Management Consulting

Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization is a self-help, business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve results—even in uncertain times. More importantly, this book helps leaders to understand that while business operations optimization may have value in certain circumstances, it can also adversely affect a leader's management style, his or her message and replace strategic thought with short-term focus and gratification.

Olympic athletes structure their lives for a single moment of intense competition. They train relentlessly, they eat intentionally, and their daily actions are focused on producing the optimal effort for a single moment in time. Why don’t organizations take this same approach with their employees? The goal of any leader is to get the optimal effort out of their team, therefore the leader’s focus must be on creating the ideal conditions for their team.

The era of process management is fading away, and the age of innovation is upon us. This is ushering in the era of knowledge creation where the goal of organizations is to discover how to find and take advantage of new value in the market. However, people are products of their environment. The culture that you have built for your organization is either stimulating creative thought or stunting it. Facilitating Innovation explains how the leader impacts the environment and describes the best practices of building a creative culture.

In Infinite Love & Money, Mollie and Joel bring their expertise with love and money, respectively, to help lovers connect at a deeper level. Listening to this audiobook will help you understand each other’s financial backgrounds and money personality types. It will dive deep into the emotions surrounding money and finances, as well as your dreams and desires. Coupled with some pragmatic ideas on how to handle your finances, celebrate your differences, and recover from your conflicts, this audiobook makes the perfect guide for any couple at any point in their financial journey.

Despite the anticipated senior tsunami in population emerging across the nation, success in the senior living industry is not guaranteed. In this thought-provoking audiobook, management consultant Jill Johnson discusses the nine market forces that will influence on-going success in an industry over-saturated with competition and complexity. Market Forces offers insight on how these key trends influence the industry and the implications they may have on your occupancy, operations, programming, and desirability of your site.

Inclusion is more than a moral obligation; it's a competitive advantage. Inclusive leadership expert Melissa Majors is an innovator and optimizer of inclusion, leadership, and education strategies. In The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders, she reveals how great leaders enjoy superior team performance and drive much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices. Through storytelling, research, and personal experiences, she offers a common-sense yet compelling and actionable approach to inclusion.

Award-winning author George Murray asks leaders and business owners…if your company is struggling to find new employees, you are not alone. If you find new people, but they soon leave, usually for more money, you are not alone. If you are working hard to engage those who have worked for you for a while—-or are brand new—-this book has answers how to help so you are successful. It's all related to the company's culture in how you Ignite. Engage. and Retain. with both long-term and new employees.

The Arch is not just another leadership book. Using the metaphor of a Roman arch, police officer, leadership consultant, and Gallup Strengths Coach Jim Uhl provides a simple and practical framework for leadership and life. It is a redemptive tale of surviving failure, lessons learned, and wisdom gained. The Arch uniquely blends psychology, architecture, neurobiology, poetry, the hero’s journey, personal anecdotes, and powerful stories of survival into a down-to-earth mosaic that will transform how you choose to lead.

Because we are often unknowingly guided by assumptions and biases, or too influenced by a culture when deciding how to lead, we can limit our capabilities as if blindfolded. We are often unaware of our conditioning, but with a little insight, choices open up for us so we can drop the shackles that bind us to our one way thinking, emotions and behaviors. The clarity that comes from awareness allows us to operate with a purpose and authenticity that operates like a bright light, guiding us and our people through the fog of challenge and change.

As powerful as humility is, a common misconception is that it's a sign of weakness. Some think that people who are humble behave as if they are inferior to others or turn themselves into doormats for people to trample upon with impunity. These cannot be further from the truth.