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Foreword: The way we work has changed—quietly, irreversibly, and faster than most of us realized. The old promise of linear careers, predictable growth, and stable expertise has faded. What stands in its place is a new landscape: fluid, interconnected, and constantly shifting. The professionals who succeed in this world are not those who cling to what they know, but those who evolve—continuously, intentionally, and without fear of reinvention. This book begins from a simple truth: what used to make us secure now makes us stuck.

THE LIFE-CHANGING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD “Essentialism holds the keys to solving one of the great puzzles of life: How can we do less but accomplish more?”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in...

Visionaries like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have demonstrated the power of reimagining what's possible. Now, this transformative new guide taps into the mindsets and strategies of today's boldest innovators - showing you how to challenge assumptions, unlock creative breakthroughs, and execute world-changing visions.

Read by Seattle Seahawk’s quarterback Russell Wilson, Trevor Moawad’s long-time friend and business partner, with a foreword written and read by Ciara. In this breakthrough book, the author of Wall Street Journal bestseller It Takes What It Takes provides life-changing, step-by-step guidance...

Do you feel paralyzed when faced with even simple decisions? Does anxiety, stress, and mental exhaustion leave you feeling stuck and unable to think clearly?

The number of new ideas your organization can produce is a metric for its ability to generate novel solutions to any given problem. This ideaflow is the most crucial business metric that you've never considered. Every business problem is an idea problem. How well you can solve those problems is how well you and your business can perform, navigate uncertainty, and develop innovations.

Stop Worshipping the Machine. Start Running It. THE FUTURE ISN'T COMING FOR YOUR JOB. A PERSON USING AI IS. If you were born between 1965 and 1980, you were raised on a diet of processed cheese, garden hoses, and the constant threat of a Soviet nuclear strike. You survived the transition from rotary phones to the cloud, and you’re the only person in the office who still knows how to fix a jammed printer with a paperclip. Now, the tech elite are telling you that you’re obsolete. They want you to believe the AI Revolution is a game for digital natives in black turtlenecks. They’re wrong.

How to Manage Work Relationships in a Constructive Way that Leads to Success. Learning how to maintain strong, harmonious work relationships is essential. Unfortunately, at some point in your career, you'll have to work with people whose personalities or habits make every interaction with them a...

In a world crying out for change, Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems is your guidebook for action. Adam Kahane, the bestselling author of Collaborating with the Enemy and a global authority on solving tough problems, delivers game-changing advice for anyone ready to make a difference. This is a manifesto for world-changers. Drawing on decades of work with leaders from national and organizational presidents to front-line managers and grass-roots activists, Kahane distills seven potent habits that enable ordinary citizens to become extraordinary agents of transformation.

Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated experiences of intriguing, constructive failure can help students develop creativity and learn more deeply. When carefully curated, failure can become a signal for learning, not the noise...

This essential guide reinvents selling for today’s B2B market, showing sellers how to overcome stalled deals and customer indecision.

Modern life throws endless choices and challenges your way. Without strong critical thinking skills, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, make poor decisions, or miss opportunities. That’s why this book gives you a simple, step-by-step system to boost your mental clarity, starting with just 10 minutes a day. Whether you’re a professional, student, entrepreneur, or someone seeking better outcomes, this audiobook equips you with a practical skillset you can use for life.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and...

Human Mode, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

Brought to you by Penguin. Being strategic is a critical skill. It enables you to solve problems on a day-to-day basis while also keeping an eye on the long term, anticipating and mitigating opportunities and threats along the way. How to be Strategic is your accessible but comprehensive guide...

The instant New York Times bestseller! “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions.” –Good Morning America “A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best...

Se você se sente sobrecarregado e ao mesmo tempo subutilizado, ocupado, mas pouco produtivo, e se o seu tempo parece servir apenas aos interesses dos outros, você precisa conhecer o essencialismo. Neste livro, Greg McKeown mostra que, para equilibrar trabalho e vida pessoal, não basta recusar solicitações aleatoriamente: é preciso eliminar o que não é essencial e se livrar de desperdícios de tempo. Devemos aprender a reduzir, simplificar e manter o foco em nossos objetivos. O essencialista toma as próprias decisões - e só entra em ação se puder fazer a diferença.

In this eye-opening book, Elira Fontayne explores the ten most common cognitive biases that shape your thinking and subtly steer your decisions. These hidden forces influence how you spend money, who you trust, what risks you take, and even how you see yourself. By the time you finish, you’ll never look at your own mind in quite the same way again.

Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the best-selling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual. 

The coauthors of the New York Times–bestselling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: how we see ourselves Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past fifteen years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and...