Mastering Networking: Forge Your Own Career Opportunities

Mastering Networking: Forge Your Own Career Opportunities

$34.99

Mastering Networking isn’t just another job search book, it’s a wake-up call.

If you’ve been endlessly applying online, tweaking your CV for every role, and hearing nothing but silence, you’re not alone. The truth is, the job market has changed, and your approach needs to change with it.

Today, opportunity doesn’t come to those who apply blindly. It comes to those who are visible, connected, and take control of their careers through meaningful networking. The candidate experience is broken. Algorithms rule. Applications vanish into black holes. But behind the noise lies the Connected Job Market, where decisions are made before jobs are even posted. You’re only a few conversations away.

Inside, you’ll learn how companies actually hire and how to reverse-engineer the process to your advantage. Discover how to self-promote authentically, even if you hate “networking.” Learn to build a standout LinkedIn profile, use the right keywords, and tell compelling stories that make hiring managers remember you. You’ll also master how to navigate interviews and get to “yes” faster, even in tough panel settings.

Most importantly, you’ll learn how to build genuine relationships, online and in person, and how to dig the well before you need it. From reframing rejection to building long-term leverage, this book gives you the tools, mindset, and strategies to stand out and land the job you deserve.

Whether job hunting, career shifting, or done being ghosted–this is your guide to taking back control and opening doors that wouldn’t open on their own.

Stop waiting. Start connecting. Your next opportunity is closer than you think.

Leading Unionized Workforces in the Age of AI: Managing Skilled and Unskilled Labor in a Changing World

Leading Unionized Workforces in the Age of AI: Managing Skilled and Unskilled Labor in a Changing World

$34.99

Master the Art of Leading Unionized Teams in an AI-Driven World.

Managing unionized workforces has never been more challenging—or more essential—than in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. Leading Unionized Workforces in the Age of AI is the essential guide for managers, HR professionals, union stewards, and executives seeking to lead skilled and unskilled labor with confidence, clarity, and integrity.

Dr. Nick E. Gilewski shares over 25 years of real-world management experience across manufacturing, power transmission, generation and distribution, and semiconductor fabrication. This book provides actionable strategies for navigating complex labor dynamics shaped by AI, automation, and generational workforce shifts.

Inside, readers will learn:

  • Proven techniques for building trust with unionized teams
  • How AI is transforming labor—and what leaders must do to prepare
  • Conflict resolution and collective bargaining best practices
  • Leadership skills critical for managing skilled & unskilled employees

In a future driven by technology, people still matter most.

Leading from Day One: The Essential Guide for New Supervisors

Leading from Day One: The Essential Guide for New Supervisors

$41.99

Leading From Day One: The Essential Guide for New Supervisors provides a comprehensive roadmap for professionals transitioning into their first leadership role.

Drawing from over 25 years of international human resource experience, this practical guide addresses the most common challenges new supervisors face: shifting from individual contributor to team leader, building trust, setting clear expectations, managing time effectively, and handling difficult conversations.

Each chapter combines research-backed principles with real-world examples, providing actionable strategies for immediate implementation. Readers will learn how to create psychological safety, delegate effectively, lead through change, and build a culture of continuous improvement. Unlike theoretical leadership books, this playbook offers step-by-step guidance with worksheets and reflection exercises that transform concepts into practice.

Whether you’re preparing for your first supervisory role or looking to strengthen your leadership foundation, this essential resource will help you navigate the critical transition from colleague to confident, respected leader.

Mindsense: A Strengths-Based Approach to Becoming Your Best Self

Mindsense: A Strengths-Based Approach to Becoming Your Best Self

$31.99

People that lead their life the fullest share a common secret: They find and develop their strengths to become their best self.

MINDSENSE: A Strengths-Based Approach to Becoming Your Best Self is not your typical self-help book. Its thirteen chapters provides practical applications of spotting and developing your strengths. Unlocking your potential and preparing you for a journey of enlightenment.

Dr. Mike shares his unique knowledge of positive psychology to help you reprogram your mind to live your life inside-out as opposed to outside-in. At its core, the book focuses on the concept of self-awareness and knowing thyself. Each chapter includes real-life stories and vignettes that are essential for true enlightenment.

