide agility, resilience and competitive advantage.

Team Of Teams Workbook: Revised strategies for navigating a complicated world

Stanley McChrystal

Outlines a leadership framework for navigating complex, volatile environments by breaking down silos and fostering “shared consciousness” and “empowered execution

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

Shows how the challenges the authors faced in Iraq can be rel­evant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and or­ganizations today. Gives insight on how leaders need practical management practices that can scale to thousands of people

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

Gary Chapman, Paul White

This book will give you the tools to create a more positive workplace, increase employee engagement, and reduce staff turnover. How? By teaching you to effectively communicate authentic appreciation and encouragement to employees,

The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

Patrick Lencioni

Beyond the personal discovery and instant relief that Working Genius provides, the model also gives teams a remarkably simple and practical framework for tapping into one another’s natural gifts, which increases productivity and reduces unnecessary judgment.

The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done

Bruce Tulgan

Based on an intensive study of people at all levels, in all kinds of organizations, Tulgan shows how go-to people think and behave differently, building up their influence with others.

The Bully-Free Workplace: Stop Jerks, Weasels, and Snakes From Killing Your Organization

Gurie Namie PhD, Ruth Namie PhD

At long last a guidebook for employers that discusses workplace bullying from America’s unrivaled leaders and creators of the workplace bullying consulting institute.

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

Daniel Coyle

This reading goes inside some of the world’s most successful organizations—including the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, IDEO, and the San Antonio Spurs—and reveals what makes them tick.

The Culture Question: How to Create a Workplace Where People Like to Work

Randy Grieser

By exploring six key elements that make up a healthy workplace culture, the book answers two fundamental questions: “How does your organization’s culture impact how much people like where they work?” and “What can you do to make it better?”

The Cure for Stupidity: Using Brain Science to Explain Irrational Behavior at Work

Eric Bailey

Translates decades of brain science research into every-day language, helping you break through common communication barriers that will improve every relationship in your life. Whether you work in the executive suite or on the front-line, this book will teach you how to cure the stupidity all around you.

The Drama-Free Workplace: How You Can Prevent Unconscious Bias, Sexual Harassment, Ethics Lapses, and Inspire a Healthy Culture

Patti Perez

Explains the secret to avoiding all forms of drama, legal exposure, and low morale: A healthy workplace culture. Patti combines the lessons learned from behavioral science research and professional experience.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Manga Edition: An Illustrated Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions that go to the heart of why teams–even the best ones–often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Team Assessment

Patrick Lencioni

38-item paper handout that is an excellent team development tool. A key component of the facilitator-lead Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop, the Team Assessment delivers what the name implies “a team assessment” rather than an individual self-assessment. 

The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues (J-B Lencioni Series)

Patrick Lencioni

The story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. 

The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change: Creating a Workplace That Delivers, Grows, and Adapts

Siobhan McHale

Acclaimed culture transformation expert and global executive Siobhan McHale shares her proven four-step process to demystifying culture transformation and starting down the path to positive change.

The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

Jon Gordon

Based on one company’s successful No Complaining Rule, the powerful principles and actionable plan are practical and easy-to-follow, making this book an ideal read for managers, team leaders and anyone interested in generating positive energy.

The Price of Pettiness: Bad Behavior in the Workplace and How to Stomp It Out

Alexander Alonso

This groundbreaking book examines the seemingly limitless depths of workplace pettiness – as well as the remarkable heights of creativity it seems to inspire in people – and delivers proven tools for anyone to spot pettiness and deal with it directly.

The War At Work: A Tale of Navigating the Unwritten Rules of the Hierarchy in a Half Changed World.

Seth Mattison, Joshua Medcalf

A fable grounded in two leaders’ introspective journey from the top down world of the Hierarchy to the hyper connected world of the Network. For anyone seeking to embrace the future, find meaning, purpose, and mastery in their career and leadership capacity, this story is a compass

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

Ben Horowitz, Henry Louis Gates Jr

An essential business guide that explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building. It’s a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we?

Working with Bitches: Identify the 8 Types of Office Mean Girls and Rise Above Workplace Nastiness

Dr. Meredith Fuller

Psychologist Meredith Fuller offers practical advice on how to recognize and manage difficult women at work. Dr. Fuller combines actual cases with tips that women can use right away to defuse even the worst situations.

You Are The Team: 6 Simple Ways Teammates Can Go From Good To Great

Michael Rogers

It’s a full team building experience, ideal for Team development for any type of team – business, athletics, education, healthcare, and more.