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Transition from simply being a high performer to someone who's leading high-performing teams. In Front-Line Leadership, leadership trainer and former US Army paratrooper Patrick Nelson shares his failures, challenges, and successes, all of which can inspire teams, shift cultures, and influence outcomes. Leaders of all levels will uncover astonishing real-world insights on how to lead by example, meet the needs of others, and empower teams to work collaboratively, respectfully, and effectively.

World-class managers bring value to their organizations by aligning their teams with the company's mission and creating highly engaged workers who achieve higher profits, better sales, lower turnover, and more customer loyalty. The best managers have a sense of purpose, know how to energize their team members, are good communicators, and understand and deliver what customers want. In How to Become a World-Class Manager, Wayne Clarke outlines the skills exceptional managers exhibit, examines why those abilities are important, and provides steps to improve your performance in each area.

In every company, leaders at all levels have the opportunity to do better. In The Lovable Leader, strategy consultant Jeff Gibbard shares leadership principles, conflict resolution techniques, and effective conversation frameworks you can adopt to be a lovable leader. Leadership provides the opportunity to be the best version of yourself by helping people become the best versions of themselves. By using Gibbard's easy-to-follow framework, you can create a safe environment for your team, foster loyalty, and be a person people are willing to follow.

High-performance teams are built on effective leadership. Companies with suboptimal leaders often create failing cultures and struggle to recruit and retain skilled employees. In Cultivate, Walter Bond and Antoinette Bond present a business fable that illustrates the six most important traits of team building. This book is for executives, managers, and leaders who want to forge exceptional teams suitable for remote, hybrid, or in-person workplaces.

Teams come together in sports, communities, and workplaces to accomplish shared goals, but few become the powerhouse performers that achieve the impossible. But what drives these powerhouse teams to success, and more importantly, how can you, as a leader, harness that magic to propel your own team to greatness? Shane Snow, the author of Smartcuts and cofounder of Contently, studied great teams in sports, business, the arts and sciences, and society to uncover the answer. He observed that these top-performing teams don't rely on platitudes of cooperation and teamwork. Instead, he points to counterintuitive qualities that drive them to rise to their challenges as an unstoppable force. In Dream Teams, Snow explains these qualities and how you can replicate them to create breakthroughs.

The remote workforce demands a specific type of management strategy. Hybrid workforces are here to stay, and the shift impacts everything from hiring to leadership. In The Successful Hybrid Team, Perrine Farque demonstrates how to build a world-class hybrid team by following a strategy based on four fundamental pillars. The book would benefit managers, team leaders, or remote workers in a hybrid environment.

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the value of remote work and redefined what the modern workplace looks like. To retain employees, organizations need to offer flexible work options. At the same time, leaders must learn how to manage remote employees. In The Power of Remote, Cynthia Watson and Shane Spraggs offer best practices for gaining higher-quality work from remote teams, while instilling culture and purpose in employees.

Even the most organized, energized, productive, and collaborative teams can fail if they become overly focused on team dynamics at the expense of responsiveness to the marketplace. In the revised and updated edition of X-Teams, leadership experts Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman explain how traditional team effectiveness models no longer meet the demands of today's volatile and innovation-driven marketplace. They make the case for a new x-team model that combines an internal distributed leadership approach with a focus on external, flexible collaboration.

In Wisdom from the Wild, former zoo and aquarium professional Julie C. Henry argues that the business world can learn a great deal from the natural world. Using facts about the animal kingdom, business cases, and stories from her own career, Henry outlines nine Unbreakable Laws of Nature that every leader must know. By adopting these laws, you can improve your ability to solve problems, make decisions, and move your team forward.

The choices leaders make determine their impact. Most leaders struggle to make wise choices because of the competing priorities, limited resources, and complex circumstances. In Smart Leadership, Mark Miller details four "Smart Choices" that can help leaders increase their own effectiveness while also launching high-performance teams. By regularly making all four of these Smart Choices, you'll provide your company with the competitive edge it needs to prosper.

In recent years, the world of work has changed dramatically due to globalization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other factors. It's now commonplace for employees to work in different places and in different time zones. Face-to-face interactions are increasingly rare. In The Long-Distance Team, Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel offer actionable tips for designing or redesigning teams and cultivating an organizational culture that supports employee satisfaction and high levels of productivity.

Every project leader faces similar challenges creating and unifying a team, accounting for a changing business environment, and producing the deliverables desired by their stakeholders. Getting the Job Done by Kevin Torf takes a step-by-step look at the requisite building blocks of every project: planning, reflection, organization, juggling, empowerment, communication, teamwork, and standards (P.R.O.J.E.C.T.S.). This framework for project management employs a hybrid-Agile methodology built on small iterations and frequent meetings, which can unleash your team's true potential and keep everyone moving together in the same direction as they confront the daily challenges of a large project.

A team can be successful when everyone paddles together in the same direction, at the same time, toward the same goal. In Everybody Paddles, Dr. Charles A. Montorio-Archer outlines proven strategies to advance a company's mission and deliverables. Leaders who demonstrate kindness, integrity, and value each employee serve others by helping them achieve personal success as they work together for a common goal. Dr. Montorio-Archer provides six principles that help a company realize its vision, and weaves in personal essays and anecdotes from business and thought leaders that detail how they've applied these principles to achieve success.

