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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brene` Brown
The ultimate playbook for developing brave leaders and courageous cultures. Daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100% teachable. It’s learning and practice that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with our whole hearts. The book provides insightful assessment and tangible tools for leaders.
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Minda Harts
The Memo is written in an informal and direct tone and shares the author's personal trials as a woman of color. From the author's account, this book is in response to the lack of conversation about the experiences of women in color in other work focused on women in the workplace. It highlights professional isolation and shares ways women of color can get connected and possibly position themselves up for success in terms of workplace relationships and office politics.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian, Al Switzler
Crucial Conversations defines crucial Conversations, explores mastering crucial conversations by starting with your heart, learning to look for signs that a conversation is crucial, and other techniques and approaches.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit explores the scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. Harnessing this new science can transform businesses, communities, and lives.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Blink explores the psychological processes of intuition and instinct, examining how we make split-second decisions and judgments—both good and bad—and how the ability that makes us more likely, for example, to accurately read a dangerous situation or an ill-intentioned person is the same ability that makes us unconsciously racist, sexist, or otherwise prejudiced, even if we consciously espouse other views.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Lean In provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. Sandberg describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.
The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book
Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
The Emotional Intelligence Quickbook shows us how understanding and utilizing emotional intelligence can be the key to exceeding our goals and achieving our fullest potential. With a quick, easy-to-use format and cut-to-the-chase information to demonstrate how this other kind of "smart" helps us to decrease our stress, increase our productivity, understand our emotions as they happen, and interact positively with those around us.
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