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Title: The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas

Author: David Schonthal, Loran Nordgren

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Release date: November 9, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

The Human Element is for anyone who wants to introduce a new idea or innovation into the world. Most marketers, innovators, executives, and activists operate on a deep assumption. It is the belief that the best way to convince people to embrace a new idea is to heighten the appeal of the idea itself. We instinctively believe that if we add enough value, people will eventually say 'yes.' This reflex leads us down a path of adding features and benefits to our ideas or increasing the sizzle of our messaging—all in the hope of getting others on board. We call this instinct the 'Fuel-based mindset.' The Fuel-based mindset explains so much of what we do, from adding countless trivial features to software, to bolting a sixth blade onto a shaving razor. By focusing on Fuel, innovators neglect the other half of the equation—the psychological Frictions that oppose change. Frictions create drag on innovation. And though they are rarely considered, overcoming these Frictions is essential for bringing new ideas into the world. The Human Element highlights the four Frictions that operate against innovation. Perfect for business leaders, product managers, educators, and anyone else who seeks to bring new and exciting ideas to life, The Human Element is an indispensable resource to help people overcome the powerful forces of human nature that instinctively resist change.

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Title: Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects

Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

Narrator: Christopher Douyard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Release date: November 9, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects. We're now living in the project economy. As the number of projects initiated in both the public and private sectors skyrockets, project management skills have become essential for all leaders and managers. But despite this project boom, the failure rate remains extremely high. Why? Leaders have too many projects and too little visibility into them, and they lack the project implementation competencies necessary to deliver their projects successfully. Project managers have the technical skills, but they often have trouble translating their hands-on know-how up to the leaders'-eye view. Worthy projects languish and fail to deliver benefits, starved of resources, while too much investment is made in projects with less merit or potential value. The HBR Project Management Handbook will help you bridge this gap. In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a simple and intuitive framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, you'll learn to more effectively navigate through your organization's inventory of projects, programs, and strategic, and agile initiatives in order to better select which ones to push forward and which to kill, as well as how they should be prioritized and how you can ensure they're completed as planned. Timeless yet forward-looking, the advice in this book will help you and your organization thrive in the project-driven world.

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Title: [Spanish] - Growth IQ: Diez estrategias para impulsar el crecimiento de tu empresa

Author: Tiffani Bova

Narrator: Marta Martín Jorcano

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

¿Conoces las estrategias adecuadas para impulsar el crecimiento de tu organización? ¿Sabes cómo combinarlas, secuenciarlas e implementarlas para tener éxito? 'Una digna sucesora de Michael Porter. El libro de Bova es una joya rara, pues abre la puerta a ideas y actitudes novedosas. Aquí no hay respuestas facilonas, solo sabiduría conseguida con mucho sudor y que provocará cambios radicales en organizaciones grandes y pequeñas.' –Seth Godin, autor de ¡Hazlo!, Esto es marketing y Linchpin 'Hay demasiadas compañías que fomentan la cultura del empleado quemado en aras del crecimiento a corto plazo como fin en sí mismo. El crecimiento inteligente es el sostenible; y Tiffani Bova nos explica cómo mantenerlo erigiendo una cultura de objetivos y aprovechando la dedicación de los tuyos, no sacrificándola'. –Arianna Huffington, fundadora y directora general de Thrive Global y fundadora de The Huffington Post Determinar la mejor manera de impulsar el crecimiento de una organización puede parecer una tarea ardua. Según Tiffani Bova, no existe un único secreto, pero sí hay diez estrategias de crecimiento que cualquier empresario o directivo debería conocer y ser capaz de combinar y secuenciar con acierto, en función del contexto en el que opere. Tras contribuir a la definición y la implementación de estrategias de crecimiento de empresas como Amazon-AWS, AT&T, Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP yStarbucks, Tiffani Bova ha escrito un libro que, mediante el análisis en profundidad de treinta casos, expone las oportunidades —y las dificultades— que conllevan las diez estrategias de crecimiento que ha identificado, cómo pueden combinarse entre sí y cómo pueden aplicarse a las organizaciones del siglo XXI. 'El libro capta la esencia de cómo hacer crecer sostenidamente una empresa anteponiendo por completo el cliente. [...] Tiffani Bova es una narradora sensacional [...] y nos guía a través de un marco que estructura nuestra estrategia de crecimiento. Como fundadora, algunas de estas cosas son innatas, [...] pero el libro es una herramienta útil para inspirar a mis líderes en cada una de nuestras actividades. Además, me ha hecho reír... Recuerdo que, cuando empezamos a crecer, mi director financiero preguntó: '¿Qué hemos hecho bien?'. La respuesta, por supuesto, es todo. Ahora estamos en la liga del 1 %: buscamos un crecimiento del 1 % de cada una de nuestras iniciativas y, en conjunto, logramos un crecimiento anual de dobles dígitos. Gracias, Tiffani, por escribirlo, [...] un manual para que todos los líderes inspiren a las personas a su alrededor.' –Naomi Simson, tiburón en el programa Shark Tank de Australia, fundadora de RedBalloon, cofundadora de Big Red Group

