The Leadership Secrets of Hamilton
7 Steps to Revolutionary Leadership from Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers
Part of the Ignite Reads series
VICTORIOUS in the War of American Independence, Alexander Hamilton and the founding fathers built the first successful democratic government. They'll forever go down in history as having changed the rules of leadership and redefined what it means to ignite change in people.
As a modern day leader, you may not be establishing a new system of government — but the principles of radical leadership still apply, whether you're undertaking a new initiative, rejuvenating a business, or sparking motivation in your team.
Using history's greatest rebels as your guide: START YOUR REVOLUTION!
The Engagement Game
Why Your Workplace Culture Should Look More Like a Video Game
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Make work FUN with lessons in engagement that game play can teach us ALL. In videogames, like in any modern workplace, cooperation, continuous learning, hard work, engagement, and a balanced slate of skills are all keys to victory. A lot of thought and science goes into engineering the gamer's experience to provide feedback exactly when it is needed so they can get better and understand how the game works. What if your workplace was designed the same way?
Combine the psychology of game design and industrial organizational psychology and you have the perfect formula to become a better leader, manager, coach, and coworker. Ready? Game on.
Finish Strong
Amazing Stories of Courage and Inspiration
Part of the Ignite Reads series
"Finish Strong" is more than a catchphrase-it's an attitude
For years, athletes, business innovators, and ambitious people of all descriptions have described their primary strategy with just two words. Two words that unlock the passion and accountability in every endeavor: Finish Strong. Sales leader, inventor, and entrepreneur Dan Green demonstrates that "Finish Strong" is the key catalyst for personal achievement in this collection of courageous stories.
Through dozens of timeless examples of people who have embraced finishing strong personally, professionally, and spiritually, you will learn how to commit to yourself and unlock a higher level of accomplishment. Whether you're surfing in shark infested waters, starting a new business in your fifties, or trying to perform your job at the highest level, you can draw on the inspiration in this book and blow your goals away!
Leading Through Challenges
13 Weeks of Friday Forward During Global Crisis
Part of the Ignite Reads series
From national bestselling author, Robert Glazer, Leading through Challenges: 13 Weeks of Friday Forward During Pandemics and Protest provides readers with 13-methods from his viral platform (of the same name) that will inspire, motivate, and create lasting change-week over week.
These 13 specific passages were selected in promotion of the current events readers are experiencing leading up to the print release of Friday Forward. Hand selected from his February thru June 2020 Friday Forward notes to readers, this collection is sure to inspire you week over week through the unique challenges of our time.
The Get To Principle
How to Get Happy, Get Going, and Get To It in Life
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Unlock the secret to TRUE happiness
It's time for your mindset to get a makeover! Find out how to transform your day to day with a simple approach to stress, goal setting, and happiness. By simply shifting from a "have to" mindset to a "get to!", THE GET TO PRINCIPLE will guide you through a life changing understanding of the nature of life: that the way you think about your actions is the way life is experienced.
A simple technique that reaffirms the latest science around having a growth mindset and accomplishing goals long thought impossible - THE GET TO PRINCIPLE will shift your life to joy by:
• Refocusing your state of mind
• Helping you find more joy in your everyday
• Breaking your cycle of negativity
The Secrets to Happiness at Work
How to Choose and Create Purpose and Fulfillment in Your Work
Part of the Ignite Reads series
'I. Am. Pregnant.'
Three little words are all it takes to threaten Prince Raphael DeSantis's secret life of pleasurable hedonism, ruin the state of a nation, and find him bound to a waitress.
To prevent yet another international incident following on the heels of his of his convenient, and very broken, engagement to a suitable princess, Raphael must now make his mistress his bride!
But, heart-sore Bailey Harper won't come willingly. This arrogant Prince will have to use every provocative trick at his disposal to seduce her into submission, and return to his country with Bailey as his wife!
Smarter Next Year
The Revolutionary Science for a Smarter, Happier You
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Contrary to accepted belief, YOU CAN INCREASE YOUR INTELLIGENCE AT ANY AGE!
Smarter Next Year presents the latest scientific evidence for improving your mind and staying healthy at all stages of life. This inspirational book provides simple but eye-opening steps to lead you to a healthier and happier life.
This quick 1-hour read written by Dr. David Bardsley will change the way you think about your brain. The insightful brain hacks provided in this book give you a foundation of change for improving your health and mind.
The bottom line? GENES DON'T CONTROL YOUR INTELLIGENCE. YOU DO.
Your brain - and every brain - is constantly evolving and changing. In fact, there are multiple scientifically proven paths to increasing your memory and IQ - at any age - through simple life changes.
