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Vision Driven: Lessons Learned from the Small Business C-Suite

How does a successful top-level manager or CEO motivate employees and encourage productivity, while navigating the often-treacherous organizational waters? How do they surpass lofty expectations and deliver impressive results with pitfalls lurking around every corner? Vision Driven: Lessons Learned from the Small Business C-Suite reveals the secrets behind winning executives' strategies for taking charge effectively of small organizations, both for-profit and non-profit businesses. In clear, easy-to-understand prose that's loaded with real-life examples, renowned executive coach and management consultant Mallary Tytel shows experienced and newly minted managers alike the do's, don'ts and don't-even-think-about-it's to take their organization to the next level. Readers will learn: * Rules for developing a successful management team you can actually work with * Strategies for building accountability and open communication * The keys for establishing a positive and productive office environment * How to plan for change and prepare for the unknown * What matters most in organizations, and much more Providing fundamental insights into a leader's greatest challenges – and how to overcome them – Vision Driven is the culmination of 20-plus years of diverse management experience and best industry practices from a slew of industry professionals. Put these lessons learned to work today and achieve a whole new level of success.

The Art of the Possible: Create an Organization With No Limitations

Daniel M. Jacobs

The Art of the Possible Create an Organization with No Limitations offers instructive insight into what works in business, revealing how a few simple tenets can build long-standing excellence and success. An easy-to-use integrated leadership and management guide, this book revolves around the fact that strong, effective leadership is a requirement for any company hoping to become—or remain—relevant and competitive in the twenty-first century's fast-paced business environment. Author Daniel M. Jacobs is one of the nation's leading authorities on public contracting, a position that comes with a considerable wealth of knowledge. In The Art of the Possible, he distills decades of front-line experience from the corporate world into seven chapters. Each explores one of seven practical and proven best practices: get focused, surround yourself with talent, think strategically, forge a high-performance team, manage the fundamentals, maintain discipline, and communicate. Packed with useful guidelines, checklists, and self-assessment tools, the primary objective of this straightforward book is to move the reader to action and to create an organization where things get done. Jacobs includes plenty of real-world examples and success stories, and his determined focus on the positive underscores the importance of hard work and commitment to the improvement of management performance. His seven best practices can be applied across a broad spectrum of businesses, from private industry and government agencies to non-profits and civic organizations, making The Art of the Possible: Create an Organization with No Limitations an indispensable resource for today's developing leaders. Hailed by business leaders as "the kind of book that you really use to solve real problems and achieve real and lasting success" and "a relentless course for success using a step-by-step, straightforward, no-nonsense approach for the creation of an organization with no limits," this concise how-to is a must-read for anyone facing the unique challenges of today's economy.

The Business Intrapreneur: Profiles of Unsung Heroes of Corporate America

Kristin Boone's Eilenberg

Intrapreneurs are the engines of corporate America. They are the ones that are 100% committed to their employer's mission and are willing to do whatever it takes to make real work happen. Intrapreneurs adeptly navigate the politics and back and front channels of an organization to move mountains and accomplish projects that everyone told them couldn't be done. The Business Intrapreneur: Profiles of the unsung heros of corporate America provides a glimpse into the minds and motivations of intrapreneurs. The book's description of intrapreneur traits, characteristics, and profiles will help individuals and leaders to identify and understand intrapreneurs. In recognizing their own business intrapreneurs and better understanding why they do what they do, organizations will be able to leverage these under utilized, passionate, and committed employees to drive for real business results.

Simple Project Management for Small Business

Christophe Boone's Primault

If you are a small business owner it's likely you've encountered problems in your business that were tough to solve. Using a project management approach in your business can help you overcome obstacles so you can be successful and it will help you minimize confusion, rework, errors and best of all, it can help you delight your customers. This eBook includes: 1) Four reasons why project management is so valuable to small business. 2) Six easy steps to start managing projects in your business. 3) Four common problems with projects that could cause you to fail (and how to overcome them). 4) Five steps to finding the right project management software for your business.

