29 Best Motivational, Business & Economics Books

Sustaining Success in Sports, in Business–or Anywhere

Beyond the Lines offers a game plan for any leader to help an organization achieve and sustain success. We all know that success is not easy. If it were, everyone would be successful. The question is, do you deal with your challenges in a positive way? What’s more, can you help others deal with their challenges in a positive way? People don’t want to be “managed,” after all–they want to be guided. They know that no matter how challenging a situation might be, they can trust the leader to make the best decisions for the team.

In direct, simple terms, author Rusty Komori lays out a path for achievement and excellence in leadership, drawing from notable examples in sports history, as well as his own decades as a successful, championship-winning tennis coach.

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El experto mundial en liderazgo, John C. Maxwell, enseña a los lectores cómo cambiar su liderazgo de manera efectiva para continuar innovando, perfeccionándose e influenciando a otros en el mundo vertiginoso de la actualidad.

Los líderes deben hacer más que perseverar en pie para tener éxito. Si no son ágiles y no están listos para adaptarse, no sobrevivirán. La clave en el liderato son los cambios.

En Los Cambios en el Liderazgo, John C. Maxwell ayuda a los líderes a alcanzar la capacidad y la voluntad de realizar cambios que optimicen positivamente su crecimiento personal y organizacional.

Maxwell enseña los once cambios que realizó en el transcurso de su larga y exitosa carrera de liderazgo. Cada uno de los cambios lo preparó para nuevos y emocionantes logros, fortaleciendo y sosteniendo sus habilidades y convirtiéndolo en el admirable experto en liderazgo que es hoy en día.

Entre los cambios que Maxwell realizó se encuentran:

• El Cambio de Adaptabilidad del Plan A a la Opci√≥n A.
• El Cambio de Productividad.
• De Subir la Escalera a Construir la Escalera.¬†
• El Cambio de Influencia de la Autoridad Posicional a la Autoridad Moral.

Maxwell brinda una guía específica a los lectores sobre cómo llevar a cabo estos cambios en sus propias vidas. Cada uno requiere modificar la forma de pensar, actuar y, en última instancia, dirigir, para alcanzar el éxito en un mundo que nunca permanece igual.

Leadership Changes

Global leadership expert John C. Maxwell teaches readers how to effectively change their leadership to continue innovating, refining, and influencing others in today’s fast-paced world.

Leaders must do more than persevere on foot to succeed. If they are not agile and ready to adapt, they will not survive. The key to leadership is change.

In Leadership Changes, John C. Maxwell helps leaders achieve the ability and the will to make changes that positively optimize their personal and organizational growth.

Maxwell teaches the changes he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Each of the changes prepared him for exciting new achievements, strengthening and experiencing his skills, and becoming the admirable leadership expert he is today.

Among the changes Maxwell made were:

• The Change of Adaptability from Plan A to Option A.
• The Change in Productivity.
• From Climbing the Ladder to Building the Ladder.
• The Change of Influence from the Positional Authority to the Moral Authority.

Maxwell provides specific guidance to readers on how to make these changes in their own lives. Each one requires modifying the way of thinking, acting and, ultimately, leading, to achieve success in a world that never remains the same.

For anyone seeking to live life to its fullest potential, Blind Ambition is an eye-opening account of a tech industry executive who overcame fear and hopelessness to turn his blindness disability into a powerful, competitive strength.

While most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black but that didn’t stop him from becoming the first blind person to graduate from the Harvard Business School leadership program and climbing the corporate ladder as a successful finance/sales executive.

With determination, ambition, and drive, Chad created what Oracle said would be impossible. He gave millions of people the ability to earn a living by becoming the first to create customer relationship software for the visually impaired.

Even if you’ve been robbed of your self-identity and dreams for the future, you can change your story and achieve your goals.

In Blind Ambition, readers and listeners will:

• Be inspired by Chad’s story of how he transformed the loss of his vision into a gift with unique strengths and abilities he did not have before.
• See how we choose the stories we tell ourselves about our circumstances and how this either limits us or propels us toward our goals.
• Gain new perspective on what is possible when you shift your mindset, give up making excuses, and decide that you oversee who you want to be.
• Learn the mental model that Chad uses to quickly overcome frustrations and stressors.

Overcoming the challenges of blindness improved Chad’s perspective, making him more resilient and grateful for the life that he has. Ultimately, Chad’s unforgettable lessons and outlook will inspire listeners to overcome their perceived limitations and explore new possibilities where they once may have only seen obstacles.

Blind Ambition will teach you how to take advantage of your disadvantages.