Do you ever struggle to recall something you had just been thinking about moments ago? Or have an idea that was fresh in your mind become clouded before you can take action? Eliminate such issues for good using Dr. David Bardsley's simple 8-step program! No matter your age or cognitive abilities, by applying these scientifically proven tips, you can take steps to become smarter, sharper, and healthier - NOW!
The Unconventionals
How Rebel Companies Are Changing Markets, Hearts, and Minds-and How You Can Too
Part of the Ignite Reads series
What do electric shavers, craft beer, and DNA tests all have in common?
They were all revolutionized by the Unconventionals.
We've had our expectations turned upside down by leading brands like Converse, General Electric, and Waze simply because they saw things differently. How did they do that? By simply questioning the prevailing wisdom which then created outsized results and lasting change.
Based on the award-winning podcast, The Unconventionals chronicles the amazing stories behind these solid business successes and shows you how reinventing your company (or starting a new one) can be easier than you think! Through in-depth interviews with the business visionaries who turned the unexpected into the expected you will learn how to become unconventional, too!
The Energy Clock
3 Simple Steps to Create a Life Full of ENERGY - and Live Your Best Every Day
Part of the Ignite Reads series
A creative solution to productivity that will empower every reader to break free of burnout!
Do you feel like you're always running low on energy? Cut the stressors and begin to live your life renewed. Molly Fletcher's The Energy Clock shows you how to adjust your mindset and accomplish more meaningful work with fewer distractions. It is a game changing way to give more of yourself to what's most important, and waste less of your time and resources on what's not.
The Energy Clock will show you how to:
• Create true, lasting balance in your life
• Stand tall in the face of pressure
• Achieve focus, flow, and freedom
• Have unlimited energy for the things that matter most
Create Your Yes!
When You Keep Hearing NO: A 12-Step Strategy for Success
by Angela Marie Hutchinson
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Are you tired of hearing "No"? Then create your "Yes!"
When you are faced with rejection, do you cringe or thrive? While it may seem that we are out of options when we try something and fail, there is almost a way to make your dreams a reality - in the face of ANY adversary!
Angela Marie Hutchinson has a fairly simple motto: dreams don't happen, dreams are made. Rather than admit defeat, Angela herself made her dreams of making a movie a reality by pushing forward despite each "no", "pass", and negative thought that came her way! Using her 12-step approach, those dreams you keep hearing "no" on - those plans that never seem to come to fruition - can finally be realized.
Make Virtual Learning Matter
How to Turn Virtual Classrooms into a Remarkable, Authentic Experience for Kids
Part of the Ignite Reads series
While few things can replace in-person learning, virtual learning can create an extraordinary opportunity for students. In fact, often more immediate, flexible, and for many students growing up and learning in this virtual age, more authentic: virtual learning, when yielded properly, can create amazing results.
So, how can you make Virtual Learning a force for good in your child's life?
From education expert Jacob Mnookin and virtual meeting expert Paul Axtell, comes a tool to ensure virtual learning at its finest. Together with our children and their teachers, we can help ensure that our kids are back on track, learning as they would be in a school building.
Elevate Your Team
Empower Your Team To Reach Their Full Potential and Build A Business That Builds Leaders
Part of the Ignite Reads series
An impactful and essential follow up to the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller “Elevate”.
Every leader knows this delicate balancing act: to simultaneously generate better performance from your team, retain top talent, and build your organization's leaders of tomorrow, without inducing burnout. In the sequel to his bestseller Elevate, Robert Glazer applies his groundbreaking capacity-building framework to teams and organizations alike. The result is the playbook for a results-oriented, learning-driven culture that elevates its people to meet the company's ever-changing growth needs.
Glazer, a serial entrepreneur, award-winning CEO, and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, shares a framework of proven, actionable strategies that will help you up your game as a leader, help your team reach their full potential, and most importantly build the new generation of leaders from within your organization.
Make Meetings Matter
How to Turn Meetings from Status Updates to Remarkable Conversations
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Meetings should matter.
No one wants to be called in for a meeting that could've been an email. No one wants to sit in a meeting where everyone's distracted or talking over each other. If you're going to attend or lead a meeting, don't you want it to...well, matter?
Meetings are a chance to initiate a conversation with your teammates. You can communicate information with them that wouldn't have the same hold digitally. You can foster new relationships with your coworkers, and learn from their new ideas and perspectives.
So why do so many people dread meetings? Because they're doing them all wrong.
