Take It to the Next Level

In this autobiographical business turnaround story of the smallest company ever to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Dale Crownover, CEO of Texas Nameplate Company, with co-authors Linda Bush and John Darrouzet, inspires and informs leaders to take their company to another level of performance.

BrainStyles™: Change Your Life WITHOUT Changing Who You Are

Give yourself permission to be who you are, and stop trying to reinvent yourself or others you work and live with. These keys to self-mastery help you use your brain-based strengths to contribute maximally. The BrainStyles System™ teaches you to go beyond the insights of other personality systems to create synergistic relationships, high performance teams, and a simpler, seamless life.

BrainStyles™ for Lovers : Create Partnerships that Change Your Life WITHOUT Changing Who You Are

A book that defines and shows you how to create spiritual partnerships that expand the  lives of both of you.  Learn how to create and live in an intimate  relationship without changing anyone.  Self-scoring BrainStyle Inventories© identify brain-based gifts and obstacles to relating and partnering with another; a step-by-step method for creating a partnership where each person is encouraged to be their best, most natural self; charts and insights into brainstyle pairs and how to prevent conflict and open possibilities for more loving, satisfying lives together; real stories of real people show how to heal a relationship when it isn't working.

The Thin Book of® Appreciative Inquiry

The Thin Book of® Appreciative Inquiry introduces the exciting organizational change philosophy called Appreciative Inquiry, a way of thinking, seeing and acting for powerful, purposeful change in organizations.

It is particularly useful in systems being overwhelmed by a constant demand for change, with the approach of learning from the best that is already within.

While traditional problem-solving processes separate, dissect, and pull apart, Appreciative Inquiry generates affirming images that pull people together to discover what the organization does well, how it does it and design ways to do more of what works. Unlike a cookbook approach to change, Appreciative Inquiry is a thought process that generates breakthrough.

The Thin Book of® SOAR

Strategy is everybody’s job - SOAR is the acronym of a new strategic planning process that is based on discovering and multiplying what the organization does well.  SOAR takes the Appreciative Inquiry philosophy and applies it to provide a strategic thinking and dialogue process.

The authors have been instrumental in developing this process and will share the concept and case studies to give you the confidence to try SOAR.