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The separation of planning from doing and the preoccupation with administration, contracts, and scheduling over designing and building has been disastrous for construction. Lawyers, planners, risk managers, schedulers, and other administrative roles impede the ability of architects, engineers, and craftspeople-the professionals who design and build the things society needs to function. It isn't just a matter of getting things done on time-if you're the owner of an asset, manage a construction company, or invest in a project, overcoming these limitations is critical to your ability to compete and profit.Todd Zabelle, a recognized expert, construction CEO, and one of the founders of the lean construction movement, looks critically at each aspect of the industry, from production to construction to design to deployment to what the future holds, deftly analyzing where we've gone wrong and offering concrete, clear-eyed solutions for how to fix it.Zabelle's incisive wit and pulls-no-punches honesty are a refreshing antidote to the bland, overly polite, vacuous dialogue of board meetings and academic conferences. Speaking from the heart-and informed by over thirty years of experience in all facets of the industry-Zabelle delivers a much-needed wakeup call at a time when it's needed most.

Life can change in an instant. Even when the water seems calm, you can be thrown suddenly into the unfamiliar storm of caregiving.Most people will serve as a caregiver at some point in their lives, whether to their children, their spouse, their parents, or even their grandchildren. Despite how common the experience is, it's difficult to find quick, easy, and practical advice to help you survive the never-ending stress of caring for a loved one.For anyone searching for support in moments of family crisis, Dr. Merle Griff's Solace in the Storm can be your guide. Griff, a therapist who has helped families overcome the challenges of providing care at all stages of life, offers easy-to-apply solutions to common caregiving problems.Whether it's dealing with uninvited opinions from friends and family members, communicating with healthcare professionals, or finding time for yourself, Solace in the Storm provides the direction you need to ride out even the roughest seas. Griff provides stories from people who have been where you are now-and her own life-to help readers get through what seems like the impossible.Caregiving can be needed at any point in your loved ones' lives. In this book, Griff looks at caregiving throughout the human lifecycle, starting with infancy through caring for adult parents. And she gives advice on how friends and family can help, either by lending a hand or by learning what to say-and what not to say.Solace in the Storm will serve as your lifelong resource for quick tips, resources, and words of support and encouragement-a companion you will turn to again and again.

In The Versatile Leader, Msuega Tese offers twelve metaphors for effective leadership spanning a broad spectrum of strategic and tactical situations. As a starting point, the physician's diagnosis helps uncover the strategic status. The architect makes a realistic plan for the new organization as builders erect structures that transition startups to the growth stage. Engineers solve existential problems and contribute to continuous improvement. Finally, entrepreneurs obtain excellent results by taking ownership, being optimistic, and taking appropriate risks. On a tactical level, journalists glean information essential for daily operations. Coaches understand the importance of training and delegation. Parents are concerned with the long-term survival of the family line as Judges create a culture of truth and fairness. Pilots know how to navigate turbulent situations. Soldiers are disciplined, courageous, and loyal. Finally, diplomats are good at dealing with sensitive situations. Each of the twelve metaphors is helpful to leaders at different moments. The metaphor-based leadership builds off the concept of situational leadership. It encourages leaders to learn and adapt with integrity continuously. In addition, this approach brings synergy to a team, regardless of size or type.

The Success Paradox is the improbable story of a life and business transformed, told in a warmly authentic style that says: "I hit rock bottom, I surrendered, I began doing the opposite of what I'd been doing before, miracles happened, and here's what you can learn from my journey."With riveting personal details that illuminate his discoveries, Gary details how he defied the odds - not just to survive but to thrive - by implementing a series of paradoxical strategies, fundamentally opposite to anything he'd ever done before. The result is an inspiring book about what happened to him and a blueprint for readers to experience how to surrender and win in business and life.

DO YOU BLEND OUT?You're skilled, you're smart, and you know how much you can accomplish, so why aren't prospects beating down your door? It's because they don't know who you are.In BLEND OUT, Snappy Kraken CEO Robert Sofia dives into the marketing history of some of the world's most successful companies, exploring the steps they took that left an unshakable impression with their target audiences and then applying those steps in such a way that any small business can recreate them.But this isn't a book for financial advisors who are looking for a quick fix or marketing hack. As with every company that has gone on to lasting success, successful marketing and long-term customer retention takes concerted effort, persistent reinforcement, and an unrelenting desire to be better than you were the day before. It's not easy, but it's exactly how you take your company from meager growth to exceptional success.

