Winning Management

The art of argument. It's mysterious and powerful. It's the art of having things go your way. But also it's the art of getting out of your own way. It's having The Moves. But it's also about having The Touch. Arguing. There's the rough and tumble of the norm, the amateur's game. Then there's the pro's game - always knowing what to say, how to say it, and when to say it. Winning arguments without quarreling, squabbling, tussling, wrangling, bickering, raising your voice, losing your cool, or coming to blows.

The word team can be loosely defined as a group of two or more people working together. But winning takes much more than that. Winning takes a radically focused, totally engaged, never-give-up, kind of Team. But how do you build such a team? How do you go from a one person start-up to a multi-million or multi-billion enterprise, or simply a business that provides the lifestyle you desire? How do you find the real players? How do you keep them radically focused and totally committed?

Get a world-class approach to leading a business - any business - to exceptional and sustained success. Houston Texans President Jamey Rootes shares the principles and ideology that has made the Texans one of the most valuable professional sports franchises, both in the NFL and globally. Every new leadership opportunity you face is a chance to grow as a leader and as a human being.

Synergy is a beginner’s guide on how to negotiate better, improve your persuasion skills, and create win-win ideals. We live in an interconnected world. Graduate from the competition mindset and adopt the collaboration mindset. In Synergy, you will learn how to turn a no into a yes in the making, deal with aggressive personalities, confidently ask for something from others, implement the synergy negotiation lifecycle to create win-win deals, learn the proper way to ask questions to extract information, and, with a bonus section, how to build persuasion skills.

Vision Wins is a faith-based personal development book wrapped in a fantastic hockey story. David Jones takes his listeners on an inspiring and emotional ride that reveals seven steps for approaching a life filled with internal purpose, self-actualization, and awareness that leads to true fulfillment. If you are looking for a clear path for the next phase of your life, this is an awesome fable about two young adults, who grew up together as pond hockey rivals, with revolutionary insights about a life of failure and success.

Today, the pace of change is so great that no company can afford to wait to respond to new developments. You need nimble and creative problem solving, and the most intelligent and efficient decision-making doesn't come from the top - it comes from your employees on the frontlines who interact with customers and have the ability to see and respond to the shifting landscape before anyone else.

The conventional wisdom is wrong about how great teams are built. Great teams worry less about cohesion and more about assembling the right group of people with complementary talents and personalities. No amount of teambuilding, trust, or cohesion can overcome having the wrong mix of people in the room. In Team Players, Mark Murphy argues that the best teams contain an ideal mix of five vital roles: Director, Achiever, Stabilizer, Harmonizer, and Trailblazer. Murphy’s groundbreaking research shows how to unlock each team member’s talents and position them to succeed within the team.

In The Invisible Game: The Secrets and the Science of Winning Minds and Winning Deals, neuroscientist Kai-Markus Mueller and sales professional Gabriele Rehbock deliver a hands-on guide to the hidden dynamics that influence the outcomes of most business deals. In plain English, the book unpacks recently discovered insights from psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience, and explains how to apply them to your advantage in real-life business situations.

Employing a geocentric perspective, Herb Cohen shows you how others often see bargaining as an enriching social exchange akin to an art form. Then, by recounting his own colorful cross-cultural encounters, he takes you through the steps of this delicate dance. Afterwards, he provides a point-by-point analysis—ten tidbits and practical techniques—that you can use in reconciling all differences.

Leaders are under increasing pressure to ensure their businesses are gender-balanced and inclusive for the benefit of the economy and society.

Leonard S. Greenberger is a partner at one of today's most successful public relations firms. In What to Say When Things Get Tough, this seasoned expert offers verbal and nonverbal skills for handling communication crises in any public forum.

The challenges of today and tomorrow demand new ways of leading organizations, building collaborations, and creating communities. Since its premiere issue, the award-winning journal Leader to Leader—published by The Drucker Foundation—has presented the best thinking from leaders for leaders. This recording collects some of the best contributions to the journal from the likes of management pioneer Peter F. Drucker, Southwest Airlines leader Herb Kelleher, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Companies that proactively embrace diversity in all areas of their operations will be best poised to thrive. In Success Through Diversity, renowned business leader and visionary Carol Fulp explores staffing trends in the US and provides a blueprint for what businesses must do to maintain their competitiveness and customer base in this fast-changing demographic landscape, including hiring in new ways, aligning managers around diversity, providing new kinds of leadership development, and engaging employees to embrace differences.

If you are looking for a new job and feel a little bit lost or unprepared, you are definitely not alone. In a highly competitive job market, the difference between getting the job and not getting the job could come down to a few simple mistakes that may have been easily avoided. This book provides simple advice to help you get the job you really want by guiding your search, preparation, and actions. While not every bit of advice may apply to you, just a few of the suggestions in this book could make enough of a difference to win the interview, get the job, and advance your career.

Plain-English guidance for strategic business analytics and big-data implementation. Win with Advanced Analytics focuses on integrating multiple types of intelligence, such as web analytics, customer feedback, competitive intelligence, customer behavior, and industry intelligence into your business practice.

Financial literacy is the trick you need to make sure you can always afford what you need and take advantage of every opportunity you get to do the things you want to do…Because the secret to financial success isn’t simply to have more money… It’s to know what to do with that money. This engaging guide will be your companion as you leap headfirst into becoming the master of your money and ensuring your future is the one you want to see.

Each time you do business with a customer, it's a listening test. You can pass the test and encourage customers to return, or you can fail the test and lose customers to competitors. This program will give you techniques and tips to make you and your co-workers become better listeners that customers truly appreciate. Learn to develop a listening attitude, overcome the 3 most common customer complaints, use "focus-in" questions that help customers communicate their needs, and more. Suitable for all staff members.

With a combination of practical tips, inspiring stories, and interactive exercises, just sit back, enjoy the learning, and make a difference as you are inspired to do one action better based upon this program. Start planning today!

Michelle Moore is a powerful voice championing a unique brand of unapologetic, yet compassionate activism for positive change in race, gender and social bias found in business, sport, government and education. In Real Wins, she uses her own experience in sport and leadership, as well as interviews with world-class athletes and leaders, to challenge stereotypes and tired assumptions and show anyone who feels held back by the colour of their skin, the shape of their body or their social background, how to create their own winning formula and to succeed on their own terms.

Who Wins in a Digital World? explains how organizations can adapt to a constantly changing business environment by being flexible but focused, embracing change in all its messiness, and moving fast. Once an organization accepts the fact that technological change is ongoing and inevitable, it becomes more about opportunity and less about challenge. This audiobook shows that change can be stimulating, exhilarating, and something to be welcomed.