High Management

Getting your employees to do their best work has never been easy. But it is a particular challenge for knowledge workers, who must attend to many different tasks and whose to-do list is often ambiguous, requiring outside-the-box thinking. Lists of dos and don'ts are rarely effective. Instead, your best bet is to align their interests with your own - the heart of motivation - and set them free to use their own drive and creativity on their, and your, behalf.

Most organizations have the same weakness. There is a gap between their careful plans and what happens at the point where the sales force meets the customer. In his 25 years combating profit-killers for Fortune 500 companies, Gregg Crawford has seen this again and again. Companies have almost everything they need to succeed. All that's missing is one final connection: the last link.

Today's most successful businesses are storydoers. They create products and services that, from the very beginning, are manifestations of an authentic and meaningful story - one told primarily through action, not advertising. In True Story, creative executive Ty Montague argues that any business, regardless of size or industry, can embrace the principles of storydoing. Indeed, our best-run companie - from small start-ups to global conglomerates - organize around a coherent narrative that is then broadcast through every action they take (from product design to customer service to marketing).

Economic instability is the new normal across all income levels. Teetering: Why So Many Live on a Financial Tightrope and What to Do About It addresses the critical question, what's wrong with American policies and the financial institutions that are failing so many hard-working people today? It merges original research with stories from real-life "tightropers"...

Navigating Life with Chronic Pain provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about the challenges patients, family, and caregivers face when confronted by chronic pain.

Everything You Know About Organizational Behavior You Learned in High School brings you on a nostalgic journey to a pleasant, albeit sometimes volatile, period in your life. It is during this time in high school the foundation for your personality and adult behavior patterns are established. These adolescent behavior patterns remain in adulthood and find their way into the workplace. Becker teaches you to recognize the dysfunction that is caused and captures simple tips to improve your team’s and company’s results.

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.

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.

You’re a high performer who wants a career on your own terms. Maybe you’re exploring the next best step. Maybe you feel stuck. Maybe you want more. No matter where you are right now, you need options. When you have options, you’re in control. You make decisions from a position of strength. You run to something, not from something. Options Are Power provides strategies for surrounding yourself with options. You’ll learn to lead with a me-suite mindset, cultivating the role you want work to play in your life.

"For many years I struggled to lead in a difficult environment. My colleagues seemed to thrive on conflict. I sure didn't. I tried to be a servant, but I couldn't compete with their charisma and intensity." Whether you lead in a church or the marketplace, you probably relate to Tom Harper's desire to serve with strength. This book is the result of his three-year search through the Bible for wisdom on how to establish authority, overcome resistance, develop boldness, and manage conflict.

Dealing with chronic pain can be a nuisance and be damaging mentally and physically when it occurs daily. If you have ever felt this way, you most likely have already sought out other options. The problem is that most physicians want to throw conventional medication at the issues. When you get on medications, they most likely have a long list of terrifying side effects.

Unlock the true potential of your team with Team Accelerators: The Seven Force Multipliers of High-Performance Teams. In this groundbreaking book, you’ll find the ingredients to transform a group of individuals into a united, dynamic, and impactful team.

You may have heard the terms "open-book management", "empowerment", "continuous improvement", "participatory management", and "self-directed work teams". Managers use all of these activities to help energize employees by making them an integral part of the team. Bob Nelson has taken the most useful elements of these concepts, and presented them in a highly accessible and usable way.

One of the biggest challenges for managers today is recruiting and maintaining quality employees. Authoritative managerial styles don’t work anymore. Today’s employees aren’t interested in blindly taking orders from the top and working dead-end jobs.

This classic resource shows parents how to set clear, concise guidelines to ensure positive and constructive discipline.

You’re about to discover a proven strategy for how to become more productive with your time and at the same time, stop feeling overwhelmed! If this sounds difficult or you think it's not possible for you, don't worry, we'll go through step-by-step techniques to help you get, and stay, motivated. Because if you can stay motivated, nothing can stop you!