Leadership Higher

Through their twenty-plus years of experience building teams, Marshall Calman and Jack Levitt of LeaderStrong, have developed a novel team-building framework. Their new book explores the journey of one business leadership group and how they develop into a Powerful Team using the C4 model. Marshall and Jack are Executive Leadership Coaches who work with Fortune 500 clients and sophisticated up-and-coming firms that want to get serious about leveraging their team's full power.

In The Idea of America, Darren Walker argues that we can narrow our widening divides by rediscovering our common aspirations and common good. This prescient, timely compendium introduces us to an essential leader of and for our moment—in his own words—through his most essential reflections, essays, and speeches. Walker calls for courageous, moral leadership from us all—challenging us to step back from the extremes, to lean into nuance and complexity, and to build longer bridges.

Are revenue and EBIT growth important to you? McKinsey notes that the biggest future impact on revenue and EBIT growth is through digitizing supply chain. This audiobook is about how supply chain digital transformations can help you deliver results with a high ROI. In this business storybook, directors and executives of mid-sized and large businesses in critical functional areas, such as supply chain -including sourcing and procurement - IT, marketing, and finance will find practical and technical tools for managing projects and different approaches to improve soft skills.

Taking Charge! 52½ Years of Anecdotes and Advice for Aspiring Executives This book is a practical guide for what they don’t teach you in business school or on the job. As Henry Ford once said, “you can’t teach experience,” and Osborn speaks with over a half century of experience in one of the most volatile industries of the last decades – telecommunications and broadband. From developing people skills to mastering strategic planning for forecasting, Taking Charge is easy to read and full of advice that can be put to work the next day at the office. Whether you are an up and comer...

This information-packed audiobook relays solid expertise you will need to become an effective meeting administrator. As with any topic, the basics do not just come to you; you must make a conscious effort to learn what you need to know to become more skillful. Knowing these basics of planning and managing meetings will "head off" problems before they occur. If you are presently involved in meeting planning or responsible for chairing meetings or see that in your future, this audiobook is for you!

Today's most successful businesses are storydoers. They create products and services that, from the very beginning, are manifestations of an authentic and meaningful story - one told primarily through action, not advertising. In True Story, creative executive Ty Montague argues that any business, regardless of size or industry, can embrace the principles of storydoing. Indeed, our best-run companie - from small start-ups to global conglomerates - organize around a coherent narrative that is then broadcast through every action they take (from product design to customer service to marketing).

STOP LETTING SELF-SABOTAGE RUN YOUR LIFE Are you tired of standing in your own way? Do you feel trapped in a cycle of Procrastination, Overthinking, and Self-Doubt? Does Fear of Failure or Rejection keep you from living the life you truly deserve? You’re not alone—High-achieving entrepreneurs and top performers all battle self-doubt and sabotage. But what sets them apart from the pack is their refusal to let fear control their actions. They push forward despite the uncertainty, and that’s precisely what you must do. The No-Nonsense Guide to Overcoming Self-Sabotage for Men is the wake...

We Need to Learn how to Understand and Feel the Concrete and Not-Concrete Energies. We must start Quantifying our Emotional Intellect. We must also Combine them with our Logical Intellect. We must dive into my Theoretical world of Dualities and Algorithmic calculations. After this we shall go through my personal stories: a world of Integrations, nationalities, gender Diversities, and identities—through various Faith and cultural Experiences, marriages, Changes of occupation, and finally through my Camino Frances Transformed Ways and Experiences as a Pilgrim.

The Financial Times Guide to High Impact Negotiation provides a comprehensive and strategic roadmap to the whole negotiation process from preparation to execution. Follow the practical steps to complete negotiation successfully, build relationships, and finalize your deal.

How do you build reliable operations without killing innovation? The biggest challenge in implementing Standard Work is finding the right balance: Between giving employees clear, repeatable standards — and giving them space to think, improve, and grow. In this practical guide, Dr. Mohamed H. Soliman shows you how Toyota achieves that balance. You'll learn: Why most companies misunderstand Standard Work How to write effective standards that empower, not restrict Who should be involved in creating standards How Standard Work supports quality, cost, and delivery performance How it forms the ...

Menschen abholen, mitnehmen und mitreißen - mit Agilität durch den eigenen Workshop. Erinnern Sie sich mit Grausen an die unerträglich langen, schläfrigen Stunden, die Ihnen schon als Workshop verkauft wurden? Wo man vor Langeweile und Trockenheit den Staub der nicht vergehen wollenden Zeit schon in der Luft schmeckte? Jetzt können Sie es besser machen: Es ist Ihr Workshop, Ihre Bühne - reißen Sie Ihre Teilnehmer von der ersten Sekunde an mit und sorgen Sie mit Flexibilität und Elan dafür, dass sie Ihnen bis zur letzten Sekunde folgen.

It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope - revealing just such a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value.

See how one person made a complete career transition as he left the military and joined the civilian world. Follow along in real time and go on your own reflective journey using custom-built reflective tools and exercises to help you learn more about what you want to get out of your next stage in life.

Leadership Results explores the fall of traditional leadership thinking and the struggling multibillion-dollar leadership development industry that is failing to deliver results, and explains the mindset, skills, ways of being, and methods that will get results in the evolving paradigm. The Leadership Results model is practical and predictive, providing a way forward for companies seeking to build sustainable leadership capacity, develop individual leaders, boost employee engagement, and deliver breakthrough results through shared and collective leadership.

Have you ever tried time management systems without significant success? Would you like to bring back control to your life and enjoy your life much more? If so, then Time Leadership Time is for you. Ben Wood, businessman, dad, husband, and church leader, presents to you a system that has worked for him and his family. Using the system, Ben successfully transformed his life and now enjoys living his purpose. His system builds on the foundation that you were not born by mistake but for a purpose.

Talent in the workplace is increasingly identified as a key factor in determining success. If effectively managed it has the potential to be a productive resource capable of adding value and competitive advantage to an organization. The Talent Powered Organization takes a strategic yet practical view of talent. Drawing on research and real-life experiences with clients, the authors provide a series of conceptual frameworks to attract, develop, and retain the best workforce.

Sales is a game of pressure. You're under pressure to earn your commission. You're under pressure to close the prospect. And if you’re a business owner or sales manager, you’re under pressure to keep your team performing and motivated by their success.

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.

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.

In this comprehensive guide, you will learn everything you need to know about DevOps release management, from the basics to the more advanced topics. Discover how to effectively plan, schedule, coordinate, and deploy software releases using the latest tools and techniques. With practical examples and real-world scenarios, this book is ideal for software developers, IT operations professionals, and managers who want to improve their team's software delivery process.