The Game Changer Network

People will make the wrong decision. People will not respond well. I will lose my authority. I will no longer be needed. Nanette L. Steffenhagen review- "This book pertains to improving leadership skills by drilling down into issues using the "Tell me more" technique, which gets "all the cards on the playing table". Using this fresh approach, the leader's facilitation enables their direct-reports...

Rachael O’Meara was a customer support manager at Google when she realized she was burned out and needed to reassess her path. The best way to do this was to take a “pause”—a time-out to create space for her inner voice to be heard and to align her actions to lead a more fulfilled life. Pause: Harnessing the Life-Changing Power of Giving Yourself a Break is her new book, serving as a GPS for other...

Every business is a system – Simple_Complexity reveals the structure and dynamics of the system so you can excel at managing it. Every manager knows a business is a system, yet very few have studied systems thinking or system dynamics. This is a critical oversight, one which Simple_Complexity remedies. Simple_Complexity reveals the fundamental system archetype at work in your enterprise and prescr...

We are operating in a world defined by rapid-fire change, shifting markets, and a high demand for innovation. Yet, in spite of the world’s battle cry for newness and growth, businesses continue to suffer from net margin erosion, lack of productivity, and a decline in employee morale. In DECIDE TO PROFIT: 9 Steps to a Better Bottom Line, Dorriah L. Rogers, Ph. D. – CEO of Paradyne Consulting Works,...

Put More Time on Your Side: How to Manage Your Life in a Digital World, sociologist, business, and relationship expert Dr. Jan Yager helps you to become more efficient in a work world that is more demanding and 24/7 than ever before. In this concise and provocative book, you will learn: The #1 factor you can control to revolutionize your time management. How to deal with distractions and fragmenta...

With unfiltered observations and sometimes dark humor, author Dayna Steele chronicled her mother’s journey with Alzheimer’s on Facebook. This collection of Alzheimer’s updates posted on the social media network includes biting humor and raw emotion as Dayna carries you from the diagnosis to the inevitable end. Also included are sections from a neurologist, Long Term Care insurance specialist, othe...

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationship they have built with you? Most important . . . is your company capable of setting aside a...

I call one of my values “wind in my face” because I value the spirit of adventure– the feeling I get when sitting on top of a safari vehicle with wind blowing in my face. Climbing Kilimanjaro aligns with my values and makes me feel engaged and excited. If your employees feel their job aligns with their values, they will feel engaged and excited too. How do you make that happen? Do you want to be a...

Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But the truth is, there are people out there — a lot of them — who treat stealing your identity as a full-time job. One such company is a nameless firm located in Russia, which has a trove of over...

“Most organizations direct the majority of their development resources to the C-suite, but still expect mid-level managers to attract, engage, retain, and develop talent,” say management consultants Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage, authors of the new book MANAGING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: How To Engage, Retain, & Develop Talent For Maximum Performance. “Successfully juggling everyday duties while mai...

Too many leaders fail to ask the two most important questions about their company: Who are we? And why do we matter? Like people, companies are organisms that reflect their creators, their environments, their obstacles, and their strengths. They carry a core instruction set that informs the actions and outcomes of their work. In short, they have DNA – what Cunningham calls corporate DNA – and ther...

For many years, Chris has seen people aspiring to make changes and grow but struggled at different phases of their career and life. He is just like you, a regular person that has faced similar struggles. Chris shares from experience what has worked successfully through hard work and dedication to help in your challenges. We all reach crossroads in our lives. Is it your time to make life changing d...

What makes some leaders effective when the stakes are high, while others fall short? Why are some able to not only survive but to lead their organizations to new heights even in risky, fast-changing times? In her new book, HIGH-STAKES LEADERSHIP: LEADING THROUGH CRISIS WITH COURAGE, JUDGMENT AND FORTITUDE, Dierickx shows that successful leaders are expert practitioners in high-stakes leadership –...

The higher position in an organization one aspires to, the more critical soft skills of leadership and communications are to success. In a world where instant messaging, social media, and on-demand news and entertainment are stretching attention spans to the limit, the ability to communicate effectively separates those who join the executive ranks from the also-rans. In COMMUNICATE LIKE A LEADER:...

Thinking Outside of the Box The Healy family’s life changed forever on December 6, 1997. On the cool Saturday morning, their bubbly three-year-old daughter, Monica, fell off a Christmas parade float and was rushed to The Hospital for Sick Children. What began as a fun-filled day quickly turned to near tragedy. Although Monica would eventually recover from her injuries, the experience gave the Heal...

Anyone concerned about finances―and that’s just about everyone―will welcome this step-by-step guide to opening up about a difficult subject. It offers a strategy that can save money, improve relationships, and help people raise fiscally responsible children. This interview with Kathleen Burns Kingsbury discusses the following: • Discusses the societal, familial, and personal roadblocks that make t...

Lars Helgeson – CRM for Dummies by Chicke Fitzgerald

The Right--and Wrong--Stuff is a candid, unvarnished guide to the bumpy road to success. The shocking truth is that 98 percent of us have at least one career-derailment risk factor, and half to two-thirds actually go off the rails. And the reason why people get fired, demoted, or plateau is because they let the wrong stuff act out, not because they lack talent, energy, experience, or credentials.

The business and self-help shelves may be overflowing with success books, but author Libby Gill has found a totally fresh perspective on the topic of leadership: hope. “Libby Gill offers us a roadmap to be positive and hopeful for the future. This is a must-read for those of us ready to embrace true hope!” ―Marshall Goldsmith, author of the #1 New York Timesbestseller Triggers Libby is the founder...

The lifeblood of any services business is its clients. Those who deal with clients day-to-day—the Account Leads—must keep the clients coming back for more. But clients can sometimes be difficult to please. In My Client is the Devil (And Other Myths), Drs. Steve Fedorko and Mark McKinney take a closer look at the relationship between the Account Lead and the client. What is different, and groundbre...

UNSTOPPABLE takes the most valuable lessons and top commonalities on how to succeed and lays out the 9 principles for unlimited success… in both business, and in life. Proven by author Kelly Roach’s award-winning career in corporate and as an entrepreneur, UNSTOPPABLE is set to inspire everyone from the new entrepreneur to the seasoned CEO. In this much anticipated book, Kelly Roach breaks down th...

Stacie Solie is on a mission to inspire women to be the healthiest versions of themselves so they can be free of physical and financial pain and have the confidence to live the life they truly deserve. This interview with Stacie Solie is done in partnership with NowSCPress. It is a part of our Game Changing Faith series. Have you struggled to reach your goal weight? Tried every diet under the sun...

In this poignant book, Shirley tells the tragic, yet hopeful story of Matthew DeRemer who suffered from bi-polar disorder. Life is often difficult. It comes with a myriad of unanticipated situations and unexpected challenges.  Some are extremely complicated—but does the answer to that question have to be? Complicated, I mean.  What if the answer to our most complicated, tragic, and difficult exper...

In this poignant book, Shirley tells the tragic, yet hopeful story of Matthew DeRemer who suffered from bi-polar disorder. Life is often difficult. It comes with a myriad of unanticipated situations and unexpected challenges.  Some are extremely complicated—but does the answer to that question have to be? Complicated, I mean.  What if the answer to our most complicated, tragic, and difficult exper...

The Seed Was Always There - from the What Matters Most Series by Lucy Kyllonen and Lena Meadowcroft Are you struggling to maintain your faith in a fallen world? Finding challenges in your everyday life, and wishing you could draw closer to God? In the newest book in our What Matters Most of All series, The Seed Was Always There: Impactful Stories from Women Pastors, ordinary topics that present ex...