Real Work

Everyone is talking about AI. But do you actually know how to use it to get real results? Featuring 40+ illustrations to simplify complex concepts.

The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important. There has to be a better way. And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.

Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money. We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they are also always sources of problems for which we seek practical advice and solutions.

Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies - distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking - running through our organizational lives.

Brought to you by Penguin. If you could change one thing about the way you think, feel or behave today, what would it be? We all have things that hold us back in life, preventing us from achieving true success and happiness. Andrew Parr has written the ultimate guide to escaping, resolving, and...

Imagine if we could remove from work all stress, exhaustion, and insecurity. Imagine if work became the expression of our deepest, most authentic self. Imagine if it no longer looked as though anything depended on it. Imagine if the idea of work dissolved altogether and became the simple, sheer joy of living. We don’t have to imagine it. We can live it. Ease explores the transformation of self, work, colleagues, performance, success, and money as we come back in touch with reality.

Under the recent advice of social distancing and “stay safe, stay at home”, the advantage in today’s workforce lies with those people who are able to do real work from home. Because, let’s face it, this will not be the only instance in our lifetime where we will encounter the need to lock down and shelter in place. In my book, I show you over 100 ways you can have a successful career working from the comfort of your own home.

Learn the secret of what really drives sales - and how to give people what they need so they want to buy from you.

Master DeepSeek AI in Just 2 Hours—No Jargon, No Overwhelm. Ever felt like AI tools were made for techies, not real people? Think again. DeepSeek Made Simple is your fast-track guide to mastering one of the world’s fastest-growing AI tools—without needing a tech background.

Meet Justin Campbell. He’s a newly minted MBA who’s landed a coveted job in consulting. He’s headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven’t yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities. But Justin soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn’t as straightforward as he’d expected.

After the global financial panic and recession of 2007–2009, you don’t have to be president or a hedge fund manager to know that “It’s the economy, stupid.” Yet while the economy dominates the headlines, how it works and who influences it remain a mystery to most people. In The Little Book of Economics, Greg Ip, an award-winning journalist renowned for making complex economics easy to understand, walks you through how the economy really works.

Your calendar is full, your inbox never ends, and Slack keeps blinking—so why does real work never get done? Deep Work Habits shows knowledge workers how to stop living in constant task switching and start finishing the work that actually moves their career forward. This isn’t about willpower or quitting technology. It’s about redesigning your defaults so focus becomes normal again. You don’t need more time. You need fewer interruptions.

Financial Times Best Business Book of 2025 Winner of SABEW Best in Business Book Award Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level, in any kind of organization, immediate, proven, and evidence-based ways...

Das "Aufklärungsbuch" für bessere Unternehmensführung Um ein Unternehmen erfolgreich zu führen, sollte man eine Vorstellung davon haben, wie Unternehmen wirklich funktionieren. Da helfen weder Vergleiche mit Maschinen, Schiffen oder sonstig Trivialem, noch reicht es, sich mit simplen Appellen oder moralinsauren Forderungen auf den Weg zu New Work zu machen. Das Buch räumt auf, sowohl mit tradierten Ansätzen als auch mit den vermeintlich besseren, den "neuen" Sichtweisen von Arbeit, Führung und Organisation.

Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most: family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard graft of becoming one's authentic self. In weaving together their everyday while questioning society and its structures, Erin gifts us stories that double as a manifesto on how to disrupt and reinvent narrative, identity, love and community.

The Real Workflows for the AI Era is not another hype-driven guide promising instant riches or “secret prompts.” It’s a builder’s handbook for the new economy—a practical, ethical, and deeply human approach to earning leverage with artificial intelligence. In clear, grounded language, it shows how to turn everyday skills into automated systems that generate real value: workflows that think, write, and produce alongside you.

Leading a real estate business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and problems real estate agents in large businesses don't seem to face. The E-Myth Real Estate Agent offers you a road map to create a business that's self-sucient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your company to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

What Tom Chiarella discovers is that great real estate agents devote themselves to the job with a sense of craftsmanship. Showcasing the individual tools used to develop a successful real estate career, Becoming a Real Estate Agent profiles individuals who live a life of thrilling improvisation, action, and instinct - a life in which excellence is sometimes gauged by the ability to walk away from a commission when circumstance demands it.

Leading a real estate investment business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and constant fires that have to be put out. The E-Myth Real Estate Investor offers you a road map to create a real estate investment business that's self-sufficient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your business to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

This comprehensive collection is designed to make the path to financial independence and lasting wealth accessible to everyone, regardless of background or experience. It simplifies complex real estate concepts and introduces creative investment opportunities, changing how you perceive and manage wealth.