From two experts on leadership, a no-nonsense guide for ambitious leaders to build great teams by embracing toughness—without sacrificing humanitySome of today’s most successful companies are also infamous for their domineering leaders and toxic working environments. But you don’t have to compromise yourself or your people to drive your team to greatness.In Tough Enough, leadership coaches John Baird and Matt Hunter argue that building a high-perfo...

‘Takes both old and new leadership tactics and transforms them into strategies to use in crises’ – Eric Yuan, CEO and founder of Zoom'If you believe you have to choose between being respectful and being effective, Tough Enough will change your mind' – John Mackey, cofounder and former CEO of Whole Foods and New York Times bestselling author of Conscious CapitalismFrom two of Silicon Valley's premier execut...

Wall Street Journal BestsellerTwo veteran executive coaches help today's leaders learn how to retain and inspire their teams through the one thing their research has found works: Leading with Heart.In these pages, leadership coaches John Baird and Edward Sullivan share hundreds of hours of research and firsthand accounts of guiding leaders at some of the world's most respected big brands and small startups (Apple, Nike, Google, and...

Fatal Scoreis a debut novel about big data, the future of medicine, the pain of loss, and the power of redemption. A few years from now, health care is rationed using HealthScore. When Joe Mayfield’s wife’s score is slashed, his frantic search to save her makes him a target of Phoenix, set to skim billions at the cost of thousands of lives. Joe goes off the grid, grieving for his wife and working to expose Phoenix. His efforts draw the interest of Weezy, a brilliant tracker for th...

Skins and Bone draws Joe Mayfield and Louise (Weezy) Napolitani into a world of high finance, European elegance, and murder. Joe lands his dream job: Move from Florida to New York, join the respected investment bank ZCG, fly with the finance eagles—and be a train ride away from Weezy, his brilliant lover. It’s shortly after CyberWar I, and Weezy is chief tracker for the national data base, as well as a member of a group of dark-web hackers. ZCG uses complex financial derivatives c...

Lights go out in Maine. Then Georgia. A ransom note demands one billion dollars. As Weezy, Joe, and the government struggle to find a solution. Then Weezy gets a fail deadly—a ticking time bomb of data that will destroy the Russian oligarchs if it’s released on the ’net. When Weezy is kidnapped by the Sobaki to force her to keep the fail deadly closed, she becomes the NSA’s prime suspect. Joe’s frantic search for her leads him to becoming a prisoner, too. As Weezy’s hacker friends and the ...

The task looks simple to Joe Mayfield and his wife, hacker extraordinaire, Weezy Napolitani: find a stolen laboratory notebook. But when professional assassins attack Joe and Weezy and a biotech’s lead scientist is kidnapped, it’s apparent something much larger than a missing notebook is at stake.It’s a few years in the future. Gene therapy has come of age, bringing with it the hope of curing genetically driven diseases. For Gerard Crecher, genetic alteration is a way of sacrificin...

‘Takes both old and new leadership tactics and transforms them into strategies to use in crises’ – Eric Yuan, CEO and founder of Zoom'If you believe you have to choose between being respectful and being effective, Tough Enough will change your mind' – John Mackey, cofounder and former CEO of Whole Foods and New York Times bestselling author of Conscious CapitalismFrom two of Silicon Valley's premier execut...

Two veteran executive coaches help today's leaders learn how to retain and inspire their teams through the one thing their research has found works: Leading with Heart.In these pages, leadership coaches John Baird and Edward Sullivan share hundreds of hours of research and firsthand accounts of guiding leaders at some of the world's most respected big brands and small startups (Apple, Nike, Google, and Slack to name a few).Through their coaching and researc...