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Colin Price

Accelerating Performance is not just another “warm and fuzzy” change management book—it’s a practical, comprehensive, data-driven action plan for picking up the pace and achieving more. Co-written by one of the authors of Beyond Performance, this book draws on a combination of empirical research and decades of experience advising global companies to show you how to reduce time to value by building and changing momentum more quickly than your competitors.

The META framework (short for Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility) offers advice for leading change at four levels: strategy, the organization, teams, and individuals. In addition to step-by-step guidance toward assessment, planning, and implementation, the book offers:

– A diagnostic tool for leaders, teams, and organizations to assess their starting place, and highlight the specific areas needed to improve the ability to accelerate performance.
– A detailed look at the factors proven to create drag—and drive—at each of the four levels: strategy, organizations, teams, and individuals.
– An exploration of the 39 differentiating actions that organizations can combine as dictated by their strategy and context into a winning recipe.
– A closer look at the practices of 23 “superaccelerators,” a global (and perhaps unexpected) mix of companies that have demonstrated a consistent ability to accelerate performance.

A single taste of success is all it takes to spark change, but the hard work of following through requires constant vigilance—and a plan. Learn how to capture that drive, bottle it, and use it to sustain motivation, inspiration, and achievement. Deliver at the highest level, and then turn around and do even better next time. Accelerating Performance gives leaders a step-by-step framework for taking action and transforming their organizations, teams, and even themselves—starting today.

Jorma Ollila

In this compelling memoir, Nokia’s legendary CEO Jorma Ollila presents a riveting story of the company that created the global mobile revolution. CEO from 1992 to 2006, Ollila led Nokia from near catastrophe to become the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturer.

Readers will follow Ollila’s personal and professional journey, learning about the fine line between stratospheric success and disastrous failure. His stories are filled with lessons about the nature of leadership, the importance of shared values, and the need for strategic thinking.

Ollila offers a clear picture of life as a CEO, with many insights into how business is conducted at the highest levels. He offers poignant and illuminating stories of hair-raising risks and huge successes, but also of poor judgment and bad decision-making.

Against All Odds, translated into English for the first time, includes a new Epilogue to bring the reader up-to-date on Ollila’s thoughts about more recent events regarding the company.

Jo Hausman

How do you weather the challenges of owning your own business while navigating personal tragedy and raising a child? Step into the pages of the story of Jo Hausman’s perseverance. Follow the struggle from the beginning on how grief, loss, laughter and joy opened the doors to discover strengths, talents and the fulfillment of dreams. Her struggles and triumphs may lead you to find the materials to create your own path to becoming an entrepreneur. Just remember, you are stronger than you give yourself credit for.

Sebastian Jespersen & Stan Rapp

A new business model for the digital age is the subject of an innovative book titled “Release the Power of Entangled Marketing” by Stan Rapp, co-founder of the RAPP agency and Sebastian Jespersen, CEO of the Global Vertic Agency. Any company of any size does its utmost to create engaging online content. Something more is needed. We must go beyond mere engagement. The problem is that engagement in the here and now – the next click, “like,” retweet or uploaded video – is easily followed by disengagement in a click-obsessed society. Much more is needed to keep the connection between brand and consumer alive, the kind of enduring, mutually beneficial relationship that delivers robust ROI year-in, year out.

Stan and Sebastian share how they came to realize that pairs of particles in the quantum world, famous for never letting go of one another, are a metaphor for the intertwined brand and customer relationship made possible by unrelenting advances in digital
technology. It’s a closeness 95% of companies fail to achieve. This new route to business supremacy is likely to prove as important in today’s business world as the revelations of quantum theory were to physicists in the past century.

Joshua Spodek

If you want to attract and inspire people to get the job done with loyalty, dedication, quality, and to enjoy the process, you don’t need another book telling you that you need grit, integrity, or any other skill that everyone knows helps.

You want those skills!

… but reading about integrity doesn’t give you integrity.

Leadership Step by Step is the first book to give you exercises to develop the skills of effective leaders—to develop your vision, speak authentically, attract talent, build teams, inspire people, and support them so they want you to lead them again, and more. You don’t learn basketball by reading about basketball. You learn by practicing the basics and playing.

Leadership Step by Step gives you the leadership equivalent of layups and jump shots: a series of exercises from basic to advanced. Step by step, you will develop the skills of great leaders, though experience, what leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith calls

a once-in-a-lifetime game-changing advance in our field everyone else will follow. It’s better than business school courses.

