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Title: Jake Breeden on Tipping Sacred Cows

Author: Jake Breeden

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Some workplace virtues are not as beneficial as they seem. Jake Breeden talks about the pitfalls and the duality of some of those workplace virtues that seem helpful at first but cause more harm than good in the long term. Jake also discusses the best way to avoid those unintended consequences by discussing the positive and negative of each workplace virtue and how to find their right balance.

AMA is a world-class leadership development provider in more than 40 countries worldwide. Our training is internationally recognized by nine professional associations and the majority of the Fortune 500 companies.

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Title: Paula Berman on Successful Business Process Management

Author: Paula Berman

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Paula Berman, author of Successful Business Process Management: What You Need to Know to Get Results, has worked with quality systems and companies of all sizes and industry ranges. Berman explains the difference between a process and a procedure, the key components needed in a procedure, and why it is so important for companies to document these processes. She also discusses the significance of a process system as well as how to - and how not to - effectively organize one. Finally, Berman gives us four key stages needed to keep the process improvements without lapsing back and losing any efficiency gain.

AMA is a world-class leadership development provider in more than 40 countries worldwide. Our training is internationally recognized by nine professional associations and the majority of the Fortune 500 companies.

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Title: Jim Collins and Mort Hansen on Flourishing in Uncertainty

Author: Jim Collins, Mort Hansen

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Jim Collins and Mort Hansen, co-authors of the book Great By Choice, discuss their research on fundamental business concepts and why some companies excel in chaos, turbulence, and uncertainty while others do not. Jim describes it as the most fascinating analysis that he's ever been associated with in nearly 25 years of research. Some of those fascinating insights include the role of luck and innovation, their "triad of behaviors", as well as firing your "bullets" and then firing your "cannonballs". Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Southwest, and Pacific Airlines have used these techniques with great success.

AMA is a world-class leadership development provider in more than 40 countries worldwide. Our training is internationally recognized by nine professional associations and the majority of the Fortune 500 companies.

Members Reviews:

It was alright...

I thought there would be more information but it was OK. I think I will stick to books over interviews.

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Title: Jane Jordan on Managing Media Through a Crisis

Author: Jane Jordan

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Jane Jordan, author of the book The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management says that every company should have a crisis communication plan. With the development of social media and new forms of immediate communication, it is even more important than ever. What was once the province of professional reporters is now free and available to everyone. Regardless of a company's preferred talking points, anyone can hit "post" instantly, as there are fewer and fewer communication boundaries. However, if you have a plan, Jane says it's possible to be prepared and successfully manage a communication crisis as in the cases involving the Red Cross or BP.

AMA is a world-class leadership development provider in more than 40 countries worldwide. Our training is internationally recognized by nine professional associations and the majority of the Fortune 500 companies.

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Title: Susan Reed on the Power of Corporate Diversity

Author: Susan Reed

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In the age of increasing globalization, corporate diversity in America remains relevant. Studies have shown that companies with greater diversity at the executive level outperform their competitors. In this episode of Edgewise, Susan Reed, author of The Diversity Index, explains ways employers are leveraging diversity by empowering their employees to create new products and explore untapped markets as well as how to broaden their spectrum of emerging leaders.

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Title: Linda Hill on Making the Transition to Management

Author: Linda Hill

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Just because someone gets promoted, it doesn't mean they've "made it", They still have to maintain a standard of excellence in a new job with new stakes. It's not as easy to move up in a company as people think. There is a learning curve, even learning to delegate former responsibilities. Linda Hill gives us a few strategies for how to handle the new promotion or just be more understanding of the newly promoted manager.

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Title: Lisa Gansky on Collaborating to Get Ahead of the Competition

Author: Lisa Gansky

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Toyota has rolled out a new ad campaign for football season. In it, a mother worries about her son being hurt while he plays football for his high school. She tells us that since Toyota did testing on their cars to protect against head injuries, they decided to share their findings with football equipment manufacturers so helmets will be safer as well. So now the mother in the ad be more confident, both in her car and her son's health. This ad is a perfect example of what Lisa Gansky calls The Mesh, the title of her new audiobook, recommended by both Seth Godin and Dan Pink. Companies, like Toyota, who share information, rather than hoard it away, can still use this to their advantage in their marketing or simply in the new alliances they make with sister organizations.

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Title: Mark Royal and Tom Agnew on Maximizing Employee Engagement

Author: Mark Royal, Tom Agnew

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Organizations are always looking to get the best out of employees, but the traditional means of doing so may be all wrong. Mark Royal and Tom Agnew, authors of the book, Enemy of Engagement, think that strong and forward-looking managers enable their employees to channel their extra or discretionary efforts productively. They talk about how to feed your team's desire to feel accomplished, create better support levels, and combat the common causes that lead to lack of employee engagement.

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Title: John Kotter on How to Get the People in Your Life to Buy in to Your Ideas

Author: John Kotter

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

You've got a great idea and you've made it all the way to that important meeting. Now you've just got to get everyone else to agree with you. John Kotter's new audiobook Buy In is for you. He's distilled the most common objections to ideas and written right responses to push back and not take "no" (or "not now" or "maybe tomorrow") for an answer.

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Title: Vineet Nayar on Achieving Success by Putting Employees First, Customers Second

Author: Vineet Nayar

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Nelson Mandella, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr. They all had something in common: the ability to inspire people and make them want to change. Vineet Nayar looks to them as an example of how to effectively manage a company, by inspiring and listening to the employees and making them the priority. That way managing people becomes less about directing them in what to do and more about motivating them to make their own decisions.