Ashgate Publishing is also invested in the happy workplace/happy employees trend with Elizabeth A. Hoffman's Co-operative Workplace Dispute Resolution: Organizational Structure, Ownership and Ideology (Aug.). And lessons learned through team-building are brought to bear in How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth (Harlequin Nonfiction, June) by Robyn Benincasa, founder of the adventure-based team-building company World Class Teams. Just out from Hyperion with a 50,000-copy print run is The Only Way to Win: How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfillment in Business and Life, in which performance psychologist Jim Loehr looks at what it really takes to feel successful. (Hint: It's not money and fame.)
Michael Pye, senior acquisitions editor at Career Press/New Page Books, says, "Right now the collaborative work environment is on the rise. So we're looking for titles that don't just push the old follow-me-or-you're-out rule. Managers acknowledge some of the best ideas come from people below them." That principle, says Pye, is the reason for publishing a third edition of Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson's 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy, one of Career Press's bestselling titles of the past decade. New titles include The Titleless Leader: How to Get Things Done When You're Not in Charge by Nan S. Russell (May) and The Manager's Phrase Book: 3000+ Powerful Phrases That Put You in Command in Any Situation (Jan.).