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Leadership doesn't feel heavy because you're failing. Leading people really is harder now than ever before because the way people work, react, and relate has shifted drastically. You're being asked to hold space, uphold standards, and carry more of the emotional and operational weight than you ever expected.

In The Playful Leaders Toolkit, Rachel Supalla invites you on a journey down the Yellow Brick Road of leadership where creativity fuels success, resilience is built through play, and extraordinary vision leaves a lasting impact. Drawing from her experience founding and scaling a multi-site, multi-million dollar national childcare empire, Rachel shares her MAGIC framework to help leaders master their mindset, assess team pain points, build influence, and create a culture of contagious joy.

You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have in common? How do they achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last? The old checklist of P's used by marketers - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity - aren't working anymore. The golden age of advertising is over. It's time to add a new P - the Purple Cow.

To deliver exceptional education and care for young children, early learning providers must ensure they have a sustainable, financially healthy business. That's no small feat, especially with the challenges owners face in the industry today. In this guide, Kathy Ligon unveils a step-by-step framework for building a strong early childhood education business while staying focused on providing high-quality opportunities for students and staff.

Transform school climate and academics while equipping children with life-changing skills using the information and tools in this expanded and updated edition! Conscious Discipline: Building Resilient Classrooms introduces a revolutionary classroom approach to Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) by addressing the adult's mindset and skill set first, and then empowering adults to effectively teach life-changing SEL skills to children.

Learn how to stop policing and pleading and become the parent you want to be! Dr. Becky Bailey's powerful positive parenting approach has made thousands of families happier and healthier. Focusing on self-control and confidence-building for both parent and child, Dr. Bailey teaches a series of linked skills based on loving guidance to help families move from turmoil to tranquility: 7 Powers for Self-Control to help parents model the behavior they want their kids to follow.

The way adults handle emotional upset when children are throwing fits, backtalking, name-calling, being defiant and withdrawing will either foster or inhibit their ability to develop self-regulation. Managing Emotional Mayhem lays a conceptual foundation, explores limiting beliefs, presents new adult skills and teaches us how to coach children in this transformative self-regulation process.

The Energy Bus, an international bestseller, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment ― at work and at home.

Drive Your School Culture to Success with The Energy Bus! Transform your school culture into a thriving and positive environment. In The Energy Bus for Schools: 7 Ways to Improve Your School Culture, Remove Negativity, Energize Your Teachers, and Empower Your Students, bestselling author Jon Gordon and education leader Dr. Jim Van Allan provide concrete strategies and powerful stories to help build a positive school culture. This book shares a unique approach and proven practices for reimagining schools and districts as collaborative places where students and staff create their culture and develop as leaders together.

In this illustrated adaptation of the bestselling fable, The Energy Bus, author Jon Gordon shows children how to overcome negativity, bullies and everyday challenges to be their best. The Energy Bus For Kids is a story that will teach kids how to find their inner motivation and pass on that positive energy to others.

Michael wakes up in the hospital with a bandage on his head and fear in his heart. The stress of building a growing business, with his wife Sarah, caused him to collapse while on a morning jog. When Michael finds out the man who saved his life is a Carpenter he visits him and quickly learns that he is more than just a Carpenter; he is also a builder of lives, careers, people, and teams. As the Carpenter shares his wisdom, Michael attempts to save his business in the face of adversity, rejection, fear, and failure. Along the way he learns that there's no such thing as an overnight success but there are timeless principles to help you stand out, excel, and make an impact on people and the world.

The Hard Hat is an unforgettable true story about a selfless, loyal, joyful, hard-working, competitive, and compassionate leader and teammate, the impact he had on his team and program and the lessons we can learn from him.

We all have two dogs inside of us. One dog is positive, happy, optimistic, and hopeful. The other dog is negative, mad, sad, pessimistic, and fearful. These two dogs often fight inside us, but guess who wins the fight? The one you feed the most. So begins the story about a negative mutt named Matt and a big dog named Bubba who teaches him how to feed himself with positivity each day and in the process Matt transforms his own life and the shelter they call home.

In The Power of Positive Habits, 18x bestselling author and leadership coach Jon Gordon - who has spent over two decades transforming lives and teams through his work - delivers a game-changing collection of practical habits that demolish distractions, beat burnout, neutralize negativity and conquer complacency.

In his bestselling book The Power of Positive Leadership, 18x bestselling author Jon Gordon teaches readers that we are not positive because life is easy; we are positive because life can be hard! Leaders are bound to face numerous obstacles, negativity, and tests, and there will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you―which is why positive leadership is essential.

Success Journal: A Daily Practice for Positivity, Resilience, and Growth is a daily, lined journal where readers can write down their success of the day, shift their nighttime focus from negativity to positivity, and thereby create more success and opportunities in their lives. This resource is inspired by the legendary Bart Connor, who credited his overcoming a torn bicep muscle to win two gold medals at the 1984 Olympics to his parents asking him about his success of the day as a child.

You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon ― consultant to numerous college and professional teams ― to explore the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization.

The fourth edition contains guidelines on the development and evaluation of the health and safety of children in early care and education settings. This guide features 10 chapters of more than 650 standards and dozens of appendixes with valuable supplemental information, forms, and tools.

The secret for creating "magic" in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership-the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results.

Spring 2022 Academic's Choice Awards Smart Book Winner
Developmentally appropriate practice is the foundation on which quality early learning is built. The fourth edition of this classic, influential text addresses developmentally appropriate practice within the context of the ever-changing and evolving world of early childhood education.

This inspiring book of wisdom, life lessons, and self-help from National Geographic celebrates the power of optimism: the driving force behind the authors' beloved, socially conscious clothing and lifestyle brand, now worth more than $100 million.