Recommended Books

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Must-Read Books for Arboriculture and Business Success

Growing Weeders Into Leaders

One of America’s most accomplished landscaping professionals reveals his methods for cultivating greatness.

Nowadays, greatness tends to be measured by shortest or longest times, highest heights, medals won, honors given. But as Aristotle taught us, greatness is what we can do every day, without recognition or reward, for the satisfaction that comes from meeting the challenge, creating a team, and overcoming the odds.

Under Jeff McManus’ leadership as Director of Landscape Services, the Ole Miss campus has won professional awards—and been cited by Newsweek and Princeton Review as America’s “most beautiful campus”. In Growing Weeders into Leaders, he relates the principles behind his team’s success. It is an entertaining and thoughtful look into the hearts and the workday lives of ordinary people who tapped into their inner greatness in pursuit of a vision. Creating one of America’s most beautiful college campuses at the University of Mississippi did not happen overnight and, inside these minutes, McManus describes the joys, the defeats, the brilliant problem-solving, and the best laid plans that are proven worthless...until the bigger picture appears.

This is the bigger picture as viewed from the ground level—taking you through the practical applications of empowering people to experience not only what it means to grow outstanding landscapes, but also to grow greatness in themselves and encourage it in others. Summary: Brief summary of the book’s content.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Number One Most Influential Business Book of the 20th Century

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated people for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators, and parents - millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the seven habits with modern additions from Sean Covey.

The seven habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work!

With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the seven habits will be refreshed for a new

generation of leaders.

They include:

Habit one: Be proactive
Habit two: Begin with the end in mind
Habit three: Put first things first
Habit four: Think win/win
Habit five: Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Habit six: Synergize
Habit seven: Sharpen the saw

This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity - principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

The Toyota Way (2nd ed.)

The bestselling guide to Toyota’s legendary philosophy and production system―updated with important new frameworks for driving innovation and quality in your business

One of the most impactful business guides published in the 21st Century, The Toyota Way played an outsized role in launching the continuous-improvement movement that continues unabated today.

Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota’s world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, establish and retain customer loyalty, and drive business profitability and sustainability. Now, Liker has thoroughly updated his classic guide to include:

Completely revised data and updated information about Toyota’s approach to competitiveness in the new world of mobility and smart technology
Illustrative examples from manufacturing and service organizations that have learned and improved from the Toyota Way
A fresh approach to leadership models
The brain science and skills for learning to think scientifically
How Toyota applies Hoshin Kanri, a planning process that aligns objectives at all levels and marries them to business strategy

Organized into thematic sections covering the various aspects of the Toyota Way―including Philosophy, Processes, People, and Problem Solving―this unparalleled guide details the 14 key principles for building the foundation of a powerful improvement system and managing it for ultimate competitive advantage.

With The Toyota Way, you have an inspiration and a model of how to set a direction, continuously improve and learn at all levels, continually "flow" value to satisfy customers, improve your leadership, and get quality right the first time.

Turn the Ship Around

“One of the 12 best business books of all time.... Timeless principles of empowering leadership.” (USA Today)

"The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” (Fortune)

Since Turn the Ship Around! was published in 2013, hundreds of thousands of readers have been inspired by former Navy captain David Marquet’s true story. Many have applied his insights to their own organizations, creating workplaces where everyone takes responsibility for his or her actions, where followers grow to become leaders, and where happier teams drive dramatically better results.

Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer when selected for submarine command. Trained to give orders in the traditional model of “know all-tell all” leadership, he faced a new wrinkle when he was shifted to the Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine. Facing the high-stress environment of a sub where there’s little margin for error, he was determined to reverse the trends he found on the Santa Fe: poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention rate in the fleet.

Almost immediately, Marquet ran into trouble when he unknowingly gave an impossible order and his crew tried to follow it anyway. When he asked why, the answer was: “Because you told me to.” Marquet realized that while he had been trained for a different submarine, his crew had been trained to do what they were told - a deadly combination.

That’s when Marquet flipped the leadership model on its head and pushed for leadership at every level. Turn the Ship Around! reveals how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from worst to first in the fleet by challenging the US Navy’s traditional leader-follower approach. Struggling against his own instincts to take control, he instead achieved the vastly more powerful model of giving control to his subordinates and creating leaders.

Before long, each member of Marquet’s crew became a leader and assumed responsibility for everything he did, from clerical tasks to crucial combat decisions. The crew became completely engaged, contributing their full intellectual capacity every day. The Santa Fe set records for performance, morale, and retention. And over the next decade, a highly disproportionate number of the officers of the Santa Fe were selected to become submarine commanders.

Whether you need a major change of course or just a tweak of the rudder, you can apply Marquet’s methods to turn your own ship around.

Good to Great

Built to Last, the defining management study of the '90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.

But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't. The findings include:

Level 5 Leadership: A surprising style, required for greatness
The Hedgehog Concept: Finding your three circles, to transcend the curse of competence
A Culture of Discipline: The alchemy of great results
Technology Accelerators: How good-to-great companies think differently about technology
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Why those who do frequent restructuring fail to make the leap

Get a Grip

It’s time to take your business to the next level.

Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and assigning blame, but nothing happened to solve Swan’s mounting problems. It felt as though they were working harder than ever but with less impact. The company Eileen and Vic had founded and built for 10 years was a different place. It just wasn’t fun anymore.

Their story is not unusual. The challenges they were facing are common, predictable, and solvable. Get A Grip tells the story of how Swan Services resolves its issues by implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System. With the help of EOS, Eileen, Vic, and their leadership team master a set of managerial tools that allow them to get traction on their business, grow the business, and deliver better results for clients.

The story of Swan Services is a fable, but the Entrepreneurial Operating System is very real and has helped thousands of businesses worldwide. A complete entrepreneurial toolkit, EOS has helped thousands of businesses get to where they want to be.

In Get a Grip, learn how Swan Services leaders learned to develop and commit to a clear vision, establish focus, build discipline, and create a healthier and more cohesive team.

With characters and situations created from collective business experiences and stories, Get a Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial leaders the world over and guide them to get their companies on track

Tiny Habits

New York Times Best Seller

A habit expert from Stanford University shares his breakthrough method for building habits quickly and easily. With Tiny Habits you’ll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. Dr. Fogg’s new and extremely practical method picks up where Atomic Habits left off.

BJ Fogg is here to change your life - and revolutionize how we think about human behavior. Based on 20 years of research and Fogg’s experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation. With breakthrough discoveries in every chapter, you’ll learn the simplest proven ways to transform your life. Fogg shows you how to feel good about your successes instead of bad about your failures.

This proven, step-by-step guide will help you design habits and make them stick through positive emotion and celebrating small successes. Whether you want to lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or be more productive each day, Tiny Habits makes it easy to achieve - by starting small.

The Dichotomy of Leadership

The importance of balance as a leader by the number-one New York Times best-selling authors of Extreme Ownership.

Every leader must be ready and willing to take charge, to make hard, crucial calls for the good of the team and the mission. Something much more difficult to understand is that in order to be a good leader, one must also be a good follower. This is a dichotomy - a Dichotomy of Leadership. It is, as authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin explained in their best-selling first audiobook, Extreme Ownership, “Simple, Not Easy”.

Now, in The Dichotomy of Leadership, the authors explain the power inherent in the recognition of the fine line that leaders must walk, balancing between two seemingly opposite inclinations. It is with the knowledge and understanding of this balance that a leader can most effectively lead, accomplish the mission, and achieve the goal of every leader and every team: victory.

Using examples from the authors' combat and training experience in the SEAL Teams and then showing how each lesson applies to business and in life, Willink and Babin reveal how the use of seemingly opposite principles - leading and following, focusing and detaching, being both aggressive and prudent - require skill, awareness, understanding, and dexterity, all attributes that can be honed. These dichotomies are inherent in many of the concepts introduced in Extreme Ownership and integral to their proper implementation and effectiveness. Dichotomy is essential listening for anyone looking to lead and win.

Extreme Ownership

"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." (The Hustle)

An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership audiobook that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.

Combat, the most intense and dynamic environment imaginable, teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand on the most violent and dangerous battlefield in Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, their mission was one many thought impossible: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping, firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories, they learned that leadership - at every level - is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training to pass on their harsh lessons learned in combat to help forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After leaving the SEAL Teams, they launched a company, Echelon Front, to teach those same leadership principles to leaders in businesses, companies, and organizations across the civilian sector. Since that time, they have trained countless leaders and worked with hundreds of companies in virtually every industry across the U.S. and internationally, teaching them how to develop their own high-performance teams and most effectively lead those teams to dominate their battlefields.

Since it’s release in October 2015, Extreme Ownership has revolutionized leadership development and set a new standard for literature on the subject. Required listening for many of the most successful organizations, it has become an integral part of the official leadership training programs for scores of business teams, military units, and first responders. Detailing the mindset and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult combat missions, Extreme Ownership demonstrates how to apply them to any team or organization, in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.

The E-Myth Revisited

In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed, and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have listened to The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

Building a Story Brand

New York Times best-selling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach listeners how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.

Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching listeners the seven universal story points all humans respond to, the real reason customers make purchases, how to simplify a brand message so people understand it, and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media.

Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.

Leadership Isn't for Cowards

A no-nonsense guide to driving performance while still maintaining a great place to work.

Leadership Isn't for Cowards offers straightforward steps to leading courageously and practical tips for driving performance. Courageous leadership means toughening your approach by being rigorous in the application of your values through the company culture. It means confronting and challenging people, and not letting them get away with being less than you know they can be.

The path to courageous leadership has six components: Accept Your Current Circumstances, Take Responsibility, Take Action, Acknowledge Progress, Commit to Lifelong Learning, and Kindle Relationships.

These manageable steps include:

Identify the area in your business or life where a gap exists between your current reality and your desired reality;
Align yourself with a person or a group of people who can commit to holding you accountable for closing the gap; and
Make a specific commitment to the outcome(s) you want and assign dates to them.

With courageous leadership, you'll create a culture and a mindset that encourages and demands excellence! Follow these steps to bring out the best in your employees and lead your company to significant success.

Change Your Questions, Change Your Life

Discover how the questions we ask ourselves and others can either expand our mindsets and open us up to exciting new possibilities or constrict our mindsets and limit our choices for successful change.

Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is an international best seller that has sold over 400,000 copies in 22 languages. People have discovered that, when we’re looking for answers, we often forget to take the time to ask the right questions. But as Dr. Marilee Adams shows, intentionally using questions helps us make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform our personal and professional lives.

Dr. Adams uses a highly engaging fable to illustrate how great results begin with great questions. The book’s hero, Ben Knight, learns such breakthrough insights and undergoes a transformative journey. As we listen to how his coach takes him step by step through the 12 powerful tools of question thinking, we also learn how to apply the same information and practical skills in our own lives. At the center of this work is the choice map, which provides a simple yet powerful image to predict the likely results of the questions we ask ourselves and others. It tells us how to change our questions and our mindsets for the most rewarding outcomes.

The book contains a new chapter delving into what neuroscience reveals about managing our stresses and fears more effectively using methods such as those described in this book. It includes powerful and practical tools that help listeners switch from a constricting judger to an expansive learner mindset, achieve the results they desire, and foster breakthroughs.

The Dream Manager

The fictional Admiral Janitorial Services has a problem: employees are leaving in droves, and they don't know what to do about it. Interpreting a series of employee surveys, the general manager comes up with a solution that walks the "thin line between genius and madness": hire a "dream manager", part life coach and part financial adviser, to help employees achieve their dreams.

For example, one woman dreams of buying her first home, while one man hopes to find more time to spend with his family. In an unexpected twist, the dream manager even helps employees find new jobs when they no longer have room to grow in their current ones.

In The Dream Manager, best-selling author Matthew Kelly teaches employers how to bridge the gap between their employees' current jobs and the futures they dream of, making them happier and more loyal to the company. Complete with a section on tools to get you going, this inspiring audiobook teaches an important lesson about self-fulfillment that applies both to the workplace and to life outside of it.

The Richest Man in Babylon

This inspiring book, began in 1926 as a series of informational pamphlets distributed by banks and insurance companies. By 1927, several of these pamphlets had been compiled into a book and this collection has been in print ever since. It has helped millions of people, and has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth.

A modern day classic, The Richest Man in Babylon dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. These famous "Babylonian parables" offer an understanding of - and solution to - a lifetime's worth of personal financial problems, and holds the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and earning more money.

Get Shit Done

The must-have guide for getting sh*t done!

Written for those who finds it hard to get sh*t done, this audiobook is designed to have a profound, life-changing effect on anyone who wants to adopt and implement the elements of greater productivity. New York Times best-selling author Jeffrey Gitomer explains why we are so often stymied by procrastination and reveals the strategies to achieve and profit more.

The Great Game of Business

In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. That's when a green young manager, Jack Stack, took over and turned it around. He didn't know how to "manage" a company, but he did know about the principal, of athletic competition and democracy: keeping score, having fun, playing fair, providing choice, and having a voice.

With these principles he created his own style of management - open-book management. The key is to let everyone in on financial decisions. At SRC, everyone learns how to read a P&L - even those without a high school education know how much the toilet paper they use cuts into profits. SRC people have a piece of the action and a vote in company matters. Imagine having a vote on your bonus and on what businesses the company should be in. SRC restored the dignity of economic freedom to its people. Stack's "open-book management" is the key - a system which, as he describes it here, is literally a game, and one so simple anyone can use it.

The Great Game of Business started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that created unprecedented profit and employee engagement.

The revised and updated edition of The Great Game of Business lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn't dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs.

What Stack and his people created was a revolutionary approach to management that has proven itself in every industry around the world for the past 30 years - an approach that is perhaps the last, best hope for reviving the American Dream.

Eat That Frog!

Achieve work-life balance by conquering procrastination and get your most important work done, now with new chapters on technology and maintaining focus

The fully revised and expanded edition of the global bestseller with over 3 million copies sold world-wide

The saying goes: if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, then you’re done with the toughest thing for the day. Eating that frog means tackling your most challenging task—and it’s also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life.

Productivity and time management coach Brian Tracy shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively.

The 3 essentials of successful time management are decision, discipline, and determination, and Tracy shows you how to dial in these skills using 21 principles and techniques like:

• Single handle every task
• Upgrade your key skills
• Identify your key constraints
• Put the pressure on yourself
• Slice and dice the task

This life-changing manual will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done today.

The Speed of Trust

Over two million copies sold.

Stephen M. R. Covey shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and all stakeholders—is the single most critical component of a successful leader and organization.

Stephen M. R. Covey, widely known as one of the world’s leading authorities on trust, asserts that it is “the most overlooked, misunderstood, underutilized asset to enable performance. Its impact, for good or bad, is dramatic and pervasive. It’s something you can’t escape.” Thankfully, it’s is also the thing that can dramatically improve your personal and professional success.

Why trust? The simple, often overlooked fact is this: work gets done with and through people. The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in every transaction and every relationship—from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction. It specifically demonstrates how to establish trust intentionally so that you and your organization can forego the time-killing, bureaucratic check-and-balance processes that is so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.

This 2018 updated edition includes an insightful afterword by the author which explores ten key reasons why trust is more relevant now than ever before—including how trust is the new currency of our world today.

Atomic Habits

The number one New York Times best seller. Over one million copies sold!

