Kindle Pick of the Week: The Successful Manager

It’s the moment you’ve been working toward for years — you’ve finally been promoted to manager! But your initial wave of excitement quickly ebbs once the reality of your situation sinks in: Your success now hinges entirely on the performance of others, and you’ve been offered no managerial training to help you navigate this new frontier.

“Few organizations provide new managers with the resources to help ensure their success during this period of massive change. New managers are left to ‘figure it out’ in the wild,” writes James Potter in The Successful Manager: Practical Approaches for Building and Leading High-Performance Teams. In it, he and co-author Mike Kavanagh dissect every aspect of becoming a top-tier manager and distill it into practical tools and techniques that professionals can implement immediately.

Perfect for new and experienced managers alike, The Successful Manager provides concrete information covering a spectrum of managerial responsibilities, including how to set goals and give reviews; how to prioritize your time and delegate effectively; how to coach constructively and give feedback; how to motivate and inspire your team; how to build trust with a remote team; how to handle tough situations; and so much more.

Other key offerings include:

· A clear framework to guide you in building the fundamental competencies of an outstanding manager
· Practical examples, stories and tips from some of the world’s greatest managers of teams and large organizations
· Diagnostics to foster self-reflection and to gauge your progress on your journey to becoming a top-tier manager
· Descriptions of the challenges you can expect to experience as a manager and advice on how to adopt the mindset that will help you triumph and emerge as a truly great manager

If your team succeeds, you succeed. And that is precisely your role as a manager — to build and grow an outstanding team and to elicit the best team performance possible to achieve the desired results.

James Potter is the Chief Commercial Officer at Dunes Point Capital. In his prior role, Potter was the Senior Managing Director and Global Practice Leader at Blue Ridge Partners, a global management consulting firm that focuses exclusively on accelerating profitable revenue growth. He has helped over 100 organizations and their leadership teams. The measure of his success is not pretty PowerPoint presentations or 2x2 frameworks, but the results he drives for his clients and their organizations. Potter also founded two software companies that were acquired and has worked in public organizations such as General Electric and NBCUniversal.

Mike Kavanagh is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, consultant and educator in the areas of leadership, performance and personal development. He is the CEO and Founder of Self-Mastery for Leaders, a business that arms individuals with the tools to maximize well-being, reclaim their time and freedom and become world-class leaders. Kavanagh also works with progressive organizations to define winning strategies, build extraordinary cultures and win the talent war. He is on a personal mission to help end corporate malaise, ignite people’s passion and fulfillment in their work, and build the next generation of truly incredible leaders.

For more information, please visit https://www.thesuccessfulmanager.com/.\

Kindle Pick of the Week: Mart of Darkness

The CEO of AllMart, the world's largest chain of discount stores, has become unhinged and the feds send a team of ultra-deep special forces to stop him. This gritty, genre-bashing, darkly-comic dystopian/sci-fi/thriller mashup takes you on a hallucinogenic carnival ride through the company's flagship store that covers an ever-expanding swath of southern Ohio. Told through the horrified eyes of K, an office temp who has accidentally been recruited for his "special skills," Mart of Darkness pits the team against feral live-in shoppers, morality-free executives and quantum technology that threatens to collapse the global economy. K is in way over his head and can't find a way out.

Join him as he crosses the Videocean, passes through the Great Gates of Giardiniera and gains a lasting appreciation for early Native American hunting practices. Chug an energy drink, don't expect cell phone service inside, and climb on for the ride!

A great read by Phil Granchi.

Kindle Pick of the Week: Before Your Horse Comes Home...

As humans, we have relied upon horses for transportation and as work partners for years. While horses aren’t essential to our everyday survival now, they are still stunning companions who can provide endless enjoyment for their human caretakers.

At the same time, horses can be very complicated, especially for novice owners. Attempting to research horse care can be very overwhelming if you’re new to horse ownership. It’s all too easy to find complicated or conflicting advice. How do you determine what’s right for your equine companion?

