Career Leadership

Albeit not new information, Unkept Leadership: The Neglected Topics gives a fresh perspective on leadership and the neglected traits that can build up if not recognized and maintained. Like laundry, leadership requires regular care. When neglected, wrinkles deepen, colors fade, and stains—those subtle signs of avoidance, miscommunication, and burnout- begin to set in. Are you ready to sort through your leadership laundry basket, wash with care, and refresh the way you lead?

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and...

Leaders are always looking for an edge. That often sends many of them looking for the next big thing. Although leadership approaches and trendy management fads come and go, what remains the same? The qualities of a leader. Internationally-recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author John C...

Most think productivity is just about getting more done at a faster speed. But it's not. Productivity is about getting the right things done. New York Times best-selling author Michael Hyatt has created a total productivity system that's much more than endless box checking. Proven by more than 25,000 professionals, this system helps overwhelmed leaders achieve what matters most so they can succeed at both work and life.

As a leader, can you say with assurance that you consistently show up as your best and inspire others to do the same? Too many leaders cannot, and the underlying message is that performance suffers. In The Biology of Leadership, expert executive coach Carl Oxholm demonstrates how leaders can harness their better instincts and tap into the remarkable potential that exists in every voice, to get the outcomes they want and need.

A management book written by managers for front-line managers, The Effective Manager, 2nd Edition, is a concise, practical, and incisive take on what to do and say to get the best results possible from your co-located or remotely distributed team. The book's concrete advice will improve your relationships with your team members, increase your chances of being promoted, and generate trust amongst those you lead.

In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

Jay Abraham, a trusted advisor to many top corporations, brings together more than two hundred brilliant business-career ideas in this, his first major audiobook. Abraham reveals numerous new profit and personal advancement opportunities “hidden in plain sight” in and around every business organization today. He also demonstrates how all of us can maximize our careers and our incomes by applying fresh ways of looking at our many options in the vast new opportunity society that’s around us.

On ne naît pas leader, on le devient ! Pour devenir un leader, mieux vaut s'appuyer sur sa propre personnalité plutôt que de chercher à copier, imiter ou s'inspirer des autres. Dans cet ouvrage, les experts de la HBR démontrent combien le véritable leadership se fonde avant tout sur l'authenticité. C'est en étant soi-même, en affirmant sa propre " voix ", qu'il est possible de gagner la confiance de son équipe, de cultiver avec elle des liens étroits, de développer sa force de persuasion et de donner davantage de poids à ses interventions.

Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable...

Michael's 30+ years of experience in residential remodeling and specialty sales is shared in his new audiobook, Profitable Sales: A Contractor's Guide. The information provided is valuable for the construction-related business owner and their sales staff.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur, or a not-for-profit leader, there's no shortage of advice on such topics as writing a business plan, recruiting, raising capital, and branding. In fact there are so many books, articles, and websites that many startups get bogged down to the point of paralysis, or they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they discover their mistakes.

Transform your business with one pivotal role that changes everything. Most business owners think they must document every process themselves. But systems expert David Jenyns has discovered another way. Real transformation comes from empowering the right person to champion this mission.

As leaders, we all hit a point when things stop going well. A problem emerges that we think we can handle but discover we can't. The tools that got us this far somehow stop working. We don't understand; what are we missing? What we don't see is what we can't see: we have blindspots. Blindspotting provides a framework for understanding six types of blindspots, then takes you inside coaching sessions with profoundly relatable leaders going through the process of learning to recognize their own blindspots.

Führung funktioniert selten so, wie wir es gelernt haben – und oft ganz anders, als wir denken. Dieses Management Buch blickt hinter die Kulissen organisationaler Realität: zwischen Teamdynamiken, Selbstführung, Entscheidungsdruck und Systemlogik. Mayday im System macht sichtbar, wie Organisationen tatsächlich „ticken" – als soziale, dynamische Systeme – und warum Selbstführung zur Schlüsselkompetenz in komplexen Zeiten wird.

The Listening Leader is a practical guide that will inspire school, district, and teacher leaders to make substantive change and increase equitable student outcomes. Rooted in the values of equity, relationships, and listening, this luminous book helps reimagine what is possible in education today. Drawing from more than 20 years of experience in public schools, Shane Safir incorporates hands-on strategies and powerful stories to show us how to leverage one of the most vital tools of leadership: listening.

Toxic Workplace! is the first book to tackle the underlying systems issues that enable a toxic person to create a path of destruction in an organization, pervading others' thoughts and energies, even undermining their very sense of well-being. Based on all-new research with over 400 leaders, many from the Fortune 500 list, this book illustrates how to manage existing toxic behaviors, create norms that prevent the growth or regrowth of toxic environments, and ultimately design organizational communities of respectful engagement.

The second installment of the Traction Library's EOS Mastery Series, People gives listeners all the tools they need to create a thriving workplace culture and shows why it's an absolutely essential part of any successful business.

The Seven Figure Agency Roadmap is the must-have resource for digital marketing agency owners. Increase your income, work when and how you want, get your clients get incredible results, and live your desired lifestyle. For the last five years, the author has been working with a select group of agencies, taking them from struggle to success and from scale and significance. Josh Nelson has a very new approach, and he shares the very best of what is working in his business and for the agencies he works with to build million-dollar agencies.