Better Leaders Ask Better Questions

Lindsay Ph.D Tighe

Join the new breed of leaders.... become a "Potentialiser" POTENTIALISER – poÂ·tenÂ·tiÂ·aÂ·liÂ·ser Meaning: Releaser of amazingness in others Your team have more potential than you realise and the chances are that your current management style may be preventing this potential to ever come to the surface through one unconscious act...."Telling"! In this book you will discover how changing your approach by doing less telling and instead, asking Better Questions you will become a "POTENTIALISER" and release the potential of your people and create a team that are more engaged, empowered and fulfilled. Suitable for Leaders at all levels, this book will enhance your leadership style by learning: * How telling can be an inhibitor of potential * How you need to redefine your role by changing your mindset * Why Better Questions are so powerful * How to ask Better Questions and release the potential in your team Some comments from people that have been trained to be "Potentialisers": "I have been amazed that such a simple concept can lead to all sorts of wonderful outcomes" "At times being so busy it is quicker and easier to give the answer, but I have found that by taking the time to ask questions instead of telling, people have the opportunity to shine… they amaze me and themselves!" "Since changing my approach to asking rather than telling I have been really quite amazed by the changes in my team, they seem more committed to their work and even happier in their roles!"

Fine-Tuning Common Sense: A Safe Way To Achieve Fantastic Results

Lars G. Sjogren

Lars shares his "know how" of more than forty years experience of sales in more than 100 countries all over the world. Not one industry has escaped him. Lars has trained more than 150,000 people worldwide. The main reason he wants to share this experience with the world is that it really works – small changes in attitude and behaviour yield big results. Lars' energy is contagious. He has a fantastic ability to think on his feet. He did not train people – rather, he communicated with his delegates and got them very interested in learning When asked what he did, Lars said "I am fine-tuning common sense." How did he do it? By changing the attitudes and behavior of people just a couple of degrees. Starting from the top and HAVING FUN!

The HR Trailblazer: Unlock the Potential of Your Employer Brand

Christine OSB McLeod

How an organization conducts itself both externally towards its customers and internally towards its employees, its employer brand, has never been more important… and transparent. HR leaders know that the ability of customers, competitors and employees alike to evaluate the authenticity of brand messages has never been easier. By becoming knowledgeable about the fundamentals of employer branding and enabling the DELIVERY of that brand to create a vibrant organizational culture, HR leaders more than ever before have the potential for incredible reach, impact and leadership within their organizations. This guide introduces the process of evaluating, designing or influencing, and executing an employer brand strategy that aligns the brand message with workplace reality.

The Sales Leaders Playbook

Nathan Jamail

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 have allowed hundreds of sales teams to find success in their selling. From creating an organizational belief system to taking the bullet for those you lead, The Sales Leaders Playbook focuses on how to build a winning team. Nothing in this book is theory – it is based on personal experiences learned throughout Nathan Jamail's extensive sales career. The Sale Leaders Playbook is a book written for sales leader by a sales leader – designed to be straightforward, easy to read, and simple to understand. The ability to execute the skills and programs outlined requires effort. It takes a sales leader who is willing to hold a team accountable and more importantly hold themselves accountable. Mastering these sales leadership skills will: * Increase team morale * Improve skills and abilities * Improve communications * Increase sales and profits

A Social Media Primer

Karin Wills

The intent of this book is to avoid the hype and conflicting information surrounding the use of social media in organizations and to point you to resources that have been researched and provide the most reliable information. The content of this book avoids promoting or pushing any specific tool, as all social media technology tools are evolving and frequently updating with new features. What is right for one organization is not necessarily right for your organization. This book is a starting point for general management, human resources, and organizational development teams that have not yet embraced or fully incorporated social technology tools into the organization. What you will find in this book: -Back-to-basics discussions about what "social" means in the context of organizations and what you should consider before adopting social technology into an organization. -References to resources that provide charts, graphs, statistics, case studies, and information on how to use the tools, as well as the books that my research has shown provide practical and reliable information. What you won't find in this book: -Charts, graphs, and statistics. -Case studies. -Details on how to use social media tools.

Leadership GPS: Roadmap to Become a Leader for Life

Janice Witt Smith

Welcome to your continuing investment in leading for life – whether as a formal leader in a corporate or nonprofit business or fraternal organization (e.g., sorority, fraternity, Links, etc), at your church, or in your family. You may be an informal leader, where no one has given you the "official" title as leader, but where you are influencing people left and right as a positive, effective role model. You may not see yourself as a leader today; however, we don't know what tomorrow holds in your leadership future. This book provides you with some strategies that will ¥Help you to identify areas of strength and development; ¥Enhance your professionalism and marketability AS A LEADER; ¥Ground you in something (rather, SOMEONE) who is able to direct your paths and help you to have good success; and ¥Provide some insights about others who have achieved success and cleared the pathway for you.