If you want to increase team productivity, relieve stress, and be happier at work, you could hire a bunch of workplace consultants, invest in scream therapy, and put Pharrell Williams on repeat—or you could just read Humor That Works.

Written by Andrew Tarvin, the world’s first Humor Engineer, this a business book on humor. No, that’s not an oxymoron. It...

How to start a business from home in only 60 minutes a day

Over 543,000 new businesses are started every month. Most fail. Many never get a paying customer. Why? Because new entrepreneurs are told to “start with why,” take internet marketing courses, and spend hours doing market research. Do these time-intensive activities attract customers? Make sales?...

From the author of the groundbreaking book Reinvent Your Business Model, a new approach for thinking about the future and turning your most promising and creative ideas into reality.

We all know visionary leaders when we see them. In business, they are last-name-only disrupters like Jobs, Bezos, and Hastings, and, in politics, they are such transformative...

Many production managers have de-stocked excessively large inventories, gone lean, experimented with continuous improvement processes and introduced new working practices. These interventions have largely failed. Businesses have also failed to invest in the workforce that undertakes improvements. This means that cash flow stops quickly, stocks are depleted...

Whether it is a relaxing, action-packed or financially rewarding retirement you are planning for, this is the book for you. Fully revised and updated, The Good Retirement Guide 2020 is packed with hundreds of useful hints, tips and insights into your retirement preparation. In retirement, personal ambitions can be realized and new experiences enjoyed, yet...

Now in its 50th edition, Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2020 is the most comprehensive guide available to the operational rules and guidelines governing the UK, Ireland and the EU's road transport operators. This best-selling handbook is an essential reference and explores in detail the most pressing issues in today's road transport...

Fintech has emerged as one of the fastest growing sectors in the financial services industry and has radically disrupted traditional banking. However, it has become clear that in order for both to thrive the culture between fintech and incumbent firms will need to change from one of competition to one of collaboration. The Financial Services Guide to Fintech...

It's common knowledge that marketing is nothing but advertising, and if your business comes through word of mouth then you don't need marketing anyway. Besides, everyone knows that social media is the best form of free marketing there is... don't they?

The world of marketing is abound with a staggering number of misconceptions, fallacies and falsehoods. In ...

Contrary to popular perception, charities and non-profits now generate over half their total income by selling goods and professional services. Charities of all shapes and sizes are increasingly targeting commercial growth to help fulfil their aims, and commercial income within the sector has doubled since the year 2000. Big opportunities exist, and The...

Hype Yourself is an invaluable toolkit for getting you and your business featured in the media: newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. Crammed full of insider advice, from the building blocks of your PR strategy to the execution of creative campaigns, it includes expert tips from journalists and industry specialists and is supported by a stack of online...

The new playbook for innovation and startup success is emerging from beyond Silicon Valley--at the "frontier."

Startups have changed the world. In the United States, many startups, such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon, have become household names. The economic value of startups has doubled since 1992 and is projected to double again in the next fifteen years.

For...

Are you solving the right problems? If not, reframing can help.

Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something, only to find out you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. In a survey, 85 percent of companies said they often struggle to frame the right problems. The consequences are severe: Firms fight the wrong strategic...

Leadership and turnaround expert Jackie Jenkins-Scott shows you how to spot and take advantage of opportunities in any environment.

Being a responsive leader means playing to win. Responsive leadership can thrive anywhere, unlike systematic leadership. The latter imposes methods and laws; principles govern action. In contrast, responsive leadership is a...

Why everything you’ve learned about negotiating is wrong, and how to do it right, by an acclaimed teacher and practitioner of the art.

For the last twenty years, David Sally has taught negotiation at leading business schools and to executives at top companies worldwide. Now, he wants to share his secrets and the science behind them. Negotiation, he argues...

A leading business journalist takes us inside a business revolution: the upstart brands taking on the empires that long dominated the trillion-dollar consumer economy.

Dollar Shave Club and its hilarious marketing. Casper mattresses popping out of a box. Third Love’s lingerie designed specifically for each woman’s body. Warby Parker mailing you five pairs of...

Saying NO to the Workplace Status Quo: 13 Women Who Are Rewriting the Rules

If readers are not sure what a firebrand is, they’ll find out in Mikaela Kiner’s powerful first book. Women of all generations will nod in recognition at the stories of 13 professional women from diverse backgrounds and industries as they recount the career challenges they've...

Starting a new sales job is like setting down the first piece of a puzzle. There’s the initial excitement of getting started but then the heavy reality of “What the fuck do I do now?” weighs on your head.

This is where I come in, buckle up cowboy.

F*ck Sales Let’s Talk is a refreshingly told, sales advice book. It was written for the people that value common...

Jorge Newbery erased his debts without filing bankruptcy. Now you can, too. Like many Americans, Newbery struggled with debt. But unlike most people, he owed more than $26 million.

Creditors swarmed after a natural disaster devastated his multi-million dollar business. The stress was crushing. He needed a way out — and what he discovered will amaze you.

His...

A business parable that teaches the value of cultivating multiple streams of income—the surest, most achievable means of creating generational wealth. The Honey Bee tells the story of Noah—a disappointed, disaffected salesman who feels like his life is going nowhere until the day he has a chance encounter with a man named Tom Barnham, the beekeeper. In his...

