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Title: Harder Than I Thought

Subtitle: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader

Author: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, Shannon ODonnell

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-13

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Being a great leader today is much harder than you think.

Meet Jim Barton. Hes a newly minted CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity - thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes?

If youre a top executive today, you probably are.

Harder Than I Thought is a fictional narrative that puts the increasingly complex job of chief executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jims story - developed in collaboration with seasoned, real-life CEOs - includes crucial lessons for anyone hoping to master the new-world skills required of successful business leaders today.

As the narrative unfolds, Jim grapples with an array of business crises, some he inherited and some of his own making. As events push this new leader to the edge of his abilities, he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers - resulting in a wealth of teaching moments bound to keep you captivated. Experts agree that many 20th-century leadership practices wont work in the turbulent 21st century. This engaging book gives you the insights youll need to navigate in a fast-changing business landscape.

Critic Reviews:

A delightful cliff-hanger of a book that delivers essential wisdom for twenty-first-century CEOs. Walk in the shoes of a new CEO and learn what effective leadership truly demands. (Karen Fine Coburn, President and CEO, Cutter Consortium)

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Title: Reputation Rules

Subtitle: Strategies for Building Your Company's Most valuable Asset

Author: Daniel Diermeier

Narrator: Todd Barsness

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-13

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

In our lightning-fast digital age, a company can face humiliation and possibly even ruin within seconds of a negative tweet or blog post. Over the last year companies such as BP, Goldman Sachs, and Toyota have experienced serious blows to their images that could have had reduced impact if their leaders had implemented reputation management into their business strategy and culture.

There is no one in either the corporate or academic sphere with greater expertise in the area of corporate reputation than Dr. Daniel Diermeier. An award-winning professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Dr. Diermeier has blazed a path in understanding the significance of reputation management and demonstrating how a company can create a program so powerful that it can help turn a potential public disgrace into a public image success story.

Reputation Rules is a landmark work bringing to light Dr. Diermeiers groundbreaking insights in this critical area. He offers the frameworks, strategies, and processes for changing your companys focus as quickly as the world is changing around you. He touches on all of the reputational issues that need to be managed from a strategic level, describing how to:

In addition, Dr. Diermeier provides case studies of Shells confrontation with Greenpeace, Mercedess recovery from the Moose crisis, AIGs executive bonus fallout, Wal-Marts reputation-building response to Hurricane Katrina, and numerous other scenarios illustrating what works and what doesnt when it comes to reputation management.

Brimming with keen insights and lucid examples, Reputation Rules is a guidepost for your organizations future - and a salve for crisis management.

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Title: The Engagement Equation

Subtitle: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce

Author: Christopher Rice, Fraser Marlow

Narrator: Margaret Strom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Create a culture of engagement and build high-performance culture The Engagement Equation explains the drivers of employee engagement, and how you can use improved engagement to execute strategy, reduce costs, and meet your organizational goals. This book describes a unique engagement model that focuses on individuals' contribution to a company's success and personal satisfaction in their roles. Aligning employees' values, goals, and aspirations with those of the organization is the best method for achieving the sustainable employee engagement. The Engagement Equation is designed to provide a framework that will help you move the needle on engagement.

Ultimately, it's the daily dynamics at play in your team, your division, and your organization that matter most.

Members Reviews:

Narration

The chapters and topics were interesting, but the narration lacked life, for want of a better word!

Enjoyed listening

If you could sum up The Engagement Equation in three words, what would they be?

Very useful....makes great sense

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, because I really wanted to absorb what was being read

Any additional comments?

Really enjoyed the listening

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Title: Catalyst 5: Making the Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Leader

Author: Carlos Quintero, Nancy Sutherland

Narrator: Steve Cook

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-12

Publisher: Sales Effectiveness, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Research on sales performance confirms again and again that the primary indicator of a company's sales success lies in the strength of their sales managers. The best sales managers do much more than manage...they evolve into sales leaders who understand how to empower their salespeople and inspire their teams. These sales leaders' results speak for themselves. These are the men and women who know how to unite a sales team, how to help their people achieve and exceed their goals, how to motivate and encourage, how to get the strongest players on their team, and how to handle the many challenges they are faced with daily. Difficult skills...demanding skills...and skills that are not automatic to most salespeople who become managers.

