The growing incidence of chronic disease has highlighted the need for palliative medicine and care facilities for the terminally ill, sometimes over an extended period. George J. Taylor examines what this means in A Caregiver’s Guide to Palliative Medicine. Caregivers can include family members, doctors,...

In Making Safety Happen, Brian L. Fielkow argues that workplace disasters usually develop slowly, where dangerous behavior becomes repetitive when employees stop seeing warning signs because nothing bad happened the last time. The book examines how ordinary business pressure influences judgment during daily operations and...

Jenn Whitmer’s Joyosity examines how workplace culture gradually pulls people away from meaningful work by normalizing exhaustion and emotional disconnection. Using experiences from educational leadership, Whitmer describes how institutions often demand constant output while ignoring the human cost created by fear-driven management and endless pressure....

Denise Koessler Gosnell and Kathryn Erickson’s Tech Confidential follows two women working inside Silicon Valley as professional ambition gradually overtakes the rest of their lives. Denise reaches a point where stress leaves her injured on the floor of her home, while Kathryn begins reassessing the...

D.M. Christensen uses satire in M.B.A. to examine what happens after entering an MBA program and realizing many professional systems reward appearances more reliably than practical judgment. Classroom discussions about leadership expand into criticism of universities selling prestige while employers treat credentials as proof of...

In Stagnation Assassin: The Anti-Consultant Manifesto, Todd Hagopian describes how a business can appear stable while losing money each day, then shows how that condition develops through decisions that delay action even when leaders know what must be done. He centers the book on a...

Dr. Theresa Y. Wee’s My COVID-19 Diary is a day-by-day, raw account of her experience of the first nine months of the pandemic. She captures the turmoil of lockdowns from March to December 2020. As a pediatrician in Honolulu, her memoir examines professional challenges, such...

SOAP Notes: Irreverent Confessions of a Veterinary Technician by Frannie O'Callaghan is a candid and, at times, surprisingly moving memoir from behind the scenes of a veterinary clinic. O'Callaghan is a licensed vet tech with over a decade of experience, and she holds nothing back:...

More Than Just Luck by Greg Wier describes his painful rise from a disadvantaged childhood in a Michigan trailer park. He had an abusive alcoholic father and a teenage parenthood. This is the story of how he beat the odds to become a multimillionaire security...

Corporate Undertaker is a firsthand look at what happens when businesses hit the wall, drawn from Domenic Aversa’s 25 years as a crisis manager. Aversa’s job was to step into the middle of chaos—dealing with everything from delusional owners of apparel giants to machine builders...