Management & Leadership Books

A guide for emerging leaders on living, learning, and developing themselves and others on their journey to success.

'The Phenomenal Product Manager' goes beyond the basics and teaches you how to work more effectively with your teams, how to influence when you have no formal authority, how to get the most important work done in less time and how to manage and accelerate your career.

This practical guide enables entrepreneurs to turn a keen analytical eye on their business trajectories. It enlightens and empowers the small business leader or entrepreneur to steer a business to success, all within the challenges of a shifting, uncertain economy.

Executives responsible for revenue cannot afford to overlook Inside Sales. This book reviews the requirements to build a high velocity Inside Sales team.

This book will help you appreciate the ease of creation and the depth of value a book (or series of books) can create for your business. Whether the author writes the book themselves, had their clients/partners provide content, or had it ghostwritten, you will be informed and inspired by the stories and lessons of others' successes with books.

If you have to network to grow your business and find yourself spending money going to events, meeting as many people as possible and returning to the office with a handful of business cards, you can benefit from the strategies presented in '42 Rules for Effective Connections.'

This book takes a practical, straightforward and fun look at what it takes to build community, commitment and a culture of engagement in the business world today.

Unlock the secrets of motivation, community and fun.

This collection of practical ideas about the strategies that raise sales combines Lilia Shirman’s observations from almost 20 years of experience in marketing, business development, strategic alliance management and operations.

Michael Griego, a professional sales consultant and trainer to Fortune 500 firms and leading Silicon Valley technology firms, has reduced the keys to sales effectiveness to 42 rules of successful salesmanship.

42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success (2nd Edition) is a guide to common sense career development, entrepreneurial achievement and life skills. Author Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, has been helping people succeed for over 30 years.

Learn the Rules of Product Management from Leading Experts Around the World

Through over 20 extraordinary executive interviews, Rosemary Coates captured the essence of sourcing and manufacturing in China.

Service can be a source of customer dissatisfaction. Superior field service is an opportunity to convert customers into advocates and generate business revenue. Learn how.

42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role describes practical and effective actions for you to make a strong start at your new VP, Director, or Manager job.

This book is a plain speaking guide on how to work with Agile development teams to achieve phenomenal product success.

Alexisms is a handbook of witty, wise, and even wacky life lessons expressed in one to two phrases.

Discover the secret to becoming a great servant leader with A Model of Servant Leadership: 140 Actionable Ideas to Build Your Heart for Servant Leadership.

BEing Seen and BEing Heard as a Thought Leader is what individuals and businesses need to do to survive the transition from the industrial age to the social age... and not just survive, but succeed with a vengeance.

This book will help the reader improve his/her career by applying a group-based technique, termed the 'Blitz', designed to overcome many of the barriers to upward mobility within an organization.

#B2B STRATEGIC PRICING tweet Book01: Game-Changing Pricing Strategies for Manufacturing and Service Companies aims to provide readers with with the understanding of effective strategic pricing. This book, written by strategic pricing specialist and ProfitSmart Solutions LLC founder Bob Bonacorsi, was designed to deliver practical yet comprehensive insights into the why, how, and who of successful implementation and integration of the strategic pricing process into any business.

Clear-eyed wisdom for project managers on becoming business savvy--about your project, your organization and yourself.

Doing social media right, when you don't have the time and don't want to get in trouble

The thrills and spills described make this book an educational gem for budding tech entrepreneurs.

This is a powerful book for entrepreneurs, business owners, coaches, speakers, insurance agents, realtors, and other professionals looking to learn more about how to reach out, engage, and build lasting relationships.

Sterling Lanier draws on his coaching experience to bring you these bite-sized insights on the power, practices and sheer joy of coaching.

An engaging read that explores the role of culture, particularly Vietnamese culture, in creating happy, cohesive and successful business enterprises.

'Competing for Global Dominance' sets the stage for a new paradigm required for growth of the globalized market in the 21st century and outlines the issues that entrepreneurs and businesses will face as they compete for survival.

This book discusses the importance of collaboration and how interacting and sharing information with others can greatly improve us as people, as well as our businesses.

S. Chris Edmonds shares actionable wisdom on identifying a corporate culture, ensuring cultural standards within an organization and standardizing accountability behaviors to ensure that a positive, thriving organizational culture is embedded and acted upon.

