by Bill George
As a successful former CEO of Medtronic, Bill George explains that it is important for business leaders to think beyond short term financial gain and to recognize the importance of their service to society. This book calls out the need for new leadership in the corporate arena, stressing that authentic leaders look beyond the bottom line. George alludes to a crisis in today’s corporate leadership and calls upon authentic leaders – driven as much by their business sense as by their passion – to inspire a unique, more personal leadership style in today’s business world.
by Jupiter Consulting Group’s Rene Carew, Principal Consultant
Find your true career calling! Finding the perfect career isn’t easy, but it is achievable. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Discovering Your Perfect Career offers you the chance to trade in your current, less-than-satisfying job for the fulfilling career you were meant to have. A personality self assessment process will help identify your temperament, talents, values, interests and goals, and will guide you to those careers for which you are best suited.
by Margaret Heffernan
Women possess unique strengths that drive their contributions as leaders in the business world. How She Does It explores the characteristics of women that allow them to find success as business owners. Personal excerpts from female entrepreneurs chronicle the experiences of women striking out on their own, many of whom left corporate jobs in search of an opportunity to execute their values and be heard and respected in the workplace. Heffernan celebrates female business owners in this collection of inspiring female success stories.
by David Rock
This six-step guide explores the use of a brain-based approach to improve quality of thinking in ourselves and our colleagues. Literally leveraging brain power to enhance performance! Rock asserts that improving the way our brains process information can unleash productivity and boost morale. This practical guide explores how leaders can leverage the power of thought to bring out the best performance in others. Anyone from quiet leaders to busy leaders can implement and reap the benefits of this approach.
by David Lambert and Keith Dugdale
The old-fashioned hard sell doesn't cut it any more. Clients want to buy, not be sold to and this requires different skills and techniques from the salesperson. Find out how to develop trusting relationships and genuine rapport with your clients and learn how to scope out and meet their needs, so that you can do successful business in today's new sales environment.
Through the author's unique "I owe you framework", Smarter Selling gives you an immediately applicable method for understanding your own personality and that of the buyers you deal with and demonstrates why it is critical that the first comes before the second. It provides you with simple tools and approaches tested by leading organizations, to help you build deeper, more trusting and more successful relationships with your buyers so that you can meet their needs every time.
Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson
Success Built to Last looks beyond the traditional notion of success (with its connotations of wealth and power) and redefines it with ideas such as building a meaningful life, having a lasting impact on the world and “creating a life that matters,” as the book’s subtitle reads. Written from interviews with hundreds of remarkable people, both famous and unknown, the book focuses on ways to achieve lasting success by building a fulfilling life to be lived with passion and gusto!
by Rick Brandon, PhD, and Marty Seldman, PhD
This Wall Street Journal best-selling business book is the companion to our flagship Organizational Savvy programs. Leaders often underestimate the impact politics can have in their organizations. Yet every day power plays, ego trips, turf battles and deception hurt careers and the bottom line. Brandon and Seldman offer proven methods to eliminate unethical behavior in the workplace and use “high integrity” politics to achieve corporate and career success. This practical book helps individuals discover and overcome their own political blind spots and vulnerabilities and learn practical strategies for improving their influence and effectiveness.
