Performance Development

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...

Discover the transformative New York Times bestseller—a step-by-step manual for mastering your inner mind for peak performance and living your life to the fullest. As a professional baseball player, Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around results. He was focused on achievement but also...

You do not need more AI tools. You need a better way to do the work. If you work in Learning and Development, you are already feeling the pressure. Stakeholders expect faster turnaround. Content can be generated in minutes. Manual production is no longer where your value sits. And if you are still starting from scratch, defaulting to training, or using AI randomly, you are doing more work than necessary and making your value harder to see. AI for Learning & Development is a practical playbook for L&D professionals who want to use AI properly, not casually. This is not a book about trends, ...

This entertaining and inspiring book will show you how to excel in your life by using your mind in a more powerful and intentional way so you can get past the mental limits that block you from the life you want. You will find greater focus, clarity, resilience, and a sense of purpose. You will have better motivation, discipline, and ability to get past procrastination.

Most technical consultants are hired for what they know. The best ones are trusted for how they perform under pressure. There is a gap between consultants who are technically excellent and consultants who build exceptional careers. It is not a knowledge gap. It is a performance gap: the difference between the consultant who stays composed when a project goes wrong, who has the difficult conversation in week two rather than week eight, who gives clients honest advice rather than comfortable advice, and who delivers to the same standard at the end of a hard engagement as at the beginning. The...

Are you ready to unlock peak performance in sports and life? Discover the essential mental strategies that top athletes use to overcome challenges, build resilience, and stay ahead of the competition. In "Peak Performance Through Mindset," you'll dive deep into the psychological toolkit that transforms good performers into unstoppable champions. Drawing from the experiences of legendary athletes and cutting-edge performance psychology, this game-changing guide reveals how champions think, train, and perform when it matters most. You'll explore powerful strategies including: • Mindset ...

A simple yet revolutionary approach to improving your body’s oxygen use, increasing your health, weight loss, and sports performance—whether you’re a recovering couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola. Achieve...

You want to get more out of yourself. You want to know how to take your performance to the next level. You want to uncover secrets to elite performance. You’re in the right place, but the path ahead is not what you think. Mark Mathieson outlines the nine key lessons that enable you to reconnect with your life to take advantage of the hidden, wild systems all around you. Mark will show you how to master these skills to develop grit and passion to re-wild your existence in a way that leads to sustainable high performance.

Mastery in surgery is not achieved in a single operation — it is built day by day. In The Daily Surgeon: 365 Lessons for Surgical Mastery, renowned orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine leader Dr. Christopher S. Ahmad delivers a powerful daily guide for surgeons committed to excellence in the operating room and beyond. Structured as one lesson per day, this book goes beyond surgical technique to explore the performance foundations that define elite surgeons: preparation, focus, judgment under pressure, leadership, resilience, communication, and lifelong learning. Drawing on decades in ...

Are you ready to become the strongest, clearest, most unstoppable version of yourself? The High-Performance Mindset is your blueprint to mastering the four pillars that shape every part of your life: mindset, fitness, money, and relationships. In today’s world, motivation fades fast, discipline feels exhausting, and most people never reach their potential—not because they lack ability, but because they lack structure. This audiobook gives you that structure.

From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. When you become a manager, it’s your job to say it--and your obligation. Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she developed a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor. Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly.

Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams...

Looking to become a top change manager? Look no further than "Mastering the 14 Qualities: How to Become a Top Change Manager." Written by an experienced and expert change manager, this book is a comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to know to succeed in the field of change management. The book includes a detailed explanation of the ✓14 qualities that every top change manager should possess, as well as ✓a step-by-step guide for the change process. You will also learn about ✓major change management models and all major and important ✓tools and techniques used in the ...

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.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and performance expert Josh Cavalier shares his in-depth knowledge and skills to help L&D professionals master learning experience design by using generative AI in their employee learning and development efforts. More than just a technical manual on generative AI or a collection of best prompt practices, this book explores how AI is reshaping jobs, skill development, and human performance. Cavalier provides his Learning and Development AI Ecosystem framework as a practical road map for integrating AI into your day-to-day work and your organization.

A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters. Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small).

There is a revolution underway in employee workforce development, trending away from face-to-face to digital learning and away from event-based multiday workshops to technology-supported “learning journeys.” This shift is tremendously promising, and it is reshaping the future of learning and development (L&D). However, it represents a considerable challenge and is fraught with risk. Improving Performance Through Learning will help you navigate this revolution but stay true to the mission of impactful workplace learning. Building on Brinkerhoff and Apking’s breakthrough work on High ...

Success is not built on talent alone. It is built on discipline, focus, and the ability to improve consistently when others lose direction. The people who achieve lasting excellence are not always the most gifted—they are the ones who learn faster, think more clearly, execute better, and stay committed longer. Master Your Skills is a practical guide for professionals, students, creators, entrepreneurs, and ambitious individuals who face challenges in maintaining focus, building discipline, or achieving consistent high performance. This book is designed for those who understand that real ...

Today, Telran Whiting is as excited as he’s ever been. It is his eighteenth birthday. This is the day he becomes an adult, so his fate will be determined in his home city’s Sage Tower. There he will get his class. Most people get what’s known as a city class. Those folks will spend their life in a town, or on a farm, doing work that is necessary for civilization to exist. A large minority of people receive what is known as an adventurer class. Those people carry out quests and, in general, protect those with city classes. The world is full of monsters, dangerous beasts, and evil ...

Step-by-Step to Stand-Up Comedy, written and narrated by Greg Dean, is a comprehensive guide for people who are funny, want to be funnier, or have dreams of being a stand-up comedian. This first-of-its-kind audiobook demystifies the craft of comedy by breaking it down to the fundamental skills used by professional funny people. Dean lays out these skills in simple-to-understand lessons that are easy to practice and master.