In Before Your Horse Comes Home: Introductory Horse Care for Beginners, Meredith Hill details the ins and outs of horse care, as compiled throughout her over 30 years of experience as a caretaker for horses. From creating the right feed program to manure management, Ms. Hill will walk readers through the ins and outs of horsemanship.

In this book you’ll learn:

✓ Is horse ownership right for you?

✓ What does a horse need to be happy and healthy?

✓ What kind of home is right for your horse?

✓ What type of tools and equipment are required for horse ownership?

Horses are beautiful yet delicate animals and have care requirements that differ from nearly every other species of domesticated animal. In fact, you may be shocked to discover each horse requires their own care routine.

Don’t worry- Ms. Hill has your back. Throughout Before Your Horse Comes Home: Introductory Horse Care for Beginners, you’ll learn how to make the best decisions for your horse’s long-term care so that your hooved buddy can live a long, happy life.

If you’ve always dreamed of having a horse of your own, but don’t know where to start Before Your Horse Comes Home: Introductory Horse Care for Beginners by Meredith Hill is an excellent resource that will guide you through all of the practical considerations and concerns of caring for your very first horse.

Kindle Pick of the Week: I'm Not Single, I Have a Dog

Once upon a time in America, marriage was the norm. But now, for the first time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking these numbers in 1976, there are more single Americans than married — a total of about 50.2%, or 124.6 million American adults are single.
 
Just as the single life overtakes marriage in the United States, a new book from McFarland Publishers hits the market. I'm Not Single, I Have a Dog: Dating Tales From The Bark Side is the perfect holiday gift for singles, anyone who ever dated the wrong person (and who hasn’t?), and the 63.4 million Americans who love their dogs. Celebrating the human/canine bond, this thoughtful and funny memoir is about acceptance, love, and finding your own happily ever after.
   
Author Susan Hartzler shares her own personal journey to find Mr. Right inviting readers to follow her through life’s many ups and downs on her way to finding unconditional love. The book begins on a purposeful trip to the pound where she hopes to find a dog to care for — one that will sniff out the bad guys. Susan’s personal journey is full of the hard decisions it took to learn to put herself first and stop entering and staying in unhealthy relationships.

Susan might not have found a man, but she finds her dog, giving her a sense of purpose and helping her discover meaning in her crazy world. By saving a dog, she rescues herself, loving herself as much as her dog loves her. After all, there is no love like dog love. It can change your life forever, completing you with unconditional love.

The book is already receiving rave reviews, like this one from the Santa Barbara News-Press, and has been selected by Modern Dog Magazine to be part of Connie's Book Club.

Book Pick of the Week: Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story

This is an amazing look at Ali outside the ring and his creativity.

For most people, it’s a little known fact Cassius Clay Sr. was a house painter as well as fine arts painter in his hometown Louisville and that he shared his love of the arts and encouraged his son, known globally as Muhammad Ali, to explore his artistic side.

Over the years, Ali expressed himself beautifully and produced a large number of drawings, paintings and, poetry over the years. In 1977, historian, Rodney Hilton Brown, veteran, collector, and author, was the owner of an art gallery in Manhattan. He met  Muhammad Ali at a charity boxing match in Boston. They formed a friendship and partnership that lasted for the rest of Ali’s lifetime. Rodney became the greatest boxer of all time’s art dealer, friend, confidant, representative to the United Nations, and business.  Ali lovingly nicknamed him “The Vanilla Brother.”   

Rodney, now in his seventh decade, felt the time was ripe to tell his story and share his never-before-revealed memories about the decades he spent with “the greatest of all time” with the world.  The result is MUHAMMAD ALI: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet, and Prophet.

Hilton-Brown’s rare and extensive collection of Muhammad Ali’s artwork and some other items will be sold at auction this coming October 5, 2021, in the morning at Bonhams in Manhattan and online.

There are so many interesting facts and images in this book!

Order here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/B09278NYXT?pf_rd_r=HN79B854FK0A4K0MXX6H&pf_rd_p=998a331d-e630-4be2-89e8-2b12acda8926&pd_rd_r=559aeade-82b3-4a78-820e-49d9649fe13c&pd_rd_w=JxMZn&pd_rd_wg=uVPqh&ref_=pd_gw_unk