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Title: Cass Sunstein on Getting Past Groupthink

Author: Cass Sunstein

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-16

Publisher: American Management Association

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Cass Sunstein defines groupthink as "when you have a group of people who don't disclose what they actually know" and instead make a decision based on what they think is popular to the group as a whole. This conformity can be disastrous. Luckily, Sunstein is here to talk about his new book, Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter, and how to make informed decisions.

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Title: The Hockey Stick Principles

Subtitle: The 4 Key Stages to Entrepreneurial Success

Author: Bobby Martin

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-16

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Many business audiobooks fuel unrealistic notions about what a good idea looks like, how fast a founder should attract investment, and how quickly growth will take off. The problem with this mythology is that it can sometimes end with entrepreneurs abandoning their dreams too soon if they don't see immediate results.

In The Hockey Stick Principles, author Bobby Martin shifts his focus away from all the hype about rapid growth and the pursuit of funding and instead takes a look at the real process behind getting a good idea off the ground. Using a hockey stick as a metaphor and highlighting four key phases, Martin shows the healthy way a business should grow and uses entertaining stories and interviews with successful entrepreneurs, like the founders of LendingTree, Under Armour, and iContact, woven throughout the audiobook not only to share a wealth of advice but to chronicle the ins and outs of these different phases:

Innovation almost always involves a number of challenges, misdirections, and uncertainty and can take several years of struggle. But The Hockey Stick Principles gives aspiring entrepreneurs and those in the midst of the messy process a realistic, human, and inspiring understanding of what starting an innovative business is like while teaching you what to look out for along the way as you shepherd your business through to success.

Members Reviews:

An author that gets it because he lived it! Realistic preview of what it is like to launch a high growth startup.

Bobby Martin is the real deal. He has lived the life of an entrepreneur and angel investor. As a result, his writing is high on practicality/realism and low on theory (and in this case that is a great thing). In addition, his writing is fluid, he is a great storyteller which allows him to bring his concepts to life through anecdote. He doesn't stop there though, he actually went out and interviewed over 100 companies in order to gather data to test his assumptions. This was what really put this book over the top for me. Not only has he put out a product that is easy to read and relate to, he has inserted some rigor into his lessons by drawing on some data beyond his own personal experience. I highly recommend this book for anyone new to the process of building or getting involved with a high growth startup.

Bobby does a good job of laying out why hockey players lose a ...

Bobby does a good job of laying out why hockey players lose a few teeth along the way to the big leagues. As most entrepreneurs learn, there is no single path to accelerating growth in your business. The book does a nice job of concisely providing examples of multiple paths entrepreneurs have had to take to figure out what works best for their business. Great book for investors and board/advisors to growth companies. Would love to see a sequel focused on old-line businesses and see what paths they have taken to their success.

A really good read for anyone thinking about a startup

A really good read for anyone thinking about a startup. From the decisions that need to be addressed, to setting realistic expectations "Hockey Stick Principles" is right on target.

A candid and gritty look at finding entrepreneurial success

This is a great book for any entrepreneur who really wants to dig in and gain practical insights from others who have been there.

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Title: The Magic Cup

Subtitle: A Business Parable About a Leader, a Team, and the Power of Putting People and Values First

Author: Howard Behar, Jeffrey Brotman - foreword

Narrator: Christian Steiner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

We all love the fairy tales we grew up on, creating a world in which good always wins over evil, where those whose hearts are true and who do the right thing come out on top. But grown-up competition for success is rough, even cutthroat, and we've often heard that nice guys finish last.

Not according to Howard Behar, whose career as one of the three leaders who built the Starbucks organization most definitely proves that nice guys finish first. In The Magic Cup, Behar spins an engaging corporate tale to teach us exactly how we can do the same thing.

The story revolves around Vince Steadfast, the newly named CEO of imaginary manufacturer Verity Glassworks, which has fallen on difficult times. Vince is hired to help the once iconic company return to its glory days, and he brings with him a parting gift from his mentor and former boss: a stunning crystal coffee cup from Verity's halcyon days. The cup turns out to be magic - truly - and helps him come to understand and reinvigorate the values that Verity has misplaced along the way.