Change the way people think about meetings. Transform their opinions by holding a meeting that is efficient and productive, that is open and communicative, that is useful and important.
Revolutionize the definition of a meeting. Learn to make them matter.
Paul Axtell affirms the importance of meetings, and he redesigns them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time for building the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. Based on his award winning efficiency training, this book will revolutionize the meeting-moving it from that dreaded obligation to a powerful way to get things done in business and in life.
Every Monday Matters for Families
52-Weeks to Make a Positive Difference in You, Your Family, and Your Community
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Expanding on the bestselling idea of making Monday a day of positivity and growth, EVERY MONDAY MATTERS FOR FAMILIES delivers weekly inspiration intended for families to use each Monday in an effort to create positive experiences for themselves and their community.
The original idea was simple... what if we could get millions of people to engage in simple acts that were good for the world? Picking up litter, helping the homeless, smiling, planting a tree. And in doing so, we would make the world a better place and also help people understand how much and why they matter.
Every Monday Matters FOR FAMILIES kicks off each week with a specific theme to help families start their week in a positive mindset. With actions that families can take together or independently, you and your family can start bettering yourselves and your community with a few simple steps.
What Extraordinary People Know
How to Cut the Busy B.S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life
Part of the Ignite Reads series
What's the secret to "extraordinary?"
Being stuck in mediocrity sucks. It's easy to identify the symptoms of this disease in your life: are you chronically bored? Do you wake up knowing today is going to suck? Are you constantly fighting off feelings of emptiness, exhaustion, and knowing you're wasting your life?
Well, eff that! Every moment of every day, you can choose to be extraordinary. You can choose to become someone you're incredibly proud to be, who accomplishes amazing goals and achieves greatness. What Extraordinary People Know guides you through how to be free of the mediocrity trap: starting with the inspiration, tools, and kick in the ass you need to get your life going in high gear-from behavioral change and personal growth expert Anthony Moore. As someone who took his own life from ordinary to extraordinary, Moore has created a three-step path to breaking free of Mediocrity and becoming the hero of your own life.
Are you ready to win?
Compassionate Leadership
16 Simple Ways to Engage and Inspire Your Team at Work
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Learn how to be a good boss and become the leader everyone wants to work for.
People want to work for someone they respect, someone who is on their side. And when employees feel seen, heard, and valued by their supervisors, employee engagement improves, productivity increases, and the entire organization benefits.
In his new management book on authentic leadership, award-winning author and personal effectiveness trainer and consultant Paul Axtell reveals sixteen simple steps you can start taking right now to develop your emotional intelligence and leadership skills and become a manager who leads with compassion.
This leadership development book is a quick one-hour read and is for any business leader or manager looking to improve their organizational leadership in order to lead high-performing teams that-above all else-feel trusted, respected, and motivated in their work.
How Rich People Think
Part of the Ignite Reads series
In this 1-hour read of How Rich People Think, author Steve Siebold compares the financial habits and philosophies of the middle class and the world class and outlines the beliefs and strategies that will give you the best shot at becoming a millionaire. The secret is not in the mechanics of money but in the level of thinking that generates it.
This short book of inspiration is a small gift book format meant to INSPIRE! With beautiful color internals created to feel like a Ted-Talk in your hands, unlock a money-mindset that is guaranteed to accumulate wealth.
Based on decades of interviews with some of the richest people in the world, this candid book will challenge every belief you've ever had about money, and if you're not careful, it may just make you rich.
212 The Extra Degree
Extraordinary Results Begin with One Small Change
Part of the Ignite Reads series
A captivating 1-hour read on how to adopt a mindset of success both personally and professionally. A classic bestseller-over one million copies sold!
For fans of Brené Brown, Angela Duckworth, and Jack Canfield, 212º The Extra Degree, written by expert authors, Mac Anderson and Sam Parker, shows you how to change your life with a simple concept for success: At 211º, water is hot. At 212º, it boils. And with boiling water comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive. That one extra degree makes all the difference and will separate the good from the great.
The 212º concept is vividly illustrated for every aspect of your life through powerful stories that will inspire and motivate yourself or your team to the next level of success. Learn how extraordinary results can begin with one small change and lead to maximum achievement.
The perfect gift for teachers, corporate events, or even training, this classic title has been beautifully redesigned in a hardcover gift book format that is meant to be shared!
The Neuroscience of Selling
Proven Sales Secrets to Win Over the Buyer's Heart and Mind
Part of the Ignite Reads series
A revolutionary way to increase your sales!
Sales is not just about logic and emotion. Extraordinary salespeople are top earners because they understand the deeper levels of the brain and how buyers think.
