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“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

leadership development

talent development

Performance Improvement

productivity

Burnout Prevention

employee wellbeing

resilience building

stress management

laura.sandera

Mindfulness in the Workplace

High-Performance Teams

Focus and Concentration

Employee Health

Organizational Health

Wellness Programs

Energy Management

In today’s rapidly changing workplace, it’s easy for learning and talent programs to focus on filling skill gaps rather than unlocking natural strengths. Marcus Buckingham’s Go Put Your Strengths to Work reframes that mindset—offering a data-driven and deeply human approach to building performance from the inside out.

Grounded in decades of Gallup and ADP research, Buckingham shows that only 17% of employees say they use their strengths every day. This book provides a six-step, six-week roadmap for changing that statistic—helping individuals, teams, and organizations align work with what people do best.

For L&amp;D, HR, and OD leaders, this book delivers both personal and systemic insight:
<ul>
 	<li>Redefine “strengths” as the intersection of energy, excellence, and engagement—not just competence.</li>
 	<li>Equip managers with simple tools to hold meaningful, strengths-focused conversations.</li>
 	<li>Recraft roles and workflows to connect employee talent directly to evolving business needs.</li>
 	<li>Sustain engagement through a quick weekly reflection ritual that reinforces growth over compliance.</li>
</ul>
When integrated into leadership development, career pathing, or performance enablement strategies, Buckingham’s framework becomes a blueprint for a truly strengths-based culture—where learning feels personal, managers become talent multipliers, and business performance follows naturally.
<h3>🪜 The 6 Powerful Steps</h3>
The book outlines a practical, six-step, six-week program to help you actively "rewrite your job description" by putting your strengths to work:
<ol start="1">
 	<li>Bust the Myths: Challenge common beliefs (like "you will grow the most where you're weakest") that prevent you from focusing on strengths.</li>
 	<li>Get Clear: Clearly define your strengths using four telltale signs (Success, Instinct, Growth, Needs - the "SIGNs").</li>
 	<li>Free Your Strengths: Implement strategies to spend more time each week on activities that strengthen you.</li>
 	<li>Stop Your Weaknesses: Identify and mitigate activities that drain or weaken you.</li>
 	<li>Speak Up: Learn how to talk about your strengths and weaknesses with your boss and colleagues without bragging or whining, fostering a strengths-based team environment.</li>
 	<li>Build Strong Habits: Establish a sustainable weekly ritual to keep you focused on your strengths throughout your career.</li>
</ol>

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

future of work

Leadership

newton.moore

performance management

Talent Strategy

employee engagement

workforce productivity

HR Innovation

Strategic HR

L&amp;D strategy

employee potential

strengths based leadership

strengths revolution

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We’ve all heard the Silicon Valley mantras to "fail fast" and "fail forward," but in a high-stakes corporate environment, failure often feels like a liability rather than an asset. In Right Kind of Wrong, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson provides the much-needed nuance that the "fail fast" movement lacks.
She distinguishes between unproductive mistakes and what she calls Intelligent Failure. For ELE members, this book is the definitive guide to building a culture where experimentation is rigorous, and learning is the primary objective, not just a consolation prize for a missed KPI.


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Edmondson breaks down the anatomy of mistakes so leaders can stop treating all errors as equal. To build a resilient organization, you must learn to categorize:

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 	<li style="margin-bottom: 1.2rem;">Basic Failures: Simple mistakes in known territory (e.g., a typo in a contract). These are preventable through better training and checklists.</li>
 	<li style="margin-bottom: 1.2rem;">Complex Failures: These occur when multiple small factors align in a "perfect storm" (e.g., a supply chain breakdown). They require systems thinking to diagnose and mitigate.</li>
 	<li style="margin-bottom: 1.2rem;">Intelligent Failures: These are the "Right Kind of Wrong." They happen when we experiment in new territory, the risk is calculated, and the potential for learning is high.</li>
</ul>
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The Framework for Intelligence: An intelligent failure must take place in pursuit of a goal, be based on a hypothesis, and be as small as possible to limit the "blast radius" while maximizing insight.
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For senior HR and Talent leaders, Edmondson’s research provides a strategic framework for talent development and risk management:

