Performance Leadership

Unlock the true potential of your team with Team Accelerators: The Seven Force Multipliers of High-Performance Teams. In this groundbreaking book, you’ll find the ingredients to transform a group of individuals into a united, dynamic, and impactful team.

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.

Few are prepared for managing across cultures, and the costs of cultural blind spots can spin out of control - from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel developed a fool-proof methodology for managing successfully across borders.

As depicted in the movie Goodfellas, fictional gangster Henry Hill is not the kind of person who would ever use the phrase "life hacks", but if you know what to look for, the film is full of useful lessons that can help speed you through your personal journey, whether you're an executive, teacher, sales professional, artist, or forklift operator.

In Blind Spots, you will discover how false assumptions, emotional detachment, outdated core beliefs, and unconscious habits can conspire against you, block your progress as well as your performance. This book isn’t just theory, it includes real-life examples and offers practical solutions for dealing with them in ways that benefit you, your teams, and your organization.

Customer service is the single most pressing problem for business managers and people in any service or sales operation, especially at the retail level. In fact, many experts believe that you build a business from the customer up.

I authored this book to provide practical guidance and insightful advice for a selected target group, which we can call ‘IoT Solution Architects’. If you search the internet for the term IoT (Internet of Things), you may come across hundreds of publications in the form of books, papers, blogs and other resources about IoT on the market. This book does not repeat the information covered in those publications. It offers a unique perspective and focus based on practical experience. The primary purpose of this book is to provide a practical architectural framework for solutions related to ...

Since technology has made it easy to access, share, and distribute company data, many managers avoid live interaction, instead relying on emails, text messages, web-based seminars to manage their employees. But although technology has changed, people have not. There is still a need for effective face-to-face communication; managers need to have the ability to ask the right questions and use the answers to find solutions.

The pursuit of human performance goes beyond sport. Whilst we might most readily associate sport with the quest to perform at the highest levels of competition, this is not exclusive to sports teams and athletes. Striving for excellence and dedication to continual improvement are hallmarks of high performing organisations, teams, and individuals across all realms. Following this logic, forward thinking individuals have started to explore processes and principles from elite sport and coaching, with the aim of applying high performance practices within their own domain. Just as there are ...

For people-oriented team leaders, Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams is a transformative management audiobook. It will help you unleash the potential of your team’s DNA faster and more effectively than ever before through its inspirational story and readily applicable suite of team performance acceleration principles, which you gain for free.

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.

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...

This book covers my leadership experience spanning the past 30 years and what I have learned to build and grow high-performing teams. As a busy executive myself, I understand and appreciate getting to the point quickly. This book was written to be a simple and concise guide intended for quick listening, with actionable content. Leadership is a journey and a series of experiments to learn what works and what doesn't for you as a leader and the people and teams that you lead.

Feeling overwhelmed by workplace stress and the pressures of leadership? Uncover the secret to turning stress into your greatest strength with “How to Transform Stress into Success.” This revolutionary book will empower you to master stress management, enhance personal resilience, and lead with confidence and clarity. Are you struggling with the relentless demands of leadership and unsure how to manage the stress that comes with it? This book is your definitive guide to transforming stress into a tool for success, helping you become a more resilient and effective leader. This book is ...

Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of San Francisco's legendary American Conservatory Theater, pens a lively and revealing memoir of her 20-plus years at the helm and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today's technology-infused world. Perloff's personal and professional journey - her life as a woman in a male-dominated profession, as a wife and mother, a playwright, director, producer, arts advocate, and citizen in a city erupting with enormous change.

To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness are the keys to thriving in any environment.

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.

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.

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.

The book offers a deep dive into understanding and managing emotions, pivotal for cultivating a success mindset and achieving goals. It lays out effective strategies for self-regulation, boosting self-esteem, and fostering a growth mindset, all crucial for personal and professional triumph. Addressing the challenge of overthinking, the book provides actionable advice on positive thinking and self-discipline, helping readers develop success habits and resilience.