Nearly thirty years ago, in a tiny, impoverished Ghanaian village, a young boy dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player and competing against European powerhouse Manchester United. Despite being told that he wasn’t good enough, he was drafted by Seattle Sounders FC and competed against Manchester United in front of sixty-seven thousand fans. At twenty-three years old, Michael Tetteh had realized his childhood dream.

Then, late one night, an encounter caused him to give up soccer, the single thing that had defined his entire life. In one moment, he surrendered to a new vision and stepped into the unknown. Was he crazy–or brave?

Giftocracy takes you on an inspiring journey of self-discovery with author Michael Tetteh. Powerful lessons from real-life experiences, along with thoughts from trusted influential and transformational leaders–including Myles Munroe, John C. Maxwell, and Zig Ziglar–will lead you to a new awareness.

Become empowered! You can transform and transcend the opinions, conditions, and circumstances of your life. Discover the gift trapped within you and share it with the world.

It’s not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you.

Why do some people achieve great personal success, yet never succeed in building a business or making an impact in their organization? Leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell knows the answer. The greatest leadership principle he’s learned is that those closest to the leader will determine the success level of that leader.

Maxwell examines the differences between leadership styles, outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. These principles can be used in any organization to foster integrity and self discipline and bring a positive change.

In Developing the Leaders Around You, you’ll learn how to be effective in the highest calling of leadership by understanding the five characteristics that set “leader managers” apart from “run-of-the-mill managers”:

• Vision
• Value
• Influence
• Motivation
• Confidence

Whether you’re the leader of a non-profit organization, small business, or Fortune 500 company, Developing the Leaders Around You can help you to take others to the limits of their potential and your organization to a whole new level.

It’s not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you.

Why do some people achieve great personal success, yet never succeed in building a business or making an impact in their organization? Leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell knows the answer. The greatest leadership principle he’s learned is that those closest to the leader will determine the success level of that leader.

Maxwell examines the differences between leadership styles, outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. These principles can be used in any organization to foster integrity and self discipline and bring a positive change.

In Developing the Leaders Around You, you’ll learn how to be effective in the highest calling of leadership by understanding the five characteristics that set “leader managers” apart from “run-of-the-mill managers”:

• Vision
• Value
• Influence
• Motivation
• Confidence

Whether you’re the leader of a non-profit organization, small business, or Fortune 500 company, Developing the Leaders Around You can help you to take others to the limits of their potential and your organization to a whole new level.

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The things we tell ourselves affect how well or poorly our path in life goes. It’s time to flip the script on the internal stories you tell yourself and live life on your terms.

Most of the “self-stories” you tell yourself–the kind of person you say you are and the things you are capable of–are invisible to you because they have become such a part of your everyday mental routine that you don’t even recognize they exist.

Yet, these self-stories influence everything you do, everything you say, and everything you are.

Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will help you take complete control of your self-stories and create the life you’ve always dreamed you’d have. Author Kindra Hall offers up a new window into your psychology, one that travels the distance from the frontiers of neuroscience to the deep inner workings of your thoughts and feelings.

In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, Kindra will help you:

• Uncover the truth of how you have created the life you have;
• Challenge everything you think you know about how your life has been built;
• Uncover the clear steps you can take to create the life you want;
• Take control of your self-story to become the author of who you are; and
• Live your life in a way you never have before.

This eye-opening, but applicable journey will transform you from a passive listener of these limiting, unconscious thoughts to the definitive author of who you are and everything you want to be.

Changing your life is as simple as choosing better stories to tell yourself. If you can change your story, you can change your life.

Dive into a masterclass with world-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell as he shares the most important lessons he’s learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century.

What is the greatest return on a leader’s time? After leaders have invested in their own leadership growth, what is the best way to accomplish their vision and grow their organizations? Develop other leaders! The more leaders an organization has and the better equipped they are to lead, the more successful the organization and its leaders.

In the last twenty-five years, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell has grown from equipping a handful of leaders in one organization to developing millions of business, government, and nonprofit leaders in every country around the world. In this book, Maxwell takes the reader step-by-step through the process of identifying, attracting, empowering, and positioning leaders to create a culture capable of then reproducing and compounding the value of its leaders.

In The Leader’s Greatest Return, you will be instructed on:

• The Leadership Table – Create a place where people not yet leading at your level can come, be welcomed and try on leadership.
• The 7 Motivators – Review the seven motivators and discover what motivates each person and then lead him or her accordingly.
• Team Success – Use the 10-80-10 method to set people up for success and empower them to perform at a high level.
• Who to Grow as a Leader – Love and value everyone but use the Pareto principle to choose who to grow as a?leader.

This is where leaders really experience the compounding value of developing leaders and go to the highest levels of leadership themselves. The Leader’s Greatest Return is perfect for anyone who wants to take the next step in their leadership, build their organization or team today, and create their legacy for tomorrow needs to read.

