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You don't have to get beaten up to get beaten down. Andrew Regal spent decades working his way up in the high-stakes landscape of television news. He was often deflated, downtrodden, and defeated during the time of his most acute workplace trauma, which left him anxiety-ridden, alone, ashamed, sleepless, and contemplating suicide. Despite this, readers will find Regal humorous, sympathetic, resilient, and relatable. He is uniquely qualified to aid those who, like him, have suffered while trying to be the best possible employees.

Venture Mode is a bold call for an overhaul of modern business leadership and the higher education system that staffs it. It exposes the bureaucratic mindset that dominates modern organizations—especially universities—and explains the true cost of our obsession with administration in the form of suppressed economic potential. In its place, Hunter Hastings and Mark Packard champion venture mode: a radical, entrepreneurial approach that prioritizes value creation, consumer sovereignty, and agile execution.

What if the secret to breakthrough innovation isn’t thinking outside the box—but knowing where the box ends? In The Unexpected Power of Boundaries, bestselling author and innovation strategist Sheri Jacobs challenges everything we’ve been told about creativity. Innovation doesn’t just happen, and it’s not about luck or timing. It’s about creating a structure that nourishes ideas, allows people to experiment, and provides clarity around constraints.

In a world obsessed with optimization, where morning routines start at dawn and work never seems to end, it's no wonder we feel more depleted than ever. Drawing from two decades of research and consulting with organizations across thirty countries, Dr. James Hewitt reveals a startling paradox: as our knowledge of performance optimization has expanded, our sense of well-being has contracted.

Drawing from dozens of first-hand accounts, thousands of pages of court documents, and the author’s experience as an employee of many of the companies involved, Yield is a gripping story of technological innovation, hard-nosed politics, and how the business of modern advertising really works.

With a flair for storytelling that has inspired teams at Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft, and the Society of Human Resource Management, Koenig shares his own compelling leadership journey as well as those of leaders from health care, government, tech, the military, professional sports, and more. Radical Humility is packed with dozens of no-nonsense tools and practical takeaways, making it the ultimate actionable blueprint for a new type of leader for a new type of world.

Ever feel like running a business is just… shoveling s**t? You’re not alone. This brutally honest book takes you inside the messy reality of entrepreneurship. No one shovels more $h!t than entrepreneurs. Dig in! In 2023, entrepreneurs started a record 5.5 million new businesses in the United States, lured by the siren call of life-changing wealth. But entrepreneurship is hard. Brutally hard. And instead of swimming in seas of cash, many founders find themselves buried under mountains of crap.

The Purposeful Decision Maker presents Pádraig Ó Céidigh’s groundbreaking and holistic approach to decision-making in life and business. He explores both his own rich experience and the most up-to-date thinking in this area to arrive at a methodology for making great decisions consistently. The process begins with the concept of safe harbor: the people, places, and principles that are most important to you. Making great decisions is all about protecting that safe harbor and ensuring your actions are consistent with who you are at your core.

In this genre-defying, deeply personal, and ultimately inspiring book, Grow or Fold redefines what it means to thrive in midlife and beyond. With honesty, insight, and a toolkit forged in fire, Matt Ross—former CEO of School of Rock and architect of One River School—invites you into his story of transformation, resilience, and purpose. At fifty, faced with personal catastrophe and professional upheaval, Ross chose growth over surrender.

In Relationship Currency, keynote speaker Ravi Rajani uncovers the five communication habits you can embody to ignite, influence, and inspire change in your prospects, customers, partners, and team through building meaningful business relationships that matter. Authentically building trusted relationships is a skill anyone can develop, and Ravi is here to show you how. Filled with original insights, personal stories, and actionable practices, Relationship Currency will help you communicate for trust, transform your influence, and achieve business success without playing a zero-sum game.

Drawing from the philosophy of all-time great Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski that what just happened isn’t nearly as important as what is happening right now—your Next Play—and his work with top brands such as Pepsi, Charles Schwab, American Express, Spotify, and Starbucks, this book contains 34 powerfully simple strategies and 35 practical exercises designed to show how reaching the top of your game doesn’t require more. It requires less but better.

Live Your Opus is for high achievers who’ve done everything “right” yet still feel something is missing. It’s an invitation to step off the treadmill and compose a life that actually fits. One that energizes, not exhausts. One where ambition expands, not depletes.

Ever look at somebody who appears to be gettin’ ahead of you in life, yet you know they ain’t near as smart or near as qualified as you? You think they got there by luck, and you have just not been at the right place at the right time? Redneckonomics is pullin’ back the curtain and shinin’ a light in the dark corners, exposin’ what you can’t see. Takin’ all the vast books, courses, tricks, and secrets of the universe and puttin’ ’em in this book piled up to point you to where your ultimate existence is hidin’ from you.

Ignorance may or may not be bliss. But the right kind of ignorance can be genius. Expertise in any field is ultimately important to success. But it usually comes with a problem—a tendency toward incremental change and to become limited by what we know and what has worked in the past. As a result, the most innovative thinking that has driven upstart companies and allowed old brands to stay relevant in a fast-changing world often comes when we leave behind what we know best and what’s considered “possible.”

For far too long, men have been told that midlife is when we start to die. But it’s actually the first time that most of us really begin to figure life out. Four years ago, this realization led performance coach Greg Scheinman to create a no-BS community in which men who have been around long enough to own their mistakes and celebrate their successes could gather to maximize the second half of their lives. The Midlife Male provides a must-listen guide for men to boost confidence, accountability, and creativity that strips away notions of traditional manhood.

Dr. Sheila Gujrathi, a powerhouse with over two decades of experience spanning medicine, biotech, and venture capital, unveils the groundbreaking principles of the Mirror Effect in her debut book. This isn’t just another business guide; it’s a lifeline for disenfranchised leaders—women, people of color, and other historically marginalized professionals—seeking to shatter the barriers holding them back. Drawing on her own journey and the stories of countless others, Dr. Gujrathi offers a powerful three-part roadmap to reclaiming your power and thriving authentically.

Since the creation of the Federal Reserve more than one hundred years ago, the American dollar has become the most successful product (of any kind) of all time and the language of commerce for the planet. From the Gold Reserve Act to Bretton Woods to the petrodollar and beyond, the U.S. has successfully ridden the waves of historical transformation to stay on top.

Many of us feel constant pressure to mask and curate who we are—to perform as someone we’re not rather than be who we are. And it hurts us. But we don’t need to live this way. With We’ve Got This, award-winning and globally recognized DEI and empowerment expert Ritu Bhasin delivers a much-needed guidebook on how to heal, thrive, and stand in your power in the face of hate and hardships. She reveals how to unlock belonging—for yourself and for others.

Restaurants boast some of the highest failure rates of any industry, yet even worse is the sheer number of concepts that struggle just to break even. In The Restaurant Marketing Mindset, Chip Klose introduces a series of mindset shifts and actionable frameworks to help owners and operators finally take control of their marketing.

A decade ago, Millennials came of age, and many workplaces were not prepared to integrate a new generation that thought and worked differently. As a result, some organizations lost out on the best in young talent or were paralyzed by generational infighting.