Books in the Jon Gordon series

Six of Jon Gordon's timeless, inspiring fables in one collectionKnown around the world as the master of the modern business fable, Jon Gordon has helped millions of people from all walks of life achieve meaningful success. Combining inspirational stories and powerful, real-world strategies, Gordon's fables have become required reading for everyone seeking extraordinary achievement in both their professional and personal lives.The Jon Gordon Inspirational Fables Box Set features six simple stories that reveal powerful lessons about positivity and determination, purpose and excellence, collaboration and teamwork, passion and perseverance, and much more. Turning abstract and complex subjects into easy-to-understand lessons, the fables featured in this invaluable collection include:* The Energy Bus, the internationally-bestselling fable that takes you on an enlightening and inspirational journey to true accomplishment for yourself and your team. Discover the ten secrets for fueling your life and work with the kind of positive energy that can turn any negative situation into positive achievement.* The No Complaining Rule shows you how to forever banish the negativity that costs businesses billions of dollars and severely damages the morale, productivity, and health of individuals and teams. Learn to use powerful principles with a step-by-step action plan to create infectious positivity throughout any workplace.* Training Camp will inspire you to keep your dreams alive, to never give up, and to succeed against all odds. Filled with priceless lessons and insights, this life-affirming fable shows you what it takes to be the best of the best--revealing the path to true excellence for yourself and your team.* Soup gives you the "recipe" for creating a winning culture and boosting employee morale and engagement. Learn the key ingredients for uniting, engaging, and inspiring your team--and stirring the passion that delivers superior results.* The Seed, an enlightening business fable that takes you on a cross-country search for the meaning and passion behind work. Discover how planting a seed of inspiration reveals surprising new sources of wisdom and discover your purpose in work and life.* The Carpenter shows you that there's no such thing as an overnight success--but there are timeless principles to help you stand out, achieve, and make a positive impact in the world. Packed with powerful lessons and success strategies, this engaging story will inspire you to build a better life, career, and team.Packed with enduring wisdom and step-by-step guidance, The Jon Gordon Inspirational Fables Box Set is a must-have for everyone from C-suite executives, managers, and team leaders to mentors, coaches, and trainers who want to infuse passion and achievement into their own lives and the lives of those around them.

Help kids be their best with Jon Gordon's beloved children's booksPositive kids grow up to be positive adults. No one knows this better than Jon Gordon, the bestselling author and inspirational speaker acclaimed for his engaging storytelling and powerful life lessons. Across 24 books, Gordon has helped parents, mentors, coaches, and teachers around the world encourage and inspire children of all ages.The Jon Gordon Children's Books Box Set teaches kids and adults alike about the value of a positive mindset, teamwork, kindness, thankfulness, friendship, selflessness, and much more. Packed with colorful illustrations and invaluable insights, this set includes Gordon's entire library of children's books.* The Energy Bus for Kids shows children how to overcome negativity, bullying, and everyday challenges--helping them to find their inner motivation and pass on positive energy to others. Share this illustrated adaptation of Jon Gordon's international bestseller to help kids be their best and enjoy their journey to becoming positive adults.* Thank You and Good Night takes children on a fun-filled journey from one perfect moonlit night to the next as they explore the people, places, and things they are thankful for. This beautifully illustrated book will help make "Thank You" the phrase that brightens any kid's day and helps them get a good night's sleep.* The Hard Hat for Kids teaches children how to be a great teammate by living the "We Before Me" philosophy every day. Adapted from Jon Gordon's bestseller The Hard Hat, this engaging story offers life-changing lessons that will give kids a new outlook on cooperation, friendship, and the selfless nature of true teamwork.* One Word for Kids asks, "If you could choose only one word to help you have your best year ever, what would it be?" This delightful story helps children discover their one word--and learn a lot about themselves, what they love, and what is important to them in the process.* The Coffee Bean for Kids offers children a simple lesson for becoming the kind of leader who creates positive change in the world. This insightful, illustrated story shows kids how sharing smiles, kindness, and positive energy can change the environment around them--just like a coffee bean transforms a pot of hot water.Based on the same principles the author has used to drive the success of thousands of top-level leaders at Fortune 500 companies, school districts, nonprofits, professional sports teams, and leading colleges and universities, The Jon Gordon Children's Books Box Set is a vital resource for anyone wanting to fill a child's life with positivity, belief, hope, and encouragement.

