Best-selling Leadership and Management Books

Often people who teach don’t know how to transfer their great content to others effectively. In Brilliance by Design, inspirational author and trainer, Vicky Halsey, lays out a comprehensive instructional design model that deeply engages and energizes learners. She shows how to create content that is clear, relevant, easily absorbed, and readily retained because it facilitates each participant’s brilliance.

Written by two master certified business coaches and leaders in the business coaching field, Coaching in Organizations provides a powerful guide designed to help human development professionals develop and implement coaching programs that deliver a real return on their organization's training investment.

Everyone knows collaboration is crucial to creating high performance organizations with today's diverse, globalized workforce. Using his signature business parable style, Ken Blanchard and his coauthors show that if collaboration is to succeed, it must begin with you. This book teaches people at all levels—from new associates to top executives—that it's up to each of us to help promote and preserve a winning culture of collaboration.

In Customer Mania!, Ken Blanchard shares the key to customer service—creating a people-oriented, performance-driven, customer-first organization. Along with coauthors Jim Ballard and Fred Finch, Blanchard explains why the customer is the right starting place from which to build a successful business.

Don Shula, the most successful coach in NFL history, teams up with Dr. Ken Blanchard to share their secrets for inspiring others to greatness. They use the acronym, COACH, to describe the qualities of an effective leader, sharing how each coaching concept works both on the field and in business situations.

Successful leaders don’t rest on their laurels. Leadership must be a living process, not a title on a business card, and life means growth. Great Leaders Grow shows leaders and aspiring leaders precisely which areas to focus on and how to develop a long-term growth plan to achieve professional success as well as personal fulfillment.

Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, coauthors of the New York Times business bestseller Raving Fans!^®, are back with Gung Ho!^®. Raving Fans taught managers how to turn customers into full-fledged fans, and now, Gung Ho! brings the same magic to employees. This book is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace.

Ken Blanchard and WD-40 Company leader, Garry Ridge, reveal how WD-40 has used Blanchard’s techniques of Partnering for Performance with every employee to reinvent their performance review system—achieving levels of engagement and commitment that have fortified the bottom line.

High Five! combines the charm of a timeless parable with cutting-edge information about why teams are important and what individuals and organizations can do to build successful ones. Through the story of Alan Foster, a workplace one-man band, High Five! identifies the four key ingredients needed to build winning teams.

This updated edition of management guru Ken Blanchard’s classic work, Leadership and the One Minute Manager teaches leaders how to develop self-reliance in those they manage using the world’s most widely taught leadership model, SLII^®.