Empowering books to boost your career
Raising your game
Learn from the masters in their fields with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness’s Peak
Performance. They present inspiring stories from leaders in a variety of disciplines to explore what drives top performances. They also explore the connection between mind and body and give techniques that everyone can use to get to the top of their game, without burning out, and the science behind them.
Bridge the generational gap
You might have come to grips with Millennials, but if you’re now working with a demographic who were born after 1995, Gen Z @ Work is a good insight into how this generation thinks and what their values are. Author David Stillman and his son Jonah’s account gives employers the knowledge of what they need to do to engage with and manage this new generation of workers.
Leverage your multi-talents
Based on her popular TED Talk, ‘Why some of us don’t have one true calling’, Emilie Wapnick offers guidance for those people who haven’t been able to stay in one career in How To
Be Everything. Arguing that multipotentiality is a huge strength in today’s job market, she gives a framework for building a life that is based around all of your interests and skills.
Beat the professional plateau
Former Google career-development manager Jenny Black makes the case in Pivot that if you feel stuck in a rut, you don’t necessarily have to make a drastic career change and that ultimately the only move that really matters is your next one. Blake shows how to make small changes — and big ones — to keep moving forward and build on the strengths of your current career path.