GET RID OF YOUR BLIND SPOTS – NOW!We all know we have roadblocks and blind spots hindering our leadership success, but we may not know exactly what they are. Dan Mack has compiled life-altering ideas from over ten years of primary research. The insights chronicled in this book grew from leadership discussions attended by top executives from some of the best companies in the world. Look Closer: Ideas on Reexamining and Eliminating Personal, Relational, and Organ...

In Dark Horse: How Challenger Companies Rise To Prominence, business veteran Dan Mack takes you inside the minds, hearts, and boardrooms of dark horse companies who winning big despite having the odds stacked against them.From the beloved Wiffle ball and bat to the highly stylized line of Method soap, and PURELL hand sanitizer, there is no shortage of dark horse companies to root for in the American business race today.Everyone loves a dark horse—the come-from-behind winner ...

All of us in the today's workforce are called upon more and more to work effectively in teams. But do you know how to build a team that truly takes advantage of the knowledge, experience, and motivation of its members? Most of us don't, and we quickly become frustrated, give up, and opt to go it alone-not a good solution in today's business environment. Fortunately, there is a better way. Here, expert authors Ken Blanchard, Alan Randolph, and Peter Grazier outline a 3-step process that wil...

My longtime colleague Ginger Cockerham has provided a must-have/must-read blueprint for all coaches who want to launch and thrive in a group coaching practice. Even those considering their options would do well to consult this step-by-step model, complete with a rich set of examples and case studies. It’s all here, presented with a clear and engaging approach.—JUDY FELD, MCC, MS, AUTHOR OF SMARTMATCH ALLIANCES, PAST PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL COACH FEDERATION, COFOUNDER, EXEC...

Discover proven strategies for building powerful, world-class brandsIt's tempting to believe that brands like Apple, Nike, and Zappos achieved their iconic statuses because of serendipity, an unattainable magic formula, or even the genius of a single visionary leader. However, these companies all adopted specific approaches and principles that transformed their ordinary brands into industry leaders. In other words, great brands can be built—and Denise Lee Yohn know...

Are you an employee stuck in a career rut? Are you a student looking to get the right start? Or do you just want to create a better you? In The 10Ks of Personal Branding, author Kaplan Mobray offers ten must-know insights to building your personal brand. In this inspiring guide, learn how to focus your life’s goals with your life’s actions to create a powerful package called “you.” Filled with easy-to-follow instructions and valuable tips on developing your personal brand, this guide expla...

Winning is not a 'some of the time' activity it is an 'all of the time' activity. Success in sales takes talent, skills, discipline, practice, and most importantly honesty with a genuine concern for the client. Most sales leaders know what to do – they just do not know how to make it real for their organization. This barrier keeps them mediocre at best.Experienced sales professional and entrepreneur, Nathan Jamail has developed a playbook of techniques and best practices, which hav...

Branding guru Aaker shows how to eliminate the competition and become the lead brand in your marketThis ground-breaking book defines the concept of brand relevance using dozens of case studies-Prius, Whole Foods, Westin, iPad and more-and explains how brand relevance drives market dynamics, which generates opportunities for your brand and threats for the competition. Aaker reveals how these companies have made other brands in their categories irrelevant. Key points: When managing a...

The Leader’s Pocket Guide provides readers with on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct them on their professional journeys. Organized into three sections--self, colleagues, and organization--this useful guide spurs leaders to be ever growing in their careers, and includes lessons on major leadership concepts like why integrity should be your employees’ most highly valued trait, how to lead in a way that empowers others to manage, and why you should identify, commit to, and live by six ...

Unleash your team's creativity and build a high-performing team.Don't leave creativity up to the "creatives" in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create innovative products, break out into a new market, and even communicate and collaborate more effectively. Innovative Teams shows you how to:Create the right environment for inventive thinkingBuild a diverse teamGenera...

Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap into, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success?Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities. But they also report struggling with how ...

Knowing how to work effectively in and through groups may be the single most important skill anyone can develop in today's collaborative, team-based workplace. Unfortunately, all of the resources available on teamwork put the emphasis on group process and ignore the role of-and benefits to-the individual. But effective teamwork isn't only a group skill set; it's an individual skill set as well. Teamwork Is an Individual Skill shows readers how to develop the skills to thrive on any team, u...