Catalyst 5 offers a rich story of the transformation of newly-promoted sales manager Chris Houser, as he evolves from sales person - to sales manager - to sales leader - under the guiding hand of Joe Garson, his former manager and mentor. In a series of five weekly breakfast meetings, Joe teaches and coaches Chris on how to succeed as a "Catalyst", or change agent, for his team. Together, they explore the five key practices that sales managers must embrace to become sales leaders in their organization - the practices of leader, business manager, coach, recruiter, and trainer. Within each practice, Chris discovers how to apply what Joe learned "the hard way", after years of frustration caused him to study and emulate the most successful sales leaders he could find.

Chris - and you, by virtue of listening to this book - get a shortcut to Joe's "school of hard knocks" that will take you to the top of your sales organization as you, too, evolve from sales manager to sales leader.

Members Reviews:

Easily Relatable, Effective Insights

If you could sum up Catalyst 5: Making the Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Leader in three words, what would they be?

Short, Effective, Insightful

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes. This short book identifies the a few of the key roles required by sales leaders, and offers powerful insights for improving their day to day.

Any additional comments?

I recommend this short book for any new sales manager.

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Title: Make Winning a Habit: 20 Best Practices of the World's Greatest Sales Forces

Author: Rick Page

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-16-12

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A master of the complex sale and a bestselling author, Rick Page is also one of the most experienced sales consultants and trainers in the world. Make Winning A Habit defines the gap between what companies know to do and how they consistently perform.

Page clearly identifies five "Ts" of transformation: Talent, Technique, Teamwork, Technology and Trust. These five elements, when fully developed and integrated into the sales and marketing organization, begin to create the habit of winning over customers in every industry. Stories of successes-and failures-from members of prominent companies help you apply the five "Ts" to your company's culture, and point the way to more effective plans for motivating employees, building and coaching winning teams, and improving hiring processes.

Then, with the use of Page's assessment scorecard, you can compare your company with some of the strategies and practices of the best sales forces in the world. Designed to gauge your organization's effectiveness and further develop breakthrough sales growth, this scorecard highlights your strengths and weaknesses, helping you bridge the gap between where you are and where you need to be.

You'll also learn about:

With Make Winning A Habit, you'll discover the obstacles between you and the consistent sales performance you can achieve-and find the tools to not only make success a habit, but one that will keep growing with your business.

Members Reviews:

Sales Growth Edu

Sales Growth Book. If you are in sales and don't know this you probably aren't selling anything and should consider a career move.

Beware the Napoleans

"I chuckled when I read this book as he pointed out bosses I have had-both good and bad. Rick Page emphasized the key to success for winning deals is early and often reporting on progress. He said the leader can either ruin the BD's chances and help. I had one boss that could only make comments of "close the deal or dump the deal." I had another that was extremely effective at assisting with the steps it would take to win-the internal resources, the competition reviews, and most importantly-client calls, client needs and solutioning. Rick Page pointed out with clarity and from experience the mistakes that non-BD's make when trying to run BD teams. We have seen it all before-dictate rules and never follow up, favoritism, approval funds for deals that should not be funded and so forth."

An excellent follow up to his first

'Hope is not a strategy' was one of the first sales books I ever read and definitely one of the best. 'Make Winning a Habit' makes for an excellent second installment from this highly insightful professional. While his first book focused more on managing the opportunity, this book focuses more on the bigger picture, sales strategies in general and managing the sales team.

Still very experienced writing with plenty of examples to get his point across.

Anyone who benefited or enjoyed the first book will enjoy the second as well. Highly recommended.

So so. Abound of good questions, but not solutions

As a reader who cares only about what I can gain from the book itself and not how successful the author's sales consultancy is, I am obliged to comment that he had tried too hard to keep this trade secrets and to lure customers in.

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Title: The Women of Berkshire Hathaway

Subtitle: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors

Author: K. Linder

Narrator: Vanessa Hart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A fascinating look at the top women at Berkshire Hathaway and how they got there.

Although proportionally women continue to lag far behind men as CEOs and board members at major institutions, there has been a marked uptick in the number of female business leaders in recent years. Looking at the changes that have happened at Berkshire Hathaway--Warren Buffett's holding company, The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors provides a unique look at the gradual shattering of the glass ceiling at one of America's top firms. An influx of female leadership over the past few years--today there are four female CEOs, up from just one a decade ago--has invigorated Berkshire Hathaway with energy and unique female insight. Profiling these remarkable women, the book provides motivational and management information for a wide range of readers, from business students to Buffett fans.