As Vince and his new team make their way to (and through) many challenges, including the aptly named Worthy Way, Perilous Passage, and Arduous Stair, the cup fills with a gold elixir, and the universal truths that they learn to embrace - such as responsibility, forgiveness, and courage - magically become engraved in the glass.

In the tradition of great parable writers throughout history, Behar quickly involves us in an engrossing fantasy, continually challenging us to compare each situation with our own real-life experiences. The story of The Magic Cup helps each of us discover that only by acting on sound moral principles can we fill our own cups with the personal and professional success and satisfaction we seek.

Members Reviews:

Story too simple

The story is silly, makes little sense and teaches nothing but basic concepts of leadership.

Brilliant and relevant

Tip of the hat to Howard Behar for this corporate fable I relate with. The story and characters are the makings of a film. May this message serve millions!

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Title: The Value of Business Outsourcing: How to Do More in Less Time

Author: Anthony Ekanem

Narrator: Ralph L. Rati

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-16

Publisher: Anthony Ekanem

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Outsourcing is nothing new. Brick and mortar businesses have been doing it for years. But what may surprise some people is that online entrepreneurs can also use this common business strategy with a great deal of effect. Of course, outsourcing is not ideal for everyone. But by understanding the basics of what outsourcing is, how it works, and how it can benefit a business, it is possible to make an informed decision about whether the approach is right for your business.

In the broadest sense, outsourcing is an approach to task management that involves utilizing resources that are outside the direct control of the company to handle tasks that are relevant to the operation and success of the business. Generally, this involves contracting with a service provider to handle the specific function for a specific period of time and with guidelines that are agreeable to both parties. In some cases, the service may be granted limited powers to act in the stead of the client, if that is necessary to perform the contracted tasks. The main function of outsourcing is often to allow employees to focus on company operations that may be more detailed and directly related to the growth of the business. Daily housekeeping issues are handled by outside firms, who do the job at a fraction of what it would cost for a full-time staff to accomplish the same tasks. This helps to minimize the amount of clerical support that is needed in-house, and thus keep employee-related expenses relatively low.

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Title: Discover the Entrepreneur Within

Subtitle: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting It Done

Author: Verinder Syal

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-16

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The entrepreneurial revolution is in full swing, and many of your friends have started new businesses successfully. You wonder if you have what it takes. Yes, entrepreneurship requires passion, discipline, hard work, creativity, and resilience, but it is ultimately a process. Discover the Entrepreneur Within, based on Verinder Syal's award-winning classes at Northwestern University, will demystify this process. He has created a step-by-step guide that gives you the tools to launch your business. You will learn how to:

Are you ready for a personal revolution, to achieve freedom, to do what you love, and to do so on your own terms? Do you want to help others while living a life of meaning and significance?

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Title: The Multicultural Mind

Subtitle: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization

Author: David Thomas

Narrator: Jeff Hoyt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-16

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Globalization has created a superheated competitive business environment that demands innovation to stay ahead. But it's also created a hidden source of innovation right in your midst: the people in your organization who have deep experience in more than one culture - multiculturals. Having to integrate different cultural frameworks has enabled them to develop abilities that can contribute powerfully to building innovative organizations.

David Thomas makes a compelling business case for recognizing and cultivating a new dimension of diversity - the diversity within individuals! He looks at how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish and shows how even the most monocultural among us can gain the advantages of a multicultural mind.

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Title: Rapid Teamwork

Author: Sean Glaze

Narrator: Kelly Rhodes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-15

Publisher: Oakwind Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Are the people in your organization underachieving? Does it seem like something is...missing?

In modern organizations there seems to be a revolving door that presents employees and managers with new roles and new teammates. Their challenge is seldom strategy. Teams struggle because they don't have a process for bringing diverse individuals together as a collaborative team.

Rapid Teamwork offers leaders a solution to that all-too-common problem in an easy and entertaining leadership parable.

Rapid Teamwork is a leadership parable that tells the story of Greg Sharpe, a manager that listeners can easily relate to. Greg's team has been underachieving and struggling with a few issues. What he and his executive team experience during an unusual rafting retreat is a lesson on how to become a more productive team quickly - creating a stronger, more unified workforce.

Discover the five ingredients that all great teams have in common, and will take away tools and ideas to apply those same positive traits to their team culture and transform your stressed employees into truly invested owners.

