Category: Advice & How To

Read the Room: What Leaders Hear Before Anyone Speaks

The biggest leadership mistakes often happen before anyone says a word. Read the Room reveals how to spot hidden tension, unspoken resistance, and the subtle signals most leaders miss. Drawing on more than 30 years of real-world leadership experience, John Guszak shares 39 practical tools to help you understand what’s really happening in the room, handle difficult moments, build trust, and become the leader people actually want to follow. $4.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Confidence is Action

What if confidence isn’t something you need before you act—but something you build because you act? Confidence Is Action challenges the idea that you need to feel ready, certain, or fearless before moving forward. Through practical tools, the Confidence Wheel® framework, and honest stories from real women, Tricia Conyers shows you how to move through self-doubt, fear, and uncertainty and become even more Brilliant, Brave, and Bold. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Before the Next Tragedy: Preventing Harm in School Shooting Scenarios

Principled Safety® for K–12: A Scenario-Driven Guide to Prevent Harm in School Shootings. We can prevent casualties in school shootings—if we change how we plan for school safety. With the right system, harm in school shooting scenarios may be prevented. This field guide adapts proven high-reliability practices to K–12 security, giving school administration a consistent, equitable way to secure schools. Instead of focusing emergency preparedness on past shootings, John Menna—a veteran ... [Read More...]

Free: Declutter Your Home, Declutter Your Life

Your home should give you energy, not quietly drain it. If you have ever opened a closet, stared at a box of inherited photos, or walked past a cluttered room and felt your body tighten, you are not alone. The problem is not laziness. It is not age. It is not a lack of willpower. Often, it is Visual Static, the emotional and mental noise created by unfinished decisions, inherited belongings, guilt gifts, old identities, and spaces that no longer support the life you are living now. In Declutter... [Read More...]

From Ally to All-In: The Five Stages of Moving Beyond Privilege and Becoming a More Inclusive Leader

Business leadership today requires more than good intentions. Leaders are expected to foster belonging, navigate difficult conversations, and build cultures where people thrive, yet many feel uncertain about what to say or how to engage without making costly mistakes. In From Ally to All-In, executive leadership advisor Mike Lynch shares a practical framework for moving from awareness to meaningful action. Drawing on more than 30 years of executive HR experience, he introduces the five stages o... [Read More...]

Agentic AI for Leaders: Build AI Fluency, Discover Real Opportunities, and Thrive in the Era of Digital Workers

Every leader is being told to “do something with AI.” Almost none of them have been shown how. Between the hype, the vendor pitches, and the pile of pilots that never go anywhere, most executives are stuck, and quietly worried they are falling behind. Agentic AI for Leaders was written to change that. It is a clear, practical guide for business and functional leaders who want to move from understanding AI to actually leading with it, and they do not need a technical background to fo... [Read More...]

The Control Standard: How to Own Outcomes, Reduce Surprises, and Become the Person Leaders Trust

You’re busy. But is the work actually under control? In most growing organisations, the felt loss of control isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a drift problem. Work starts clear and slowly goes vague. Owners are implied, never named. Decisions stall. And the surprises that land late were visible all along — no one owned the act of raising them. The Control Standard is a practical operating standard for the people who keep work moving: ambitious operators, new and emerging man... [Read More...]

The Structured Deal: A Legal Insider’s Guide to Business Acquisitions Through Letters of Intent

The Structured Deal is your practical guide to navigating business acquisitions with confidence. Written by attorney and deal process educator Sara Sharp, this book pulls back the curtain on what really happens behind successful transactions and provides a clear roadmap from initial discussions to closing. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Deal With Your Crap

Most of us have crap. Unresolved stuff from our past doesn’t stay buried. It shows up in your leadership, your relationships, your reactions — and no matter how successful you become, if you don’t deal with what’s under the surface, it will eventually deal with you. Deal With Your Crap is the complete roadmap for facing what’s underneath — and actually changing it. No psychobabble. No sugar-coating. Just a step-by-step framework for surfacing the deeper patterns runn... [Read More...]

Free: The Non-Negotiables Series

Have you written a terrific book but haven’t the foggiest idea how to get it edited, traditionally published, or marketed to the public? The books in The Non-Negotiables series are comprehensive guides that condense the process into simple, straightforward steps with clear details. So, demystify the process and get your book into the hands of the buying public. Grab your copy now! Free to $2.99 on Kindle. Learn More ... [Read More...]