Business Leadership Systems

Do you want to achieve greater growth and prosperity? We all do, but nothing great nor sustainable ever happens by accident. This is especially true with so many unexpected events altering the workplace, marketplace, and practice and recruiting spaces. The good news is that regardless of what's happening now (or coming next), there's one thing that sits above it all. Next-level leadership transcends both traditional thinking and the status quo. Winning today is more dynamic and complex.

What if a customer opens the door and their dog comes charging at you? What if your phone’s internet doesn’t work in a rural area? What if you could turn an upset customer into a positive outcome and gain respect as a professional? What if you could go from entry-level driver to leader? What if this book has the answers you are looking for?

It can be messy and overwhelming to figure out how to solve thorny problems. Where do you start? How do you know where to look for information and evaluate its quality and bias? How can you feel confident that you are making a careful and thoroughly researched decision? Whether you are deciding between colleges, navigating a career decision, helping your aging parents find the right housing, or expanding your business, Problem Solved will show you how to use the AREA Method to make complex decisions.

The Buyer-Centric Operating System isn't just another business book—it's a wake-up call for leaders who want to revolutionize their growth strategy by placing their buyers at the core of every decision. Forget outdated personas, funnel thinking, and superficial metrics. Andy Halko challenges traditional business frameworks, offering a radical approach to truly understanding, aligning with, and delighting your buyer. Through sharp insights, practical frameworks, and relatable experiences, this book walks you through transforming your organization into one that thrives on customer obsession.

Change is constant in the NDIS. To thrive, providers need more than good intentions, they need strong leadership, reliable systems, and a mindset for innovation. This no-fluff, real-world guide is designed especially for service providers who are passionate about supporting people with disabilities but are feeling the pressure of constant change.

In Clarity of Thought: Thinking Clearly About Leadership, Strategy, and Systems, Dr. Tadé Ayeni cuts through the clutter to deliver a practical, powerful guide for leaders who want to think better, decide smarter, and lead with deeper impact. Drawing on research, real-world examples, and timeless principles, Dr. Ayeni shows leaders how to move beyond surface-level fixes—and build organizations that think, move, and win with purpose.

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.

Humanism is a philosophy that centers on acknowledging the dignity of your fellow humans. It is a recognition that our behavior impacts others. We don’t live in a vacuum. When we are in a leadership position, we have even more responsibility to do good, not just for ourselves, but for our team as well. Humanistic management or leadership is a philosophical approach that is at once: Compassionate, ethical, responsible, reasonable, and strategic. To be an effective, ethical leader requires a variety of different interrelated skills.

Gaining the Systems Advantage explores how unsuspecting small-business owners get trapped in the daily chaos of feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and out of control while growing their business and provides strategies and solutions for escaping it.

What makes a great leader? What beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours are linked to being a top performing and influential leader, especially in these uncertain times? What impact does culture, industry, and business context have? And do formal training and education make a difference? This audiobook is for any business manager or executive, or indeed anyone involved in leading a team in their company, who wants to learn the secrets of successful leadership.

The way we do business is changing. Every day, we see new evidence that we've got to move away from the status quo that is burning out workers, enabling greed, and endangering our planet. Yet how do you develop the skills and practical tools to prioritize people, planet, and prosperity? With Shine: Ignite Your Inner Game to Lead Consciously at Work and in the World, Carley Hauck distills the research-based methods and game-changing skills she's brought to corporate settings such as LinkedIn, Pixar, Genentech, Clif Bar, and more.

Dreaming of a streamlined law practice that wins more clients and gives you your time back? This is your answer! Attorneys work some of the longest hours of any profession—especially if you run your own law firm. Whether you’re with a small team or going solo, chances are you’re on-call 24/7. You’re buried in day-to-day operations, legal work, and the emotional toll that comes with it—often at the expense of family life. You love your work and the difference you make. But what if you could regain balance and be fully present at work and at home?

Leadership drives purpose, culture drives passion, and strategy drives performance. Together, the 3Ps—purpose, passion and performance—equal profit. And profit is the life-giving blood keeping the economy flowing and growing.

Unproductive meetings are bad for business. The Meeting Leader Solution delivers a proven 10-step system that professionals can learn quickly so they can take action to make their meetings more productive and profitable.

It's Never About the Money challenges the conventional idea that money is the primary driver of success in business. Instead, the book explores how effective leadership, strong culture, and aligning values are the true ingredients for sustainable growth. Through personal anecdotes, practical strategies, and a step-by-step framework called the Performance Motivator™ System, Michelle Simms-Reiter shows how businesses can attract top talent, improve morale, and thrive-even in challenging times. This book offers insights for leaders at every level to build lasting success beyond financial gain.

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artifacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps, and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork.

Succeed the Sandler Way features 14 compelling success stories from real people who have used the Sandler Selling System to create major personal and professional breakthroughs. Each chapter is an in-depth profile of an actual Sandler client. As each case study proves, the guiding principle for creating a breakthrough is deceptively simple-sounding: Be candid with yourself. Taking a good, hard look at yourself is a prerequisite of any breakthrough.

Over the past 25 years, more than 100 companies that were failing, not making enough money, or simply struggling to achieve their true potential, turned to David Lord to learn how to make their businesses work better, make more money, and generate additional cash. David showed them how to transform their businesses’ systems of work into visual ones, resulting in improved employee involvement, quality, productivity, and profitability. Now, David’s audiobook shows exactly what he does to change struggling businesses into thriving ones, by employing the "Visual System of Work".

Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in Big Data Analytics. This breakthrough book demonstrates the importance of analytics, defines the processes, highlights the tangible and intangible values, and discusses how you can turn a business liability into actionable material that can be used to redefine markets, improve profits, and identify new business opportunities.

Data is everywhere, coming at us in a never-ceasing, ever-rising river that threatens to overwhelm us. Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, reveals, how natural patterns underlie data patterns that may dictate life or death, success, or failure. This book demonstrates how to exercise real intelligence by discerning the patterns that surround us every day and how to leverage this information into success in the workplace and beyond.