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<\/a><\/p>\nWhy do the Davids outperform the Goliaths? How can some companies out-maneuver their better-funded, more technologically advanced rival?\u00a0 The common trait these \u201cDavids\u201d share is a robust team culture and within it, unparalleled loyalty.\u00a0 This book sifts through more than 20 years of research and exposes how hundreds of organizations (across different industries, sizes, and diverse financial capacities) manage to build fiercely loyal teams with one hand — while building profits and maintaining productivity with the other. \u00a0But what does a good team culture really look like?\u00a0 This book demystifies it and gives real, concrete, and relevant examples.\u00a0 Aptly named TIGERS for Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk, and Success, this book could easily become required reading for those seeking significant improvement in the bottom line through an organization\u2019s greatest asset \u2013 its people.<\/p>\n
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BECOMING TIGERS, Leading Your Team to Success by Dianne Crampton (2020)<\/a><\/p>\n There are books you digest in chunks.\u00a0 And there are those you can hardly put down.\u00a0 If you\u2019re up for a transformational book that explains the intricacies of good leadership painlessly, then Becoming Tigers <\/em>is a must-read! Becoming Tigers<\/em> reads like a children\u2019s book (in fact, I\u2019d highly recommend this to readers as young as seven! \u00a0It\u2019s never too early!).\u00a0 The tale narrates the story of two tiger tribes each with a dedicated leader, Kali and Ashoka. The stark difference between their leadership styles was put to the test after heavy rains wiped away their village.\u00a0 While the stories are fictional, the plot is remarkably familiar as similar situations happen in the workplace. In fact, the workplace could very well be the fictional jungle in the story with either a Kali-like boss or an Ashoka-like leader. \u00a0Find out how the issues were resolved. It could very well be the key to turning things around in any organization with similar issues.\u00a0 This book is an entire year\u2019s seminar packed into a hundred pages.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0THE SLICING PIE HANDBOOK, Perfect Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups by Mike Moyer (2016) <\/a><\/p>\n Have you ever read a book and wished that you had read it years ago?\u00a0 This is THAT book.\u00a0 Slicing Pie offers to be a universal, one-size-fits-all solution for the allocation and recovery of equity in an early-stage bootstrapped startup.\u00a0 When someone contributes to a startup, they are actually betting on its future winnings. \u00a0\u00a0These future winnings include a share of the profits or proceeds when the company sells.\u00a0 Thing is, (and here\u2019s where problems begin), participants in a startup company bet more than just cash.\u00a0 Some put in time, ideas, relationships, personal credit and loans, facilities, supplies\u2026 This book proposes a solution that converts all contributions to a standard unit, and in effect, the \u201cfairest\u201d way to split equity among every investor, founder, partner, and employee.<\/p>\n Have you ever read a book and wished that you had read it years ago?\u00a0 This is THAT book.\u00a0 Slicing Pie offers to be a universal, one-size-fits-all solution for the allocation and recovery of equity in an early-stage bootstrapped startup.\u00a0 When someone contributes to a startup, they are actually betting on its future winnings. \u00a0\u00a0These future winnings include a share of the profits or proceeds when the company sells.\u00a0 Thing is, (and here\u2019s where problems begin), participants in a startup company bet more than just cash.\u00a0 Some put in time, ideas, relationships, personal credit and loans, facilities, supplies\u2026 This book proposes a solution that converts all contributions to a standard unit, and in effect, the \u201cfairest\u201d way to split equity among every investor, founder, partner, and employee.<\/p>\n Finance departments are often seen as the enemy of responsible business thinking that being \u201csocially responsible\u201d will eat into profits.\u00a0 In short, an unnecessary expense. \u00a0But here, Edmans proposes that companies who care for their community reap significant financial rewards in the long-term for as long as they uphold a \u201cgrowing the pie mindset\u201d.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t wishful thinking.\u00a0 The author backs his claim with solid research and the updated version of the book includes how responsibility is realistic and achievable even in a pandemic. If you think this is stuff for billion-dollar companies with deep pockets, think again.