¿Cuál es la mayor ganancia en el tiempo de un líder? Después de que los líderes hayan invertido en su propio crecimiento de liderazgo, ¿cuál es la mejor manera de lograr su misión y hacer crecer a sus organizaciones? ¡Desarrollar líderes! Cuantos más líderes tenga una organización y mejor preparados estén para liderar, más exitosa será la organización y todos sus líderes. El autor número uno en ventas del New York Times, John C. Maxwell, a menudo es identificado como el experto en liderazgo más influyente del mundo. En los últimos veinticinco años, ha pasado de preparar a un puñado de líderes en una organización a desarrollar millones de líderes empresariales, gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro en todos los países del mundo. En La mejor inversión de un líder, Maxwell comparte las lecciones más importantes que aprendió sobre el proceso de desarrollo de liderazgo en el último cuarto de siglo. Él instruye a los lectores en cómo

• Identificar l√≠deres potenciales.
• Atraer l√≠deres creando una mesa de liderazgo.
• Trabajar hasta no ser imprescindibles al preparar y capacitar l√≠deres.
• Posicionar l√≠deres para construir un equipo ganador.
• Entrenar l√≠deres a niveles m√°s altos y hacer que ellos mismos sean l√≠deres en el desarrollo.

 

Aquí es donde los líderes realmente experimentan el valor compuesto del desarrollo de líderes y llegan a los niveles más altos de liderazgo.

 

Cualquier persona que quiera dar el siguiente paso en su liderazgo, construir su organización o equipo y crear su legado para el futuro debe leer La mayor inversión del líder.

Learn how to develop the influence, character, service and vision that it takes to be a leader in every aspect of your life.

First released in 1993, John C. Maxwell‚Äôs now-classic work revolutionized the way leaders are made. By examining the differences between leadership styles, Maxwell outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others from any type of leadership position–including as a business executive, a church leader, a teacher, or even a parent.

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, Maxwell includes two new chapters to include the leadership insights and practices he has learned in the decades since the first edition so that you’ll receive everything you need to take a significant step in your leadership journey.

In Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, you will successfully learn and understand:

• Influence ‚Äì using the 5 Levels of Leadership as a roadmap to influence others
• Character ‚Äì embracing good ethics, practicing self-leadership, and valuing people
• Service ‚Äì asking eight questions to develop into a leader who serves others daily
• Vision ‚Äì including eight components when painting a vision for your people so they can experience it

These foundational principles provides both new readers and longtime fans with the necessary wisdom to help any leader and organization succeed in fostering integrity, self-discipline, and effecting positive change.

Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 will help you transform the way you think about leadership.

Instantly recognizable as the company behind such familiar products as Ivory soap, Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste, Procter & Gamble is admired as one of the world’s best managed companies. Marketing training at P&G rivals that of an MBA degree, and Harvard Business School teaches P&G’s brand-management system. Now, a former P&G marketing executive identifies ninety-nine practices and principles that fuel this $35 billion powerhouse — strategies for success in business and in life.
Here are the beliefs (“A brand can’t stand still”), the code of business conduct (“Do the right thing”) and the rules of engagement for television advertising (“Show the package in the first eight seconds”) that are at the heart of this marketing giant. Here are anecdotes of a corporate culture where winning is the goal, risk avoidance the criterion, and the airtight memo the basis for action.
Accessible and engaging, Winning with the P&G 99 offers the time-tested strategies that have kept P&G on top — practical insights for anyone managing a business, a career, or striving for a personal best.

Includes a conversation between Tim Elmore and John Maxwell!

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Become a next-generation leader–rich in emotional and social intelligence and orchestrating outstanding collaborative results–by mastering these eight status quo-shattering paradoxes.

The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership unpacks the fresh strategies and new mindset required today from a next-generation leader.

Author Dr. Tim Elmore helps leaders of all kinds navigate increasingly complex, rapidly changing environments, as well as manage teams who bring a range of new demands and expectations to the workplace that haven’t been seen even one generation prior.

After working alongside John C. Maxwell for twenty years, Tim offers counterintuitive paradoxes that, when practiced, enable today’s leader to differentiate themselves and better connect with their team and customers. The book furnishes ideas that equip leaders to inspire team members in a way a paycheck never could.

Having trained hundreds of thousands of young professionals to develop into leaders, Dr. Elmore shares the secrets of next-generation leaders who have practiced the unique paradoxes outlined in this book and inspired their team members in a way that a paycheck never could[AL1] .