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Title: [Spanish] - Jugar para ganar

Author: Roger L. Martin, A. G. Lafley

Narrator: Carlos Durán Rincón

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

'El mejor libro sobre estrategia que he leído jamás.' –Sir Terry Leahy, ex director general de Tesco 'Jugar para ganar es como un asiento en primera fila en la Super Bowl de la estrategia. Aquí descubrirás qué recursos utiliza el gigante de los bienes de consumo Procter & Gamble para que sus innovadores productos lleguen a millones de hogares, y también métodos probados para sobreponerte en tus propias batallas por el mercado. Si eres un vendedor o un líder, tienes que leer este libro.' –Daniel H. Pink, autor de La sorprendente verdad sobre lo que nos motiva Jugar para ganar describe el enfoque estratégico que A. G. Lafley, en estrecha colaboración con el asesor Roger L. Martin, empleó para duplicar las ventas de Procter & Gamble, cuadruplicar sus ganancias y aumentar su valor de mercado en más de cien mil millones de dólares entre 2000 y 2009. Los líderes de cualquier tipo de organización pueden encontrar aquí una guía eficaz sobre cómo orientar las acciones cotidianas hacia objetivos estratégicos, construidos alrededor de los elementos esenciales, que determinan el éxito de todo negocio: dónde jugar y cómo ganar. Lafley y Martin han creado un conjunto de cinco opciones estratégicas esenciales que, de manera integrada, nos permiten superar a nuestros competidores: 1. ¿Cuál es nuestra aspiración ganadora? 2. ¿Dónde vamos a jugar? 3. ¿Cómo vamos a ganar? 4. ¿Qué recursos debemos tener para ganar? 5. ¿Qué sistemas de gestión necesitamos para respaldar nuestras elecciones? El relato de cómo P&G ganó repetidamente aplicando este método a marcas icónicas como Olay, Bounty y Gillette ilustra con claridad hasta qué punto diseñar una estrategia y tomar las decisiones adecuadas para apoyarla marca la diferencia entre jugar y ganar. 'El mejor libro de estrategia de empresa que he leído desde que leí el de Michael Porter.' –Jonathan Becher, Forbes

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Title: Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

Author: Andrew Winston, Paul Polman

Narrator: Paul Polman, Andrew Winston, Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Runaway climate change and gross inequality are ravaging the world. Who can help lead us to a better future? Business. These and other massive challenges threaten our very existence on the planet. Yet division and discord risk undermining our response, just when we need to come together. At this critical time in history, the imperative to reimagine our economies and companies could not be more urgent. Fortunately, many in the business community are helping to solve our most profound challenges, deploying long-term, purpose-led business models that put people and planet first. The key question has flipped from 'Why would you do sustainability?' to 'Why wouldn't you?' In this paradigm-shifting book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston provide a model to help leaders build companies that contribute more to the world than they use or take—that is, net positive companies. Net Positive outlines the principles and practices for surviving and thriving based on the experience of one world-leading company, Unilever, and other groundbreaking global organizations. This essential book is for leaders, executives, managers, and professionals who want to succeed, but know that winning requires caring deeply about serving the world.