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, listeners will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:

Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy)
Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower
Design your environment to make success easier
Get back on track when you fall off course
And much more

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits - whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

The 8th Habit

In the more than 15 years since its publication, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey's classic book.

The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude.

Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of this new era in human history is for greatness; it's for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution.

Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today's new reality requires a sea change in thinking. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit.

So many people feel frustrated, discouraged, unappreciated, and undervalued, with little or no sense of voice of unique contribution. The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul's yearning for greatness, the organization's imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity's search for its "voice". This groundbreaking audiobook of next level thinking gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the Knowledge Worker Age.

Covey's new audiobook will transform the way we think about ourselves and our purpose in life, about our organizations, and about humankind. Just as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People helped us focus on effectiveness, The 8th Habit shows us the way to greatness.

Entreleadership

If you’re at all responsible for your company’s success, you can’t just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both!

This book presents Dave’s playbook for creating work that matters; building an incredible group of passionate, empowered team members; and winning the race with steady momentum that will roll over any obstacle.

Regardless of your business goals, you’ll discover that anyone can lead any venture to unbelievable growth and prosperity through Dave’s common sense, counterculture, EntreLeadership principles!

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

For the first time ever, hear the bestselling leadership book of all time, read in its entirety by John Maxwell himself!

HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, with the publication of a revised and updated 25th anniversary edition. This will be the first time Maxwell has read the full unabridged audiobook. Included only on this audio edition are insights from Maxwell on each law and how they have impacted his life as a leader and mentor. There will also be stories from some of today’s most impactful leaders, like entrepreneur and cofounder of IT Cosmetics Jamie Kern Lima, Maxwell Leadership CEO Mark Cole, and author and marketing expert Jeff Henderson, on how they have applied these laws to their own success journeys.

Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book 25 years ago. And he has included some exciting new stories that apply the laws to today’s business world.

What Maxwell didn’t change are the powerful leadership truths that have been helping people become better leaders for the last quarter century. This is still the best book on leadership people can buy, whether they want to learn leadership on their own, develop as leaders in a group, or teach leadership to others as a mentor.

Listeners new to Maxwell, as well as lifelong fans, will enjoy this new edition of the leadership book that has sold millions of copies in the United States and around the world.

Accompanying visuals and an assessment are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Traction

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you?

All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It’s not complicated or theoretical.

The Entrepreneurial Operating System is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. More than 2,000 companies have discovered what EOS can do.

InTraction, you’ll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You’ll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Successful companies are applying Traction every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses - and you can too.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!

Simon & Schuster Audio is proud to present one of the best-selling books of all time, Dale Carnegie's perennial classic How to Win Friends and Influence People, presented here in its entirety.

For over 60 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this audiobook has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

With this truly phenomenal audiobook, learn:

The six ways to make people like you
The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking
The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment And much, much more!

There is room at the top, when you know...How to Win Friends and Influence People.

The Peter Principle

The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.' - New York Times

'The classic book which warns of the dangers of over-promotion' The Times

In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence.

This simple maxim, defined by this classic book over 40 years ago, has become a beacon of truth in the world of work. From the civil service to multinational companies to hospital management, it explains why things constantly go wrong: promotion up a hierarchy inevitably leads to over-promotion and incompetence. Through barbed anecdotes and wry humor the authors define the problem and show how anyone, whether at the top or bottom of the career ladder, can avoid its pitfalls. Or, indeed, avoid promotion entirely!

BCMA Study Guide

This BCMA Guide for Exam Preparation is designed to help you study for the ISA Board Certified Master Arborist® (BCMA™) certification.

This book provides the framework to help you:

Assess your current knowledge.
Create a study program.
Select references for further study.
Practice taking applied and scenario-based exam questions.

A preparation section at the beginning of the book provides study guidance and a sample of the types of multiple choice questions that could be found on the ISA BCMA™ exam. Additionally, a 50-question preliminary assessment test will guide you to the chapters where you may need to focus more of your study time. The final section of the book features a 150-question practice exam to provide additional test-taking experience.

Certified Arborist Study Guide

This fully-illustrated 4th edition is a must-have book for ISA Certified Arborist candidates and provides a strong foundation and reference for all tree care professionals. Features: Complete and up-to-date resource designed to help you prepare for the ISA Certified Arborist exam Fully illustrated in color with over 440 photos and illustrations, including nearly 200 new to this edition Significantly enhanced chapters on Pruning, Risk Assessment, Climbing, and Urban Forestry Consistent with every BMP revision as of February 2021 Comprehensive glossary of arboricultural terms Valuable list of additional recommended resources Each chapter contains: learning objectives key terms text with illustrations and photos a workbook section challenge questions sample test questions recommended resources

Tree Climber's Guide, 4th Edition

The Tree Climbers’ Guide was written specifically from the tree climbers’ perspective to learn safe climbing and aerial tree work principles. It is a basic text for tree climbers as well as a study guide for the ISA Certified Tree Worker Climber Specialist® exam. Each chapter includes a list of key terms and concludes with a workbook section.

The fourth edition has been updated throughout and features more than 270 illustrations by artist Bryan Kotwica that help to clarify and complement the text.

