Leadership Class

Do you want to be a better leader? Raise the threshold of your pain. Do you want your church to grow or your business to reach higher goals? Reluctance to face pain is your greatest limitation. There is no growth without change, no change without loss, and no loss without pain. Bottom line: if you're not hurting, you're not leading. But this book is not a theological treatise on pain. Rather in Leadership Pain, Samuel Chand - best-selling author recognized as "the leader's leader" - provides a concrete, practical understanding of the pain we experience.

Several years ago, Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula, then applied it to thousands of teams from leagues all over the world, from the NBA to the English Premier League to Olympic field hockey. When he was done, he had a list of the 16 most dominant teams in history. At that point he became obsessed with another, more complicated question: What did these freak teams have in common?

Technology is redefining the value of physical assets: the meaning of location and accessibility, the power of zoning and regulation, the flow of capital and information, and even the notion of scarcity itself. How to make the most of it Rethinking Real Estate provides technology entrepreneurs and real estate professionals with key insights and practical strategies that will enable you to develop innovative solutions, identify risks, evaluate emerging competitors, and transform your investment thesis, project, venture, or career.

This award-winning and best-selling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies! Over the last five years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the best-selling The Phoenix Project and applying them in any organization. Now, with this fully updated and expanded edition, it’s time to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business.

Companies with the best cultures generate stock market returns of twice the general market and enjoy half the employee turnover of their peers. Their staff innovate more, deliver better customer service, and, hands-down, beat the competition. These companies outperform and disrupt their markets. Build It has found these rebels and the rule breakers. From small startups to global powerhouses, this book shows that courage, commitment and a people-centric mindset, rather than money and resources, are what you need to turn an average business into a category leader.

Michael E. Gerber, the world's leading small business guru and best-selling author of the phenomenally successful The E-Myth Revisited, presents the next big step in entrepreneurial management and leadership with E-Myth Mastery. This audiobook presents a practical, real-world program that can be implemented in real-time in your business.

In 1948, the modern mystic Neville Goddard presented a groundbreaking series of lessons, which many consider to be his clearest, most penetrating explanation of his methods regarding mental creativity. This audiobook recording of the five-part course he gave to Los Angeles students recreates that master class, preserving his words exactly as those original students heard them.

Le leadership d'une personne engage son être. Y compris son être profond et ce que l'inconscient trame dans un silence relatif. Or chaque être s'identifie comme homme ou femme. Partant de l'idée que le leadership engage le masculin et le féminin, Dominique Baumgartner nous engage à développer la part manquante à notre identité pour retrouver la voie d'un leadership efficace et équilibré. Pour un exercice du pouvoir quillé dans les profondeurs de l’être.

Much of what we hear about who gets to the top, and how, is wrong. Those who become chief executives set their sights on the C-suite at an early age. In fact, over 70 percent of the CEOs didn't have designs on the corner office until later in their careers. You must graduate from an elite college. In fact, only seven percent of CEOs in the dataset are Ivy League graduates - and eight percent didn't graduate from college at all. To become a CEO you need a flawless résumé. The reality: 45 percent of CEO candidates had at least one major career blowup.

Many executives focus too narrowly on the financial side of their business and neglect the importance of communicating with their employees, the media, and the public. World Class Communication equips you with crisis lessons, procedures, and examples that could help your company save millions of dollars through proper preparation and response. The must-have audiobook every CEO needs, World Class Communication is packed with examples of good and bad handling of countless situations and expert instruction on how to manage them without breaking into a sweat.

David Rakoff's best-selling collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of today's funniest and most insightful writers. Now, in Don't Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from the personal to the public, journeying into the land of unchecked plenty that is contemporary America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily skewered.

The Memo is the much-needed career advice guide for women of color specifically, finally ending the one-size-fits-all approach of business books that lump together women across races and overlook the unique barriers to success for women of color. In a charismatic and relatable voice, Minda Harts brings her entrepreneurial experience as CEO of The Memo to audio, as well as her past career life as a fundraising consultant to top colleges across the country.

Half an audiobook on basketball, half an audiobook on management techniques, The Gold Standard captures Coach K's personal style and approach to getting different (and sometimes difficult) people to work hard and succeed in reaching a common goal. "In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family...I believe in you. These four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try".

Driven to Delight offers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at CEO Steve Cannon and his leadership team's ambitious, multi-pronged strategy to elevate the company's customer experience to best-in-class across all brands and industries.

In The Scrum Fieldbook, he draws on his firm’s extensive experience in the field to take leaders, managers, and employees deeper into the specific challenges and new opportunities organizations face in an Agile transformation. He shows how the Scrum framework can be successfully applied to any project in any industry, from automobile manufacturers in the US and Europe to nonprofits in Africa, from home renovation contractors in Minnesota to gas exploration companies in South America, from fighter plane builders in Sweden to US Navy Special Forces teams.

Sales Enablement is the essential guide to boosting revenue through smarter selling. A thorough, practical introduction to sales enablement best practices, this book provides step-by-step approaches for implementation alongside expert advice. In clarifying the sales enablement space and defining its practices, this invaluable guidance covers training, content, and coaching using a holistic approach that ensures optimal implementation with measureable results.

"Il n'y a rien de plus pratique qu'une bonne théorie", disait Kurt Lewin. Surtout quand cette théorie est le fait d'un praticien. Pendant plus de trente ans, Jacques Chaize s'est attaché avec succès à construire une entreprise agile, capable d'initier le changement plutôt que de le subir. Il s'est aussi attaché, à travers des livres et conférences, à formaliser, synthétiser, théoriser sans jargon ce qu'il fait et ce qui marche. Dans un langage clair, il nous livre ici la quintessence de ce qui dans l'action permet à une entreprise de prendre en main son développement.

Pour agir et décider, nous mobilisons des croyances et du savoir. Dans ce jeu où se glisse parfois la discrimination, des drames humains, le racisme, etc. un acteur silencieux s'entend à contrôler nos pensées et influencer nos actes. Cet acteur, c'est le stéréotype. En une lumineuse suite de vidéos, Patrick Scharnitzky nous montre que s'il est impossible de ne pas avoir de stéréotypes, il convient de les expliciter et d'en prendre conscience pour ne pas leur donner le contrôle de nos vies.

Le 13 octobre 1960, Nikita Khrouchtchev lance à l'assemblée générale de l'ONU cette phrase d’un humanisme éprouvé : "Ce qui est à nous est à nous, ce qui est à vous est négociable." C'est montrer qu'en négociation on peut tomber sur des coriaces avec lesquels l'improvisation talentueuse ne suffira pas. Il faut toujours être prêt à négocier mais jamais négocier sans être prêt. Comme M. Jourdain faisait de la prose, chacun négocie chaque, parfois sans même y prêter attention.

In his book The How of Wow!, award-winning author John J. Murphy challenges you to differentiate your service.

When was the last time you were "wowed" by the service you received? Maybe you were "wowed" while buying groceries, resolving a problem with your bank, checking into a hotel, or flying across the country. Or maybe you were not. It seems that the secrets behind world-class service are often just that - secrets! But in The How of Wow!, award-winning author John J. Murphy shares 10 secrets behind world-class service.