Business Performance

Blue-Collar Leadership® & Culture will help you understand why culture is the key to becoming a sought after employer of choice within your industry. Culture matters because those who work there will determine who wants to work there.

Research shows that a leader's behavior is the most important predictor of a team's success. Leading with Your Upper Brain helps you understand why. It provides an innovative framework to shift your behavior in ways that help employees tap into their upper-brain resources that drive higher levels of performance.

It’s not easy to watch from the sidelines as your colleagues get awarded the promotions you applied for...or when your friends start landing their dream jobs, finding their dream partners, achieving success after success. When you feel like the only person on the planet who isn’t making any progress in life is you, it’s demoralizing and depressing.

The financial health of your organization depends on it! Bernie Haffey’s Cutting Through is a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of the key high-performance management systems that turn good companies into great ones!

The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights, interviews, and case studies from the military, sporting, and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations.

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.

Have you tried to improve your self-esteem? Are you tired of not seeing the results you would want to see? Do you start feeling confident about yourself and then find yourself doubting just after a few days? Have you given up thinking there is no other option for you? The truth is...every woman should have healthy self-esteem. The solution is coding your brain and help it change its perspective on yourself, your confidence as well as your self-worth. This can be done through self-talk.

Leadership drives purpose, culture drives passion, and strategy drives performance. Together, the 3Ps—purpose, passion and performance—equal profit. And profit is the life-giving blood keeping the economy flowing and growing.

How can someone get the best seats to the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the Kentucky Derby, and all the greatest concerts and sporting events in the world? By owning TicketCity, one of America’s fastest-growing ticket brokers. In this motivational and inspirational book, you will learn how author Randy Cohen started a business with just $1,200 and a few University of Texas basketball tickets and built it into a ticket-selling empire that today serves 250,000 clients in 17 countries.

The ability to learn is life's most important skill. Now, Michael Gelb, a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning and innovative leadership, and the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development, teaches you the 5 keys to high performance.

With passion, humor, and a rare insight into what motivates all of us to do our best, Culbert offers all of us a chance to be better managers, better employees and, indeed, better people. Culbert has long said his goal is to make the world of work fit for human consumption. Get Rid of the Performance Review!shows us how to do just that.

Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management presents a holistic approach to performance management, drawing on Michael Armstrong's vast research and experience. Most organizations have performance management processes in one form or another, but these are often based on formal annual reviews, forced rankings and directly linked to pay decisions. These traditional approaches are often at the expense of ongoing, continuous feedback and focus on looking back at what has or has not been achieved rather than looking forward.

This isn’t just another career book. Elite Performance for Managers is a guide that delivers on its promise to revolutionize your professional journey. Talbot A. Stark uses his unique triad of experience in international finance, the US military, and Silicon Valley to share life-changing knowledge that challenges you to be accountable for your career and take control of your destiny.

The Mushin Way teaches tools and techniques to help you reach peak performance and transform your business and personal life. Regardless of what we want to achieve in business or in life, transformation can be difficult and we tend to be our own worst enemies. We hold ourselves back without even realizing what we are capable of. In this audiobook, you'll learn how to break through the cycle of stress and setbacks to act with clarity, purpose, and direction - achieving peak performance and transformation along the way.

Infused with eye-opening insights and strategically practical tools, this book will help you understand and integrate the seven mindfulness habits that will empower you to rewrite your “high-performer pain” stories, recreate healthy boundaries between work and life, reduce your anxiety, depression, and exhaustion, realign with your values and create congruence, return your clarity, focus, and optimism, and more.

Many leaders miss out on their teams’ full potential because navigating the complex and ever-changing business landscape is more and more challenging. Traditional leadership models often fail to address the intricate interplay of organizational intentions, external factors, and internal dynamics resulting in subpar performance and disengaged teams. As a result, executives find themselves ill equipped to set their organization and leaders up for success in an increasingly complex world.

So many people spend their lives trying to find the answer to what we really are doing here. Why are we put on this earth, and what are we supposed to accomplish? So many of us have the trappings of success, but little fulfillment in the life that we lead. We wander aimlessly with no real answer to “Why?” Enhanced Life Performance helps us find that answer, and along the way, helps you to create the best version of you! Gaining a clear unobstructed view of what you were meant to do and truly why you were meant to do it is the first step in an incredible journey!

Ron Dimon's thought-leading second edition of the book originally entitled Enterprise Performance Management Done Right, published in 2012, is a practical road map for using connected planning to develop an agile organization and to navigate the complex enterprise performance management landscape.

In today's fast-paced world, leaders need to move at speed. The rate of innovation and change in organizations and the challenges of impatient investors or shareholders mean leadership decisions must be quick, smart, and deliver real impact. Superfast provides cutting-edge inspiration and a host of exciting ideas about how to accelerate performance in an agile and thoughtful way, shedding new light on leading in a world which is fluid and uncertain. You'll learn the practical solutions to leadership questions which the most savvy global leaders employ.

In his work consulting to major corporations for more than 30 years, Gerald Kraines consistently hears that 60-70 percent of business organizations' potential effectiveness goes unrealized. He shares how to engage, align, and develop employees in order to leverage and encourage optimal performance and long-lasting results.