The fourth edition includes three new chapters: Moving Rope Systems (MRS), Stationary Rope Systems (SRS), and Climbing Equipment. The other chapters, fully revised and updated, are: Tree Health and Sciences, Safety, Ropes and Knots, Preparing to Climb, Pruning, Rigging, Removal, and Cabling. The guide also contains appendices with answers to the workbook questions, a glossary, and resources listed for further reference. (©2021, softcover, 272 pp., glossary, appendices, index)

ANSI Z133 Safety Standard

The Z133 Safety Standard was developed for the arboriculture industry under the procedures of the American National Standards Institute. The 2017 revision provides the most current criteria in the United States for arborists and other workers engaged in arboricultural operations:

General safety
Electrical hazard
Use of vehicles and mobile equipment
Portable power hand tools
Hand tools and ladders
Climbing
Work procedures

This publication provides an essential guide for federal, state, and municipal authorities in drafting regulations. For more information visit isa-arbor.com/Z133.

Tree Owner's Manual

Homeowners wrestle with questions about trees and tree care. Using a clever format accessible to even the most brown-thumbed gardener, this resource helps you educate your clients, garden groups, and citizens about proper care. From installation to maintenance precautions, many important tree care topics are covered with easily understood images and text. Purchase this manual in bulk and spread the word to others in your community.

Tree Risk Assessment Manual, 2nd Ed.

This manual is a valuable tool for both the expert and novice risk assessor, and will quickly become one of the most referenced resources on your bookshelf. As the companion publication for the Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ) course, the manual provides a systematic and structured approach to tree risk assessment, including levels of assessment, target and site assessment, tree biology and mechanics, tree inspection, mitigation, and reporting. (©2017, softcover, 194 pp., full-color illustrations and photos, glossary, index)

An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd ed

Filled with updated illustrations, photographs, and examples, this must-have guide is designed to help readers understand and apply the appropriate pruning practices that are vital to developing sustainable structure in the first 25 years of a tree’s life. The book addresses many challenges associated with pruning, including disease prevention, root pruning, mature tree pruning, and restoration following storms. With its simple tables, lists, and strategies, this is an appealing resource for horticulture, landscape, and tree professionals, and is a natural addition for botanic garden and arboreta bookstores.

Arboriculture & The Law

This publication is an excellent resource regarding legal responsibilities of private property owners, municipalities, private tree companies, practicing arborists, or public companies. While not a substitute for specific legal advice, general information concerning trees and the rights and requirements of property ownership are discussed in relationship to situations often encountered by arborists.

Tree Law Cases in the USA

Many arborists encounter tree issues regarding property lines, easements, public rights-of-way, municipalities, real estate, tree roots, and general negligence that have the potential for becoming legal cases. Intended for arborists, attorneys, insurance companies, municipal administrators, and laymen, this book provides a greater understanding of law as it relates to trees through an overview of more than 200 cases throughout the United States.

ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards (2023)

Precision and compliance with industry standards are paramount. The ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards, approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), are your path to being a recognized authority in tree care. These standards are used as the final authority in the US Civil Court system, and compliance ensures that your work aligns with the highest industry benchmarks.

The ANSI A300 delivers comprehensive standards for tree care practices as well as guidelines for writing tree care work specifications. Formerly available as ten separate publications, this all-inclusive reference now provides the updated and revised set of ten A300 parts in one spiral-bound book, and encompasses the following:

Clause 1-4: Scope, Purpose, Application, and General Info
Clause 5: Pruning
Clause 6: Soil Management
Clause 7: Supplemental Support Systems
Clause 8: Lightning Protection System
Clause 9: Management During Site Development and Construction
Clause 10: Planting and Transplanting
Clause 11: Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM)
Clause 12: Root Management
Clause 13: Tree Risk Assessment
Clause 14: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Clause 15: Industry Definitions

But there's more! ANSI A300 also equips you with work specification writing guides, facilitating effective communication between your clients, sales staff, and your production team. This minimizes misunderstandings and ensures the job is executed correctly and in compliance with codes, laws, ordinances, and regulations.

Winning with Accountability

Success can t happen without accountability. It is that simple. For more than 15 years, Henry Evans and his team, have worked with hundreds of organizations around the world, teaching and building accountability through classroom training and their eSchool. This book offers that same guidance to you, your colleagues and your team to reach new levels of excellence and success. In Winning with Accountability, Henry offers a step-by-step guide to help any organization improve performance by creating a culture of accountability. The strategies in this book are simple, easy to implement...and the results are immediate! It should be required reading for every member of every team. Read, enjoy, and win with accountability!

Dotcom Secrets

Master the science of funnel building to grow your company online with sales funnels in this updated edition from the $100 million entrepreneur and cofounder of the software company ClickFunnels.

DotCom Secrets is not just another "how-to" audiobook on internet marketing. This audio is not about getting more traffic to your website - yet these secrets will help you get exponentially more traffic than ever before.

This audio is not about increasing your conversions - yet these secrets will increase your conversions more than any headline tweak or split test you could ever hope to make.

Low traffic or low conversion rates are symptoms of a much greater problem that's a little harder to see (that's the bad news), but a lot easier to fix (that's the good news).

What most businesses really have is a "funnel" problem. Your funnel is the online process that you take your potential customers through to turn them into actual customers. Everyone has a funnel (even if they don't realize it), and yours is either bringing more customers to you or repelling them.

