High Management

Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts...

Now more than ever, people are seeking a reprieve from the constant pressure to achieve, produce, and consume. While many turn to mindfulness and meditation, organizational change expert Marilyn Paul, PhD, offers a complementary solution that is as radical as it is ancient.

Whether you're preparing for a college entrance exam or a major business presentation, Ron Fry's How to Study Program equips you for a lifetime of learning. Conversational, approachable, and newly revised, this comprehensive program includes the all-time best seller, How to Study, plus six other helpful study guides.

In Predicting the Turn, Dave Knox discusses the new high-stakes game of business between disruptive start-ups and blue-chip companies, teaching listeners how to foresee the future of their industry. As a brand marketer, venture investor, and start-up advisor, Knox provides a one-of-a-kind worldview into the changing relationship between start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. His insight-filled audiobook Predicting the Turn teaches the world's largest companies how to foresee the future of their industries.

In order to be successful as an IT manager, you need to be able to show the company that under your leadership your team is able to deliver high quality products on time and under budget. If you want to have any chance of being able to pull this off, then you are going to have to discover ways to build a high performance IT team.

Tired of trying hard only to barely inch ahead? Learn the EXACT HABITS of the top one percent of the most successful CEOs and founders. This will teach you how to develop the mindset and habits of the most successful founders. It's how you achieve success while protecting your well-being.

“Neil Irwin has written a wonderful, fascinating narrative of our fast-changing world, filled with erudite analysis and practical advice...This is a map to the modern economy—and a lodestar for navigating your career.” — Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and...

Unlock next-level leadership success with just 7 transformative essentials – even if you’ve struggled in your managerial role before. Are you overwhelmed by the challenges of navigating change, fostering diversity, and boosting team productivity? Struggling to balance personal leadership growth and managing a high-performing team? You're not alone. Many managers face these same hurdles. But what if you could turn these struggles into strategic steps toward impactful leadership?

In today's fiercely competitive business environment, where employee engagement can determine an organization's success or failure, Turn the Tide: From Low Engagement to High Energy emerges as an indispensable resource for managers, executives, and HR professionals. This audiobook offers insight into engagement dynamics, strategic cultural leadership approaches, and practical tools for enhancing employee engagement.

The failure to grasp the basics of management often trips up even the most successful companies. With that in mind, management consultant Roger E. Allen uses A. A. Milne's beloved stories and characters to illustrate essential business principles, such as the establishment of clear objectives...

Your job is to help other people…but who’s there to help you? Your mental health matters, and it’s time to take care of it. Whether you’re a firefighter, a paramedic, an EMT, or a police officer, you’re dealing with traumatic, stressful, and high-pressure situations every day. Perhaps your role doesn’t fit into these categories. Maybe you’re a healthcare provider, or maybe you have a hands-on role in the military.

In today’s fast-paced and constantly evolving workplace, leading a team isn’t just about meeting deadlines or hitting metrics—it’s about creating an environment where people thrive, contribute meaningfully, and feel connected to a shared purpose. Lead with Impact offers a practical, insightful, and deeply human guide for leaders who want to do more than just manage—they want to inspire.

You have the idea, the drive, and now the capital to create the company you’ve always envisioned. Now comes the most important part: assembling a team of high performers. To build a sustainable business, you need engineers who can execute on common goals. Who do you hire, and how do you hire the people you need? How will you motivate these engineers and inspire their best work? In Raising Engineers, David Dettmer helps you create a culture that reflects your business, establish a working process to cultivate a strong team, and hire the right people to build impactful products.

This book was written for the new manager or anyone who aspires to become a leader. Whether you have just finished school or have been working for some time, you are in (or about to assume) your first real leadership position. Leadership in Balance will help you to see and understand your natural tendency in each of four essential leadership domains. Once you’ve identified your true and natural tendencies, you become self-aware of your default position as a leader.

Organizational cultures are as broad and diverse as the people who build them. However, certain aspects of corporate culture are essential for any business offering a product or service for sale. A service culture is one of them. The Service Culture Playbook challenges all owners and managers within any service industry and all instructors within schools of hospitality management to take a cold-blooded, honest look at your service standards and practices and make course corrections as needed so you can play to win!

All endeavors are going to fall short of your hopes until you understand your biggest enemy: your ego. Most people have no idea that the ego is actually a massive collection of self-sabotaging programming with a goal of keeping everything basically the same. And the ego is brilliant at what it does. Sid Walker presents a formula for bringing any vision into reality by focusing more on your intuitive instincts and less on the conventional wisdom created by the ego.

This is a “how to” book for leaders in healthcare. Lessons learned from 30+ years as a nursing executive, an executive coach, and as an equestrian have been interwoven to describe what it takes for success as a leader for teams in healthcare and in horsemanship. The author sees similarities in both arenas.

Through their twenty-plus years of experience building teams, Marshall Calman and Jack Levitt of LeaderStrong, have developed a novel team-building framework. Their new book explores the journey of one business leadership group and how they develop into a Powerful Team using the C4 model. Marshall and Jack are Executive Leadership Coaches who work with Fortune 500 clients and sophisticated up-and-coming firms that want to get serious about leveraging their team's full power.

Despite your efforts to inspire, it seems like they just can’t meet their numbers. Which causes you to fall short of your goals. What if there was an easy solution that not only motivates your team, but also encourages and nurtures their future with your company? For the first time, Lisa Shumpert, a highly accomplished and strategic senior corporate officer, shares her secrets on empowering teams from her thirty-five years of global cross-industry human resources experience.

Do you want to be more productive? Are you stressed out, feeling like you’re pushing a boulder up a hill? Do you keep getting new books on productivity in the search for success? If so, the Productivity Directives book is for you. Imagine how good it would feel to finally get through that to-do list and get control of your workload. Peak Productivity provides a step-by-step training program for maximizing your productive output. Learn how to master your motivation and discover how to design high performance habits.