No Hard Feelings

Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy's guide to emotions at work holds that suppressing feelings harms health and productivity, but so does letting them run wild. Writing as organizational consultants, they treat the modern workplace as an emotional minefield of confusing power structures and unwritten rules, where people must be genuine without oversharing and professional without stiffness. They offer a way to decide which emotions to let go, which to keep private and which to express. Their strategies include being selectively vulnerable, remembering that feelings are not facts, and becoming less passionate about the job to stay healthier and more focused. The advice draws on behavioral economics, psychology and the authors' work with many organizations.

Adam Grant included it among his 19 new leadership books to read in 2019, pointing to its illustrations and practical examples. Cal Newport praised it as one of the most original and funniest business books he had read in a long time, and Susan Cain endorsed its case that emotions belong in the workplace.