Impact Management

For more than 25 years, organizational psychologist and management consultant Dr. Tim Irwin has worked with thousands of leaders in well-known global companies. He knows most leaders work for recognition and advancement and they want more challenge and responsibility. He's also found this to be true: Most of us want to make a positive difference through our work and to have our lives count for something more than simply making a living. We want to make an impact.

Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over 50 countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

Change is inevitable, whether it represents progress is up to us. Astute leaders know that upskilling, culture change, and mindset are critical ingredients for successful digital change – but do not know how to change those quickly enough to keep up with pace of technological change. That is because our 20th century change models are not up to the challenge of 21st century digital transformation and the future of work – and that explains McKinsey’s finding that only 25% of digital transformations succeed. In Impact, globally recognized culture change expert, Paul Gibbons gives leaders...

Lance Witt, founder of Replenish ministries and a former executive and teaching pastor at Saddleback Church, knows what it takes to keep teams functioning at the highest level of impact. He shows leaders how to build next-level teams that are spiritually, emotionally, and relationally healthy, productive, and high-performing.

Impact explores the people and culture teams need for sustained innovation and problem-solving. This transformative guide is aimed at leaders who have earned their roles through subject matter expertise, a capacity for impact, and innate leadership skills, and who now face the challenge of building innovative teams. This is the high-impact engineer turned manager, or the rising scientist turned lab director, or the founding startup executive.

The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile...

To see a program successfully through to completion, a program manager must break the work down into simpler, smaller pieces and organize it into interdependent tasks…and this book helps you do just that. Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple...

Treated like a child and expected to behave like an adult? Discover when your anger is justified and when it screams “management issue.” Are you snapping at people? When things don’t go your way, do you get grumpy and remain that way for hours? Perhaps it feels like you’re constantly angry about one thing or another. The areas of your brain that are responsible for emotional regulation and impulse control experience significant remodeling during your teenage years.

YOU WERE PROMOTED FOR YOUR EXPERTISE. BUT NOW YOU’RE BEING TESTED ON YOUR IMPACT. The skills that made you a great employee are not the same ones that will make you an exceptional leader. You’re caught in the squeeze—juggling demands from above with the need for inspiration from your team. What if you could transform that pressure into your greatest advantage?

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. Read it and you'll know...

Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few social interventions have achieved significant impact at scale. Inspired by the modern innovation practices popularized by best seller The Lean Startup that have fueled technology breakthroughs touching every aspect of our lives, Lean Impact turns our attention to a new goal-achieving radically greater social good.

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable...

The Path of Leadership: From Humility to Impact is an inspiring and practical guide for aspiring and established leaders alike who seek to navigate the journey from humble beginnings to making a meaningful difference. This compelling book explores the essential qualities, mindset shifts, and strategies necessary to evolve from a modest start to becoming a leader of influence and integrity.

**LEADING with IMPACT: Project Management Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations** *Build smarter. Lead stronger. Deliver purpose.* In a world where deadlines, budgets, and community impact collide, successful nonprofit project leaders don't just manage—they lead with precision, purpose, and vision. Whether you're overseeing a new community center, a housing initiative, or a public infrastructure project, *LEADING with IMPACT* gives you the tools to bring structure to chaos and clarity to complexity. This strategic guide bridges the gap between construction-savvy project managers and ...

The greatest tool is the hardest to use. Machine learning is the world's most important general-purpose technology—but it's notoriously difficult to launch. Outside Big Tech and a handful of other leading companies, machine learning initiatives routinely fail to deploy, never realizing value. What's missing? A specialized business practice suitable for wide adoption. In The AI Playbook, bestselling author Eric Siegel presents the gold-standard, six-step practice for ushering machine learning initiatives, aka predictive AI projects, from conception to deployment.

Do you feel like you’re always chasing money—but it keeps slipping away? What if you discovered a proven wealth attraction formula where money starts chasing you instead? In Money Will Chase After You, Felix Duyilemi reveals how to attract wealth, abundance, and financial freedom by focusing on what really matters: solving problems, serving people, and creating massive value. This life-changing guide shows you how to shift from desperation to attraction—where opportunities, clients, and money naturally flow into your life. Packed with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and real-...

From boardrooms to backyards, some people inspire not just by what they do, but by who they are. What’s their secret? According to author and podcast host Lisa Nichols, it’s a “something extra”—a character strength that elevates ordinary influence into extraordinary impact. Inspired by her daughter Ally, born with an extra chromosome and an extraordinary spirit, Lisa set out to uncover the traits that define truly transformational leadership.

Transformational Leaders create a legacy of success that reaches far beyond the initial impact of their work. Are you a Transformational Leader? Do you have a desire to use your strengths to transform others in your workplace, family, and community? Or perhaps even globally? In the first part of this book, Dr. Richard Nongard provides a clear understanding of what Transformational Leadership is and how it is unique among leadership styles. He shares the research demonstrating its efficacy in healthcare, business, community development, and the military, along with his own personal ...

The 25 Minute Meeting goes beyond "cut to the chase" and shows you how to take back your work day with smarter planning and more productive action. Meetings have become a de facto way of working, and as they pile up and stretch to interminable lengths, they eat up our days and sink productivity - if they are poorly planned and run. Done well, meetings are short, sharp, productive affairs that provide critical time and space for the interactions that drive business forward.

Around the world, product teams are waking up to the same uncomfortable truth: doing things “the right way” doesn’t matter if your team loses its funding or your company goes out of business. Simply put, product teams can no longer afford to be disconnected from the business impact of their work. And well-trodden “best practices” from Silicon Valley behemoths can only provide so much guidance for teams working across vastly different business and funding models.