Sarah Dalton – författare

A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Strengths-Based Leadership demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders.The leadership space is rife with myths, such as the belief that anyone can be a leader with enough effort or that a leader's strengths can be their greatest weaknesses. According to Barry Conchie and his business partner Sarah Dalton, these statements are unfounded. THE FIVE TALENTS THAT REALLY MATTER explains how high-performing leaders are talented in five essential ways.This book strips away the fluff in leadership and unveils and describes the traits and characteristics that actually determine high-performance leadership. These talents provide a template against which career-driven managers and leaders can assess and develop their own capabilities. The five evidence-based talent dimensions are:- Direction: High-performing leaders describe a compelling, intrinsically good destination and help others understand that getting there will be worth the effort. - Drive: This dimension hardly needs a description. We all know it when we see it: strong work ethic, tenacity, goal-orientation... being a self-starter. - Influence: The ability to motivate, persuade, challenge, and change the minds of others.- Relationships: People matter to outstanding leaders. They can build commitment and trust among the people they work with.- Execution: Excellent leaders are obsessed with getting work done and how work gets done.Through meticulous research, assessment, and testing, Conchie and Dalton have built a database that predicts the talents and behaviours of the most successful leaders. In this book they present for the first the first time a scientific model that demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders.

Sophie thought Alzheimer’s was stealing her mother. But what if it’s all a lie?Everyone believes Sophie is a devoted daughter, caring selflessly for her mother in a crumbling old house. They don’t see the bruises. They don’t hear the insults. They don’t know about the shadow her mother claims visits her at night.Sophie tries to dismiss it as part of the disease—until she places a recorder in her mother’s bedroom and hears a second voice whispering in the dark.Now Sophie is questioning everything.The bruises. The paranoia. The fear creeping into every corner of their home.What if her mother isn’t losing her mind? What if she’s playing a game?A cruel, calculated game that Sophie can’t escape.Dark, twisted, and razor-sharp, The Broken Ones is a haunting psychological thriller where nothing is as it seems and trust may be the most dangerous illusion of all.

An utterly gripping psychological thriller full of secrets, lies, and heart-stopping twistsHannah Abbott never leaves her house.She keeps to herself, watching life unfold on Cavendish Street from behind her curtains. But when a new family moves in across the road, her quiet world begins to unravel.Laura and Matt Mason seem like the perfect couple, but Hannah can hear the arguments through her open window. And their thirteen-year-old daughter, April, never smiles.Then one evening, Hannah sees something that makes her question everything she knows about the people across the street when a chilling sign is placed in the window.As the lines between truth and paranoia blur, Hannah must decide what’s real, what’s imagined, and how far she’ll go to uncover the truth.A dark, twist-filled psychological thriller about obsession, guilt, and the secrets we keep. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, and Shalini Boland.

Three weddings at one isolated venue. Three dead bodies. Three missing brides… And one of them is a murderer.It’s Christmas Day at Wilder House, and three magical winter weddings are set to begin. But as the tables are arranged and the food is prepared, a perfect storm hits, cutting every guest from the rest of the world.Most little girls dream of the perfect wedding. But this bride stumbles alone into the snow, her silk train dragging through dirt, her hands bloody from the murder she just committed…Now there is at least one killer roaming the unforgiving landscape surrounding Wilder House.Who else will die on Christmas Day?This chilling psychological thriller by bestselling author Sarah A. Denzil is not one to miss. Set in the atmospheric Lake District, it’s the perfect winter read.