In today’s world of interconnected and “always-on” information, companies that succeed are those that compete by leveraging the advantage of strategic control points. A strategic control point is a part of a market where, if controlled by one party, it can be used to leverage power elsewhere. This can occur throughout the supply chain, in a related...

A TWENTY-SOMETHING’S GUIDE TO WORKPLACE CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

​Flip-Flops and Microwaved Fish helps soon-to-be-college grads and those first starting out in their careers learn how to be more than just professional-ish. It offers very funny and practical advice on truly understanding and managing life at work. Written for both American and non-American...

How do you sort through the myriad of “green” advice available to find what works for you and your business? So many small businesses are paralyzed, without guidance on what to do, how decisions impact the environment, and where to even start. In 'Ethical Profit', Samantha Richardson has done the work for you. Outlining changes from small to large, she...

Everyone wants to achieve long-term success, yet many people fall short. The question is, why? The answer is simple: it’s a lack of performance consistency. Consistency is the baseline skill that unleashes all the others. And until this skill is mastered, true potential is never realized. Yet most people struggle to keep up any kind of consistent effort...

Raise Your Innovation IQ – a new book by Leena Patel, a prominent innovation consultant and CEO of Sandbox2Boardroom.com – is a page-turning solution set of twenty-one strategies that will lead you to think differently in times of change.

In her easy-to-read conversational style, Leena draws you in and takes you on a journey that opens your eyes to the big...

“…There are few that have made significant strides on making ‘knowing yourself’ operational and real as Lee and Hugh have in this marvelous book. Reading this book is a compelling adventure. If you follow the path, you will change for the better!” — Richard Boyatzis, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People...

Do you feel the frustration?

Perhaps the most promising technological innovation in over a generation, blockchain has become a mud puddle where scoundrels, cheats and market manipulators wallow without shame.

The cryptocurrency industry sports a collection of scammers that would feel more at home in the White House than in any self-respecting used car lot...

The Byzantine Pineapple presents a whole new governmental tax and spend system that treats all Citizens equally and provides 100% Quality Coverage for:

a) Monthly Income for all citizens
b) Health Care (not health insurance) for all citizens
c) Housing coverage for Citizens in need

While also balancing the governmental budget.

This presentation is so simple...

A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers as they stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid arch rivals.

When author Mike Jaccarino was offered a job at the Daily News in 2006, he was asked a single question: “Kid, what are you going to do to help us beat the Post?” That was the year things...

"If you care about science-or a scientist- this will be the most important book you'll ever read," says Randy Olson of his Don't Be Such a Scientist. He's only half joking.

In the United States we have a clear communication gap between the world of science and the general public. For starters, the vast majority of scientists say evolution is a...

Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America offers a road map for securing our energy future while safeguarding our wildlife heritage. Contributors show how science can help craft solutions to conflicts between wildlife and energy development by delineating core areas, identifying landscapes that support viable populations, and...

There's a simple, straightforward way to cut carbon emissions-and we're rejecting it because of irrational political fears. That's the central argument of The Case for a Carbon Tax, a clear-eyed, sophisticated analysis of climate change policy. Shi-Ling Hsu weighs the merits of the four major approaches to curbing CO2: cap-and-trade; command and control...

There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today’s market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. Around $1...

In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spent the past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable. Here, she shares the most compelling stories of her...

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, it is doing just the opposite. By funding development projects and programs that warm the planet and destroy...

What is nature worth? The answer to this question—which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms—is revolutionizing the way we do business.

In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the...

Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle, waged by well-meaning, but ultimately ineffective idealists. Joe Whitworth argues it doesn’t have to be this way. In...

As managers grapple with the challenges of the effects of climate change in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organization's resilience—its capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulent change. Sudden natural disruptions and increasingly vulnerable supply chains are increasingly the new...

Writing a business plan should be simple, dynamic, and straightforward.

More importantly, it must be a FUNCTIONAL tool that advances you forward towards your goals -- rather than holding you back due to endless tinkering and perfecting of your plan without taking action.

Enter the 24 Hour Business Plan Template, your functional tool to get you there as...

From Wall Street Frontline to the Conscious Capitalism Movement; how to Get Your Startup off The Ground And have a positive Impact on Society?  Where to Find Investors? How to Gain that Crucial Early Traction? How to Raise Capital through both Traditional and New Ways of Financing?

There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because technology...

Job Interview Tips For Winners packs a quick and powerful punch. On the hunt for a new job? This book will show you exactly how to ace your next interview. Learn what to say, how to act, what to wear, and how to prepare for common interview questions. Discover the questions you should ask your would-be employers, and how to present your strengths and...

The Key to Making Money on Craigslist features a complete system for building sustainable wealth through merchandise resale. Over the course of more than 275 pages, Steven Fies shows you exactly how he did over $20,000.00 in sales and earned over $6,000.00 in gross profit in one year on Craigslist – all in just a few hours per week. With a core focus on...

Named the #1 business book of 2016 by The Globe and Mail, Cort Dial's debut Heretics to Heroes: A Memoir on Modern Leadership proves that peak business performance is achieved not by stifling humanity, but by embracing it. Also a recipient of the Gold Nonfiction Book Award, the hybrid of personal narrative and eye-opening manual spans gritty chemical...