High Management

The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single word: managing. In High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove, former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel, shares his perspective on how to build and run a...

Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth, tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies to global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has now codified in High Growth Handbook.

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration...

'It's a rare read that introduces fresh ideas about how to make groups more than the sum of their parts.' ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again 'The world needs this book.' DANIEL COYLE, New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Code The ultimate playbook for...

You are being lied to about how to use AI. They open ChatGPT, type what seems like a clear request, and hope for the best. Sometimes the answer is useful. Often, it is vague, generic, or completely off target. Then they try again, reword the prompt, add more details, and still feel like they are guessing. The problem is not that they are bad at AI.

Drawing on 30-years of successful change management delivery, this book lays out how to get any business change adopted. Written in an engaging conversational style and brought to life through cartoon character "Change Cat", it gets to the heart of how to design, develop, and deliver change that works.

Managing a sales team is one of the most important and challenging positions in a company, and it requires a unique set of skills. Unfortunately, many sales managers spend much of their day putting out fires, and moving from problem to problem. Their days consist of an overwhelming number of activities, including responding to urgent requests from their bosses, resolving customer issues and complaints, and dealing with disgruntled employees.

In his work consulting to major corporations for more than 30 years, Gerald Kraines consistently hears that 60-70 percent of business organizations' potential effectiveness goes unrealized. He shares how to engage, align, and develop employees in order to leverage and encourage optimal performance and long-lasting results. 

Anyone managing an artists career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. Learn how and why those moving parts "move," as well as how to manage and navigate a music-based career. Artist Management for the Music Business gives a...

The new female manager’s encyclopedia - how to lead like a pro and spin teamwork into value, even with little experience! If you’ve been newly appointed to a managerial position with a few years of experience under your belt…you may struggle to get used to your peers calling you “boss”. However, it would help if you weren’t afraid to embrace leadership roles - you earned every right to excel, and your boss must have noticed something exceptional in you, so don’t downplay yourself.

Great business leaders understand that acceptance of greater personal accountability and responsibility leads individuals, teams, and organizations back on the path to success. But with the evolving nature of 21st century business, the practical steps that go into creating a high performance culture of accountability have become more muddled than ever.

Set ambitious goals—and achieve them. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on high performance, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review  articles that will help you build on your strengths, assemble a network that supports your...

Too Capable to Collapse is a powerful and deeply validating book for high-achieving women who are tired of carrying everything, managing everyone’s emotional weather, and confusing leadership with over-responsibility. Written by executive coach Katie Oliva, this book explores why ambitious, competent women so often burn out while still looking polished and productive on the outside. It reveals the hidden cost of being dependable, the trap of overfunctioning, and the quiet exhaustion that comes from being rewarded for patterns that were never sustainable.

A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee “Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and...

Mindfulness: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to what mindfulness is, how and why it's useful, and guidance for practice. Mindfulness practice can help reduce anxiety, stress, and low mood, giving way to creativity, happiness, and tranquillity. It also offers us a way in which to...

What separates exceptional leaders from average managers? The ability to build resilient, high-performing teams that thrive under pressure, adapt to change, and consistently deliver results. Building High Performance Resilient Teams: A People Leader's Guide by Rounak Kharait, expertly narrated by the author and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a practical leadership audiobook designed for managers, executives, team leaders, and aspiring professionals who want to develop stronger teams, improve workplace culture, and drive sustainable organizational success.

Emotional inclusion—putting Emotional Intelligence into Action for sustainable change in the workforceWhen Mollie Rogers Jean De Dieu founded Emotional Inclusion in the workforce three years ago, she was on a mission to rid emotional unwellness shame and stigma in companies. She realized...

Unleash the potential of your team and revolutionize your leadership approach with "The Leadership Blueprint: A Guide for Building and Leading a High-Performing Team." Dive into the secrets of successful team management, as you discover the art of recruiting, motivating, and retaining top talent.

If you want your staff to perform at their best, then you need to become the best damn manager ever, someone who can ignite your employees' passion for their jobs, enabling them to execute their duties at a high level whether you're there or not. The Best Damn Management Book Ever teaches managers, executives, and business owners how to do just that.

Careers are changing, and the capabilities required to stay relevant are changing even more rapidly. We seem to have endless choices, at least at the beginning of a career, but these start narrowing after middle management. How does one think about one's own life and career in this changing...