Leadership Essentials

Effective employee management is imperative to a business' success, but all too often management books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep. Management 101 cuts out the boring explanations of management policies, and instead provides hand-on lessons that keep you engaged as you learn how to manage productive, happy employees.

It’s a popular belief that the world of leadership is some mysterious arena where only the strong, fearless, and gifted can survive. But this isn’t necessarily true, and it’s certainly not been the experience of Organisational Psychologists Karen Meager and John McLachlan.

Stories for Work walks you through the science of storytelling, revealing the secrets behind great storytellers and showing you how to master the art of storytelling in business. Stories hold a unique place in our psyche, and the right story at the right time can be a game-changer in business; whether tragedy, triumph, tension, or transition, a good story can captivate the listener and help you achieve your goals.

Leadership Made Easy: Empowering Yourself and Your Team is the most informative resource you will find on leadership; specifically, leadership in the workplace. Upon listening to this book you will learn how to successfully lead, manage, and empower your team to achieve the goals of your organization. In this book, the author outlines the skills and attributes that the reader needs to learn and embody in order to motivate team members and increase the overall productivity of the organization.

Hailed as America’s greatest civil rights advocate, Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired the people of the United States to demand equality, regardless of the color of their skin. And he did it peacefully. Time may have passed, but in today’s world, his teachings are needed more than ever. With Martin Luther King, Jr.’s wisdom and unwavering dedication to making the opposition listen, you can become a peaceful leader and advocate for the way the world should look, no matter who stands in your way.

Congratulations! You’ve made it to your teens! This is an important phase of life, packed with discoveries about yourself, the people around you, and the world you live in. The teenage years mark the beginning of a new chapter where you’ll figure out what being an adult is all about. You’ll begin to settle into WHO you are, HOW you feel, and WHAT you want from life.

Intentional Power is a call to action for the next generation of leaders to move beyond an entirely individual focus toward a more sustainable approach to lead and succeed. Deeply researched, the authors draw on an extensive review of the latest literature and insights on leadership development, cognitive and positive psychology, organizational design, and performance management, as well as extensive interviews with leaders across several industries to highlight the most critical skills required by today's executives and managers.

The practice of positive affirmations and visualization on a steady, witting basis will help your success. Persistence accomplishes results much earlier than practicing sporadically; practicing your affirmations each day has a better effect. Affirmations by themselves, however, don't guarantee success; you likewise have to take action. In this audiobook, you will learn essential guides on effective affirmations that can inspire leaders and improve their leadership skills!

Being Essential presents the seven questions that will help any leader discover an authentic path to the true self and master a virtuous cycle of self-awareness that fosters purpose, value, and joy at work and in life. Leaders often know what they need to do, but don't have a clue who they need to be. Without a true essence of self, their leadership can feel void of purpose and confidence, affecting both teams and stakeholders. But when leaders discover their essential selves, it enables them to reach a state of “radical self-awareness”.

In this new book, the Napoleon Hill Foundation's own executive director puts Hill's essential principles right at your fingertips. Filled with fascinating stories from Dolly Parton, Jeffrey Gitomer, Chief Poly Emenike, and Joe Dudley, Jr.--iconic figures who each applied Hill's principles to their own lives--Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill lays out the tools needed to uncover the secrets of growth, creativity, power, and achievement inside all of us.

Stop settling for being better when you are capable of being best. The key to being your best is to free yourself from the limitation of what is normal. Author Stephen M. Law guides you to the best of your potential in a concise and encouraging way and helps you unleash the essentials to break out of the box and achieve true success. Using personal and motivational stories, Stephen will leave you feeling ready to make a difference.

In the New Rules of Investing, Mark shares the investing strategies he uses at UBS and offers a playbook for protecting and growing your wealth. By the end of this book, investors of all levels should be able to walk away knowing—through theory and Mark’s life stories—how to invest more successfully for the long term, how not to sweat the daily ups and downs of the markets, and how to be happier with both the results and the process.

Life is not exactly a bed of roses for most innovation leaders and intrapreneurs - those assertive, innovative, corporate risk-takers who passionately turn ideas into profitable products. They take on corporate sacred cows and face down challenges that would cause less driven and less talented people to quickly throw their hands down in defeat. They struggle daily to unleash entrepreneurial thinking while dealing with an army of people fiercely dedicated to maintaining the status quo.

Use these powerful techniques to improve and enhance your leadership skills immediately! This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to awaken, utilize, and maximize the natural leadership potential that you possess.

This book provides actionable strategies and techniques that listeners can implement daily. It offers practical advice to help listeners navigate challenges they may encounter in their supervisory role. It also takes a holistic approach to becoming a supervisor, covering not only the technical aspects of team management but also emphasizing the importance of mindset, communication, problem-solving, and ethical leadership. It provides a well-rounded and comprehensive guide for aspiring supervisors.

School principals are constantly being pulled in different directions. How do you focus on the things that matter most? In this inspiring book from Danny Steele, creator of the popular Steele Thoughts blog, and Todd Whitaker, bestselling author and speaker, you’ll learn how to center your leadership on your core values and the practices that have the biggest impact.

Leadership is about making others better through empowering them to be and do their best. Every business needs strong leaders to guide, inspire, and impact those around them to work together and achieve a common goal. You'll learn how to develop your leadership skills and to be someone that motivates others to be the best versions of themselves.

You’ve probably heard people sing the praises of mindfulness in all areas—health, work, relationships. But how does mindfulness apply to leadership? This book, from the experts at Pryor Learning, the prestigious management and leadership firm, shows you how to be a mindful leader. Above all else, that means leading people. Although most executives would say that their greatest asset is their people, they don’t always act that way. This concise but densely packed book shows leaders at all levels how to manage, foster, sustain, develop, and promote employees for optimal success.

Leading on the Frontline brings humanitarian leadership into the boardroom, giving business leaders a powerful lesson in engagement, motivation, inspiration, and innovation. Drawing upon a lifetime of humanitarian work in some of the world's most difficult places, author Linda Cruse shares stories from the front line that illustrate how to dig deep, inspire, thrive, and more.

How to articulate and assess what success looks like. The Social Profit Handbook offers those who lead, govern, and support mission-driven organizations and businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performance. Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers strategies that help organizations take assessment back into their own hands, and improve their work as a result.