Performance Leadership

Internationally renowned business guru, Bill Schwarz explores the way organizations work, the impact of human nature's reactive state, the governing principles that determine why a company believes the way it does.

Companies need to grow, innovate, and adapt to changing needs. But stressed-out employees rarely go the extra mile, chaos rarely produces agility or speed, and it’s hard innovate or grow while bleeding talent to turnover and quiet quitting. This is how change stymies the very progress that it seeks. Drawing on decades spent leading HR operations at Deloitte and Cisco, Ashley Goodall explores the essential nature of human performance and offers a radical new alternative to the constant turbulence that defines corporate life.

In order to be successful as an IT manager, you need to be able to show the company that under your leadership your team is able to deliver high quality products on time and under budget. If you want to have any chance of being able to pull this off, then you are going to have to discover ways to build a high performance IT team.

The second in the Enhanced Series, Enhanced Executive Performance is quickly becoming the "how to" guide of becoming the type of executive many dream to be. It picks up where Enhanced Life Performance leaves off. Enhanced Executive Performance takes that state of well-being to executive leadership conference rooms, board rooms, and offices of the world. Want to execute at work like never before and do so while maintaining a near constant state of fulfillment? Then Enhanced Executive Performance is a must listen for you.

Future Brain is the busy professional's secret weapon for boosting mastery, efficiency, and productivity to gain that coveted competitive edge - in business and in life. Designed to be implemented at the individual, team, or organizational level, this in-depth, step-by-step framework leverages neuro-scientific principles to help you develop a solid, habit-changing plan for building and maintaining brain fitness and healthy behaviors.

Despite your efforts to inspire, it seems like they just can’t meet their numbers. Which causes you to fall short of your goals. What if there was an easy solution that not only motivates your team, but also encourages and nurtures their future with your company? For the first time, Lisa Shumpert, a highly accomplished and strategic senior corporate officer, shares her secrets on empowering teams from her thirty-five years of global cross-industry human resources experience.

The performance review is an important part of your job as a manager or coach. But it is only a part. In order to develop team members effectively, you have to be proactive on a daily basis. This means having conversations - and not just about the weather or the game last night. Create ongoing conversations throughout the year. Conversations for Creating Star Performers is a vital tool for keeping team members motivated, engaged, and moving ahead every day - not just the days before an annual review.

In today's fast-paced business environment, call centers play a crucial role in maintaining a company's reputation and customer satisfaction. As a call center leader, you are the linchpin that ensures these critical interactions are managed effectively and efficiently. Your responsibilities encompass overseeing daily operations, monitoring performance metrics, and, most importantly, coaching and developing your agents to excel in their roles. Coaching is crucial for call center leaders as it directly impacts the performance and satisfaction of their teams.

High performance isn’t forced. It’s felt. And the leaders who understand that don’t just build teams–they create movements. The People Puzzle is written for leaders who know their team can be more. They want connection, commitment, and collective energy that drives results from the inside out. In a world where performance is often pushed, this book offers a refreshing challenge: stop trying to force it, and start building it, piece by piece.

Culture guru and best-selling author, Chris McGoff, allows you to journey along with Carolyn, a composite character based on real-life people, to learn and see how it’s up to everyone to work through the struggles and find a way to redefine company culture and achieve peak performance. By the end of Carolyn’s story, you will be equipped to break down that default culture and build a culture of peak performance.

The ultimate business coaching book, Coach: Coaching for Business Performance is an operation manual for all business coaches and leaders to leverage their relationships with clients or team members who depend on their leadership or guidance. Learn how to increase production and performance with detailed models for effective goal setting, about accountability practices, and how to troubleshoot common obstacles coaches encounter. This book is a must-have for anyone looking for a system to implement to help others succeed and reach their goals.

A powerful book that shows the step-by-step evolution of a new kind of global technology powerhouse, The Lenovo Way is an indispensable guide for leaders and managers who deal with strategy, innovation, branding, and HR at any kind of company. It also tells the remarkable story of how two women from very different backgrounds rose to become leaders in Lenovo's journey to the top.

Rédigé par les experts de la HBR, cet ouvrage inspirant met à votre disposition toutes les techniques et les outils nécessaires pour mener votre carrière avec sérénité, en gérant parfaitement vos émotions et en tirant au mieux parti de votre personnalité. Comment s'affirmer dans son travail pour progresser et gagner la confiance de ses collègues ? Comment tisser des relations équilibrées avec son manager ou ses collaborateurs pour éviter incompréhensions, frustrations et conflits ?

Why are the New Zealand All Blacks the best rugby team in the world? How does the Kirov Ballet produce generation after generation of exceptional ballerinas? How did Southwest Airlines evolve from being an idiosyncratic Texan airline to become one of the most successful businesses internationally? How does the Finnish School Education System deliver great results by breaking conventions? Powerhouse uncovers the performance secrets of some of the most impressive organizations around the world and reveals the key principles they have in common....

Change is the new norm in society, and it's having a devastating impact on organizations. The proof? Insecure, demoralized employees and the lowest levels ever of employee engagement. In Conscious Culture, Joanna Barclay shares 30 years of business transformation experience. Leaders learn how to awaken the life force energy within values, ethics, and leadership that ignites performance and employee engagement. With the ABCs of culture change, she provides a blueprint for leaders to consciously create a high-performing, values-driven organization.

Business profitability and growth are primary factors in determining business strategy and goals. By utilizing and integrating the two power tools of risk management and key performance indicators you can position your organization to move toward a proactive management style that supports these goals. This book provides practical guidance on how your company can incorporate this approach without utilizing large dollar expenditure for consulting fees and/or internal resources.

Exception to the Rule links ancient wisdom with contemporary science on high performance, teamwork, and engagement. Building an organizational culture based on classical virtues - of trust, compassion, courage, justice, wisdom, temperance and hope - is both strategically smart and a better way to live. Exception to the Rule walks you through the steps of helping everyone in your organization focus on character defined by virtue.

Better executive health drives business performance and a stronger society. For the experienced manager as well as manager in training, business school professor, and executive coach; Steven P. MacGregor helps you leverage this truth in your life and your business. MacGregor shares breakthrough insights and techniques he's honed through seven years of pioneering the world-renowned Sustaining Executive Performance (SEP) program and working with thousands of top executives worldwide.

In Revenue Revolution: Designing and Building a High-Performing Sales System, the cofounder and CEO of Triple Session, Matt Doyon, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to maximize sales success by encouraging collaboration between sales leadership and front-line sales personnel. In the book, you'll learn how to utilize a design-build model to create a fully integrated sales organization made up of six interlocking systems.

For the members of the US Air Force Thunderbirds, teamwork is literally a matter of life and death. On maneuvers like the one pictured on the cover, the gap between jets is as little as 18 inches. The surge of momentum that comes with that level of closure has an incredibly positive impact on the team's mission. As you might imagine, sustaining that distance relies on the highest levels of trust.