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8 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma Sharma's e 5 AM Club is all about reclaiming your mornings and transforming routines into revolutions. e book unlocks the secrets behind the success of those who discovered the early-rising habit and turned it around to accomplish excellent results not just from a personal perspective—helping increase their level of happiness, helpfulness, and aliveness—but also from a financial point of view—creating business tycoons out of ordinary people who are now reaping the benefits of a right start to each day. Robin Sharma, a leadership and performance expert walks readers through formulas to instantly wake up early feeling inspired, focused, and with a purpose. Sharma also touches upon ways to protect your serenity in an age of overwhelming complexity through a step-by-step method and 'Insider-only' tactics to defend your gifts, talents, and dreams to have a magnificent impact on the world around you. That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together by Joanne Lipman In her book, Joanne Lipman makes it clear that "men aren't the enemy." She raises some very pertinent questions about how men and women can join forces to overcome the gender gap in the workplace. More importantly, she points out how the structure of corporate diversity places the onus of change on women. While women are told about what they must do to close the gender gap, men, on the other hand, are left out of the conversation—creating a disconnect. Lipman's work, through data from the most recent studies and stories from her personal journey to the top of a male-dominated industry, aims to identify and end that disconnect. e book emphasizes the need to recognize women as true equals as an essential goal for both genders while providing solutions to narrow the chasm. Nine Lies About Work by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall Individual uniqueness is at the heart of this book. Nine Lies, according to the authors, characterize the distortions, faulty assumptions, and wrong thinking– running through our organizational lives. e book highlights the dysfunction and frustration caused by these lies leading to "a strange feeling of unreality." It also stresses the importance of freethinking to get past the lies and discover what is beneath the surface. Evidence takes precedence over dogma and emergent patterns are more valuable than passed-on wisdom, the authors argue. Here, Buckingham and Goodall place paramount significance to the strength and cohesiveness of a team as opposed to company culture to truly engage in the 'real' world. e authors believe that recognizing the power and beauty of differences and the ability to embrace them is detrimental to the health of any organization. The Surprising Science of Meetings by Steven G. Rogelberg Rogelberg provides the best plan for managers to lead meetings effectively based on the latest research from management and behavioral science in e Surprising Science of Meetings. e book delves into some of the most common misconceptions about meetings in the workplace. e author introduces tools, sample surveys, agendas, and checklists aimed at considerably saving time and enhancing the basic quality of meetings that can otherwise be unproductive and ineffective. Drawing from extensive research, analytics and data mining, and interviews with over 5,000 employees across a range of industries, he aims to help managers have a clear understanding of the key drivers that make meetings successful. Given that recent data suggests employees are attendees to 55 million meetings a day in the U.S., this book acts a how-to-guide to truly engage employees and encourage true participation.

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