Career growth inspiration. Read differently, digest more books in less time. Sign-up for the Career Knowledge Accelerator program to experience professional non-fiction reading in a brand-new way. The books in this program will enable you to develop both personally and professionally. So, you can bring your whole self to work.
- 10 books in 30 days, spend 30 minutes each day.
- Introduction to a proven system that will have you read strategically, not sequentially.
- Access new thinking, fresh ideas that drive business results.
“It’s one of the silliest things in the world, in my opinion, for people to feel they need to finish a book.” Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe
10 “Career” Books, 30 Days: What will you walk away with?
- Access to new ideas, fresh thinking on your business.
- Maximum knowledge in a short time to solve the most pressing issues and urgent problems.
- Feel inspired to tackle old issues, in new ways.
- Build your personal brand with clients and colleagues.
- Apply what you read, immediately, to create new value for your employer and yourself.
- New way of reading that will last you a lifetime.
Career Knowledge Accelerator: What, When, and How
Your Investment – USD $549.99 per person
Where – Immediate download, get started right away with video presentation, reading worksheet and presentation deck.
Career Knowledge Accelerator: read selectively, digest more books
Choose 10 out of the 18 books to focus on during the 30 days of the Career Knowledge Accelerator program. Read the accompanying Amazon descriptions below, then decide which 10 books will serve you best in your business.
-
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington
Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your “year” to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent. And urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now.
-
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
The Art of Possibility presents twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors. It's is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.
-
The Art of Resilience by Ross Edgley
Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience for years. He applied all he has learned to become the first person in history to swim around Great Britain, breaking multiple world records. Now Ross focuses on mental strength, stoicism and the training needed to create an unbreakable body.
-
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distills three decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring new abilities.
-
Level Up: Elevate Your Game and Crush Your Goals by Alyson Van Hooser
Leveling up is the only foolproof success strategy. It means owning your responsibility for taking control of who you are, what you do, and what your life will become. This book is written for the men and women grinding it out every day at work. And wanting so badly to be more valued and get to the next level.
-
Raise Your Game: High Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best by Alan Stein Jr., Jon Sternfeld
High achievers are at the top of their game because of the discipline they have during the unseen hours. They have made a commitment to establish, tweak, and repeat positive habits in everything they do. Raise Your Game examines the top leaders in sports and business. And it proves that success is a result of the little things we do all the time.
-
Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses “No, But” Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration by Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton
Executives from The Second City—the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation—reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.
-
Getting to “Yes And”: The Art of Business Improv by Bob Kulhan, Chuck Crisafulli
Amidst the deluge of advice for businesspeople, there lies an overlooked tool, a key to thriving in today's fast-paced, unpredictable environment: improvisation. In Getting to “Yes And” veteran improv performer, university professor, CEO, and consultant Bob Kulhan unpacks a form of mental agility with powers far beyond the entertainment value of comedy troupes.
-
Promoted: The Proven Career Acceleration Formula to Reach the Top Without Working Harder or Playing Office Politics by Bozi Dar
In Promoted: The Proven Career Acceleration Formula To Reach The Top Without Working Harder Or Playing Office Politics, you’ll learn Bozi’s unconventional strategy to get you the career results you have always desired. His unique Career Acceleration Formula is the only strategy out there today that’s helped unemployed graduates get their dream job. And helped grizzled corporate veterans reignite their career.
-
The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy by Chris Bailey
Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream. He wanted to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity. This is a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself. This enabled him to continue his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.
-
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded. And there’s no more lucid – or compelling – explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago.
-
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life by John G. Miller
John G. Miller believes that the troubles that plague organizations cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others. Rather, the real solutions are found when each of us recognizes the power of personal accountability. In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question®, Miller explains how negative, ill-focused questions like “Why do we have to go through all this change?” and “Who dropped the ball?” represent a lack of personal accountability.
-
Lifetime Learners Guide to Reading and Learning by Gary Hoover
In The Lifetime Learner’s Guide to Reading and Learning, Gary lays out his method for capturing important ideas contained in books in 30 minutes (or less) without speed-reading. The book contains a multitude of tips about how to learn efficiently. It concludes with an extensive section on how to think creatively and see things that others do not.
-
Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future
You don’t need to be a futurist or innovator to learn to think like one. The key to growing your business or propelling your career into the next decade lies in better understanding the present. The future belongs to non-obvious thinkers and this book is your guide to becoming one.
-
How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
In How to Be a Power Connector, super-networker Judy Robinett argues that strategic relationship planning should be your top priority. When you combine your specific skills and talents with a clear, workable path for creating and managing your relationships, nothing will stop you from meeting your goals. With high-value connections, you'll tap into a dynamic power grid of influence guaranteed to accelerate your personal and professional success.
-
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Francesc Miralles
According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai – a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world's longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai – the place where passion, mission, vocation, and profession intersect – means that each day is infused with meaning.
-
The Emotion Code: How To Release Your Trapped Emotion for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness by Bradley Nelson
in The Emotion Code, renowned holistic physician and lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson skillfully lays bare the inner workings of the subconscious mind. He reveals how emotionally-charged events from your past can still be haunting you in the form of “trapped emotions.” Emotional energies that literally inhabit your body. These trapped emotions can fester in your life and body, creating pain, malfunction, and eventual disease.
-
The Outlier Approach: How to Triumph in your Career as a Nonconformist by Kevin Hong
Too many books discuss the same people, same companies, and same concepts, resulting in cliché advice. One of the main reasons behind this phenomenon is due to the fact that so many books on business and professional development are written by authors with limited professional experience. Or are written by authors who share similar backgrounds. Kevin Hong, who is a columnist for Inc. Magazine, not only shares his experience working in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street, but also interviews and shares his experience working with high profile executives and entrepreneurs.
Courses in the Knowledge Accelerator Series
Business Knowledge Accelerator: Read Selectively, Digest More Books
Sales Knowledge Accelerator: Read Selectively, Digest More Books
