Resilience: It’s Not About Bouncing Back: How Leaders and Organizations Can Build Resilience Before Disruption Hits
The power of resilience within organizations and can transform an average company into a powerhouse. Yet, even in times of rapid disruptive change, there is no manual for building resilient organizations. This book is that manual.Resilience, left to individuals, will only ever be built by people in the moments that require them to dig deep…
More informationThe Secret Handshake: Mastering the Politics of the Business
IIn The Secret Handshake, top corporate consultant and USC management professor emerita Kathleen Reardon explores and reveals the hidden rules on the ins and outs of corporate politics that you won’t find outlined in any employee handbook. Based on hundreds of candid interviews with executives at Fortune 500 companies who have achieved their goals and joined…
More informationSpeak With Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others
Your voice matters, especially as a leader. Every day, you have an opportunity to use your voice to have a positive impact–at work or in your community. You can inspire and persuade your audience–or you can distract and put them to sleep. Nervous, rambling robotic–these presentation styles can ruin a talk on even the most…
More informationGPS to Self-Powerment
Hailed by bestselling author Eckhart Tolle as “an important contribution to the transformation of human consciousness,” Dr. Faye Mandell’s book takes readers on a journey to self-awareness”. Using the Self-Powerment model, she teaches readers how to get to and stay in the Here-Now, often called the Zone or Being in the Flow. It is a…
More informationAdaptive Leadership in a Global Economy: Perspectives for Application and Scholarship (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research)
With the entire world experiencing the global pandemic and its aftermath, VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) conditions have never been more extreme and the need for adaptive leadership never more urgent. But how is adaptive leadership applied outside Western cultures? How can it be taught through leadership development programs? Which tools enhance its practice…
More informationThe Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
Thought provoking discussion starter on the new age of talent. So important, I’ve put it in a Strategy category.- Jennifer Eggers Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee. The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment…
More informationDesigning Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-on Guide for Leaders at All Levels
A tremendous resource for organizational restructuring. I wish I’d written it myself! – Jennifer Eggers Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a company, division, or department reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact? Every executive grapples with problems of restructuring–and most need hands-on guidance to solve them.…
More informationThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
If you are working on becoming more resilient, increasing authenticity and reducing stress, Brene Brown’s best work (in my opinion) is a great resource. – Jennifer Eggers When our embarrassments and fears lie, we often listen to them anyway. They thwart our gratitude, acceptance, and compassion—our goodness. They insist, “I am not worthy.” But we are worthy—of…
More informationConversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When the Pressure Is On
A great resource if you’re looking to improve your communication or influencing skills, or have been to LeaderShift’s Influence Workshop and want a refresher. – Jennifer Eggers OPEN, BALANCED DIALOGUE–THE KEY TO PEAK TEAM PERFORMANCE In a world of rapid-fire change, it’s more important than ever to build teams that work well when the pressure…
More informationWhat Every Manager Should Know About Training: An Insider’s Guide to Getting Your Money’s Worth From Training.
If you are new to training, building training or buying training, you need to read this book. – Jennifer Eggers If you use training services, especially if you have to pay for them out of your own budget, this book will help you: – Determine why your employees’ performance isn’t meeting your expectations, and…
More informationBlue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
If your strategy is taking you out of any box you’ve ever known, you need to read this book. – Jennifer Eggers In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized…
More informationThe Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace
If you’re looking to overcome obstacles, this is simply a great professional development book. – Jennifer Eggers This groundbreaking book tells you how to overcome the inner obstacles that sabotage your efforts to be your best on the job. Timothy Gallwey burst upon the scene twenty years ago with his revolutionary approach to excellence in…
More informationWhat Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
A must-read for anyone trying to break out of their comfort zone as a leader. – Jennifer Eggers Whether you are near the top of the ladder or still have a ways to climb, this book serves as an essential guide to help you eliminate your dysfunctions and move to where you want to go.…
More informationThe Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
If you or your team is feeling fatigued by change, you’ll want to read this book. – Jennifer Eggers This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time. “Combines the…
More informationMedia Secrets: A Media Training Crash Course: Get More Publicity, Look & Feel Your Best AND Convert Interviews Into Web Traffic & Sales. Strategies for TV, Print, Radio & Internet Media
If you are new to media or begun to realize you need a bit of help, Jess is the ‘g0-to’ expert. This book is chock full of wisdom from years of media experience. A must read for anyone who wants to create a better media presence. – Jennifer Eggers Strategies for Getting the Most From…
More informationThe Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
If you’re stuck and looking for a place to start, start here. – Jennifer Eggers The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold…
More informationThe Trusted Advisor
Oldie but goodie. A must-read for anyone with a client, internal or external. – Jennifer Eggers Bestselling author David Maister teams up with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford to bring us the essential tool for all consultants, negotiators, and advisors. In today’s fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain…
More informationLeadership On The Line
A must-read for anyone choosing to exercise leadership in complex situations that require courage. One of the most practical books on adaptive leadership ever written. – Jennifer Eggers To lead is to live dangerously. It’s romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks…
More informationAn Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
A must-read for anyone who wants their organization to do more with what it has today. – Jennifer Eggers A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company’s Potential In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for—namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other…
More informationGame Plan: How The Best Teams Win
I have never seen this much meaty leadership wisdom packed in such a small book. Randy Fox nails it with this one. A must read for all emerging leaders and most who have long since emerged! – Jennifer Eggers Journey with Randy Fox and discover the 9 strategies of winning teams. The foundation to sustaining…
More informationAdaptive Capacity: How Organizations Can Thrive in a Changing World
We purchase so many of these, they become difficult to find! The single best reference for the C-Suite on increasing your organization’s capacity to adapt…and why you need to. – Jennifer Eggers In today’s business world, change of many kinds – technological, economic, social and environmental – is outpacing the ability of organizations to predict…
More informationLeading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation
A fantastic guide for anyone wrestling through the complexities of digital transformation. – Jennifer Eggers Become a Digital Master—No Matter What Business You’re In If you think the phrase “going digital” is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment—think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing have already fundamentally…
More informationiX Leadership: Create High-Five Cultures and Guide Transformation
A great summary of the Culture Types Assessment and how to leverage it to resolve conflict and solve problems in organizations. – Jennifer Eggers Called “brutally honest, incredibly practical, and refreshingly hopeful,” Headley and Manke shake traditional corporate culture to the core in this important and desperately needed book. Corporate success is hampered by the…
More information42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager
Simply the single best book out there for preparing and transitioning to a new leadership role. – Jennifer Eggers 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role (2nd Edition) describes practical and effective actions for you to make a strong start at your new VP, Director, or Manager job. Drawing from extensive interviews with corporate leaders…
More informationNetwork Beyond Bias: Making Diversity a Competitive Advantage for Your Career
Provocative. Transformative. One of the best D&I resources out there, this book is your best hope for removing bias and transforming the way you think about building relationships. Amy is the real deal. – Jennifer Eggers Is your professional network as diverse as the workforce and community around you? If not, you could be missing…
More informationSwitch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different…
More informationStart with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER. In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million…
More informationManaging Transitions: Making the Most of Change
All these years later and this is still our ‘go-to bible’ for driving sustainable change. – Jennifer Eggers The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more…
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