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 	<li style="margin-bottom: 1.2rem;">From Safety to Accountability: This book clarifies that psychological safety isn't about "being nice"—it’s about high standards and the candor required to report failures early.</li>
 	<li style="margin-bottom: 1.2rem;">Cultivating a Growth Mindset: It provides a practical curriculum for L&amp;D leaders to teach teams how to conduct "post-mortems" without the blame game, turning every setback into a competitive advantage.</li>
 	<li style="margin-bottom: 1.2rem;">Innovation Insurance: As organizations navigate AI and digital shifts, "Right Kind of Wrong" gives leaders the toolkit to encourage the bold experimentation necessary for survival without risking the entire enterprise.</li>
</ul>

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<div style="font-style: italic; color: #444; background-color: #f4f4f4; padding: 30px; border-radius: 12px; border-right: 5px solid #cc0000;">Building a culture of innovation isn't about eliminating failure; it’s about mastering it. By teaching our organizations to distinguish between a careless error and an intelligent experiment, we unlock the true potential of our talent. Success isn't the absence of failure—it's the ability to fail in ways that propel us toward the next great breakthrough.</div>
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Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

Strategy

dirk.tussing

Change Management

growth mindset

talent management

systems thinking

psychological safety

accountability

learning and development

organizational culture

resilience

intelligent failure

innovation strategy

As talent leaders, we know the feeling: we've helped craft a powerful strategy, but as soon as it hits the floor, it gets buried by the "whirlwind" of daily operations. Great ideas stall, and initiatives that should have been transformative simply fizzle out. If you're looking for a way to bridge the gap between strategy and execution for your teams, you're not alone. I’ve found a resource that tackles this challenge head-on.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is a powerful framework that offers a clear, repeatable path to achieving your most critical goals. Unlike other methodologies that get lost in theory, 4DX is a practical system that focuses on creating a culture of execution.

Here's the core idea: a leader's two primary roles are strategy and execution. This book argues that execution is the tougher challenge, and it provides a simple, proven formula to make it happen. You'll learn how to focus on a few "wildly important" goals, define the high-leverage activities that will drive those goals, create a transparent scoreboard to track progress, and establish a rhythm of accountability that keeps teams engaged and on track.

For HR and talent leaders, this isn't just a business book—it's a guide to building a high-performance culture from the ground up. It’s about empowering teams to own their results and transform the way your company gets things done. It’s about moving beyond simply having a plan to actually achieving it.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

rick.wooden

Goal Setting

HR leadership

Leadership Skills

Business Growth

Strategic Planning

execution

The New York Times best-selling team leadership handbook for modern executives, managers, and organizations

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before.

For twenty years, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been engaging audiences with a page-turning, realistic fable that follows the travails of Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech’s CEO, as she faces the ultimate leadership crisis. She must unite a team in such disarray that it threatens to derail the entire company.

Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting every one rowing in the same direction.

Today, the lessons in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are more relevant than ever. This special anniversary edition celebrates one of the best-selling business books of all time with a new foreword from the author that reflects on its legacy and lessons.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Engagement &amp; Culture

team-building

communication

collaboration

organizational development

teamwork

Conflict Resolution

Team Dynamics

Trust Building

Management Skills

terresa.bubbers

catherine.hebel

Start waking up to your full potential every single day with the updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book with more than 2 million copies sold.

Getting everything you want out of life isn’t about doing more. It’s about becoming more. Hal Elrod and The Miracle Morning have helped millions of people become the person they need to be to create the life they’ve always wanted. Now, it’s your turn.

Hal’s revolutionary S.A.V.E.R.S. method is a simple, effective step-by-step process to transform your life in as little as six minutes per day:
<ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical">
 	<li>Silence: Reduce stress and improve mental clarity by beginning each day with peaceful, purposeful quiet</li>
 	<li>Affirmations: Reprogram your mind to overcome any fears or beliefs that are limiting your potential or causing you to suffer</li>
 	<li>Visualization: Experience the power of mentally rehearsing yourself showing up at your best each day</li>
 	<li>Exercise: Boost your mental and physical energy in as little as 60 seconds</li>
 	<li>Reading: Acquire knowledge and expand your abilities by learning from experts</li>
 	<li>Scribing: Keep a journal to deepen gratitude, gain insights, track progress, and increase your productivity by getting clear on your top priorities</li>
</ul>

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)

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