MINDSENSE emphasizes the principle of forgetting things that happened to you in the past and focusing on where you are right now–without worrying about the future. The art of letting go helps you to detach from the crutches that hold you back. This is not a one-time destination but a continuous, engaging process that people that are enlightened commit to. This understanding is crucial to personal wellbeing and an enlightened life, and MINDSENSE will guide you in staying engaged and committed to the process of enlightenment.

MINDSENSE: A Strengths-Based Approach to Becoming Your Best Self promises:

  • To help you stop overthinking.
  • To help you stop comparing yourself to others because you are more than enough.
  • To build superior focus on acting like you’re a millionaire.

Begin your path to greatness today—because the best investment you can make is in improving yourself first before attempting to improve others. Your enlightenment journey starts now!

The Scrappy Entrepreneur: How to Effectively Lead an Innovation-Driven Startup

The Scrappy Entrepreneur: How to Effectively Lead an Innovation-Driven Startup

$31.99

Starting an innovation-driven company is hard. Let this book make it easier for you.

You have a business idea that you truly believe in. The extensive market research that you have done has made you even more passionate about pursuing your idea. But before you can start selling, you will need significant amounts of funding to develop your product and/or successfully meet regulatory requirements. You will also need help from people with skillsets that complement yours. If you find yourself in this situation, this book is for you.

Drawing on her own first entrepreneurship experience with medical technology startup palmm Co., author Véronique Peiffer gets to the nuts and bolts of three key topics tailored to scrappy entrepreneurs—those who need to be extra resourceful to push their companies to the next phase:

  • Fundraising,
  • Hiring and managing a startup team,
  • Dealing with the many less exciting, but necessary aspects of creating and running a business, such as bookkeeping, document management, vendor selection and more.

The Scrappy Entrepreneur helps you know what to expect and even includes simple spreadsheet templates that can save you considerable time and money. The hard-won learnings from seven other medtech entrepreneurs provide additional perspectives.

Ultimately, reading this book will make any first-time entrepreneur feel better prepared for the real deal.

Influence with Eloquence: Classical Persuasion for Business Professionals

Influence with Eloquence: Classical Persuasion for Business Professionals

$31.99

Not only effective. Not only efficient. But eloquent.

For hundreds of years, great rulers, teachers, and thinkers have embraced the arts of eloquence—that is, stylishly persuasive communication. Yet, over the last century or so, we’ve largely forgotten about these arts. Influence with Eloquence revives these timeless traditions, connects them to the modern workplace, and shares practical takeaways to strengthen one’s communication savvy.

The old is new again.

Spotlighting Ancient Greece and Roman wisdom from thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine, Influence with Eloquence outlines dimensions of powerful speaking and writing that many MBA programs overlook. The book gives you an all-access pass to the wellspring of classical strategies and tactics to enhance pitches, enliven documents, and enrich interactions. Offering more than simple turn-key tricks, Influence with Eloquence teaches rhetorical attitudes alongside their business applications, so you can become equipped to communicate in the workplace and marketplace with 360-degree vision and versatility.

Strategic eloquence.

An indispensable guide for leaders, managers, sales professionals, and workplace trainers, Influence with Eloquence uncovers the often-overlooked art of rhetorical communication. By embracing the rhetorical principles outlined in this book, you will energize audiences, cultivate deeper conversations, and forge enduring professional relationships. Pitches will become captivating narratives. Emails will become instruments of influence. And job interviews will become performances of persuasion.

Influence with Eloquence will empower you to captivate others with every word you speak and write.

Reengineering Purchasing: Lessons from the Front Lines

Reengineering Purchasing: Lessons from the Front Lines

$37.99

In his book Reengineering Purchasing: Lessons from the Front Lines, Paul Ericksen shares over three dozen personal experiences where he was responsible for fundamental changes to purchasing strategy and practice that increased the competitiveness of the companies and clients he worked at and for. His stories show how a more collaborative approach to supplier management increases the positive financial impact purchasing can contribute above-and-beyond material and services cost reduction.

At the end of each chapter are listed the lessons learned from each experience.

Reengineering Purchasing will benefit anyone working in supply management, as well as corporate executives looking for a new and expanded approach to purchasing.