AT LEAST 75% OF ALL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS FAIL. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. Don Scales has been in the professional services business for more than three decades. During that time, he has been involved in more than forty M&A deals, on both the buyer and seller side. He has learned firsthand what works and what doesn't, and has long thought about writing a book to share his knowledge with others. The M&A Solution: A Values-Based Approach to Integrate Companies is the result of his realization that participants in M&A transactions often fail to focus on one important factor-corporate values. Corporate management teams have known for decades that competing values and culture clashes put more deals at risk than any other single factor. Yet, because values are hard to measure, they are often ignored when due diligence is being done. Don gives the reader the benefit of his experience and knowledge when it comes to analyzing values for fit. By using Don's methods to focus on corporate values, management teams can mitigate culture-clash risk and increase the odds of succeeding. It's that simple.

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS FOR REMOTE, HYBRID, AND FACE-TO-FACE TEAMS! Project management isn't just about process. It's also about people. Calling upon over thirty years of experience delivering optimized project outcomes for some of the world's leading brands, author Clinton M. Padgett reveals the "secret sauce" many leaders leave out of their project success equation. Taking what's already working on your teams, the principles detailed in How Teams Triumph help your people maximize performance by enhancing communication; breaking down silos; and providing a proven, repeatable framework to complete projects with all stakeholders pulling in the same direction. In the high-risk, high-reward business world, the success or failure of one project can mean the difference between career growth or career stagnation. The stakes are too high for you and your organization to leave any of it to chance.

GETTING A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT SHOULDN'T BE HARDER THAN BOOKING A VACATION The US healthcare system excels in research, innovation, and clinical care, but is failing to keep up with the operational challenges of the digital age. Today's healthcare organizations face immense financial challenges, and their most valuable resources-people, rooms, and equipment-are being used inefficiently. The result? Long wait times for patients, overstressed staff, underused assets, and poor ROI for organizations. Why do health systems struggle with optimization? The fundamental problem is one of matching an unpredictable demand for services with a constrained supply. The math being used to solve this problem is a holdover from the paper-and-pencil era. In Better Healthcare Through Math, authors Mohan Giridharadas and Sanjeev Agrawal show you that there is a better way. Healthcare systems can harness the power of sophisticated, analytics-driven mathematics to optimize the matching of supply and demand. By upgrading to software systems built on better math, they can enable staff to make data-based decisions to flatten peaks of demand and create smoother patient flow.

Called "ideal reading for people who want to make a positive impact in their organizations" by best-selling author and top-rated TED speaker Daniel Pink, Do Good to Lead Well - The Science of Positive Leadership by Craig Dowden (Ph.D.) is resonating with top corporate executives and international thought leaders, with endorsements from best-selling authors and world-class TED speakers such as Adam Grant and Marshall Goldsmith, as well as over 24 CEOs of leading organizations. A long-time columnist for the Financial Post and the Huffington Post, with an upcoming column slated for Forbes, Dowden combines years of interviewing and coaching top CEOs with his extensive knowledge of business psychology to share six pillars of positive leadership: self-awareness, civility, humility, focus on the positive, meaning and purpose, and empathy. Although these qualities are not often traditionally associated with the corporate boardroom, research provides a compelling business case for their importance and effectiveness. His book provides an evidence-based roadmap to positive leadership, outlining the return on investment of these six pillars. Do Good to Lead Well also shows how executives can effectively demonstrate these behaviors within their day-to-day leadership practice, for their benefit, as well as for the benefit of the teams and organizations they lead.

When was the last time you pushed yourself beyond your comfort zone and dared to fail?In Disruptable, Allan Young shows you how embracing your different, getting outside your comfort zone, observing the impossible, daring to fail, and taking purposeful action will set you on a path of intentional personal disruption that will change your world forever. If you are ready to face your fears and embrace your failures, you can also enjoy the freedom of limitless growth. Join Allan on his journey of intentional disruption that has led him from a five-year-old entrepreneur to founder and owner of an Inc. 500 company and multiple start-ups that have generated over $500 million in sales.

