Are you a senior executive, board member, emerging leader, or consultant responsible for leading a strategic plan that actually gets implemented and delivers results? Strategic Impact A Leader's Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan presents a trailblazing method that will help you guide and customize your organization's strategic planning program. Dr. Poore delivers innovation through virtual strategy workshops, digital communication opportunities, and new, accessible cloud-based tracking systems. Strategic Impact provides a reliable, three-step framework, applicable to any organization, regardless of size, scale, or structure, allowing you to: -Declutter the typically complicated strategic planning process. -Deliver a destiny-shaping program in an efficient, budget-conscious way-including for mission-driven small businesses and nonprofits with limited resources. -Plan and lead a life-changing leadership workshop experience culminating in strategic goals. -Craft a compelling written strategic plan which can be digitized and communicated through social media. -Implement an effective tracking and communication system to monitor progress and ensure accountability. -Engage employees, customers, and key audiences in celebrating your organization's strategic impact. Unlike other strategic planning books, Strategic Impact places intense focus on curating a vibrant, life-changing strategic planning workshop that strengthens leadership bonds and commitment for implementation. It simplifies the strategic planning process and ensures a clear, comprehensive, and customizable approach for you and your leadership team. Dr. Poore's emphasis on strategic goal implementation will amplify your organization's ability to get it done, fulfill your mission and purpose, and achieve strategic impact!

Strategic Impact: A Leader’s Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan

Business & Money

Poore Ph.D., Carol A.

Management & Leadership

Fast Company Press

Wall Street Journal&nbsp;Bestseller DIGITAL POLLUTION IS THE PROBLEM. HUMAN-CENTERED COMMUNICATION IS THE SOLUTION. We're spending more time than ever in virtual environments. That will only increase, as will the amount of noise we encounter there. The seemingly endless series of unwelcome digital distractions range from frustrating to dangerous. As individuals and businesses, we not only spend time and energy managing this digital pollution, we often create it. At risk are relationships and revenue. The only viable way forward is to be more thoughtful, intentional, and personal. Human-Centered Communication provides a philosophy and practice to help you connect in more meaningful and effective ways with prospects, customers, team members, and every stakeholder in your success. Learn to: <ul> <li>Break through the noise and earn attention</li> <li>Build trust and create engagement</li> <li>Enhance your reputation with both people and algorithms</li> </ul> The concepts and models in this book apply to any form or channel of communication, but human centricity favors video. More visual and emotional than faceless digital communication, video enhances tone, intent, subtlety, nuance, and meaning. Learn to be clearer and more confident on camera in live video calls, meetings, and presentations, as well as in recorded video emails, social messages, and text messages. The authors of the bestselling Rehumanize Your Business join with eleven industry-leading experts from companies like Salesforce, HubSpot, and RE/MAX to lead the growing conversation on leveraging human strengths in an increasingly digital world. The brightest future is tech-enabled, but authors Ethan Beute and Stephen Pacinelli show that it's also human-centered. The experts studied, interviewed, and featured: <ul> <li>Jacco van der Kooij, Founder of Winning by Design</li> <li>Dan Hill, PhD, President of Sensory Logic</li> <li>Mathew Sweezey, Director of Market Strategy at Salesforce</li> <li>Julie Hansen, Creator of the Selling on Video Master Class</li> <li>Adam Contos, CEO of RE/MAX</li> <li>Lauren Bailey, Founder and President of Factor 8 and #GirlsClub</li> <li>Mario Martinez Jr, Founder and CEO of Vengreso</li> <li>Viveka von Rosen, Cofounder and Chief Visibility Officer at Vengreso</li> <li>Shep Hyken, Customer Service and Customer Experience Expert</li> <li>Morgan J Ingram, Director of Sales Execution at JB Sales Training</li> <li>Dan Tyre, sales executive and founding team member at HubSpot</li> </ul> Among the themes addressed: <ul> <li>Trust and relationships</li> <li>Communication and connection</li> <li>Service and value</li> <li>Text and video</li> <li>Noise and pollution</li> </ul> Among the types of videos in which you'll become more confident and effective: <ul> <li>Live, synchronous video meetings</li> <li>Recorded, asynchronous video messages</li> <li>Video calls and video presentations</li> <li>Video in emails and text messages</li> <li>Video in social feeds and social messages</li> <li>Video for specific individuals and large groups</li> <li>Video for known audiences and anonymous masses</li> <li>Video for prospects, customers, employees, and other stakeholders</li> </ul> For immediate benefits and for long-term reputation, now is the time to get ahead of and stay ahead of ever-increasing digital noise and pollution - with Human-Centered Communication.&nbsp;