The only book focusing on eight of the most powerful women at Berkshire Hathaway, The Women of Berkshire Hathaway is an inspirational read about the triumph of a group of remarkable women within a company once dominated by men.

Members Reviews:

These Women are Much More Powerful than the Book

Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway, told Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg (Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, 2013) that his unparalleled success was easier because he didn't have to compete with half of society (women). Buffet is a strong supporter and mentor of women executives, so I really looked forward to listening to Karen Linder's "The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors" (2012).

I wasn't expecting a book with the impact for women of the later published "Lean In," but I was expecting some good discussions of executive management techniques; problem solving tactics; management strategy; and a discussion of how Berkshire-Hathaway's women faced and overcame those challenges, especially those unique to women.

Unfortunately, "The Women of Berkshire-Hathaway," for the most part, didn't do this. Long sections of the book read/sounded like a laudatory corporate biography from a website. I didn't even start to get engaged with the book until Chapter 7, which is about Beryl Raff of Helzberg Diamonds. Raff has had some interesting career moves, not all her choice - but there's no back story about what happened. The only women to acknowledge any unique obstacles they overcame as women executives are board members Charlotte Guyman and Cathy Baron-Tamraz, CEO of Businesswire.

The "lessons" in the book were pretty much trite business adages like "Find your passion," and "Know your market," and "Communicate with your team." Being friends with Warren Buffett helps, too - although to be perfectly clear: these women are where they are because of sheer, fierce competence.

The book seriously needed a text edit and an audio edit. I gave up counting the number of times the author repeated how difficult the audit committee of a Board of Directors is.

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Title: Hyperformance

Subtitle: Using Competitive Intelligence for Better Strategy and Execution

Author: T. J. Waters

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Effective strategies for outsmarting the competition and driving better bottom-line results...

In this groundbreaking book, T.J. Waters has turned his experience collecting and analyzing competitive intelligence for the CIA into effective strategies for businesses wanting to stay on the leading edge of their industries. The book describes a practical process from planning (identifying competitive threats and determining the resources needed to counter them) through implementation (creating an organizational strategy) to execution (collecting key information and turning it into bottom-line results). The book is filled with illustrative examples of companies from start-ups to multi-nationals that have used similar strategies successfully.

This book clearly shows that it's no longer a question of becoming the next Google, IBM, or Coca-Cola - it's all about knowing what your competitors are doing.

Members Reviews:

Excellent overview with details that are immediately useful

Great book. Very interesting discussion on how to apply the techniques in real life. Really liked the appendix, which reviews various personality assessment tools and describes how they can be used.

Very appropriate book for all corporate competitive intelligence staff, but also for those in Sales, for CEOs and product developers.

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Title: Vital Voices

Subtitle: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World

Author: Alyse Nelson

Narrator: Kristin Kalbli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

How women around the world are leading powerful change.

Women's progress is global progress. Where there is an increase in women's university enrollment rates, women's earnings, and maternal health, and a reduction in violence against women, we see more prosperous communities, better educated, healthier families, and the preservation of equal human rights. Yet globally, women remain the most consistently under-utilized resource. Vital Voices calls for and makes possible transformative leadership around the world.

In Vital Voices, CEO Alyse Nelson shares the stories of remarkable, world-changing women, as well as the story of how Vital Voices was founded, crossing lines that typically divide. For 15 years, Vital Voices has brought together women who want to enable others to become change agents in their governments, advocates for social justice, and supporters of democracy. They equip women with management and business development skills to expand their enterprises and create jobs in their communities. Their voices, stories, and hard-earned lessons - shared here for the first time - are deeply authentic and truly vital.

Through the firsthand accounts of trail-blazing leaders, Vital Voices introduces unforgettable, inspiring women who are shaping our world.

Members Reviews:

Exciting and useful leadership guidance

True leaders effect change where it's needed. This wonderful book is about just that. It's about how successful women leaders do what they do. It's uplifting and inspirational like the women profiled in this book.

Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson lays out stories of women who have changed their worlds for the better. For 15 years, CEO Nelson has been part of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, a group that has honored women who want to enable others to become change agents and advocates for social justice. The stories of passion and persistence are great to read.

Their effectiveness in overcoming the many and extreme challenges that get in their way is inspiring. What is superb is that the author lays out the core traits that these amazing women leaders have in common. Read the Introduction and the chapter: "Leadership is a Journey, not a Destination" which are in themselves worth the cost of the book.

In reading this book [ASIN:1118184777 Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World] you too can find your vital leadership voice!

