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.

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.

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.

Are you tired of underperforming teams, sprint cycles that stall, and leaders who rely on charisma instead of repeatable systems? Building High-Performance Teams gives leaders the missing playbook — combining repeatable systems, a high-trust culture, and specific leadership behaviors that scale. This book shows you how to move from reactions and heroics to predictable performance that lasts. Inside you’ll find: A clear framework for designing team systems that reliably deliver outcomes without micromanagement. Culture levers that increase ownership, psychological safety, and healthy ...

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.

Master continuous improvement and eliminate workplace workflow chaos without launching exhausting corporate initiatives. Whether you are commuting to the office or gearing up to lead your next team meeting, this empowering audio experience provides actionable strategies to streamline daily...

High-Performance Building Systems: Engineering for Efficiency and Comfort The built environment is undergoing a profound transformation. Faced with rising energy costs, increasing environmental awareness, and a global demand for healthier indoor spaces, engineers and building professionals are challenged to design systems that are not only efficient, but resilient, intelligent, and adaptable. High-performance buildings are no longer optional—they are essential to the future of sustainable urban development. This book was written to bridge the gap between traditional building system design...

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 ...

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.

What separates exceptional leaders from average managers? The ability to build resilient, high-performing teams that thrive under pressure, adapt to change, and consistently deliver results. Building High Performance Resilient Teams: A People Leader's Guide by Rounak Kharait, expertly narrated by the author and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a practical leadership audiobook designed for managers, executives, team leaders, and aspiring professionals who want to develop stronger teams, improve workplace culture, and drive sustainable organizational success.

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.

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.

Superteams unlocks the secrets of high-performing teams, revealing the surprising science and practical lessons behind the world's most successful groups. What do the best teams do differently? To find out, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman surveyed thousands of teams and pinpointed...

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.

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...

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!

Unleash the potential of your team and revolutionize your leadership approach with "The Leadership Blueprint: A Guide for Building and Leading a High-Performing Team." Dive into the secrets of successful team management, as you discover the art of recruiting, motivating, and retaining top talent.

Coaching for High‑Performance Teams A Leader’s Complete Guide to Unlocking Potential, Driving Growth, and Building Teams That Excel If you want a team that wins consistently, you must coach consistently. This book gives you the complete leadership system to do exactly that. High‑performance teams are not built by accident—they are engineered through structure, clarity, accountability, and a leader who knows how to bring out the best in every individual. In this powerful guide, international fitness expert, entrepreneur, and leadership strategist Tony Deoleo reveals the coaching ...

Drawing on two decades of leadership and coaching research, Vallée and Bloom reveal the proven strategies behind the University of Windsor women’s basketball team’s transformation from last place to five-time national champions. Dare to Win bridges the gap between theory and practice, blending leadership insights, real-world examples, and Vallée’s experiences as both an academic researcher and a championship-winning coach. This invaluable resource is perfect for anyone seeking to build successful teams and elevate leadership, management, and coaching skills in sports and beyond.

Blue-Collar Leadership® & Culture will help you understand why culture is the key to becoming a sought after employer of choice within your industry. Culture matters because those who work there will determine who wants to work there.