Jim Collins

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Kerry Patterson

Joseph Grenny

David Maxfield

Ron McMillan

Al Switzler

An INFLUENCER motivates others to change. An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills. An INFLUENCER makes things happen. This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER. Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We develop complicated coping strategies when we should be learning the tools and techniques of the world's most influential people. But this is about to change. From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes Influencer, a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. You'll be taught each and every step of the influence process-including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world. You'll learn how to: Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change. Apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions. Marshall six sources of influence to make change inevitable. Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand where you'll see how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. You'll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable. You'll discover why some managers have increased productivity repeatedly and significantly-while others have failed miserably. No matter who you are, or what you do, you'll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles and skills. Once you tap into the power of influence, you can reach out and help others work smarter, grow faster, live, look, and feel better, even save lives. The sky is the limit…for an Influencer. Are you an Influencer ? Find out at www.influencerbook.com ”You don't have to be a manager to realize that no one likes being told what to do. Yet lectures are still the main way we try to get people to change their behavior. Fortunately, social learning academics have been studying alternatives for decades. Patterson and his fellow consultants have now collected their findings in this engaging, example-rich book. The key message is hardly new, but it has gotten more sophisticated: Managers need to get out of the way and facilitate, not manage, the process of change for employees. They can do this by offering vicarious experiences, restructured environments, peer pressure, and frequent tests-all geared so that people embrace the change as authentic to them, not imposed by an outsider. Missing are only success stories of organizations that persuaded managers to drop their controlling habits and choose to be mere facilitators.”-John T. Landry, Harvard Business Review

Influencer: the Power to Change Anything, First Edition (Hardcover)

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David Cottrell

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

12 Powerful Ways to Go from Everyday to Extraordinary

Learn to make the right decisions to achieve greater success

Each of us has a different idea of success. Whether you strive for money, power, happiness, or love, your personal choices, the actions you take, and the relationships you choose to invest time and energy in, will determine whether you reach your goals. Internationally recognized leadership coach David Cottrell will show you how to make the right choices, even when they're hard.

There are character choices that define the person you will be on the road to success. Cottrell shows you how to make The No-Victim Choice to overcome roadblocks, and The Integrity Choice, to listen to your gut and do the right thing, even when it's not the easiest thing to do.

There are action choices you make to continue on your path to success. The Persistence Choice encourages you to bounce back from failure and learn lessons that will lead to your future success. The Do-Something Choice lets you to stop dreaming and start doing the things that will make you happy and successful.

Finally, you make investment choices about the people you spend time with and develop relationships with. The Relationship Choice teaches you to invest your time in other successful people in order to contribute to your own future success.

Learn to make all these choices and many more in Monday Morning Choices, and find yourself on the fast track to success!

Monday Morning Choices

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John Maxwell

365-Day Devotional Journal

One of the world's greatest leadership experts, John Maxwell, brings winning concepts and daily devotions into a journaling format designed specifically for today's leaders. Each devotion offers clear and straightforward leadership examples that will bolster confidence and encourage leading from the heart. Journaling lines allow space for writing personal reflection.

A Leader's Heart includes relevant topics such as:

 * Success
 * Stewardship
 * Teamwork
 * Mentoring

Leaders need encouragement, too, and who better to send it than the leader of leaders. A Leader's Heart is perfect for those seeking a greater understanding of leadership qualities, real-life examples of how to apply John Maxwell's teachings, and how to excel in leadership today.

Leader's Heart

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Michael Todd

Thirty Days from Good to Great

ECPA BESTSELLER . Based on the#1 New York TimesbestsellerRelationship Goalsand the author's wildly popular sermon series, this 30-day challenge helps you take your relationship from good to great!

Feeling tired of romantic relationships with no purpose-or looking to put more spark in your long-term love? Pastor Michael Todd draws on the themes ofRelationship Goalsto give you a month of biblically rich "let's go deeper" challenges designed just for couples.

We're not talking simple date ideas or tips on what flowers to buy. We're talking daily Scripture, intentional questions, and victorious outcomes as you get real about seeking God's goals for you individually and together.

As Michael looks at three key values of romantic relationships-purpose, healing, and oneness-he helps you find answers to questions like these-

. How can we communicate with greater intentionality?
. How does our relationship affect who we're becoming as individuals?
. How are we going to fight well, with our greater purpose in mind?
. How do we find healing for deep-seated issues?
. How do our spiritual lives affect our life as a couple?

Take the next thirty days to create new habits that will set you down solidly on the road to meeting your relationship goals. At the end of this month-long challenge, you can look back on the goals you've already met and set new ones to look forward to. So get ready to win in relationship . . . together. Do you accept the challenge?

Relationship Goals Challenge

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Mattie Jo Cowsert

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Recovering Evangelical Testimony

What happens when an Evangelical pastor's daughter from Branson, Missouri moves to New York City? A collapse of identity that begins a journey to figure out faith, f*cking, and the 1%. With humor and raw honesty, God, Sex, and Rich People follows Mattie Jo as she takes off her purity ring, navigates public transportation, and tries to have good sex without hating herself. From dating her doorman, to sex with a pop star, to living with millionaires, watch Mattie Jo hilariously fumble and find her footing, as she redefines her sexuality and spirituality in the city that never sleeps (and never stops sleeping around).

God, Sex, and Rich People

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Jean Fischer

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As a grandmother, you long to show your grandchildren how much you pray for them—for their day-to-day activities, for their future, and for their spiritual lives. With the same writer and artist pair from the bestselling I Prayed for You, this sweet board book reminds even the youngest readers that you hold them in your prayers and heart. In this cherished story, a darling grandma bear shares special moments with her grandbabies, wrapping them in love and covering them in prayer throughout ordinary days and treasured milestones. As you read this with the little ones in your life, you'll show them that you're praying for them and always will. Whether you live near your grandchildren or have a spiritual connection with them across the miles, Grandma Prays for You is a wonderful way to pass on both your faith and your love as you remind your grandchildren that no matter what, God is with them, they are loved, and grandmas never run out of prayers.

Grandma Prays for You

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