From Seth Godin, one of the world's most influential business thinkers and bestselling author of This is Marketing, comes a groundbreaking guide to creating meaningful change in a complex world.

Challenging common myths about creativity being an innate gift reserved for a select few, this episode empowers listeners with scientific insights and practical strategies to unlock their creative potential.

Whether you're an individual looking to future-proof your career, a parent aiming to raise future-proof children, or a business leader eager to steer your organization through technological disruption, IRREPLACEABLE offers a universal and comprehensive framework.

Learn proven techniques and daily exercises to help you develop a commanding voice and presence and improve vocal quality, mental acuity, body language, and self-esteem to dramatically increase your influence.

I uncover the 8 most common fears that prevent us from reaching our full potential, how each one shows up in real life, what kind of impact it has, and, most importantly, how to tackle them head-on with practical action steps.

The new edition of this internationally acclaimed guide to remote and hybrid leadership comes with an updated and enriched framework for the modern workplace. It introduces new principles and retains proven strategies for effective leadership across distances.

Life's Great Question will show you how to make your work and life more meaningful, and greatly boost your wellbeing.

With practical tips, relatable stories, and vibrant examples, Mastering the Moment employs Tim Pollard's engaging style, making the guidance as absorbing to read as it is to adopt.

Future Proofing You is perfect for anyone who is tired of jobs with no security (amen!), hopes to truly realize their professional and personal potential (where do I sign up?), and is looking for a way to build a better life for them and their family (yes, please!). 

The solution to overthinking isn't to stop thinking but to change the soundtrack to something better - more positive, more encouraging, and ultimately, more productive. Once we learn how to choose our soundtracks, thoughts become our best friend, propelling us toward our goals.

These four AI tools are ones I use all the time. In my business, I couldn't function without them. In this episode, I share what I use them for, as well as how I use them. Plus, I share a special surprise at the end.

In this episode I talk about the practice of interleaving books, the benefits to you when you intentionally reading more than one book at a time.

This time around, I'm joined by someone I've known for over 40 years. We discuss his experience in the technology sector and, specifically, how he's using AI to get ahead and stay ahead in the workplace despite certain disabilities.

Explore proven strategies and mindsets from experts like Richard Feynman, Scott H. Young, and Carol Dweck to help you master any skill and unlock your full potential.

In honor of our 11th anniversary, I thought it would be fitting to look back at 11 of the most influential books I've read since starting this journey. Each of these books has left a lasting impact on me and, I hope, on you too.

From CEOs communicating with board members to managers negotiating salary increases and entrepreneurs looking to raise capital, it's impossible to overstate the role of persuasion in making your personal and professional goals a reality. The ability to convince others―respectfully and effectively―is one of the most important skills you can master, whatever your profession.

The renowned global though leader and Google's first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see.

Whether you’re a student studying for an exam, an employee facing a new skill at work, or just want to get better at something you’re interested in, Scott's insights will help you do it better.

Every business person who is even remotely interested in prioritization should read Managing Priorities. Whatever you need to prioritize—tasks, goals, OKRs, projects—this book is for you.

48 Days to the Work You Love is packed with modern insight and timeless wisdom and provides a step-by-step process for creating a Life Plan and translating it into meaningful, satisfying daily work.

Managing priorities is more than just making a to-do list. It’s about understanding what truly matters, making strategic decisions, and effectively allocating your time and resources.

The book The Expertise Economy dares you to let go of outdated and traditional ways of closing the skills gap, and challenges CEOs and business leaders to embrace the urgency of re-skilling and upskilling the workforce.

We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how great ideas are born. Innovation is not an event, a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon. It's a result of mastering idea flow, a practice that elevates everything else you do.

We don’t need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. Bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this system, using seven powerful time-management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived.

Today’s AI systems are miracles of modern engineering, but no, humans do not have to fear robots seizing control or taking over all our jobs. In this exploration of the fascinating and ever-changing landscape of artificial intelligence, Dr. Shwartz explains how AI works in simple terms.

By using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a “personal knowledge garden" where your thinking will blossom.

Marcus shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.

MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time.

In Impact Players, New York Times bestselling author and researcher Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level.

This proven, step-by-step guide will help you design habits and make them stick through positive emotion and celebrating small successes. Whether you want to lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or be more productive each day, Tiny Habits makes it easy to achieve—by starting small.

A can't-miss conversation with the son of the legendary author of the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 30th Anniversary Edition.

With this book as your guide, you'll learn to dance with your fear. To take the risks worth taking. And to embrace the empathy required to make work that contributes with authenticity and joy.

A paradigm-shifting book looking at the negative impact of silence and how we can begin to dismantle it in order to use our voices at home and at work.

Today, we revisit a conversation I had with Michael Hyatt at the start of the pandemic about vision-driven leadership.

Most careers unfold accidentally, haphazardly, and with too much serendipity. That means lost traction, lost years, and lost opportunities. But your career doesn't have to be that way! Career on Course unpacks the 10 steps that will take your career from accidental to intentional.

I break down the five most important traits for a Servant Leader to possess: empathy, listening, healing, awareness, and persuasion.

Malissa Clark shows you how to escape the trap of putting work at the center of everything and thus losing your well-being—or your company's performance—in the process.

We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there's another way? Armed with Ali's insights, you won't just accomplish it all. You'll feel happier and more fulfilled along the way.

The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations.

Bravery is not reserved for the chosen few; it's a skill and a daily practice that can be developed. The Brave Habit provides a practical framework for courageous leadership and exceptional work.

I pose five questions you should ponder if you want to build a lasting legacy. I also include three exercises you can do right now to get started on the right foot.

Dan has pancreatic cancer and has been given a few months to live. I share his impact on my life and that of a few others' lives.

I've scoured the book release lists so that you don't have to, and I've selected the 9 books you need to pay attention to this year.

We are in the midst of an unprecedented degree of technology-driven change at the same time that society faces challenges more complex than our organizations and we as individuals have been prepared to handle.

Perfect for managers, executives, and other business leaders, Leading with Questions will earn a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in better engaging with and leading others.

Most entrepreneurs start a business seeking freedom but end up in a prison of hundred-hour workweeks isolated from their loved ones. This book is a guide to do entrepreneurship differently—letting go of the hustle and embracing a family-first mindset instead.

In Speak Up or Stay Stuck, forward-thinking change management expert Pam Marlon unpacks a practical framework for implementing organizational change while ensuring your voice is heard.

In Manage like a Mother, Valerie Cockerell shares common-sense principles for anyone seeking to be an effective leader. She explains how raising children, nurturing their development, multitasking as only a mother does, managing conflicts, dealing with teenagers and being a great role model are some of the essential skills that leaders can easily apply to their professional working environments—with proven success.

The life you dream of isn't that far away. But you can't stay where you are. It's time to embark on your journey toward healing. Let Get Past Your Past be your guide along the way.

How you show up in person, over email, and on social media, Aliza says, communicates your personal brand. That brand deserves thoughtful cultivation and crafting as you shape your narrative, build your network, grow your confidence, and plot your future.

For anyone who wants to turn their life around but doesn't know how, the PASTOR method teaches how to harness marketing wisdom to get honest about what we really want from life and craft better beliefs and plans to help us start living life on our own terms.

In A Symphony of Choices, workplace culture and strategy expert Gerald Leonard provides you with the practical tools and real-world examples that will help you build the knowledge and skills you need to thrive in a project-driven world.

From email to sales pitches, from workshops to resumes, Steven Woodruff’s Clarity Fuel Formula is the universal recipe for communications success.

In this revolutionary guide, Mefford and Buckett share crucial leadership strategies to help organizations revamp their work culture, throw out stifling hierarchical leadership models, and embrace a dynamic, results-oriented, and successful self-led team-oriented model instead.

David Dodson explains how to get better at running virtually any kind of organization by breaking down each critical skill into digestible, bite-sized sub-skills, that you can learn quickly and easily.

With this innovative and refreshing framework of balancing learning and performing, individuals and companies can reach their boldest aspirations.

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with essential strategies from a Stanford lecturer, coach, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast.

In this timeless, eye-opening tale of redemption, Bob’s tailspin journey through loss and catastrophic failure invites readers to examine the nature of genuine leadership and embark upon their own story of self-discovery.

For years, Walmart and Amazon operated in separate spheres—one a massive brick-and-mortar retailer, the other an online giant. But in 2016, Walmart aggressively moved into the world of e-commerce, while Amazon made big bets in physical retail. What can we learn from them? Turns out, a lot.

Your Future Self describes the mental mistakes we make in thinking about the future and gives us practical advice for imagining our best future so we can make that vision a reality.

In The Learn-It-All Leader, Learnit CEO Damon Lembi shares the leadership mindset you need to make better decisions, take bolder risks, and build stronger teams.

This book shows you how to build the best possible relationship. One conversation. Five questions. Detailed guidance on how to prepare and set the relationship up for success. Key insights on how to maintain the relationship so that it will continue to thrive.

A culmination of weekly inspiration shared with Dan Miller’s inner circle over the past 20 years!

Closing the Confidence Gap will show you how to advance with confidence. You’ll hear deeply personal stories and walk away with practical tools to show you how to claim your role as a confident leader.