This handy and actionable volume, written in the eminently readable tweet format, covers the gamut of corporate compliance. The reader comes away with a lucid understanding of how corporate governance and effective systems of internal controls work to protect the interests in all parties involved in a public company.

Mitchell Levy on Creating Thought Leaders (2nd Edition) helps the key staff, leaders, and proactive employees inside organizations to internalize and act on becoming thought leaders in consonance with the fast-changing times.

A compilation of cutting-edge advice from the experts on leading cultural transformations and change processes within today's global enterprise.

This book is written for managers to effectively and successfully manage diversity in the workplace.

Learn what you need to do and the attitude you need to adopt to fully take advantage of this liberating career in Don't Knock It Till You Knock It.

Written by experts in their fields, this actionable book will help bring positive shifts in thinking and a realignment in the workplace.

Levy puts thirty years of computer and software industry experience at your fingertips and offers strategies for empowering, encouraging, and directing a top-notch development team.

Go Ahead, Start A Movement is based on the Take Your Message to the World™ framework developed by Joseph Ranseth and used by his clients around the world.

In Gutsy Leaders, Pat Obuchowski shares her collection of insights into the world of successful, courageous, and gutsy leaders in the form of tweetable value-add tips.

REAL ESTATE can be a smart, lucrative investment, because it shelters property appreciation from taxes while allowing owners to deduct interest and depreciation.

Now that life expectancy has increased dramatically over the last 2 decades, Baby Boomers must face the fact that they will be around an extra 30 or so years. This raises significant issues...

What's the difference between offshoring and outsourcing? Actually nothing. What is globalization? A natural evolution of business.

The New “Thought Leadership” is AHAleadership — Curating and Sharing Content to Build Your Audience

In this AHAbook, Hermione shares with us tips and tricks to studying and how one can greatly increase their efficiency in education.

Mike Silverman has delivered what few have done before--a comprehensive yet succinct overview of the field of reliability engineering and testing.

Tools for emerging leaders to make positive impacts in their new roles and become effective and seasoned executives.

This book shows how well-planned, incremental steps can ensure IT personnel embrace challenges like virtualization and cloud computing with minimal cost, effort and turbulence.

Learn more from Jeff as he encourages you to get out of your comfort zone – to meet people not like you.

This book will highlight how to "work smarter" and develop wealth as you navigate through your professional career.

'#LEADERSHIPtweet Book01' is a practical handbook written for anyone who wants to hone the skills they need to become a remarkable leader.

A treasury of sales wisdom, written in the popular tweet format, that sets you on the path to stellar sales.

Leading and Managing a Global Workforce is a roadmap for managing and working with a globally dispersed workforce. Real-life examples make points in an easy-to-read and potent manner for leaders, managers, and those on the fast track for success.

Dr. Shree Nanguneri, Lean Six Sigma expert, shares his experiences in LSS deployments. With wisdom that you can immediately apply to your work environment, this book helps you marry quality with timeliness and standards with speed so that your processes remain competitive at all times.

Leverage your NetSuite system with SignNow to get closer to your customers, improve your company's reputation, increase efficiency and productivity, maximize your investment, and change the world.

Lynnea Hagen on Stuckness shares information on the human condition called “stuck,” and provides tips on how individuals and teams can get out of their own way, gain focus, renew motivation, and move toward achieving goals.

Command the Room, Connect with Your Audience, Close the Deal!

In easy, effective language, 'Managing Salespeople' provides you with the toolkit you need to create, manage and grow your sales team.

This timely and handy volume shows you to successfully navigate the right way to manage your boss to the mutual benefit of both parties and the organization. Bite-sized, actionable wisdom to supercharge your productivity, career, and job satisfaction.

Virtual work expert Carmela Southers presents proven win-win strategies for succeeding as a remote worker or manager.

Melissa Lamson on #WomenAdvance will provide insights, tips, and tools to support women in their career growth and leadership goals.

Michele shares valuable tips on how to effectively build a content marketing strategy that will help with your brand awareness and authenticity.

They are the future of your organization, and if you want to remain competitive, you must do what it takes to recruit and retain them, and learn how to work with them.

Melissa Lamson succinctly presents seven keys, or principles, for effective professional communication in Germany.

This book helps you increase your profitability through understanding the most powerful approach to smart partnerships, and offers practical tips and advice to give you unfair competitive advantage.

Building successful sales plans is not easy even in good times. It gets particularly hard when the economy is troubled. Now the authors of #PLAN to WIN tweet walk you through the planning process, to help you win the sales numbers others can only dream about!