\u00a0 Edmans is liberal with examples of boutique companies who banked on their expertise to help their community. \u00a0You don\u2019t need to wait for your start-up to spit out millions of dollars. You CAN create BOTH PROFIT AND SOCIAL VALUE regardless.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not an either-or choice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n WILL WORK FOR PIE:\u00a0 BUILDING YOUR STARTUP USING EQUITY INSTEAD OF CASH by Mike Moyer (2021)<\/a><\/p>\n How do those start-ups do it?\u00a0 Do they all pitch a to-die-for idea, hope and pray that some hotshot notices and risks putting in money, then rake in gold at year\u2019s end? Everybody goes home with a huge piece of the bacon, right?\u00a0 Well, not always.\u00a0 The journey to that proverbial pot of gold can be lethal if resources aren\u2019t divided properly.\u00a0 Equity is a powerful tool.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great magnet for talent and resources.\u00a0 But it can derail progress and even cause irreversible damage if allocated inadequately.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Read in tandem with The Slicing Pie Handbook (See #3). Unless you\u2019re funding your startup with your own money and you have enough stashed to pay everyone their fair share of salaries and bonuses, then this book is a must-read.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PITCH NINJA:\u00a0 PERSUASIVE PITCHING AND PRESENTING by Mike Moyer (2014)<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI look forward to sales presentations and sales pitches!\u201d said no one ever.\u00a0 Truth is, we all dread that \u201cit\u2019s just 5 minutes\u201d sales talk, more so those committee meetings where decisions must be made.\u00a0 But the secret to getting everyone interested isn\u2019t the number of ice breakers you do or the freebies\/concessions you hand out.\u00a0 Neither is being a Toastmasters champ a requirement.\u00a0 Rather, it\u2019s the way you present \u2013 from the gestures you use to the way your audience is seated, down to where you stand when presenting a slide.\u00a0 Moyer, who authored books #3 (The Slicing Pie Handbook) and #5 (Will Work for Pie) gets into details in this book.\u00a0 He talks about three distinct zones: The Intimacy Zone, the Excitement Zone, and the Information Zone.\u00a0 With each of these zones comes a set of non-verbal skills that lets you connect with your audience at a different level. Everyone needs to persuade at one point in their life. This is easy reading, and one which I highly recommend you read regardless of industry or job description.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you find yourself struggling with a task (reading a book, getting started with a fitness plan, pursuing a goal), then you just might find answers in this book.\u00a0 Start With Why<\/em> is big on how so many factors come into play when influencing human behavior.\u00a0 The author posits that there are two ways to get people to do things:\u00a0 MANIPULATION and INSPIRATION.\u00a0 The preferred method is of course the latter.\u00a0 Inspiration is the more effective and sustainable one.\u00a0 But just how do you inspire?\u00a0 The answer lies in the type of leadership and how crucial it is for leaders to take a risk and go against the status quo to find unique solutions.\u00a0 A concept central to this book is the Golden Circle and how the most important question in ANY endeavor is your \u201cWHY?\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 What is your motivation and purpose?\u00a0 Once your WHY is clear, then you move on to the \u201cHOW\u201d (methods and processes) and the \u201cWHAT\u201d (desired outcome).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n More than two-thirds of start-ups fail to deliver a positive return to investors.\u00a0 One of the more excruciating questions to ask is \u201cwhy?\u201d.\u00a0 Despite a sound business plan, an airtight contingency, and leaders who have proven track records, why do most startups still miss the mark?\u00a0 This book identifies patterns of failure. One pattern is dangerously relying on the venture\u2019s \u201cgood idea\u201d alone.\u00a0 An example cited by Eisenmann here is that of a clothing start-up.\u00a0 The idea was sound, and initial sales were great.\u00a0 But the partners had to close down in one year simply because their response to action was slow (considering that the partners shared decision-making authority and neither was willing to strain their friendship). Neither of them had experience with clothing design and manufacturing either.\u00a0 Issues like these could have been avoided by bringing in another cofounder with the proper industry experience or even outsourcing the design and production process. \u00a0\u00a0He outlines other patterns that will feel familiar to those who have started businesses of their own.