After learning from the world's most successful people, you will have a mental toolkit to help you tackle thorny problems, navigate relationships, and use creativity and resilience in times of uncertainty.

Unconformed is a toolkit for preventing and overcoming that "stuck" feeling and exploring the many paths to success, no matter your age or life stage. With many stories about successful people from diverse backgrounds, this book offers a fresh look at learning and working.

Discover how to develop a clear, concise understanding of how your team’s culture affects its performance. Follow this simple, practical blueprint to cultivate a Best Team Ever environment and set your team on a path to success.

The Illusion of Choice identifies the 16 1/2 most important psychological quirks that everyone in business needs to bear aware of today—and shows how any business can take advantage of these quicks to win customers, retains customers and sell more.

In Connectable, you’ll learn how tackling the issue of worker loneliness head on can transform an isolated workforce into one that’s happier, more engaged, and more productive.

Whether you are at the start of your leadership journey or have held a senior leadership role for years, Meta-Leadership will arm you with knowledge and insights to achieve the highest results from yourself and your team.

The Case for Good Jobs provides leaders with the blueprint they need to choose excellence by providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth both for their employees and their organization.

Are you tired of chasing a dream you aren’t even sure you want anymore? Or have you accomplished your dream only to discover it’s not as fulfilling as you thought it would be? It’s time to get excited about your life again.

Rewired provides scientifically supported solutions for everyone who wants to restore their tech-life balance.

In The Song of Significance, Seth Godin provides a roadmap for the business leaders who are willing to create a meaningful future while bravely rejecting the outmoded management models that are no longer serving us. As Godin writes, “Choosing significance is to dance with fear, and choosing fear requires belief that what we’re doing matters.”

If you're a leader, entrepreneur, executive, or anyone who wants to squeeze more time, money, and joy from every day, Choosing Greatness is a must-have book that's brimming with tools and strategies!

A groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even business models that prevent us from achieving our full potential.

With proven tools, techniques, and insights, Bragging Rights will help you understand and tell the world about your true superpowers, so you can access new opportunities and, along the way, elevate others.

After twenty years of selling art as well as coaching other artists, Miriam Schulman knows that now is the time to leave the rat race behind and pursue your highest dreams. It's time to gamble on yourself.

Language change is natural, built into the language system itself, and we wouldn’t be who we are without it. Like, Literally, Dude celebrates the dynamic, ongoing, and empowering evolution of language, and it will speak to anyone who talks, or listens, inspiring them to communicate dynamically and effectively in their daily lives.

How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it.

The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. As leadership expert and self-proclaimed anxious achiever Morra Aarons-Mele argues, anxiety is built into the very nature of leadership. It can—and should—be harnessed into a force for good.

Upskill, Reskill, Thrive illustrates how to create and sustain learning and work environments that honor and empower individuals in ways that promote knowledge generation and sharing.

You don’t need a long book published by a traditional publisher to get what you need. You need to get short valuable ideas out to your market in a professional way, as quickly as possible. That can be by blogging, writing articles, making videos or by writing a book.

Drawing upon the latest insights from the fields of performance psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, as well as case studies from clients and their own personal experiences, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller explore the power of ideas to shape superior outcomes, not only in business, but in every aspect of life.

Our conversations—at home, at work, or in public—can be sources of pleasure and stepping-stones toward success, or they can cause pain and lead to failure. Chuck Wisner shows how we can form a connection from the very first conversation and keep our discourse positive and productive throughout any endeavor.

This book provides a powerful toolkit and actionable techniques that can lead to extraordinary results. Whether you’re trying to persuade a client, motivate a team, or get a whole organization to see things differently, this book will show you how to leverage the power of magic words.

In The Power of Clarity, Ann Latham exposes the unrecognized confusion and explains how to eliminate it. This fascinating guide to workplace productivity and effectiveness draws upon extensive research and case studies to demonstrate how you can get better results in far less time while also increasing confidence and commitment.

The Unsold Mindset reveals a counterintuitive approach not just to selling but to life. It's a journey toward an entirely new mindset—the greatest sellers on the planet aren't successful because of what they do, they're successful because of what they think.

From attracting customers online and face-to-face to helping secure lifelong relationships, referrals and reorders, by building trust over time, minute by minute; to ensuring profitable sales and customer loyalty, you will learn 212 strategies that when put into practice, will make your sales and success soar.

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset.

In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She also shows how much of what we think we know is wrong.

New and even experienced authors often feel overwhelmed by everything they're told they must do. It can be hard to know where one should be putting their energy. Honorée has a gift for teaching what's important in a way that's easy to understand and remember.

In just over four years since its release, it has officially sold more than 10MM copies! In this episode, I share an audio summary of Atomic Habits by James Clear.

So many entrepreneurs either run a profitable business but hate their work or run a business they love, with a message they’re proud of, without making any money. There’s a better way to build a business, one that helps you wake up every day excited and full of purpose and make a profit.

As I take a look ahead, these are the six books I'm most excited about that are coming out in the first half of 2023.

Much of my reading outside the reading I do for the podcast was centered around notes, knowledge retention, and learning. These are my favorites I read in 2022, but not necessarily released in 2022.

The Disconnect Principle provides the missing link that will change the way you think about feedback, accountability, and performance management forever. This is the approach that will allow you to be the empathic and effective manager, employee, or peer that you would like to be.

Neal and Carly Samudre believe that joy is what’s missing from our ability to make lasting change in our lives. Building on biblical insights and the latest findings in positive psychology, Start from Joy outlines an emotionally healthy approach to change―one where joy leads the way.

This week, I share the results of my 2022 Listener-Reader Survey and where the Read to Lead Community is headed.

Learn how to create, live, and sell your own personal brand―even if you hate sales!―with step-by-step help from the First Lady of Sales.

Whether you’re competing for local foot traffic or global downloads, Primal Storytelling will help you forge authentic connections with your audience, improve your brand performance in social media and SEO, and supercharge your content results.

The communication tools Jeff Bezos created are so effective that former Amazonians who worked directly with Bezos adopted them as blueprints to start their own companies. Now, these tools are available to you.

Amplify Your Influence shows you how to leverage a variety of behavioral motivators to achieve positive outcomes and results and frame our ideas in a way that encourages engagement and gets and active response from your followers.

Grubhub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat.

We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how great ideas are born. Innovation is not an event , a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon. It's a result of mastering idea flow, a practice that elevates everything else you do.

After 36 years of testing, research and development, Jeff Blackman's explosive business-growth system that shows you step-by-step how to Peak Your Profits.

How the Future Works offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people.

Originally written as letters from a father to a son, 18 Words to Live By is a practical handbook for life and a heartfelt reminder of what matters most.

The final book from the late legendary leadership expert Stephen R. Covey of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame, offers inspiration and optimism about living your best life.

If you'd like to see the outputs that result from your content consumption efforts lead to new connections, well-deserved promotions, and opportunities that were previously out of reach, then you have to learn how to take smart notes.

Join author Vincent Pugliese on a backwards journey that starts with your character and curiosity and ends with your offer, and discover all the opportunities waiting for you when you turn your attention from being a wealth of knowledge and experience towards being a wealth of connection.

In Rogue Waves, Jonathan Brill—a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision-making under uncertainty—shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.

Leaders who align their leadership behaviors to motivate and satisfy the needs of their teams will build cultures that are both engaging and profitable.

Is your appetite for learning far greater than the time you have available to process it? Want a better system for retaining what resonates with you and ultimately expressing it in your own way? Your help is here!

What if the key to future business success lies in a simple and secret marketing approach that presidents use to get elected and startups use to become unicorns? Now you can learn it too!

Entrepreneurship is not a spirit or a gift. It is a process that anyone can learn, and that anyone can use to turn a problem into a solution with impact.

As we reach the peak of the Great Resignation, two veteran executive coaches help today's leaders learn how to retain and inspire their teams through the one thing their research has found works: LEADING with HEART.

Beyond technology, software, social media networks, even advertising and marketing campaigns, the biggest and best tool you'll ever have in your belt is a book with your name on the cover.

Maria Brito illustrates how creativity is merely a series of habits, actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop—regardless of who you are and what you do.

LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies shares exactly what you need to know to optimize your profile according to your goals.

In The Secret Society of Success, Tim Schurrer invites you to reevaluate your definition of success and learn a new, freer way to go about achieving it.

Whether you want to become a millionaire, build wealth faster, or retire early, join the more than one million people worldwide who are already using Noah’s iconic method to transform your life in less than five minutes a day.

To say love is what makes a marriage work, is like saying it takes oxygen to climb a mountain. Yes, oxygen is necessary. But not sufficient.

A 21-day kick-start to stress-free money management.

Reading like a series of one-on-one sessions with one of the world's leading business thinkers, A New Way to Think is an essential guide for any current or aspiring business leader.

From a leading Yale Expert and serial entrepreneur comes a radical, principled, and field-tested approach that identifies what's really at stake in any negotiation and thereby ensures you get your half—so you can focus on growing the pie.

A distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right.

Growth occurs when learning is internalized—when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do to something we are.

We don't need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. In these pages bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this system, using the seven powerful time-management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived.

Are you working harder than ever but struggling to make progress? You can escape the quicksand of busyness, distraction, and complexity...starting today!

Personal accountability is the bedrock upon which all sustained success in life is built. Yet, what if nearly everything we have been taught about accountability is wrong?

