Creative Leadership

No pre-pandemic strategy is effective anymore. Alan Weiss has developed an original, new approach to strategy which thus far has certified over 100 people globally, delivering this approach to scores of firms of all types in four countries.

Start with the Vision introduces a powerful planning process called the six-step process that will help any person or team navigate change, create solutions, and develop an actionable plan. A person can take any challenge or opportunity and use the six-step process to create a clear path forward. When challenges arise, most people start with the problem, which is the exact wrong place to start. Instead, the six-step process will shift the focus away from the problem to the best starting point – the vision!

Brand is everything. Whether you're a real estate broker, a hair stylist, or a freelance contractor, your end goal is the same: get leads and generate new business. You want people to think of you the split second they consider looking for a new apartment, getting highlights, or finally redoing that guest bathroom. And while building a brand from scratch sounds daunting, the authentic you is already a brand - you just might not know it yet. Brand It Like Serhant guides you through the exact same strategy that transformed SERHANT.

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working together. In its current form, lean has been radically effective, but its true powers have yet to be harnessed. The Lean Strategy harnesses that power and delivers a new way of creating value from lean.

Forget everything you've learned about creating new businesses. Forget market research. Forget customer interviews. Forget everything business schools teach. Forget about "finding pains in the market", or gaining user empathy, or validating hypotheses.

Brad Englert has written Spheres of Influence: How to Create and Nurture Authentic Business Relationships to help emerging leaders develop and perfect what he calls the “critical hard skill” of building effective and enduring business relationships.

Leading Agile Acquisitions, by Jonathan Mostowski, is a powerful guide for transforming government contracting through culture change and agile methodologies in government procurement. It tackles the critical need for innovation in a traditionally rigid field, offering practical strategies and real-world examples. Ideal for government leaders, policymakers, program managers, and agile coaches, this book champions change and efficiency in procurement processes.

No matter who you are, where you come from, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, everyone has a shot at greatness. Zack Friedman has inspired millions with his powerful insights, including more than fourteen million who have read his advice in Forbes. In his ground breaking new audiobook, The Lemonade Life, Friedman starts with a fundamental question: What drives success? It's not only hard work, talent, and skill. The most successful people have one thing in common, the power to flip five internal "switches".

Starting something from the ground up is challenging. But how about transitioning into the leadership role of an existing organization? No matter how qualified you are, it can feel like an impossible juggling act to manage expectations without creating unnecessary conflict. Or to build trust and learn from others while implementing changes. And yet most leaders step into roles they didn't create. You have to navigate special personal, professional, and organizational needs that take into account the entire team and requires a certain mindset that doesn't come naturally to many leaders.

How effective are your user stories? Agile is a pragmatic-approach mind-set. Scrum provides you a framework, but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically create user stories in Scrum.

Equipes brilhantes mergulha em algumas das organizações mais bem-sucedidas em diversas áreas—tecnologia, esportes, arte, educação e segurança nacional—para descobrir como elas funcionam. Contando histórias de empresas e até de uma gangue de ladrões de joias, Daniel Coyle oferece estratégias que estimulam o aprendizado, geram confiança entre as pessoas e inspiram mudanças positivas. Coyle mostra como criar um ambiente onde a inovação tem espaço para florescer, os problemas são resolvidos com facilidade e as expectativas são continuamente superadas.

As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served—not to mention his family and friends—shared his conviction that all girls belong in the classroom. He was shocked to learn that many of those closest to him, including a member of his own family, were against lifting a long-standing policy banning pregnant girls from school. Radical Inclusion is the dramatic narrative of Sengeh’s drive to guarantee pregnant girls’ right to an education.

In an impatient world of infobesity, people don't want more information - they want to be intrigued and they want to be intrigued fast. After all, goldfish have longer attention spans than humans - nine seconds to our eight. So, right now, people want to know, "How is this relevant and useful to me? Why are you worth my valuable time, mind, and dime?" Bestselling author and ace communication strategist Sam Horn reveals her "secret sauce" for truly connecting with people - whether it's one or one million.

A powerful purpose has the ability to unite your team and transform your organisation. Purpose is the essential ingredient to get your employees excited, ambitious and passionate about achieving their goals. Foster a sense of purpose in your team and discover its potential to inspire both staff and customers. Leading on Purpose will give you the structure and know-how to: Create a culture of trust and belonging, Weave innovation and possibility into your organisation's DNA, Blaze trails to untapped market potential, Harness the power of having fun at work.

In a world of hustle culture and burnout, women don’t want to lean in, they want to lie down. Now more than ever, women are looking to leave the corporate grind to break out into their own entrepreneurial ventures in a way that feeds their life rather than consumes it. But they don’t know exactly where to start. Kathleen Griffith has been in these exact shoes. When she set out to launch her own business she found that the women’s business space was big on “go, girl” messages, but short on the gritty details of actually building a business.

Creativity and innovation are widely recognized as essential to success in business and in so many aspects of our lives. For over two decades, Cirque du Soleil has been a world-renowned laboratory of creativity, enthralling audiences around the world by fusing dazzling acrobatics, staging, choreography, and music, along with beautiful costumes and technical effects, to inspire and create magical, almost otherworldly theatrical experiences.

Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari is known for his unparalleled ability to recruit the nation's best young players, some of whom will spend just one year with him before going to the NBA, and convincing them to commit to the team without sacrificing their personal goals. It is a promise he makes to them: "Fully invest in the present - and each other - and I guarantee it will serve your future." Here, for the first time, he distills his team-building methods in ways that apply to CEOs, business owners, and more.

Step into a world where the only limits are those of your own vision. "Imaginative Minds Unleashed" is a groundbreaking eBook that takes you on an extraordinary journey through the labyrinth of human creativity, unravelling the mysteries and mechanics behind one of our most magical faculties Imagination. Explore the canvas of humanity's unique thought process in Chapter 1, where you'll discover not just what imagination is, but how it has evolved to shape history and anchor our psychological roots. Each chapter thereafter delves deeper into the different realms where imagination reigns ...

Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mind-set and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions.

Your company is turning in regular profits every year, and its market share is only getting bigger. Competitors can't touch you. So why is your stock price so sluggish? The answer is as simple as it is cruel: Investors aren't interested in history, and they already know you're profitable and competitive - that knowledge is baked into your stock price. The hard reality is that a competitive advantage just isn't enough.