Building 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.

Conversational Capacity provides the communication tools you need to ensure that your team remains on track even when dealing with its most troublesome issues, that it responds to tough challenges with agility and skill, and performs brilliantly in circumstances that would incapacitate less disciplined teams.

Do you feel like your love burns too bright, like you're always "too much" for this neurotypical world? Does every unanswered text send you spiraling, wondering if they'll realize you're exhausting and leave? Are you tired of performing neurotypicality in your relationships—terrified that if they see your real, chaotic neurodivergent self, the love will disappear? If you're neurodivergent, love doesn't feel like the gentle river in pastel self-help books. It feels like being physically struck in the chest every time someone doesn't text back—craving connection while every small comment ...

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 ...

A strategic blueprint for elite and rising entrepreneurs to achieve 100x growth, build legacy, and engineer 25 years of exponential success. With EXCLUSIVE audiobook-only insights and coaching from Dan Sullivan and John Bowen. This bold and visionary guide delivers a 25-year strategic roadmap...

The ultimate playbook for building high-performing teams, packed with counterintuitive insights, surprising science, and real-world lessons from the most comprehensive study of elite groups ever conducted. What do the best teams do differently? To find out, award-winning social psychologist Ron...

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.

Believe and be unshakable. The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this new definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field. “Studying confidence with Dr. Zinsser helped me win two...

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.

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 ...

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.

Conklin’s audiobook is an interesting and informal discussion with the listener about the five principles of human performance; principle by principle, section by section. These five theories about how humans perform in organizations are principles, the building blocks of human performance, through which we have established a new way to think about safety and reliability in our worlds...and changing the way we think about work is a vital step toward improvement.

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...

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.

You already know what you should be doing. So why aren't you doing it? It's not discipline. It's not motivation. It's not some character flaw you were born with. It's timing. Every morning, your brain is sharp, your willpower is full, and your focus is at its peak. And every morning, most people burn that gift on email, notifications, and other people's emergencies—then wonder why the important work never gets done. By the time you finally sit down to do what matters, the tank is empty. The Mental Game of High Performance flips the script. Drawing on behavioral science and the daily ...

Alice Cromwell graduated from the Underworld Academy for Future Overlords with top marks in necromancy, dark magic, and minion management. Now she has one semester to prove she deserves the title: conquer a human settlement, establish dominion, and pass one final inspection. The target? The human realm. Starting with: Eastchester, a walled city.. A garrison that knows how to fight. And somewhere inside, a rogue Academy graduate named Malecant who’s gone native and is running the city’s defenses from the shadows. Alice’s tools, a zombie army of two thousand, a corrupted magical node, a...

“I love this book. Your story is fascinating.” —Jack Canfield, NY Times Bestselling Author From Play Golf Better Faster is a practical, inspiring, simplified guide to dramatically improving your golf game whether you are a relatively new player, have been playing for years or even aspire to go pro. In its pages Kalliope Barlis shares all the secrets she used to go from golf novice to pro golfer in just two years as well as the insights she developed during her twenty-year career teaching golf to her students. "This book is for anybody that wants to play the game easier and with more ...

The Concise Reads Management Series gives us some of the important tools in the management tool belt including problem solving, communicating, and building a team. The guides are concise on purpose and should take you no more than an hour or so to read but the principles within them take weeks and months to master. These are essential principles to find success as a manager or leader and therefore it is important that you absorb them and turn them into habits. Team Building: "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford The Team ...

Organizations that embed evaluation into their culture and operations can pivot faster, innovate more effectively, and foster a growth mindset. Evaluation thus becomes a tool for learning and continuous improvement. Building a Culture of Evaluation leads you through how to integrate measurement and feedback into your organization’s DNA.

Unlock the world of ham radio with Building Antennas for HAM Radios, your ultimate guide to mastering the art of antenna construction. Whether you're a novice eager to set up your first station or a seasoned operator looking to refine your skills, this comprehensive eBook offers a journey from foundational concepts to intricate builds, ensuring you're equipped for success on-air. Begin with a deep dive into the fascinating science behind ham radio antennas. You'll gain a solid understanding of radiation patterns, resonance, polarization, and the critical role that feed points play in ...