Are you looking to transform your career and achieve your full potential at work? Do you wish your employer recognized your talent and contributions more? This book reveals the insider secrets to becoming the most valued employee.
Bestselling authors Verne Harnish, Kevin Daum, and Anne Mary Ciminelli surveyed hundreds of employers to uncover what sets adequate employees apart from truly valuable players. Through insightful stories and practical tips, you'll learn the 12 key habits in four essential areas - Will, Values, Results, and Skills - that lead to amazing careers and fulfillment at work.
Discover within:
Clear examples contrasting adequate versus valuable performance
Simple daily practices to master essential workplace skills
Ways to apply the habits to benefit your team, department, and company
Bonus guidance for employers seeking to inspire value in their workforce
Whether you aspire to leadership or want recognition for your efforts, this book provides the mindset and methods for workplace excellence. Follow this step-by-step guide based on decades of coaching successful companies, and develop the qualities that define MVP employees.
Stand out by embracing the 12 habits of top performers. Transform your work, team, and career to new heights!
Author Biography:
VERNE HARNISH is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO's premiere CEO program held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today. Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 260 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup. He's the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; and wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book. His latest books, Scaling Up Compensation and 12 Habits of Valuable Employees, rocketed to the #1 HR books on Amazon upon release. Verne serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
KEVIN DAUM is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who has engaged and inspired audiences around the globe. A serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, Kevin built an Inc. 500 company, where his sales and marketing techniques resulted in more than $1 billion in sales. Kevin is the award-winning author of several Amazon #1 bestselling books. He is the author, co-author, or major contributor to ten books, including ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle, Video Marketing For Dummies, Building Your Custom Home For Dummies, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, and 12 Lessons in Business Leadership: Insights from the Championship Career of Tom Brady with Anne Mary Ciminelli. He was also a major contributor to the bestsellers Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and Getting the Most for Selling Your Business by Jessica Fialkovich with Anne Mary Ciminelli. Kevin's column on Inc.com garners thousands of hits per month, and he is the host of podcast 10 Minute Tips from the Top, interviewing YPO CEOs. Kevin is a graduate of the Birthing of Giants program at MIT and was a longtime member of Entrepreneur's Organization, where he held several board positions and founded the Silicon Valley chapter. A strong believer in the arts, Kevin has a theatre degree from Humboldt State University. Kevin also has an MS in media management from Fordham University, where he teaches media and entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor.
ANNE MARY CIMINELLI is an associate editor at TAE International, where she conducts research, writes, copyedits, and manages projects. She also has experience consulting for small businesses as they construct business plans, explore partnership opportunities, and apply for funding grants. She co-wrote the Amazon bestsellers Building Your Custom Home For Dummies, 12 Lessons in Business Leadership: Insights from the Championship Career of Tom Brady, and Getting the Most for Selling Your Business: How to Get Top Dollar for the Company You've Nurtured for Years. Anne Mary is a graduate of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She also holds an MBA and a JD from Fordham University. She lives in Potomac, Maryland.