Danielle DiMartino Booth

After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, one of the regional centers of our complicated and widely misunderstood Federal Reserve System. She was shocked to discover just how much tunnel vision, arrogance, liberal dogma, and abuse of power drove the core policies of the Fed.

DiMartino Booth found a cabal of unelected academics who made decisions without the slightest understanding of the real world, just a slavish devo­tion to their theoretical models. Over the next nine years, she and her boss, Richard Fisher, tried to speak up about the dangers of Fed policies such as quanti­tative easing and deeply depressed interest rates. But as she puts it, “In a world rendered unsafe by banks that were too big to fail, we came to understand that the Fed was simply too big to fight.”

Now DiMartino Booth explains what really happened to our economy after the fateful date of December 8, 2008, when the Federal Open Market Committee approved a grand and unprecedented ex­periment: lowering interest rates to zero and flooding America with easy money. As she feared, millions of individuals, small businesses, and major corporations made rational choices that didn’t line up with the Fed’s “wealth effect” models. The result: eight years and counting of a sluggish “recovery” that barely feels like a recovery at all.

While easy money has kept Wall Street and the wealthy afloat and thriving, Main Street isn’t doing so well. Nearly half of men eighteen to thirty-four live with their parents, the highest level since the end of the Great Depression. Incomes are barely increasing for anyone not in the top ten percent of earners. And for those approaching or already in retirement, extremely low interest rates have caused their savings to stagnate. Millions have been left vulnerable and afraid.
Perhaps worst of all, when the next financial crisis arrives, the Fed will have no tools left for managing the panic that ensues. And then what?

DiMartino Booth pulls no punches in this exposé of the officials who run the Fed and the toxic culture they created. She blends her firsthand experiences with what she’s learned from dozens of high-powered market players, reams of financial data, and Fed docu­ments such as transcripts of FOMC meetings.

Whether you’ve been suspicious of the Fed for decades or barely know anything about it, as DiMartino Booth writes, “Every American must understand this extraordinarily powerful institution and how it affects his or her everyday life, and fight back.”

Lea Woodford

What is your inner critic telling you? How are your values and standards holding you back? What can you do to get yourself out of a depression that’s dragging you down?

These are the kinds of questions you can expect to be asking yourself to get you looking at new solutions and to propel you toward getting what you want in life.

But it doesn’t stop with questions. Lead…Share…Empower provides often simple wisdoms that result in profound “aha moments,” concrete actions for getting past the things that are holding you back, and practical ways of accessing your innate strengths so you naturally start moving toward what you want.

In addition to concepts like “Develop relationships and you will keep customers for life,” and “When things get rough and it seems like the cards are stacked against me, I reflect on past achievements,” the book supplies a wealth of hard-earned wisdom that can make a new impact when presented through Lea’s lens. The exercises at the end of each chapter help you immediately start integrating new practices and turn on the inner light bulbs that illuminate the path to where you want to go.

The book is refreshingly conversational and free of the self-help psycho-jargon often found in volumes promising to change your life. It is based on tried-and-true techniques the author either discovered or developed to further her career or enhance her personal life.

The bottom line is that many books promise and this one delivers. Of course, your inner critic may not approve.

 

Steve Napolitan

Get the proven 3-step process to attract more leads, gain more clients and, most importantly, increase revenue.  This book will show you how the proper art of selling, done with care and appreciation–leads to greater personal and business fulfillment.

No matter what area of business you are in, this will enhance your ability to influence results across all facets of your business; sales, negotiation, leadership, and/or joint business ventures. In this book, you will learn:

  • How to simplify marketing, while maximizing your effort.
  • How to build your business with the right message, so that you capture your perfect client.
  • How to share your business, so you can consistently attract clients.

Dan Negroni

Today, there are more than 83 million millennials in the United States, representing 36 percent of our workforce. By 2025, they will be 75 percent of your employees…and your customers. Our ability to attract, train, manage, and retain this next generation of leaders is critical to the future success of our businesses.

Chasing Relevance empowers businesses and their leaders by bridging youth and experience to create powerful, connected workplaces. Learn how to create your own relevance to truly understand, engage and maximize your millennial employees and customers.

Meridith Elliot Powell

Own It: Redefining Responsibility provides new and innovative solutions to one of today’s most pressing challenges – employee engagement. Top leaders share their strategies and secrets for how to gain competitive advantage by attracting, developing and retaining top talent; and successful employees shares their ideas for how to get above the white noise and become the employee companies strive to keep.