Rich. Wealthy. Well-heeled. Moneyed. Affluent. Not bad—but why not get Stacked instead? If you’ve ever dreamed of a basic philosophy of money that’ll help you live bigger, be bolder, and laugh harder, you need this book.

Stephen M. R. Covey has made it his life's work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. In his newest and most transformative book, Trust & Inspire, he makes the compelling argument that even though our world has changed drastically, our style of leadership has not.

World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life.

Do you wake up every day feeling like you're going through the motions, that the hundreds of choices you make have almost no impact on the people around you? Simone Knego says you really only need to change the way you see yourself and the world around you will change.

In Dancing with Wisdom, Dr. Sunil Raheja shows you how to stop going through the motions and become the fully alive human being you were always intended to be.

In this conversation with Self-Publishing School's Chandler Bolt, he walks us through a proven path to taking your book to bestseller status.

VisuaLeadership will forever change the way you think and communicate by showing how you can quickly and easily leverage the power of visual imagery, mental models, metaphor, analogy, storytelling, and humor to help you take your game to a whole new level.

Could you be the bottleneck that is preventing your business from the growth you'd hoped for? Today's guest has just the help you need to get over the hump to the next level.

If the American dream of formal education, work, buying a house, working some more, and trying to raise a family, isn't leading you where you want to go, then this is for you!

Dan's new book outlines a fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers, and anyone who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences.

Filled with simple, science-backed practices and Nataly's contagious energy, The Awesome Human Project will teach you how to create more supportive relationships with yourself, with your thoughts and emotions, and with other people, so you can become the awesome human you're meant to be.

In Crucible Leadership, Warwick Fairfax explains what he learned about himself from a devastating failure – who he was and who he was not, what his unique design, purpose, passions, and vision really were.

The Director of West Point’s influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.

If you or someone you know suffers from bouts of anxiety, or from workaholism, or both, this conversation is one you do not want to miss.

With years of experience helping organizations reimagine their identities, communication, and effectiveness to create a more productive workplace, Elizabeth Knox details her experience and data-driven strategies to help readers evaluate and discover a pace that allows both their organization and employees to succeed.

The Fearless Facilitator consolidates twenty years of experience and hard-learned lessons into a summary of powerful techniques you can deploy now.

CEO and respected advisor Robert L. Dilenschneider examines the trajectories of iconic figures to reveal the choices that enabled them to fulfill their potential.

Gail Rudolph helps readers discover how to harness their innate interpersonal power, revealing the cues and signals that help us respond effectively.

This book taps into the same tips and techniques honed by top-tier athletes, such as how to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble, to become a champion at work and the ultimate team player at home.

Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Wiseman explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact.

Want to take your networking to another level? Apply the rules of personal dating to cultivate valuable business relationships like never before!

Use this book as a roadmap for strengthening the people in your organization and building a positive coaching culture.

Learn to let go of the paralyzing need to be perfect. Find out how to navigate your fears of failure. And stop holding onto the industrial mindset that logging hours boosts productivity.

In Self-Publish & Succeed, trusted best-selling author and entrepreneur Julie Broad shows you that writing a successful nonfiction book starts long before you write your first chapter. To write a book that boosts your brand, generates a profit, and makes you an influencer in your industry, you need the 'no boring books' way.

Siegel shows how to create lasting profits and growth in the smartest way possible: by creating a solid partnership between digital innovation and traditional business operations―in other words, by marrying brains and brawn.

Grinding it out is grinding us up. Work should support life, not the other way around. The irony is the less we work, the more effective we become. In The 4 Week Vacation, you will discover strategies to build a thriving life and business. Get ready to take your life back!

In You Can Change Other People, the world's number-one executive coach, Peter Bregman, and Howie Jacobson, PhD, share the Four Steps to help the people around you make positive change - even if they've been stuck for years.

How engaged are your people? What does their performance productivity look like? Sadly, 67% of those surveyed said they were “not engaged” and 18% said they were “actively disengaged!”

Decide what matters. Stop doing what doesn't matter. Create a schedule that reflects what matters. Protect what matters. Be present for what matters.

In The Magnetic Leader, discover 18 Essential Actions you can practice daily to upgrade your influence and impact. People will follow your lead, becomes more confident, draw out the best in each other, enjoy healthy relationships, and make a difference!

Dorie Clark shares unique principles and frameworks anyone can apply to their situation, as well as stories from her own career and other professionals' experiences.

Survive and Thrive paves the path for any entrepreneur to start from scratch and build a profitable business in any economy, including this one.

The Earning Advantage is a unique resource for employees to earn more money while promoting their company's growth.

In Listen Like You Mean It, Ximena offers an essential listening guide for our times, revealing tried-and-true strategies honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews with marriage counselors, podcast hosts, life coaches, journalists, filmmakers, and other listening experts.

If you already know that reading is critical for success, Read to Lead (the book) will help you get more out of the books you read. If you aren’t a reader (yet) it will help explain why you should be, and give you tips on how to jump into it painlessly.

Although we don't have to worry about evil robots rising to power and turning us into pets, artificial intelligence is here to stay, and we must learn to separate fact from fiction and embrace how this amazing technology enhances our world.

Stephen M. R. Covey shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and all stakeholders—is the single most critical component of a successful leader and organization.

Ted Fleming, head of talent development for CVS, shares simple, powerful advice for finding the right job or growing in an existing role.

Driven by dramatic, real-world examples from his classroom, today's headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrong-doing, The Conscience Code shows how to create value-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.

In Pathway to Purpose, service excellence expert Jamey Lutz unveils time-tested strategies that have helped transform once good companies into truly exceptional ones.

Close your eyes. Do you see, feel, and sense a vision of yourself that does not align with your current life? If so, that means it's time to grow; it's time to change.

It’s no secret that more people than ever before are building thriving businesses around their personal brands. But why do some create six- or even seven-figure businesses while so many others strive to make a consistent income? Find out in this conversation with my good friend Mike Kim.

Many industries worldwide are stuck as they struggle to survive and grow. Stuck businesses do not react, pivot, and redirect, which can be catastrophic. In Unstuck, Craig Lemasters shares techniques he has used in a lifetime of helping Fortune 500 companies fill their knowledge gaps.

You will learn strategies to increase alignment, overcome attrition, and get absolutely clear on executing your top priorities.

Talent Transformation will help you engage your workforce, set meaningful goals, and make decisions based on data and logic instead of guesswork. It will help you lead with confidence, embrace uncertainty with an unrivaled degree of flexibility and agility, and achieve long-term success.

This book tackles the most important issues presented by long-distance teamwork. Learn the mindset, skillset, and habits you need to be a successful, engaged, and valued long-distance contributor.

This book features fifty original, powerful stories that will shape the lives of its readers, helping them to become better leaders and people.

There’s no need to remain stuck thinking unhelpful thoughts. Learn how you can fill your mind with encouraging, life-enriching truths through a gospel-saturated, 31-day challenge that can help you replace a destructive mindset with a positive, empowering, and godly one.

Professional success is your control, much more than you realize. Ordinary people will accomplish extraordinary feats when their energy is properly channeled.

Through the ALIEN method, you will learn how to develop out-of-this-world ideas. ALIEN Thinking, the book, can help anyone find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems.

This book is perfect for anyone who is tired of jobs with no security, hopes to truly realize their professional and personal potential, and is looking for a way to build a better life for them and their family.

In Daring to Fight, Victoria Mininger candidly shares her painful battle with clinical depression and lays out practical steps she used to fight it every day.

In Worth Doing Wrong, Malham provides strategies for creating a culture that will help you smash business goals, achieve win-win relationships with your clients, generate buzz in your community, and cultivate a workplace that you and your employees will love.

Megan Hyatt Miller and Michael Hyatt's new book shares their proven, practical plan to help you win at work and succeed at life.

If you want to tap into the surprising power of overthinking and give your dreams more time and creativity, learn how to DJ the soundtracks that define you. If you can worry, you can wonder. If you can doubt, you can dominate. If you can spin, you can soar.

In The Power of a Graceful Leader, Alexsys Thompson shares how to begin integrating who you are and how you lead.

Based on thousands of interviews from John Lee Dumas’ highly acclaimed podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, this revolutionary 17-step roadmap provides a proven path for entrepreneurs like you to achieve the financial, location, and lifestyle freedom you are capable of. Let The Common Path to Uncommon Success show you how.

Mark's book The Career Toolkit will help you master networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, and career planning. It's a multivitamin for your career.

If you're a business owner, entrepreneur, executive, artist, activist, or thinker who can honestly say that you are truly trying to make the world a better place, it is your moral imperative to learn how to harness raw emotion and irrational thinking to your benefit.

A longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist and mother compares two generations of women - boomers and GenXers - to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.

Your family business faces a 70% of not making it to the next generation. The good news is you can change those odds, and Mitzi Perdue's book can give you the tools to do it.

In Resilient By Nature, Reggie Williams provides an intimate account of his remarkable journey while also sharing his unique perspectives on a wide variety of topics.

A timely, must-have guide to understanding and overcoming bias in the workplace, from the experts at FranklinCovey.

Mastering the Art of Public Speaking will guide you to rediscover your natural gift for communication while strengthening your confidence and your presence.

