Impact Management

In business, it’s all about making a positive impact every day. Be inspired by Dan Albaum's more than three decades of business leadership experience plus the voices of more than 75 leaders from around the world sharing key learnings from their journey to exceptional leadership.

Unleash the elemental power of nature with "Wildfire Dynamics," a groundbreaking eBook that dives deep into the fiery heart of wildfires. This comprehensive guide offers an immersive exploration into the complex world of wildfire behavior, capturing the interplay between fire and the environment in unprecedented detail. Begin your journey with the basics of fire ecology, tracing the historical footsteps of wildfires and unraveling the mechanisms of fire spread and intensity. Then, navigate through the vast array of factors that influence wildfire behavior, from the undulating topography and...

Extensive research has identified specific traits that transform average individuals into authoritative, influential, and "authentic" leaders. These authentic leaders learn from the mistakes and successes of themselves and others and build a positive strength initiative within their organizations. In The High Impact Leader, Gallup veterans Bruce Avolio and Fred Luthans show you what you can do to develop and leverage your own leadership strengths into positive, lasting improvement for both yourself and your organization.

In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the twenty-first century. In the book, you'll explore nine tools that have driven world-shaking social movements and billion-dollar businesses--tools that can work just as well for a farmers market or fire department or small business.

Impact: A Leadership Fable is an inspirational tale of how to be a quality leader while maintaining values we often lose sight of along the road to success. This is not your typical list of ways to be a better leader. Galen uses storytelling to highlight the seductive traps every would-be leader must avoid, as well as principles to stay on the right course. In this one leadership fable, Galen tells a story, shares tools to help chart a course to leadership success.

Today's firms need a social effort that is serous and impactful to be relevant. It's not enough to make a commitment to reduce energy or have an ad hoc unbranded budget for grants and volunteering the world needs their resources and agility to address existential threats in society, and their customers (and employees) demand it.

In “Impact,” Ell’s been taken off the “Most Wanted” list and is resuming somewhat of a normal life. Her old friend Phil Zabrisk is on his way to Mars. One of her exploration rockets is about to land on an earthlike world. Then an enormous comet crashes into Tau Ceti three, threatening the lives of the teecees there. Aliens that Ell and others have come to think of as friends. Phil falls on Mars, breaking his hip in a fashion that needs surgery soon if he’s not to be crippled.

In times of accelerated change and disruption, peoples’ lagging ability to adapt opens Pandora’s Box for destructive conflict, burnout, and division. In this Black Belt Edition of Spiral Impact: The Power to Get It Done with Grace, Karen Valencic shares how to bring forth your True Power and master the art of conflict to help you foster collaboration, innovation, and civility, greatly impacting your individual sense of freedom and engagement in your life.

Marco Ryan, a Cyber Leader in Residence at a leading UK Business School and with over 25 years of Digital and Cyber Senior Leadership experience with companies such as bp, specializes in making the world of Digital, AI, and Cyber simple, jargon-free and easy to understand for Leaders, even if they have no background in technology or IT. This book is like no other in Cybersecurity. Each term is arranged alphabetically making it easy to find, with a formal definition, then a simple jargon-free explanation and then a real-life example.

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Meet your secret weapon for a better career. You can advance at work only as far as clients and stakeholders are willing to act on your knowledge and recommendations. If you want decision makers to give you the green light, make the decisions you want, hire, or champion the success of your projects, you must learn the art of talking with your stakeholders. Alexandra Mack understands the impact you want to make and the challenges standing in your way. In Talking to Stakeholders, she presents actionable, proven strategies to communicate and connect with anyone wielding the power to help or ...

Entrepreneurs and leaders are driven by passion, purpose, and impact. That’s the good news. Unfortunately, the bad news is because they give so much to everyone else, they rarely take time for themselves. As a result, the internal chatter begins to build. Clarity suffers.

More importantly, the world needs your humanized leadership. You must create trust, clearly communicate, coach powerfully, and customize every step of the way to the various types of people you are privileged to lead. This leader is ever aware that other humans execute the processes which drive the profits—people are always at the center.

The world needs positive leadership more than ever. Luckily, there is a large untapped source of leaders who can change the world for the better: all of us! Since each of us constantly influences those around us, by definition, everyone is a leader, not just people with formal titles. This audiobook will help everyone tap into the power of their influence to pursue a meaningful purpose, whether on the job, in the community, or at home. All it takes is leadership intelligence, a combination of 8 moral, social, and technical imperatives essential to our ability to positively influence others.

Personal Finance for Teens: The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Financial Game at a Young Age offers practical tools and strategies to help teens take control of their money, avoid common financial pitfalls, and build a strong foundation for future wealth.

In our pursuit of success, we often struggle to balance the world's demands with our own dreams. Some of us pursue Outer Success, wanting to be liked and loved, supported and promoted. But in our quest for worldly glory, we may ignore the subtle stirring of our spirit, waking up one day to realize just how far we have drifted from our personal ideals. Others among us seek Inner Success, wanting the freedom to pursue our own calling. But in our quest to be true to ourselves, we may end up hurting, disappointing or antagonizing others, straining relationships and being sidelined.

Despite Agile's dominance in software development, 81% of UK and 89% of US business leaders are concerned about the timely delivery of projects. The success rates for transformation initiatives are alarming, with 96% of Agile transformations and 70% of digital transformations failing. Just 10% of companies that enter restructuring survive the process. Personal transformation success is also exceedingly rare, with only 7.5% of smokers successfully quitting despite 55% attempting to quit each year and just 1.8% of obese individuals maintaining a modest 5% weight loss over five years.

High impact leaders align their habits with key values in order to maximize their influence. These 10 values are common sense. However, they are not always common practice. These 10 values will help you build trust and accelerate relationship building. Those mastering these 10 values will be able to lead with speed as they develop 360° of influence from wherever they are.

Intentional Power is a call to action for the next generation of leaders to move beyond an entirely individual focus toward a more sustainable approach to lead and succeed. Deeply researched, the authors draw on an extensive review of the latest literature and insights on leadership development, cognitive and positive psychology, organizational design, and performance management, as well as extensive interviews with leaders across several industries to highlight the most critical skills required by today's executives and managers.

We are stronger, wiser and more creative than we realize and yet people are often wanting to tell us how to fix what's happening in our lives. If your goal is to be the coach or leader who gets better results by spending more time listening and less time fixing, then this book is for you! Becoming a high impact coach begins with you and your own transformation.