"This is a great book for both experienced and beginning leaders looking for a fresh outlook on the leadership development cannon." Jon Kaplan, Principal & Founder, Corvantus Consulting and former CLO, Discover Card "Success without balance is often more disastrous than failure with balance." So begins Dr. Andrew Temte's collection of candid observations on the challenges facing business leaders today. From top student to high school dropout, from aspiring rock star to successful business leader, Temte shares lessons learned on the importance of balance in all aspects of life and work.&nbsp; Balancing Act explores the characteristics required of a new generation of leaders who must find balance between strength and vulnerability; confidence and selflessness; passion and measure; single mindedness and inclusivity; determination and curiosity; and leadership and followership. He stresses that balance is a journey, not a destination. In Balancing Act, readers will learn: <ul> <li>How to identify and curtail organizational entropy</li> <li>How leaders can facilitate a culture of trust</li> <li>How to realize the benefits of a diverse organization by fostering a culture that encourages everyone to bring their 'whole self' to work.&nbsp;</li> <li>How embarking on a continuous improvement journey can result in more balanced individuals, teams and organizations.&nbsp;</li> </ul> We are all seeking opportunity, joy, and purpose; the commitment to "teach, coach, mentor, and inspire," is a contribution we can all make as we seek balance in our workplace and home life. "Andy delivers authentic and practical advice on how to be an effective leader by focusing on ethics, truthfulness, listening, and lifelong learning." Paul Smith, CEO, Warlencourt Limited and Former CEO, CFA Institute "His blend of wisdom and sincerity draws you in and makes you want to become a better manager." Kate Eberle Walker, CEO, PresenceLearning and author of The Good Boss&nbsp; "A brilliant read by a global leader." Milo-Arne Wilkinson, Eleven Program Director and Curator &nbsp; "Andy's chapter on the six words he leans on can change a leader's life for the better." Anthony Fasano, PE CEO, Engineering Management Institute and Author of Engineer Your Own Success "A must read for anyone who wishes to create sustainable business success as a leader while experiencing true fulfillment as a person." Amir Ghannad, President, The Ghannad Group and Author of The Transformative Leader &nbsp; "After 50 years in business, I got lots of good ideas from Andrew Temte's book. You will too." Donald E. Graham, Chairman, Graham Holdings Company

Balancing Act: Teach Coach Mentor Inspire

Biographies & Memoirs

Temte, Andrew

Professionals & Academics

Amplify Publishing

To win today’s markets you need to be more than innovative: you must be transformative. 
How do companies achieve breakout success? And how can leaders best guide their organizations to achieve it? In Transformative, venture capital investor and innovation strategist William Kilmer explains how challengers become market leaders by shifting, building, and growing markets they can win. Going further, he outlines how leaders in any industry can create these options. 
The most successful companies build massive opportunities for themselves by creating new playing fields from existing and emerging markets. They do it by innovating customer outcomes—not products—and delivering category-creating solutions that transform and grow markets. Then, they employ an innovation-growth strategy to attract new customers, alter industry dynamics, and build unique company advantages. 
Leveraging years of research into the world’s most transformative companies and his own experience investing in and building startups, Kilmer delivers a comprehensive leadership framework that will help you achieve breakout success by: Building a game-changing innovation strategy to focus your team on creating new customer outcomes that redefine customer priorities, sidestep barriers to entry, and produce capability-based advantages for your organization. Innovating to win by creating a path to market leadership that shifts and expands markets, targets new customer consumption, and builds more attractive business models. Retooling your organization for success by focusing on intentionality, building a culture that feeds strategy, and creating a challenge-setting organization. 
Transformative is a hands-on guide that will change how you think about innovation and markets, and most importantly, show you how to build an organization that consistently produces game-changing results.

Transformative: Build a Game-changing Strategy, Retool Your Organization, and Innovate to Win

Business & Money

William Kilmer

Management & Leadership

As Ed McDonnell grew up in poverty in South Boston, his Irish immigrant parents’ greatest hope for him was a career as a grocer. But McDonnell wanted more. After joining the army and using the GI Bill to pay for college, McDonnell landed a job at Raytheon. During a short post in London, he discovered a passion for international business. 
McDonnell had learned a crucial lesson while working his way up: by preparing himself to be lucky, he would be ready to embrace any opportunity that came along. He put that principle into action when his offer to give the president of General Foods a ride home during a snowstorm eventually led to a life-changing opportunity to run one of General Foods’ largest international holdings in São Paulo, Brazil. 
In 1981, McDonnell was hired by Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Sr. to build Seagram’s international operations. After leading a dramatic turnaround of Seagram’s global business, McDonnell became president and CEO of Seagram’s $5 billion Spirits and Wine Group. 
In Prepare Yourself to Be Lucky, McDonnell shares ten lessons from his fifty-five-year career in international business. He also offers insights on the rise and fall of Seagram, which experienced one of the most disastrous collapses in corporate history after Bronfman passed the company’s leadership to his son.

