Leadership Higher

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?

Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a must-listen guide for everyone from aspiring entrepreneurs to established business leaders. No matter the stage of your business - development, exploitation, or disruption - Elite will change your approach to business and unlock the warrior within.

Success at work isn't just about showing up—it's about showing up with strategy, self-awareness, and the right tools. 1000 Ideas: Win At Work is your go-to guide for thriving in every professional setting, from office cubicles to remote workspaces, from early-career beginnings to leadership roles. Inside, you’ll find clear, actionable ideas across 20 focused chapters—covering productivity hacks, communication skills, promotions, office politics, remote work, leadership, personal branding, and more. Whether you’re climbing the corporate ladder, managing a team, or simply trying to ...

In Aim High: Chart Your Course and Find Success, Deborah James shares her personal and professional challenges, outcomes, strategies for success, and the problem-solving principles she used to overcome the daunting pressures, threats, and challenges that come with rising to the top of the US Armed Forces. As a supplement to her storytelling, Bain and Company, a top-tier management consulting firm, offers research and statistics that prove James's insights have widespread impact.

Seventy percent of businesses fail or are sold before the next generation gets to take over. Are you one of the 70% of business owners who fear their company won’t survive the transition to the next generation? Don’t let your life’s work crumble when you step away. In Succession Planning for Impact, seasoned CEO and business coach Harry T. Jones reveals the seven essential steps to building a lasting legacy and ensuring your company thrives long after you’ve handed over the reins. With decades of experience guiding entrepreneurs to success, Harry shares his proven strategies for: ...

Fuel the Fire follows Holly Jones, a high school senior and captain of her cross-country team, as she faces her most challenging season yet. With college scouts watching, team dynamics unraveling, and a fiercely independent freshman phenom, Taylor, testing the limits of her leadership, Holly must navigate the delicate balance between personal ambition and the responsibility of uniting her teammates. As tensions rise on and off the track, Holly learns that leadership isn’t about running ahead—it’s about bringing others along with you. Through grueling practices, emotional breakthroughs...

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 ...

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.

What is your organization's glass ceiling? Wondering why your organization isn't reaching its potential? You're not alone. Many leaders sense something is amiss but struggle to identify the missing link. In Build Smart, organizational leadership expert Simon A. Taylor tackles this challenge head-on.

Why are so many successful people unhappy, uninspired, or unhealthy? After 30 years of solving complicated financial problems for millionaires, billionaires, and their businesses, Chris Jarvis discovered patterns for success and for happiness. Do you know that most successful entrepreneurs, the wealthiest families, and the giraffe all have several unusual traits in common?

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, ...

This book was written for the new manager or anyone who aspires to become a leader. Whether you have just finished school or have been working for some time, you are in (or about to assume) your first real leadership position. Leadership in Balance will help you to see and understand your natural tendency in each of four essential leadership domains. Once you’ve identified your true and natural tendencies, you become self-aware of your default position as a leader.

Design to Engage is a “how-to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events. Practical, accessible, and jam-packed with tools to support facilitators to create impactful learning experiences, Design to Engage is a revelation and an inspiration.

How High-Level Leaders Reclaim Clarity, Prioritize What Matters, and Lead with Lasting ImpactYou’ve achieved what others only dream of: power, influence, and performance at the highest levels. But behind the full calendar and impressive résumé is a quieter question: “Is all this motion creating meaningful momentum?” In The Executive’s Guide to Getting Things Done, book creation strategist Candace Sinclair invites C-suite leaders, executive entrepreneurs, and high-performing experts into a more intentional way of working and living. This isn’t a productivity hack or time-blocking...

While experiencing firsthand the chaos at Wisdom Health Care Center, Grace Holden, its new CEO, questions if she made the right decision in accepting the job. Yet Grace knows she couldn’t have turned it down. It was an opportunity she had worked for her entire career. Still, what she could not have anticipated was just how broken the culture was at the health care center. She quickly discovers Wisdom will challenge her in ways she never imagined. In The Wisdom Story, best-selling author Tim Burningham presents another compelling and enlightening leadership fable. Using his storytelling ...

This second edition focus more on mental health: understanding and recovery. The general lessons on how empathy makes us high-value people are still present in the book fill with actions steps. The book is a unique psychological look at the power of empathy. It’s about relationships. emotional and mental health. As a survivor of intense child-abuse, including sexual abuse from a narcissist father, I fully understand and value what empathy can bring to a soul in need. In this book, I guide readers through a series of captivating stories, facts and perspectives that will empower you to ...

Unlocking Excellence: 25+ Years of Insights on Leadership and Personal Growth as Your Blueprint for Success Are you ready to unlock your potential and accelerate your success? Unlocking Excellence combines 25+ years of personal notes, lessons learned, and practical insights from leadership, innovation, and high performance into one powerful blueprint for personal and professional growth. This book offers actionable steps, backed by scientific research and real-world examples, to help you become a better leader, master personal growth, and develop the grit needed to overcome challenges. ...

18X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, Diversity and Inclusion, and Workplace Culture Global Thought Leader; Chair/Professor of Organizational Leadership; Change/OD/HR/Social Impact Consultant; Ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following topic areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar); ScholarGPS has ranked him the #15 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. In today's rapidly evolving work landscape, ...

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.

What if you could unlock the secrets of high performers? What if you could apply a few simple, scientifically-proven techniques that turn average teams into rock stars? In this groundbreaking new book, forensic psychologist, Dr. Eric Frazer, uncovers the latest research into the psychology of top performers; how they think, how they act, how they solve the world's most complex problems.