Honorable and esteemed role models are needed now more than ever. In Adored, Tom DeCotiis shares his advice on how to take leadership to the next level by garnering respect and making ethical principles a habit. Leaders journey from being a mere appointed leader to an adored one by promising employees clear direction through values-based support and timely feedback, as well as opportunities to have fun. You can make a positive difference in the lives of your employees and produce high-performing environments where everyone feels valued and irreplaceable.

When people are promoted to management positions, they may be unprepared to take on this new type of role in the workplace. In Bringing Up the Boss, Rachel Pacheco provides helpful advice for individuals who find themselves in this situation. She offers lessons learned as well as tools for becoming a great manager--whether managing individuals, teams, or oneself.

Some professionals perform at their best in moments that matter. They know how to make the right moves at the right times and get the results their teams need. Pros in this group step up time and again and make an impact for their organizations. In Impact Players, Liz Wiseman acknowledges that it isn't easy to stand out in this way or be recognized as the go-to person to get tough jobs done. However, she asserts that building this reputation is possible and shares the best practices striving professionals can work on today to get started.

It's no simple task to lead flexible workforces or be part of one. There are challenges to coaching for productivity and engagement, hurdles to overcome for communication, and boundaries to set to create norms and construct an inclusive culture. In the HBR Guide to Managing Flexible Work, expert contributors from around the world share approaches they use to navigate the challenges. Their insights on both leading flexible teams and being part of them can help you perform well individually and alongside others to achieve important goals.

Leadership is a mindset that requires you to be clear about your values, strengths, and aspirations; however, women often don't have clarity about what they want for themselves. In Embracing Your Power, executive coach Marsha L. Clark provides the tools professionally minded women can use to grow their self-awareness. From building better relationships and maintaining boundaries to managing conflict and trusting your intuition, you can use Clark's methods to rediscover your greatness and become a more authentic leader.

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, workplaces worldwide were required to experiment with some type of remote work. If they haven't already, most organizations will embrace a hybrid working situation, combining both remote and office-based work. To successfully navigate this new situation, they'll need to develop new processes for recruitment, retention, and evaluation that promote employee well-being and positive relationships. In Remote Workplace Culture, Sean O'Meara and Cary Cooper combine recent research with insightful anecdotes from both employees and employers to highlight the challenges and opportunities of this new world of work.

In Work from Anywhere, Alison and Darren Hill share how to build an exceptional hybrid team so your employees can successfully work from anywhere. Embrace the journey of slaying the beasts that stand in your way, and learn new strategies to effectively lead your team. The authors' tips will help you gain a toolbox of skills to develop an effective team culture and reach peak performance and individual autonomy.

Research shows that working remotely and relying too much on digital communication has created a loneliness epidemic. In Work Better Together, Jen Fisher and Anh Phillips argue that to combat this problem, you must create a company culture that prioritizes meaningful relationships among coworkers. By cultivating authentic, trust-based teams throughout your company, you'll improve not only your employees' productivity but also their happiness and health.

Conflict occurs regularly in the workplace, and whether that conflict is egregious or subtle, it can take a lasting toll on relationships, morale, and productivity. However, many conflicts can be resolved through conversation. In Let's Talk About It, Dr. Paul L. Marciano coaches professionals through the talks they must have to counteract conflict at work. He helps them navigate difficult conversations by framing them in the same ways they would healthy interactions: with calmness, composure, respect, transparency, and openness.

In Emotional Intelligence, Amy Jacobson explains how to control your emotions and mindset to achieve better outcomes in all facets of life. By following her process to disrupt your mindset and own your performance, you can also learn how to meet the needs of your team members, customers, family members, and other individuals you're interacting with. By applying her techniques, you can increase performance, outcomes, and engagement levels for yourself, your teams, and your organization.

Team alignment is a prerequisite to successful collaboration. With the right tools, business teams can systematically measure and promote alignment--ensuring everyone is on the same page before the project begins. In High-Impact Tools for Teams, Stefano Mastrogiacomo and Alex Osterwalder offer visual templates business leaders can use to align their teams, while promoting the respectful, open communication essential to effective teamwork.

Leadership requires constant growth and a focus on organizational accountability. In Management Productivity Multipliers, Gerald Kraines, MD, offers a roadmap to becoming a better, more accountable leader. His recommendations will help you to lead more effectively, eliminate hindering hierarchies, assess and develop employee potential, and improve overall accountability, resulting in a more productive organization.

In Building Top-Performing Teams, executive and team coaches Lucy Widdowson and Paul J. Barbour apply the concept of coaching, typically used one-on-one in professional settings, to entire teams in order to maximize performance. By engaging a team coach—someone outside of the team itself, but perhaps within the organization—team members can heighten their awareness; gain a collective sense of purpose, values, and beliefs; and innovate to find new, more effective ways of working together. This transformational process takes time, commitment, and courage, but investing in the most powerful organizational resource—people—will set your organization on a path for business success.

Organizations only move as fast as their leaders. In Lead with Speed, leadership expert Alan Willett reveals how teams and entire organizations can get better results faster. You'll learn the differences between fast and slow organizations, how to help teams work together, and how exceptional employees can accelerate an entire organization.

Teams exist to complete projects, but projects can only succeed when you have good relationships with your team members. Without strong relationships, your team will struggle to work together and will be vulnerable to low motivation, toxic behavior, and other management crises. In The Socially Intelligent Project Manager, project management expert Kim Wasson teaches team leaders how to build trust with their team members, motivate everyone to work toward a project's goal, and create a genial environment.