Prepare Yourself to Be Lucky: Spirited Lessons to Cultivate Business Success

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International

Fundamentally, Paul Szymanski and Jerry Drew remind us that--more than just simply a clash of weapons--all warfare manifests as a competition between human minds. The same holds true in the battle beyond in outer space. The contests of space warfare will test the knowledge, experience, fears, beliefs, stamina, and will of the people, their military commanders, and their political leadership like never before. It is thus essential to prepare for the military implications of wars that extend into space, to root space warfare in the military thought of the past, to adapt it to the needs of the future, and to complete its integration as an essential part of the Western way of war. Beginning with the word "war" itself, Szymanski and Drew guide the reader through a comprehensive consideration of the levels of warfare as viewed through the eyes of experienced space warfare practitioners. They make relevant centuries-old terms of art, linking the Napoleonic thought of the past to the network-dependent wars of the future and explaining esoteric disciplines like orbital warfare and electromagnetic operations in a way that will appeal to both novices and veterans of the discipline. In so doing, they expand upon the existing lexicon of war, instructing the reader on how to fight and win the coming war in space. Rich in symbology, illustrations, and historical examples, this book could not come at a more critical time for the security of the United States and its Allies.

The Battle Beyond: Fighting and Winning the Coming War in Space

Science & Math

Paul Szymanski

Jerry Drew

Astronomy & Space Science

There is a common misconception that being good at sales necessitates aggressive closing or finding ways to effectively bring in clients Think again! Author and sales trainer Jim Doyle explains how the best sellers have a commitment to their customers that goes way beyond being customer focused. Servant Heart Sellers, as he calls them, are obsessed with making sure the products they sell make a difference for their customers, not just closing the deal. This commitment changes everything about their sales approach. Selling with a Servant Heart outlines ten lessons that ultimately lead to greater joy in sales while also increasing income. When you commit to serving customers as a Servant Heart Seller, you’ll find more success, greater customer loyalty, and far less churn. And you’ll have a lot more fun, too. For the new salesperson, the experienced veteran, or anyone in between, the lessons of Servant Heart Selling have something salespeople across industries can draw from. More success. More customer loyalty. More joy in what you do. That’s what can happen to your sales career when you start selling with a Servant Heart.

Selling with a Servant Heart: Ten Lessons on the Path to Joy and Increased Income

Jim Doyle

Marketing & Sales

For some, golf is an instant passion. These golfers practice religiously, play often, watch it on TV, and frequently attend tournaments. Then there’s the other kind of golfer. This group simply enjoys the occasional round, weather permitting, and doesn’t take the game too seriously. Things get interesting when those two kinds of people marry each other. 
Such was the case for Janet and Steve Thompson, who married over thirty-five years ago and have been golfing together ever since. In The Golfer’s Wife, Janet combines her story with those of seven professional golfers’ wives, examining how a wife’s relationship with golf can affect her relationship with her husband―and vice versa―with self-deprecating humor and a generous spirit. At the intersection of memoir and biography, this look into the love of the game―and the love of the player―will charm both the golfer and nongolfer alike. 
A portion of the proceeds from The Golfer’s Wife will be donated to the following charities: the Brandt & Mandy Snedeker Foundation, the Brighter Days Foundation, the Charley Hoffman Foundation, Crystal Coast Hospice House, the Jacobsen Youth Initiative, Juvenile Diabetes Research, and the Micaela’s Army Foundation.

The Golfer's Wife: From Birdies to Quadruple Bogies and the Rough in Between

JANET THOMPSON

Community & Culture

For at least the last fifty years, corporate leaders have come to understand the importance of having a healthy company culture. Peter Drucker, the "father of management theory," went so far as to suggest that "culture eats strategy for breakfast." Yet, why is managing people effectively so difficult and elusive? What is missing? And why, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, are so many people quitting their jobs? In The Open Culture Handbook, Drew Jones draws on twenty-five years of consulting experience and his background as a cultural anthropologist to present a simple framework for tackling the culture dilemma. The book shifts the culture conversation from abstractions and ideals to the tangible and changeable aspects of employee experience.

