What's it about? Positively Energizing Leadership (2022) offers organization leaders and workers a practical guide to understanding and harnessing the power of positively energizing characteristics and interpersonal approaches. With empirical data and how-to advice, it aims to boost innovation, profits, and compassion in the workplace and at home. We live in serious times. Society is riddled by fear, mistrust, racial injustice, climate disasters, and the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic – all of which have sowed a climate of violence, outrage, and conflict. As a result of this culture of despair, the power of positive thinking has mushroomed as an industry. There are thousands of books out there promising to guide you to happiness, and each year more and more are published. But the problem with what Kim Cameron calls “happiology” is that it encourages us to put a smile on our faces while inside, our teeth are gritted and our jaws are clenched. The thing is, all lives are comple...

What's it about? How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay (2026) hands you practical, lived-in strategies for handling mental health struggles, creative block, and overwhelming anxiety. You’ll find ways to reframe your darkest moments into sources of strength, along with tools for setting unapologetic boundaries that protect your peace. These insights help you survive and thrive on the days your brain tries to sabotage you. Narrated by…. Some mornings, you wake up already tired. Your brain starts running before you’ve even opened your eyes, listing everything that could go wrong today, everything you forgot yesterday, everything you’re behind on. You lie there for a minute just trying to gather enough fight to sit up, and that alone takes more out of you than most people spend on a full day of work. But the world keeps asking you to show up – and keep producing, keep working. You end up convinced everyone else got some instruction manual for being a person that you somehow missed. Thi...

What's it about? In a Good Place (2026) explores how the spaces around us quietly shape the people we become. Drawing on psychology, design, and everyday life, it reveals how homes, offices, streets, and public spaces can either nourish or frustrate our need for agency, connection, and a sense of belonging. Space matters more than we often think. Design details can have a huge impact on the course of our lives. If your kitchen drawers always stick and your countertop is too small, cooking never becomes more than a chore. Eventually, takeout wins. A few years later, your food bills are out of control and your jeans fit differently. It can go the other way too. A cool bedroom with blackout curtains can improve sleep for years, lowering stress and reducing the risk of heart disease and depression. The problem is that we rarely notice these effects while they’re happening. Modern life trains us to treat our surroundings as background scenery. We work in noisy offices while pretending...

What's it about? Work Happier (2025) makes the case that workplace happiness is neither a luxury nor a matter of luck, but a right that every worker can measure, pursue, and claim. Built around six evidence-based drivers of employee happiness, it gives anyone from the shop floor to the boardroom the tools to take control of their own working life. Imagine this: Sunday evening arrives along with a growing sense of dread. You feel a low-key, creeping anxiety about going back to work on Monday. Not because anything catastrophic is waiting for you there, but because going to work just feels empty. Sound familiar? Well, that feeling has a name: the Sunday scaries. A 2018 LinkedIn survey found that about 80 percent of US workers have experienced them. Younger workers felt them the most: a whopping 94 percent of Gen Z and 91 percent of Millennials feel dread on Sundays about the coming work week. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Work at its best can be one of life’s most rewarding ex...

What's it about? How a Little Becomes a Lot (2026) shows how small, steady habits slip past the mental defenses that usually block change. Shrinking huge ambitions into pocket-sized steps, paired with a reshaped daily environment, lets you grow without leaning on willpower. You'll see how a softer perspective and real self-kindness turn ordinary choices into a life that feels genuinely yours. Narrated by…. What if it turned out there was a hidden force tucked inside the most ordinary moments of your day? Most of us glide right past them, holding out for some grand epiphany or lightning-strike of motivation to finally turn us into the people we hope to become. Real change, though, often shows up softly, in the small overlap between your daily routines and what actually matters to you. This means you need to stop wrestling with your own humanity – and start moving in step with how your mind naturally works. That way, the road ahead begins to clarify on its own. What follows ...

What's it about? Kaizen (2019) is a guide to the improvement philosophy known as kaizen, which encourages taking small steps to complete ambitious goals. Already well established in the world of business and sports, this method can also be applied to personal development. Using practical examples, this guide explains how to take a kaizen approach to setting goals that’ll improve health, relationships, money, and work. Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution, only to find yourself throwing in the towel by the second week of January? If you struggle to make changes to your routine, you’re not alone. Making a leap into the dark can be scary when it comes to changing habits. To conquer this natural fear, the kaizen approach focuses on taking slow and steady steps forward. Originally a Japanese management theory, it’s now a widely-applied philosophy that values continuous improvement toward lasting change. In these lessons, you’ll find out how you can adopt kaizen techniques to ta...

What's it about? Think Like a Stoic (2025) is a guide to Stoicism written for a world crowded with noise, choice, stress, and stimulation. Drawing on ancient wisdom on topics as diverse as death, happiness, and the good life, it helps us reframe the problems we encounter in everyday life. We live in the most complex societies that have ever existed. Never before have humans had to process as much information or make as many decisions as we do today. “Choice overload” has become a defining feature of the digital age, shaping every corner of our lives – from the trivial to the deeply existential. Philosophically, it can feel like we’ve lost our bearings. The retreat of traditional values, while liberating, has left us in a moral landscape with few recognizable landmarks. Liberal societies offer unprecedented freedom, but that very abundance of possible ways of being human can also be disorienting. We are free to choose – but how should we choose? That, argues Ken Mogi, is precisel...