Human-Centered Communication: A Business Case Against Digital Pollution

Ethan Beute

Stephen Pacinelli

Business Culture

To succeed, the business of the future must have soul. 
Building Corporate Soul answers the most pressing questions for leaders today: How do I build and sustain a human-centric performance culture? 
At a time when 10,000 baby boomers retire every day, 79% of employees quit their jobs because they don't feel appreciated at their workplace, and 69% of millennials see a lack of potential for leadership development in their companies, Building Corporate Soul sets out to transform the performance and value of organizations―and to make soulless companies a thing of the past. 
Ralf Specht’s unique framework, The Soul System™, aligns value-creating employee behaviors with corporate strategy through shared understanding and shared purpose. Based on the latest research and real-life cases, this actionable framework shows how to build a culture at the workplace that is both human centric and success driven. 
Specht proves that leadership behaviors that build soul are synonymous with the behaviors that build success. His performance ranking, The Soul Index, confirms that companies that operate within this framework outperform their peers by a factor of 2.6 compared with Dow Jones over 5 years. 
Building Corporate Soul helps leaders at every level move beyond their current thinking and create an environment in which business goals are well understood and corporations walk their talk. Both this shared understanding and the subsequent shared behavior are critical to turn a company's purpose into a real means to an end: superior success and a truly motivated workforce that is proud of its role inside the organization and of its impact on the local community and society overall. You'll see how companies of all sizes (startups and legacy corporations) have made this happen. You'll also learn how every leader, no matter the industry, can ignite (or re-ignite) the corporate soul in their firm. 
Ralf Specht is a visionary business leader and creator of the Soul System™, a framework that aligns value-creating employee action with broader corporate strategy through shared understanding and shared purpose. 
As a founding partner of Spark44, he was the architect of an innovative, industry-first joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover, which grew under his leadership to a global revenue of $100+m and 1,200 employees before it joined forces with Accenture Interactive in 2021. Previously, he consulted with global companies and brands for more than two decades with McCann Erickson. Besides Building Corporate Soul: Powering Culture & Success with the Soul System™, he is the author of the forthcoming book Beyond the Startup: Sparking Operational Innovations for Global Growth.

Building Corporate Soul: Powering Culture & Success with the Soul System™

Ralf Specht

Biography & History

Compassionate leadership isn't&nbsp;about being nice;&nbsp;when practiced effectively,&nbsp;it's a&nbsp;strong&nbsp;leadership style that&nbsp;can elevate&nbsp;your spirits&nbsp;and&nbsp;profits. Compassionate leaders are not weak. They are tough leaders who understand that they can be good to their people and deliver stronger results.&nbsp;In fact, taking care of your people&nbsp;actually&nbsp;leads&nbsp;to better results.&nbsp;In his new book, Donato&nbsp;Tramuto--recognized CEO, business leader, innovator, and philanthropist,--makes the case&nbsp;that compassion is a key leadership principle that&nbsp; * powerfully drives trust, success,&nbsp;and&nbsp;innovation; * raises morale,&nbsp;builds stronger teams,&nbsp;and improves overall performance; * creates sustainable commitment to an organization's mission and values. Tramuto&nbsp;interviewed nearly 40 successful leaders who practice compassionate leadership and reveals the best strategies from their playbooks. He then combined these interviews with his own insights, numerous studies, and original, qualitative research of 1,500 participants to&nbsp;unleash&nbsp;the measurable data and benefits of compassion in the workplace. Most&nbsp;leaders have an innate desire to&nbsp;be compassionate,&nbsp;but many don't know how to put it into practice.&nbsp;This book shares&nbsp;inspiring&nbsp;stories and&nbsp;actionable&nbsp;examples of how proven leaders have accomplished this and how you can too. The bottom line on bottom lines: compassionate leadership is about&nbsp;better&nbsp;people&nbsp;and&nbsp;better business.&nbsp;

The Double Bottom Line: How Compassionate Leaders Captivate Hearts and Deliver Results

Donato Tramuto

Tami Booth Corwin

Amazon Best Seller in Green Business, Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development Economics, Business Planning & Forecasting, Business Ethics, and Development & Growth Economics 
An innovation agenda for turning our biggest global societal challenges into opportunities to thrive 
The future will be better than you think. Thriving shows how innovation can regenerate nature, society, and the economy by taking us from degradation to restoration of ecosystems, from depletion to renewal of resources, from disparity to responsibility in communities, from disease to revitalization of health, from disconnection to rewiring through technology, and from disruption to resilience of infrastructure and institutions. 
Thriving strives to: Inform about why change is necessary and how it happens in society, as well as counter prevailing despair and pessimism about the state of the world with hope and optimism Inspire with what change is possible and where it is already happening, showing how we can go from problems of breakdown to breakthrough solutions Impel by creating a desire to turn information and inspiration into action, adding momentum to the growing regeneration movement 
Thriving is not an exercise in blind optimism about technology or other miracle-cure solutions; rather, it is an accessible approach to systems thinking and an offer of pragmatic hope based on purpose-driven creativity and innovation. Whether you’re a progressive leader, a professional in the sustainability field, or someone who simply wants to be better informed about ways to take positive action, this thorough guide is for you.

Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy

Wayne Visser

Economics

Amazon Bestseller in Human-Computer Interaction, Organizational Change, Human Resources & Personnel and more! 
Harness the power of artificial intelligence in hiring 
The typical hiring process is fraught with complexity, inefficiency, and bias and often shuts out the most talented candidates. Decoding Talent: How AI and Big Data Can Solve Your Company’s People Puzzle makes the case for using complex advanced technologies to move past these problems toward effortless optimal candidate decisions. 
AI experts Eric Sydell, Mike Hudy, and Michael Ashley explain why the traditional resume-based process is out of date, why hiring is difficult, the cost of bad people decisions, how bias interferes in hiring practices, and how AI can address these problems. 
Decoding Talent reveals that using AI in hiring doesn’t require your human resource professionals to unlearn and relearn their craft; rather, machine learning can complement their skills by consolidating and analyzing data to recommend actions. Imagine a world in which you didn’t have to wonder: 
Who is the best candidate for the job? What is the return on investment of our hiring process? Is our hiring process fair and equitable? Is our human talent deployed optimally across our organization? What can human resources do to better drive business outcomes for our company? Is our candidate experience adding value to our brand? 
Incorporating scientifically based hiring can make this world a reality, benefiting both your company and the candidates for hire.

Decoding Talent: How AI and Big Data Can Solve Your Company's People Puzzle

Computers & Technology

MICHAEL ASHLEY

Eric Sydell

Mike Hudy

Computer Science

Amazon Best Seller in Branding & Logo Design, Advertising Graphic Design, and Digital Art 
In a unique text most relevant to our times, Brooklyn-based designer and creative director Beat Kaspar Baudenbacher dives into the pros and cons of a social structure driven by branding. 
A complex and visually provocative foray into the way we become our environment―from our products to our politics―Somewhere Yes takes us on a journey designed to make us question the intentionality of our choices, the depth of our kindness, and our very belonging as a species on this planet. 
Branding has the capacity to promote human connection but instead often fosters division and detachment. Yet, it doesn't have to be this way―it has simply evolved into this struggle because we've allowed our individual wants to overcome our collective needs, much like a symbol of beauty might evolve into one of fascism. Baudenbacher provides insightful ways to take apart the identity crisis we have so haphazardly put together, so that we may belong . . . better.

Somewhere Yes: The Search for Belonging in a World Shaped by Branding

Arts & Photography

Beat Kaspar Baudenbacher

Graphic Design

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER 
USA TODAY BESTSELLER 
Transformational leaders will leverage positive change 
In a world of explosive change and transformation, leaders at all levels―from heads of state and global corporations to entrepreneurs and gig economists―will offer the best opportunity for leveraging change and transforming our lives for the better. This includes how we work, play, govern ourselves, and consider and plan for our collective futures. 
In Lift, Faisal Hoque―noted thought leader; serial entrepreneur; technology innovator; advisor to CEOs, BODs, and the US federal government; and author―offers a timely and much needed perspective on individual and organizational leadership. This thought-provoking book invites you to explore the intersection of transformational leadership, systemic thinking, and experiential learning―all required to survive and thrive the tsunami of changes and disruptions caused by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and misinformation trends. 
Hoque proposes that “transformational” leaders―those who focus on people and long-term innovations and solutions―are the key to a prosperous future. In Lift, he shows you how to become a transformational leader in an ever-changing world through a convergence of empathy, execution, and knowledge.

Lift: Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change

Faisal Hoque

Jeff Wuorio

Shelley Moench-Kelly

The RE Generation

Amazon Best Seller in Organizational Change, Business Ethics, and Strategy & Competition\nWhat Matters Most\nA powerful generation already in motion is extending and deepening its roots before our very eyes, a generation not defined by age but rather by heart. A rapidly growing segment of leaders whose work integrates action in the world with what matters most to the heart and spirit are reimagining, rethinking, rebuilding, and renewing the world around us.\nIndividuals, businesses, and corporations must understand, cater to, leverage, and ultimately join this generation if they wish to succeed in the future. For, in the end, there is only one generation that will matter to the planet and that is the Re Generation.\nThis uplifting book gives you permission to not only reimagine a future of greater congruence between your deep values and outer actions, but to hear your own promptings for becoming an uncompromising force for good in the world and advance skills to help usher this new world into creation.

ULDRICH, Jack

Kolles PhD, Camille

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