Rewards like money, perks, and praise lead to short-term wins but don’t really do much to ward off the pull of habit and complacency. So, what’s the secret to unleashing our best work? And how can we use it to achieve lasting results with our teams and in our lives? The Motivation Code shows the way.

Through 130 interviews with insiders from Mark Zuckerberg to hourly workers, Alex Kantrowitz shows how the tech titans operate cultures of invention.

You are about to see stories everywhere, YOU BEAUTIFUL NERD.

Jonathan Milligan gives you a simple four-step framework to rise above the noise and build a real business.

Brian Tracy's life-changing global bestseller Eat That Frog! has now been adapted to the specific needs of students.

In 35 years as CEO of Dunkin' Donuts, Robert Rosenberg grew the company from $10 million in sales to over $2 billion, with more than 3,000 outlets.

Unapologetically Ambitious invites us to move beyond the solely supportive roles others expect us to fill, to learn how to carefully tread the thin line between assertive and aggressive, and to give ourselves permission to strive for the top. Make no apologies for the height of your ambitions.

Here you'll find sixteen well-researched and carefully curated case studies of world leaders that reveal powerful lessons that today's leaders can apply to their own professional lives.

Leadership Endurance is for any leader who feels called to a lifetime of service in the leader's chair.

In Screen Kids Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the tools you need to make positive changes. Plus, you’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention.

Apply just one of the book's 25 lenses and you will quickly discover better solutions. Apply all of them and you will be able to solve any problem - in business and in life.

With this book as your guide, you'll learn to dance with your fear, to take the risks worth taking, and to embrace the empathy required to make work that contributes with authenticity and joy.

The Self-Evolved Leader is a practical guide to help C-suite executives and leaders at all levels resist the pull of the urgent so they can focus on the medium- and long-term direction of their team, the development of their people, and the successful delivery of shared goals.

Unhackable is the 30-day elixir for creating flawless ideas, leveraging superhuman focus, and achieving optimal human performance through flow.

Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policy makers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-read guide for saving democratic capitalism.

You were born with a destiny. Your job is to discover it. Once you begin to practice the art and science of asking to discover your destiny and start to move toward it, you can manifest innumerable blessings for yourself and others.

Author, speaker, and psychologist Dr. Michelle Deering shows you how to clarify issues, connect, and communicate better with your mother or daughter or anyone.

In this 20th anniversary edition of Dan's bestseller, you will find everything you need to move you toward finding - or creating - work you love in just 48 days.

Change (the) Management draws on Al Comeaux's decades of experience in-seat as a change champion and senior executive at well-known companies, as well as decades of research on the subject of organizational change.

The Innovation Stack is an irreverent first-person look inside the world of entrepreneurship, and an inspiring business narrative that's much bigger than the story of Square.

Stop giving Comparison power. Take control of your life, starting now!

Shasta Nelson teaches you how to develop healthy and appropriate friendships at work that can benefit both you and your organization.

In Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts, Michael explains what drug addicts do to recover and provides a step-by-step program you can use to break free from your mask addiction to thrive in both work and life.

In Knockout Networking, Michael Goldberg provides you with the same lessons he's shared with industry titans, helping anyone become an expert at prospecting while building and maintaining client relationships.

How's the Culture in Your Kingdom? introduces relevant examples, compelling stories, and common-sense concepts that prepare leaders to lead their own kingdom.

In Behind the Bench, journalist Craig Custance sits down for film sessions and candid conversations with some of the hockey world's most notable modern luminaries.

The Energy Clock shows you how to adjust your mindset and accomplish more meaningful work with fewer distractions.

Cracking the Leadership Code is designed to shorten your leadership learning curve and accelerate your leadership growth.

The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur is a guide for creating a deeper relationship with the entrepreneurial journey.

Mark Miller shares proven practices to release the untapped potential in your people, create strong competitive advantage, and win not just on game day but every day.

Whether you're starting a new business, launching a new product line, or looking to refresh a brand for a new generation of customers, Obsessed shows you why the old rules of brand-building no longer apply, and what really works for today's customers.

Based on twenty years of research and Fogg's experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation.

One of the nation's premier talent agents and career advisors shows you how to catapult your career and your life forward with three key communication strategies―Authority, Warmth, and Energy.

In Fix This Next, Mike shows you how to utilize his system, repeating it every time your company plateaus or meets a new challenge. It will move your business forward decisively fast.

In Habits of a Champion, Coach Dana Cavalea shares 15 lessons about what it takes to become a champion. He shares stories and insights from some of the world's top performers in sports, life, and business.

When entrepreneur Sherry Deutschmann first decided to start a business, she knew she wanted to build something totally different. In Lunch with Lucy, Sherry tells the story of the creation of that company, LetterLogic, and how she turned it into a $40-million company by putting employees first - even ahead of customers and shareholders.

Jeff chats with Stephen M. R. Covey, son of the late Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century!

Everyone is busy. And it's killing us all. But it doesn't have to be this way! If you're ready to do less, get more done, and enjoy life, it's time to get un-busy!

Leading change at your organization can be a daunting proposition while you face mounting pressure for growth. As a senior leader, what should be an exciting time for your organization becomes a challenge, leading to a fear of change and the belief that change is hard. Pam Marmon shares a refreshing and radical truth: With the proper process, change is not hard.

Your business may never appear on the TV show, but following the principles in this book will ensure you avoid the fatal mistakes entrepreneurs often make in the real world.

With plenty of inspiring stories and actionable steps you can take - starting now - Kate Crocco exposes the twelve limiting beliefs that are holding you back from your true potential.

In Experimentation Works, Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke shows what constitutes best experimentation practice, illustrates how that works at leading companies, and answers some fundamental questions.

With The Forever Transaction, you have everything you need to build durable, long-term relationships with every customer, and leverage them for ultimate business success - today, tomorrow, and forever.

The Vision-Driven Leader guides you through a series of 10 questions that not only serve as a diagnostic tool, but also shed light on the vision-crafting and vision-casting process.

You’ve Got This! is a must-read for everyone, from seasoned leaders, to those embarking on their adult lives, and anyone in between who just needs encouragement to rise to take that leap

Adrian and Chester introduce eight simple ways managers can show employees they are valued. They supplement their insights and advice with stories of how many of today’s most successful leaders effectively incorporated gratitude into their leadership styles.

Burnout is now classified as a legitimate medical diagnosis. Do Nothing offers an understanding of how we've arrived at this point and how to break the cycle.

Filled with stories and advice distilled from years of experience applying the Complexity Formula across a broad range of sectors, David Benjamin and David Komlos have delivered the defining handbook for current and future leaders.

Bruce Daisley draws on both his experience at companies like Twitter, Google, and YouTube and his relationships with experts in psychology, economics, and behavioral science to help bring back joy to our burned out, unproductive work culture.

In this conversation, you will learn the five-step roadmap to starting and scaling a speaking business from the ground up.

In We, Dr. George presents the value of embracing a mindset of connectedness, where the people we encounter represent the source of a fulfilling life.

Tom Rath's new book, Life's Great Question, will show you how to make your work and life more meaningful, and greatly boost your wellbeing.

You don't have to quit your job to live a balanced life, reskill, unlock new opportunities, or start that side hustle you can't stop thinking about.

Poor decision making can devastate an enterprise. In Never Go With Your Gut, learn how leaders like you can avoid terrible advice, cognitive biases, and bad judgment to save your business and bottom line.

In Ignore Your Customers (and They'll Go Away), Micah reveals the secrets of how you can transform your own customer service and culture.

Radical Relevance will help you cut through the daily barrage of messages your prospects experience, to reach the right people at the right time with the right message.

This highly-anticipated follow-up to Contagious Culture shows aspiring leaders how to embody the qualities they wish to cultivate in their organizations.

Master Your Code combines ancient wisdom and modern science to produce an essential guidebook for what we all want - a life of joy, fulfillment, and happiness.

In The Strategy Mindset 2.0, Dr. Chuck Bamford shows you how several popular strategy myths can actually stunt your company's growth.

In Debt-Free Degree, Anthony teaches you how to pay for college without student loans - whether you've started saving or not.

Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring companies. They have the resilience to thrive in an ever-changing world, while their competitors fall by the wayside. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead the rest of into the future.

Mastering the Moment employs Tim Pollard's engaging style, making the guidance as absorbing to read as it is to adopt.

The Problem Isn’t Their Paycheck guides you through the changes you need to make in your business to attract (and retain) the 12% of employees who bring their all - and maps out the financial reward that comes with retaining employees.

Amanda Slavin unveils the tools to measure and grow your brand's engagement, forge a deeper, more personal connection with customers, and unite your employees around a shared mission.

In We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee outlines strategies that have made her a better conversationalist and offers actionable steps anyone can take to improve their communication skills.

Tom and Ariana guide current and aspiring entrepreneurs through the major aspects of making it happen with a simple step-by-step process.

Networking can feel phony, awkward, and intimidating - but it doesn't have to. Here you'll find a more authentic way to make connections.

In The High Achiever's Guide, Maki Moussavi shares her best tools and processes to determine what fulfillment means to you so you can thrive with empowered confidence.

Technology and Risk expert Steve Anderson has analyzed and distilled Bezos' shareholder letters to reveal the key 14 Growth Principles that unlock the lessons, mindset, and steps Bezos has used to make Amazon the massive success it is today.

