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Inclusive Conversations

"What is impressive is not only how Winters builds a case for the urgency and need for bold, inclusive conversations but ...

Subtle Acts of Exclusion

This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental handbook is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and preve...

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

This book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizat...

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...

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...

Dig Your Heels In

Sought-after speaker and consultant Joan Kuhl arms young women with the tools they need to transform male-dominated corpo...

Compassionate Counterterrorism

Islamist terrorism is not about religion, says Leena Al Olaimy, an Arab Muslim, Dalai Lama Fellow, and social entrepreneu...

Networking for People Who Hate Networking

Most books for people who would rather get a root canal than face a roomful of strangers tell readers how to fight agains...

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

“This is a must-read for bosses and subordinates alike, as it exposes our flaws but teaches us how we can work together t...

Bedtime Stories for Managers

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

The Critical Few

Without a deep understanding of your company’s culture, any change effort you undertake will fail. Bestselling author Jon...

The Law of Small Things

We are living in a time when dishonesty and duplicity are becoming commonplace. Each of us can fight this cultural corrup...

The Future of Packaging

Tom Szaky sets out to do the impossible – eliminate all waste. This book paints a future of a “circular economy” that rel...

Citizen Capitalism

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

The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management

Veteran project manager and University of California professor Zachary Wong identifies the eight most common people probl...

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

The new edition of a bestselling classic, Help Them or Grow Watch Them Grow offers advice on talent retention for the mod...

Stewardship

How can organizations stop relying on patriarchy & control as their core form of governance?

Synchronicity

This long-awaited new edition of a classic book (over 150,000 copies sold) is an inspirational guide to developing the mo...

A Simpler Way

How can we make life less arduous and more delightful?

Seeing Systems

When improving organizations, how can you learn to see the systems moving beneath the surface?

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry

How can I apply large-scale positive change in my organization (and apply it to my community as well)?

Open Space Technology

from BK Fast Fundamentals

The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook

Need help implementing appreciative inquiry in your organization?

Leadership from the Inside Out

Don't we lead by virtue of who we are?

Abolishing Performance Appraisals

Have you ever questioned the practice of performance appraisals? Would you like to know a better way?

Images of Organization

Want a methodology for filtering out superficial management fads, & identifying what really works?

Positive Organizational Scholarship

Would you like your organization to reflect the best of the human condition?

Positive Leadership

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

The Introverted Leader

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

Action Inquiry

Are you looking for a quick and reliable way to transform your company?

Complexity and Creativity in Organizations

Complexity and Creativity in Organizations is the most comprehensive and thorough book yet written on how the new science...

Lift

How can you be a force of positivity in every aspect of your life?

Leading Systems

How can we apply systems thinking in the field of leadership?

Appreciative Intelligence

Would you like to develop appreciative intelligence and spread it throughout your organization?

Paradoxical Thinking

How can you use your internal paradoxes to power your success?