Real Leadership

In Start with a Win: Tools and Lessons to Create Personal and Business Success, CEO of RE/MAX Holdings Adam Contos delivers a powerful exploration of how leaders process information and lead boldly, especially (or even) during times of crisis. Packed with the practical lessons he learned as the leader of one of the most recognized real estate brands in the world, the book shows you how leaders recognize emotion, chaos, and fear and transform those negatives into opportunity.

Overcoming Fake Talk explains why we often fail at our most important communications and offers proven advice for turning challenging confrontations into rewarding exchanges that foster collaboration, improve performance, and achieve results. You'll develop an understanding of the skills for holding a REAL conversation, including both the "said" and the "unsaid" elements present in any conversation; discover the framework for preparing and holding difficult yet meaningful conversations; and learn to no longer avoid the tough conversations they need to have.

Email is an incredibly powerful and essential tool for doing our daily work, but it has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety, and distraction from our work. We have reached a tipping point where "email overload" is no longer a unique problem - it is everyone's problem. So how can we solve it? With Unsubscribe, Jocelyn K. Glei shows listeners how to repair their relationship with email, transforming it from a constant source of distraction into a productive tool again.

Are you ready for the age of the never satisfied customer? McKenna explains how to manage companies in the "real time" world, drawing upon his experience as an entrepreneur and his work with over 300 start-ups.

Real-time business gives companies the ability to monitor and react to changes and address problems as they occur. But no matter how sophisticated their information-gathering and data mining systems are, they're still playing catch-up. In The Power to Predict, Ranadive forecasts the next step in achieving breakthrough business performance, a new approach he calls Predictive Business: the ability to anticipate business problems and opportunities and to act preemptively.

Organizations are forever pouring creative energy into their branding strategies, tweaking their logos and websites, and building identities that range from warm and fuzzy to ultracool and edgy. But many forget that a brand, at its heart, is a promise to deliver results. If your brand experience fails to live up to that promise, customers will take their business elsewhere. Brand Real is a unique business strategy guide for making a brand’s promise stand up at every customer touchpoint.

Real estate can be daunting. In fact, it can be downright confusing. However, you may shift your perspective into thinking that since real estate is not commonly understood, maybe there is a lot of opportunity to win. Once you do that, the entire game changes. As a man who is an advocate of the sports world, I associate real estate with sports quite a bit. It's all a game. And the one who plays it the best will win when it really matters. This book will be your playbook on how to turn real estate into a cash machine, into a W, into gold.

It's not news that globalization and ever-faster technological innovation have increased the pace of change exponentially. Existing change models were devised to deal with individual changes, one by one, but that's not a luxury leaders have any more. Bill Pasmore, senior vice president at the Center for Creative Leadership and a professor at Columbia University, offers a four-part model that will allow leaders to deal with multiple changes simultaneously without drowning in the churn.

Randal Wimmer offers a refreshing take on entrepreneurship, steering clear of tired motivational platitudes and business clichés. Instead, he shares hard-learned lessons using real-world examples and actual business scenarios. In Good Enough, Wimmer presents a structured, repeatable startup framework that propelled his companies to penetrate new markets and secure lucrative contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. If you're ready to transform your entrepreneurial dreams into reality, this book is your roadmap to success!

In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world, leadership is more than a title—it’s the ability to navigate complexity, seize opportunities, and inspire others with authenticity and purpose. In Transformational Leadership: Inspire the Excellence Within, internationally acclaimed leadership and team coach Duygu Alptekin Gürsu offers a powerful guide to help you master the skills, mindset, and tools needed to lead with confidence and conviction.

In Real Women, Real Leadership, 24 women leaders describe their personal journeys to the top, providing deep insight and a fascinating perspective on "making it" as a woman in the male-dominated business environment. They discuss their experiences and offer guidance on topics such as balancing family and career, building alliances, mentoring and being mentored, and overcoming obstacles in the business world, which is still dominated by men in the senior levels of management.

In today’s online culture, it’s easy to confuse influencers with leaders and chase the followers, the likes, and the superficial success. But, while influencers paint a pretty picture, real leaders pave a path. Leadership isn’t about what you do, nor is it about what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you be. What people really yearn for is someone who cuts through the bullshit and lives and operates authentically.

DEI work is getting a bad reputation. But that’s because it’s not being done right, say veteran diversity consultants James O. Rodgers and Laura Kangas. Too many organizations are treating diversity training as a quick-hit, low-cost, check-the-box activity. Effective diversity training involves behavioral change based on adult learning theory. It is rigorous, deeply personal, experience based, and, if done well, life changing. Rodgers and Kangas offer a complete guide, from design to implementation to results.

"What does a workplace utopia look like to you?" This is the question Dr. Ella F. Washington asks company leaders, and often she hears about an ideal vision of an organization that values diversity and inclusion and wants employees to bring their whole selves to work. But how can you get there? Organizations have largely missed the mark when it comes to creating environments where all employees thrive in an equal and equitable way, because they treat diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a program that gets done rather than the necessary and difficult journey it is.

Walk the Walk shows how aspiring leaders must inspire and teach us through their own actions. Deutschman's analysis is informed by his two-decades of experience as a journalist covering the most prominent business figures of our times. He portrays dramatic and illuminating examples of leadership - not only in business but also in politics, the military, education, and social change.

Candid conversations with top leaders around the world on how they approached pivotal moments in their careers.

Bigger Than Business: Real-World Stories of Business Owners Living Their Purpose brings you eight inspiring and thought-provoking stories of Christian business owners from six continents living out the purpose for which God created them in their unique business settings. Through their transparent, true-life stories and the wisdom they convey, you will become better equipped to fully and effectively serve God right where you are - in and through the business that God has entrusted to you, thereby fulfilling the purpose for which God created you.

Armed with empirical evidence from the provocative studies he leads around the globe, Wagner guides you through the new realities of what it takes to get the highest levels of intensity from people in a more mercenary, skeptical, and wired work world. He explains how elements such as individualization, fearlessness, transparency, recognition, and coolness are reciprocated with loyalty, productivity, innovation, and - inescapably - corporate reputation.

Bob Roberts Jr. shows how present-day disciples of Jesus can find in their daily work the resources they need to transform the world for Christ. Roberts explains how ordinary Christians can embrace a kingdom perspective and watch their global connections become opportunities for fulfilling Jesus' Great Commission.

With her trademark humor and engaging frankness, artist Veronica Dearly guides us on a journey into the parts of life that often leave us floundering. Taking inspiration from the popular Wheel of Life coaching tool, How To Do Hard Things explores key areas in turn, from mental health, mindset and the dangers of overthinking, through fitness and body image, career, love, spirituality, family, money, fun and friends, to finding your direction, setting your own goals and preparing for change.