Leadership Development

Lydia Fenet, senior vice president of Christie’s and seasoned auctioneer, shares the secrets of success and the strategies behind her revolutionary sales approach to show you how to embrace and channel your own power in any room.

Small Business for Dummies has been a leading resource for starting and running a small business. Calling upon their more than six decades of combined experience running small businesses, Eric Tyson and Jim Schell once again provide time-tested advice and the latest information on starting and growing a small business.

One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie’s groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated into almost every known language, and has helped countless people succeed.

Are you self-aware, rational, and pragmatic, yet still unable to achieve the results you want in your management, business or career? Success in business doesn’t solely depend on diligent planning, executing and ‘doing’. The ‘human factor’ plays a vital role in accomplishment and prosperity. As an executive or a business owner, your success depends first and foremost on your mental conduct. It’s not enough to learn tactical methods and techniques, or plan a strategy; in order to succeed in today’s competitive reality, you must first tackle your mental side and reprogram your ...

The major difference between achieving people and average people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell takes a closer look at failure - and reveals that the secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone. He covers the top reasons people fail and shows how to master fear instead of being mastered by it. Listeners will discover that positive benefits can accompany negative experiences - if you have the right attitude.

Are you ready to launch your business but feeling overwhelmed by all the moving pieces? Worried about making costly mistakes that could derail your success? This comprehensive audiobook is your ultimate companion for building a thriving business from the ground up.

It's been over a decade since Verne Harnish's best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't is the first major revision of this business classic. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business.

A small book with a huge impact! This book will teach you the strategies you need to know to achieve ultimate success as a first time manager. You’ll learn how to: ★ Assemble a high-performing team that functions seamlessly ★ Create winning relationships with your boss, your peers, and the team members you lead ★ Build confidence in yourself, your decisions, and your ability to tackle any and all workplace problems ★ Motivate and inspire people ★ Become an indispensable and respected leader well on your way up the corporate ladder In his insightful and relatable book, Don’t ...

Transform Your Life and Leadership Applying the five transformative principles of the Human Operating System is so much more effective than hacking through the forest of leadership trade books, workshops, and management techniques. Many of these tools can be helpful, but they often function more like apps or accessories rather than a deeper operating system that can offer meaning, direction, and coherence to everything you might do as a leader. Jack Nicholson and Rob Murray have been developing the Human Operating System over many years of work with executive leaders, teams, and ...

A good mentor can transform your life but is difficult to find. Here’s a rare chance to unleash your full potential with the help of one of India’s sharpest strategists. Drawing from the ancient Arthashastra, best-selling author Radhakrishnan Pillai transforms Chanakya’s revered sutras into everyday wisdom for modern audiences. Pillai, India’s leading Chanakya expert, handpicks the 100 most powerful sutras from nearly 6,000 original ones and distills them into practical advice for leaders, professionals and students alike in this one-of-its-kind book.

Driven entrepreneurs seem to always be in search of their "unicorn" team - that match made in heaven that opens the door to freedom and endless possibility. Unfortunately, huge obstacles - the "elephants" - tend to get in the way. Bringing her expertise from HR to EQ, Caroline Stokes offers real-world solutions to the people management problems business owners like you face right now.

The definitive account of India’s biggest start-up that redefined ecommerce, entrepreneurship and the way we shop and live.

More than ever, today’s world needs leaders to solve problems and impact positive change. If you have ever asked yourself the question, “Who am I to lead?”, this book is for you. Through concise and insightful essays, speaker and change agent Torin Perez stirs readers to think of themselves as leaders and discover their unique strengths. Who Am I to Lead? spans a diverse range of topics, from setting the mindset we need to thrive to defining the actions we must take to cultivate ourselves as leaders. Through the lessons he shares, Torin emboldens readers to envision and realize the ...

The new female manager’s encyclopedia - how to lead like a pro and spin teamwork into value, even with little experience! If you’ve been newly appointed to a managerial position with a few years of experience under your belt…you may struggle to get used to your peers calling you “boss”. However, it would help if you weren’t afraid to embrace leadership roles - you earned every right to excel, and your boss must have noticed something exceptional in you, so don’t downplay yourself.

Conventional wisdom says most startups need to be in Silicon Valley, started by young engineers around a sexy new idea and backed by VC funding. But as Mikkel Svane reveals in Startupland, the story of founding Zendesk was anything but conventional. Founded in a Copenhagen loft by three 30-something friends looking to break free from corporate doldrums, Zendesk Inc. became one of the hottest enterprise software companies, rapidly growing with customers in 150 countries. But its success was anything but predestined.

They actually have vastly different styles and backgrounds. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They don’t hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They don’t believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They don’t try to help people overcome their weaknesses. And, yes, they even play favorites. In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers.

What if the greatest challenge facing America’s community colleges isn’t budget cuts or bureaucratic hurdles, but a fear of success itself? As the Dean of a large community college's School of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, I’ve seen firsthand how the fear of accountability can stifle progress and innovation. During a pivotal meeting in Spring 2024, a fellow dean's reaction to a proposal for expanding course capacity—"What if we succeed?"—exposed a deeper issue plaguing higher education. This book dives into the heart of that fear, unraveling why community colleges, ...

Looking for breakthrough strategies that really work? Are you stressed, depressed, and ready for a change? Seeking inspiration to help you plan for massive success? In this book renowned life and business reinvention experts share their best advice for taking the quantum leap you’re ready for. Don’t live an ordinary life one more day….. start living your dreams today and every day!

In 2022, Christine Clyne-Spraker, health tech co-CEO, mother, and wife, decided to listen to the voice that had been not-so-gently nudging her and make a drastic change. Despite her incredible personal and professional accomplishments, the accolades she had worked years to receive were no longer serving her in the ways her younger self had hoped. Well-intentioned childhood patterning and years of chasing success as defined by societal standards had pushed Christine to showcase perfectionism in every aspect of her life. But these realities were actually holding her back from the life she ...

Our increasingly interconnected, digitized, and globalized world presents immense opportunities and unique challenges. Modern businesses and schools interact with individuals and organizations from a diverse range of cultural and national backgrounds - increasing the likelihood for miscommunication, errors in strategy, and unintended consequences in the process. Use Your Difference to Make a Difference provides listeners with a skills-based, actionable plan that transforms differences into agents of inclusiveness, connection, and mutual understanding.