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Work Challenges & work ethicbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Work Challenges and work ethic.

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time.

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Cal Newport
2025
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Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work

There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say.

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Alison Green
2018
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So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Cal Newport’s clearly written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person’s talent and skill—and not necessarily their passion—that determines their career path. Newport, who graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned a PhD.

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Cal Newport
2025
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.

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Adam Grant
2014
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion.

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Simon Sinek
2025
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers.

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Simon Sinek
2025
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The Full Body Yes: Change Your Work and Your World from the Inside Out

Work shouldn't be a burden that takes place outside of your “real life.” It should, and can, be a source of happiness and authentic meaning―if you work from the inside out.

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Scott Shute
2025
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Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

I believe fulfillment is a right and not a privilege. We are all entitled to wake up in the morning inspired to go to work, feel safe when we’re there and return home fulfilled at the end of the day. Achieving that fulfillment starts with understanding exactly WHY we do what we do.

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Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker
2017
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Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide

Learn from Michael Jordan, Robert Moses, Machiavelli, and Madonna—here, at last, is the guide for using power, money, fame, and sex that describes what actually works, rather than what ought to work.

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Gretchen Rubin
2001
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Living the 7 Habits: The Courage to Change

Success that endures—sustainable and balanced success—can seem difficult to achieve in today's turbulent, complex world of change. But those who achieve this kind of success live by seven universal, timeless, self-evident principles that apply in any situation, in any culture.

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Stephen Covey
2000
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