YOUR ONLY JOB AS A LEADER IS TO MAKE SURE MONDAY MORNING DOESN¿T SUCK. At least that¿s what Eric Harkins thinks. In his first book, Eric talks about his twenty-five-year journey working in corporate America and the many lessons he learned about leadership. He was lucky enough to work for a company that made sure Monday morning didn¿t suck, but even luckier to work for several that didn¿t. Great Leaders Make Sure Monday Morning Doesn¿t Suck is a fun, engaging, and light-hearted collection of stories told by Eric. He¿s worked for some good leaders. He¿s worked for some bad leaders. And he learned a lot about what it takes to create a culture high performers want to be a part of.

You can have it all-not just more income to spend in your retirement years but also the peace of mind that comes from knowing that, no matter what happens in the outside world, you'll have a worry-free income for life. In this book you'll find: ¿ Ten steps to build a portfolio that will survive the perfect financial storm, so you can stop worrying about the economy, the political climate, the latest financial catastrophe, and what the market did today, this week, this month, or this year ¿ Two questions you must answer before you invest another dime ¿ Why investing after you retire is radically different from investing while you're still working ¿ The life expectancy of six key investments-and how to use these and others to build a portfolio that will generate income longer than any single investment on its own ¿ The three essential questions you must ask a financial advisor before you hire one ¿ The exact amount of income you can take to make the most of your retirement without worry or guilt, knowing you've applied the best available research to generate income for the rest of your life

KNOW THE NEW RULES ON THE DIGITAL FAULTLINE AND SUCCEED WITH A NEW APPROACH TO DIGITAL LEADERSHIP. For three decades, changes powered by digitalization have swept across industries, creating seismic upheavals. These Digital Faultline forces are now upending long-standing business paradigms, success models, and entire ecosystems. But despite enormous investments, fewer than 8 percent of companies worldwide have managed to cross this faultline and thrive in the new paradigm. Combining pre-and post-COVID data from 5,000+ companies and more than three decades of leadership experience in the military, and as the CEO of a technology services firm, Sri systematically deconstructs these transformational forces on the faultline. Using simple, nontechnical language, Sri explains the rules that govern success on the faultline and secrets that power the technology industry''s unstoppable growth and encroachment of other industries. Isolating leadership as the single most important factor for success, Manchala presents a new leadership persona for the digital ageΓÇòthe Methodical InnovatorΓÇòand an invaluable 120-day playbook for readers to make an equally seismic transition into the mindset and approach required to succeed.

YOUR ROAD MAP TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM This book is not offering a get rich quick plan. It takes time to implement long-lasting strategies that lead to financial independence. Toby Mathis has created a road map for you to follow to create wealth over time. He shares his get rich slow approach based on the investing and money management practices that have helped hundreds of participants in Anderson Advisors' popular Infinity Investing program reach financial freedom. One central principle in the Infinity Investing approach is that you must take the critical first steps necessary to learn about personal finances and smart investing. Toby understands that the intimidating jargon, unnecessarily complicated math, and mystique surrounding money management can be a roadblock that often prevents the average person from ever starting. This book demystifies the process and describes it in a straightforward and engaging way. Toby has spent years studying wealthy people who have built their wealth over time by creating a solid plan and sticking to it. He breaks down what these people do and don't do, so that you can follow their path. Toby is a gifted storyteller as well as a clear-eyed researcher. Readers will find his stories about people to be vivid and relatable while he uses just the right amount of real-world financial data to back up his lessons. Let's create your infinity plan!

