Coach your manager to fight for you — hand them the case, don't fight across the table
How To Get A Pay Rise: Career Coach's Proven System · Yota Trom
Turn a salary ask into a 90-day evidence campaign before you set foot in the room.
HR Expert: How To Negotiate A Pay Rise · Wayne Clarke
Map competence and commitment to unlock the right support approach
Leadership and the One Minute Manager · Ken Blanchard
Treat your relationship with your boss as a partnership to manage
One-on-One with Andy Grove · Andrew S. Grove
Develop people the way great parents raise children
Why good leaders make you feel safe · Simon Sinek
Lead like a great parent: give opportunities, education, and support so people surpass you
Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek | TED · Simon Sinek
Provide feedback through multiple channels
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well · Douglas Stone
The eight-page document that determines your company's future comes down to economics and control
Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Ten execution habits that dramatically increase profitability and reduce the time it takes to manage the business.
Scaling Up · Verne Harnish
Scale your business by mastering the four critical decision areas: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.
Scaling Up · Verne Harnish
Align philosophy, principles, methods, and tools into one coherent system
The Toyota Production System Journey: The Continuously Changing Features of TPS and Lean Thinking · Noboru Takeuchi
Achieve buy-in through debate, not consensus or certainty
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Commit now to save more later by linking increases to future raises
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness · Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
Don't manage people -- create a game worth playing
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It · Michael E. Gerber
Connect every contributor's work to the organization's mission
Measure What Matters · John Doerr
Replace annual reviews with Conversations, Feedback, and Recognition
Measure What Matters · John Doerr
Four-quadrant ethical test for building habit-forming products
Hooked · Nir Eyal
Plan to learn and iterate, not to execute a preconceived strategy
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail · Clayton M. Christensen
Three structured conversations to understand and support each person's dreams
Radical Candor · Kim Scott
Draw a clean line between what is your task and what is someone else's task, then stop intervening across that line.
The Courage to Be Disliked · Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Prepare quickly, find your first customer, then go all in
What's Your Dream? · Simon Squibb
A Circle of Safety is the prerequisite for everything else
The Infinite Game · Simon Sinek
Empowering employees
How Zoom prepared for massive growth (w/ CEO Eric Yuan) | Masters of Scale · Masters of Scale
Build the three attitudes that distinguish people who thrive under stress
The Upside of Stress · Kelly McGonigal
Progress through four stages from assigning tasks to achieving true ownership of outcomes
Clockwork · Mike Michalowicz
Support grieving employees with time, flexibility, and sustained institutional care
Option B · Sheryl Sandberg
Buck up and do the unglamorous work that must be done, whether you feel like it or not
Work the System · Sam Carpenter
Only hire to relieve sustained pain, never to fill imagined future needs
Rework · Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson