High Management

Whether you are a CEO, senior executive, manager or an employee looking to raise his or her performance, The A Player is packed with proven strategies to get you to "A Player" status. Businesses filled with "A Players" are not only more profitable and able to share in that prosperity, but those "A Players" are happier and lead more purpose-filled lives as well. The A Player will teach everyone on your team the required steps to achieve and sustain "A Player" performance and lead the charge in creating remarkable steps both personally and professionally.

This book is about one of the most important factors that leads to spectacular performance in organizations. Kim Cameron, a true pioneer in the study of positive leadership, offers validated scientific evidence that all individuals are inherently attracted to and flourish in the presence of positive energy.

The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation. Useful from high school to graduate school and beyond, these lessons are reinforced by reflective and critical thinking activities to help students internalize important concepts.

What separates good teams from great ones? Jess Pryce delivers a powerful guide packed with actionable insights to help leaders unlock their team’s full potential and create lasting success. This book is a comprehensive toolkit for leaders determined to move beyond mediocrity and build teams that thrive in today’s dynamic business environment.

A Higher Standard takes a candid look at the exciting military career of US Army General Ann Dunwoody, who received her fourth star - a rank never before reached by a woman - in her fourth decade of service. From her first command leading 200 soldiers to her final one leading 69,000, Dunwoody reveals the challenges she faced and the changes she initiated by sharing both the smallest moments and the most pivotal events in her career.

Escaping the Matrix contains eight powerful lessons to help you relieve stress, manage anger, calm your mind, increase your intuition and "escape the matrix" to attain inner peace, from the award-winning author of Mystic Warrior. Written in clear language and based on universal, mystic and metaphysical principles, if you are interested in stress management, anger management, stress relief, spiritual growth, connecting with your true self and attaining inner peace, then this book is for you.

In The High-Velocity Edge, the reissued edition of five-time Shingo Prize winner Steven J. Spear's critically acclaimed book Chasing the Rabbit, Spear describes what sets market-dominating companies apart and provides a detailed framework you can leverage to surge to the lead in your own industry. Spear examines the internal operations of dominant organizations across a wide spectrum of industries, from technology to design and from manufacturing to health care.

With a lot of content and a multitude of brand new techniques, this guide is for those who are willing to make real improvements in what they are doing. You will be shown how to break out of the administrative death cycle, the difference between valuable and cursed PMOs, how to rally your people - building momentum and community, how to overcome the cultural mishaps that undermine PMOs, and more.

Forget what you know about managing emotions. Here are the habits that work in real life. Most advice on handling emotions is all theory and no practice. It tells you what to do, but not how to do it. It’s like telling someone to "just be confident" without showing them how. But what if there was a proven framework for developing the essential habits of people who manage their emotions effectively? What if you could read people’s emotions as easily as you read this sentence?

Dive into the enthralling world of financial mastery with "Market Mastery," your new go-to resource for navigating the intricacies of market analysis. Whether you're a seasoned investor seeking to refine your strategy or a novice keen on understanding the forces that drive financial markets, this compelling eBook delivers comprehensive insights that transcend the ordinary. Embark on a profound learning journey, beginning with the Foundations of Market Analysis. Uncover how market psychology and historical trends play crucial roles in shaping investment strategies. Gain the ability to ...

While experiencing firsthand the chaos at Wisdom Health Care Center, Grace Holden, its new CEO, questions if she made the right decision in accepting the job. Yet Grace knows she couldn’t have turned it down. It was an opportunity she had worked for her entire career. Still, what she could not have anticipated was just how broken the culture was at the health care center. She quickly discovers Wisdom will challenge her in ways she never imagined. In The Wisdom Story, best-selling author Tim Burningham presents another compelling and enlightening leadership fable. Using his storytelling ...

It’s not enough to hire an executive assistant and hope for the best. They can be your project manager, personal assistant, and chief of staff—if you know how to cultivate a partnership. In The 29-Hour Work Day, EA specialists and ProAssisting founders Ethan Bull and Stephanie Bull reveal their framework for building an alliance with the right EA to support your professional and personal growth. Their five performance multipliers show how to hire a trustworthy assistant, establish expectations, and set guidelines that will enable you both to accomplish goals.

Immerse yourself in a captivating journey into the world of Charolais Cattle with the new eBook, "The Charolais Rancher's Blueprint". This comprehensive guide encompasses the wide-ranging aspects of Charolais, from the origins and traits of the breed to the appealing future prospects of Charolais Ranching in contemporary settings. Whether you're an aspiring rancher, an agriculturalist or a fervent admirer of this superb breed, "The Charolais Rancher's Blueprint" emphasizes the thoughtful selection of Charolais Cattle. The eBook dissects pivotal tactics for evaluating Bulls, Cows, and Calves...

Do more. Be more. Try harder. It's the battle cry of our culture, and it's making millions of us sick, tired, and frustrated. Why? Because we simply can't solve stress and overwhelm by doing more and more of what we've been doing. With Overcoming Overwhelm, Dr. Samantha Brody offers an alternative. Using her proven and practical techniques that have already helped thousands, this pioneering naturopathic physician teaches you how to systematically undo overwhelm, with four simple steps....

Through a combination of inspiring stories about unlikely high performers and evidence from the bleeding edge of behavioral science, we present you with a toolkit for learning intention-not as a fluffy concept, but as five very trainable skills.

There are three kinds of employees: Some are saints: they're always accountable. Some are sinners: they're never accountable. But most are save-ables: sometimes they make good choices; sometimes they don't. What makes the difference? Leadership Without Excuses has the answers. Jeff Grimshaw and Gregg Baron help you put an end to the save-ables' poor choices and excuse-making - and convert them into saints. The secret is to communicate clear and credible expectations, create compelling consequences, and lead conversations grounded in reality.

This isn’t just another leadership audiobook. Packed with real-world stories, actionable strategies, and fresh perspectives, it offers a roadmap for building strong team cultures, achieving operational excellence, and navigating the complexities of modern leadership with confidence and empathy.

What is the true meaning of quality? How can you influence positive attitudes towards quality within the workplace? Leading Quality teaches you how to influence and align your company’s definition of quality, so that you can deliver the best possible experience to your clients. You will learn the techniques successful leaders use to make their strategic decisions and you will be given the tools to ensure that your team is in alignment to achieving common goals.

Daily observation of classroom teaching can significantly impact the quality of teaching and learning. Organized into 21 chapters designed to be read over a period of 21 school days, Now We're Talking! presents a results-driven approach that far surpasses traditional walkthrough models of feedback for teachers. School leaders will complete two cycles of teacher evaluations while reading the book and establish the necessary foundation for subsequent visits.

As president and CEO of Scripps Health, one of America's most prestigious health systems, Chris Van Gorder presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position. While hospitals and health systems nationwide have laid people off or are closing their doors, Scripps is financially healthy, has added thousands of employees (even with a no-layoff philosophy), and has developed a reputation as a top employer. What are the secrets to this remarkable story?