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Bob Dailey

Whether you manage a department of three employees, or an international organization with thousands of employees, one thing impacts your success more than anything else: Your Mental Approach It’s all in your head…the rest is detail! The way we approach our life, the attitude we bring every day, and our continuous focus on serving others are the keys to becoming a valued and trusted leader. Realizing that it’s not about you, concentrating solely on creating an environment where others can succeed is all that matters. Your success only happens when you help others and your organization achieve their success. Maybe you’ve never considered your mental approach to being a trusted leader. Perfect. Leadership Starts (and Ends) in Your Head by Bob Dailey will help you find and unleash the right mental approach … that thing that differentiates so-so managers from great leaders. Don’t have a ton of time? That’s okay. You can finish this book in about an hour. But, you’ll want to savor its bite-sized chapters one-at-a-time. This book will help you embrace the mental side of leadership … where true leaders spend most of their time.

Daniel Lubetzky

In Do the KIND Thing, author Daniel Lubetzky shares the revolutionary principles that have shaped KIND’s business model and led to its success, while offering an unfiltered and intensely personal look into the mind of a pioneering social entrepreneur. Inspired by his father, who survived the Holocaust thanks to the courageous kindness of strangers, Lubetzky began his career handselling a sun-dried tomato spread made collaboratively by Arabs and Jews in the war-torn Middle East. Despite early setbacks, he never lost his faith in his vision of a “not-only-for-profit” business—one that sold great products and helped to make the world a better place.

While other companies let circumstances force them into choosing between two seemingly incompatible options, people at KIND say “AND.” At its core, this idea is about challenging assumptions and false compromises. It is about not settling for less and being willing to take greater risks, often financial. It is about learning to think boundlessly and critically, and choosing what at first may be the tougher path for later, greater rewards. By using illuminating anecdotes from his own career, and celebrating some past failures through the lessons learned from them, Lubetzky outlines his core tenets for building a successful business and a thriving social enterprise. He explores the value of staying true to your brand, highlights the importance of transparency and communication in the workplace, and explains why good intentions alone won’t sell products.

Rita Burgett-Martell

People don’t resist change if they are prepared for change. Change Ready! How to Turn Change Resistance into Change Readiness, by Rita Burgett-Martell, provides leaders with a practical step-by-step guide to implementing, managing and sustaining change. Readers will gain insight into the personal reactions that cause resistance to change and learn what to do to minimize resistance, maximize readiness and create a change ready culture. The author’s common-sense approach and real-life examples illustrate both opportunities and challenges, providing the reader with a definitive, accessible guide to a topic that’s often presented too theoretically. It’s a must-read resource that everyone involved in or affected by change should have on their bookshelves.

Chris Roebuck

Across the world millions of people aren’t inspired at work or given the opportunity to give their best and fulfill their potential because they have ineffective leaders. Many leaders aspire to be the best they can be but have never been given the tools to achieve that. Having an ineffective leader impacts on everyone, on their families, on their organization and the wider society through a waste of the potential to achieve more.

A few simple actions by these leaders would transform the working lives of those they lead for the better, enhance their team’s family lives, help their organizations succeed and deliver economic growth for their community. This book sets out on a mission to help leaders who wish to enable that transformation become reality and join the best of the global leadership community.

Lead to Succeed builds on Chris Roebuck’s first highly successful book – Effective Leadership – that was translated into 11 languages and used by the American Management Association as a “best practice” guide.

Jeff Nischwitz

Unmask is a road map for navigating your own personal journey as a leader in your business, career, relationships and life, and a must-read for any leaders seeking to enhance their influence. Jeff Nischwitz’s focus on what it means to be an authentic leader and, more important, what it takes to get there will help anyone grow in leadership, influence and impact. Jeff’s new concept of integrated leadership goes so far beyond traditional leadership strategies and tactics and introduces what he calls livingship—a new way of living, thinking and leading in every part of your life. It is this commitment to an entire life lived awake, aware and on purpose that unleashes the leaders our businesses and our world so desperately need.