A concise volume of actionable knowledge to make presentations that get results.

Distilling the authors' vast experience in project management, this book brings you tweet-sized insights you can immediately apply towards your own project challenges.

'#QUALITYtweet Book01' is a handy collection of 140 bite sized ideas on practical aspects of Quality Management with a focus on people, processes, and leadership.

Product Takeoff discusses the skills needed to be a successful product owner/manager and helps IT developers and other stakeholders understand how to switch to a product manager's role in their current organization.

An actionable book that teaches today's managers to quickly determine and assess risks, to improve decision making and the corporate experience.

140 AHAs to Grow Your Sales

This book is both personal and practical, and will help anyone interested in running for office or working on a campaign.

This book should be read by anyone who cares about the security and privacy of their online information, and wants to know how to take steps to protect it.

This book will provide you with the 12 (we downsized) common sense and repeatable steps that will guide you through running a business that everyone will be proud to be associated with.

Today's managers don't have the luxury of reading management books cover to cover, no matter how relevant or full of wisdom they are. This scrappy little book helps make your big management decision just a tweety bit easier.

This refreshingly honest book provides welcome reassurance for every businesswoman who's ever wondered, "Is it me, or has the whole rest of the company gone nuts?!"

An engaging book that will help you define and develop outstanding workplace communication so that you can achieve the results that matter to you!

Written by a professional social media enabler, this easy, digestible guide enables your nonprofit to immediately start benefiting from social media.

This book is a launch pad for successful social media engagement. It shows how to identify the right networks, find the influencers, the people you want to talk to and which tools will work the best for you.

Social proof, if done correctly, can propel you to the top so you can stand out from the crowd.

Bartleson illuminates the standards game for readers by providing an understanding of what standards are and why they are important, as well as presenting ideas for creating better standards and respecting the standardization process.

This book lays out the framework to help you generate better results from your coaching practice using the Stakeholder Center Coaching approach.

The Bio is the story about your "Brand" and is just one of many "touch points" you have with your stakeholders.

Bestselling authors Terry Lydon and Mitchell Levy show you the path to profitable training by optimizing your vendor and partner education organization. Presented in the accessible tweet format, this innovative book lets readers immediately start to achieve great results.

Reputed training professionals share five critical skills that every trainer or instructional designer must have in today's rapidly-evolving corporate environments.

Clear, excellent and inspiring tips from instructional design experts, engineered to design learning experiences that demonstrate immediate results.

A worthy read for any executive faced with the prospect of downsizing, this little volume will help your organization manage a difficult downsizing process, while preserving your company’s reputation and treating displaced employees with dignity and respect.

An actionable book that brings you vital KM lessons that are directly relevant and immediately applicable to your own corporate experience.

Expert advice for systems and reliability engineers to tackle fundamental and esoteric problems that plague manufacturing processes today.

Written by a ScrumMaster, this timely new book will strike a chord with anybody hoping to develop software with speed and agility.

Written by an ex-cop, this eminently readable book shows you why teamwork matters and what it takes to make teams fly.

Measuring our behaviors helps us understand what we need to alter or cut out completely in order to become better performers in our professional fields.

A methodical and functional reference to help remember key marketing fundamentals while deploying digital media towards a successful marketing campaign.

'The Ten Commandments for Effective Standards' provides you with a list of procedural imperatives about what works and what doesn’t work when developing effective technical standards.

Written by a master marketer and bestselling author, this new book is perfectly timed for an economy where so many people are recreating themselves and building new skillsets. With inspiring examples and attention to detail, this readable and engaging book defines the value of a person brand and shows readers how to define, create, and nurture enduring personal brands.

You can't say a lot in 140 characters. Or, that's what we thought until Twitter came along. Brevity is the name of the game. It is timely in a way as everyone in the world is moving at a breathtaking speed...

A succinct and actionable book that exhorts you to become a thought leader by thinking, valuing, and acting differently in pursuit of strategic outcomes.

The 4 Mindset Shifts for Senior Leaders

To be effective in networking, you need to present yourself as someone who’s authentic and can bring in value to the table. You also need to make use of the tools available to leverage the in-person meeting and networking that you’ve done.

When you have a challenging goal that makes your employees say, “You're crazy! How the hell are we going to do that?!” and that you believe is achievable and realistic, you need to help your employees have the insight that, with the help of everyone, you can do it.