High Management

A compelling, pause-resisting account of recreational marathon runner Kay Bretz’s transformation into one of the best ultra runners in the world. The listener follows the author during his physical, mental, and professional challenges and celebrates his hard-fought wins as he discovers the motivation to succeed, leaving behind his former motivation to avoid failure.

Of course we want to hold public officials accountable for paying their fair share. But just as importantly, we want to see how they legally save hundreds of thousands of dollars. You don’t have to be a politician to pull a page from their playbook and save your hard-earned money, too. After all, it’s not how much you make, but what you keep after taxes. All the Presidents’ Taxes details the intriguing tax stories and strategies of the most popular presidents and presidential candidates.

This is a “how to” book for leaders in healthcare. Lessons learned from 30+ years as a nursing executive, an executive coach, and as an equestrian have been interwoven to describe what it takes for success as a leader for teams in healthcare and in horsemanship. The author sees similarities in both arenas.

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artifacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps, and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork.

Is it a core discipline or a topic at a planning retreat? For the most successful among us, innovation is a way of life! Innovative companies are actively and relentlessly hunting for new ways to disrupt their respective markets. Innovative people are literally changing the world. If your company, business or project demands a breakthrough, what would you want at your disposal? Money? People? Technology? Or Innovation? If you really think about it, the answer is clear – Innovation. Jeff Standridge knows that innovation wins the day. It not only wins battles, it wins wars. It fuels profits...

Top performance transforms people, products, organizations and institutions. Top Performers have unique personal characteristics that go far beyond the numbers. While they appear to be laser-focused on results, it is their relationships, professional acumen, and drive to achieve that all work together seamlessly to fuel breakout performance – day in, and day out. Your path to becoming a Top Performer starts here. Jeff Standridge’s amazing insights, based on his 25 years of experience across five continents, will light the path that catapults you beyond your wildest dreams – a life ...

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.

Insights and tips on coping with personally induced stress. Learn how to overcome addiction to your own adrenaline. Break the hurry syndrome! Includes gems about goal setting and time management drawn from scores of books on highly effective people, and tips on no stress holidays for moms (how to do them with finesse and without fatigue). Gets you on top of your circumstances rather than under them. Just one of these powerful ideas could catapult your influence and productivity far above what they are at present.

The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights, interviews, and case studies from the military, sporting, and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations.

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.

Whether you are an accomplished sales executive leading a large organization or a sales manager leading a team, your ability to remove obstacles and speed the sales process will determine your success. High-Performance Selling is geared for the sales leader who has to persuade others to work as a sales force of one.

Looking for a guide to help you master time management as a teenager? Look no further! Our book, Time to Shine "A Teen's Guide to Mastering Time Management" is packed with practical tips, easy-to-understand explanations, and real-life examples that will help you take control of your time and achieve your goals. This book covers a wide range of topics including managing distractions, making the most of study time, balancing academics, social life, and extracurriculars, managing time in the digital age, dealing with procrastination, time management for exams and deadlines, learning from ...

With a world that's running at twice the speed and becoming more dynamic each day, sustainable finance finds itself becoming more and more important. From the shock waves of the pandemic to the rise and fall of digital currency, ethics of finance are taking center stage in our day-to-day life.

Informed by interviews with corporate strategists at leading companies around the world, eminent consultants at firms such as Bain, the Boston Consulting Group, and McKinsey & Co., and the internal archives of strategic innovators such as General Electric and Shell, this book provides vivid insights into the trials and tribulations of practice innovation in strategy, and stresses the hard work of the little recognized and sometimes eccentric innovators within the profession.

Escape the Burnout Spiral Without Burning It All Down You didn’t start your business to work 24/7, answer emails from the bathroom, or lie awake at 2AM wondering if you can keep going. But if you're like most entrepreneurs, burnout has crept in—and it's costing you your energy, creativity, and love for the work you once adored. Burnout-Proof is your field guide to building a sustainable business without sacrificing yourself in the process. No fluff. No hustle culture nonsense. Just clear-eyed strategies for protecting your energy, setting boundaries that stick, and reclaiming your spark...

Motivation is the single most important management strategy a person needs to ensure his or her professional, personal, and organizational success. 1,001 Ways to Inspire presents a profound model of four personality types, offering a simple diagnostic test to help you determine your own personality type and understand what motivates others.

These days, leaders are likely to face adversity and career-testing situations. Crisis defines leaders and their organizations. But it does not have to take them down. Talk Is Chief provides sound advice, examples, and even a list of the 10 Commandments of Crisis Management so that leaders can either avoid crises or avert worst-case scenarios when confronted with an existential threat.

Do you want to grow the ability to bring your highest self to every moment, challenge and relationship? This book sets out to show your greatest potential isn’t centered on new skills or how-to tips but on an awareness of your limiting behaviors and breaking through them. Working with an awareness of your ego-behavioral triggers, you can develop your greatest leadership potential and enjoy more of what you do. More than ever, leaders face pressure, anxiety, and the need to be right, the need to have all answers, and the need for certainty

Higher Education's Road to Relevance illustrates why change is needed in post-secondary education and offers practical solutions to pressing concerns. The authors, internationally recognized experts in college-level teaching and learning innovation, draw heavily from contemporary research to provide an integrative approach for post-secondary faculty, staff, and administrators of all levels. This timely book helps listeners identify the need for leadership in developing new networks and ecosystems of learning and workforce development.

In this game-changing road map for high achievers, clinical psychologist Dr Mary Anderson shares her 8 Essentials – powerful principles that will allow you to pursue your goals without sacrificing your wellbeing. These actionable, science-based strategies tackle the pressures and pitfalls common to high-performing individuals, including burnout, imposter syndrome, anxiety, fear of failure, and more.