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  The New Leader's 100-Day Action...

  George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check,...

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  Maximize your remote and in-person leadership impact in your first 100 daysThe New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan has sold over 100,000 copies because it's so practical. The author team of accomplished private equity/M&A transition leaders explains in great detail, how to succeed in new leadership roles, build high-performance teams, execute winning strategies, and achieve organizational goals. The heavily revised fifth edition explains how to do your due diligence before accepting a new role, and how to lead in remote or hybrid environments and how to leverage diversity, equity, and inclusion to meet team goals, drive growth, and enhance any organization.Listeners will also find: roadmaps, tools, and tips to understanding, improving, and leading organizational change, including digital initiatives; new chapters focused on crisis situations, post-M&A integrations, turnarounds, and transformations; and practical counsel on managing your Board. A critical resource for leaders in any industry, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan walks you through your first days, weeks, and months in any new leadership role, when stakes are high and time is of the essence.

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  Secrets to Planning the Perfect...

  Dr. Jim Anderson

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  The art of negotiation is all about using words to communicate what you want to other parties. Much of what we do is done at tables with both sides working closely to identify and resolve issues. However, in order to prepare for these face-to-face sessions, we often have to set the stage and let the other side know where we stand on an issue. Using an opportunity to give a speech to an audience allows us to send messages to the parties that we'll be negotiating with. However, we need to do a good job of clearly communicating our message when we give a speech. This means that we need to take the time to develop our speaking skills.
  
   
  What You'll Find Inside: 
  
  “ONCE UPON A TIME…” – THE ROLE OF STORYTELLING IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 
  HOW TO MAKE A TECHNICAL PRESENTATION RIVETING
  PERSUADE AN AUDIENCE USING 3 SECRETS USED BY PRESENTERS
  KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW MAY HURT YOU
  
  
   
  Just think of all of the great speakers who have gone before you Dr. Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Steve Jobs, the list goes on and on. Now you've been give your chance to change the world! 
  
   
  I can well image what you are feeling right now – fear, doubt, uncertainty. Don't worry about it. I've got some good news for you – all of those great speakers felt the very same thing. However, they were able to muster up the courage to go out there and give the best speech that they possibly could. They did change the world and you just might end up doing the same thing. 
  
   
  However, before you go doing that, we've got to make sure that you've got a well-planned speech to work with. Planning a speech is the first step in creating and delivering a powerful and effective speech. In order to plan a speech you need to take the time before you start to write out your speech and think about who you'll be speaking to. 
  
   
  When planning a speech you need to make sure that you understand the purpose of your speech. Why are you going to go to all of the effort to create and deliver this speech? After you know that, take the time to think about your audience: what do they want from your speech? 
  
   
  You're going to have to choose what type of speech you want to give. You can choose to deliver an informative speech, a demonstrative speech, an inspirational speech, or a humorous speech. More often than not the speech that you end up giving will draw from all four types of speeches. 
  
   
  The good news is that I know that you're going to give a great speech and it's all going to start with the planning. Take the time to read this book, learn what you need to do in order to plan a great speech and then go out there and knock 'em dead!

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  The PILOT Method - The 5...

  Elizabeth McCormick

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  Becoming a Black Hawk helicopter pilot wasn't easy, and from that experience came the realization that pilots- rotary or fixed wing, military or civilian, have a different thought process.  The rigors of flight training and the heightened state of awareness during flight changes who they are.  What makes pilots different?  Why are they revered as an industry and looked up to by children with awestruck eyes?   And how can the lessons learned as pilots translate into personal leadership and high level performance? The P.I.L.O.T. Method breaks down the 5 elemental truths to being a better leader of yourself through the experiences of pilots.  P-  Potential:  You have potential, are you confident in that potential, and how to boost it.  I-  Implementation:  What are you doing with your potential, and how to get more out of it.L-  Leadership:  The three pillars of leadership based on aviation principles and how they apply to you.O- Optimize:   Are you living your best life?  Learn how you CAN be more, do more, and live more.T- Tenacity:  Never give up.  How to find that toughness within you.   Through Elizabeth McCormick’s stories and those of her pilot friends, you’ll learn how to FLY-  First Lead Yourself.

