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The CEO Connection Book Publishing Service curates bestselling, award-winning, and thought-leading business books written by CEO Connection Members and friends.

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Be The Best Part of Their Day: Supercharging Communication with Values-Driven Leadership

What’s the “secret sauce” to Supercharged Communications? Can it be quantified? Can it be taught? More than that, as a leader, who are you? What are the values you project―not just in the workplace but 24/7?

David Schreiner, Ph.D., spent years researching and speaking to executives and people in large organizations across the country to try to discover just that. The good news is he uncovered three essential elements to communication:

Engage and connect at a personal level.
Engage with intent through various mediums.
Be mission-focused through united leadership.

He also pinpointed fifteen effective strategies―principles and concepts you could begin to apply to your organization today. He created a platform of Supercharged Communications he could use as a CEO in the healthcare industry―but that could be applied no matter the sector, no matter the circumstances.

Utilizing the technique of Appreciative Inquiry―and a real and personal desire to connect with others, David Schreiner has embraced authentic leadership and distilled its best practices. Research-based and actionable, Schreiner invites the reader on a personal journey to get at the very heart of their organization―and the communications principles that can ensure readers are the best part of the day for the people they encounter.

Digital Simplified: Digital business enables growth, speed, innovation—Digital transformation creates scale

“As a technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Raj Vattikuti has the ideal background to outline the steps of creating a Digital Strategy. Ram Charan is one of the world’s most influential consultants who brings deep business insight and understanding of digital business. Together Raj and Ram explain the benefits and pitfalls of various approaches and why standing still means failure. This book explains how a digital business thinks, operates with agility, develops deeper customer relationships, and appropriately uses technology. It also emphasizes that developing a Digital Strategy is an ongoing process to sustain a competitive advantage and provides a template to help business compete in a digital economy. This book offers a practical perspective from decades of partnering with various businesses across many sectors and outlines how to create value for your customers and business.” —Jacques Nasser AC

Experience Rules! The Experience Operating System (XOS) and 8 Keys to Enable It

Experience Rules! is a game-changing guide on experience management by industry pioneers Michael Hinshaw and Diane Magers. You’ll discover the transformative power of the Experience Operating System (XOS), an innovative framework for brands looking to better leverage customer and employee experiences as a significant competitive edge.

Offering a clear, practical roadmap, the book empowers experience leaders and executives to deliver transformative change within their organizations. Hinshaw and Magers combine their expertise strategies and tools for creating consistently exceptional customer and employee experience.

Whether you’re an industry veteran or a novice to experience management, Experience Rules! is a catalyst for unlocking the potential of customer-centricity, and an invaluable companion for future-proofing your brand.

The Human iOS

Through a tale of inner exploration, Andrés Ruzo brings to life the deep yearning all beings feel to connect with a higher power. This urgency to pursue light within the darkness has persisted from ancient societies through the present day.

The Human iOS provides an allegorical adventure into the heart of humanity. It portrays how love, faith, frequency, and healing can lead spiritually-inclined and purpose-seeking people to drink from the fountains of universal wisdom. To be bold warriors of light and embark on unique, narrow paths toward a life led from the inside out.

Justice Seekers: Pursuing Equity in the Details of Teaching and Learning

In Justice Seekers, celebrated social justice activist and veteran educator Lacey Robinson delivers an engaging combination of storytelling and research that explains why justice is happening―or not happening―inside the classroom and within the details of teaching and learning. You’ll read insights about how all students deserve a learning environment that is grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful. All students flourish when their education not only acknowledges their identities but the identities of others, affirming who they are as academics and as human beings. You’ll see how adopting this mindset begins our journey toward justice as educators. In the book, you’ll discover the many ways that justice is found in the details of race, pedagogy, and standards-driven education, as well as:

• Strategies for challenging educators to see the ways in which they can contribute to eradicating racial inequity from the classroom and from society
• Ways to recognize and reduce the impact of low cognitive demand material presented to Black and brown children in schools across America
• Methods for improving the quality of your own teaching

An intuitive and exciting roadmap for K–12 teachers, teachers-in-training, school administrators, and principals who aim to reverse the racial injustices today’s children face every day, Justice Seekers also belongs in the hands of educators, parents, and everyone who cares about educational equity.

Leadership Sh!t Show

Elena Gosse OAM, Russian-born Australian author, public speaker, and visionary CEO of AIS Water, presents her highly anticipated debut book, Leadership Sh!t Show. The book takes readers on a compelling journey of resilience, transformation and personal and professional empowerment, offering a fresh perspective on leadership.

Leadership Sh!t Show is formed from Elena’s unique experiences and was inspired by an unintentional mispronunciation of the word “leadership,” a by-product of Elena’s Russian accent. This simple slip of the tongue sparked the idea for her first book, where Elena employs a sailing analogy to help illustrate the continuous cycle of leadership growth—moving from what she humorously refers to as ‘leadersh!t,’ to initiating transformative shifts, and ultimately ‘leading your own ship.’ The cycle, as Elena describes it, is ongoing, reflecting the perpetual evolution of true leadership.

In this candid and insightful book, Elena shares her hard-won lessons and personal insights to help empower readers to laugh in the face of adversity and turn every stumble into a step forward toward authentic leadership. The book serves as a blueprint for anyone ready to embark on a journey of lifelong growth, whether an established leader, an emerging entrepreneur, or someone overcoming personal challenges.

Leadership Sh!t Show equips readers with the tools and inspiration needed to lead with confidence and courage and reminds us that leadership is a continuous journey of growth and transformation.

Small Business Revolution: How Owners and Entrepreneurs Can Succeed

Equip your small business for dramatic growth and success in any environment

In Small Business Revolution: How Owners and Entrepreneurs Can Succeed, small business expert and President and CEO of Deluxe Corp. Barry C. McCarthy delivers a stirring combination of uplifting narrative and small business instruction manual. Featuring inspiring stories from the company’s 106-year history and anecdotes from its Emmy-nominated TV show Small Business Revolution, this book offers readers the opportunity to learn how to grow and thrive in their business in any environment, from a booming economy to a post-pandemic marketplace.

Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want

Take command of your future with this groundbreaking book from the experts who brought you How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Take Command offers powerful tools and time-tested methods to help you live an intentional life by transforming how you approach your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and future. Filled with stories of everyday people and based on expert research and interviews with more than a hundred high-performing leaders, Take Command gives you the strategies you need to unlock your full potential and create the life you want.