A successful business-focused self-help book starts with a clear message and a real understanding of your audience.

Skip the fluff. These 10 self-help books explore emotional intelligence with real insight, not slogans. Practical, honest, ...

In my view, if you’re a business leader looking to improve yourself, you don’t need to constantly consume self-help content.

No matter what you're going through in life—or even if you're just looking for a life-changing book to read—we could all use a little self-help and extracurricular learning from time to time ...

These claims are compelling. They make me pause and ask a deeper question: Are self-help books really helping us? I’ll say this up front: One book cannot change your life. One self-help book will not ...

It's everywhere. That makes self-help seem a lot more normal and natural. It also, though, makes the genre seem inescapable. People have always wanted practical wisdom from their reading, Blum argues.

Any book can be a self-help book, depending on how it’s read. Political pamphlets, epic poems, and contemporary novels can all offer insight into how to live—or how not to.

It is anti-help insofar as it emphasizes radical self-acceptance and also insofar as it emphasizes remaining in the present. (Improvement, needless to say, requires you to focus on the future.) ...

Josh Drummond explores the enduring appeal of self-help books and asks what they’re really doing for us. T his self-help book ...

Self-help programs should have accurate claims so consumers have accurate expectations, he says. But with no laws around who can publish what, it falls on the ethics of individuals to provide ...

If self-help is about how to do, self-care is about how to not do. Self-care, though, has no organizing rules, slogans or major, best-selling books — yet.