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  Scaling Up Compensation - 5...

  Verne Harnish

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  How you compensate people is one of the most important strategic decisions your company will make - but few “             get it right and out of sight.”                             Nail it and you can add hundreds of percentage points to the bottom line while driving up the energy in the organization.                Make the wrong call (or piecemeal the decision together), and the results will create needless drama throughout the organization.               Do any of these challenges sound familiar?“             I gave a star performer a raise, and now everyone else is marching into my office, demanding one, too.”             “             If anyone looked closely at our payroll, it would be hard to rationalize why we'             re paying certain people what we do.”             “             I'             m tired of losing our best people to the Googles of the world because we can'             t match their salaries.”             Compensation is one of your largest expenses, one you can turn it into a strategic advantage in attracting, retaining, and motivating talent (or not accidentally demotivating them). In this highly practical book, the authors share 5 principles for designing effective compensation systems along with plenty of examples from leading small, medium, and large firms across various industries.You'             ll learn:The #1 mistake business leaders make in setting up their compensation plansThe psychological aspects of compensation underpinning successful plansHow individual bonuses can backfireThe power of gamifying gains to drive up energy and engagementWhether you want to be queen/king or rich!

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  Social Nation - How to Harness...

  Barry Libert

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  Social Nation describes how businesses can engage customers,  employees, suppliers, and shareholders in a mutually beneficial  alliance by creating a well-designed and managed portfolio of  social media initiatives. This portfolio can deliver dramatic  results, spurring innovation, improving product design, raising  employee productivity, lifting retention rates for all  stakeholders, and boosting sales and profitability.   Aside from rewards, there are risks to be considered. This book  gives readers practical guidance, for example warning against the  temptation to engage in social media as a quick-fix marketing or  public-relations gimmick.   Distilling the cumulative experience of hundreds of  professionals and customers, the book offers 100 concise,  experience-based prescriptions to help readers consider how they  can best use social media to realize their goals. Compelling case  histories and anecdotes illuminate and entertain.  Topics include:    Create solid platforms: build a seamless, integrated  community platform. The unconnected piecemeal approach can create a  communications problem.  Get registration right: convince community members to  register and provide the personal information you need--without  annoying them.  Take the measure of Twitter: members of Twitter are not  the captive old-media audiences of television and radio; they have  to be wooed. Humanize your business.  Moderate, dont censor: an online community  reflects on its sponsors public image. Monitor the content  it shares without censoring freedom and unpredictability.

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  Good Company

  Arthur M. Blank

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  Featuring an introduction by President Jimmy Carter 
  The Home Depot cofounder and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS's Atlanta United shares a vision and a roadmap for values-based business. 
   
  Arthur M. Blank believes that for good companies, purpose and profit can-and should-go hand in hand. And he should know. Together with cofounder Bernie Marcus, Blank built The Home Depot from an idea and a dream to a $50 billion-dollar company, the leading home improvement retailer in the world. And even while opening a new store every 42 hours, they never lost sight of their commitment to care for their people and communities. In fact, in 2001, The Home Depot was voted America's most socially responsible company.  
   
  Blank left The Home Depot that same year with a burning question: Could the values and culture that made that company great be replicated? Good Company takes readers inside the story of how he did just that-turning around a struggling NFL team, rebooting a near-bankrupt retail chain, building a brand-new stadium, revitalizing a blighted neighborhood, launching a startup soccer club, and more. 
   
  "When good companies put the wellbeing of their customers, their associates, and their communities first, financial success will follow," Blank writes. "The entrepreneurs and business leaders of today and tomorrow have an extraordinary opportunity: to prove that through upholding values we can create value-for the company, for the customer, and for the community."

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