The Joy of Connections: 100 Ways to Beat Loneliness and Live a Happier and More Meaningful Life

April 14, 2025

By: Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, Allison Gilbert, Pierre Lehu


When Surgeon General Vivek Murthy sounded the alarm that loneliness “represents an urgent public health concern”—exacerbated by social media overuse, the residual effects of the pandemic, and the lack of meaningful relationships—trusted therapist Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer knew that her unique perspective and expertise could help. Long beloved for breaking stigmas around sexual problems, Dr. […]

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Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism

March 7, 2025

By: Andrew J. Hoffman


Today’s business schools were designed for a world that no longer exists. Capitalism raised the standard of living for billions of people over the past 150 years, but is now causing systemic challenges it is unable to address, including climate change and inequality. And yet, business schools continue to teach ideas that are making things […]

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Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives

March 3, 2025

By: Patricia Grabarek, Katina Sawyer

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Through a straightforward, science-based approach, Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives explains the steps to become a Generator―the type of leader who people want to work for and organizations want to hire―by leading in a way that fosters trust and positive connections with employees. This book is based on two […]

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Shift: Managing Your Emotions – So They Don’t Manage You

January 3, 2025

By: Ethan Kross


A myth-busting, science-based guide that addresses the timeless question of how to manage your emotional life using tools you already possess. Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult […]

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Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

August 20, 2024

By: Jamil Zaki


Our culture treats cynicism as though it’s the price of being right, but cynicism is a contagion infecting our society—creeping into every corner of our lives, corroding our connections, and obscuring our hope for a brighter tomorrow.  In his book, HOPE FOR CYNICS: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness (Grand Central Publishing; on sale; September […]

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Unspoken: A Guide to Cracking the Hidden Corporate Code

June 10, 2024

By: Ella F. Washington


Two years ago, Dr. Ella F. Washington, organizational psychologist, Founder and CEO of DEI strategy consulting firm Ellavate Solutions, and Professor of Practice at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, shared her vision for a fairer, healthier, more productive “workplace utopia” with business leaders looking to make positive change in The Necessary Journey: Making Real Progress […]

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Organizational Compassion: A Relational Approach

May 16, 2024

By: Ace Volkmann Simpson, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Stewart Clegg, Arménio Rego, Marco Berti


Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual, team, and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect, trust, engagement, loyalty, performance, resilience, and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools for reflection, awakening, and practical application of […]

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The Untapped Power of Discovery

February 27, 2024

By: Karen Golden-Biddle


Despite being a game-changer in powering human growth, discovery remains a mystery. How can it produce ahas and insights to meet the challenge of new realities and reimagine organizational management? This book lays out a process of inquiry that drives belief change and leads to discoveries, empowering leaders, groups, and the organization with a powerful tool for […]

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

October 30, 2023

By: Adam Grant


We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how […]

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Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

October 9, 2023

By: Brad Stulberg


A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset and identity, and developing habits for life’s intensifying flux. From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly. Change is not the […]

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Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

September 6, 2023

By: Amy Edmondson


We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a […]

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