Business Performance

Leadership Isn't for Cowards offers straightforward steps to leading courageously and practical tips for driving performance. Courageous leadership means toughening your approach by being rigorous in the application of your values through the company culture. It means confronting and challenging people, and not letting them get away with being less than you know they can be.

A detailed blueprint of exactly what to change for the biggest impact, The Health Habit is a researched framework of 27 of the most important habits a human can ever have. It starts from the morning, to what you eat, how you think, how you plan, how you sleep, and everything else. Learn how to make it painless and sustainable, and it will follow you for the rest of your life.

As president and CEO of Scripps Health, one of America's most prestigious health systems, Chris Van Gorder presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position. While hospitals and health systems nationwide have laid people off or are closing their doors, Scripps is financially healthy, has added thousands of employees (even with a no-layoff philosophy), and has developed a reputation as a top employer. What are the secrets to this remarkable story?

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Multistate Performance Examination. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the MPT. The material is accurate and up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. We included quizzes, key takeaways sections following each chapter, and a follow-along PDF manual containing the entire text of this audio course as well as all figures, charts, and images we'll be reviewing.

Management teams and boards are facing disruption on all sides, from morphing customer preferences to the COVID pandemic to climate change. At the same time they are floundering in strategy confusion with too many concepts and not enough clarity. In this book, strategy expert and regular Harvard Business Review author Graham Kenny releases managers and directors from their strategy haze. His simple and effective framework allows managers to navigate the current maze of ideas and approaches and maximize their competitive advantage.

In What's Your Story? Using Stories to Ignite Performance and Be More Successful, author, entrepreneur, professor and master story teller Craig Wortmann demonstrates the powerful impact stories have on the three most common performance challenges: leadership, strategic selling, and motivation. While the technique of telling stories is the oldest form of communication, it's also the one form that rises above the din of our information-saturated environment.

James King draws on his 15 years of experience as a trusted advisor to some of the world's most elite and exclusive organizations, combined with cutting-edge scientific research, to reveal the foundational principles that are proven to drive elite performance. Accelerating Excellence will revolutionize the way you perceive excellence, potential, and talent, crushing some of the most entrenched assumptions along the way. You will emerge inspired about the possibility that exists before you, enriched with purpose, structure, and direction.

Are you tired of Gambling with your Business Insurance where the Insurance Company seems to always win? Are you frustrated with the broken insurance agent bidding process and unpredictable premium rates? As a successful business owner, you deserve to be in control of your insurance and, ultimately, your bottom line. Discover the winning strategies of the most successful business owners in David R Leng's book, The 10 Laws of Insurance Attraction. With 35+ years of experience, David reveals the secrets to reducing insurance premiums and taking control of your insurance program. In this book, ...

We’ve all worked with one - a smart and immensely talented individual who brings enormous value to the organization. The problem? He’s an awful teammate. So as a leader, do you consider this key player toxic or irreplaceable? There Is an I in Team explores the relationship between individual and team - asking the question: How can we harness the talent of individual performers into a cohesive, productive team that creates overall value? And why are so many of our assumptions about teams wrong? Business challenges like this one mimic many of the issues facing sports teams.

Finally, a book that tells the truth about the pitching process in Hollywood. This highly detailed guide is intended for writers, producers and directors, or anyone who wants to work in the intensely competitive, creative side of the entertainment industry. Written is simple, direct language, it is intended for beginners or established Hollywood pros.

The Dealmaker's Ten Commandments contains a practical, no-nonsense methodology for negotiating deals, managing your time, and handling crisis all at the highest level. Peppered with entertainment industry war stories, The Dealmaker's Ten Commandments has been forged in the white-hot crucible of brutal transactional combat.

In The Performance Culture, leadership expert Khalil Smith and veteran storyteller Chris Weller deliver an authoritative and practical instruction manual for every leader who wants to create healthy, high-performing cultures. The authors explain how to get your employees aligned, engaged, and collaborating with each other using compelling stories and contemporary research.

In this meditation on celebrity, power, and a simple thank-you, Mindy Kaling takes the next charmed step in her path from Conan intern to mogul: picking up the entire tab for a famous A-lister. It’s an investment, right? He’ll be blown away by her class. They’ll be best friends forever. Forty thankless seconds later, who wouldn’t spiral into self-doubt, second-guessing, over-rationalizing, and anxious obsession?

Are your people excited to come to work? Are they passionate about your team's purpose? In Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees, leadership expert Lee J. Colan reveals the necessary steps to inspire and engage everyone on your team. By fully engaging your employees, you'll ignite stellar team performance and customer service.

In today's fast-paced world, data is everywhere—but only actionable insights can drive real success. The Insight-Driven Leader offers a practical guide to transforming raw data into powerful workforce insights that solve critical business challenges. Through clear frameworks, compelling case studies, and proven strategies, Jenny Dearborn and Kelly Rider reveal how high-performing organizations combine business and workforce data to innovate, engage employees, delight customers, and exceed financial goals.

Forcing compliance is easy. Anyone can "make" another do a task or a job. It will get done, but when, and to what standard? High performance and, more importantly, sustained high performance can only come from engagement with and commitment to the job in hand. This audiobook will introduce you to the art of compassionate leadership - the art of getting the best for and out of people through the fulfillment of self-worth. It will show leaders how to give their teams a real sense of purpose and direction in order to motivate and inspire them to perform at a high level.

It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.

Welcome to the 9th Stratum: Your guide to high performance. The 9th Stratum concept was developed over two decades through the study, testing, and application of techniques and practices observed in low to high performers and validated with real world results. This revealed the specific performance-based skills, behaviors, routines, and habits that are practiced daily by high-performers from all industries. Understanding and applying these skills is critical for those who have yet to establish consistent goal achievement—and the success that follows.

"Conquer the CIA Exam Part 3: Your Guide to the Certified Internal Auditor Exam on the Business Essentials of Internal Auditing" is a comprehensive study resource designed to prepare candidates for the third part of the CIA exam. This guide covers essential topics such as business acumen, information security, information technology, and financial management. In the business acumen section, it delves into strategic planning, performance measurement, organizational behavior, and management effectiveness. The information security segment focuses on the types of controls, user authentication, ...

How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important. But something big is missing: the know-how of running a business—the capacity to take it in the right direction, do the right things, make the right decisions, deliver results, and leave the people and the business better off than they were before.