Growing Leadership

One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches—hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Gimlet Media)—reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life. Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons...

Great leadership creates extraordinary things. Poor leadership causes irreparable damage. The result depends on the person in charge. While some are born with innate leadership ability, others have to develop those strengths. But every leader is responsible to consistently hone their leadership skills, for the sake of their people and their work. Author and MBA Billy Epperhart specializes in building great leaders from the inside out.

From the authors of The Leadership Challenge, Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership is a TLC for individual contributors. Leadership is not about position, power, or place but about behavior. It's about what you do, not who you are.

Profitable Coaching Business Ideas by VentureNest Books is a practical guide aimed at aspiring coaches who wish to transform their passion for helping others into a profitable business. This resource addresses common challenges faced by coaches, such as selecting a niche, creating effective business models, mastering marketing strategies, and ensuring financial growth. The book offers step-by-step instructions for both newcomers and seasoned coaches to launch or enhance their coaching practices with confidence.

Is your team agile and self-organizing? What is your role as a leader? Team leadership is the missing link that connects all the buzzwords you hear these days to the real world where actual people have to learn, implement, and mainly, believe and push for this stuff to happen. This audiobook is meant for software team leaders, architects, and anyone with a leadership role in the software business. Hear advice from real team leaders, consultants, and everyday gurus of management.

This book is designed to give hope and guidance to churches: leaders, ministers, and members. Anyone who wants to believe again.

Now in a new, expanded, and fully revised third edition, this best-selling audio handbook will help you learn the skills, and the art, of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. This edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work and goal-setting, a spiritual approach to coaching, and a final section on "Coaching the Organisations' Culture".

In the realm of small businesses, a common obstacle is the lack of leadership. To bridge this gap, this book offers a comprehensive guide incorporating the wisdom amassed over years of practical business experience. Authored by an industry expert, the content is derived from a bi-weekly blog that was initially addressed to his leadership team, and now has been curated into a single, impactful volume for a wider audience.

Under Jeff McManus’ leadership as Director of Landscape Services, the Ole Miss campus has won professional awards. In Growing Weeders into Leaders, he relates the principles behind his team’s success. Creating one of America’s most beautiful college campuses at the University of Mississippi did not happen overnight and, inside these minutes, McManus describes the joys, the defeats, the brilliant problem-solving, and the best laid plans that are proven worthless...until the bigger picture appears.

What Effective Leaders DO is a powerful business parable that offers a refreshing, relatable, and practical look at what truly separates impactful leaders from overwhelmed ones.

Ever wonder how you can pursue your passions while still being the best mom you can be? Debra Kasowski, entrepreneurial mom extraordinaire, shares the principles and practices, lessons and tools to growing a sustainable business that integrates relationships, family, and your authentic self. From knowing who you are and owning it, to growing and strengthening your position in the marketplace, this book helps you transform your passions into a business, and guides you in surviving the winds of change.

Little Leaders celebrates courage, empathy, and the power of leading by example. Through four uplifting stories—Emma’s Playground Plan, The Storm Team, The New Student, and The Reading Club—children discover that leadership isn’t about control; it’s about care, teamwork, and kindness. These gentle, inspiring tales encourage young listeners to take initiative, solve problems, and support their peers. With relatable characters and real-world lessons, Little Leaders shows that every child has the power to lead—by helping others first.

We are more than our DNA or our upbringing. Never a baby has been born that got past the plan and purpose of Yahweh. If we are here, it is by divine design. If we made it this far, he planned on it. The difference between children and sons is (sons) know who they are in him, and no longer identify with the fictional man. The fictional man is who we became apart from him and one another. (DNA, upbringing, life experiences, etc.) If we were able to become all we were foreordained to be apart from one another in him, we would have done it long ago.

Why all these statistics about how many social media users there are? To make one, powerful point: Your customers and potential customers are definitely on at least one, if not more of these social media platforms. This audiobook gives you eight dead-simple steps to follow to start using social media to attract new customers and grow your business using the most effective communication channel available.

Learn the 25 keys in managing the growth of a business, including identifying your company's competitive advantage, implementing a total quality strategy, hiring a professional management team and creating a visionary growth-oriented corporate culture. Part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series.

This is not a how-to book per se, yet it tells you how to do so many things! Hiring and firing, for instance; reading people; identifying nonproducers; cutting expenses; knowing what your customers need; and, most of all, growing your business. It doesn't tell you how to start a business, yet listening to it will make doing that so much easier. It doesn't tell you how to run one, but even if you've been a COO for 30 years, you'll find new wisdom in it.