mike’s books

Field-Tested Playbooks for Breakthrough Teams

Each of Mike’s books distill decades of coaching into field-tested playbooks to raise talent density, build the right leadership team, and spark performance-driving passion. Whether you’re hiring, developing top performers, or aligning your leaders, you’ll get clear frameworks, practical exercises, checklists, and meeting rhythms you can implement in weeks, not months, so you can move faster with confidence, build a team you love, and measure the results.

Build a Team You Love Again

The Strength of Talent shows you how to retain and grow top talent, turn mediocre performers into all-stars, and transition someone out of the organization who’s not a strong fit.

The Strength of Talent introduces the Talent Density System, a five-step proven performance management tool honed with over 150 CEOs and leadership teams. This groundbreaking guide provides an innovative system for:

Maximizing the performance of each member of your team
Knowing how and when to make the tough decision to transition someone out of the organization that’s not a strong fit.
Implementing a quarterly talent assessment process that encourages challenge, debate and accountability.
Understanding what actions to take to leverage, develop and retain your highest performers.
Executing a new process to replace the tired, harmful and dreaded annual performance review.

“The Talent Density System has allowed me and my leadership team to objectively assess the performance and productivity of our staff.  Being able to turn to numbers, instead of resorting to hunches or subjective experiences, has given us the power to have candid, constructive conversations with team members, and it has given us the confidence to make critical decisions in these areas.  It has created clarity and focus for our whole team, with the benefit of providing real guidance on what success is and is not, which all of us ultimately want to understand in our jobs. ” 

-Stephanie Harris,
CEO, PartnerCentric

This is NOT a leadership book

In this book, I show you how to structure your team now and plan for future growth, get the right people on the team and the wrong people off the team, craft the right culture. develop your talent, and execute with discipline and accountability. This is a hands-on book you’ll want to use with your leadership team and keep on your shelf to reference as your business grows and new challenges arise. It’s your key to enjoying greater and more consistent top and bottom-line growth, creating a fulfilling environment for your employees, adding more value to your clients, and having a greater impact on society.

“Whether you’re guiding your team or family, this quick read gives you the necessary tools to become a successful leader. Mike Goldman does a superb job of providing actionable information while engaging the reader. I find myself referring to certain sections on a regular basis and have purchases copies for coworkers who’ve thanked me for sharing the Four Secrets. Do yourself a favor and read it today!”

– LISSA LOVE,
DIALAMERICA

About Performance Breakthrough

Imagine the impact of injecting more passion into your team. Revised and enhanced from the popular first edition, Performance Breakthrough reveals the four secrets for creating a more passionate, productive, and profitable organization.

This book’s message is communicated in the form of a fictional story to help make these ideas real and implementable, as opposed to fuzzy concepts. That is augmented by valuable new case studies, summaries, checklists, and other tools that will help you create positive energy, find passion, and achieve your own Performance Breakthrough!

“I’ve read tons of business books and this is one of the best I have read. It’s written as a parable. Books written in this format tend to be easy to digest, and this is no exception. Mike Goldman has written a book that escapes one of the things that I don’t love about books written in this format – they are often hokey, involving a chance meeting between the protagonist and a supernatural, magical, mystical, or seemingly supernatural, being. Goldman’s book is not hokey at all. It is realistic and is filled with highly achievable suggestions. I highly recommend this terrific book.”

– DAVID SINGER,
SINGER NELSON CHARLMERS