High Management

It’s not enough to hire an executive assistant and hope for the best. They can be your project manager, personal assistant, and chief of staff—if you know how to cultivate a partnership. In The 29-Hour Work Day, EA specialists and ProAssisting founders Ethan Bull and Stephanie Bull reveal their framework for building an alliance with the right EA to support your professional and personal growth. Their five performance multipliers show how to hire a trustworthy assistant, establish expectations, and set guidelines that will enable you both to accomplish goals.

Whether you're a chronic second-guesser or just eager for new ways to look at your world, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler will teach you how to improve your understanding of the dilemmas you face and how to make better decisions every day. Taught in MBA courses and elsewhere, The Decision Book contains classics like the Swiss cheese model for reviewing mistakes and the personal performance model for testing whether or not to switch jobs. This revised edition includes a model for identifying cognitive biases and the expectation model to help you choose a life partner.

Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known and most-successful companies, they illustrate how these two forces can - and do - work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment.

Document your leadership vision, then transform your organization into it...and leave the legacy of an organization that performs brilliantly now and long after you've moved on.

Practical ideas from the best brains in Business A sharp, jargon-free guide to the core curriculum of an MBA program, MBA in a Book shows how to master the big ideas of business and use them in a practical way to build and enhance career success. “In the world of business, ideas matter...

Written for real estate agents, teams, brokerages, and franchise owners, The High-Performing Real Estate Team is an indispensable resource that will guide you toward growth while providing you with the resources to reach your goals faster.

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning educator Ron Clark applies his successful leadership principles to the business world in this effective and accessible guidebook, perfect for any manager looking to inspire and motivate his or her team. Includes a foreword by bestselling author...

Being a great leader - one who drives massive passion, commitment and engagement - is within your reach. Follow the step-by-step plan in Employee Engagement 2.0 and prepare to be a great place to work.

The Greatness Guide Book 2 offers more of Robin Sharma's inspiring anecdotes, tips, and big ideas. Discover ideas to generate wealth and energy, tool kits for practical work-life balance, time-management techniques that really work, practical strategies to turn setbacks into opportunities, and so much more. The Greatness Guide Book 2 will uplift, energize, and move you to action.

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. From walking's evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms on the ocean floor, to new findings from cutting-edge research, he reveals how the brain and nervous system give us the ability to balance, weave through a crowded city, and run our "inner GPS" system.

A breakthrough solution is exposed when some unexpected events force Caroline and Paul, a married couple working for their family's retail business, to make a few small changes in the way things are done. A solution that propels the family's regional chain of stores into a very profitable, rapidly growing, international enterprise. If there is a hint of Jonah, from The Goal, reappearing in this novel, it is Henry, the soon-to-retire president and majority owner of the company who logically states that, "if you do not deal directly with the core problem, don't expect significant improvement."

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed business consultant and international speaker Greg Bustin shares his interviews with leaders of the most admired companies in the world, and CEOs of mid-size companies who outperform their competition on a consistent basis.

This isn’t some fluffy, feel-good self-help book. It’s a no-fluff guide built from over 10 years as a social skills coach, coaching hundreds of 1-on-1 clients to overcome their social anxiety and become socially magnetic.

Optimizing High-Performing Teams presents a standards-based, lifecycle-driven approach to elevating technical program and project teams from pre-initiation through post-shutdown. Organized around the project life cycle, this practical guide offers concrete tools, templates, and tips across ten essential areas—Program Management Office, Business Development, Recruitment, Integration Management, Communication Management, Requirement Management, Solution Development, Security Management, Information Dissemination, and Operations & Maintenance—so teams can perform at their best at every stage.

Seth Godin, one of today's most influential business thinkers, writes best-selling books like Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars. And in between those annual books, he delivers a daily stream of ideas on one of the world's most popular blogs.

What patterns do you choose to let your brilliance shine? So many leadership books claim to have the recipe to success, if you just follow the prescribed system. What these approaches fail to recognize, however, is that great responsibility doesn’t conform to a cookie-cutter model. Rather, the best leaders in today’s complex world take a customized approach by exploring and then leaning into their own values. They recognize their brilliance while also constantly learn and grow and are open to feedback and willing to change.

As companies evolve to adopt, integrate, and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century, a rash of processes and methodologies are vying for their product teams' attention. In the worst of cases, each discipline on these teams - product management, design, and software engineering - learn a different model.

The next big idea from bestselling author Dan Sullivan, rooted in the same high-level teachings his clients pay thousands to learn—stop hiring for jobs and start casting for roles to build teams that perform, not just function. Stop hiring. Start casting. Most companies hire to fill jobs. The...

Dale Carnegie's unique and powerful approach to leadership training is based on wisdom and expertise gained from developing leaders longer than any other professional development organization. Lead! is for new or experienced leaders alike who want to be more effective at motivating and inspiring their teams. This book is designed from the proven Dale Carnegie Leadership Success Model and Dale Carnegie's Human Relationships Principles to help you understand tools and techniques to address common leadership challenges....

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) has been successfully applied in almost every area of human endeavor. And while Eli Goldratt is indeed a scientist, an educator and a business leader, he is first and foremost a philosopher. He is a thinker who provokes others to do the same. Dr. Goldratt exhorts his readers to examine and reassess their lives and business practices by cultivating a different perspective. In his latest book, The Choice, Goldratt once again presents his thought provoking approach.