It's Time to Adapt for the New Era of BusinessIn March of 2020, most of the world-along with our politicians-panicked. When presented with an unfamiliar threat in the form of the novel coronavirus, life as we knew it shut down. Without having a plan, we responded in a panic, with no understanding of the true risk to our health or our economy. Our collective reaction to the virus points to one crucial factor: We as a society do not question what we are told-potentially to our own detriment.This book is not about pointing fingers and laying blame. It is about building an inquisitive spirit and forming our own opinions through critical thinking. It is about considering how to achieve success in a new way going forward.In Iconoclasm: A Survival Guide for the Post-Pandemic Economy, author and iconoclast Tony Zorc outlines the strategies and insights of iconoclasm and how to not only survive but thrive in the post-pandemic economy.Iconoclasm is about unlocking doors that seem to be shut-and ushering everyone through them. In these pages as you learn about the methodology of the iconoclast, you'll discover the key to unlocking success in the current and post-pandemic panic economy, professionally and personally.

From Backroom to Boardroom is not a book about technology, data models or the latest in a series of bright and shiny toys so loved by marketers. It is a book about building a strategic marketing operations organization that transports marketing from the backroom to the boardroom.The journey begins with defining the new breed of marketing leadership and continues by exploring the integration of business acumen, marketing experience and the power of the digital age. This book is a practical guide that will help you reimagine, rescript and rearchitect the role of marketing forever.

MARKETING TEAMS ARE THE CREATIVE HEARTS OF ORGANIZATIONS. We bring products to life and connect them to living, breathing customers. Without us, our companies would crash and burn. And yet it often seems we don¿t get the respect¿or the budgets¿we deserve. Where is the love? The reason our companies don¿t love us is that they see us as cost centers rather than revenue centers. So how do we change that perception (and that reality)? How do we become provable, dependable sources of revenue? By changing our relationship with our customers. By turning them into raving advocates and long-term clients. We need to stop viewing customers through the lens of the traditional sales funnel. F the Funnel offers us a new model for thinking about the entire customer acquisition cycle¿the Loop¿which focuses on building relationships of trust rather than closing sales in a one-off way.

MAKE A VOW TO GOOD HEALTH How much time each year do you spend interacting with a doctor? A vast majority of people spend less than 1 percent of their time in clinical interactions. While clinical care is certainly vital, it affects only 30 percent of our overall health status. So, why not do better acknowledging the drivers of the other 70 percent of total health and well-being where we spend 99 percent of our time? We deserve a healthcare system that systematically supports our daily living needs to complement clinical care. Not Just in Sickness ... But Also in Health details how we can create the next generation of benefit plans, including an intelligent ecosystem of personalized resources, capable of supporting how each person can achieve and sustain their optimal health.Drawing on his decades of experience, Margolis explains how existing healthcare industry players, technology companies, and government can enact a systematic consumer-centric approach to move the United States and the world from a system of sickcare to one of health optimization for all.

In his book, Another Big Lie, author Tim Pagliara details the decade-long fight over the government¿s role in regulating a safe and sound mortgage market. At the heart of the story is the contrarian bet investors made to buy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac¿government sponsored entities, GSEs¿securities in the heat of the mortgage crisis in late 2008. This is the story of how a select group of GSE investors exposed the government¿s theft of billions of dollars from the American dream of homeownership. Madison opined in the Federalist papers that ¿If Men were Angels¿ we wouldn¿t need government. And yet, in Another Big Lie, Pagliara examines what happens when all three branches of government¿executive, legislative, and judicial¿fail, exposing the truth about the housing market, a corrupt legislative process in the Senate, and the various attempts that tried and failed to blame the financial crisis on the GSEs.

Clarity + Alignment = PERFORMANCE One of the hardest things to achieve in business is getting everyone on your team aligned to the same plan. Picture your business as a rowing team. Most have some people casually rowing, others our of sync, and even some rowing in the complete opposite direction. In Relentless Implementation, you will learn a tried and tested system that will get every person on your team vigorously rowing in the same direction. This operating system will allow you to achieve maximum performance from your team while creating a Working Together culture that will help provide clarity to all functions of your business. In this book you will learn: ¿ to implement the operating system Alan Mulally famously used as CEO at Ford Motor Company and Boeing Commercial Airplanes ¿ 11 Practices and Principles of Working Together ¿ to create a Creating Value Roadmap ¿ to set up and run a weekly Business Plan Review meeting Relentless Implementation shares a tested and proven operating system that creates organizational clarity, alignment and improved performance so you have One Team working One Plan for One Goal.