Game Management

In Diversity and Inclusion Matters: Tactics and Tools to Inspire Equity and Game-Changing Performance, award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) expert Jason R. Thompson delivers a practical and engaging handbook for implementing a DE&I program in your organization. The CAPE technique, developed by the author, gives you a clear blueprint and the tools you'll need to make your diversity program a success. In this book, you'll learn how to achieve early and significant wins to create the necessary long-term organizational change needed for successful DE&I programs.

Though technology has evolved at hyper-speed over the past 100 years, management styles have mostly stayed the same. The higher-ups make the decisions, and the employees grind it out, often without knowing the endgame. In 1983, Jack Stack created a new game: the great game of business. Get in the Game further explains the rules of this game: To win, you must get everyone, at all levels of the business, as informed, involved, and engaged as the owner.

As digital technologies and consumer expectations continue to disrupt almost every industry sector, companies are placing greater emphasis on developing and implementing transformation programs. Changing the Game offers the practical knowledge required to create a dramatic step-change in company performance.

What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. What lessons can we draw from its major successes and failures about the future of entertainment?

In a televised social experiment before millions of viewers, police sergeant Derrick Levasseur demonstrated that techniques used by undercover detectives could help people achieve their goals in everyday social situations. The result: he walked away with more than half a million dollars. In The Undercover Edge, Derrick shares his personal mind-set surrounding human behavior and motivation. Even more than that, he provides easy yet groundbreaking tools acquired while overcoming personal adversity.

When we make decisions we like to think we weigh the options carefully, look at all the possibilities, and make the best choice based on a rational examination of the facts. But in truth, much of our decision making happens on a subconscious level based on feelings we might not even be aware of. By observing and predicting human behavior, we can learn to react and direct behavior in others with the right kinds of words and body language. If you want to learn how to convince people to buy your product, contribute to your cause, or vote for your candidate, this book has the answers.

SOAR to Business Success is your ultimate guide to unlocking business growth. Drawing on decades of experience, the authors share actionable strategies, proven methodologies, and real-world examples to help businesses identify and implement growth strategies that can transform your business and give you a competitive edge. Whether you're an established company seeking renewed momentum or a startup building a strong foundation, SOAR to Business Success will inspire, inform, and empower you to reach new heights.

In dynamic, fiercely competitive markets you must have confidence in your business strategy, especially when the future of your company is at stake. Rather than make untested, unilateral decisions, war game strategies with your leadership team in a safe workshop environment. In Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, Arjan Singh, a top competitive intelligence (CI) expert consultant, shows you how to build winning strategies step-by-step.

Author Elira Fontayne explains why the showroom feels so carefully staged–the lighting, the music, the polished displays–and how every element is engineered to keep you relaxed, impressed, and just a little dazzled. She reveals the psychological triggers dealerships rely on, from “anchoring” high prices to make lesser ones seem like bargains, to the “Monthly Payment Maze” that hides the true cost of your car behind appealingly small numbers.

Over the years, I have posted quite a few of The Restaurant Coach™ Tips across the internet. Some of my clients asked if there was a booklet available where they could see them all. I never thought about it, but it was a great idea. Here are 365 of my tips that you can use to trigger critical concepts and keep your edge.

Darren Finkelstein has a simple, game-changing seven-step road to accountability process that is easy to follow and will increase the probability of achieving your goals, tasks, and promises to a massive 95 percent.

The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026. For almost half a century, the U.S. men’s national team existed on the fringes of world soccer—out of sight, out of...

Stoicism has a lot to offer that is as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago—its guiding purpose was to help us to live better lives. The Stoic golden rule was that "we can't control external events, but we can choose how to respond to them". This idea can have a profound effect on how we exist in the world.

What would happen if a leadership expert were willing to distill everything he’s learned in his 40-plus years of experience into a handful of life-changing rules just for you? It would change your life. IF LEADERSHIP IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES features insights learned from Steve Gilliland’s years of leadership successes and mistakes while working in a Fortune 500 company and building his own multimillion-dollar business from the ground up. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Hall of Fame Speaker Steve Gilliland can.

Want to set your child on a path to financial success while keeping them entertained? Think Like a Tycoon: Kids Edition is the perfect audiobook for young listeners aged 8-12, offering an engaging introduction to essential money skills. With 25 kid-friendly money hacks, this audiobook teaches children how to save, spend smartly, and even begin investing—all in fun, easy-to-follow chapters. Kids will understand that money isn’t just for adults; it’s something they can start mastering now!

Jack is a stressed out CEO of a once great business, Stackflow. But after a pandemic, supply chain chaos, labor market fluctuations, and his own failed strategic initiatives, Jack is struggling to keep his head above water—and the company's. Like nearly every other CEO in history, Jack is working endless hours away from his family, who is quickly losing patience. During those long days, he's cobbling together ideas and goals—and still not seeing meaningful results.

The right pricing strategy can change the entire trajectory of a business, a market, and even society at large. To help you create your best pricing strategy efficiently and confidently, two leaders from BCG are introducing fresh perspectives on pricing that take you far beyond the realm of mind-numbing numbers.

This audiobook is the definitive resource for learning the tricks of the trade and potential pitfalls in the hiring process as well as how to conduct an effective skin-in-the-game C-Suite job search. Skin in the Game is about middle-market private equity hiring of C-Suite executives coupled with the author's unique due diligence screening process.

Während die einen sich weniger Work und mehr Life wünschen, fordern die anderen mehr Leistungsbereitschaft. Dabei geht beides: Spaß und Erfolg. Leidenschaft und Disziplin. Selbstverwirklichung und Teamarbeit. All das und noch viel mehr können wir uns nämlich von Spitzensportlern abgucken. Ob Basketballlegende Dirk Nowitzki, Bahnrad-Champion Kristina Vogel oder die Rekordmeister vom FC Bayern München: Sie alle wenden ähnliche Methoden und Strategien an und haben ein bestimmtes Mindset.

Women on corporate boards is strictly a business issue. Independent research studies demonstrate that public companies with women on their boards are more profitable, more productive, and their workforce is better engaged. Even more compelling, shareholders large and small have the best chance for positive returns on their investments when women are on the boards.