Performance Leadership

Research shows that a leader's behavior is the most important predictor of a team's success. Leading with Your Upper Brain helps you understand why. It provides an innovative framework to shift your behavior in ways that help employees tap into their upper-brain resources that drive higher levels of performance.

From polar explorers and politicians to CEOs and sports coaches, we are fascinated with the makeup of leaders. How do they thrive under pressure and inspire others to do the same? How do they establish a culture of long-term success? Performance psychologist Tom Young has worked closely with teams and individuals at the highest level of professional sport. He has seen how leaders in these high-pressure environments communicate, how they maintain focus and respond to challenges.

Do you want to be more productive and enjoy your work more fully? The Now Habit at Work, written by top performance expert Neil Fiore, reveals how true time management goes hand-in-hand with greater ease, well-being, and success in business and life. Whatever your occupation, Fiore’s proven tools will empower you to overcome procrastination and engage your full creative potential on the job.

The Simple Side of Human Resource Management Managing People Should Not Be Difficult, Boring or Scary Learn how to understand some of the more complex aspects of human resource management in a simpler context. If you are interested in understanding human resource management in greater detail, but you are just not in the mood for those stale academic written, hard to understand, boring textbooks, then this book is just for you. If you are simply looking for additional information and wish to supplement your existing knowledge on human resource management, well then this book is for you. For ...

Dale Carnegie's unique and powerful approach to leadership training is based on wisdom and expertise gained from developing leaders longer than any other professional development organization. Lead! is for new or experienced leaders alike who want to be more effective at motivating and inspiring their teams. This book is designed from the proven Dale Carnegie Leadership Success Model and Dale Carnegie's Human Relationships Principles to help you understand tools and techniques to address common leadership challenges....

Looking to become a top change manager? Look no further than "Mastering the 14 Qualities: How to Become a Top Change Manager." Written by an experienced and expert change manager, this book is a comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to know to succeed in the field of change management. The book includes a detailed explanation of the ✓14 qualities that every top change manager should possess, as well as ✓a step-by-step guide for the change process. You will also learn about ✓major change management models and all major and important ✓tools and techniques used in the ...

During his 35-year career in the Army, Rick Lynch led 25,000 of our country’s best to victory in “The Surge” in Iraq. He came home to take command of Fort Hood, Texas, the largest Army Installation in America. He rose up to take charge of every Army Installation on Earth, leading 120,000 mostly civilian employees through the restructuring of a $20-billion budget, under unimaginable pressure from the Pentagon.

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...

Unlock your potential as a leader and manager with the "Handbook on Feedback and Recognition." In this practical guide, you'll learn how to give and receive feedback effectively, communicate with impact, and create a culture of recognition in the workplace. With insights into the psychology of feedback and the importance of recognition, this book offers a comprehensive approach to unlocking the full potential of your team. By reading the "Handbook on Feedback and Recognition," managers can expect to see a significant improvement in their career prospects. With the skills and knowledge ...

Leadership skills are essential for everyone, and the great news is that they can be learned, meaning that there’s no excuse for poor leadership. This two-book bundle will provide you with concise, powerful advice based on experience and research ranging from neuroscience to social psychology and backed up by statistical data and analysis.

Unleashing Firepower, Masters of Business Excellence has brought together experts from various corners of the world, spanning diverse disciplines, to breathe life into this book. How can a former Navy SEAL extract lessons from their experiences and apply them to thrive as a successful entrepreneur? Moreover, how can a former 3-Star General shed light on the crucial prerequisite of establishing the right team mindset before embarking on significant AI integration in today's business landscape? The term "Business Excellence" widely signifies the elevation of standards in the business realm. ...

Executive Toughness takes you through the steps of making these critical behaviors part of your everyday routine. Practice your accountability, focus, and optimism, and you'll be on the path to attaining your goals; make them part of your mental “DNA", and there will be no turning back - ever. A complete regimen from a leading expert on developing the mindset for attaining goals, Executive Toughness is your workout for ultimate success in your career and in your life.

Insights from the latest research on team emotional intelligence and TalentSmartEQ’s research trends from working with over 200 teams (with 2000+ team members) combine to bring EQ know-how to the team level. Team Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers practical strategies and showcases how an emotionally intelligent team is far more than the sum of its parts. This book delivers 53 strategies and a step-by-step process for increasing team EQ skills so team leaders and anyone who’s a member of a team can achieve peak performance and reach their goals.

"The way Nathalie explained how to reframe my thinking around one major obstacle will unlock potentially millions of dollars in revenue." Greg Schinkle; President of Unique Training Development “It’s never going to work. You’re not good enough!” Are you tired of hearing that nagging voice inside your head? And what if you could do something about it? Do you have a dream or a project that’s been on the back burner for too long? Even with all your accomplishments, do you still doubt yourself sometimes? Statistics show that 85% of people suffer from a lack of self-confidence in at ...

A groundbreaking guide for elite performers—men who dominate, but still feel like something’s missing. This book reveals why success alone won’t fulfill you—and how mastering your inner world can unlock the next level of strength, connection, and purpose. You are not like other men. You push harder, endure more, and perform at levels most people can’t comprehend. You thrive on discipline, control, and execution—whether in business, sports, or other high-stakes environments. You’ve won. So why isn’t it enough? Most men will never understand the pressure of being at the top. The responsibility.

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.

Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you’re in a leadership role or working as part of a team, you need to implement strategies that build and nurture resilience. You need a resilience plan. Award-winning mental health expert Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on her clinical practice and extensive knowledge in therapeutics and business practices to explore how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves—not with a one-size-fits-all plan but with strategies to help you create a custom plan.

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.

The Concise Reads Management Series gives us some of the important tools in the management tool belt including problem solving, communicating, and building a team. The guides are concise on purpose and should take you no more than an hour or so to read but the principles within them take weeks and months to master. These are essential principles to find success as a manager or leader and therefore it is important that you absorb them and turn them into habits. Team Building: "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford The Team ...

The US military in general, and its many elite organizations in particular, possesses a culture of high performance. Courage to Execute outlines the six basic principles that operate at the foundation of high performance, which include leadership, organization, communication, knowledge, experience, and discipline, known together as LOCKED. When all are practiced effectively, teamwork emerges. But the most elusive quality that's at the heart of all elite military teams, the element that organizations and businesses desire to perform more efficiently and effectively, is trust.