Strategy Toolbox: 50 Models to Foster Strategic Dialogue

Strategy Toolbox: 50 Models to Foster Strategic Dialogue

$34.99

“Strategy Toolbox proves that strategy doesn’t have to be intimidating—it can be engaging, energizing, and even inspiring…this is a toolbox I will use because it aligns with my belief that strategy is at its best when it brings people together to imagine—and implement—a better future.” -Dr. Jackie Stavros, Professor, Lawrence Technological University and Founder, SOAR Institute

“Unlike many strategy books that focus on theory, Strategy Toolbox emphasizes conversation and teamwork. The 5 Is and 6 Cs frameworks offer a structured yet adaptable way to uncover insights and help teams create actionable strategies…using these tools as discussion starters, this book encourages strategic thinking and data-driven decisions.” -Ravi Mittal, Director-Insights and Effectiveness, Center for Institutional Effectiveness, University of Maryland Global Campus

“This is an amazing book! Dr. Reese has done an incredible job of integrating all of the powerful theories of strategies from the past 50 years into his highly-practical 5 Is model and 6 Cs framework. Strategy Toolbox is a must-read for any organization and leader seeking success in 21st century.” -Dr. Michael Marquardt, Professor Emeritus, George Washington University

Strategy Toolbox proves that strategy doesn’t need to be tough-armed with the right tools, you can foster meaningful dialogue and clear direction, turning complexity into actionable results.

In the world of business strategy, the key to success lies not just in having the right answers but in asking the right questions—and fostering meaningful dialogue along the way. Strategy Toolbox transforms the daunting task of strategy design into a structured and collaborative process, combining the 5 Is Model (Information, Issues, Insights, Implications, Implementation) with the 6 Cs framework (Company, Characteristics, Customers, Competitors, Climate, Consolidation). Together, these frameworks help teams turn complexity into clarity and actionable results.

The book is methodically organized into six sections, each exploring a distinct element of strategy through eight essential tools. At the end of each section, concise summaries and checklists simplify the process, ensuring teams stay aligned and focused as they move through the stages of analysis and design in their quest to answer strategic questions.

Created for both MBA students and business professionals, Strategy Toolbox equips readers with a clear roadmap for tackling real-world strategic challenges. By viewing strategic models as starting points for dialogue, this book empowers teams to collaboratively uncover insights, align priorities by understanding implications, and craft implementable strategies that drive impactful outcomes.

Better Policy | Better Performance: The Who, Why, and What of Organizational Policy

Better Policy | Better Performance: The Who, Why, and What of Organizational Policy

$28.99

Better Policy / Better Performance: The Who, Why, and What of Organizational Policy is a comprehensive roadmap for developing, writing, implementing, communicating, and evaluating organizational policy – the backbone of every organization. Designed for both seasoned professionals and those new to the field, this book provides a step-by-step journey through the intricate process of policy formulation.

Readers will benefit from:

  • Clear Guidelines
  • Real-World Examples
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Stakeholder Engagement

The Power of Community: Give, Get, and Grow

The Power of Community: Give, Get, and Grow

$34.99

The Power of Community centers on the core principle of “giving is getting,” exploring the transformative potential of giving, receiving, and growing within communities.

The Power of Community: Give, Get, and Grow is a heartfelt reflection of the values of generosity and selflessness passed down from the author’s parents. Their acts of giving, whether offering financial support or providing shelter to those in need, have deeply influenced Mane’s understanding of community. This book encourages readers to embrace the power of giving and receiving, showing how these acts create a cycle of growth and transformation. It honors individuals who improve the world through the willingness to give, the humility to receive, and the collective effort to build a better community.

The Power of Community centers on the core principle of “giving is getting,” exploring the transformative potential of giving, receiving, and growing within communities. It examines how these principles foster personal and collective development, resilience, and stronger networks. Trust, reciprocity, and leadership are vital to sustaining growth, while addressing the challenges of disconnection in modern times. Each chapter covers topics such as personal development, social change, and the importance of feedback loops. Through the Give-Get-Grow framework, readers are encouraged to cultivate generosity, build connections, and contribute to thriving communities.