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Title: Teaming to Innovate

Author: Amy C. Edmondson

Narrator: Brenda Scott Wlazlo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap for teaming to innovate. We describe five necessary steps along that road: Aim High, Team Up, Fail Well, Learn Fast, and Repeat. This path is not smooth. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership.

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Title: Story Dash: Find, Develop, and Activate Your Most Valuable Business Stories . . . In Just a Few Hours

Author: David Hutchens

Narrator: David Hutchens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Storytelling is humanity's oldest way of connecting to others. But for businesses and managers, it can also be a powerful tool to help organizations grow and thrive. Today, 'storytelling' is a hot topic in organizations, but most leaders still struggle to act upon it. How do we find and tell our stories quickly, in an environment where we can hardly pause to catch our breath? For more than a decade Hutchens has tested his method of rapid and strategic story development with innovation teams in Silicon Valley, across global Fortune 100 leadership teams, and more. Hutchens has honed a unique process that is active, potent, and strategically focused . . . and also a lot of fun. In Story Dash, Hutchens shares a repeatable process to find, develop, and deploy your 'narrative assets'—that is, your urgent core stories that hold value. Even better, he will help you do it fast; often in less than a day. Story Dash will help you to: access your natural capacity for storytelling; find your stories—and figure out which ones to tell; build your narrative so it lands with unforgettable impact; find your own voice of authentic leadership; and bring more of who you are to your teams and your markets.

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Title: The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action

Author: Steve Hamm

Narrator: Shawn Compton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

When the world reemerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems likely that it will have transformed irrevocably. Can societies already reeling from climate change, income inequality, and structural racism change for the better? Does the shock of the pandemic offer an opportunity to pivot to a more sustainable way of life? Early in the crisis, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. Some members are experts in the sciences and the humanities; others are environmental activists or regular people who see themselves as world citizens. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm—who embedded in the enterprise from the start—explores their efforts and shows how their approach provides a model for achieving systemic change. Chronicling the group's progress along an uncharted path, he shows how people with a variety of skills and personalities collaborate to get things done. Through their work, Hamm examines some of today's most important technologies and concepts, such as systems thinking and modeling, complexity theory, artificial intelligence, and new thinking about resilience. The book features vivid, informal profiles of a number of the group's members and brings to life the excitement and energy of dynamic, smart people trying to change the world.

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Title: Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups

Author: Shameen Prashantham

Narrator: Emmanuel Chumaceiro

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Achieve exceptional results with your organization's next partnership for corporate innovation In Gorillas Can Dance, distinguished international business strategy professor and expert Dr. Shameen Prashantham delivers a proven roadmap for large corporations collaborating with startups. Drawing on over a decade of international research, Dr. Prashantham explains the 'why,' 'how,' and 'where' of corporate-startup partnering. In this book, you'll learn: ● How to focus on the three pillars of synergy, interface, and exemplar to achieve outstanding results in your partnership ● Why the very thing that attracts large corporations to startups—their significant differences—also makes it difficult to work together ● Where in the world to find your ideal startup partnerships and how to use them as a force for good Perfect for C-suite executives, managers, business unit heads, and corporate innovation managers, Gorillas Can Dance is a must-have resource for business leaders seeking strategic guidance on partnering and collaborating with startups.

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Title: A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Author: Gregory Zuckerman

Narrator: Jack Armstrong

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

'An inspiring and informative page-turner.' –Walter Isaacson Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award   The authoritative account of the race to produce the vaccines that are saving us all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Solved the Market Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world’s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn’t muster an effective response.   It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist despised by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with skepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop the virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their life’s work into life-saving vaccines in a matter of months, each gunning to make the big breakthrough—and to beat each other for the glory that a vaccine guaranteed.   A #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist lauded for his “bravura storytelling” (Gary Shteyngart) and “first-rate” reporting (The New York Times), Zuckerman takes us inside the top-secret laboratories, corporate clashes, and high-stakes government negotiations that led to effective shots. Deeply reported and endlessly gripping, this is a dazzling, blow-by-blow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time. It’s a story of courage, genius, and heroism. It’s also a tale of heated rivalries, unbridled ambitions, crippling insecurities, and unexpected drama. A Shot to Save the World is the story of how science saved the world.