Global sales expert John Asher explores these hidden biases and brain stimuli, and provides tips and techniques to: Increase your likeability Steer a profitable conversation Stand out from the competition Win customers for life!
Discover real sales success and bring new value to your company!
Win or Learn
The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection into Your Ultimate Success
Part of the Ignite Reads series
What would life be like if every risk you took ended in success?
In Win or Learn, rejection expert and New York Times bestselling author Harlan Cohen lays the framework for identifying your wants, taking the risks necessary to pursue them, and finding success no matter the outcome.
This step-by-step risk-taking experiment will guide you on a journey to understand your worth and fight for your goals without the fear of rejection-because rejection is a universal truth but not a final destination.
Cohen's revolutionary perspective on risk-taking and rejection will help you realize your dreams, understand your limits, and find victory in every risk.
The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell
Part of the Ignite Reads series
As a manager, CEO, or team leader, how can you innovatively engage your employees so that they understand where your organization came from, where it's going, and how you're going to get there? How can you connect with your customers in a way that makes them believe in your company as passionately as you do?
Paul Smith is one of the world's leading experts in business storytelling. He teaches people how to be more effective leaders by communicating their company's important mission, inspiring creativity, and earning the trust of valued stakeholders.
The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell explores the journey behind success, and breaks down not just the importance of your company's story but how to craft compelling ones of your own.
Revolutionize Teamwork
How to Create and Lead Accountable Teams
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Is your team creating revolutionary results?
Taking a page from Facebook, Eric Coryell has developed a teamwork model that creates trust, success, and true accountability. How? By redefining your team's model to be customer facing as opposed to reporting up!
Revolutionize Teamwork is a quick read packed with valuable information that shows you how to create and lead accountable teams built on shared trust. Using the principles Eric outlines in this book leads to teams that are better able to make decisions and are motivated by group success.
10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Based on author Carmine Gallo's career as a Fortune 500 communications coach and Emmy Award-winning television journalist, 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Communicators has been updated and revised to show business people how to achieve their personal and professional goals by mastering the ten simple secrets used by the world's greatest business communicators. The book offers techniques and proven tips that explain how these successful communicators connect with audiences who demand passion, inspiration, preparation, clarity, brevity, command presence, and simplicity, all delivered in a visually compelling package.
Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus
How to Get Big Things Done in YOUR "Workshop"...All Year Long
Part of the Ignite Reads series
One of the most powerful and entertaining business books available today, The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus is a clever and compelling resource for leaders at all levels. Need a role model for effective leadership? Try Santa Claus! Imagine the endless challenges that running his operation poses. There's juggling employees, equipment, facilities, resources, production, letter reading, scheduling, the BIG delivery, keeping everyone jolly- and the list goes on. It's mind boggling! How does he do it all? What are his secrets to success? You'll find the answers within the pages of his powerful and entertaining book, The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus. You'll enjoy every minute of reading as you learn how to: Get your team fully motivated and inspired Produce significant and sustained results Help everyone deal with the realities of change Build a high performance "Workshop" Become a more effective and respected leader.
Elevate
Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others
Part of the Ignite Reads series
What are your limits? Care to break them?
To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down.
In Elevate, Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles - or capacities - that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habits, and find your "why."
The key is elevating yourself beyond the edge of your current abilities. Challenge yourself, and the result will inspire others to rise along with you.
Every Monday Matters
How to Kick Your Week off With Passion, Purpose, and Positivity
Part of the Ignite Reads series
The idea was simple... what if we could get millions of people to engage in simple acts that were good for the world? Picking up litter, helping the homeless, smiling, planting a tree. And, in doing so, we would make the world a better place and also help people understand how much and why they matter.
Every Monday Matters is a practical guide to life written by expert author Matthew Emerzian that kicks off each week with a specific and engaging theme to help you get inspired and live authentically. Each Monday you are provided with a mindful moment to reflect upon and opportunities to help you engage. There are also motivational quotes and inspirational journal prompts to help you on your journey.
The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Service
The Story of the $6,000 Egg
Part of the Ignite Reads series
The customer service playbook that will help blitz the competition and win life-long customers!
The options customers have today to get what they want are so plentiful that not a single company, or representative of that company, can afford to be powerless in the competitive world of service.
Through the story of a $6,000 Egg, Deb and Todd Duncan reveal that even the smallest interactions have the power to create lifelong patrons, or on the flipside, alienate once-devoted customers.
