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Scott Love

To achieve superior results as a leader, you must first understand why people follow.

With this premise in mind, author Scott Love explores why some employees and colleagues are motivated to comply with a directive—and why some are not—as well as how to increase their commitment to getting the job done.

Filled with engaging stories and salient advice, Why They Follow will help you increase your effectiveness in building a high-performing team with increased morale, retention, and achievement.

Chapters such as “Your Power to Influence,” “Three Steps to Servant Leadership,” and “Show How Their Work Matters” provide powerful examples of leaders overcoming real-world problems and challenges. This exceptional resource will teach you to understand the potency of your impact as a leader—and motivate and inspire you to lead in a way that corresponds to the intrinsic motivations of your personnel.

For fans of John Maxwell and Robin Sharma, this extraordinary book will guide you as you strengthen your management skills and create a willing and motivated staff.

David Dye

As a manager, your life isn’t easy. You want your employees to trust and respect you, and you want to do right by them and your company, but the pressures from above to produce more with less year after year are likely pushing you to the edge.

You could drive your people to win at all costs, of course. Or you could inspire them to want to achieve and, thus, win well.

Winning Well is your lifeline for getting the results you need while keeping employees (and yourself) happy and motivated. Filled with humor, straight talk, and hard-won truths, the book gathers the best leadership ideas and reshapes them into quick, practical action plans.

No matter how difficult the conditions, you’ll find principles and practices to galvanize your team in positive, productive ways . . . even when sales are down . . . or deadlines are missed . . . or lackluster effort seems to be the best anyone ever gives. Dip in to tackle specific problems or start at the beginning and build a positive work environment from the ground up. You’ll master the essential skills and behaviors of great managers, including how to:

• Reinforce behaviors that produce results • Use data to drive (not drown) your team • Sustain your team’s energy and momentum • Correct poor performance without drama • Build trusting relationships • Get more done in less time • Cultivate a problem-solving culture • Turn around dismal engagement levels • Inject humor and play into the workplace • Project confidence and humility • Focus on the game, not just the score • Be a leader people want to work for

When it feels like you can’t please anyone, no matter how hard you try, Winning Well will help you turn the situation around. By setting clear expectations, taking responsibility for mistakes, telling the truth, and other simple acts, you can cultivate your people and the results will follow, including keeping you from burning out or selling out.

Lee Bartlett, The No.1 Best Seller

What does it take to be a Top Salesperson? Many books claim to have the answer, but few show you, first hand, exactly how it is achieved.

The No.1 Best Seller is a masterclass in professional selling, as seen through the eyes of a top salesman. Reflecting on an exemplary sales career, predominantly spent selling financial technology to the C-Suite and Investment Banking community, Lee Bartlett shares the mindset and methodology that have allowed him to consistently win the largest mandates in his industry.

The book is split neatly into four sections, which build upon each other to conclude with the full methodology. The focus is not on sales techniques but on the extra-curricular detail, employed by only the best that is often omitted from the following key areas:

– Successful product selection

– Sales execution: forward planning, engraining effective sales processes, working efficiently, client  communication,        pitch preparation, invisible revenue, networking, embracing your ego and recovering lost  sales

– Navigating the various political and emotional obstacles that hinder sales success

– Negotiating a sales-based employment contract

The landscape of professional selling is constantly evolving to suit modern-day buyer habits, but core sales principles will always hold true. This fascinating autobiographical account provides an eye-opening insight into the level of detail and discipline that a top salesperson employs – not only to gain an edge over their competition but, ultimately, to close more business.

This book is a valuable resource for anyone new to the sales industry, or for those wishing to broaden or benchmark their sales knowledge and ability.

Shawn M. Miller

What others say about you is infinitely more powerful than anything you could say about yourself. This is true for your Brand as well. The struggles of your Brand Marketing will be solved by shifting your efforts from Impressions to Engagement, from Traffic to Trust, and from Recognition to Reputation. You can empower your greatest asset, your own Customers, to uniquely communicate your value to others.

Shawn M. Miller, the CXO of Smync, solves your top Social Marketing struggles with this no-nonsense text delivering the equivalent of an intensive professional training experience on Social Brand Advocacy, the real state of Social Media Marketing today and how to produce measurable ROI from Social. You’ll also learn to tie better Social metrics to core business goals while co-creating a rewarding customer community.

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.

Daniel T. Bloom

In an environment where many organizations think of human capital assets as little more than expense items that impact the bottom line, this book will help human resource (HR) professionals initiate a shift toward a new culture in which management views employees as true partners in achieving organizational success.

