The rapid aging of the American workforce, together with other demographic trends, means that the competition to attract and retain top employees is fiercer than ever before. But smart companies recognize that there is vast untapped potential in the talent pool of the special needs population. In Dive In, disability experts and consultants Nadine Vogel and Cindy Brown explain how to recruit, train, accommodate, and support both adults with disabilities and those who have children or family members with special needs—without burdensome expenditures or disruption. Most importantly, the authors reveal the reasons why these employees stand out for their productivity, creativity, and loyalty.

Acquiring success in business and even in life can be very difficult. While some people seem to just naturally fall into being successful, there are others who must work at it, especially if they come from a simple background in which their access to capital and other helpful resources is limited. In Three Simple Steps, Trevor Blake offers three primary steps that a person must take in order to achieve success. Blake offers tools to climb out of the “quicksand” of life that seems to pull people down and interfere with their ability to work toward and achieve the level of success that they desire.

In The Snowball Effect, Andy Bounds describes how important it is to create successful communications that lead to significant time savings, increased productivity, and strengthened relationships. In business, effective communications lead to individuals enjoying work more, writing winning proposals, getting job interviews, persuading others to say “yes” when it matters most, initiating meetings that generate actions, and saving significant time by eliminating or limiting lengthy meetings and decluttering email inboxes. For people to improve communications and make the changes permanent, they need to first build a foundation, like that of a snowball’s core, then add techniques one at a time, as if making a snowball.

In the early pages of inGenius, Tina Seelig explains that the book’s title is derived from the Latin word “ingenium,” meaning “natural capacity” or “innate talent.” This is fitting, as everything Seelig explores strives to show individuals how to harness their own inherent potential for innovation. Unlike physical resources, creativity is always in limitless supply, so long as a person knows how to tap into his or her deep reserves. Seelig draws upon more than a decade’s worth of experience teaching courses on creativity to illustrate the roadblocks and wrong turns commonly found while searching for creative problem solving. Along the way, she provides countless examples of innovative thinking from some of today’s most successful, respected, and influential mavericks in the business world and entertainment industry.