Building High Performance

What separates good teams from great ones? Jess Pryce delivers a powerful guide packed with actionable insights to help leaders unlock their team’s full potential and create lasting success. This book is a comprehensive toolkit for leaders determined to move beyond mediocrity and build teams that thrive in today’s dynamic business environment.

16X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, Diversity and Inclusion, and Workplace Culture Global Thought Leader; Chair/Professor of Organizational Leadership; Change/OD/HR/Social Impact Consultant; Ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following topic areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar); ScholarGPS has ranked him the #18 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. In his latest work, Building High-Performing ...

Michael Jordan was undoubtedly the greatest basketball player of all time, unless of course you are a Lebron James fan. Despite his incredible success as a player, Jordan could not have won 6 championships on his own. The championships, which made him a true idol were part of a team effort. Just like in sports, high-performance teams are crucial to the success of any business. Whether you’re a large or mid-size firm, if your teams aren’t performing at an optimum level, you’re losing at least some of your return on investment. Think about it.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

Employees that don't take ownership of their work. Friction between departments. Inconsistent results. These are the top challenges that face most businesses today. These common issues create high turnover and force managers into crisis mode where they're consumed putting out daily fires. Over time, the very nature of the business changes and a new culture emerges; one shaped by the lowest level of acceptable behavior.

In Beyond High Performance, Jason Jaggard, along with the coaches of Novus Global and the faculty of the Meta Performance™ Institute, pull back the curtain to reveal the coaching tools they use to help the best get better. Their groundbreaking research shows there are two types of great leaders and teams: Those who achieve success once and then plateau or decline, and those who achieve success over and over again.

Whether the application is business, sports, or the military, the Blue Angels have built a tested blueprint for taking human performance to unprecedented levels of excellence. Culture is everything in high performance, and with the right culture, amazing things are possible. High-Trust Leadership is a deep dive into the cultural blueprint that enables the Blue Angels to produce performance magic.

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company.

Accountability Without Resentment: The Key to Building High-Performance Teams with Trust and Responsibility Have you noticed that fostering accountability in your team often leads to negative emotions or resistance? Do you find that while people say they want honest feedback, they struggle with it when it’s delivered candidly? In Accountability Without Resentment: The Key to Building High-Performance Teams with Trust and Responsibility, you’ll discover the blueprint for cultivating a high-performance team while building trust, fostering responsibility, and avoiding the common pitfalls ...

Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities. SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of...

Leading in the Age of Digital Disruption isn’t just another leadership audiobook—it’s a wake-up call for anyone trying to lead in today’s fast-moving, tech-fueled, hybrid world.

A LEADERSHIP BLUEPRINT FOR A NEW ERA Leadership is no longer about titles, corner offices, or authority. It’s about trust, influence, and the ability to inspire people to follow you—even when the path is uncertain. The Art of Inspiring, Mentoring, and Building Teams Who Would Follow You Anywhere is a practical, research-backed, and motivational guide for leaders in every industry and culture. Whether you are an executive, entrepreneur, educator, coach, or team leader, this book equips you with the timeless skills and modern strategies needed to inspire loyalty, develop future leaders, ...

In Revenue Revolution: Designing and Building a High-Performing Sales System, the cofounder and CEO of Triple Session, Matt Doyon, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to maximize sales success by encouraging collaboration between sales leadership and front-line sales personnel. In the book, you'll learn how to utilize a design-build model to create a fully integrated sales organization made up of six interlocking systems.

Each and every one of us has a unique perspective on what it takes to be a successful leader. And we all understand that there is no cookie cutter formula that will hand you the magic keys to unlocking a high-performance culture. The 9L's will expound on the key principles, the core concepts that each and every person can apply and use, no matter what their background or leadership beliefs are!

The Program: Lessons from Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High-Performance Leaders and Teams offers a hands-on guide to the winning techniques and tactics of The Program, the acclaimed team-building and leadership development company. Drawing on the actual experiences of The Program's instructors from their personal combat stories to working with world-class athletic teams and successful corporations, the audiobook clearly shows how The Program's training operations can help to achieve life goals and ambitions.

"This book deserves a place among the management textbooks at Harvard Business School." — Atolani Duyilemi, Ph.D. Unlock the most powerful performance management secrets ever recorded—straight from King Solomon, the wisest and most successful leader in history In a world full of leadership books, productivity hacks, and organizational frameworks, one timeless source remains unmatched: the leadership wisdom of Solomon. His principles built one of the most prosperous, efficient, and globally admired kingdoms ever known. In The Greatest Performance Management Principles from King Solomon, ...

How to Make It in the New Music Business, since its first publication in 2016, has become the go-to resource for musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industry. Widely adopted by ambitious individuals and music schools across the world and considered "the best how-to book of its kind" (Music Connection), this essential work has inspired tens of thousands of aspiring artists to stop waiting around for that "big break" and take matters into their own hands.

Get ready to skyrocket your knowledge of rocketry with the ultimate guide: Rocketry! Packed with everything you've ever wanted to know about the fascinating world of amateur rocket science, this eBook will propel your understanding and passion to new heights! Dive deep into the intriguing history of rocketry and learn the basics of rocket science in this comprehensive resource. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced rocket enthusiast, this guide will captivate you from start to finish with its incredible blend of theory and practical applications. Explore the different types of amateur ...

Unlock the Habits That Make Success Inevitable Success isn’t a personality trait. It’s a system. Most people spend their lives chasing motivation, waiting for confidence, and hoping the “right time” shows up. But the people who win—financially, mentally, and personally—don’t rely on hope. They rely on habits. Habits That Will Transform Your Life is a high-depth, story-driven blueprint for building the exact routines that create momentum, discipline, wealth, and unstoppable confidence. Not theory. Not fluff. Real frameworks you can apply immediately—so your progress compounds...

“Mary and Paulo have made this book seem like an old friend, ready to open and read about any troubling issue... You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll groan. You’ll cheer. You’ll have a great time and learn a lot.” - Linda Rising The authors have combined their years of experience in different roles and organisations to write an uncomplicated and experiential book for all professionals who already work or wish to work as part of an agile team. The success of a product happens when bringing together a group of people, with different talents and skills, to work as a high-performing ...