By applying the insights that Rapid Teamwork shares, you will gain clarity and purpose, harness the influence of appreciation, and experience the profitable power of team unity!

Members Reviews:

Management Parable that Emphasizes Proven Methods & Introduces New Ideas for Leaders

Rapid Teamwork is the management parable for the 21st century leader.

Glaze introduces you to a team of people that any leader could relate to, then skillfully crafts a story about creating a successful, cohesive team. The point he makes using the acronym GREAT are solid, proven advice when it comes to leading a team. But what I especially like about the book were some unique points that Glaze makes that I havenât seen in other management writings.

The exercise on rapport building is something you can take directly to your own team. What he says about the value of silos and cliques in the workplace and how to capitalize and expand their influence is a great example of working with human nature, rather than against it. And the tie between emotional connection and accountability make so much sense, you have to wonder why more leaders arenât willing to get in touch with their feelings.

Iâd recommend this book to any leader looking how they can rapidly improve their own team.

This advice is GREAT!

Fun to read and awesome team building tips

What a great book. Sean Glaze managed to get everything you need to know about building a great team into one easy and fun to read fictional story. Never expected this. I can only hope that everyone will get this book. I highly recommend it.

Awesome

A very powerful parable for leading in today's chaotic world where "instant" success is the expectation. Full of tips on how to create a GREAT team in a minimum amount of time - definitely worth the investment!

Parable version of your next management team building session

Rapid Teamwork is a parable version of Sean Glaze's 15 years of leadership development experience. In coaching and mentoring of leaders, the eyes and mouth of a stranger, e.g. consultant, sports trainer, or senior, are helpful to get a leader or team of leaders moving again towards performing. The management team in this booklet is disconnected, focused on results rather than people, and cannot decide what needs to be changed.

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Title: Channeling Steve Jobs

Subtitle: How to Manifest Your Ideas, Be Innovative, and Unleash Your Creativity the Steve Jobs Way

Author: Omar Johnson

Narrator: Jennifer Howe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-15

Publisher: Make Profits Easy LLC

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

With so many successful entrepreneurs to look to for inspiration, why Steve Jobs? Whether you are interested in technology or not, one can't help but aspire to the determined focus, the unique creativity and the artisan craftsmanship that Steve Jobs possessed while relentlessly pursuing his mission in life.

Steve Jobs is still as relevant today as he was in the 1970s. His groundbreaking inventions, such as the iPhone, have had a profound impact on society.

Steve Jobs ran his business with a different philosophy than other businesses. He took risks, although they were calculated. He gave people what they wanted before they knew that they wanted it. It is this sort of visionary entrepreneurship that every career driven businessman and businesswoman envy.

While a smart man may learn from his own experiences, a truly wise man first learns from the experiences of others. As you get an up close look at Steve Jobs throughout the course of this book entitled Channeling Steve Jobs written by author Omar Johnson, you will learn from all of his successes and his failures. You will learn what drove him to success and what picked him up when he was low. You will also learn how you, too, can channel your inner Steve Jobs and carve out your own path of innovation and creativity while making your ideas come alive.

By gaining a better understanding of what influenced Steve Jobs, what drove him, and how he managed to accomplish everything that he achieved, we can be one step closer to channeling our inner Steve Jobs. Get ready to unlock your inner entrepreneur as one of history's greatest innovators shows us how to unleash our inner creativity and make our ideas come to life - the Steve Jobs way.

Members Reviews:

It is just me?

Would you try another book from Omar Johnson and/or Jennifer Howe?

Sorry - I was hoping for more. Much of what I heard I already knew.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

the voice was compressed - making it audio sound muddy.

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Title: All Hands on Deck

Subtitle: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging Victorious

Author: Peter J. Boni

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-15

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Disruption creates 10 times the opportunity to advance your organization and your career, according to former CEO and author Peter J. Boni. In All Hands on Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crisis, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging Victorious, Boni shows any leader or aspiring leader exactly what to do. Following his advice, recognition and rewards come quickly. It allows leaders with or without MBAs or Ivy League educations to leapfrog over those who have superior credentials or stronger ties to an old boys' network.

