Break through to your peak performance! Whether you're navigating your way on a new team, expanding your leadership role, or just trying to get heard in a meeting, you're facing the kind of workplace challenge we all run into sooner or later: you need a new performance. In Performance Breakthrough, Cathy Salit presents the revolutionary strategies that she's proven successful through over twenty years' experience custom-creating workshops for powerhouse clients including American Express, Nike, Coca-Cola, and DIRECTV. Artfully blending techniques from theatrical performance with the new science of performative psychology, Salit guides readers through forging new relationships guaranteed to yield greater success and satisfaction. Performance Breakthrough outlines proven techniques, including taking an emotional inventory; crafting new scripts for greater confidence, stronger relationships, and better outcomes; building ensembles; improvising; and listening -- really listening -- including accepting others' criticism and input. No matter what your challenge, Salit's innovative philosophy, case studies, practical exercises, and inspiring advice will help you deliver your own top performance.

This book is for the REAL MANAGERS at work - individual contributors - & their bosses who want to encourage them to be more pro-active. With flatter organizations demanding more speed & flexibility, EVERYONE MUST MANAGE THEMSELVES & THEIR PEERS. Personal & organizational survival is at stake. For over 22 years clients like Intel, Motorola, Levi Strauss & Co., Cisco Systems & Bristol-Meyers Squibb have relied on Bill Daniels' system to achieve & sustain ever-increasing levels of productivity. They use this book to: work successfully with the formal & informal power structures, develop a personal performance plan that focuses on key results, keep goals aligned with others, get into Breakthrough Systems (clear expectations, informal feedback systems & resource control), create a learning-rich environment. It also addresses that most vital skill of coordination: how to create real teamwork at meetings. Daniels' profound understanding of how organizations really work is shared in a practical, inviting text that offers readers a way to increase their value to their organizations. An easy read with a powerful message, each chapter has worksheets & guidelines that invite readers to take immediate action, either alone or in teams, one step at a time. Absolutely indispensable for anyone concerned about staying vital at work. To order: American Consulting & Training, Inc., 655 Redwood Highway, #395, Mill Valley, CA 94941; 415-388-6651; 800-995-6651; FAX: 415-388-6672.

-Identify your critical decisions. Focus on those that matter most to your company's performance. --

Turn Potential into Performance! Gallup Organization research has concluded that only 29 percent of employees are truly engaged in the work they do. That's like an engine running at less than one-third of its power! How can a team reach its potential, or even come anywhere close, with that level of engagement? Imagine the impact of injecting more passion into your team. Revised and enhanced from the popular first edition, Performance Breakthrough reveals the four secrets for creating a more passionate, productive, and profitable organization. This book's message is communicated in the form of a fictional story to help make these ideas real and implementable, as opposed to fuzzy concepts. That is augmented by valuable new case studies, summaries, checklists, and other tools that will help you create positive energy, find passion, and achieve your own Performance Breakthrough!

Howard Gardner's classic book Multiple Intelligences exploded the myth that intelligence can be measured along a single dimension. Now Lynne Levesque shows that creativity, like intelligences, exists in a variety of forms, and demonstrates that high-performance organizations need to make use of creativity in all its dimensions. It takes more than just "thinking outside the box" to build a flexible, adaptive organization that will survive competitive battles, grow and prosper, and provide the environment that attracts and keeps the best talent. On the basis of her research in personality, innovation and creativity, as well as her experience helping top executives achieve their full potential, Levesque describes eight distinct creative talents. People of each talent have a unique way of looking at challenges, collecting data and generating creative solutions. Breakthrough Creativity describes in individual chapters how each talent works, how each contributes to the creative process and how each can improve decision making, team building and strategic planning and thinking. Breakthrough Creativity brings to life the stories and rich experiences of working individuals around the world to help readers discover their own creative talents and use them to further their professional and personal lives.

At last-a proven system for developing the strategic innovations every company needs to compete and win As everyone knows, today's unprecedented rate of business change demands new levels of strategic insight and adaptability. Reinventing Strategy is the first practical, systematic guide to creating an adaptive enterprise, showing how companies around the world are using the Strategic Learning approach to consistently out think, out maneuver, and out perform their competition. As Willie Pietersen explains, companies that aspire to long-term success must develop and implement strategy as part of a continuous four-step cycle-Learn, Focus, Align, Execute-and he offers dozens of provocative anecdotes and case studies, illustrating how to implement it at every level of an organization. Written with unusual clarity, frankness, and wit, Reinventing Strategy will change the way managers everywhere approach their greatest and most important challenge: the need to make strategy into a tool for ongoing corporate renewal.

Sick of Powders and Potions? Want a Better Way? Do you want a quick and easy way to enhance your sports performance without drugs or steroids? What if the solution to superior performance could be found right in the supermarket? Most sports supplements are expensive, if not hard to find or hard to take. You work out hard enough as it is. It’s time your supplements work just as hard as you do. But there’s no need to choke down any more pills or chalky powders. There’s an easier and tastier solution. It just so happens to be the secret of Olympic-caliber hockey players, cyclists, and runners, too. No Need to Sacrifice Health for Performance What if you could enhance your performance and clean out your liver at the same time? Common substances like alcohol, caffeine, and environmental pollution can all slow down your body’s natural detoxification pathways, leading to fatigue. For athletes like you, fatigue means decreased performance, slower recovery time, and more time on the proverbial (or actual) bench. What if, in addition to cleaning out your liver, you could cancel out the free radicals that are swimming around in your system? Free radicals are constantly being produced during exercise, but clearing them out leads to faster recovery times and better health overall. The Solution You’ve Been Waiting For So what is this mystery performance-enhancing supplement that’s easy to take and easy to find? Beets! That’s right, the vegetable. Beets contain potent antioxidants to eradicate free radicals and vasodilators to increase oxygenation to muscles. They have also been known for centuries to be liver detoxifiers. Beets and Sport Performance is the go-to guide for learning everything you would want to know about this invaluable veggie. With this book, you’ll learn the why, the how, and even get some recipes so you can start using beets to your advantage today.