Leadership Growth

Drawing upon his own experience and interviews with more than 99 companies, author Robert Sher runs through seven “silent growth killers” that plague midsized companies which, if not addressed, eventually cripple growth. Mighty Midsized Companies offers clear, tangible, actionable advice about dealing with these killers and growing despite them.

During my research and writing, I was fortunate to discover managers in a variety of businesses who actually understand and practice the awesome power of dignifying and respecting the people who depend on the businesses for their livelihoods, and on whom the businesses depend on for their existence - the perfect win-win. In addition, the profiled managers are totally convinced that dignity is the root cause of their firms' profitability and sustainability. I think you'll enjoy meeting them and profit from their insights.

In Go Tech, or Go Extinct, Paul Cuatrecasas shares his revolutionary approach to transforming legacy companies into forward-thinking industry leaders through the strategic acquisition of disruptive technology companies. As the founder and CEO of Aquaa Partners, Cuatrecasas has facilitated more than 45 global merger and acquisition transactions involving technology companies and ranging in size from $1 million to $1.5 billion.

How do you blow up your company's growth? Start with high quality training. Follow that up with thoughtful coaching by managers who refuse to rescue and value learning experiences. Implementing this proven algorithm creates a thinking company that generates exponential growth. Author Jill Young shares her vast experience in helping entrepreneurs discover and celebrate the creation of thinkers in their company, identify gaps in their system, and close those gaps.

Nothing in business is a mystery. Success comes through careful study and dedication to the process. I was a professional hockey player who grew up in a hockey family. My dad is Al Rollins, NHL player and professional coach. In my childhood and as a young man, I was surrounded by the greats: Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, and Wayne Gretzky. I was lucky enough to learn a lot from them about life, sportsmanship, and excellence. But this is not a hockey book.

CEOs and other business leaders are struggling to understand how the fast-moving digital marketing landscape can grow their business. Dave Conklin brings 20 years of experience helping companies and leaders to solve that problem and empower them and their teams for success.

Another landmark leadership book by Bobby Albert, True North Business provides the compass and road map required for the journey to meaningful success. Let’s face it, the marketplace is more competitive and bewildering than ever. Leaders need a proven way to confidently chart their path and lead their people.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving change at an unprecedented pace, level, and intensity that is impacting businesses across industries, not to mention our everyday lives. We are rapidly blurring the physical and the digital, transforming the way we live and, in some sense, what it even means to be human. Whether we run a startup or multinational, a nonprofit or academic institution, a city or a whole country, we need to embrace this change to not just survive but thrive under these new realities.

The Millionaire Project Manager focuses on the road map to financial success and career growth as a project manager. This audiobook is for individuals looking to become project managers and working project managers looking to advance their career and income.

Following the example of John the Baptist and with a careful look at the teaching of Scripture, Tim Suttle dares church leaders to risk failure by chasing the vision God has given them - no matter how small it might seem - instead of pursuing the broad path of pragmatism that leads to fame and numerical success.

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.

Economic injustice caused by wealth disparity is quickly becoming the hottest debated topic in America. Employee ownership is not the only answer for economic justice, but it can be a critical puzzle piece for tens of millions of Americans where the current inherent disadvantage of circumstance stands in their way. Create Amazing demonstrates how ownership can provide the ultimate competitive advantage to a growing company - and the nation.

By the hand of God who knows how to prepare those whom He wants to raise to greatness by trials, he came to leadership over Egypt and was an instrument of deliverance for his people. Joseph was a man of vision and sexual purity. This book responds to an urgent need of God to raise up in the church men and women of spiritual nobility like Joseph.

Rocket tells the story of how 16 remarkable business leaders created great brands. Leslie Wexner tells you how he turned a two-store chain into a $6.5 billion worldwide brand called Victoria Secret, and Howard Schultz shares how he took his passion for a little coffee shop in Seattle and grew it into a 22,000-store chain, just to name two. Every story is connected to a “how-to” lesson, and by the end, you'll have what you need to turn your best customers into apostles, cravers, and brand ambassadors.

As a technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Raj Vattikuti has the ideal background to outline the steps of creating a Digital Strategy. Ram Charan is one of the world's most influential consultants who brings deep business insight and understanding of digital business.

In The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, a team of visionary entrepreneurs delivers an authoritative and engaging roadmap demonstrating how to digitalize your business by taking small achievable steps that yield measurable near-term results. In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show you how to pinpoint and implement bite-sized projects that sync up with your business priorities.

It no longer has to be lonely at the top. In fact, if it is, it's almost guaranteed that your leadership dreams will die with you and your influence will not enrich coming generations. Lisa Potter developed The Collective Journey to effectively engage younger female leaders in a personal, as well as, shared journey toward life-giving transformation and wholeness.

Like a jigsaw puzzle, a healthy business needs all the right pieces assembled properly in order to see the entire picture. In his latest book, Fit to Grow, Mark Richardson introduces those pieces through a comprehensive collection of simple yet effective business themes that will help you establish a strong foundation and enable you to grow a sustainable business.

The greatest challenge of any start-up and growth company is the transition from an early stage start up to a robust organization complete with a driving culture, contemporary leadership, organizational infrastructure and twenty-first-century operating methodologies. Ralf Specht provides inspiration, wisdom, and learnings gleaned from his role and experience in creating and scaling Spark 44, a Jaguar Land Rover joint venture from concept to an award-winning global marketing communications company with well over a thousand employees in eighteen countries in a few short years.

First introduced in Anne Marie Knott's influential Harvard Business Review article, RQTM (Research Quotient) is a revolutionary new tool that measures a company's R&D capability - its ability to convert investment in R&D into products and services people want to buy or to reduce the cost of producing these.