New Releases

ORGANIZATIONS must accelerate strategic results to thrive, and they need you in the driver’s seat. How do you achieve this, even when firefighting is the norm? With three decades helping organizations deliver change, 2021 World PMO Influencer Laura Barnard unveils the system she uses with clients and students to evolve stagnant project and transformation teams into nimble, business-driven delivery engines.

We can’t always control the situation, but we can control how we choose to navigate it. And navigation is particularly important when you’re a pilot. Take it from Rebecca Barkhouse, a professional pilot who has spent nearly two decades not just flying planes, but teaching others how to become accomplished pilots, too. Her own journey to becoming a pilot was filled with unpredictable moments and plenty of situations she couldn’t control.

Disney experiences enthrall millions of guests around the world. How does it all become a reality? Find out in this action-packed narrative journey! Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the top secret, high-tech corridors of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) to the highest levels of The Walt Disney Company.

It’s a Win-When offers readers a practical guide to making thoughtful, value-driven decisions that balance immediate satisfaction with long-term success. Drawing on personal experiences and real-life scenarios, this book introduces the Win-When philosophy, a powerful framework for decision-making that ensures every choice you make brings both present and future rewards. Through engaging stories and reflective prompts, It’s a Win-When explores common decision-making pitfalls and shows readers how to avoid emotional impulses, short-term thinking, and external pressures that lead to regret...

In shared spaces, collective consciousness affects our behavior. Body language communicates unspoken truths, revealing hidden emotions. By practicing self-awareness, you’ll learn how to anticipate a reaction aiding in decision-making as the subconscious is often left on autopilot as our inner truth resides in moments.

David DeSteno's Emotional Success is an exploration of harnessing the practical power of using positive emotion to impact decision making. Current models promote suppressing emotion and using willpower as a means of self-control which, DeSteno argues, is not viable in the long term. With comparisons to well-known studies and a balance of hard research and popular culture examples, Emotional Success calls for a paradigm shift in the way in which we talk about the effect of responding emotionally.

Using cutting-edge research, world-leading psychologist David DeSteno shows you how positive emotions are far more powerful than willpower and self-denial in achieving your goals. Willpower is quickly depleted, but our prosocial emotions become stronger the more we use them. Even better, they’re contagious.