Leadership Growth

Feast or famine, boom or bust - it's a pattern that too many sales organizations regard as a necessary evil. And that's plain wrong. If you want a long-term career, you need to get off the roller-coaster of inconsistent results. Instead of frantic scrambles to meet quotas, you can create a strong year-round record of closed sales, repeat customers, and increasing referrals, all while you build a growing prospect list.

In Radical, David Platt's plea for Christians to take back their faith from the American Dream resonated with readers everywhere and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Now in Radical Together, the author broadens his call, challenging us to unite around a gospel-centered vision. How, he asks, might such a vision reshape our priorities as the body of Christ?

For two decades, pastor and leadership consultant Matt Keller has worked with hundreds of influencers, and he has learned that the greatest enhancer or greatest limiter to a person's success is whether someone is teachable. In The Key to Everything, Keller shows how teachability isn't something that some people are born with and others aren't. It is a characteristic that can be learned and grown.

With characteristic humor and insight, author and pastor John Ortberg invites us to follow the biblical story of Esther and her example to courageously choose to embrace the mission God gives. Like Esther, we can lead without feareven in threatening circumstancesbecause we know God is always at work in unseen, unknown, and unlikely ways.

This book will teach you how to eliminate what customers hate and lead your market and customer satisfaction.

Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone start-up or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneur - the particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. And your builder personality is the one resource you can directly control in growing a business that wins. Simply put, who you are shapes how you build for growth.

Is successful leadership measured simply by the outcomes a leader achieves, or is there another - more essential - yardstick for measuring success? In Redefining Leadership, author, pastor, and college president Joe Stowell shows us that the best leaders are driven by Christ-formed character, and that truly successful leadership is not defined by the standards of this world but by the counter-intuitive practices and perspectives of the Kingdom of Christ.

Are you running a highly successful company that just doesn't seem to be growing? You may be so operationally focused that you’ve ignored one of the most important aspects of an expanding business, working from a market-based perspective. In The Growth Gears, Art Saxby and Pete Hayes share their linear method of transforming your business into a market-focused organization.

When the Unthinkable Happens is a fulsome business and leadership field guide that is steeped in practical wisdom from Randy Dewey's 30-year career spanning 32 countries, leading over a dozen management teams, and accomplishing 10 turnarounds in businesses from many different sectors. The audiobook is steeped in examples, real world stories of how to pivot a company. Whether you face cashflow challenges or business strategy constraints, this audiobook provides a practical process to get the foundation right, establish the pillars, and lead your company through the obstacles.

The Road to Excellence identifies the common blind spots that can take any business off track. The book gives you six powerful leadership strategies that, when followed, make it easier for you to find the answer to the critical question: What, exactly, stands between my company and organizational excellence - and what do I do about it?

The path to higher revenue, more impact, and greater fulfillment is to create a category-of-one brand where the ideal customers and clients come to you already sold on your products and services. Your Next Act works in virtually every industry, for virtually every business owner or entrepreneur, anywhere in the world: from funded startups, financial services, wealth management, investing, professional services, legal, private equity, insurance, business coaching and advising, space, software, SaaS, construction, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare.

A framework for achieving superior rates of organic growth. Achieving superior growth through innovation is a top strategic priority for all companies. Yet most management teams struggle to reach their firm’s ambitious growth targets and suffer slow growth. What distinguishes these growth laggards from growth leaders like IBM, Nike, LEGO, American Express, Amazon, and Samsung that realize their full potential for growth? Wharton professor George S. Day shows that growth leaders use their innovation prowess to accelerate their growth at a faster rate.

In the footsteps of Jesus—who masterfully conveyed profound truths through parables—pioneering leadership coach and mentor Kate Coleman illuminates the path to metamorphic leadership through the narratives of some of the extraordinary, ordinary people of the Bible. Exploring the lives of pivotal figures, including Moses, Esther, and the Woman at the Well, Metamorph highlights the importance of godly self-discovery, healthy relationships, and Spirit-led mission.

Three seconds is all that stands between those who settle for "whatever" and those who insist on "whatever it takes". Award-winning author and psychologist Dr. Les Parrott reveals six common impulses that sabotage greatness in our lives. We can unleash our full potential and excellence when we learn how to give our first impulses a second thought.

This book about self-sabotage details to the listener the many areas in which they doubt and question themselves, creating self-sabotaging behaviors. This evaluation helps them identify, through practical exercises, where they are getting in their own way.

More than a self-help book, Unbreakable offers a manifesto that invites the listener to participate in the process of breaking patterns and creating the life they desire in the areas of family, love, marriage, career, and life.

Are you ready to take your startup to the next level, but unsure where to begin? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the complexities of scaling your business? Are you struggling to identify the right strategies to expand your startup without burning through your limited resources? Maybe you’ve tried various approaches, only to find that they didn’t work as expected. I’ve been there, too, facing the same challenges and frustrations as you.

The entrepreneurial path is full of excitement and risk. The stakes are high, and while it may seem like the sky is the limit, there are no guarantees. Businesses are prone to steep financial and tax challenges. Failure to address these issues could lead to drained accounts, mountains of debt, and doors closing. Mitigating these risks and maximizing services that lead to smart business decisions have the potential to do more than help an entrepreneur sleep at night; they can lay out a solid direction for both the company and the entrepreneur.

The Art of Opportunity offers a path toward new growth, providing the perspective and methods you need to make innovation happen. Written by a team of experts with both academic and industry experience - and a client roster composed of some of the world's leading companies - this book provides you with the necessary tools to help you capture growth instead of chasing it.

In The Great Team Turnaround, Jeff Hilimire shares the PVTV insights and tools he introduces in the first two books of the Leadership Turnaround series. He connects them to the central concepts and resources in the best-selling business classic, The Great Game of Business. In doing so, Hilimire offers an action plan for establishing and activating a higher purpose, vision for the future, operating tenets, and core values as measurable business efforts.