Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day 
Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss 
Harper Business
January 2024, $41.00 

In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction while avoiding burnout. 

In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you’ve had a productive day—to consistently work at your “optimal” level. Based on research into how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance. 

Excellence in Operational Resilience: How to Lead, Follow and Guide the Way 
Michael W. Janko 
Routledge
March 2024, $64.99 

Providing essential guidance to thrive in a complex environment, this book showcases tools to take the leadership role in building resilience in any organization in a timely, effective, and practical way for today’s risks and tomorrow’s challenges. 

All organizations seek to be resilient, yet most do not have a clear definition of what that means for them, or a plan to manage the journey to attain it. This resilience playbook includes the right combination of technical knowledge, team structure, leadership support, and behavioural competencies, all based on a clear “lead, follow, guide” framework. Based on the author’s three decades of successfully implementing resilience-based strategies at Goodyear and other major firms, the book offers road-tested advice and techniques to bring quick wins and long-term success in organizational resilience. 

With this book to assist, risk-savvy executive leaders and professionals working in business continuity, risk management, security, information technology, supply chain, operations management, and process improvement will maintain a constant pulse on their journey toward resilience, keep the right people engaged, and create a team-based approach to reach their goals. 

The Score That Matters: Growing Excellence in Yourself and Those You Lead 
Ryan Hawk and Brook Cupps 
Matt Holt
March 2024, $37.99 

People love to keep score. Managers keep score of a range of business metrics: market share, revenue, profit margin, growth rate. In our personal lives, social media has us keeping score by likes and followers. 

These external scores are outcome-driven and serve as proof of our success—money, fame, material possessions, wins—but this constant chase for more validation often leaves us feeling exhausted and empty. 

In The Score That Matters, Ryan Hawk and Brook Cupps show that the internal score is what matters most: it reveals whether we are living in alignment with our purpose and values. It also measures how we are leading ourselves and others. 

Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence
Rusty Komori 
Made for Success Publishing 
May 2024, $46.99

Prepare to elevate your game with Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence, a special-edition hardcover that combines the unparalleled wisdom of Rusty Komori’s acclaimed works, Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, each a standalone marvel in its own right. Rusty Komori masterfully fuses the essence of these two groundbreaking books while preserving their individual spirits, delivering the best of both worlds in one extraordinary read. 

At its core, Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence serves as a proven, comprehensive guide for cultivating a high-performance culture rooted in disciplined details and an insatiable appetite for excellence. Seize this opportunity to gain game-changing, actionable insights from one of the most successful coaches in sports history, and prepare yourself to craft a culture that not only performs, but surpasses every obstacle in its path.

Elevate Your Excellence: The Power of Doing Ordinary Things Extraordinarily Well
Dave Anderson 
Matt Holt 
August 2024, $39.99 

Based on his most popular seminars and trainings, Dave Anderson, founder of LearntoLead.com, will help you build a custom plan to boost performance both inside and outside of the workplace. Elevate Your Excellence offers strategies anyone can use to improve often-neglected everyday disciplines like hydration, sleep quality, and mindset maintenance that can make all the difference in generating high-quality performance. 

Regardless of industry, position, age, experience, and geography, Anderson’s guidelines are proven techniques to make excellence an innate part of your personal brand. Whether you’re running a household or building a corporate culture, the game-changing action items in this book will inspire you to do and be better—and will truly elevate your excellence. 

Learned Excellence: Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World’s Top Performers 
Eric Potterat and Alan Eagle 
Harper Business 
February 2024, $40.50 

Learn how to perform at your very best from the psychologist who has advised elite military operators, Olympic medalists, big wave surfers, neurosurgeons, cliff divers, first responders, Cirque du Soleil acrobats, professional athletes and coaches, Fortune 500 business executives, and CIA analysts. 

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance from the expert who developed the U.S. Navy SEALs’ mental toughness curriculum. 

In Learned Excellence, Eric Potterat distills the insights he’s learned into five mental disciplines for high performance: values and goals, mindset, process, adversity tolerance, and balance and recovery. Illustrated with numerous stories and quotes, Learned Excellence features clear principles and practices that anyone can use to raise their game. 

We are all performers, at work, at school, at home, and at life. Learned Excellence provides the roadmap to help each of us perform at our very best. 

The Inclusive Leader: Embracing Diversity for Organizational Excellence 
Mustafa Nejem 
Maritime 
January 2024, $20.50

In this timely book, Mustafa Nejem explores the importance of inclusive leadership in today’s diverse and globalized world. Through compelling stories and practical guidance, readers will learn how to cultivate an inclusive mindset, foster diversity, and create a culture of belonging within their organizations. This book offers insights into the benefits of inclusive leadership and provides strategies for leaders to effectively navigate and leverage diversity to drive innovation and achieve organizational excellence. 

Decisions Based on Data: Analytics for Business Excellence 
Bastian Weber 
Hafsa Publisher 
January 2024, $22.99 

To help organizations thrive in the modern digital age, Decisions Based on Data: Analytics for Business Excellence provides a comprehensive overview of data-driven decision-making and how to traverse its complex landscape. The book is a guide for executives and professionals who want to use data to their advantage in a world where analytics is crucial for success. 

Delve into state-of-the-art approaches that take companies to the next level, revealing insights that power strategic decision-making. The analytics landscape is being shaped by hot buzzwords in every chapter, ranging from ethical considerations in data utilization to predictive analytics and machine learning. 

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