Trapped in a job or business that's "just not you"? Marianne Cantwell's straight-talking bestseller will help you break out of the career cage and Be a Free Range Human.

The 10 Laws of Trust is the playbook for breaking through operational silos and CYA mentality that plague so many organizations today.

What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"?

When it comes to running a business, the most important decisions a leader makes are not about products or locations--they're about people. Now Dee Ann Turner is ready to share her secrets on how to build, sustain, and grow an organizational culture that attracts world-class talent and consistently delights customers, no matter what your industry.

Coming right off the heels of George Lucas and the bestselling Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones is quickly developing a reputation as a master biographer of the creative geniuses of our time.

You may not realize it, but we were all given a gift that we should be sharing with the world. The experiences you have accumulated throughout your life can turn you into a potential entrepreneur, says Travis Rosser.

John R. Brandt offers leaders an actionable Anti-Nincompoopery Plan based on retaining three deceptively simple, research-validated strategies: innovation, talent, and process.

Online marketing's self-described crash-test dummy is back for his third visit, this time to discuss his brand new book on how to create Superfans.

In Management Mess to Leadership Success, you'll find 30 leadership challenges, honed by FranklinCovey through years of research that illustrate how to rise when you fall and how to survive and even thrive as an unfiltered leader.

Leading projects thinker Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez looks at how some leading companies, governments, schools, and universities have already embraced projects as the way to deliver on their strategy and ambitions.

In Think Like Amazon, former Amazon executive John Rossman, who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace, gives business leaders the ultimate playbook on how to "think like Amazon" and succeed in the digital age, with an inside look at the authentic beliefs, leadership principles, and techniques used to build and manage the dynamic business we all admire, if not fear, today.

Traditional full-time employment is disappearing. Increasingly, in its place are short-term assignments, contract work, and freelance jobs - the gig economy. Are you ready?

As I take some time away with family, I've prepared this encore episode especially for you. It originally published as Episode 200 of Read to Lead, which itself takes a look back of five special interviews. Enjoy!

In this episode, I share the insights and ideas I gleaned from reading Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt. It's one of the most practical books I've read in quite some time.

Empathy is not about being nice. It's not about pity or sympathy, either. It's about having a deep understanding of your consumers, your colleagues, and yourself.

If you're ready to get unstuck, love your work, and make the dream happen, entrepreneur and business coach Brian Dixon has a message for you: Start With Your People.

Karen Brown shares 7 keys to greater success in your personal and professional life by accessing the power of the unconscious mind through scientifically-proven techniques and patterns.

Taking control of your time and life doesn't have to be complicated. If you're serious about squashing stress and taking control, read Accomplish It.

Same Side Selling will help you to escape the competitive, adversarial dynamic that gives salespeople a bad name.

Learn how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done.

Moe Carrick offers a fresh, honest, and direct roadmap for leaders everywhere who seek to make their workplace fit for human life. And, she offers advice for workers and encourages them to be their authentic selves.

Whether you realize it or not, you have a certain energy level that you’ve developed on the road. Is your status as good as you think it is or even hope it to be?

Starting a business is hard. Most people fail, but it doesn't have to be that way. It starts with asking WHO instead of WHAT.

Host Jeff Brown argues that too many people are living someone else's life, trudging along in a job they hate. Is that you? Stop, Jeff says. Life is too short!

Laura Gassner Otting teaches you how to ignore the rules that created your limits, align your energies and your actions, and do work that really matters so that you can live your best life.

Life is full of trials, and sometimes you need a warrior spirit to overcome them. In The Elegant Warrior, Heather Hansen shows you how.

In Great Leaders Have No Rules, New York Times bestselling author Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership.

Everyone suffers from mindset issues of one kind or another. If you want to learn how to attack yours head on, then Natalie Eckdahl is here to help.

Safi Bahcall joins Jeff Brown and reveals the surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about the spread of new ideas.

I share the next three steps you need to take if your current job is no longer fulfilling you and you're not sure what to do next.

Mark Schaefer will challenge your view of what it means to be a marketer today and provide a radical new blueprint for business growth.

I share three compelling reasons why now, more than ever, you should consider self-employment, as well as details about my upcoming free online conference.

In One Million Followers, Brendan Kane teaches you how to gain an authentic, dedicated, and diverse online following from scratch.

Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security.

Vocal Leadership provides proven techniques and daily exercises to help you develop a commanding voice and presence, and improve vocal quality, mental acuity, body language, and self-esteem to dramatically increase your influence.

In Cultural Brilliance: The DNA of Organizational Excellence, Claudette Rowley offers organizations a step-by-step guide to intentionally assessing, designing, and integrating cultural change that's iterative, each success building on previous successes.

Motivation expert James Fell teaches readers how to skip the hard part and go directly from intention to committed action.

Learn how to harness and exploit your own potential, experience, skills and knowledge in the new, digital economy, and create a profitable business based around YOU.

Chris Hogan destroys millionaire myths that are keeping everyday people from achieving their financial independence.

Today I share three books that have been life-changing for me and my friends and colleagues. Read these books to start the year, and I believe it'll become your best year yet.

Practicing leadership with a hospitable mindset is the right way - the moral way - to lead people. But when understood properly, hospitable leadership has a radical edge. And, it brings revolutionary results.

Andres Valdes shares the 7 inspirational decisions that helped him overcome failures, setbacks, and life's punches by using self-leadership to turn adversity into an advantage.

The life experiences Thane shares speak to the reality that, more often than not, we will fail. But, in failing there's learning. And in learning there's growth.

The unvarnished tale of a rags-to-riches story that any entrepreneur or restaurant enthusiast will love and learn from.

Clarity Wins is a proven handbook to create competitive advantage in any marketplace. You don't have to spend a million dollars to rise above the noise and grow referrals. You just need to learn how to be clear.

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for getting 1% better every day.

Back to Human is designed to help you discover how the next generation of leaders will create a workplace where teammates feel genuinely connected, engaged, and empowered, without relying on technology.

What if you could stop selling altogether and grow your profits? With The Serving Mindset, you'll learn how to serve, elevate your business success, and feel great about it!

Do you have a vision you want to share with the world — but you feel overwhelmed by the firehose of advice you find online? Then Master Content Strategy from Pamela Wilson is your guidebook.

In this solo episode, I outline what I've learned over the years running my own business, to help me stand out among everyone else and get noticed.

The roadmap to success as a knowledge worker, professional, and expert has changed. This is the guidebook for navigating and thriving in this new world.

Author Steve Trautman offers revolutionary yet practical ideas for every level of an organization so that you can manage talent risk with clear, measurable, and relevant data.

The book Talk Triggers finally gives you the practical framework you need to turn customers into volunteer marketers.

The Expertise Economy shows how the most forward-thinking companies, big and small, are transforming their employees into experts and, ultimately, creating their biggest competitive advantage.

Popular author and lifestyle blogger, Jessica Turner helps working moms live with intentionality, love their families well, practice healthy self-care, and thrive both at work and at home.

We know that overusing technology harms our health and relationships, but how can we rewire our habits for a healthier life? Arlene Pellicane has the answers.

Win the Hour, Win the Day author Kris Ward walks us through her time management for small business strategies and techniques.

What if the competitive model of business is broken? Collaborative Advantage, says Paul Skinner, can be used to drive a greater level of success that is better for you, better for your customers and better for society.

Instead of sacrificing your family, friendships, and freedom to keep your business alive, what if instead your business could run itself, freeing you up to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit?

The Family Board Meeting is a carefully designed, easy-to-follow strategy for creating outstanding quality time with your children.

The steady career path is a thing of the past: disruption is here to stay. You need to be able to keep learning, growing and reinventing yourself to stay valuable in the midst of this change. Superconductors shows you how.

The cofounders of the Remote Leadership Institute, Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel, show leaders how to guide their teams by recalling the foundational principles of leadership.

John and Mark identify seven common stalls most leaders will face, suggesting radical changes in mindset, behaviors, and skills on the way to reinventing themselves as "sophisticated" leaders.

Everything you need to make the leap from the "9 to 5" you hate to earning six-figures doing work you love from anywhere.

With the world moving rapidly towards a freelance model, Freelance to Freedom is not only timely and necessary, but it’s also entertaining, engaging and paints a picture for anyone looking for a life of freedom with money, time and location.

Bursting with bid ideas and enduring lessons, WHEN will transform how you think about your past, your present, and your future.

Creative Freedom dives into how to own your dreams without selling your soul. It's your guide to personal and financial success as a creative entrepreneur.

As the nature of work changes and technology carries things across the globe in a moment, communication skills become more valuable - not less.

Alice's book is a practical guide for any business leader who wants to build, expand or reinvent their company by finding new value in global challenges.

In The Fun Formula, Joel Comm reveals that the best path to success - in work and in life - is to focus on our passions.

Everything you need to create a truly rich life is already in your possession. This book shows you how to make it happen.

Stephen Warley discusses what to do if you're feeling anxious about your work, and how to prepare for the inevitable future changes.

Read this book to learn what they don't teach in business school about becoming a high-impact Chief-level executive.

Discover stories of real people who've faced moments of choice that caused them to dig deep, find their courage, and create a life and career of meaning.

This book is witty and wise and provides insightful guidance and motivation for anyone facing change, seeking career-life balance, or weighing a next step.

Robin's book will help you change your perceptions of your own business so that you can get out of your own way.

When it comes to networking, forget the outdated advice you've already heard. Learn how to make use of the hidden networks you already have.

I've launched a number of mastermind groups over the years. Here's what I've found to be the path to launching yours successfully.

Retirement is changing, and the process you use to make critical decisions about your life and money must too.

Learn how to keep your relationship strong when there's a startup in the family.

Throughout this book, celebrated entrepreneurs share ideas that worked for them. With a fleet of trusted experts by your side, starting a business will be faster, less confusing, and a whole lot more fun.

We have more control over our minds than we think. Learn how to train your brain to create the life - and future - you want.

Learn how achieving success, creating balance, and experiencing fulfillment begin and end with Remember Who You Are.

Rather than rush through another day leaving things un-done and roses un-sniffed, take a beat and a breath and take back your day with The Free-Time Formula.

What I learned from my father's passing was the incredible impact he had on everyone he encountered.

How can you become a Superconnector? Scott and Ryan share instructive anecdotes from a who's who roster of high achievers, revealing how to systematically manage a professional community and maximize its value.

Prepare for an inspiring journey, following an ancient manuscript with powerful lessons that will transform your life.

In this milestone episode, we look back at the last 100 episodes and feature 5 interviews focused on the art of relating, communicating, and effective public speaking.

The complete guide every busy leader needs for creating an amazing team culture.

No matter what creative field you're in, Herding Tigers will give you the confidence and the skills to foster an environment in which clients, management, and employees have a product they can be proud of and a process that works.

H3 Leadership is an application-driven, practical leadership playbook and road map that provides a proven process on how not only to run but finish well in the leadership race.

In Your Best Year Ever, Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals.

Mark Schinnerer takes you into a fresh story and unpacks, through a corporate/agricultural allegory, the success of setting and achieving goals.

Leadership from the Inside Out serves as an integrated growth experience that helps leaders understand how to harness authentic, value-creating influence and elevate impact.

I've read over 50 books this year. And my favorite hasn't even been featured on the podcast, until now. Join me as I share the key insights I gleaned from The Big Leap.

If you're tired being a chronic starter and want to become a consistent finisher, you have two options: You can continue to beat yourself up and try harder, or you can give yourself the gift of done.

Seth Buechley tackles the plaguing question of why ambitious people struggle to find satisfaction and reveals what they can do about it.

Learn why some leader are so effective when the stakes are high while others fall apart. Why some are able to not only survive, but to lead their organizations to new heights even in risky, fast-changing times.

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Clay Scroggins explains what is needed to be a great leader - even when you answer to someone else.

McGinnis details how to invest just 10 percent of your time and resources, and still become a successful entrepreneur without losing a steady paycheck.

Shayne Hughes shows you how, as leaders, to take your ego out of the equation in order to watch your company thrive.

Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer in a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about how you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.

Alan Alda tells the story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.

The 12 Week Year is a how-to book for both individuals and organizations that would like to accomplish more in less time.

In this practical book, you'll discover how to lead with your heart, learn as you go, and love what you do.

Learn how to get a leg up on your competition, discover the value you have to offer, and find the answers you need to be truly successful.

It is possible to leverage the margins of life outside your job to grow your business on the side, even if there are things like small children in the mix for you.

Leadership Step by Step treats leadership for the first time as the active, social, emotional, expressive, performance-based field it is - like acting, sports, improve, music, dance, and more.

So you've written, or are writing, your non-fiction book? Great! But once it's complete, how do you market it effectively? Joanna Penn is here to help!

For a limited time, you can try my members-only book club for just one dollar. Act fast as this offer is only open to the first 30 people. Visit readtoleaduniversity.com and enter 'DOLLAR' at checkout.

What if you could turn your greatest fears and obstacles into your biggest advantages and opportunities? With Akshay Nanavati's help, you'll learn to turn emotions like fear into health, wealth and happiness.

While most people agree that having a mentor is a good thing, they don't know how to find one or use one. And despite widespread approval for the idea of being a mentor, most people don't think they have the time or skills to do so.

As Read to Lead celebrates it's 4th anniversary, I take a look at the four best conversations - one from each of the first four years.

Kristi’s latest book reveals the surprising, everyday actions that any leader can take to be an inspiring and motivating force.

Bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is in fact a competitive advantage in the market place.

Jeff breaks down the finer points of one of last year's most popular books, Deep Work by Cal Newport.

No matter your age, industry, or bank account balance, Jenny's advice will help you move forward strategically.

Do you wish you could decode people? Do you want a formula for charisma? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date, or your networking partner? You need to know how people work.

Liz Wiseman makes her third appearance on the podcast to talk about the revised and updated edition of her bestselling book Multipliers.

Make Your Mark is the roadmap for the rest of your life. It holds an invitation to dig a little deeper and live a little braver.

Don't sweat the small stuff, and other modern adages, are often rife with misguided advice according to Andy Andrews.

What do Facebook, Google, Salesforce.com, Uber, VMware, Netflix, IKEA, Birds Eye, 5-hour Energy, and Pixar have in common? The key has to do with creating, developing, and dominating new categories of products and services.

When it comes to demonstrating out-of-the-box leadership, not to mention overcoming life's obstacles and living life outside your comfort zone, there are few better real-life examples I could choose to highlight than Luria Petrucci.

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You've been designed to do something naturally well and succeed at it. But, if you're like most, you haven't discovered what it is yet. Let my conversation with Paul Sohn help you.

Nelson takes readers on a hero's journey to connecting with customers in ways both profitable and transformational.

Using captivating stories to illustrate research in psychology and management, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein examines why some people and organizations succeed with so little, while others fail with so much.

Many believe that leaders are only those rare few in the upper echelons of a business or enterprise. The truth is, leaders can be found at any organizational level.

Author Adam Hansen describes our inherent cognitive biases that get in the way of innovation, and how to overcome them.

Learn how to identify the place where you can create the most value—your edge of disruption—at the intersection of old and new, where your existing profits, reach, and reputation enable you to create the markets of the future.

The difference between success and failure is the ability to adjust with personal grit, determination and the desire to live a life of significance.

In The Compelling Communicator, you will learn a proven process for designing presentations that touch your audience in a highly impactful way.

With ​Reach​, Andy Molinsky offers an enlightening and prescriptive guide based not only on the his groundbreaking research but also on his own quest to get out of his comfort zone.

Struggle with applying what you read to your life and work? Then, Read to Lead University and the all new RTLU Book Club is for you!

The 100-Year Life says whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways.

Whether you’re just stepping into leadership, an accomplished leader seeking something more, or simply stalled along the way, this book's practical approach to modern leadership will help you navigate the turns and detours on your own journey.

What books do the world's most successful and inspiring authors recommend? You'll find them on this list.

Don't read this book UNLESS you want to remove all your excuses and put yourself into the elite group of people who actually author a book.

After 30 years, host Jeff Brown shares what he's learned about what it takes to be the kind of leader others will follow anywhere.

Author and former Marine Justin Constantine, severely wounded on the field of battle, shares leadership lessons from the front lines.

These are the four books that have impacted my life and career probably more than any others. If you haven't yet read them, add them to your wishlist now!

Content marketing is the single, most effective method for attracting a profitable audience. Copyblogger's Pamela Wilson shows you how.

Adventures don't happen by accident. In The 2am Principle, Jon Levy shares his EPIC Model of Adventure, a four-stage process for creating unforgettable experiences.

If you want real success, you have to know how to harness your obsession to rocket to the top. This book will give you the inspiration and tools to break out of your cocoon of mediocrity and achieve your craziest dreams.

Text "unstuck" to 44222 to learn more about my new Get Unstuck coaching program.

Sell with a Story explains how stories work, when to use a story for to move the sales process along, which ones to always have handy, and how to turn real-life experiences into stories that resonate.

In this follow-up to her number-one bestselling book, Smart Money Smart Kids, Rachel shines a spotlight on what may be the most damaging money habit we have: comparing ourselves to other people.

Draw to Win explains Why you should draw, How to draw, and What to draw to lead, sell, innovate, train, or just figure things out on your road to success.

Heart-Led Leadership is a clearly spelled-out leadership philosophy that is proven to drive extraordinary bottom-line results.

The 4 Cornerstones For Strategic Living gives every person a proven system (a blueprint) for constructing the life they desire.

Unstoppable shows that with the right mindset, strategy and actions, you can achieve everything you want and live the life you may only think is possible in your dreams.

Learn how to make your dream a reality without feeling like you have to give up sleep or time with family.

Time-tested and proven lessons learned while delivering over 8,000 presentations and observing countless others.

Remove the headaches of gathering and organizing your content, and easily design and deliver your slides.

Seven questions and the tools to make them an everyday way to work less hard and have more impact.

If you're in a job you hate, let Exit Strategy show you how to go from where you have to be to where you want to be.

Kary Oberbrunner walks us through how he's managed to create three six-figure businesses all around his last three books.

If you are making a work of art in any field, you aren't going from point A to point B. You are inventing point B.

Originally published in December 2013, my conversation with August Turak is one of my favorite. This reedited and improved edition is also ad-free!

