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Peter B. Stark and Mary C. Kelly

Why do so many leaders fail, and what do the best do differently?

Thousands of leadership books tell you how to be a great leader. Far fewer books delver deeper into the surprisingly common mistakes managers, CEOs, and supervisors unknowingly make that derail their successes.

Using real scenarios and examples collected through their combined years of leadership and management expertise, Peter Stark and Mary Kelly pinpoint the 7 most common reasons leaders fail, while others are so successful.

Whether you’re in your first year of management or your 20th, Why Leaders Fail is a must read for aspiring leaders who know they need to be constantly learning, improving, and developing their leadership skills.

Joy Marsden

First, lead yourself.
Leading yourself and others during turbulent times can be tricky, but great self-management and self-leadership doesn’t come by accident, it requires focused attention. The need to manage and lead yourself is necessary if you want to consistently make the right choices and take the right actions. Mastering these skills will serve you well, both personally and professionally, and will help you to be at your best when you encounter challenges of change and uncertainty. Packed with practical advice and grounded in research the author Joy Marsden will share simple ways to:

-Shred the things that don’t serve you
-Tune in and understand situations clearly
-Bring to the surface skills that may be lying dormant
-Take action on based your values
-Lead your way through change and uncertainty
Achieving in life is only a part of your success. The person you are, how people see you and the way others respond to you make up the other parts. Start building on the character traits that will help you secure a great future. Go on…take the step!

Carey D. Lohrenz

Wall Street Journal Bestseller, and #1 Amazon Bestseller in Leadership
An F-14 fighter pilot’s top lessons for leading fearlessly–and bringing a team to peak performance
As an aviation pioneer, Carey D. Lohrenz learned what fearless leadership means in some of the most demanding and extreme environments imaginable: the cockpit of an F-14 and the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Here, her teams had to perform at their peak–or lives were on the line. Faltering leadership was simply unacceptable. Through these experiences, Lohrenz identified a fundamental truth: high-performing teams require fearless leaders.

Since leaving the Navy, she’s translated that lesson into a new field, helping top business leaders, from Fortune 500 executives to middle managers, supercharge performance in today’s competitive business environments. In Fearless Leadership, Lohrenz walks you through the three fundamentals of real fearlessness–courage, tenacity, and integrity–and then reveals fearless leadership in action, offering advice on how to set a bold vision, bring the team together (as wingmen, not Top Gun mavericks), execute effectively, and stay resilient through hard times.

Whether you’re stepping into your first leadership role or looking to get out of a longstanding rut, Fearless Leadership will act like your afterburner–rocketing you to ever-higher levels of performance.

Dave Fleming

Recycle, up-cycle, reconstruct, repurpose, and transform. Let’s face it. We love it when we see raw materials come together in new ways . . . kind of like chocolate and peanut butter. And not just in our personal lives. Every day, organizations of all types (tribes), look for ways to ingeniously take what they have and transform it into the creative solutions they need (alchemy). When they do this, they overcome challenges and seize opportunities. And the world is better for it. Tribal alchemy is a framework you can use to increase the quality and frequency of your tribe’s transformation quotient. Dave Fleming’s engaging and accessible style will guide your tribe to more mindfully develop the process and practices needed to ingeniously turn what you have into what you need.

Kathy Taberner & Kirsten Taberner Siggins

As leaders or parents (or both), navigating difficult conversations is part of our job description. How do we keep calm and achieve a productive outcome, all while keeping our relationships intact? The secret is curiosity. It’s the innovation-driving, emotion-calming skill that comes naturally to us as kids, but gets buried by our busy multitasking lifestyles. Good news! We just have to relearn what we already know! In the Power Of Curiosity, mother-daughter executive coaching team Kath Taberner & Kirsten Taberner Siggins give you both the skills and the method you need to stay curious and connected in every conversation. Learn how to be fully present in every conversations, even when distraction abound; the five listening choices you always have available, whether at home, work, or school; specific calming strategies to access when negative emotions run high; a step-by-step process to transform potential conflict into relationship-building opportunities. Imagine approaching even your most challenging conversations with a sense of calm and even excitement, confident you’ll achieve a win-win result and a stronger relationship than before. That is the power of curiosity.

Jones Loflin

Juggling Elephants is a wonderfully lighthearted guide for everyone who feels like they’re about to be squashed by all they have to do. It will help you better focus your time and energy, so you’ll be able to enjoy more of the things that are important to you. Above all, it will teach you how to run your circus instead of letting the circus run you.

Atul Apte

The age of transformation is upon us. And for corporate IT departments, supporting and sustaining enterprise architecture requires a fundamentally new approach.

Transformative Enterprise Architecture has the solution. It presents a new methodology that boldly redefines the characteristics and competencies that every large-scale IT team must develop to function successfully. Topics include:

• Establishing a mature enterprise architecture system with an eye toward continuous improvement
• Ensuring the economic sustainability of IT infrastructure
• Staying agile in an era of uncertainty

Written especially for CIOs, CTOs, and other corporate stakeholders, Transformative Enterprise Architecture goes beyond frameworks, tools, processes, and patterns. It can help your organization survive and thrive in these times of rapid change, disruptive innovation, and intense competition.

Harry R. Rozakis

Dodging Bullets, Shooting Back addresses the complex dynamics in today’s business world with the clarity of someone who has lived through its ups and downs. The insight shared in this book will benefit everyone from those about to enter the corporate world to CEOs confronting today’s workplace challenges. The book provides the reader with a means to navigate through today’s corporate battlefields more skillfully and ultimately with better results.

Jason Forrest

Get ready to learn the purpose of a sales coach and over 70 principles that will transform you from a manager into a coach. In Leadership Sales Coaching, Jason shares the experience that comes with thousands of hours of seminars and coaching calls. Forrest s complete training program and coaching techniques have helped his clients transform from companies into sales organizations. Driven by the core philosophy that when beliefs are in line, the right behaviors follow, this book is a must-have for any sales manager looking to lead his or her sales team to the next level and develop sales professionals into the best version of themselves. What we believe, how we feel, how we think, and how we see ourselves have more influence over our sales success than what we do. And the coaching we get along the way makes all the difference. This book teaches you to be that difference for your team members with the following 15 strategies: Lead, Don’t Yield – Coach to Win – Set, Communicate, and Maintain the Standard – Get Buy-in – Know Your People – Be Curious – Communicate Assertively – Coach the Science and the Art – Budget Your Coaching Time – Coach the People Side – Celebrate the Art – Hire to Win – Build a Growth Mindset – Change Culture – Grow or Die