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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...

  • Charlotte Ashlock

    Robert Jolles commented on Charlotte Ashlock's blog post How to Get Insane Numbers of Blog Comments

    If I'm going I'm going to tell Charlotte what a gift it is to receive a comment, then I sure as heck am going to offer one.  Interesting that Jesse and I have never spoken about this and yet we have similar opinions.  Coincidence?  I think not!  Great job putting this together Charlotte.  Enjoy t... ...Read more

    November 19, 2015

  • Playing The Course – Not The Opponent

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    Playing The Course – Not The Opponent

    Let me begin by saying that I am not much of a golfer.  I’ve just never had the time to work on my golfing skills. When business was strong, I had no time to play. When business was not strong, why would I have been out playing golf?  But I have played the game, and at times fairly well, and I re...

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    August 20, 2015

  • The Cost of Being Right

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    The Cost of Being Right

    One of the benefits of being raised by a marine was that I was taught the meaning of courage. My father was a corpsman in not one, but two, wars, and the courage he displayed was beyond imagination.  At an early age, my father demanded that I learn how to be courageous. I was willing to do anythi...

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    April 22, 2015

  • The Fog of Fear

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    The Fog of Fear

    If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a movie buff.  At six years old, I would walk with my brother Richard to the Silver Movie Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland and thus began my love for movies. I shared that love with my own kids; one of our favorite outings was a trip to the movies. I’m ...

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    March 4, 2015

  • What Would You Attempt To Do...

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    What Would You Attempt To Do...

    The mind is an amazing mechanism, but it sure can fool you.  Left unchecked, it can convince you of all sorts of things.  When the body is injured, the mind can convince you you’re just fine.  When you hear something that goes bump in the night, the mind can convince you that there’s trouble wher...

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    January 6, 2015

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