Book Capsules, March 2025

Essential
Christie Smith and Kelly Monahan
Wiley, 208 pp., $30

The authors provide a road map for leaders facing a common challenge: navigating the evolving global market. They present strategies to transform managerial perspectives, emphasizing the importance of human-centered leadership to fully unlock potential in the technology age. Essential addresses attitude changes about labor, management, and organizational goals to help companies grow and innovate. The book also reveals how to manage teams by incorporating tools powered by generative artificial intelligence and maintaining employees' talent and skills. Essential encourages readers to leave a significant impact on humanity in today's workplace.

Designing Accessible Learning Content, 2nd Edition
Susi Miller
Kogan Page, 408 pp., $55

This book is a practical guide for L&D practitioners, instructional designers, and course developers who design, create, develop, or test online learning content to meet accessibility guidelines. Miller's E-Learning Accessibility Framework provides easy-to-follow steps to design learning content using any authoring tool. The author also includes context, such as reasons for a focus on disability, an explanation of assistive technology, the case for digital accessibility, and an overview of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and the nine new standards. The text uses real-world examples in the form of case studies and industry perspectives.