To be young, polished and professional is not simply wearing the right clothes and saying the right words. Polished encompasses a solid grounding in VISA (Vision, Image, Speaking and Acting) – a framework over a decade in the making and used to help thousands of executives increase their performance and enhance their company’s brand. Put the VISA formula to work on your emerging brand and watch your compensation soar.
Why do some organizations regularly outperform their competition? What’s the key to creating a united team that’s an unstoppable force in your market? The answer lies in eliminating internal competition, people knowing and doing their job, and protecting each other. As a starting center for the Utah Jazz for over 10 years, Mark Eaton experienced the transformation of his team from cellar dweller to one with an extraordinary 20 consecutive playoff appearances.
In The Four Commitments of a Winning Team, Eaton shares the lessons he learned in his incredible journey from a 21-year-old auto mechanic to a record-breaking NBA All-Star, distilled into a simple but powerful plan of action. This book will help you—whether you’re a CEO, team leader, or individual—inspire, strengthen, and motivate your team to outperform your competition and achieve record-breaking success.
In an era of unauthentic leaders, the stakes could not be higher for embracing a better version of yourself that propels you and your team to success. In a social media world there is an abundance of false narratives about happiness and authenticity, it is easy to get lost on your journey. Authentic leadership expert Dr. James Kelley shows that the key to personal and professional growth lies in how we respond effectively to adversity. In fact, what causes us and our organizations the most fear can be our greatest gift, creating a positive meaning out of challenges.
A test or trial—your individual crucible—gives you the potential to increase self-awareness, develop deeper compassion, live with more integrity and boost connection with colleagues. High-impact leaders thrive in adversity because of their crucibles, not in spite of them.
The Crucible’s Gift introduces you to lessons from 140 diverse leaders who demonstrated the art of living more authentically. Combining these rich, raw and insightful stories with his knowledge of business and psychology—as well as his candid accounts of what he has learned from his personal crucibles—Kelley shows how to transform what holds you back into traits that will propel you forward, encouraging you to step fully into your life.
Gloria Petersen’s “Success Strategies for Networking in Person and Online,” offers five paths to create your person-to-person and online networks and make the experience a win-win. She approaches networking as a career management tool for connecting people and acknowledges that there are many different personal styles of networking. She will help you realize that one’s in-person and online presence should be in sync, being a people connector is key, and that you should protect your reputation in both arenas. How? Start by establishing a comfort zone with networking. Then, learn the strategies for ensuring successful interactions at networking events. Finally, realize that it is not just about you, it’s about connecting people and designing a networking model that achieves your goals. It’s all about plugging in, connecting with people, and being a people connector. The person you help will remember your efforts and eventually help you.
In Jack Myers prescient book, TheFuture of Men: Men on Trial, he predicted the current wave of exposure of male harassment, indecency and shame. He also uncovers the subtle and less exposed ways men suffer from the addiction of the negative patriarchy, passed down from generation to generation. He explains how this addiction has manifest it self through destructive relationships, abuse of power, deteriorating educational pursuit, political backlash and the tearing away at the very fabric of society. Myers pulls no punches as he “outs” men’s secret truths, sets an agenda for men’s recovery from the destructive patterns of the past, and prepares young men for the new gender realities confronting them in the future.If you care about the healthy fathering of future generations of boys and girls, you’ll read The Future of Men:Men on Trial.
“Once again, Jack Myers has his fingers on the pulse of the very latest. Myers has clearly done his homework, and the result is this superb book.” ―Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker of The Roosevelts and The Civil War
After being told all their lives to “be a man” and “man up,” men are now rejecting the macho stereotype and instead developing empathy, getting in touch with their emotions, and becoming more sensitive in their relationships. Women are gaining ground in business, culture, education, relationships, and politics as traditional male and female roles disappear.
The Future of Men: Masculinity in the Twenty-First Century prepares men and women for this shift in gender norms. As the definition of a “real man” evolves, understanding the future of men in business, politics, sports, education, relationships, and parenting will be essential for men to maintain psychological well-being, strengthen their self-esteem and sexual self-confidence, and rewire their emotional lives. The Future of Men provides tools to help men, and especially younger men, recognize and embrace new behaviors that are required for health and happiness at work, at home, and in their relationships.
Get greater control of your life and career with this easy to read, and yet profound handbook.
Explore your Self-awareness, expand your Self-Confidence, build your Self-Efficacy, whilst you learn to set your intention for greater influence and impact.
The author is a Global Expert on Self Leadership & Leading Cultures and has coached everyone from at-risk teenagers to Fortune 500 CEO’s. Results from working with Andrew have included; positive changes in organization culture and people’s mindsets, increased sales, productivity and teamwork with reduced negative conflict.
With Dr. Ana Kazan Ph.D. he wrote the book ‘Self-Leadership: How to Become a More Successful, Efficient and Effective Leader from the Inside Out’ (McGraw-Hill 2012). This book is a guide to personal power as well as being used on MBA programs to teach how to influence employees to take ownership and be accountable for results.
Prevent the grinding sands of conflict from seizing the gears of business decision-making. A CEO’s Secret Weapon offers 10 results-oriented chapters packed with essential techniques every CEO needs to know. The book begins with the real cause, purpose and reason the enterprise exists. Then it dives into the most troublesome issues confronting the CEO everyday and how to conquer each. Every leader using these methods begins with a huge advantage.
Work worth doing always has a hard part.
In any results-driven activity, there are defining moments. That point in time between getting started and getting finished, when things become hard and aspirations for achievement get seriously challenged. When things become hard, people can feel stuck, and performance can stagnate.
People who advance performance rarely stay stuck.
They accept the stretch associated with achievement and put their skills to work. The results we seek only get realized when we pursue what we care about and commit ourselves to the moments that matter. Easier said than done when difficulties arise that can quickly derail the effort.
If you are a leader who is feeling stuck or looking to advance existing levels of success, this book will prove invaluable. With content that is practical, thought-provoking and performance orientated, Definable Moments is one of those rare books that will change how you work, lead and live.
Imagine being able to spot the next big trend, or being able to predict the next big wave of change. Imagine having a code that gives you the power to invent, predict or harness the next big technology. Humanification is going to help you unlock the DNA of innovation itself, so you can apply it to your life, your business and your community.