The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Service represents the costly mistake of removing customer satisfaction from the bottom line. The teachable moments divulged throughout the book transcend industry, position, and career level and encourage everyone to contribute, coaching readers to go above and beyond in order to get ahead.
Perfect for readers of Be Our Guest, The Service Culture, and Raving Fans!
The Resilient Leader
Life Changing Strategies to Overcome Today's Turmoil and Tomorrow's Uncertainty
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Life may not be smooth sailing, but with strategies to build strength, you can weather any storm
Everyone has encountered their own version of a Category 5 storm-whether it's launching a new business, drowning in debt, enduring an emotional crisis, or actual flooding in the streets. But events that would normally incapacitate don't need to give us pause.
Christine Perakis has created seven resilience strategies that any leader can use to get through whatever your disruptive environment throws at you. You are not meant to live at the whims of others or a negative market. It's time to take control.
88 Days to Any Goal
How to Create Crazy Success - Fast
Part of the Ignite Reads series
With 88 Days to Any Goal, you can achieve your personal goals - whatever they may be. Magic happens during those 88 days, and this thrilling read can be the beginning to your Massive Success!
After starting from zero and building an extraordinary senate seat political campaign in 90 days, Dr. Rollan Roberts realized that while you can spend years, even decades, struggling and grinding along trying to:
• Earn a massive income
• Build a massive business
• Accomplish a massive dream
• Achieve massive attractiveness
...and never get there... there IS another way. 88 Days to Any Goal is about doing the right thing for 88 straight days - day in, day out, with 100% focus, purpose, and passion. When you are fully committed, that's where the magic happens.
Lead Like a Coach
How to Get the Most Success Out of Any Team
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Become the Mentor You Always WISHED You'd Had
All good coaches know that in order for their star players to perform at their best-they need to be given an opportunity to score! Are you allowing your team to succeed, or keeping the control for yourself?
If you're someone who cares about the success of the people you lead and want to make a positive impact on their stakeholders, their families, and their communities... then this book is perfect for you! Packed with practical strategies and case studies, Karen Morley's Lead Like a Coach makes it easy for anyone to be the leader they aspire to be-and how to help their people shine!
By letting your teammates learn, grow, and triumph creatively and independently...your shared success is guaranteed.
Winning the War for Talent
Recruit, Retain, and Develop The Talent Your Business Needs to Survive and Thrive
Part of the Ignite Reads series
Competition for top talent is a battle. Win the war.
There isn't an organization out there that hasn't struggled to fill open positions with the best people possible. And once you have them, how do you keep them? Winning the War for Talent addresses the challenges of today's job market and reveals how your organization can adapt in order to recruit, retain, and develop your employees. Recruiting is no longer as easy as posting jobs on a job board and waiting for the resumes to pile in. Starting with creating a sales-minded HR team, Chris Czarnik, creator of the groundbreaking Human Search Engine process that serves job seekers and a twenty-year veteran of HR and operations management, lays out the foundation for making your company the one people want to work for.
Retaining your top talent once you have them is easy, right? Not quite. Czarnik identifies the primary reasons great employees leave and how you can prevent that from happening at your company Developing employees is all about empowering them to own their career paths. You'll get an actionable plan to keep your employees invested in their growth. From small business owners to global corporations, Winning the War for Talent is a step-by-step guide for building and keeping the best team possible!
The Future of Sales
The 50+ Techniques, Tools, and Processes Used by Elite Salespeople
Part of the Ignite Reads series
From bestselling author John Asher comes a breakthrough guide on how to connect with the burnt out buyer using both new iterations of his proven neuroscience sales techniques as well as groundbreaking techniques to address the new business landscape.
Focusing on both internal and external variables, The Future of Sales explores how to make a sale, grow your company, and comfort your client in times of uncertainty and change. Using the same scientific strategies that John Asher and his team created to break down The Neuroscience of Selling, The Future of Sales arms readers with techniques that are proven to once again explore the way that buyers buy, instinctually, so you can make a sale... this time exploring sales in times of great change, companies in crisis, and buyers who are in new (virtual) environments.
Find Your Zone of Genius
How to Redefine Intelligence, Become an Expert on Yourself, and Make Greatness a Given
Part of the Ignite Reads series
In Find Your Zone of Genius, you will learn the thoughts and behaviors that will help you spend more time in what author Laura Garnett calls your Zone of Genius-that sweet spot where you're challenged, fulfilled, and happily engaged in the work you're doing. Both aspirational and practical, Laura introduces a methodology based on a performance tracker tool that has helped Laura's high profile clients at Linkedin, Capital One, and Verizon transform their careers and lives-and will help do the same for you!