Business Performance

James King draws on his 15 years of experience as a trusted advisor to some of the world's most elite and exclusive organizations, combined with cutting-edge scientific research, to reveal the foundational principles that are proven to drive elite performance. Accelerating Excellence will revolutionize the way you perceive excellence, potential, and talent, crushing some of the most entrenched assumptions along the way. You will emerge inspired about the possibility that exists before you, enriched with purpose, structure, and direction.

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TO SING & DREAM OF TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL... Do you daydream what it would be like to share your singing voice and talent with millions on a reality tv singing show like American Idol or The Voice? Do you see yourself rocking the stage, but have know idea where to start? In this interactive and empowering book, former Top 100 Finalist on American Idol, Brianna Ruelas delivers her proven strategies to get you on a clear path to reality music success. Stop DREAMING of reality singing show success and create your plan to get there. This book will give you a solid ...

This is the story of the 36-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, “the greatest career in classical music”. During that career, Breslin moved Pavarotti out of the opera house and onto the concert (and the world) stage and into the arms of a huge mass public.

Modern work life is a maze, but you can find a shortcut through it. We are spending longer hours at work, although we desire more work-life balance. According to the World Population Review, the 10 countries with the longest workweeks averaged 42.2 hours. Given how much time you spend at work, wouldn’t it be better if you could be more efficient at your job? The Harvard Business Review says that workers spend as much as 41 percent of the average workday on tasks that don’t add value. Modern work poses its challenges.

The Voice Over Blueprint: Get Found, Get Heard, Get Hired Break into the world of voiceover and build a thriving business with The Voice Over Blueprint—your step-by-step guide to success in the industry. Whether you're a beginner looking to land your first gig or an experienced talent ready to take your career to the next level, this book gives you the tools to get found, get heard, and get hired. Inside, you'll discover how to: Build a standout brand that attracts clients and sets you apart. Create high-quality recordings from a home studio that works for you.

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.

The Actor's Mindset: Acting as a Craft, Discipline, and Business uniquely prepares actors to live full, successful lives as performing artists. While most acting books focus on either the art or the business of entertainment, Archibald looks at the entire picture of what it means to be an actor, focusing on the foundations of both the artist and the entrepreneur to guarantee a complete and fully functioning approach to a career.

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” — Alexander Graham Bell.Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance. “To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The importance of strategy is to provide a framework so we can act in accordance with our thinking. It provides a set of tools and techniques to help us achieve those hard things. Strategy in business is the big picture. Planning and Implementing a strategic vision is how a business succeeds ...

Leadership skills are essential for everyone, and the great news is that they can be learned, meaning that there’s no excuse for poor leadership. This two-book bundle will provide you with concise, powerful advice based on experience and research ranging from neuroscience to social psychology and backed up by statistical data and analysis.

Many leaders miss out on their teams’ full potential because navigating the complex and ever-changing business landscape is more and more challenging. Traditional leadership models often fail to address the intricate interplay of organizational intentions, external factors, and internal dynamics resulting in subpar performance and disengaged teams. As a result, executives find themselves ill equipped to set their organization and leaders up for success in an increasingly complex world.

Harry Cohn was the cofounder and president of Columbia Pictures, which he ran from the 1930s through the 1950s. Cohn—who abhorred personal publicity—left no writings, made no speeches, and rarely submitted to interviews. Despite this, acclaimed biographer Bob Thomas brilliantly illuminates the life of the powerful but elusive studio head in King Cohn: The Life and Times of Hollywood Mogul Harry Cohn. Thomas details the studio head's rise from a New York City song-plugger to a Poverty Row impresario, highlighting his reign as one of the most powerful men in Hollywood.

Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies shows you how to apply the latest performance appraisal practices and generate positive outcomes for your employees, for your company, and for you. The days of stand-alone annual performance appraisals are drawing to a close, with today's appraisals utilizing quarterly or biannual sessions, continuous feedback with regular two-way communication, collaborative goal-setting, career development, and an ongoing forward focus.

THIS ISN’T A BOOK ON SALES. IT’S A BOOK FOR SALESPEOPLE. It’s a book for achievement-driven sales professionals seeking to thrive in their careers while maintaining fulfillment and purpose in their lives. In fact, this is THE book for those who want to feel their hearts on fire—and sell that way, too. Whether it’s your best year or your worst, we all face the same challenge—there’s always going to be a next year. Sales is hard.

When Paul Kusserow began consulting for Amedisys, the home healthcare company was on the brink of collapse. Its stock had fallen to less than $11 per share, and it had to borrow money to pay a massive government fine. Six months later, Kusserow became its CEO. Under his leadership, Amedisys dramatically improved operations, increased its market capitalization by over tenfold, and took its place among the country's top home care and hospice businesses. In this in-depth case study, Kusserow explains how he achieved this stunning turnaround.

What is your organization's glass ceiling? Wondering why your organization isn't reaching its potential? You're not alone. Many leaders sense something is amiss but struggle to identify the missing link. In Build Smart, organizational leadership expert Simon A. Taylor tackles this challenge head-on.

Revised and updated, the second edition of Leadership Coaching draws on the top coaching practitioners’ thinking and writing to present an in-depth understanding of the tools, techniques, and frameworks that can be used to enhance the coach/coachee relationship.

Learn the key solutions to solve the 10 proven, repeatable, and beatable challenges that every business encounters. Whether you are a startup, restructuring, or escalating to a higher level, you can grow your business, improve performance, and improve efficiency starting right now with the help of The Profit Pattern. This is an insider's look at the strategies behind authority business coach and serial entrepreneur John Mautner's formula. The Profit Pattern will help you protect, restore, and grow your business, just as Mautner has personally done to help thousands.

There is no need to come up with your own questions or even spend hours trying to figure out the much-needed powerful questions that you need to ask your colleagues. This book has done all the heavy lifting for you. The book “555 Powerful Questions for Coaching, Mentoring, and Leading at Work” contains 555 powerful questions from actual situations that will help you unlock the potential of your teammates, improve their performance and empower them.

How did an American immigrant without a college education go from Venice Beach T-shirt vendor to television's most successful producer? How did a timid pastor's son surmount a paralysing fear of public speaking to sell out Yankee Stadium - twice? How did the city of Tokyo create a PowerPoint stunning enough to win them the chance to host the Olympics? They told brilliant stories.

Research shows that a leader's behavior is the most important predictor of a team's success. Leading with Your Upper Brain helps you understand why. It provides an innovative framework to shift your behavior in ways that help employees tap into their upper-brain resources that drive higher levels of performance.