Leadership Higher

Seth Godin, one of today's most influential business thinkers, writes best-selling books like Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars. And in between those annual books, he delivers a daily stream of ideas on one of the world's most popular blogs.

The Culture Blueprint is a systematic guide to building a company culture. This audiobook is about fostering committed, enthusiastic employees. Distilling his years of experience teaching culture-building to companies like Google, P&G, and Amazon.

From CEOs communicating with board members to managers negotiating salary increases and entrepreneurs looking to raise capital, it's impossible to overstate the role of persuasion in making your personal and professional goals a reality. The ability to convince others—respectfully and effectively—is one of the most important skills you can master, whatever your profession. In Convince Me, you'll find eye-opening, behind-the-scenes details revealing how some of the best in the business ply their trade.

Introducing "Leading with Excellence," your pivotal companion on the journey to optimal project management and team leadership. This eBook dives deep to provide invaluable insights into how successful teams function and how you, as a leader, can uplift your team's performance to new heights. "Leading with Excellence" handily breaks down the fundamentals of project management before seguing seamlessly into the premise of fostering high-performance teams. Savor the chance to explore varied aspects of team dynamics, understand their nuances, and master how to bring out the best in your team ...

In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.

There are three kinds of employees: Some are saints: they're always accountable. Some are sinners: they're never accountable. But most are save-ables: sometimes they make good choices; sometimes they don't. What makes the difference? Leadership Without Excuses has the answers. Jeff Grimshaw and Gregg Baron help you put an end to the save-ables' poor choices and excuse-making - and convert them into saints. The secret is to communicate clear and credible expectations, create compelling consequences, and lead conversations grounded in reality.

In today's tumultuous and rapidly evolving business environment, High-Potential leaders are in high demand. Do you possess the relationship skills, strategic vision, innovation, and determination needed to thrive as a high-potential leader in your organization? New York Times bestselling author Ram Charan answers that question and helps you hop on the fast-track to leadership success in this insightful guide.

In his top-rated book Buyable, best-selling author, successful entrepreneur with an exit, and sought-after consultant Steve Preda will show you how to turn your business into a valuable asset. You’ll create a buyable business even if you have no plan to sell it. Why? Because your business will work for you with very little effort, supervision, and stress from you.

Gary Hamel lays out an innovative action plan for any company or individual intent on becoming and staying an industry revolutionary, for years to come. By drawing on the success of "gray haired revolutionaries" like Charles Schwab, Virgin, and GE Capital - companies that are always thinking ahead and growing in new directions - and profiling individuals such as Ken Kutaragi, one of the pioneers behind Sony's PlayStation, Hamel explains how companies can continue to grow, innovate, and achieve success.

As a leader, is it possible to be both successful and humble? Studies show that today's emerging leaders not only prioritize achievement over humility but also see the two as mutually exclusive. Does this signal an existential crisis for healthcare - an industry that, at its essence, is supposed to embody humility and compassion? Thankfully, no, according to Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders, which demonstrates that you can embrace humility and still be excellent at your job.

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, exceptional executives face unprecedented challenges. The demands of leadership have evolved, requiring a new set of skills and a mindset that embraces change. "The Adaptive Leader" is your essential guide to mastering transformative leadership in a VUCA world—where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are the new normal. Authored by renowned executive coach Ammanuel Santa Anna, this book is tailored specifically for high-performing leaders who are ready to elevate their game. Through actionable strategies, real...

In Demand, Adrian Slywotzky provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications - not just for people in business but also for social activists, government leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. To succeed in their various missions, all these groups need to master such ground-breaking concepts as the hassle map (and the secrets of fixing it); the curse of the incomplete product (and how to avoid it); why “very good” does not equal “magnetic”....

This isn’t just another leadership audiobook. Packed with real-world stories, actionable strategies, and fresh perspectives, it offers a roadmap for building strong team cultures, achieving operational excellence, and navigating the complexities of modern leadership with confidence and empathy.

You have the formal education, the experience and maybe even the title. Yet, you crave additional development of your leadership skills - not just another business book or workshop, but something practical, actionable and real-world. The Complete Leader is for you. Randy Lisk and Ron Price combine experiences and tools gleaned from decades working with leaders from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses to present twenty-five modules in The Complete Leader.

Great leaders create great cultures.What makes a great leader? A leader’s success is not just outcomes—growth and profit. Rather, success is creating a healthy place for people to engage in meaningful work. High security, high opportunity, high fun, low drama, and low inanity—these are the attributes of a truly sustainable culture. And they are the result of being Culture Centric. Culture Centric is for business leaders who want to build a successful workplace. It lays the groundwork for a leadership system—structure, strategy, implementation, and conduct—that can achieve ...

Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success "tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence" become liabilities when promoted into a leadership track. While managers' conversations are generally transactional and centered on the task at hand, leaders must focus on people, asking great questions and aligning them with the vision for the future.

Accreditation. Merit salary systems. External rankings. Outcomes assessment. Program reviews. These strategies and many others were developed as ways of improving the quality of higher education. But as Jeffrey L. Buller—the author of such works as The Essential Department Chair, Positive Academic Leadership, and Change Leadership in Higher Education—argues in Reinventing College, they haven’t fulfilled their promise. At best, they’ve resulted in modest improvements that aren’t worth the time and cost they required. At worst, they harmed the quality of higher education by shifting...

Any group of people expected to work synergistically needs a system that structures their interactions. That system is “governance.” The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance takes a first principles approach to exploring the ways governance structures affect the humans living under them (and vice versa), with a special focus on how human psychology interacts with the structures that facilitate our interaction with other people.

There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show listeners how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement.

Higher education is under assault from all sides. Scandals, protests, and dramatic resignations dominate the news cycle, and the pressure has grown so severe that the average tenure of university presidents has fallen to less than six years. Even so, Peril and Promise insists, American universities provide the solutions to the ignorance and division that plague our society—but only if wise, courageous leaders step up.