The Open Culture Handbook: Five Questions to Drive Engagement and Innovation

Drew Jones

Business Culture

Reimagining Blue is a passionate and personal analysis of a misunderstood profession from the vantage point of female police chief Kristen Ziman. 
Ziman credits her colorful childhood for the temperament that led her to gravitate toward policing, a profession where chaos is all in a day’s work. Many times, she learned life and leadership lessons through the revelation of what not to do. 
But nothing could have prepared Kristen for the turmoil that would unfold during her tenure. A mass shooting, a pandemic, and civil unrest that threatened the trusting relationship between her department and her community became her greatest professional challenges. 
This deeply moving memoir is a story of resilience and perseverance in policing―and in life. It’s a raw and honest portrayal told by a flawed human about a noble profession suffering an identity crisis. Reimagining Blue is an urgent call to find a way forward, not because the system is broken, but because it can always be better.

Reimagining Blue: Thoughts on Life, Leadership, and a New Way Forward in Policing

Kristen Ziman

About the Author\nBen Lytle is a self-made serial entrepreneur-CEO known for being ahead of the curve. He launched five successful companies, including two listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The best known is Anthem, today twenty-ninth on the Fortune 500 with a market value over $100 billion. He is a healthcare policy expert who served on state and presidential healthcare commissions, a governance leader with extensive public company experience, a senior athlete, world traveler, father of three children, and grandfather to eight grandchildren. 
Ben’s devotion to individual and collective human potential through accelerated wisdom guides his writing, speaking, entrepreneurial energy, and investments. He believes that people and organizations today underestimate the extent and speed with which they and the world will change. Time to prepare and adapt is being compressed, opportunities are being missed, and unnecessary suffering will result unless prompt action is taken. He wrote The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years as a guide to success through wiser, timely actions and decisions in the opportunity-rich, turbulent times ahead.\nThose of you living through the next thirty years will become the most powerful creatures that have ever existed. You will live long, novel lifestyles doing more significant, meaningful work. You will function as only geniuses could have done in the past. You will collaborate and share experiences in physical and virtual reality with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Innovations in medicine, seamless integration with automation, and unlimited Cloud computing power make it possible. 
You will have the opportunity and the duty to create a decidedly better world. You will need to develop the wisdom to use this expansive power in advance of receiving it. Your success will decide if the future is a new age of enlightenment or darkness. Experience and maturity alone cannot provide the required wisdom fast enough. You will need to maximize your innate potential to accelerate wisdom. 
The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years explains the first steps to achieve your potential and accelerate wisdom. You will be encouraged to discard potential-limiting mindsets, wasteful habits, and destructive lifestyles that caused unnecessary suffering in prior generations. You will discover how forces of change create a better world—a New Reality—by breaking down the one we know. The pace of life will accelerate and become more turbulent. Institutions such as government, education, religion, news media, and many employers will be disrupted and become less reliable. But you will see the unfolding New Reality through the lens of opportunity instead of anxiety and fear. 
This first installment in a three-book series is for those who will live thirty years or more, those who are older and seeking to assist younger people through this unprecedented challenge, and leaders who are adapting organizations for the New Reality. Mind-blowing change is coming, and The Potentialist offers a roadmap to success.

The Potentialist I: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years

Ben Lytle

Unleash the power of your culture.Propel your brand forward.Too many executive leaders settle for inadequate employee performance, mediocre outcomes, and unremarkable earnings. But this doesn't have to be your organization's reality. There is a way to break through the inertia to engage your team, drive better results, and attract a tribe of loyal customers-by tapping into the greatest driver of brand success: your internal company culture.Mark Miller and Ted Vaughn have rebranded more than one hundred purpose driven organizations with their team at Historic Agency. Their decades of experience and research have culminated in Culture Built My Brand, your roadmap to winning more customers and turning them into raving fans. With practical steps and customizable tools, this easy-to-follow guide gives you the know-how you need to tap into your company culture to create an authentic brand that stands out from the competition.

Culture Built My Brand: The Secret to Winning More Customers Through Company Culture

Mark Miller

Ted Vaughn

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