Are You Actually Valuable—Or Just Adequate?

Most employees think they're doing great. Most companies disagree. Super Players closes that gap.

Drawing on decades of work with leaders and teams, this book breaks down exactly what separates merely adequate performers from the people companies build their futures around—and gives you the playbook to become one of them.

Inside, you'll find:

12 high-impact habits that drive real career advancement
Real workplace stories showing the difference between "good enough" and exceptional
Three action steps per habit you can start using immediately
Strategies for aligning your work with what your company actually values
A practical framework for leading—not just using—AI and Intelligence at work

No fluff, no jargon—just a clear, no-excuses path to becoming indispensable, whether you're starting out or already leading a team.

About The Authors

Verne Harnish

VERNE HARNISH is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members world-wide, and founded and chaired for fi fteen 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 290 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup.

The Global Scaleup Fellow at The Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, he’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the International Book Award for Best General Business book; and is the co-author of Scaling Up Compensation. His latest book is Start to Scale.

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

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.