High Management

In today’s high stakes game of business, the players on the team are the competitive advantage for any organization. But, only if they are on the field instead of on the bench. Blue-Collar Leadership® & Teamwork provides a simple, yet powerful and unique, resource for individuals who want to increase their influence and make a high impact. It’s also a resource and tool for leaders, teams, and organizations, who are ready to engage the front line to improve the bottom line.

They're Your Rules, Break Them! offers 50 innovative ways of looking at your business as a long-term, dynamic, progressive entity. Here you will find 50 ways to ditch the atrophying forces and create an exponentially achieving, high-performance culture in your organization. Disruption is everywhere. Rather than suffering its blows, what if you could institutionalize it into your business? What if, rather than being rigid and rule-bound, you could make your business "ever changing" within?

This book will help you acquire the tools, techniques, and behaviors needed to become that kind of influential leader - a relactional leader - one who can lead toward profitability and productivity, while cultivating a culture that attracts the best talent. And, most importantly, you will become the leader that you aspire to be. 

Having started out as an ambitious financial advisor who quickly moved up to the top one percent producer on Wall Street, Jeff Thomas's journey is one of transformation: moving from a focus on earthly success to one of greater significance. Maybe, you too believe, as Jeff once did, that if you gain success, significance will inevitably follow. But as Jeff has learned, "Having achieved the financial success that I was striving after, I came to discover that the golden egg was hollow."

One of the biggest challenges for managers today is recruiting and maintaining quality employees. Authoritative managerial styles don’t work anymore. Today’s employees aren’t interested in blindly taking orders from the top and working dead-end jobs.

After enduring a life-threatening illness as a child, Mike Rome became a standout student-athlete in high school and college, during which he endured a series of injuries that put him in a state of chronic pain throughout his career. Nevertheless, he has thrived personally and professionally. In this audiobook, Mike offers 18 practical strategies for performing well despite your physical pain. The message of this audiobook is not about how to get rid of all your pain. It's about mastering it.

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.

In his audiobook, Frank J. O’Connell shares his personal stories, business strategies, his passion for mentoring, and proven methods for management. Jump First, Think Fast details Frank’s many business successes – as well as some failures – in an honest and forthright way. Jump First, Think Fast is for those who want to think differently about business and learn how to find their place, trust their instincts, and enjoy the ride from a successful CEO’s stories, lessons, and life moments.

Universities train talented students to develop the most advanced technologies in the world. Graduates sign employment offer letters that promise salaries, bonuses, stock options, and restricted stock units (RSUs) that will make them earn far more than most Americans. Despite this, personal finance remains a taboo among many people, rarely talked about openly and rarely discussed in polite company. I wrote Personal Finance for People in Tech to share what I've learned about managing my finances after nearly 20 years of working in the software industry.

Are revenue and EBIT growth important to you? McKinsey notes that the biggest future impact on revenue and EBIT growth is through digitizing supply chain. This audiobook is about how supply chain digital transformations can help you deliver results with a high ROI. In this business storybook, directors and executives of mid-sized and large businesses in critical functional areas, such as supply chain -including sourcing and procurement - IT, marketing, and finance will find practical and technical tools for managing projects and different approaches to improve soft skills.

Reach is about making human connections. About going for inspirational goals. And about the critical importance of mentorship - received and given. It is the story of finding and following strong role models. It is the story of setting and reaching goals beyond what you thought possible. It is the story of paying it forward and inspiring the next generation of leaders. It is a road map for success in franchising or any other line of business and in life. It is about making human connections through mentorship and about going for inspirational goals.

Eighty-five percent of CEOs and CFOs believe their culture is not where it needs to be. Whether your organization or team needs to start from scratch or you simply crave tactical lessons and skills that will elevate your group, Culture Is King explores simple keys that produce extraordinary results. These tools are applicable for business, sport, families, and all walks of life.

These days, leaders are likely to face adversity and career-testing situations. Crisis defines leaders and their organizations. But it does not have to take them down. Talk Is Chief provides sound advice, examples, and even a list of the 10 Commandments of Crisis Management so that leaders can either avoid crises or avert worst-case scenarios when confronted with an existential threat.

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.

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.

Bobbi Rebell taps into her exclusive network of business leaders to share with you stories of the financial lessons they learned early in their lives that helped them become successful. She then uses these stories as jumping off points to offer specific, actionable advice on how you can become a financial grownup just like them. You're guided by proven examples and given the information you need to make choices that are right for you. How to Be a Financial Grownup will especially appeal to you if you're interested in new ideas to better manage your finances.

The People First Effect is a business fable about CEO Dan Burton. Dan has successfully led his company out of the 2008 recession and sees his organization moving back toward sustainable growth - only to learn that his company has been sold to a foreign investor.

The high-tech industry has given rise to a pioneering group of entrepreneurs and executives that is not only behind today's most innovative technological advances but also at the forefront of a dynamic new movement in business. Now, in Silicon Gold Rush, their inspirational stories are told and their strategies for success revealed.

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.

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.