Over the past decade, we have run tens of thousands of split tests to figure out which funnels work for almost every situation you can dream of. If your goal is to generate leads, we have funnel frameworks and scripts for that. If you want to sell a product or a service, there are frameworks and scripts for that as well.

The sales funnel frameworks that you will find on this audio have now helped literally tens of thousands of companies around the world to grow faster than ever before. This audiobook will give you access to all the processes, funnels, frameworks, and scripts that we use to scale our companies online so you can fix your funnel and turn it into the most profitable member of your team!

There's No Such Thing as Business Ethics

There's no such thing as business ethics. How can that be? Because a single standard applies to both your business and personal life-and it's one we all know and trust: the Golden Rule. Now bestselling author John C. Maxwell shows you how this revered ideal works everywhere, and how, especially in business, it brings amazing dividends. There's No Such Thing As "Business" Ethics offers:

* Stories from history, business, government, and sports that illustrate how talented leaders invoked this timeless principle
* Examples of difficult business decisions-layoffs, evaluations, billing clients, expansion-and how the Golden Rule applies to each
* The five most common reasons people compromise their ethics-and how you can prevail over such moral obstacles
* How applying the Golden Rule to business builds morale, increases productivity, encourages teamwork, lowers employee turnover, and keeps clients coming back.

John C. Maxwell not only reveals the many ways the Golden Rule creates the perfect environment for business success, but does it with great wisdom, warmth, and humor. Backed by flawless research and the ideas of history's best thinkers, this engaging book brilliantly demonstrates how doing the right thing fosters a winning situation for all, with positive results for employees, clients, investors, and even your own state of mind. Business runs much more smoothly, profits increase, and you know that you've set the groundwork for years of future prosperity. . . and it's all thanks to the tried-and-true Golden Rule.

Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines, Fourth Edition

Regarded by many as an irreplaceable reference tool, this book describes the integration of the landscape environment (climate, soil, and related organisms), its effect on landscape plants, and how to manage both to obtain the desired results with reasonable effort. All aspects of tree, shrub, and vine care are covered, including plant structure and function, plant selection, site analysis and preparation, environmental influences on growth, soil, water and nutrient management, pruning, transplanting, and plant health care. A valuable handbook for professionals, including arboricultural consultants, arborists, urban foresters, landscape architects, landscape contractors (installation and/or maintenance), state and county horticultural extension advisors, park directors and staff (federal, state, regional, and local), street tree superintendents and staff, grounds superintendents and staff (golf courses, college and school grounds, cemeteries, condominiums.

The Drama Free Workplace

Eliminate sexual harassment, unconscious bias, ethical lapses and other HR nightmares!

Companies spend millions on legal compliance training and initiatives to eliminate workplace drama and the resulting low morale and lawsuits, but don't always get the results they want. Most organizations understand that simply checking legal compliance boxes around sexual harassment, bias, etc. isn't enough, but are at a loss on how to implement solutions, especially in today's post-#MeToo world.

Patti Perez is an attorney, HR expert, trainer, and former state regulator, who has conducted over 1,200 workplace investigations. In this unique book, she explains the secret to avoiding all forms of drama, legal exposure, and low morale: A healthy workplace culture. Patti combines the lessons learned from 25 years of professional experience with robust data from behavioral science research to debunk common myths, including the belief that a focus on legal compliance leads to a healthy workplace culture. (In fact, it increases the likelihood of getting sued.)

The Drama-Free Workplace includes a section with easy-to-understand causes, effects, and solutions to problems related to:

Sexual harassment
Bias and diversity
Ethics lapses

The book also includes helpful information on:

Becoming an organization that values and practices fearlessness, fairness and freedom
Anticipating situations that give rise to drama, with detailed advice on how to prevent it from happening
Using emotional intelligence to communicate more precisely and persuasively about sensitive, controversial topics in the workplace

Finally, the book's DIY section guides companies on how to:

draft and enforce helpful policies (that employees will actually read and want to follow)
design and deliver powerful and effective training programs
investigate and resolve claims of sexual harassment and other types of misconduct

Together, these practical tools will help all your employees feel valued and motivated, and keep drama, disengagement, and lawsuits, away.

Essential Best Management Practices for Arborists

Best Management Practices - Pruning, 3rd Edition (2019)

Best Management Practices - Integrated Pest Management, Second Edition (2016)

Best Management Practices - Utility Pruning of Trees (2004)

This BMP, updated in 2019, provides reasons why pruning should be undertaken, explains pruning types, provides background on pruning cuts, reviews sample pruning specifications, and comments on the timing and necessity of these operations.

Topics in this BMP include:

Pruning Systems
Pruning Objectives
Pruning Cuts
Pruning Practices
Poor Pruning Practices
Pruning Conifers, Palms, and Bamboo
Pruning Specifications
Glossary

Best Management Practices - Utility Pruning of Trees (2004)

Best Management Practices - Integrated Pest Management, Second Edition (2016)

Best Management Practices - Utility Pruning of Trees (2004)

This BMP describes current best practices in utility tree pruning based on scientific research and proven methodology for the safe and reliable delivery of utility services, while preventing unnecessary injury to trees to the greatest extent possible.

