Author: K G Johnston
Publisher: K.G. Johnston
ISBN: 9781775176831
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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This book takes you on one man's journey to follow a dream, and the unexpected and paradoxical lessons he gleaned about leadership along the way. Are you a leader who feels that lately, something just isn't right? -Are your people distrustful and disengaged? -Does much of what you implement fail because of lack of employee buy-in? -Do you resort to using your position to force employee adoption of change?" -Do you and or your people lack energy, self-expression and vibrant health? -Has leading lost its fun? -Do ideas and information fail to flow up to you? -Are there a lot of internal politics and lack of collaboration? -Are people not performing up to their potential? -Do you sleep poorly at night? Is stress having repercussions on your health? -Do you hear yourself uttering "it's not personal, it's just business" (but not buying into it) to justify your actions? So, "What's in it for me?" (and your people) you ask. -A simple, relaxed and effortless way to achieve results -Greater trust and harmony -More efficiency -Greater effectiveness -Better communication -Improved engagement -Greater productivity -More creativity and innovation -Better acceptance and resilience to change -Less stress -Peace of mind -More self-awareness -Positive energy and good vibes -More enjoyment at work WHAT is going on?! -Employee engagement has remained flat despite billions spent. -Up to 80 plus percent of change initiatives fail. -Many of our products and services damage our environment. -Productivity gains are hard to achieve. -Mental disability claims are skyrocketing. Are people lazy, crazy, or incompetent? Or... is something larger happening? K.G. draws from his training in human resources and his time as a consultant and coach in the people-side of change. He noticed that the rush of business DOING was not synonymous with effectiveness, and many leaders unconsciously cultivated an unhealthy culture of distrust and disengagement. Exceptional leaders focused on how they were BEING with their people. He realized that leaders define what we see as possible, and that for meaningful change to occur, we must help those in charge transform. K.G. suggests that conventional business wisdom is NOT wise because it is based on a faulty paradigm. He looks to science, ancient wisdom and the natural world for answers. This simple three-part transformational ecosystem "model" shows the leader (within all of us) how to do important internal work to cultivate their own energy, character and vision and then how to energize their culture and empower their people. His work is informed by his practical knowledge of eastern philosophy gained through teaching tai chi chuan and practicing yoga.

Author: Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW
Publisher: Sounds True
ISBN: 9781683642329
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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"Effortless mindfulness" is a new way to immediately enter an optimal flow state available to us in the midst of our busy lives. In The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, Loch Kelly teaches that when you "unhook" awareness from chattering thoughts, you can access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness. From this heartful space, students report they find that right action comes easily and a loving tenderness for all of life is freely available. This follow-up to Kelly’s award-winning Shift into Freedom outlines practical and supportive material from neuroscience, psychology, and the wisdom of various spiritual traditions. Here you will find a reader-friendly guide to understanding exactly what effortless mindfulness is, practices for engaging with it, and how to avoid the pitfalls to the full embodiment of this timeless awareness. The Way of Effortless Mindfulness offers a compelling introduction to the next stage in the ongoing mindfulness revolution.

Author: Marc Hanlan
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781098305000
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Creating Effortless Change looks at leading change by offering a fundamental shift in the perspective of leadership. By redefining leadership and offering a new perspective for leaders, the author shows how extraordinary Change Leaders make the impossible become routine, the uncontrollable become manageable, and resistance become alignment. What leadership does is important. How leadership is, is even more important. This book explores how leadership is. You probably don't need this book if you: -Get all of the cooperation you need to get things done -Simply tell people to do something, and they do it -Have no difficult situations with people -Have no conflict in the workplace or your personal life -Can leave people alone and they get all their work done -Believe there is nothing else to learn about leadership -Don't want to read but will wait for the audiobook -Don't like to read and don't want to You probably can use this book if you: -Find that things don't work out as you would like them to -Believe that leading has challenges -Don't understand why people don't agree with the 'right' way to do things -Wonder how others get so much done with so little time -Know that there must be better ways to lead change -Wonder why change is so hard -Are curious about the future of leadership and change From the Foreword by Claude Cloutier, Ph.D., CEO of XtremeEDA: "This is a leading-edge book on change...the author is a change visionary whose Culture chapter on its own is priceless...offering a vision of where change and change leadership are going, with the theory, tools, techniques...experience, and wisdom ready to be adapted to your specific context and change initiative...this book shows how change should be effortless and fun."

Author: Greg McKeown
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0593135644
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. “In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human “At a time when fear, uncertainty, and our ever-growing list of responsibilities have come to feel like much too much to handle, Effortless couldn’t be timelier, or more necessary.”—Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play Do you ever feel like: • You’re teetering right on the edge of burnout? • You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? • You’re running faster but not moving closer to your goals? • Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Effortless teaches you how to: • Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals • Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise • Set a sustainable pace instead of powering through • Make one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions • Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps • Make relationships easier to maintain and manage • And much more The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may even be the only way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most.

Author: CA Pawan KR Agarwal
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Make an ever-increasing influence, establish your dominance, and shine like a leader with minimal effort. Prepare your subconscious mind for leadership achievement and you will achieve your full potential. Despite their apparent simplicity, the 12 mantras pack a significant punch. This book is ideal if you want to improve your leadership abilities and develop your inner source of inspiration.