In The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership, you will:

• Learn how today’s team members require a combination of different qualities from their leaders than they did in even the recent past;
• Grasp the importance of eight key paradoxes that are critical for next-generation leaders to put into practice right now;
• Be inspired by historic and modern-day leaders who lived the eight paradoxes; and
• Understand how you too can lead with the eight paradoxes, guiding you to emotional and social intelligence that resonates with your team and leads to outstanding collaborative results.

Accompanying diagram and discussion questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Dive into a masterclass that reveals the shifts you should make over the course of you career to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others to the highest levels of success in today’s unprecedented business climate.

Change is so rapid today that leaders must do more than stay the course to be successful. If they aren’t nimble and ready to adapt, they won’t survive. The key is to learn how to leadershift.

John C. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long, successful leadership career.

In Leadershift, Maxwell shares some of the leadershifts including…

• Adaptive Shift from Plan A to Option A,
• the Production Shift from Ladder Climbing to Ladder Building,
• the Influence Shift from Positional Authority to Moral Authority and more!

Leadershift gives specific guidance to readers about how to make these shifts in their own lives.

Each one requires them to change the way they think, act, and ultimately lead so they can be successful in a world that never remains the same.

To go forward, we need to move faster. And as leaders, we need to stay ahead, we need to see more than others, and we need to see before others.

Smart leaders learn from their own mistakes. Smarter leaders learn from other’s mistakes and their successes.

Bestselling author and leadership guru Dr. John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharing Leadership Gold with you. After more than forty years of leading and teaching, Maxwell has mined the gold so you don’t have to. Each gold nugget is contained in one of twenty-six chapters designed to be a six-month mentorship from the international leadership expert.

A leader among leaders, Maxwell promised himself early in his career that he wouldn’t write this book until he was sixty. Now, the time is finally here.

In Leadership Gold, he shares valuable lessons such as:

• Don’t send your sucks to eagle school
• People quit people, not companies
• Influence should be loaned but never given
• When you get kicked in the rear, you know you’re out in front
• People will summarize your life in one sentence – pick it now

With his signature style, Maxwell comes alongside like a mentor, candidly taking you through what feels like a one-on-one leadership program.?Each chapter contains detailed application exercises and a “Mentoring Moment” for leaders who desire to mentor others using the book.

Leadership Gold offers the best of the best, the tried-and-true lessons that no one but Maxwell can share.

Do you dream big? Now you can put your dream to the test and bring it to life!

What’s the difference between a dreamer and someone who achieves a dream? According to best-selling author and leadership expert Dr. John C. Maxwell, the answer lies in answering ten powerful, straightforward questions.

Whether you’ve lost sight of an old dream or you are searching for a new one within you,?this book provides a step-by-step action plan that you can start using today to see, own, and reach your dream. Dr. Maxwell draws on his forty years of mentoring experience to expertly guide you through the ten questions required of every successful dreamer.

In Put Your Dream to the Test, Maxwell will help you:

• Discover and define what your dream should be
• Create a blueprint for a path to achieve success
• See real-world examples of what success could look like for you

It’s one thing to have a dream. It’s another to do the things needed to achieve it. If you’re willing to put your dream to the test and do what’s needed to answer yes to the ten dream questions, then your odds are very good for seeing your dream become reality.

Don’t leave your dream to chance. This book is a must-have and can make the difference between failure and success.

Get a masterclass from John C. Maxwell for leaders on the power of attitude and how it can make or break you, and the people you lead.

Good attitudes on a team do not guarantee its success, but bad attitudes guarantee its ruin.

New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell acknowledges that anyone who has tried to lead people with bad attitudes knows the frustration it can bring.

In Attitude 101, Maxwell helps you learn to:

• Recognize how individuals’ attitudes impact their performance
• Pinpoint problem feelings, behaviors, and thinking in yourself and others
• Identify six common attitude problems that undermine teamwork
• Discover the secret to changing a bad attitude
• Create new definitions of failure and success that will improve performance

It’s important that you adopt the attitude that helps leaders keep going to the next level of success. With this concise and reader-friendly guidebook, you too can master attitude issues.

Attitude is contagious, therefore, you need to make sure your team is catching the right one!

Based on his TEDx talk “Everyday Leadership (the Lollipop Moment)” — voted one of the 15 most inspirational TED talks of all time — This Is Day One is leadership expert Drew Dudley’s guide to cultivating the behaviors that will help you to succeed and empower those around you.

If you’re intimidated by the mystique surrounding leadership, this book is for you. Dudley simplifies leadership without denying its complexity, demonstrating that leadership in all its forms begins at the same clear and accessible place for everyone: what he calls “Day One.”

Day One is when you discover, define, and start to consistently deliver on your foundational leadership values. Living that day over and over is what creates leaders, and Dudley provides the key tools necessary to craft and commit to your own personal Day One, including: