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While experiencing firsthand the chaos at Wisdom Health Care Center, Grace Holden, its new CEO, questions if she made the right decision in accepting the job. Yet Grace knows she couldn’t have turned it down. It was an opportunity she had worked for her entire career. Still, what she could not have anticipated was just how broken the culture was at the health care center. She quickly discovers Wisdom will challenge her in ways she never imagined. In The Wisdom Story, best-selling author Tim Burningham presents another compelling and enlightening leadership fable. Using his storytelling ...

The role of the #newCEO is less about being an executive and more about being the organization's Chief Energy Officer. This book explains why energy is the secret sauce for leaders, and how the right type of energy elevates culture, communication and organizational success.

When you find your unique genius and purpose, what we'll call innate ability development occurs, and you build and live your life from that place. You literally light your life on fire and become a productivity powerhouse!

Whether you want to improve your personal success, increase your bottom-line profits, or improve performance and productivity in the workplace, best-selling author and acclaimed speaker Willie Jolley can help you make it happen. Willie Jolley discovered that the leading-edge organizations understand that all success is rooted in development of ourselves and of others in our organizations. The secrets of successful organizations are leadership development, change management skills, team building, world-class customer service, and attitude enhancement.

With Results, Not Reports, Peter Follows, CEO of Carpedia International, provides business leaders with a framework for lasting improvements in performance and profitability. Carpedia has a remarkable success rate in large-scale improvement programs, helping clients achieve their improvement goals over 90 percent of the time. In this book, Peter explains how to achieve sustainable improvement through the dynamic management of process, performance, and people, emphasizing that all three components have an interdependent relationship and that the key is to address them concurrently.

Everyone, at some point in their life, will be asked to be a leader. Leadership skills are highly sought after by employers and are also essential to lasting success in business and life. But the problem with most leadership books is that they are just common knowledge, taken from other writers and not useful. This book presents proven skills and qualities that are tried and tested to help you develop into your greatest potential as a leader. Become more than just “the boss" people follow only because they have to. Instead master the ability to inspire and lead people.

Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money, why some of their shows were huge hits and others flopped, and much more. From Flo Ziegfeld and David Merrick, from Joseph Papp, from Cameron Mackintosh, from today’s up-and-coming new generation of producers - here are priceless words of wisdom.

Executive Toughness takes you through the steps of making these critical behaviors part of your everyday routine. Practice your accountability, focus, and optimism, and you'll be on the path to attaining your goals; make them part of your mental “DNA", and there will be no turning back - ever. A complete regimen from a leading expert on developing the mindset for attaining goals, Executive Toughness is your workout for ultimate success in your career and in your life.

Do you hope to be coached or be a great coach? Or wish that your organization could execute its coaching mandate? Mark Colgate's 8 Moments of Power is the missing piece for those hoping to orchestrate a coaching change. In this engaging book, Colgate takes us on a journey with humorous stories, case studies, and pragmatic frameworks, while examining how organizations can create a coaching system that designs for, and delivers, continuous feedback that simultaneously increases employee and customer engagement.

Activators are more than influencers; they are leaders who leverage neuroscience to energize and inspire their people, launching them toward their potential. The most successful leaders of the future will be those who know how to apply cutting-edge, brain-boosting principles to bring out the best in their people. Blending contemporary behavioral research and neuroscience, workplace psychologist and leadership expert Dr. Jason Jones, has created an innovative method to boost employee brainpower and performance.

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.

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive review of essential concepts for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification exams. It is designed to supplement more detailed study materials, helping HR professionals focus on key principles and identify areas requiring further study. While it covers fundamental topics such as workforce planning, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, employee relations, and HR compliance, it does not provide exhaustive coverage of every exam topic. Instead, it serves as an efficient and structured review tool. Readers will gain insight into HR leadership,...

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.

Middle management is hard. If you’re a middle manager, you already know that, and you may be searching for all the help you can get to become more effective and successful in that role. In other words, to become an exceptional middle manager.

In The High Performance Entrepreneur, Subroto Bagchi draws from his own experiences to offer guidance from the idea stage to the initial public offering level. This includes deciding when one is ready to launch an enterprise, selecting a team, defining the values and objectives of the company, writing the business plan, choosing the right investors, managing adversity, and building the brand.

Leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to overcome the great disconnect between employers and employees by inviting individuals to become part of something bigger than themselves—to belong. Belonging Rules gives leaders the tools, knowledge, and confidence to harness belonging to address the workplace’s most critical challenges.

This insightful guide delves into the fundamental role that purpose plays in effective leadership. With a structured approach, the book presents a comprehensive framework for leaders at all levels, aiming to not only define their own purpose but to also instill a sense of purpose within their teams. The journey begins with an exploration of "Why Do You Do What You Do?" prompting readers to reflect on their motivations and aspirations. The author argues that understanding personal and organizational purpose is critical in navigating the complexities of leadership today. Emphasizing the ...

Most companies strive to attract talented people, retain them for years, watch them engage in their work and have them consistently perform at a high level. In order to achieve this, they spend significant time, money and resources providing their team with “learning and development” opportunities. Unfortunately, these initiatives rarely produce an ROI because they are not customized and personalized for each employee.

Are you building a typical team...or a high-performance tribe? The motivational power of the desire to belong is the key element for ensuring employee satisfaction and retention, as well as your company’s long-term success.

"Champion for introverts" Jennifer Kahnweiler offers a road map for everyone in the workplace - including leaders, human resource managers, and team members - to create inclusive, introvert-friendly cultures. Kahnweiler provides an assessment to determine how introvert friendly your organization is and looks at every aspect of organizational life - hiring, training, leading, communicating, meeting, designing workplaces, and more - through an inclusive lens.