Most successful, growth-hungry companies begin to miss their projections or worse, not because demand is low or conditions are difficult, but simply because they don’t know how to predict, nurture or even maintain their own growth and success. Most leaders feel isolated, pressured to build on earlier success and maintain total control — the perfect recipe for the 12 most common … [More]
Leadership Blindspots
Leadership Blindspots is packed with detailed case studies examining how blind spots operate, using examples from firms like Apple, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, JC Penney and JPMorgan Chase. These cases show how a leader’s blind spots can lead to devastating mistakes if they aren’t recognized and acted upon. Author Robert Bruce Shaw examines the most common types of blind spots and … [More]
Power Cues
In this provocative yet practical book, communication expert Nick Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others — subtle gestures, sounds and signals — that elicit emotion, and provides a clear, useful framework of seven “power cues” that will be essential for any leader. Readers will learn crucial skills, from … [More]
The Etiquette Advantage in Business
Completely revised and updated, this edition is the ultimate guide professionals need to build successful business relationships with confidence. Good manners mean good business.This book offers proven, essential advice, from resolving conflicts with ease and grace to building productive relationships with colleagues at all levels. It also offers up-to-date guidance on … [More]
Authenticity
Most sales training focuses on getting to know the product, analyzing the market and identifying the competition, but there is more to sales success than that. Successful selling takes three types of preparation: the “what”: knowing the product, the industry and the competition; the “how”: applying the knowledge, enhancing social interaction, developing relationships and … [More]
Pitch Perfect
Media coach and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan shares his secrets of pitch-perfect communications, showing readers how to communicate with confidence. Saying the right thing the right way can make the difference between sealing the deal or losing the account, advancing one’s career or suffering a demotion. McGowan shows how to craft just the right message. Along … [More]
Duct Tape Selling
It’s no longer enough to view a salesperson’s job as closing. Today’s superstars must attract, teach, convert, serve and measure while developing a personal brand that stands for trust and expertise. In Duct Tape Selling, Jantsch shows how to tackle a changing sales environment, for both individuals and those charged with leading a sales team. Readers will learn to think … [More]
Big Data
Whether it is used by the NSA to fight terrorism or by online retailers to predict customers’ buying patterns, big data is a revolution occurring around us, in the process of forever changing economics, science, culture and the very way we think. But it also poses new threats, from the end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven’t even … [More]
The Intelligent Web
As we use the Web for social networking, shopping and news, we leave a personal trail. Linger over a Web page selling lamps, and they will turn up at the advertising margins as you move around the Internet, tempting you to make that purchase. And there are pages that collect and assess information to give you a snapshot of changing political opinion. Gautam Shroff takes us on a … [More]
Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Many of us do not know the full extent to which data is collected, stored, aggregated and used. Privacy in the Age of Big Data highlights the many positive outcomes of digital surveillance and data collection while also outlining those forms of data collection to which we may not consent, and of which we are likely unaware. Payton and Claypoole skillfully introduce readers to … [More]
How to be an Even Better Manager
This ninth edition of How to be an Even Better Manager covers more than 60 essential topics across the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people, managing activities and processes, and managing and developing oneself. Thoroughly revised and updated, with 10 new chapters providing timely advice on topics such as coaching, developing emotional … [More]
Flex
Renowned executive coaches and global leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of “Flexing” — the art of switching leadership styles to more effectively lead people who are different from oneself, allowing managers to successfully manage the multicultural workers of today and tomorrow. The book shows managers how to understand the … [More]
Ready to Be a Thought Leader
With the author’s proven seven-step process — and starting from wherever they are in their careers — readers can set a course for maximum impact in their field. These guidelines, along with stories, tips, and success secrets from those who have successfully made the transition to high-profile thought leader, allow readers to create a long-term plan and start putting it into … [More]
On the Edge
This is an engaging leadership manual that provides concrete insights garnered from various extreme environments that range from Mt. Everest to the South Pole. By reflecting on the lessons learned from her various expeditions, author Alison Levine makes the case that the leadership principles that apply in extreme adventure sport also apply in today’s extreme business … [More]
Finding the Space to Lead
The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. Janice Marturano, a senior executive with decades of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, explains how Mindful … [More]
Leadership 2030
The tumultuous changes of the past decade, including China’s economic rise and the financial meltdown, were just the beginning. The next cataclysmic wave is surging relentlessly ahead, demanding leaders who can steer their companies through complexity and change. Drawn from original research conducted jointly with foresight company Z-Punkt and further analyzed by Hay Group, … [More]
The New Corporate Facts of Life
Still myopically chasing quarterly profits, producing the same product in the same way, issuing directives to increasingly disengaged employees? Too many organizations cling to outdated models and practices. But they won’t be able to hang on much longer. The old rules of business are being rendered obsolete by disruptive innovation, economic instability, environmental … [More]
Quick and Nimble
Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than 200 CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of a start-up, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy. By analyzing the lessons that these leaders have shared … [More]
