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Today’s leaders recognize the potential for diverse teams to unleash superior innovation, creativity, and problem solving. But if you want to see tangible business results, you can’t just throw people from different backgrounds in a room together and expect them to figure it out. You must develop leadership with the skillset of facilitating collaboration and dialogue across differences.

In Casting Not Hiring, Dan Sullivan redefines the way entrepreneurs build teams, arguing that a thriving business is more like a high-energy theater production than a traditional corporate structure. Rather than simply filling job positions, business leaders should focus on casting the right talent in roles that align with their strengths, ensuring a powerful and cohesive performance. Sullivan introduces his 4x4 tool, a proven framework that helps entrepreneurs attract the right people, set clear expectations, and provide new hires with a roadmap for success.

Join Guardian reporter Hettie O'Brien on a mole hunt, from Copenhagen to Barcelona, San Francisco to the Yorkshire Dales, and into a very private empire whose vast scale it takes journalistic ingenuity even to glimpse. Tracing the murky intellectual currents behind the industry's rise and following the money through some of its most outrageous deals, The Asset Class probes an unsettling possibility: that enemies of the West have deployed these secretive firms as a weapon against our very way of life.

We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and values freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do, who to be, and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing, and unlimited resources don’t necessarily lead to the biggest breakthroughs. In fact, overvaluing complete freedom can be disastrous for everything from starting a company to harnessing creativity to finding personal satisfaction.

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In Working Well, work culture expert and therapist Nidhi Tewari argues that a thriving workplace is actually one that embraces people as whole, complex beings whose lives and work intersect—because suppressing your personal life and ignoring the personal lives of your teammates only leads to stress, anxiety, and burnout. Combining cutting-edge research, practical tools, and storytelling, Tewari provides a roadmap to both improve our relationships with our coworkers and improve the work we do as a result.

Most of us are just one event away from leaving our job. Conventional wisdom would have us believe that the decision to leave secure work is the result of an uneven trade-off between our paychecks and benefits. But in reality, quitting is most often triggered by a single event that causes us to stop and reflect on our relationship with work. These events are what organizational psychologist Anthony Klotz calls “jolts,” and they are the most underacknowledged realities in our work lives. In Jolted, Klotz breaks down what makes a jolt, and helps us navigate these inevitable disruptions.

Work isn’t broken. It’s just waiting to be better designed. What if the key to how we structure, organize, and lead work is already at our fingertips? Beneath the surface of our organizations lie hidden patterns: structures, rituals, and decisions that shape how work flows, who holds power, and what ultimately gets done. Drawing on insights from cutting-edge organizations, behavioral science, and real-world experimentation, Hidden Patterns uncovers the invisible systems that drive success and failure in modern workplaces.

Inclusive workplaces are essential to build high-performing teams, fuel collaboration and innovation, spark trust and belonging, and attract and retain the best people. Yet even today, women continue to be left behind. How can we fix this? The surprising answer: By shifting the conversation to include men. In Men at Work, Jennifer McCollum, President and CEO of Catalyst, a nonprofit that helps companies create high-performing workplaces by advancing women and accelerating inclusion, shares the secret: engaging men as gender partners.

In this easy-to-digest, science-based guide to avoiding and healing burnout, clinical psychologist Dr Emma Hepburn offers a lifeline to those feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. A few years ago, Dr Hepburn personally experienced burnout, so she knows the devastating impact it can have on your mental and physical wellbeing - and how to come out the other side feeling stronger than ever.

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Something mighty—but intangible—is getting in the way of doing our best work. Seventy percent of people are ridiculously unhappy at work—a figure that has barely budged in thirty years. Despite major changes in technology, management trends, and office setups, the core issues that drive widespread discontent persist and exact a tangible cost: billions in lost productivity, stalled revenue, and missed advantages from ideas that never had their shot. Drawing on decades of research and real-world experience, Nilofer Merchant identifies 24 intangible norms that prevent us from doing our best work.

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In Mind Over Grind, Guy Winch explains how our enmeshment with work reinforces these unconscious tendencies and reveals to the damage they do to our careers and personal lives, as well as to our emotional health. He argues that attaining a work-life balance involves changing not just what you do in your free time but how you think. And he offers clear, cogent strategies we can use to regain control, change the way we think, bring intentionality back to our lives, and restore the balance we crave.

Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures—designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today’s digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn’t just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations. Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration.

The surprising story of how corporate scandals like the Lehman Shock and the Cambridge Analytica data scandal change the way the world works – for the better. Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee draw on a decade of research on policymaking and public opinion to show us how scandals can ignite a public with few political outlets for their discontent. Scandal no longer just dominates news cycles, they can inspire us to change policy, spur governments to action the rules that exist to protect us. Today it is giant companies, not governments, who run the world.

Have you ever felt like learning to negotiate requires a different personality than that required to sell? Great salespeople foster relationships built on trust and a focus on customer outcomes. Yet, when the customer says “yes” and it’s time to negotiate, we change personalities. We hide things, focus on our own optimal outcomes, and in many cases, leverage strategies drawn from FBI hostage negotiation techniques.

In this groundbreaking work, Wallace makes an urgent case: mattering—the feeling that we are valued and have an opportunity to add value—is a core human need, as essential to our well-being as food and water. And yet, in today’s world, that fundamental need is going unmet, with perilous consequences. As mental and social health crises surge, we often blame social media, the pace of modern life, and polarizing politics. But beneath these issues lies a deeper crisis, what Wallace calls “an erosion of mattering.”

Powered by Projects offers a bold new blueprint. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows listeners how to embrace the deep changes in leadership style and organizational structures necessary for projects and initiatives to flourish.

Drawing upon Stefanie's years of experience as a career expert, and hundreds of hours of interviews and research, this personable and relatable handbook offers a trove of practical advice on what to do when work isn't working for you. Exploring three distinct pathways – sticking with your current job but moulding it to suit you, twisting down a different path and reinventing yourself professionally, or tapping out from work being your identity altogether – Career Comedown is an engaging and essential guide to prioritising your needs in your working life.