Performance Improvement

This new edition of this best-selling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites.

In The Power of One More, renowned keynote speaker and performance expert Ed Mylett draws on thirty years of experience as an entrepreneur and coach to top athletes, entertainers, and business executives to reveal powerful strategies to help you live an extraordinary "one more" life.

This fascinating book draws on Dr. Jandial's broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of various fields - surgery, science, brain structure, the conscious mind - all to explain the bigger picture of brain health and rejuvenation. It is a journey into his operating room, around the world on his surgical missions, inside his laboratory, and to the outer edges of neuroscience to reveal the latest brain breakthroughs that are turning science fiction into reality, translating their implications for everyday life.

World-renowned sport psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais and Super Bowl-winning NFL Coach Pete Carroll, authors of Compete to Create, team up again for an intimate conversation about the psychology of sport and high performance. If you’ve ever wondered what makes Coach Carroll, known for his optimism and unconventional strategies, tick, here’s your chance to find out. In Finding Your Best, Dr. Gervais and Coach Carroll, who have worked together for almost a decade, explore some of the key tools and principles they use in their work with the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.

Karan Johar, one of Bollywood's iconic directors and producers, is on a mission to live his best life and help listeners do the same. As the listener experiences a revealing, intimate year in his life, they hear him call his inner circle of Bollywood celebrities who are his closest friends and most trusted experts, to discuss the most important bedrocks of living your best life.

In a world obsessed with optimization, where morning routines start at dawn and work never seems to end, it's no wonder we feel more depleted than ever. Drawing from two decades of research and consulting with organizations across thirty countries, Dr. James Hewitt reveals a startling paradox: as our knowledge of performance optimization has expanded, our sense of well-being has contracted.

As a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization, Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around results. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise under pressure. After years of research, Murphy had a revelatory insight: the pursuit of extraordinary performance and the pursuit of the best possible life are the same path.

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.

Unlock the power of Lean thinking to transform your maintenance operations into a streamlined, value-driven system that delivers maximum uptime, reduced costs, and sustainable results. Lean Maintenance is your comprehensive guide to applying Lean principles in the maintenance environment. Whether you manage a manufacturing plant, utilities network, transport fleet, or healthcare facility, this book provides practical strategies, tools, and real-world examples to help you: Standardize and Simplify — Develop clear, repeatable maintenance procedures that eliminate waste and ensure ...

Classrooms are like small organizations, and just as in any successful organization, effective leadership is key. Many teachers enter the classroom with limited training in classroom management and virtually none in leadership—a missed opportunity. While teachers hold positions of authority, true leadership goes beyond that. Building classroom leaders across a school creates a model of shared leadership, where both teachers and students see leadership in action. Empowered teachers model leadership behaviors for their students, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone ...

The Art of Learning takes listeners through Waitzkin's unique journey to excellence. He explains in clear detail how a well-thought-out, principled approach to learning is what separates success from failure. Waitzkin believes that achievement, even at the championship level, is a function of a lifestyle that fuels a creative, resilient growth process.

Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that once we succeed, we’ll be happy; that once we get that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But the science reveals this formula to be backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.

If you listen to nothing else on performing at your highest level, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you focus on what matters, manage your energy and attention, and achieve remarkable results. This book will inspire you to improve on your weaknesses, not just your strengths; rise above the pack; take care of your physical health for sustained mental performance; understand what motivates you; use short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations; and inspire others.

Unleash the Power of Customer Experience: Create a Winning Program Are you ready to take your organization's customer experience (CX) to the next level? In this thrilling guide, you'll discover the tools and strategies to build an unstoppable CX management program that propels your business from good to great. Step into the role of a daring leader equipped with the knowledge to craft a top-performing CX program that adds tangible value and agility and sets your business apart from the competition. Say goodbye to obsessing over surveys and scores and instead focus on intentional business ...

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER OF "CLOSING IS NOT YOUR PROBLEM" SALES CPR: 101 SYMPTOMS OF SALES FAILURE AND THEIR SOLUTIONS Stepping into the competitive arena of sales, this guide arms professionals with a pioneering approach to rescuing sales that appear beyond recovery. It transforms the wisdom drawn from extensive, real-life experience into a practical toolkit for those determined to meet and exceed their sales targets. Key Insights and Strategies Include: Identifying the tell-tale signs of deals in distress and how to intervene effectively. Over 100 detailed case studies that provide a ...

There's no shortage of advice out there on how to perform better, and better than others, at work. The problem is knowing which methods are actually proven to work-and how you should act on them to get the best results.

🚀 Why This Book is a Game-Changer for Your Brain Imagine unlocking a supercharged version of your brain—one that is sharper, faster, and more resilient than ever before. With "Neuroplasticity: Change the Way Your Brain Works Through Neuroscience," you gain scientifically backed, practical, and actionable strategies to rewire your brain for peak performance, mental agility, and long-term cognitive health. 📌 Struggling with focus? Fix it. 📌 Want a sharper memory? Train for it. 📌 Feeling mentally drained? Learn to recharge. Your brain is not fixed. It’s a muscle that can be ...

High achievers are at the top of their game because of the discipline they have during the unseen hours. They have made a commitment to establish, tweak, and repeat positive habits in everything they do. Raise Your Game examines the top leaders in sports and business and proves that success is a result of the little things we do all the time.

High Performance Habits will show you how to dramatically influence your results in life and accelerate your path to success just by developing growth habits. This step-by-step guidebook reveals how ordinary people from all walks of life can easily leverage the power of their mind-sets to become extraordinarily successful in all areas of their lives, regardless of the stage of life they are in.

You’ve been lied to about success. Not in the conspiracy-theory, tinfoil-hat way—just in the subtle, slow-drip poison of bad advice, empty ambition, and systems designed to keep you mediocre. Laws of Life is a wake-up call in plain English. No fluff, no cheerleading—just straight-up truth about what actually works in the real world. Written by someone who’s lived it, lost it, and built it back better, this book delivers 17 no-nonsense principles that will reshape how you approach success, freedom, relationships, money, and meaning. You won’t find theories here. You’ll find ...