Topics in this BMP include:

Utility Pruning Safety
Utility Pruning Tools and Equipment
Utility Pruning Methods and Practices
Utility Pruning in Remote/Rural Environments
Emergency Service Restoration

Best Management Practices - Integrated Pest Management, Second Edition (2016)

Best Management Practices - Integrated Vegetation Management, Third Edition (2021)

This BMP provides a succinct overview of the basic definitions, concepts, and practices that pertain to landscape Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This publication is intended to aid arborists and landscape professionals in designing, planning, and implementing an IPM program as part of a comprehensive Plant Health Care (PHC) management system.

Topics in this BMP include:

IPM Concepts and Definitions
Action Thresholds
Monitoring Tools and Techniques
Preventive Tactics
Control Tactics
Documentation and Recordkeeping

Best Management Practices - Integrated Vegetation Management, Third Edition (2021)

This BMP provides practitioners with what industry experts consider to be the most appropriate integrated vegetation management (IVM) techniques in use today. This new edition provides an approach that can be applied to a broad array of applications, while appendices provide more specific information on:

Electric Utility IVM
Pipeline IVM
Railway IVM
Roadway IVM
Environmental Stewardship
Soil Health
Herbicide

It also serves as a companion publication to the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations—Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant Management—Standard Practices (Integrated Vegetation Management) (ANSI A300, Part 7).

Best Management Practices - Tree Planting, Second Edition (2014)

Best Management Practices - Integrated Vegetation Management, Third Edition (2021)

Best Management Practices - Tree Support Systems, Third Edition (2014)

This BMP focuses on the active process of tree planting, including site and species selection, planting practices, post-planting pruning, and early tree care. It also serves as a companion publication for the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management Standard Practices (Planting and Transplanting).

Topics in this BMP include:

Time of Planting
Nursery Stock: Types, Selection, and Handling
Preparing the Planting Hole
Planting Practices
Root Loss and New Root Growth
Redevelopment of Root Structure
Pruning
Palms
After Planting
Final Inspection
Glossary of Terms

Best Management Practices - Tree Support Systems, Third Edition (2014)

Best Management Practices - Integrated Vegetation Management, Third Edition (2021)

Best Management Practices - Tree Support Systems, Third Edition (2014)

This BMP describes proper installation and maintenance of cables, braces, guys, and props that can effectively limit the movement of branches, leaders, or entire trees. It also serves as a companion publication for the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management Standard Practices (Supplemental Support Systems).

Topics in this BMP include:

Installation Tools
Cabling
Bracing
Guying Established Trees
Propping
Guying Newly Planted Trees
Glossary of Terms

Best Management Practices - Lightning Protection Systems, Third Edition (2015)

This BMP describes proper installation and maintenance of lightning protection systems that can effectively prevent serious lightning damage to trees. It also serves as a companion publication for American National Standard for Tree Care Operations Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management Standard Practices (Lighting Protection Systems).

Topics in this BMP include:

Identification of Trees Needing Lightning Protection
Limitations of Tree Lightning Protection Systems
Susceptibility to Lightning Strikes
Lightning Protection Materials and Equipment
Lightning Protection System Design and Installation
Installation Methods
Lightning Protection System Maintenance
Lightning-Damaged Trees
Electrical Testing of Grown-Over Conductors
Testing Ground Systems
Glossary of Terms

Best Management Practices - Tree Inventories, Second Edition (2013)

Best Management Practices - Lightning Protection Systems, Third Edition (2015)

This BMP is written for professionals who manage a large number of trees that are considered primarily as individuals rather than as groups, in locations such as municipalities, university campuses, cemeteries, military bases, corporate grounds, arboreta, homeowners associations, and private grounds. It strives to serve as a guide for making informed choices that will match inventory goals with needs and resources.

Topics in this BMP include:

Inventory Goals and Objectives
Inventory Benefits and Costs
Inventory Types
Developing Work Specifications
Maintaining Inventory Quality

Best Management Practices - Tree and Shrub Fertilization, Fourth Edition

Best Management Practices - Lightning Protection Systems, Third Edition (2015)

Best Management Practices - Managing Trees During Construction, Third Edition (2023)

This BMP is for the selection and application of fertilizers for trees and shrubs. It also serves as a companion publication for the fertilization portion of the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management Standard Practices (Soil Management a. Assessment, b. Modification, c. Fertilization, and d. Drainage).

Topics in this BMP include:

Essential Elements
Determining Goals and Objectives of Fertilization
Soil Testing and Plant Analysis
Fertilizer Selection
Fertilizer Timing
Fertilizer Application
Fertilizer Application Area
Fertilizer Rates
Storage and Handling of Fertilizer
Tree and Shrub Nutrient Demand and Supply, Plant Response Expectation Rubric
Sample Fertilizer Contract for Commercial/Municipal Clients

Best Management Practices - Managing Trees During Construction, Third Edition (2023)

This BMP describes tree conservation and preservation practices that help to protect selected trees throughout the construction planning and development process so that they will continue to provide benefits for decades after site disturbance. This 3rd edition print contains more than 15 full-color images, including updated and brand-new illustrations.

