Want to get those difficult colleagues off your back and restore your sanity? NYU psychology professor Tessa West shows you how.\nHave you ever watched a colleague charm the pants off management while showing a competitive, Machiavellian side to the lower ranks? They don't hesitate to throw peers under the bus, but their boss is oblivious to their bad behaviour. What about a constantly interrupting colleague? Or an over-bearing manager? While these jerks stress us out in small ways throughout the day, they aren't technically breaking any rules, so we're expected just to put up with them.\n...Until now. Tessa West has already helped thousands of people resolve their most pressing workplace issues. And here she draws on a decade of original research to profile classic workplace archetypes, including the Gaslighter, the Bulldozer, the Credit-Stealer, the Neglecter, and the Micromanager, giving advice to anyone who's ever hidden in the bathroom to cry at work. She digs deep into the inner workings of each bad apple, exploring their motivations and insecurities, and offers clever strategies for stopping each type of jerk in their tracks.\nKnow a Jerk at Work? This proactive approach reveals the single, most effective way to achieve emotional wellbeing at work.

Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to do About Them

Business & Money

West, Tessa

Management & Leadership

Ebury Edge

Some of the most successful people in the world all have a secret power: their partnerships.\nOur individualistic society has created a cult of self-interest. The result: fear, division, and domination, which has crushed our ability to relate meaningfully to each other and diminished our ability to innovate and collaborate.\nJean Oelwang, founding CEO and Trustee of Virgin Unite, has interviewed over 60 business and life partnerships - including Desmond and Leah Tutu, and Ben and Jerry - revealing how to nurture relationships with depth and purpose. These kinds of deep connections have a profound ripple effect on everything we do, supporting us to achieve more, withstand anything and amplify impact. Enduring partnerships are the foundation of a meaningful life as well as the backbone of any successful organisation. In this book she unpicks the values that connect great partners, offering practical tools for staying in sync, disagreeing respectfully and a blueprint for expanding small partnerships into large-scale collaborations.\nPacked with wisdom to nourish the relationships that give us strength and meaning, Partnering is a call-to-action for individuals resisting individualism to lead with purpose and impact.

Partnering: Forge the Deep Connections that Make Great Things Happen

Oelwang, Jean

Business Culture

What if the most serious personal and global challenges won't be solved with more thinking or talking?\nThe world is louder than ever. It's not just the noise in our ears, but also the noise on our screens and in our heads. 'Silence is golden,' the adage goes. But how do we find it in times like these?\nJustin Zorn and Leigh Marz take us on an unlikely journey exploring why silence is essential for physical health, mental clarity, professional fulfilment, nourishing relationships, ecological sustainability, and vibrant community. Drawing on lessons from neuroscience, philosophy, business, politics, activism, and the arts, Golden teaches us how to go beyond the ordinary rules and offers tools of mindfulness to help individuals, organisations and whole societies dial down the noise and reclaim pristine quiet.\nQuietly profound and constantly surprising, Golden is a field guide to finding silence.

Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise

Marz, Leigh

Talbot-Zorn, Justin

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Outpacer: The Blueprint for Breakthrough Success in the Digital Era

Over the past decade a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses with companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, Meta, Tesla and Apple all totally redefining what a successful organization looks and feels like. Each chapter in Outpacer focusses on an Outpacer characteristic required for organisational greatness and features examples of what it is and how to achieve it, including; how to structure your company's mission and vision, foster the right entrepreneurial culture, innovate, collaborate and utilise agile technology and data driven insights to drive continuous progress, deliver an exceptional customer experience and achieve outstanding results. Each Outpacer characteristic is illustrated by fascinating profiles of business leaders from companies such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Tesla who have driven phenomenal success, alongside profiles of the stars of film, tv, music and sport who share the same winning characteristic such as Reese Witherspoon, Jay Z and Sir Lewis Hamilton. The combination of business leaders and popular icons illustrate and inspire the reader helping them to learn how they too can lead an Outpacer business. This is not business as usual.

Holt, Alex

Over the past decade a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses with companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, Meta, Tesla and Apple all totally redefining what a successful organization looks and feels like. Each chapter in Outpacer focusses on an Outpacer characteristic required for organisational greatness and features examples of what it is and how to achieve it, including; how to structure your company's mission and vision, foster the right entrepreneurial culture, innovate, collaborate and utilise agile technology and data driven insights to drive continuous progress, deliver an exceptional customer experience and achieve outstanding results. Each Outpacer characteristic is illustrated by fascinating profiles of business leaders from companies such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Tesla who have driven phenomenal success, alongside profiles of the stars of film, tv, music and sport who share the same winning characteristic such as Reese Witherspoon, Jay Z and Sir Lewis Hamilton. The combination of business leaders and popular icons illustrate and inspire the reader helping them to learn how they too can lead an Outpacer business. This is not business as usual.

We are often told that the secret to success is hard work, grit, and hours of practice. But in a world that's changing at lighting speed, what if the really crucial skill is actually knowing when to do stick at it and when to change track, to cut your losses and walk away?\nQUIT makes the under-appreciated case for quitting and shows why it's crucial to achieving real success. It will help readers recognize where quitting should be celebrated and how it can become a skill that they can develop and use to enrich their lives.\nAfter the pandemic, many of us are starting to rethink our old habits. Whether you are considering moving away from the city, leaving a job, selling stocks, ending a relationship or just giving up on a plan or project to start something different, QUIT provides a toolkit for change to make better decisions. Packed with refreshing and counter-intuitive stories of when perseverance is the wrong response, this book will give you the tools you need to live your best life.

Quit

Annie Duke

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Stress-Free Productivity: A Personalised Toolkit to Become Your Most Efficient, Creative Self

Dr Alice Boyes

Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

Noah Kagan

The Art of Winning: Lessons learned by one of the world’s top sportsmen

Dan Carter is a widely hailed as one of the most elite and successful professional rugby players in the world. After retiring from a sport he played for 32 years, he set out to inspire the next generation of leaders to create purposeful impact, joining the Oxford Foundry - Oxford University's Entrepreneurial Institute, founded by LinkedIn co-found Reid Hoffman - as its first ever Leader in Practice. Now, in a follow-up to his bestselling 2015 autobiography, he answers timeless questions for aspiring leaders everywhere. Why is the team more important than the individual? How do you navigate the transition from player to leader? How should we respond when confidence is eclipsed by doubt, when circumstances get the better of us, when setbacks derail us? How can we remain humble and grounded when we're winning - and how can we keep on winning, even when a loss may be just around the corner?

Self-Help

Carter, Dan

Motivational

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Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to do About Them

Partnering: Forge the Deep Connections that Make Great Things Happen

Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise

Outpacer: The Blueprint for Breakthrough Success in the Digital Era

Outpacer: The Blueprint for Breakthrough Success in the Digital Era

Quit

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Stress-Free Productivity: A Personalised Toolkit to Become Your Most Efficient, Creative Self

Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

The Art of Winning: Lessons learned by one of the world’s top sportsmen