A five-volume set of bestselling author Jon Gordon's books on positive leadership, culture, relationships, and exceptional team performanceJon Gordon's compelling insights and actionable strategies have driven Fortune 500 companies, hospitals and nonprofit organizations, professional sports teams, and elite colleges and universities to achieve and sustain exceptional team performance.The Jon Gordon Be Your Best Box Set presents five of the author's most powerful guides to positive leadership, culture, and exceptional team performance. Brimming with compelling stories, practical ideas, and step-by-step action plans, this one-of-a-kind resource includes:* The Hard Hat, the unforgettable, true story of George Boiardi--a selfless, loyal, competitive, and compassionate leader and teammate. Packed with powerful lessons about being a great teammate and effective exercises for building a great team, learn why great teammates don't just impact you today--they impact you for the rest of your life.* The Power of Positive Leadership, a practical framework based on Jon Gordon's research on positive leaders throughout history, and his work with those who have transformed their organizations, won national championships, and are currently making positive change in the world.* You Win in the Locker Room First draws from the extraordinary experiences of NFL coach Mike Smith to guide you on building your own winning team. Following a real-world strategy applicable to any organization, you will learn to create a great culture, lead with the right mindset, develop strong relationships, produce outstanding teams, and much more.* The Power of a Positive Team empowers teams to work together more effectively and achieve superior results. Jon Gordon shares innovative strategies for transforming a group of individuals into a united, positive, and powerful team.* Relationship Grit, the story of Jon and wife Kathryn Gordon's journey, including what kept them together through difficult times and what continues to sustain their love and passion for one another to this day. Relationships--particularly marriages--are about imperfect people coming together to work on their individual flaws and emerge stronger together. Relationship Grit will inspire and motivate you to engage in this remarkable and rewarding process.The Jon Gordon Be Your Best Box Set is required reading for everyone wanting to harness the power of positive leadership to enhance the culture, communication, connection, and commitment of teams in their personal and professional lives.

From the bestselling authors of The Coffee Bean, inspire and encourage children with this transformative tale of personal strengthThe Coffee Bean for Kids tells the inspiring story of Gavin, a young boy with the difficult task of starting school in a new town. Gavin's teacher, Mrs. Spring, teaches him the story of the carrot, the egg, and the coffee bean. The environments we find ourselves in, like a pot of boiling, hot water, can change, weaken, or harden us, and test who we truly are. We can be like the carrot that weakens in the pot or like the egg that hardens. Or, we can be like the coffee bean and discover the power inside us to transform our environment. Energized by his teacher's lesson, Gavin embarks on an enlightening journey to transform the world around him.In The Coffee Bean for Kids, authors Jon Gordon and Damon West offer lessons to children to help them:* Impact the environment around them* Improve their own outlook* Become a leader who creates positive change* Make new friends* Become a positive influence by sharing smiles, kindness, and positive energyPerfect for parents, teachers, and children who wish to overcome negativity and challenging situations, The Coffee Bean for Kids teaches readers about the potential that each one of us has to lead, influence, and make a positive impact on others and the world.

An inspirational fable by "The Energy Coach" Jon Gordon for anyone who needs to boost their team's morale and productivity This inspirational business fable that uses a soup metaphor to explain the "recipe" managers can use to nourish their organizational culture and boost employee morale and productivity.

A book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected.Worldwide bestseller -- the author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams - and provides practical tools to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance.Jon Gordon doesn't just research the keys to great teams, he has personally worked with some of the most successful teams on the planet and has a keen understanding of how and why they became great. In The Power of a Positive Team, Jon draws upon his unique team building experience as well as conversations with some of the greatest teams in history in order to provide an essential framework, filled with proven practices, to empower teams to work together more effectively and achieve superior results.Utilizing examples from the writing team who created the hit show Billions, the National Champion Clemson Football team, the World Series contending Los Angeles Dodgers, The Miami Heat and the greatest beach volleyball team of all time to Navy SEAL's, Marching bands, Southwest Airlines, USC and UVA Tennis, Twitter, Apple and Ford, Jon shares innovative strategies to transform a group of individuals into a united, positive and powerful team.Jon not only infuses this book with the latest research, compelling stories, and strategies to maintain optimism through adversity... he also shares his best practices to transform negativity, build trust (through his favorite team building exercises) and practical ways to have difficult conversations--all designed to make a team more positive, cohesive, stronger and better.The Power of a Positive Team also provides a blueprint for addressing common pitfalls that cause teams to fail--including complaining, selfishness, inconsistency, complacency, unaccountability--while offering solutions to enhance a team's creativity, grit, innovation and growth.This book is meant for teams to read together. It's written in such a way that if you and your team read it together, you will understand the obstacles you will face and what you must do to become a great team. If you read it together, stay positive together, and take action together you will accomplish amazing things TOGETHER.

Bestselling author Jon Gordon returns with his most inspiring book yet filled with powerful lessons and the greatest success strategies of all. Michael wakes up in the hospital with a bandage on his head and fear in his heart.

Inspiring fables to bring out the best in yourself and your team The fables included in The Jon Gordon Box Set have inspired readers around the world. For the first time, eight of Jon Gordon's most engaging and powerful fables are together in one limited edition box set.

We are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard. As a leader, you will face numerous obstacles, negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you and your vision seems more like a fantasy than a reality.