If in 2017, you've vowed to find a new job, get a promotion, be a better boss, or simply enjoy work more, Business Insider has got your back.
Over the past year, we've covered a bunch of books that redefine "work" and offer solid tips for making it a less terrible way to spend your time.
Our list is a diverse sampling of advice and strategies from business-school professors, psychologists, and career coaches — all with the same goal of helping you craft a meaningful work life.
Below, we've rounded up our top seven picks.
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'What Got You Here Won't Get You There' by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Goldsmith is a psychologist and an executive coach who's worked with more than 150 CEOs. He's been named multiple times to the Thinkers50 list of influential management thinkers.
"What Got You Here Won't Get You There" is geared toward workers looking to advance to the next stage in their careers.
The thrust of the book is that just because you've been able to get by with your counterproductive habits doesn't mean you'll be able to reach the top of your field with those same tendencies. So it's time to nix them.
Goldsmith and Reiter outline the 20 workplace habits that keep business leaders — and everyone else — from success.
The authors also offer a number of necessary wake-up calls — like the fact that it matters more what other people think of you than what you think of you. And that asking your team for "feedforward," or suggestions for the future, is just as important as soliciting feedback.
'Smarter Faster Better' by Charles Duhigg
Four years after publishing his bestseller "The Power of Habit," Duhigg released another bestseller, titled "Smarter Faster Better."
In the book, Duhigg, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist for The New York Times, deconstructs productivity and creativity into skills that anyone can develop.
He draws on stories from Disney creatives, Google teams, and airplane pilots to make the argument that productivity and creativity are really the results of systematic thinking and behavior.
Consider the production of the hit Disney film "Frozen," for example. Duhigg suggests that the creative team succeeded by combining old ideas — princesses and sisters — in new ways. In other words, anyone can learn to be creative if they embrace the power of new perspectives.
'Payoff' by Dan Ariely
Ariely, a behavioral economist and professor at Duke University, is the author of a number of popular books, including "Predictably Irrational." He also publishes a column in The Wall Street Journal in which he answers readers' questions about human behavior.
In "Payoff," Ariely argues that human motivation is a lot more complex than we might believe. Most importantly, money isn't everything.
In fact, getting pizza and compliments can be more motivating than getting a financial bonus. And letting people take ownership of a project and giving them credit for it makes them more inclined to do it well.
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