Work Rules
From the visionary head of Google’s innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work — and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed.
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Hiring for Attitude
Build a high-performance workforce by abandoning skills-based hiring practices and focusing on employee attitude. Hiring for Attitude offers a groundbreaking approach to recruiting, assessing, and selecting people with both tremendous skills but, more importantly, an attitude that aligns with the organization’s culture.
The Checklist Manifesto
First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals, classrooms, and in the Job Search Management program of SpeedUpMyJobSearch.com! By ensuring the right things get done, the right order, consistently, excellence will follow.
Think and Grow Rich
Originally published in 1937, and selling more than 60 million copies worldwide, Hill’s Think and Grow Rich studied the work and lives of some of the most successful people of the Industrial Era including Ford, Wrigley, Eastman, Rockefeller, and Edison, among others, and identified the characteristics of what launched these individuals into greatness.
The Science of Personal Achievement
The bestselling author of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill proved that the essence of success lies within 17 principles that serve as an infallible formula for achievement. They are the foundation that empowers you to convert adversity into advantage. This audio program teaches you how to achieve a level of mental self-mastery that will enable you to manage your time effectively and open any virtually door.
How to Be a Power Connector
Create a personal “power grid” of influence to spark professional and personal success. In How to Be a Power Connector, super-networker Judy Robinett argues that strategic relationship planning should be your top priority.
The Achievement Habit
Learn the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible. Achievement can be learned. It’s a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you’ll be able to meet life’s challenges and fulfill your goals.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni offers a leadership fable that reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why even the best teams often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
The Ideal Team Player
In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player.
One Question
If you could sit down with the people you most admire and ask just one question, what would you ask? One Question invites you to peer over the shoulder of a master interviewer with access to today’s best and brightest as he delivers carefully crafted questions and collects answers guaranteed to surprise, challenge, and inspire.
Actionable Gamification
Gamification Pioneer Yu-kai Chou takes readers on a journey to learn his sixteen years of obsessive research in creating the Octalysis Framework, and how to apply it to help make your job search fun instead of a chore. When it’s fun, the process gets easier and your results get better. Click the image to learn more.
The First 60 Seconds
In the first 60 seconds, interviewers can decide whether you will be moved to the top of the list, or dropped from consideration! In a crowded job market, The First 60 Seconds is an innovative book that shows job seekers how best to impress in that crucial first minute and gives strategies to constantly differentiate themselves from the competition.
Nudge
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions. Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones.
Superconnector
Abandon the networking-for-networking’s-sake mentality in favor of a more powerful and effective approach to creating and enhancing connections.
Find a Way
When Merril Hoge talked about his dream of playing in the NFL, he was constantly told it was impossible. As a 12-year-old he wrote, ‘Find a Way’ on his wall and it become a life-long mantra that helped him cope with the near loss of his hand as a boy, the untimely death of his mother, defeating cancer, and ultimately achieve his dream of playing in the NFL.
Atomic Habits
The former Google executive, editorial director of Twitter and self-described introvert offers networking advice for anyone who has ever cancelled a coffee date due to social anxiety—about how to nurture a vibrant circle of reliable contacts without leaving your comfort zone.
Take the Work Out of Networking
The former Google executive, editorial director of Twitter and self-described introvert offers networking advice for anyone who has ever cancelled a coffee date due to social anxiety—about how to nurture a vibrant circle of reliable contacts without leaving your comfort zone.
What Color Is Your Parachute?
The Parachute series has been a staple of business strategy and career change for many, many years. We were very proud to call Richard Bolles of friend of Job Talk. Published in 22 languages and 26 countries, and with over 10 million copies sold, What Color is Your Parachute? has helped millions discover their unique gifts, skills, and interests and land a job–even in hard times.
Job-Hunting Online
Job-Hunting Online, A Companion to What Color Is Your Parachute? by Mark Emery Bolles & Richard Nelson Bolles. Have you seen our Online Resources page? Picture that page, multiplied by 188! (the number of pages in the book) Some of…
Knock’Em Dead
This is one of the most thorough job search resources available, top to bottom. This is an updated version of the 2011 edition in which Martin reached out to a select group of career search experts, myself included, and featured our best job search strategies collaboratively. I feel that was an especially smart approach, and gave his Ultimate Job Search Guide series of Knock’em Dead books an edge over all the others.
Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door
Harvey Mackay is known mostly for his strategic books on how to be successful in business. However, in this book he takes his strategic approach to success and applies it to the job search. He is one of the ultimate success stories, and has done some incredible things on a huge scale. To give you an idea of the level this guy is on, check out the list of his friends who endorse the book: Larry King, Shaquille O’Neal, and Lou Holtz. He shows you how to present your product (you) well enough to land that big account (a job).
A Taste for Work
A Taste for Work, Your Menu for Career Success by Teri Clancy, Joy Maguire-Dooley, and Sally Morrison This book is a collaboration of 3 job search experts who walk you through the job search process from start to finish, with…
Rejection Proof
Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang To de-sensitize himself from rejection, Jia Jiang set out to be rejected for 100 straight days. He not only learned how to handle it better, he learned how to ASK better! When he wasn’t afraid,…
The 2-Hour Job Search
2-Hour Job Search, Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster by Steve Dalton A job-search manual that gives career seekers a systematic, tech-savvy formula to efficiently and effectively target potential employers and secure the essential first interview. A job-search manual that…
Drive
Drive, The Surprising Truth About Motivating Ourselves by Daniel H. Pink Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach, but that’s a mistake. The secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at…