Beginning with the riveting, true story of Massachusetts clipper ship captain Josiah Nickerson Knowles, who saved his crew and all but one passenger during not one but two shipwrecks in the Pacific, author Peter J. Boni demonstrates how adversity should be embraced rather than avoided. Boni presents a proven process to overcome chaos and disorder. By interviewing himself as the CEO of embattled Safeguard Scientifics as well as five prominent C-suite executives who triumphed over difficulties in the fields of consumer products, health care, biotech, nonprofit, and academia, we understand the thinking and actions necessary to get and keep organizations out of trouble and onto solid ground.

The 12-Step Kedge-Off Process that Boni created is a blueprint for repositioning organizations and a model for any executive facing business dysfunctions and setbacks. The process is divided into three phases, each anchored with the easy-to-remember moniker the "ABCs to Advance": Boni would agree that you cannot prevent the storms that are inevitable in real-life situations. But with his ABCs to Advance as well as the instructive real-life stories of All Hands on Deck, we have a valuable guide for how to think in a crisis and how to cultivate the character traits to become an effective leader. While the techniques will get you out of a jam, use them early enough and they may very well keep you out of a jam.

Critic Reviews:

"During his four-decade career, debut author Peter Boni has specialized in turning companies around. In All Hands on Deck, Boni admirably walks the listener through the phases and steps of the process, using both historical and contemporary examples to support his premise that disruption creates 10 times (10x) the opportunity to advance." (Kirkus Reviews)

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Title: Future Strong: How to Work Unleashed, Lead Boldly, and Live Life Your Way

Author: Bill Jensen

Narrator: Bill Jensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-15

Publisher: Motivational Press, Inc

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

In his powerful new audiobook, internationally acclaimed change agent and simplifier Bill Jensen maps your future and the future of work as no one else could. What are your toughest choices as you lead yourself and others into the future? Jensen has spent years studying that one question, and Future Strong answers it fully, simply, powerfully.

Despite all the hyperventilating and Shiny Object Syndrome, technology and massive disruptions do not determine your future. Your future reveals itself only after you have made deeply personal choices about how you will embrace those changes. Jensen researched and Future Strong reveals the five personal choices that determine your relationship with the future. Choices relating to...

Working through each choice is crucial. Because most of today's approaches are not Future Strong, they are Future Shackled. You can and must change that. Now.

Future Strong is the road map leaders and individuals need to create strong futures for themselves and their teams. Each choice is narrated by leaders sharing their extremely compelling stories, followed by practical and easy-to-use how-tos. Jensen's goal for every listener: to know, feel and be able to declare...#IAmFutureStrong. What an amazing future awaits you! Limitless possibilities, yours to shape. If you so choose. Because your choices are where your future begins.

Members Reviews:

Future Strong: Indulge in the Adventure and Optimize your Life!

Future Strong is an invitation to boldly and courageously seize our life. Bill Jensen cajoles, nudges, entices and urges us with this impassioned book to make those tough choices, to heed our inner voice and to be inspired by others who are doing the same.

We are reminded that those choices are solely ours to make and yet as we travel through page after page on this wonderful reading journey, we realize that we are not alone. Future Strong leads us into our inner self while connecting us to others, ordinary and extraordinary people, who are choosing their life every day, informed by their past and pulled by something bigger than themselves.

Reading Future Strong is like taking a Trip of a Lifetime â it has stops along the way to make you pause and reflect, side trip links that connect you to special people he has interviewed or to robust research that affirms the importance of CHOICE in our lives, pocket guide exercises to dig deeper from which you can take action and tons of straight talk to jolt you when you need it.

And best of all, Future Strong is super relevant to our world today â at work, at home and at play. To navigate life in these times means focusing on CHOICE, moment by moment, every day!

Capacity Unleashed

Bill Jensen "gets" the intersection of technology, organizational design and organizational leadership. Future Strong is a call to action for anyone with a powerful personal purpose and wants to see it reach fruition. It's a challenge and a call to action for leaders who want to move "engagement" from lip service to service to their people. In many respects, he sounds the death rattle for command and control leadership.

In Future Strong, Jensen posits 5 choices--deeply personal and confronting--that can unleash the talent and creativity needed to succeed in a volatile, uncertain and chaotic world. And at its core, it is the pathway for people to own their own development and their own career.