Topics in this BMP include considerations and practices to account for during the 6 phases of construction:

Planning Phase
Design Phase
Preconstruction Phase
Construction Phase
Landscaping Phase
Postconstruction Phase

Best Management Practices - Tree Support Systems, Third Edition (2014)

Best Management Practices - Managing Trees During Construction, Third Edition (2023)

Best Management Practices - Tree Support Systems, Third Edition (2014)

Topics in this BMP include:

Installation Tools
Cabling
Bracing
Guying Established Trees
Propping
Guying Newly Planted Trees
Glossary of Terms

Best Management Practices - Tree Inventories, Second Edition (2013)

Best Management Practices - Managing Trees During Construction, Third Edition (2023)

Best Management Practices - Tree Support Systems, Third Edition (2014)

Topics in this BMP include:

Inventory Goals and Objectives
Inventory Benefits and Costs
Inventory Types
Developing Work Specifications
Maintaining Inventory Quality

Best Management Practices - Tree and Shrub Fertilization, Fourth Edition

Best Management Practices - Managing Trees During Construction, Third Edition (2023)

This BMP is for the selection and application of fertilizers for trees and shrubs. It also serves as a companion publication for the fertilization portion of the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations—Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management—Standard Practices (Soil Management a. Assessment, b. Modification, c. Fertilization, and d. Drainage).

Topics in this BMP include:

Essential Elements
Determining Goals and Objectives of Fertilization
Soil Testing and Plant Analysis
Fertilizer Selection
Fertilizer Timing
Fertilizer Application
Fertilizer Application Area
Fertilizer Rates
Storage and Handling of Fertilizer
Tree and Shrub Nutrient Demand and Supply, Plant Response Expectation Rubric
Sample Fertilizer Contract for Commercial/Municipal Clients

Best Management Practices - Managing Trees During Construction, Third Edition (2023)

Topics in this BMP include considerations and practices to account for during the 6 phases of construction:

Planning Phase
Design Phase
Preconstruction Phase
Construction Phase
Landscaping Phase
Postconstruction Phase

Best Management Practices - Tree Risk Assessment, Second Edition (2017)

Best Management Practices - Managing Trees During Construction, Third Edition (2023)

Best Management Practices - Soil Management for Urban Trees, 2nd Edition (2021)

This BMP is intended to serve as a guide for arborists to assess tree risk as accurately and consistently as possible, to evaluate that risk, and to recommend measures that achieve an acceptable level of risk. It also serves as a companion publication for the ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards.

Topics in this BMP include:

Risk Assessment Basics
Levels and Scope of Tree Risk Assessment
Assessing Targets, Sites, and Trees
Tree Risk Categorization
Risk Mitigation: Preventive and Remedial Actions
Risk Reporting
Tree Related Conflicts That Can Be a Source of Risk
Loads on Trees
Structural Defects and Conditions That Affect Likelihood of Failure
Response Growth
Description of Selected Types of Advanced Tree Risk Assessments

Best Management Practices - Soil Management for Urban Trees, 2nd Edition (2021)

Protection and restoration of soil quality is an important task and should be a goal for arborists, tree owners, and managers. This BMP recommends practices for assessing, modifying, and conserving soils that support trees and shrubs in the urban environment.

It also serves as a companion publication for the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations—Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management—Standard Practices (Soil Management a. Assessment, b. Modification, c. Fertilization, and d. Drainage).

Topics in this BMP include:

Goals of Soil Management
Assessment, Sampling, and Analysis
Modifications and Amendments
Tillage
Conservation
Glossary of Terms

Best Management Practices - Root Management, Second Edition (2023)

Best Management Practices - Soil Management for Urban Trees, 2nd Edition (2021)

Best Management Practices - Root Management, Second Edition (2023)

ISA has developed a series of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the purpose of interpreting tree care standards and providing guidelines of practice for arborists, tree workers, and the people who employ their services. The Root Management BMP provides arborists with recommended practices and guidance for inspecting, pruning, and directing the roots of trees to promote the trees’ longevity while minimizing infrastructure conflicts. This 2nd edition print includes updated and brand-new full-color illustrations.

Topics in this BMP include:

Root Systems
Root Inspection
Root Pruning
Minimizing Conflicts with Infrastructure

Best Management Practices - Utility Tree Risk Assessment (2020)

Best Management Practices - Soil Management for Urban Trees, 2nd Edition (2021)

Best Management Practices - Root Management, Second Edition (2023)

The purpose of this BMP is to guide utility personnel, utility vegetation managers, utility tree risk assessors, and line clearance contractors in assessing tree-related risk to overhead electric utility infrastructure by tree failure as accurately and consistently as possible, and to support decisions related to risk mitigation practices that achieve utility objectives. It also serves as a companion publication to the ANSI A300 Part 9: Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant Management—Standard Practices (Tree Risk Assessment a. Tree Failure)

Best Management Practices - Tree Injection, Second Edition (2022)

Tree injection is the process of applying a treatment into the active xylem of a tree for distribution throughout the entire tree. This BMP provides guidance for arborists who use tree injection to systemically treat trees for pest problems, nutrient deficiencies, or growth regulation. This 2nd edition print contains 11 full-color images, including updated and brand-new illustrations.

Topics in this BMP include:

Why Use Tree Injection?
Types of Tree Injection
Potential Damage from Tree Injection
Application Considerations
Administering Injections
Record Keeping and Legal Considerations
Tree Ring Porosity of Hardwood Tree Genera
Sample Bid Specifications and Tree Injection Contract Language