Jeff Nischwitz is a forerunner of this change. In the words of leadership thought leader Tommy Spaulding, author of the New York Times bestseller It’s Not Just Who You Know, “It is so refreshing knowing the author of Unmask actually LIVES the message of this important book. Jeff Nischwitz not only introduces the world to Livingship, but he puts us all on a journey to living, leading and loving differently.”

Jeff’s transformational book is based on the truth that there is only one you and that same person is the leader of your business, your career and your life. As a result, your professional and personal leadership will be most determined by who you choose to be as a person, how committed you are to that choice and how accountable you are to that commitment. Leadership is about influence and impactful leaders are passionately committed to living lives of integrity and authenticity in order to unleash their true leaders. As C-Suite TV host, bestselling author and sometime cowboy Jeffrey Hayzlett said, “Unmask: Let Go of Who You’re ‘Supposed’ to Be & Unleash Your True Leader is such a good book, you are going to think you robbed a bank! Make a deposit for your career and read this book.”

Joseph Sherren

Leadership is about creating a culture which will engage all employees in executing the Vision and Mission of the company. This book outlines the five principles required to be a successful manager in today’s multi generational and geographically diverse world. iLead provides a comprehensive overview of sensible and actionable analyses that managers can apply to create successful and productive teams. This is a book about creating a workplace where people are doing what they love to do, and are doing it in an environment that supports that encourages the development of their strengths.

Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan

Selfish, Scared & Stupid outlines the three most common human traits: selfishness, fear and a need for simplicity. To effectively increase influence and performance, whether it be in the workplace or at home, Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan break down these traits and provide implementable solutions and real-life examples that stem from extensive research and an impressive combined body of work.

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Shelly Alcorn & Willis Turner

Play predates the development of human culture and our brains are hard-wired to use play as a tool to accelerate learning, strategically explore unfamiliar environments and develop collaborative social connections. Games are human created, formalized structures and processes designed to maximize engagement and get the most out of the “play” impulse. In fact, gaming comes so naturally to us we don’t even notice it for what it is. Two examples of large scale gaming structures include our educational and political systems. Going deeper into understanding how gaming structures work, and intentionally applying those mechanics can give us an advantage when designing experiences meant to engage our members in the work of our associations.

Although games have been with us since we first learned to scratch marks on small rocks, what is new is the impact the internet and technology is having on games and players alike. What was simple activity in the past, is rapidly turning into a large scale social phenomenon. At some point the term “gamer” will lose it relevancy and we will recognize gamers for what they are – an increasingly sophisticated class of experience consumers. Games are the first mass media of the 21st century and gaming literacy is an essential skill all executives, staff and volunteers need to develop in order to attract, appeal to and invite a new generation of players to play the association game. In this book, we take a simple, practical approach to helping you and your volunteers take these ideas one step farther.

By using these 42 rules from Shelly Alcorn and Willis Turner,, you will be able to use simple gaming mechanics to increase member engagement, improve educational outcomes and build community in your industry or profession.

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Wally Hauck

The aim of this book is to compel leaders to replace their typical performance appraisal methods with one more closely aligned with systems thinking. In addition, the aim is to replace it with one that actually achieves the desired outcomes of increasing individual development, improving communication between employees, implementing organizational strategies, and improving organizational performance. The motivation to replace the typical performance appraisal methods is achieved by clearly articulating four essential steps. First, the book clearly demonstrates the folly of using the typical performance appraisal. It provides compelling evidence of its inability to achieve the intended outcomes. Most leaders who use the typical appraisal process are already convinced of this. Second, the book explains how we have all been misled (with the best of intentions) to adopt a flawed paradigm that sustains (justifies) the use of the typical appraisal. Third, it describes a more effective leadership paradigm (systems thinking and Dr. W. Edward Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge) which is based on a set of assumptions consistent with systems thinking. Finally, Wally Hauck’s book provides a replacement for the typical performance appraisal (aligned with the more effective paradigm) which enables leaders to address the daunting contemporary challenges that keep them awake at night.

Daniel Kahneman

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.