Winning Business Management

As a leader, every move you make is either breathing life into your organization or slowly killing it. The atmosphere can easily turn toxic, with negativity, blame, and doubt poisoning the culture. Are you breathing enough oxygen into your organization to give it meaning? Jason Barger has advised some of the world’s biggest brands—including Deloitte, Wendy’s, and many others—on how to engage the minds and hearts of their people. In Breathing Oxygen, he explores mindsets that bring energy to every team and expand their productivity and your organization’s potential.

Here’s how you can master the psychology of business and achieve financial freedom! Have you ever wondered why some businesses become instant success stories while others fail miserably? No, successful businessmen and businesswomen are not born with the “good-at-business” gene, and they don’t have the business Midas touch. What they do have is a very particular set of skills. That’s exactly what this business management book is here to do: help you develop those essential financial management chops that will bring you one step closer to your goal of financial freedom.

Individuals, teams, and organizations must become more resilient in today’s complex world, and each one will experience failure at some point. Successful individuals, teams, and organizations bounce back. Winning After Losing: Building Resilient Teams offers a collection of lessons on leadership and resilience of winning teams. I am writing this book as a retired US Army three-star general and as the former chief operating officer of a public biotechnology company.

A groundswell is sweeping through your customers. Right now, they are writing about your products on blogs and recutting your commercials on YouTube. They're defining you on Wikipedia and ganging up on you in social networking sites like Facebook. These are all elements of a social phenomenon - the groundswell - that has created a permanent shift in the way the world works. Most companies see it as a threat. It's time to see it an opportunity.

Organizational cultures are as broad and diverse as the people who build them. However, certain aspects of corporate culture are essential for any business offering a product or service for sale. A service culture is one of them. The Service Culture Playbook challenges all owners and managers within any service industry and all instructors within schools of hospitality management to take a cold-blooded, honest look at your service standards and practices and make course corrections as needed so you can play to win!

Whether you are an accomplished sales executive leading a large organization or a sales manager leading a team, your ability to remove obstacles and speed the sales process will determine your success. High-Performance Selling is geared for the sales leader who has to persuade others to work as a sales force of one.

Are you getting what you want today? Are you on track to creating the career and life of your dreams? The same challenges exist in every career and at every level. Whether you are Jeff Bezos contemplating leaving a comfortable job to build a world-changing company, or fresh out of college thinking about your career direction, you want a sophisticated approach.

All the War They Want presents counterintuitive problem-solving techniques, using as its case in point one of the most existential threats to our national security and American way of life: cyber warfare. Informed by Jeffrey Engle’s experience as a member of the U.S. military’s elite special ops community, his Brazilian jiujitsu training, and his leadership of a premier cyber defense company, All the War They Want offers an alternative perspective on overcoming tough leadership challenges—a perspective previously available only to those bearing the scars of a lifetime at war.

A new model for productive teamwork that generates wealth. From instincts as ancient as our hunter and gatherer stages, men and women have worked in teams. But what have we really learned about these drives and desires in a lasting way? Does all of the selfishness and scandal in business and government today suggest we have spilt the special sauce of teamwork? Doing More With Teams explores what can be done to encourage a new form of competition so that organizations complete the challenges before them to drive growth and get results.

In Lead You: The Winning Combination to Achieve Personal and Professional Success, Bobby Harrington shows you how self-leadership can transform you into the leader you aspire to be. Bobby’s Lead Yourself First method provides a self-leadership framework that teaches you how to utilize the basic tenets of leadership, execute tasks with passion and discipline, and commit to continuous improvement. The Lead Yourself First method is a roadmap through the foundations of self-leadership, the importance of discipline and personal responsibility, and the concept of sovereignty in leadership.

When we acquire valuable knowledge and are willing to share our expertise, we speed our personal growth, honing our minds, sharpening our spirits, and establishing our legacy. It is about giving back, offering our best to others so that they can find the best in themselves. And, with appreciation, they can pay it forward, continuing the cycle.

A manager's guide to winning on the business battlefield from one of Fast Company's Fast 50 Innovative Leaders.

The Success Matrix takes a different approach than most business books, bracketing deep management insights with a fictional story to illustrate the power of the concepts described within. This unique combination provides a very accessible take on a complex subject. A fun, easy listen, but with serious impact in your business and your personal life.

Our government organizations face political fallout, media scrutiny, reduced funding, and the many challenges involved in motivating large, multi-layered and highly regulated organizations. It's no surprise that many government organizations report that their employees are less engaged than ever and that leaders feel helpless to change the situation. In many cases, employees and government leaders are caught in a vicious cycle. Performance declines, scrutiny increases, and employee paralysis ensues. How do you break this cycle and begin building successful government?

There are many books available on the topic of leadership, but none quite like this one. Walk Off Winning: A Game Plan for Leading Your Team and Organization to Success is the work of Steve Trimper - a college baseball coach who shares what he has learned about business through his extensive leadership experience in high-level sports. In addition to reflecting on his own failures and successes, Trimper interviews leadership experts to distill a wealth of wisdom into this valuable book.

It is not because we bring together a group of people and we tell them that they will now work together that it necessarily produces a real team. A group of people is a crowd. If they appreciate each other, they may even have fun rubbing shoulders. But from there to make it a winning team that will succeed in achieving its goals against all odds, there is a step you will learn to take in this book. To achieve this, you will first be invited to take a test that will allow you to discover on which characteristics of the winning teams you need to make efforts to get closer to success.

In 30 years of working in corporations, Michael Beer has witnessed how organizational silence has derailed many a strategic objective. When lower-level employees in the organization can't speak truth to power, senior leaders don't hear what they need to hear about their firm's fitness to compete. Employees lose trust in higher-ups and become more resistant to change. In Fit to Compete, Beer presents an antidote to silence - an innovative and highly effective process for holding honest conversations with everyone in your organization.

John Hewitt's no-nonsense personal story will knock you out of your comfort zone and show you how to win in any business you choose. Hewitt has been called annoying, challenging, and brilliant - with a fanatical desire to improve and out-give everyone he meets. He competes to win!

Winning the Talent Shift: Three Steps to Unleashing the New High Performance Workplace envisions a world where companies are fully equipped to exceed the challenges posed by the new global marketplace. Berta Aldrich argues if companies want to achieve future success, they must redesign their talent strategy using three important steps proven to increase revenues, engage teams and leaders, and set companies on the path to industry leadership.

The principles you will discover within this audiobook work. In every walk of life, if you don't think right you don't perform to the best of your ability - regardless of your knowledge and skill level. The sports arena has spent millions of dollars and decades of research getting to the bottom of this fact - now you and your team can benefit without reinventing the wheel.