Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People - by Bradford Smart -- Companies that mis-hire its most important resource—the people-- can result in financial drain and inefficiency. Topgrading enables companies to recruit, hire and keep the best people for the right jobs to get excellent results. The book illustrates companies and even individuals aspiring to be an “A” player and how to become one. Combined with coaching on the job, people can be topgraded if external recruitment is not an option. Topgrading offers insights on motivating people using its 4,000 in-depth interviews.

Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent - by Ken Dychtwald, Tamara J. Erickson, Robert Morison -- Within the decade, as the massive boomer generation begins to retire and fewer skilled workers are available to replace them, companies in industrialized markets will face a labour shortage and brain drain of dramatic proportions. Based on decades of groundbreaking research and study, the authors present innovative and actionable management techniques for leveraging the knowledge of mature workers, reengaging disillusioned mid-career workers, and attracting and retaining talented younger workers.

Stress For Success - by James E. Loehr and Mark H. Mccormack -- Motivational coach of world-class athletes turns his attention to those in the corporate world. In Stress for Success, business people get a practical, performance-based program to strengthen their physical, mental and emotional resilience. Loehr's 30-day program shows readers how to gradually make the kind of personal lifestyle changes that bring about the kind of high-level performance demanded of people at every level of the corporation.

Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Challenging our cherished belief of the "self-made man," he makes the democratic assertion that superstars don't arise out of nowhere, propelled by genius and talent: "they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot." Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, "some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky."

The Tipping Point - by Malcolm Gladwell -- This celebrated New York Times bestseller -- now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback -- is a book that is changing the way Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas.