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What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous "One-Page Strategic Plan" to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Included is an instructive chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff, revealing winning tactics to get banks to finance your business.

“Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world.”— Sheryl...

'A must-have insight into the awe-inspiring career of a true motor racing great' Daily Express Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published. Across four decades, Ross Brawn was one...

Presentations are the air we breathe in business, and for decades its been polluted with unexamined habits. Slides are stacked with data, logic is airtight, and effort is unmistakable. But still the idea stalls. Nobody changes their mind. It dissolves somewhere between the conference room and...

What would you do with an extra 5–10 hours every week?Spend more time with your family? Finally make progress on the project you keep postponing? Exercise, build your business, pursue a personal goal—or simply stop ending every day wondering where all your time went?You don't need more hours...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Learn how to put AI to work in your operation, fast and safely, with results your board and your CFO will accept. In this novel, AI work succeeds when someone owns each consequential answer, checks it, and measures what the work bought. What you'll...

AI is changing how work gets done. But for managers, the real challenge isn't simply learning another tool—it's learning where AI creates leverage, where it creates risk, and where human judgment must remain firmly in control.AI for Managers is a practical guide to managing people, performance...

Quiet confidence. Real impact. Lead as an introvert, your way.As an introvert, you can become an influential, confident, and authentic leader without pretending to be extroverted, performing, or draining your energy. You don't need to be the loudest voice in the room to lead powerfully.In Lead...

What separates an average workplace from one where people consistently do their best work? It isn't simply talent. It isn't another motivational program. And it isn't luck.The difference is the environment created around the people doing the work.In Better Manager, Book 5, Roy Moses presents a...

Joanne L. Smikle, PhD is a respected authority on leadership and organization development. She provides learning that helps you soar! Each episode prepares you to lead in our ever-evolving world. Subscribe today...content is updated all of the time! Get more relevant tools from The SmikleSpeaks YouTube Channel and the library at smiklespeaks.com. Contact Joanne for assistance with your individual and organizational development.

Leading change is hard—especially when you’re expected to deliver exceptional results while keeping your team engaged and aligned.Most leadership advice forces you to make a false choice: prioritize performance or prioritize people. Leadership Alchemy: Essential Truths for Driving...

Your voice is not a soft skill. It is the infrastructure through which everything you know reaches the room. You prepare. You know your material. Yet in the meeting, the pitch or the boardroom, your ideas land smaller than they are, and speaking anxiety shows up at the moments that matter most...

Being busy does not always mean making meaningful progress. A crowded schedule, constant notifications, and competing responsibilities can make it difficult to focus on the work that matters most. The Work Smarter Habit offers a practical approach to improving productivity through simple systems...

Most teams don't fail because of conflict.They fail because they avoid it.In Inviting Genius: How Good Leaders Use Conflict to Become Great, Matthew Abrams offers a roadmap for leaders who want to build high-performing teams without sacrificing humanityAfter 15 years working with visionary...

Ever sat through a meeting and wondered what everyone was actually talking about?Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate nonsense.Somewhere between “let's circle back,” “let's leverage our bandwidth,” “take this offline,” and “let's boil the ocean,” ordinary workplace...

Barely Legal HR is an anonymous podcast hosted by an HR Executive turned HR Renegade. Anti-HR. Pro-Chaos.This is the podcast HR would absolutely "circle back on" if they could figure out who Sucha is. From employee confessions and compliance disasters to toxic leadership policies written by people that have never met another human, nothing is off limits- except names, companies, and lawsuits. With her signature dark humor, Sucha exposes HR secrets, management dysfunction, and behind-the-scenes insights about the inner workings of Corporate America. If your job has ever made you ...

The Five-Tool Team reveals a practical framework for improving the way individuals and teams think, collaborate, and make decisions under pressure. Drawing on lessons from sports, business, engineering, and real-world experience, Ricardo Valerdi shows how the most effective leaders build teams that question assumptions, analyze consequences, and make choices grounded in clarity rather than instinct or urgency.

The proven mindsets that drove 25-fold company growth.Written by former Correct Craft CEO Bill Yeargin and his successor, CEO Zach Hutcheson, Mindset Matters distills two decades of exponential growth into a practical leadership guide. This book reveals the mental frameworks that transformed...

AI is changing what organizations can accomplish. Taking advantage of that shift means rethinking how work gets assigned, how people contribute, and how technology turns business intent into results. In Autonomous: The Agentic Enterprise, Odean Maye offers a practical field guide for leaders...

As a little girl, Kanaka travelled in a bullock cart to the Somnathpur temple with visitors who came to her house. She would run around the stone figures in the temple; sometimes she would stand and wonder why she could not make such figures. In the village where she lived as a child, she waited for the servants to clean the front yard with cow dung paste, and over that dull green colour she would draw with white powder the rangoli designs she had learnt from her mother. In a family with so many children that it was like a nursery school, Kanaka alone carried in her heart the yearning to ...