Building High Performance Business

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Leadership skills are essential for everyone, and the great news is that they can be learned, meaning that there’s no excuse for poor leadership. This two-book bundle will provide you with concise, powerful advice based on experience and research ranging from neuroscience to social psychology and backed up by statistical data and analysis.

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!

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.

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, ...

Understand the dynamics of all different types of teams. Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support Them represents the latest in thinking about creating effective teams. The authors present a new "Five C" framework that focuses on the core aspects of team building. The book helps the listener assess how his/her team is performing on each of the 5Cs - context, composition, competencies, change, and collaborative leadership - and discusses options concerning how to improve team performance along each of these dimensions.

Chronic complainers, no accountability finger-pointers, or learning-resistant laggards—these culture-killers costs sales organizations more in productivity than being weak in the so-called hard skills of selling. Learn how emotional intelligence and the development of these critical soft skills improve sales leadership effectiveness and outperforms doubling down on more sales technology tools and fads. The missing link is in hiring for and developing emotional intelligence skills in sellers and sales leaders.

The influx of social media platforms over the past 10 years is the greatest boon to marketing since the creation of the internet. While there is undeniably money to be made from social media marketing, the shear amount of competition makes getting started successfully more difficult than it would otherwise be. If you are looking for the best way to dip your foot into this marketing goldmine, then Social Media Marketing 2019: How to Become an Influencer of Millions on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube & Instagram While Advertising & Building Your Personal Brand is the audiobook for you.

Transform your leadership capabilities in record time, even if you've faced obstacles and setbacks along the way. Are you constantly facing leadership challenges that make it difficult to steer your team effectively? Do you find yourself grappling with the rapid pace of change and worrying about how to grow and scale your business confidently? The journey to exceptional leadership begins here. If you're an entrepreneur or business leader overwhelmed with perfecting your leadership skills, you’re in the right place. My Leadership Development Skills Made Simple is meticulously crafted for ...

Leo Bottary follows up on his two earlier books about leveraging the power of peers in business and in life. With its roots in CEO and executive peer groups, the team-building framework presented in this audiobook is designed for leaders who want to coach engaged, adaptable, and higher-performing teams. Peernovation embraces lessons from more than a decade of academic research, fieldwork, and personal experiences throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

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.

As president and CEO of Scripps Health, one of America's most prestigious health systems, Chris Van Gorder presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position. While hospitals and health systems nationwide have laid people off or are closing their doors, Scripps is financially healthy, has added thousands of employees (even with a no-layoff philosophy), and has developed a reputation as a top employer. What are the secrets to this remarkable story?

Achieving success and happiness in life is a common aspiration for many of us. Yet, we often struggle to identify the habits and behaviors necessary to achieve our goals. In this book, we'll explore 10 essential habits that successful and wealthy people practice daily to achieve their goals and live fulfilling lives. This is exactly what I did to start changing my thoughts around money and to start showing up as the version of someone who would achieve the results I desired. Each chapter will focus on one habit and provide practical tips and insights for incorporating it into your life. ...

With increased demand for hybrid and fully remote work styles, most firms understand that some form of distance work is here to stay—and have put some remote protocols in place. But many companies either see the shift to remote work as a threat to their culture and management style, or they just don’t know how to make the transition. It’s time to take advantage of the many opportunities remote work presents. This book will tell you how.