\u00a0 This book is an essential read for entrepreneurs and leaders who want to scale their businesses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Probably the greatest start-up myth is that the formula for success is fixed.\u00a0 Determination + brilliance + great timing + great product = SUCCESS.\u00a0 Most of us believe that fame and fortune can be had with a great idea\u2026 so much so that we abhor sharing ideas with friends thinking they could steal them! Truth be told, many ideas that clicked were never that \u201cgreat\u201d. The average person has had 20 awesome ideas.\u00a0 But the issue here isn\u2019t the idea, or the brilliance, or the timing. Its EXECUTION.\u00a0 The Lean Startup\u2019s <\/em>author offers stellar counsel from his experience as a startup advisor and founder.\u00a0 One of the bigger ideas that I found most useful is the concept of building first, measuring next, and learning last. The shoot first, aim later approach has been useful for startups because in a volatile, fast-paced industry, forecasts hardly work.\u00a0 The power of feedback and observation couldn\u2019t be more emphasized.\u00a0 This book is rigorous but immensely practical, every serious entrepreneur should read it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The world needs brave leaders. We want them to be fearless demigods who dive into the unknown without hesitation.\u00a0 And yet today\u2019s leaders need to go beyond demi-god status\u2026 they need to be real and vulnerable. Vulnerable is hardly a term to describe a leader or a manager, but it\u2019s a trait that anyone should have to build courage. How so?\u00a0 You have to be willing to have conversations that make you feel exposed, even awkward.\u00a0 Then you get clear about your values and act in alignment with those values.\u00a0 Brown reminds us that vulnerability is NOT disclosure.\u00a0 It\u2019s a real, hard look at getting comfortable with discomfort. Can you manage uncertainty, risk, and exposure?\u00a0 Can you, as a leader, sustain hard conversations,\u00a0 tell the truth, give and receive feedback even when it’s hard?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0What strikes me the most about this book is Brown\u2019s emphasis on building trust.\u00a0 Fear has a short shelf life and leaders can\u2019t lead with fear for long. This is a must especially for leaders-in-training.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The distance between you and a world of knowledge is a book. \u00a0It can also spell the difference between irreversible damage and survival. \u00a0Dodge the bullet.\u00a0 Get your startup running with effective collaborative leadership practices and work culture by having these essentials on your reading list NOW.<\/p>\n Copyright TIGERS Success Series, Inc. by Claudia Craven<\/p>\n TIGERS(R) Success Series is a robust collaborative workforce and high performance team development system. Founded on four years of research and subsequent validation, TIGERS offers group behavior assessment based on six collaborative principles \u2013 trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success for groups of eight or more people. Follow up training, coaching, consulting and licensing is available to independent consultants and qualified coaches, project managers and internal HR professionals. A Bend, Oregon based company,\u00a0contact us here to schedule a discovery conversation.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Building a company from the ground up? \u00a0Flipping or scaling a business?\u00a0 Looking for collaborative leadership and work culture solutions? Coping with change while managing people on opposite sides of the pole?\u00a0Or feeling your way through venture capitalists, crowdfunding, and loans? These all time books from the TIGERS Book Shelf are worth your time. They\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[456,969],"class_list":["post-226069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","tag-business-books","tag-collaborative-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>GROW THE PIE, How Great Companies Delivery Both Purpose and Profit by Alex Edmans (2020)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Start <\/a>With Why by Simon Senek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>WHY STARTUPS FAIL:\u00a0 A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success by Tom Eisenmann (2021)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>THE LEAN STARTUP How Today\u2019s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries (2011<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/a>DARE TO LEAD Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Bren\u00e9 Brown (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAbout TIGERS Success Series, Inc.<\/h3>\n