You may have heard the terms open book management, empowerment, continuous improvement, participatory management, and self-directed work teams. Managers use all of these activities to help energize employees by making them an integral part of the team. Bob Nelson has taken the most useful elements of these concepts, and presented them in a highly accessible and usable way.

"After spending the last 30 years helping organizations and leaders reach peak performance, Quint Studer has pulled together his best practices, tools, tips and tactics for engaging employees, revitalizing cultures, and creating high performance companies. All his tactics and tools are easy to understand and implement. It will be comprehensive and will cover things like change management, leadership, communication styles, employee training and engagement,...

"A thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (called "Diminishers") drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others (called "Multipliers") amplify it to produce better results"--Provided by publisher.

"Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts like a free agent. The solution? Stop thinking of employees as either family or free agents. Think of them...

"Since writing the mega best seller The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon has worked and consulted with leaders who have transformed their companies, organizations and schools, won national championships and are currently changing the world. He has also interviewed some of the greatest leaders of our time and researched many positive leaders throughout history and discovered their paths to success. In this pioneering book Jon Gordon shares what he has learned...

"Finding, keeping, and motivating employees is harder than ever. Amid record-setting turnover and staffing shortages across industries, competition for candidates is fierce. How do you find employees that stay, take on challenging work, and deliver outstanding products and services? How do you keep your best employees from leaving? Answer: Employalty. There is a massive recalibration taking place around how work fits into peoples¿́¿ lives. Winning...

"You can't motivate people, but you can help people learn to motivate themselves. This second edition includes new material on inspiring self-motivation in remote workers and a distributed workforce. What if the answer to motivating people is to stop trying to motivate them? Leadership researcher, consultant, and coach Susan Fowler says that overtly trying to motivate your employees can be frustrating for everyone involved and doesn't work in the...

The world of leadership has changed dramatically since “100 Ways to Motivate Others” was written, and now Chandler and Richardson have revised and refreshed their organizational classic to meet the times. They have crafted a vital, user-friendly, inspirational guide for executives, managers, and professionals...and those aspiring to reach their level. “100 Ways to Motivate Others” is based on years of successful live workshops, seminars,...

Everyone wants to be the kind of leader who can energize and mobilize others with their words, who in a single conversation can change the direction of someone's life. But why is it that so few crack the code of how to do just that? Executive coach Kristi Hedges has spent years studying exactly what inspiring leaders do differently, and in The Inspiration Code dispels the myths that have hindered too many in their unsuccessful campaigns to inspire...

David Novak learned long ago that you can't lead a great organization of any size without getting your people aligned, enthusiastic, and focused relentlessly on the mission. But how do you do that? There are countless leadership books, but how many will actually help a Taco Bell shift manager, a Fortune 500 CEO, a new entrepreneur, or anyone in between? Over his fifteen years at Yum! Brands, Novak has developed a trademarked program he calls Taking...