Business Change

Academics, students, and activists from a wide array of disciplines will find A Taste for Change a dialogue worthy of careful consideration and an inspiring call to action.

The secret to taking your business from mediocre to meaningfully different? Thinking like a marketer. It's also the secret to moving your organization from status quo to success story, and from busy to profitable. In an accessible, practical new guidebook, acclaimed marketing expert Kate Colbert offers fresh insights into the actions and attitudes that can accelerate your business success, sharpen your daily work, and balance your efforts to create value for customers while capturing value for the bottom line.

Looking for new ideas? Need your teams to perform at a higher level? Want a healthy corporate culture? Follow along with these two dynamic authors (and narrators) as they take you through The Improv Mindset, one of the most engaging and powerful methods to getting individuals, teams, and organizations to step up, engage, and solve problems. Steeped in the world of improv comedy, this no-nonsense guide provides a window into the neuroscience behind creativity and new ways of thinking. Filled with exercises and activities, you'll be able immediately apply the lessons in this book.

In Coaching for (a) Change, Dr. Greg Giuliano draws on over two decades of leadership and coaching experience to offer a practical, adaptable path forward. Through the GR8 Coaching Framework—eight questions to quickly coach anyone, anytime—you will learn how to kick the “Expert Problem-Solver” habit, shift from manager to coach, and create the conditions for people to own their situation, own their solution, and increase their impact.

In The Emotional Intelligence Advantage, leading expert Amy Jacobson shares a framework for resolving challenges in the workplace. How do you tackle tough conversations? How does your team react when a key process or system changes? And how can you overcome doubt and indecision to create a culture of alignment and trust? When it comes to modern leadership, you need to be aware of more than just the bottom line. You also need to apply emotional intelligence in how you manage people, processes, and change.

LinkedIn is not just another social media tool. It's the world's largest professional online network, with over 120 million users in over 200 countries. The Power in a Link shows you how to employ this remarkable yet misunderstood resource to execute networking strategies and processes for your business, secure deals, and use (not abuse) your existing relationships.

What do an astronaut, a Navy SEAL, the co-founder of Method, the former VP of communications at Apple, and the president of Domino's all have in common? Ryan Berman spent three years shadowing the most courageous people and leaders on the planet to find out what they have done to accomplish liberating personal or business feats.

In Interrupted Entrepreneurship, multigenerational family business member Raméz A. Baassiri seeks answers to an array of hurdles that every family business has faced and could face, not only from the perspective of his own family business but also from the viewpoint of dozens of family businesses that have confronted interruptions and not only weathered the storms, but thrived.

Vous avez ouvert votre entreprise mais les ventes ne décollent pas ? Vous avez l’impression de perdre votre temps et votre argent ? Alors ce livre est fait pour vous ! Perfectionnez-vous pour perfectionner votre business !

These books have been written because Greg Olney cares about the Commitment to Change (C2C) that comes about in each person. It remains important in these series of books that great change (in quality rather than actual size of change) happens in each person’s life. Come learn to reverse-engineer your attitudes and behaviors. Take your attitudes and behaviors apart piece by piece and understand how they work.

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen! The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.

The books in this series have been written because Greg Olney cares about the Commitment to Change that comes about in each person and the failure that might get in the way of great change. Negative results may not happen right away. It may take years as the body builds up a resistance to the harmful effects of the poison we put into our system. Businesses and families work the same way. We put up with pain because we’re afraid of the alternative. Instead of kindly addressing issues, we wait for arguments to boil over when it’s harder to exercise self-control.

What can blue-collar business teach us about work and faith? The faith and work conversation is alive and well, but most resources focus on white-collar jobs, neglecting the majority of the workforce. When Pastor Dave Hataj realized he needed to go home and take over the family gear shop, he didn’t expect it to become a spiritually transformative season of his life. Yet as he began to think about what it meant to be a Christian in business, he discovered just how much our work matters to God and how blue-collar business can change people, communities, and even the world.

Ian Whitworth built national companies from nothing. Coronavirus hammered some of them flat. Yet he's fine with that. Because when the chaos is swirling and shit is getting real, there's opportunity. Now is the time to put yourself in control - where no boss or virus can take you down. So many talented people want to give it a shot, yet they're held back by the big business myths. But success is simpler than your crusty CEO wants you to think.

Are you truly happy with your life? Facing the answer to this question can be scary, but it is a necessary step to take control of it, change it, and finally make it become the life you deserve and always wanted to have. In Did You Sell Your Soul?: It's Never Too Late to Change Your Story, author and successful entrepreneur Vick Tipnes shows listeners how to overcome obstacles, remain focused, and achieve your life goals.

All of us constantly broadcast information to others, even when we don't say a word. Sales professionals broadcast to potential clients in a way that wins new business. Managers broadcast to their teams about projects. Colleagues broadcast to one another about available resources. The messages we choose to broadcast shape others' beliefs in the potential for success and their ability to create positive change.

In Leading Change, James O'Toole argues that outdated Machiavellian dictates of situational leadership are ultimately ineffective - and demonstrates instead that successful leadership is rooted in high moral purpose and consistent respect for followers.

Behavior change is hard, but O’Mara shows that by adopting strategies that are well-founded in the science of brain and behavior, individuals and organizations can adapt to the demands of the modern world.

In this fun and fascinating airplane listen, Nick Tasler—organizational psychology expert and Harvard Business Review columnist—inspires busy leaders to embrace change sooner so their teams can grow faster and achieve greater success.

In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is rapidly reshaping the modern world–shattering communities, shaking global business and propelling waves of cutting-edge innovation. Telling unforgettable human stories, meeting scientists and business tycoons, activists and political leaders, this is an account of disaster and survival, of frantic adaptation and groundbreaking innovation, of hope, and of the forces that will define our future.