Author: Bruce D Schneider
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118039378
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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In Energy Leadership, renowned coach Bruce D. Schneider teaches how to understand the most important personal resource of all -- energy, and shows how to harness it to achieve success in the workplace, the home, and in the world at large. This engaging and fast-paced story clearly explains how managers and leaders from all walks of life can use the principles of Energy Leadership to inspire themselves and others to achieve extraordinary results in whatever they do. The author provides insight into a cutting edge coaching process he has developed, which has positively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of people in both the corporate and private sectors. You will learn how to: Recognize the seven distinct levels that are the key to understanding why everyone thinks and acts the way they do, in life and specifically within the workplace. Distinguish truly effective leaders from those who deplete the energy of the people around them, and specific techniques to shift energy levels to inspire peak performance. Become powerful leaders who motivate themselves and others to reach their true potential. Identify the Big Four Energy Blocks and discover proven techniques and strategies for overcoming these and other obstacles to success. Develop the ability to shift internal energy to meet any leadership challenge, and use this newfound power to inspire respect, confidence, and loyalty in others. If you always try to inspire others but sometimes feel like something?s missing, something is. Energy Leadership puts you in touch with the missing link between your ambitions and your ability to achieve them.

Author: Matthew Dixon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591845815
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Everyone knows that the best way to create customer loyalty is with service so good, so over the top, that it surprises and delights. But what if everyone is wrong? In their acclaimed bestseller The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and his colleagues at CEB busted many longstanding myths about sales. Now they’ve turned their research and analysis to a new vital business subject—customer loyalty—with a new book that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. The idea that companies must delight customers by exceeding service expectations is so entrenched that managers rarely even question it. They devote untold time, energy, and resources to trying to dazzle people and inspire their undying loyalty. Yet CEB’s careful research over five years and tens of thousands of respondents proves that the “dazzle factor” is wildly overrated—it simply doesn’t predict repeat sales, share of wallet, or positive wordof-mouth. The reality: Loyalty is driven by how well a company delivers on its basic promises and solves day-to-day problems, not on how spectacular its service experience might be. Most customers don’t want to be “wowed”; they want an effortless experience. And they are far more likely to punish you for bad service than to reward you for good service. If you put on your customer hat rather than your manager or marketer hat, this makes a lot of sense. What do you really want from your cable company, a free month of HBO when it screws up or a fast, painless restoration of your connection? What about your bank—do you want free cookies and a cheerful smile, even a personal relationship with your teller? Or just a quick in-and-out transaction and an easy way to get a refund when it accidentally overcharges on fees? The Effortless Experience takes readers on a fascinating journey deep inside the customer experience to reveal what really makes customers loyal—and disloyal. The authors lay out the four key pillars of a low-effort customer experience, along the way delivering robust data, shocking insights and profiles of companies that are already using the principles revealed by CEB’s research, with great results. And they include many tools and templates you can start applying right away to improve service, reduce costs, decrease customer churn, and ultimately generate the elusive loyalty that the “dazzle factor” fails to deliver. The rewards are there for the taking, and the pathway to achieving them is now clearly marked.

Author: Kris Mailepors
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612061665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Thrive in the Chaos of Modern Leadership Better leaders create better results. How do you become a better leader-an easy-to-follow leader? It's simpler than you think. Learn how to cut through the noise and the myths surrounding current leadership development trends to focus on what's always been at the heart of leadership: who you are and what you stand for-your values, your character. People follow values, not skills or expertise. And once you've learned what your values are and openly wear them in your environment, leading becomes effortless. You connect with your people and find common ground by simply telling them what's important to you. And more-your values create the culture where you want to live and work. Values are the rules of the culture. Communicating your values makes you easy to follow.

Author: Kenny Werner
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781562240035
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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My story -- Why do we play? -- Beyond limited goals -- Fear, the mind and the ego -- Fear-based practicing -- Teaching dysfunctions: fear-based teaching -- Hearing dysfunctions: fear-based listening -- Fear-based composing -- "The space"--"There are no wrong notes" -- Meditation #1 -- Effortless mastery -- Meditation #2 -- Affirmations -- The steps to change -- Step one -- Step two -- Step three -- Step four -- An afterthought -- I am great, I am a master -- Stretching the form -- The spiritual (reprise) -- One final meditation.

Author: Jacob Morgan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119518377
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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WINNER OF CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Are you a future-ready leader? Based on exclusive interviews with over 140 of the world's top CEOs and a survey of nearly 14,000 people. Do you have the right mindsets and skills to be able to lead effectively in the next ten years and beyond? Most individuals and organizations don’t even know what leadership will look like in the future. Until now. There has been a lot written about leadership for the present day, but the world is changing quickly. What worked in the past won’t work in the future. We need to know how to prepare leaders who can successfully navigate and guide us through the next decade and beyond. How is leadership changing, and why? How ready are leaders today for these changes? What should leaders do now? To answer these questions, Jacob interviewed over 140 CEOs from companies like Unilever, Mastercard, Best Buy, Oracle, Verizon, Kaiser, KPMG, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Yum! Brands, Saint-Gobain, Dominos, Philip Morris International, and over a hundred others. Jacob also partnered with Linkedin to survey almost 14,000 of their members around the globe to see how CEO insights align with employee perspectives The majority of the world's top business leaders that Jacob interviewed believe that while some core aspects of leadership will remain the same, such as creating a vision and executing on strategy, leaders of the future will need a new arsenal of skills and mindsets to succeed. What emerged from all of this research is the most accurate groundbreaking book on the future of leadership, which shares exclusive insights from the world's top CEOs and never before seen research. After reading it, you will: Learn the greatest trends impacting the future of leadership and their implications Understand the top skills and mindsets that leaders of the future will need to possess and how to learn them Change your perception of who a leader is and what leadership means Tackle the greatest challenges that leaders of the future will face See the gap that exists between what CEOs identified versus what employees are actually experiencing Become a future-ready leader This is the book that you, your team, and your organization must read in order to lead in the future of work.