Originally published in January 2015, my conversation with Seth Godin is one of the most popular Read to Lead episodes of all time. This reedited and improved edition is also ad-free!

Walking us through a number of examples from the military, JV helps us understand how to close the gaps in our organizations and teams in the areas of commitment, loyalty and trust.

An irreverent, funny and practical guide to making the most of the here and now.

Dr. Henry Cloud shows that the best performers draw on another vital resource: personal and professional relationships that fuel growth and help them surpass current limits.

Performance Breakthrough artfully blends techniques from theatrical performance with the new science of performative psychology, guiding readers through forging new relationships guaranteed to yield greater success and satisfaction.

Adam Braun shares the story of his journey from corporate employee to launching a "for purpose" organization that is changing the world.

How to rewire your brain for leadership and personal excellence without adding to your schedule.

A how-to book that outlines a comprehensive program dedicated to helping companies develop a World Class Leadership Development Program.

Host Jeff Brown answers listener questions, from tips for reading a book a week, to retaining what you read, and more!

A no fluff, highly effective, step-by-step guide to discovering your life’s purpose, finding a career you love, and living a life of intense fulfillment each and every day.

Tim's new book Dealstorming is a Swiss Army knife for today's toughest sales challenges. It fixes the broken parts of brainstorming and reinvigorates account management.

Learn the communication tools that great leaders like Steve Jobs, Howard Schultz, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used to move people.

John Addison shares his straightforward practices for successful leadership that fostered enduring results on his path to success.

David Burkus challenges the widely accepted principles of business management - and proves that many of them are outdated, outmoded, or simply don't work anymore.

Imagine trading just twenty-four hours for the life you really want. It's possible, and Living Forward shows you how.

It's hard to write sales copy that doesn't feel "sales." How to Write Copy That Sells is a step-by-step guide to writing copy that sells without being pushy.

Stop Chasing Influencers gives you a step-by-step blueprint to building a business and life you love.

Not Taught punches you in the face with the new realities of work today and offers clear strategies on how to be successful in this crazy information-driven world.

When we hold back from sharing our failures and shortcomings, I believe we deny ourselves the opportunity to encourage, and be encouraged by, others.

Pat Flynn and I walk you through the process of validating your next business idea without spending a ton of time and money.

So many of us after "bringing the crowd to its feet," worry that we're going to get booed off the stage with our next venture. Is there a way to avoid this, to have multiple hits and "endless encores?" Ken Goldstein says yes!

Gone are the days when the only people “on-air” were celebrities or folks with their “15 minutes of fame.” Are you ready for your interview?

Centered around proprietary research into how, where, and why we complain, Hug Your Haters demonstrates that there are two types of complainers, each with very different motivations.

As much as I wanted to, I just couldn't rank them from #5 down to #1. But consider these books tied for first place among the 50 I read in 2015.

Cesar shares how to turn your ideas into reality, deliver on your promises, and get things done.

Chris will educate and empower you to make your own investing decisions, set reasonable expectations for your spouse and family, and build a dream team of experts to get your there.

John Maxwell shares his lifelong personal journey to significance and walks you every step of the way through your own journey.

The 5 AM Miracle offers you a plan to focus on what matters most, and get more done.

Learn how the methods of top actors will help you connect with, inspire, and persuade any audience.

Performance Breakthrough reveals the four secrets for creating a more passionate, productive, and profitable organization.

While many people focus on adding a new time management method to there lives, Jeremie has gone to the source of conflict and created a common language that, if implemented, will decrease drama and insecurity and instill a secure confidence that people everywhere need.

A step-by-step process for challenging those barriers, weakening those walls, and finally applying the "real dynamite" and powering right on through.

Think you have to be loud and brash to be successful in business? Think again. The strengths and traits of the typical introvert lend themselves well to entrepreneurship, as well as "intrapreneurship" and a range of business roles.

Jay Samit's mantra is, "Stop waiting for things to happen. Go out and make them happen."

This special edition of Read to Lead features highlights from 10 previous guests and the Top 10 Leadership Lessons Learned from them.

Drawing on advice from more than forty successful startup founders and marketers, Traction is a comprehensive textbook for marking your way to growth.

Shifting your focus from “getting to giving” ” is far from just nice…it’s also very financially profitable!

The only way to make our lives less stressful is to make sure we spend more time doing the things that matter most and less time doing the things that matter less.

The importance of accurate people decisions cannot be underestimated. Jim Roddy shows you how to make them with confidence.

The rapid development of technology and globalization has changed the leverage points in accumulating wealth: money, meaning and freedom.

Today, we peak behind the curtain as I share how I gather my presentation ideas, craft my slides and deliver a compelling talk.

While your work speaks about you, does it really speak for you? Does it represent you well? The key to making your work resonate is to uncover, develop, and then bravely use your authentic voice.

Corporate strategy is a mix of art and science. You provide the art: let Dr. Chuck Bamford provide the science.

In today's uncertain times, fear can unconsciously direct our lives. Start small, dare big, and begin today to live with greater purpose, passion and courage.

Clay's book is designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams by allowing you to learn from his past experiences, failures and successes.

Power Score is a universal framework for leadership. The key is to  have the right priorities, the right people on your team, and the right relationships that achieve results.

Former White House press secretary Dana Perino discusses the leadership and life lessons learned from her upbringing in Wyoming and Denver, to her time in DC and New York.

REEL Leadership is a Leadership from the Movies Series featuring numerous podcasters and bloggers, each extracting their favorite leadership lessons from a 2015 summer blockbuster.

Leading with Intention makes the connection between your leadership behavior and the bottom line and challenges you to make a profound, deliberate mark on both your organization and the world around you.

If you struggle with rejection, you won't help but be inspired by the story of Jia Jiang and his journey to beat fear through 100 days of rejection.

The Ask formula has been used to help build multi-million dollar businesses in 23 different industries, generating over $100 million dollars in sales in the process.

In today's episode, I share my five must-listen podcasts for anyone who considers personal and professional growth a priority. All five just happen to be hosted by authors.

Whether you're just starting out, in the middle of a financial crises, or doing well, having better conversations on money will strengthen your marriage. 

Serial entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow delves into the reasons why some people and some organizations are able to achieve incredible things in implausibly short time frames, showing how each of us can use these "smartcuts" to rethink convention and accelerate success.

Time Management Magic is all about learning a system and a way of thinking that will enhance your ability to lead a highly productive, balanced and effective life.

Looking to turn a ho-hum career into something better? A good career great? A great career fantastic? This is your book!

Learn the most reliable system for getting more clients than you can handle, even if you hate marketing and selling.

This book will shatter your assumptions about leadership and the art of influence, and give you the invaluable insights required to understand and move others.

In this special episode, host Jeff Brown has compiled questions submitted by listeners specifically for author Jeff Goins.

From Internet startups and mom-and-pop businesses to multinational giants, strong companies are rooted in customer retention. Evergreen helps anyone merge high-tech tools with the personal touch to forge lasting bonds and steady profits.

Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they will be lauded as experts on the merits of their work. But that's simply not true anymore.

How to Work a Room, now available in a silver anniversary edition, has sold over one million copies in 13 countries.

Erica Dhawan helps us understand what she and her co-author Saj-Nicole Joni call Connectional Intelligence. Take a dream. Add a connection. Dream bigger. Get BIG things done.

Through personal experience, compelling stories, and current research on the mysteries of motivation and talent, Jeff shows us how to find our vocation and what to expect along the way.

Should you write a book? Chandler Bolt shows you how you can use a book to explode (or start) your business and at least 7 ways to make money from it.

Life change starts with the decision to take deliberate and intentional action. Kimanzi Constable shows you how.

An invitation to start taking your self to the next level so you can take your success to the next level (because it only happens in that order).

New York Times bestselling author Dan Miller discusses The ‘shelf life’ of the average college degree, the limitations of making safety and security your end goal and the difference between a vocation, your career and a job.

New York Times bestselling author Seth Godin wants you to wake up and has written a book to make sure you do just that. Assuming you read it, of course.

Entrepreneur on Fire's Kate Erickson offers 16 steps to successfully launching your business.

Rory Vaden helps us understand the way the world's most successful people think differently about time.

In this episode, I share some of my favorite apps for covering more reading ground in the least amount of time possible, as well as how simple it can be to leverage wasted downtime.

Listen for important programming notes and exciting guest announcements. 

Author Liz Wiseman argues that, in the 21st century, it isn't so much about what you know, as it is how fast you're able to learn.

Jairek Robbins is a decorated performance coach and lifestyle entrepreneur who has applied his innovative methods to living a life of adventure, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship.

The key insights from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson are brought to you by Blinkist, a mobile learning company that transforms outstanding nonfiction books into 15­-minute reads made for your mobile device.

It’s Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems—and how we solve them—upside down.

The key insights from Fascinate by Sally Hogshead are brought to you by Blinkist, a mobile learning company that transforms outstanding nonfiction books into 15­-minute reads made for your mobile device.

Business in Blue Jeans is a comprehensive, how-to guide for starting and growing a successful business in the way that suits you best. 

The key insights from Creativity Inc. are brought to you by Blinkist, a mobile learning company that transforms outstanding nonfiction books into 15­-minute reads made for your mobile device.

