MORE Is Better

Leading Operations with Meaning, Optimism, and Relationships for Excellence

Kathy Miller

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040417577
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

In MORE Is Better, award-winning manufacturing executive Kathy Miller draws from decades of leading complex operations and the science of human flourishing to reveal what truly drives sustainable success in today's demanding business environments.

Through compelling stories and research-backed strategies, Miller shows how leaders at every level can build high-performance cultures where:

• Meaningful work connects people to purpose
• Optimism fuels adaptability and innovation
• Relationships foster trust, safety, and collaboration
• Excellence follows—in operations and outcomes

Designed for leaders across industries—from plant floors to executive suites—this is both a business book and a field guide. With dozens of actionable tools and ready-to-use interventions, it's a resource you'll turn to again and again. Because when you activate every team member's hands, head, and heart—you build workplaces that thrive.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• A Note to My Fellow Operations Leader
• PART I Foundations of Human Progress: The Story of Work and Well-Being
• PART II Meaningful Work
• PART III Optimism
• PART IV Positive Workplace Relationships
• PART V Transformational Leadership
• Appendix: Leadership Toolkit for Excellence
• Appendix A: Positive Interventions for Enhancing Meaningful Work
• Appendix B: Positive Interventions Cultivating Optimism
• Appendix C: Positive Interventions for Developing and Fostering Positive Workplace Relationships
• Bibliography
• Index