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Below is a sampling of e-book titles available to you. Be on the lookout for more recommendations by subject coming to you next month!

Recent E-Book Highlights

LEADERSHIP

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Leadership Resilience in a Digital Age by Janette Young

The book focuses on the challenges faced in the digital age, and the increasing demands for continuous change in an inter-connected digital world. The book presents stories about how leaders have faced significant challenges and pressure, and how they have used these experiences as catalysts to transform, flourish, and develop personal resilience. Topics in this book include the digital journey, ethical issues, teamwork, styles of leadership, agile, collaboration, trust, culture, psychological safety, self-awareness, vulnerability, conversation, positivity, emotional intelligence, creativity, inner knowing, and the dark side of leadership. The book explores the impact of continuous change within a digital age, presenting the facets necessary to become a Digital Sage in an increasingly chaotic world. With a focus on creativity, innovation, and mind and body awareness the leader as a Digital Sage arises to encourage resilience in a digital age. 

Leadership in a Zoom Economy with Microsoft Teams: Applying Leadership to a Remote Workforce by Peter Ward 

Leading a team is a challenge, but leading a team in the Zoom economy can make you stressed out and overworked. This book shows you how to utilize Microsoft Teams in an effective way to achieve your global team goals. Peter Ward gives the reader a communication and organization-centered approach for the dynamic, hardworking, successful employee who wants to step into a leadership role and vastly improve their organization with the aid of Microsoft Teams. Ward shares his own 'rules' for successful leadership of teams and small companies, to scale at a steady pace, creating a culture of accountability and responsibility, with a remote workforce, not using venture capital, and applying minimal bureaucracy. This book is for managers who want to step into leadership, and leaders who want to raise their leadership game using Microsoft Teams as a technical tool.

Mindful Leadership For Dummies by Juliet Adams

Want to become a more mindful leader? With Mindful Leadership For Dummies, you'll find accessible and authoritative guidance for cultivating focus, clarity, and creativity from within your colleagues. Packed full of useful tips, this friendly how-to guide will help you incorporate mindfulness in your leadership style to manage and reap the benefits of a more attentive working life—all while nurturing compassion in the service of others. You'll discover how mindfulness can help improve decision-making and communication skills, manage modern workday challenges, and so much more. The benefits of practicing mindfulness in the workplace are far-reaching, and as we begin to uncover more research that supports its effectiveness, it's no wonder business leaders are jumping aboard this positive bandwagon. If you're a businessperson looking to add mindfulness to your leadership tool belt, Mindful Leadership For Dummies has everything you need to get started today.

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POWER Library News December 2023 Supplement