The Field Guide to Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma provides detailed guidance on how to utilize the Six Sigma methodology and the TLS Continuum to achieve the business model that is required to thrive in today’s business environment. The book demonstrates a clear path to continuous improvement that is based on the practice of spreading quality throughout the organization so that it becomes everyone’s responsibility.

This book is the sequel to Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma. In this book, Daniel Bloom provides a road map on how to implement the concepts found in the first book.

The book begins by explaining how to create an HR Center of Excellence and then provides an understanding of the define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC) process and its implementation for HR. This road map will help you determine where your organization is failing to meet the voice of the customer.

The book presents proven Six Sigma solutions for initiating and sustaining organizational change as well as strategies that allow leadership to make adjustments to processes if your organization falls short of meeting the need of the customer. It includes case studies of organizations that have successfully utilized the Six Sigma methodology to improve workflow and correct HR issues including the actual project documents used to implement the methodology.

A word of caution: If the reason you are looking to improve work flow is to find ways to reduce headcount, then this is not the book for you. Instead, if you are looking for a guide that can help you become a strategic partner, administrative expert, employee champion, and change agent, then fasten your seat belts and begin this worthwhile journey.

John T. Hewitt

So… what does it really take to WIN in your business?

John Hewitt’ s no-nonsense personal story will knock you out of your comfort zone and teach you to win in any business you choose. John Hewitt has been called annoying, challenging and brilliant with a fanatical desire to improve and out-give everyone he meets. He competes to win!

In iCompete, you will learn:
-How to persevere through adversity and win your game
-What it really takes to become a millionaire
-Why mistakes are a wise person’s education
-Why you must monitor results, not activities
-How to create raving fans for your business

And more principles for winning!

Angela Preston

In May 2014, I decided to quit the job that had run through my veins for so long and I loved so much. Up until a few months before, I still woke up every day thankful I had landed the role I wanted more than anything. I had worked my way up from grassroots level and knew the ins and outs of the job. This was necessary if I was to be successful. I felt I had to be effective not just for myself, but also for the divisional manager, who had believed in me and given me my chance. My work ethic had been instilled in me from a little girl, coming from a family of six girls, four of which were older than me. They along with our parents had shown me what you can achieve from working hard, but my hunger to succeed started at an early age. From as far back as I can remember, I didn’t take losing very well, so more often than not, I studied and practiced every game we played, giving me that edge all the time, ensuring I won most of the time, and this still continues today.

John David

The Essential Guide to Avoid Digital Damage, Lock Down Your Brand, and Defend Your Business

With virtually nonexistent oversight, the Internet can easily become the judge, jury, and executioner for anyone’s reputation. Digital attacks and misinformation can cost you a job, a promotion, your marriage, even your business. Whether you’ve done something foolish yourself, are unfairly linked to another’s misdeeds, or are simply the innocent victim of a third-party attack, most of us have no idea how to protect our online reputations.
How to Protect (or Destroy) Your Reputation Online provides a wealth of practical information on how to protect your online reputation and even remove negative content from search results. It will teach you how to:

• Take control of your online voice and build a reputational firewall.
• React and respond to an online attack.
• Understand and manage online reviews.
• Use marketing strategies that will both improve your online reputation and bolster your bottom line.

How to Protect (or Destroy) Your Reputation Online is an indispensable guidebook for individuals and businesses, offering in-depth information about popular review sites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Angie’s List. John also shows you how to deal with revenge porn, hate blogs, Google’s “right to be forgotten” in Europe, the business of online complaint sites, even the covert ops of reputation management.

Jill Griffin

Corporate board seats are scarce and competition is fierce. That’s because board service bundles together a host of rewarding experiences: the opportunity to be an “insider” and view, first-hand, how another company works at its highest levels, and the privilege to work and learn from the brightest, most successful and articulate professionals who will ever likely cross your path.

On the pages of Earn Your Seat on a Corporate Board, Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge” author, Jill Griffin, brings two mission-critical skill sets: deep branding, marketing and customer loyalty expertise and over a decade of experience as an Independent Director for beloved restaurant brands, Luby’s/Fuddruckers. (NYSE: LUB). Bottom line, she brings practitioner know-how and insider advice—both essential in finding and winning your perfect board seat. Jill writes through the eyes of seasoned directors and packs each chapter with real-world case studies, detailed examples, and powerful how-to’s.

Don’t sit passively waiting for a corporate board to find you. Take action on your ambition. This book is your perfect guide.