Inspiring, terrific read

I found Alyse Nelson's book, "Vital Voices", to be an amazing, inspiring read. Filled with short vignettes about women making a difference in their community from around the globe, I loved the breadth of experience this book covered. This isn't a book about just women in power-- this is a book about making a difference on every level. Some of my favorite stories came not from the women with the most money, but from the women who were determined to make a difference in their own stratosphere-- for example, the story of Sunitha Krishnan, who devotes her life to helping stop sex trafficking in India.

For me, the format of the book was not a detriment, but a great way to showcase many different stories. The author left me feeling like, even though there were so many stories already told, there were many more she could have included.

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Title: The Benevolent Dictator

Subtitle: Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition

Author: Michael Feuer, Dustin Klein

Narrator: Robin Bloodworth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

An unconventional philosophy for starting and building a business that exceeds your own expectations

What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. Those who succeed are benevolent dictatorsable to make the intricate process happen in days, weeks and months to win. The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked. This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet.

Beating the competition is never easy. For those times when you need an iron hand, then you also need the wisdom to know when and how to use it. Whether you're a business student, aspiring entrepreneur, or a practicing executive, you need to discover the winning ways of The Benevolent Dictator.

Members Reviews:

A must read for any entrepreneur that aspires to be better..

Mr. Feuer has been there, knows what he is talking about, and is kind enough to share his experiences, challenges and even setbacks along the way. The real world sage advice is both practical and relevant to what almost every entrepreneur everywhere will encounter somewhere during their career. A must read for any entrepreneur that strives to be better in every aspect of business from managing, delegating, leading and in general; risk taking.The Benevolent Dictator: Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition

Want to hear it from the horses mouth? A must for aspiring Entrepreneurs!

Michael does a great job telling you what it's truly like to be an Entrepreneur without sugar coating anything, which is the best help he could give us.

To be a successful Entrepreneur you have to learn the inside story to all success and Michael does a great job of doing that.

I am using this book to help scale my recent invention, theSushiquik Complete Sushi Kit

Entrepreneurship 101

Michael Feuer's new book, The Benevolent Dictator landed on my desk at exactly the right moment--two months into the launch of my own business enterprise! So as you can imagine, I dove into the book eager to mine some valuable nuggets of wisdom from the mind of a talented entrepreneur who was able to take OfficeMax from very humble beginnings up to its sales in 2003 for $1.5 billion.

Although the book is full of great insights worthy of study and application, the most important take-away for me relates to the role of the entrepreneur as a Benevolent Dictator. Feuer makes it clear that there is no secret sauce; no magic recipe; nor any single piece of sexy advice guaranteed to take your business to dizzying heights of success. Instead, Feuer insists that it comes down to something really simple (though not easy): devising a smart and detailed strategy, and executing that strategy relentlessly.

Execution, however, requires discipline and a stubborn focus on setting goals and minding the details. The occasional cracking of the whip comes with the territory. But that doesn't make Feuer a bad guy at all.

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Title: There Is an I in Team

Subtitle: What Elite Athletes and Coaches Really Know About High Performance

Author: Mark de Rond

Narrator: Joe Geoffrey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-12

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Weve all worked with one - a smart and immensely talented individual who brings enormous value to the organization. The problem? Hes an awful teammate. So as a leader, do you consider this key player toxic or irreplaceable?There Is an I in Team explores the relationship between individual and team - asking the question: How can we harness the talent of individual performers into a cohesive, productive team that creates overall value? And why are so many of our assumptions about teams wrong?

Business challenges like this one mimic many of the issues facing sports teams, though admittedly the sports metaphors most commonly used in business are trite and superficial comparisons. Whats needed are real and substantial lessons that managers actually can take from the world of high-performance sports and use in an everyday work environment. This audiobook meets that need.

University of Cambridge professor Mark de Rond has combined cutting-edge social and psychological research with rich stories from world-class sports teams, coaches, athletes, and even business executives. The result challenges our most popular notions about teams. Equally critical, it teaches an innovative way to transform team potential into measurable business advantage.

Youll learn:

There Is an I in Team will strengthen your understanding of the issues that permeate teams of high-performers, and it will help you apply these new insights to your own work - giving you and your team an edge over the competition.

Critic Reviews:

Very few business books make me stop and think. De Ronds latest work very skillfully translates the drivers of team sport excellence and positions them in the more complex business arena. A must-listen for anyone striving for competitive advantage. (Steve Hollis, Senior Partner, KPMG)

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