Performance Leadership

A follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports.

A Bay Area resident and longtime Silicon Valley executive coach, Bob Lesser knows the stresses of career development firsthand. His advice, research, and 30-Day Peak Performance Challenge draw from his own experiences and research, yet can be applied much further than just the workplace. Whether you are a struggling athlete or a high-powered executive, The Peak Performance Formula will guide you to become your best. In this actionable guide to achieving one's peak performance, Lesser shares his analysis of the three pillars of success: purpose, values, and vision.

This book is for courageous senior executives, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and small business owners ready to maximize their education, amplify their skills, leverage their experiences, and build stronger relationships to move their lives forward and realize the greater impact.

Most companies strive to attract talented people, retain them for years, watch them engage in their work and have them consistently perform at a high level. In order to achieve this, they spend significant time, money and resources providing their team with “learning and development” opportunities. Unfortunately, these initiatives rarely produce an ROI because they are not customized and personalized for each employee.

Sei un imprenditore, un manager o semplicemente a capo di un'azienda o di un team? Trovi faticoso, stressante e complicato il modo di gestire i tuoi collaboratori? Consideri deludenti le loro performance e i risultati del loro lavoro? Ti preoccupi costantemente di far crescere l'azienda o il progetto per cui hai tanto sudato e speso? Bene!

Customer service is the single most pressing problem for business managers and people in any service or sales operation, especially at the retail level. In fact, many experts believe that you build a business from the customer up.

In Top Performer, you'll meet Jim, a disciplined but uninspired sales manager. In London, on vacation, (his first in years) he meets Top Hat. In an engrossing conversation, Top Hat tells him about a legendary Dublin busker/street performer called the Rat Catcher, who engages his audience and effortlessly charms them into parting easily with their change. Top Hat then gives Jim an envelope to bring to the Rat Catcher as a form of introduction. Jim is incredulous, and even a bit suspicious.

Triple your sales with precision. This audiobook contains 21 winning strategies that will show you how to become amazingly efficient in selling and managing salespeople. The world's top salespeople - the best of the best - have mastered proven skills which transformed them into consistent winners. What have they learned that makes them so efficient? How do they make it look so easy? This audiobook contains the "secret sauce" which will change your sales career. There is an easier, more precise and effective way to sell, and you can learn it right now!

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

For people-oriented team leaders, Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams is a transformative management audiobook. It will help you unleash the potential of your team’s DNA faster and more effectively than ever before through its inspirational story and readily applicable suite of team performance acceleration principles, which you gain for free.

How do you set your own mood? If you are a team leader, a team captain, or a team coach, you also set the team mood. Do you understand how to continually improve in this critical role? If you are a parent or guardian, the mood you set in the home and for your children is the legacy you leave for future generations.

Sometimes corporate leaders forget that businesses are human systems. Revenue, innovation, and growth are all generated by human beings. Employees left corporate America in droves during the Great Resignation of 2021 and 2022—an important wakeup call. But even when companies try to “fix” or improve their culture, a whopping 85% of these efforts fail. Why is this statistic so dismal? Because you can’t put a bandage on a broken culture.

Managing a sales team is one of the most important and challenging positions in a company, and it requires a unique set of skills. Unfortunately, many sales managers spend much of their day putting out fires, and moving from problem to problem. Their days consist of an overwhelming number of activities, including responding to urgent requests from their bosses, resolving customer issues and complaints, and dealing with disgruntled employees.

The Coherence Code tells a simple story of how a company goes from the brink of failure to success by transforming, improving, and evolving the mindset and habits of its leader, teams, and individual employees through Total Brain Coaching.

There has never been another time when our reputations have been more valuable, yet because of the hyper-connected world in which we live, our reputations have never been more vulnerable or fragile! If you are not intentionally investing in your reputation, then you are missing out on one of the greatest opportunity drivers in your life! Reputation missteps cost people their careers and can take down businesses! Why wait until a crisis to act? Reputation Shift is the answer and road map for those asking, "How do I do this?"

Joe Ferreira specializes in spectacular turnarounds. However, none of Joe’s hard-won personal or professional successes prepared him for becoming the CEO of an organization the same week it was threatened with imminent dissolution by the United States government. Faced with a toxic legacy culture and the worst performance metrics in his industry, Joe drew upon his most momentous personal and professional life experiences. A management memoir, the story of Uncomfortable Inclusion will intrigue, infuriate, and inspire leaders who are eager to turn their organizations into world leaders.

Are you still struggling to find ways to increase the effectiveness of your team? Are you newly appointed as a team leader and want to begin with the best methods? The Scrum method is for you! The Scrum framework has been successfully used since the early 1990's. What began as a way to build products can also be used as a smooth and effective way to run or work with team. Created by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, this framework allows people to address complex adaptive problems while productively and creatively turning into a business of full viable value.

In the 21st Century, management is more about getting to know your people than being a taskmaster. It’s all about relationships, developing your people, and making them feel cared about with authenticity and genuine compassion. This 21st-century leadership fable will help you to clearly communicate what matters most; develop deep, meaningful connections with those around you; and much more. We all want to be effective, respected leaders and develop great people around us. The Greatest Motivational Tool presents a proven method that will do just that. 

Descubra o que os grandes talentos fazem de diferente, como se aprimorar continuamente e perseguir a excelência. Esta seleção de artigos da Harvard Business Review reúne pesquisas e conhecimentos consolidados e até mesmo surpreendentes sobre como atingir o alto desempenho.

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.