Dan is the co-founder of WP Curve, one of the world’s fastest growing WordPress support companies. WP Curve provides unlimited small WordPress fixes 24/7 for a flat monthly fee.

What if you could improve your focus, boost your energy and make the most of your time? Hit the Mark will help you achieve all three! 

Mike shares the simple but profound method for transforming your business from a cash-eating monster into a money-making machine.

The new book from Chris Guillebeau reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest.

Author, podcaster and expert networker Jared Easley shares what you're missing by not launching a podcast.

Bev shares her insights on the five most powerful moves you can make right now to get where you want to go.

What makes TED Talks Work? What makes them stand out. What makes them unique. Find out that and more in this encore episode of the Read to Lead Podcast.

When everyone else wants to include every feature but the kitchen sink, Apple says "Let's wait on that." When everyone else wants to offer a plethora of model choices, Apple counters with, "How about just a couple?"

Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income podcast and Smart Passive Income blog shares about his road to independence and his book Let Go.

If you suffer from speaking anxiety, Fearless Speaking can change your life. Start enjoying public speaking today, and reap the rewards.

Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of the new book Essentialism discusses the disciplined pursuit of less - but better.

Go as you please, earn as you wish, and live as you like. Kary Oberbrunner says you can start living your dream job today!

Pamela gives us the tools to have meaningful careers in this new world of work. She shows how to find the connections among diverse accomplishments, sell your story, and continually reinvent and relaunch your brand. 

As most business owners know, attracting consistent streams of brand new prospects, and then turning large percentages of them into paying clients, can be frustrating. The good news is this no longer needs to be the case.

With examples from firms like Apple, Amazon, HP, JCPenny and JPMorgan Chase, Leadership Blindspots examines how a leader's blindspots can lead to devastating mistakes if they aren't recognized and acted on.

For decades, the middle class has believed that the road to success meant working hard and playing by rules passed down from previous generations. But as the 2008 economic crisis has made clear, the old rules no longer apply.

Sunni Brown's mission is to bring the power of the Doodle to all of us. She leads the Revolution defying all those parents, teachers, and bosses who say Stop doodling! Get serious! Grow up!

Serial entrepreneu Lauren Maillian Bias shares the lessons and tactics that skyrocketed her to the top of three completely different fields - all before she reached 30.

In Make Your SHIFT, Bev Flaxington shares the five most powerful moves you can make to get where you want to go. 

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled.  It's not as crazy as it sounds. Today, in many successful organizations, great leaders are creating environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things. 

In this episode, we steer from the normal routine to talk about what I believe to be the most important leadership books from the last half decade.

If I tell you the truth, if I tell it with a story, and if I tell that story with pictures, I can keep you glued to your seat. Let me show you how.

The Bigs is an eye-opening book with not only great stories, but specific practical advice you won’t hear anywhere else. This is a book that parents will want to read and give to their children — and their children will want to read and share with their friends.

Farnoosh Brock left a successful career at a Fortune 100 corporation to start her own company, Prolific Living, Inc., to pursue her passions of writing, holistic health, career coaching and entrepreneurship. She helps you create your ideal lifestyle by simplifying your nutrition, adopting a positive powerful mindset, building smart daily habits in your life, and achieving your career goals.

There are many ways to become a millionaire, but research has often shown that creating your own business is one of the best ways to build wealth. The Eventual Millionaire will lay the foundation for those looking to start their own business and work their way toward financial independence and a fulfilled life.

In this episode, the media coach and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan shares his secrets of pitch-perfect communications, showing you how to communicate with confidence. 

Chris Brogan is back as our first-ever return guest on the Read to Lead Podcast. His new book The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth is due out in a few weeks and it's gonna be awesome!

How to Deliver a TED Talk author Jeremy Donovan and Public Speaking World Champion Ryan Avery break down the winning speeches from Toastmasters’ prestigious annual competition—providing you with tips and techniques guaranteed to improve your speaking, presentation, and communication skills. 

Ideas are the true currency of the twenty-first century. So, in order to succeed you need to be able to sell your ideas and yourself persuasively. Carmine Gallo shows you how in Talk Like Ted.

How to work with Virtual Staff to buy more time, become more productive, and build your dream business.

Quick and Nimble offers a keen understanding of the forces that shape corporate culture and a clear road map to bring success and energy to any organization.

This is a book about commitment. People don't fail because they don't know what to do - they fail because they just don't do it. Go from being interested in change to committed to change.

In Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Liz and co-author Greg McKeown, share about the two dramatically different types of leaders we've all had experience with. On one end of the spectrum are the Diminishers. These are the idea killers or the energy sappers. On the other end are the Multipliers, the kind of leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results and surpass expectations. 

Weary of pink-slip anxiety and the never-ending money squeeze? Join those who are starting side-gig businesses and taking back their financial futures!

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. But dig deeper and a statling truth emerges: so do the other eight. 

Our Best of 2013 Vol. 2 episode features highlights from our chats with Lisa B. Marshall, Andy Andrews, Ken Davis, Todd Henry, Chris Brogan, Gary Vaynerchuk and Natalie Sisson.

Dan Miller, Robert D. Smith, John Lee Dumas, Jeff Goins, Jay Baer, Pat Flynn, G. Richard Shell, Erik J. Fisher and Jon Acuff are all featured in this two-part, year-end episode.

A successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author, August Turak attributes much of his success to living and woking alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years.

Discover the "secrets" of the unique 8% - 10% who are able to achieve lasting changes to destructive habits and behaviors.

Natalie Sisson promotes creating freedom in business and adventure in life by teaching you how to build an online business and life you love from anywhere.

A great resource on understanding the psychology of various social media platforms and what makes each one unique. In fact, Gary argues understanding that concept and the others he lays out is key if you have any plans of succeeding on these platforms.

As the traditional channels for marketing, selling, and influencing disappear and more people interact mainly online, the very nature of attention is changing. The Impact Equation will give you the tools and metrics that guarantee your message will be heard.

Scott's new book is designed to help us understand the importance of adding Design, Build and Maintain elements to our lives by implementing the 7 steps to creating a life of success and significance. 

Author Dave Delaney helps us learn how to make the most of conferences we attend and shares how to best leverage Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. 

Richie Frieman aka Modern Manners Guy, shares his ultimate guide to successfully navigating the minefield of your workplace.

"Embrace the importance of now and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions. The cost of inaction is vast. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to Die Empty."

Author Ken Davis shares how to prepare a speech with focus, capture and hold the attention of any audience, banish your fear of public speaking and make your presentation unforgettable.

Pat Williams, founder and senior vice president of the Orlando Magic, shares about the 3 forms of influence and helps us define the qualities of good character.

If you've ever said to yourself, "Boy, I could read a lot more nonfiction if it just weren't so...nonfiction-y," then today I may be introducing you to the greatest author or all time.

Lisa's Smart Talk book with teach you the six steps to improving your conversation skills, the 7 rules of networking, and the art and science of persuasion.

New York Times best-selling author Jon Acuff shares how to deal with the voices of doubt (both real and imagined) and punch fear in the face.

In today's episode of the Read to Lead Podcast we'll chat with Erik Fisher, author of Beyond The To-Do List Volume 1: Goals, as he provides some much needed help toward turning our elusive goal-setting efforts into a bonafide habit.

Dan helps us to, among other things, walk that fine line between effectively gaining visibility for ourselves and coming off like a self-promotional jerk.

Even if you don't consider yourself a fan of all things Apple, it's impossible to deny that the company has improved virtually every category they've chosen to enter. From products and packaging, to marketing and advertising, the hits seem to far outweigh the misses. But what is it about Apple that has them firing on all cylinders more often that not? When Ken Segall, author of the book Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success, asked himself that question, he found a common thread in all the data, feedback and meeting notes. In a word, it's all about Simplicity. When everyone else wants to include every feature but the kitchen sink, Apple says "Let's wait on that." When everyone else wants to offer a plethora of model choices, Apple counters with, "How about just a couple?" It's this "simplicity as religion" that serves as the common thread among all the successes.

What is success to you? Where do your ideas and opinions on success come from? Are they your own, or are you striving to achieve someone else's idea of what success should be? In today's episode, we chat with author G. Richard Shell from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. In his new book, Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, he helps answer two key questions on success: What is success for you? (along with understanding how the expectations of others impact your assumptions on that question) and how can you best go about achieving it?

Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income podcast and Smart Passive Income blog shares about his road to independence and his book Let Go.

Jonah Berger shares his six STEPPS for ensuring your product, idea or service catches on.

Jay Baer discusses his just released and New York Times best-selling book Youtility and shares why he believes smart marketing is about Help and not Hype.

Author, blogger and speaker Jeff Goins shares why "chasing an audience" is the worst way to go about building a platform.

John Lee Dumas, host of the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast, shares why he believes podcasting is the hottest trend in 2013 and why it's not too late to get on the bandwagon.

Author Robert D. Smith (The Robert D.) shares how you can accomplish more in a single day than most people do in an entire year.

New York Times best-selling author Dan Miller shares why reading is number one on his list of Ten Steps to Education and Becoming Rich and discusses his latest book Wisdom Meets Passion.

In this introductory episode, host Jeff Brown describes who the podcast is designed for, what the podcast is and is not, as well as some valuable resources for those looking to make the most of their commute, workout and running time.