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Title: Take the Bull by the Horns

Subtitle: The Busy Leader's Action Guide to Growing Your Business...and Yourself

Author: Gayle Lantz

Narrator: Gayle Lantz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-14

Publisher: WorkMatters, Inc.

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

One step at a time... One week at a time... For busy leaders who don t have time. Today's leaders are busy. Yet, the most successful ones are taking a little time to think better, so they can take actions to lead better. Take the Bull by the Horns helps leaders think through a wide range of issues to help them accomplish their most important business and personal goals. It offers 52 weeks worth of leadership ideas, strategies, and insights for leaders who are motivated to grow themselves and others. The audiobook serves as a: personal thinking guide to help leaders focus on the important leadership issues and reflect, learn, and grow on their own watch; discussion catalyst to help their teams gel and thrive.

Talking about concepts in the book is a great way to get juices flowing in group settings. Leadership development tool that delivers substance, ideas, and insights to help leaders think better and create better results. Listeners will learn how to: Clarify, focus, and stretch their thinking to create bigger opportunities for the business and themselves; keep employees from running for the door when the clock hits five; see through the foggy haze of problems that cloud their day; stop the toxic bickering that is spoiling their team; expand possibilities for themselves and their companies. Turn their thoughts into action, take charge in ways that really matter, and instantly reap the rewards.

Members Reviews:

GPS for Executives

Effective leaders know where the company is today, the starting point. Needs to understand the barriers and road blocks detouring the journey. Should anticipate a clear, very clear vision for the future, the final destination. Take the Bull by the Horns helps break down every step to provide a clear road map for business development. Let it be your GPS for a successful future.

David Kirkpatrick

Training Consultant

THIS BOOK IS DECEPTIVE!

When I chose this small 6x8 book from the shelf, I was looking for a quick read that would help up my average of books read for the year. I flipped through it and saw that it was less than 180 pages, each 'chapter' was only 2 pages long and dealt with a single very specific point. I thought to myself "I ought to be able cruise through this during the weekend" and bought it -- but the darn thing completely fooled me!

I found myself reading each of the short chapters at least twice, and the concepts shared by author Gayle Lantz challenged me at the end of each chapter by asking me questions that actually made me (gasp!) think about what I was reading and how it applied to ME.

This book gets a big "RECOMMEND" for any leader looking for a little introspection about their business and themselves -- along with suggestions and tools to take action and improve their current situation.

Leadership Tips to Treasure

This is a gem of a book. Beautifully presented, with the use of colour, cartoons, space and the occasional larger text adding oomph to each message. The content is cleverly arranged, focusing on one tip a week for the busy executive - from energizing the team to taking a break. Some of the tips may seem self-evident, but when grouped together they develop a cumulative impact. The way that Gayle Lantz juxtaposes what the executive needs to do for the business and for him/herself works well.

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Title: Peak Business Performance Under Pressure

Subtitle: A Navy Ace Shows How to Make Great Decisions in the Heat of Business Battles

Author: Bill Driscoll

Narrator: James Edward Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Navy Ace pilot and TOPGUN instructor Bill Driscoll demonstrates how his own life-or-death aerial dogfights - and the preparation for them - can help guide high-risk corporate decisions. Interviews with over 200 senior executives and 26 Ace pilots, as well as strategies from Driscoll's own highly successful second career in commercial real estate, reinforce the consistent patterns underlying exceptional performance under pressure.

Benefits:

Members Reviews:

Incredible Leadership Lessons

As the son of a Navy Chief Petty Officer, I found this book to be incredibly relational. The stories of Navy leadership are similar to the stories that guided my life. As a successful healthcare executive, the lessons in this book are timeless and apply succinctly to the daily challenges I face as a leader in a highly matrixed and complex organization.

I am so glad that I bought this book and will recommend it to my friends and colleagues.

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Title: Bill George on Leadership Values

Author: Dave Summers

Narrator: Dave Summers, Bill George

Format: Original Recording

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-14

Publisher: American Management Association

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Bill George is professor of management practice, Henry B. Arthur Fellow of Ethics, at Harvard Business School, where he is teaching leadership and leadership development. He is the author of new best-selling leadership book, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. His previous book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, was also a best seller.

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Title: Influence and Leadership

Subtitle: Building Rapport in Teams

Author: Michael Nir

Narrator: Barbara H. Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-14

Publisher: Sapir Consulting

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Simple: Project Management: Influence and Leadership includes three proven fundamentals to unlock the secrets of leadership, influence, and stakeholder communication management!

Imagine that you master the magic of influence and are able to successfully lead and manage stakeholders. Imagine that you have a clear path of how to accomplish it. I have some good news and some bad news: The good news is that with the three proven fundamentals in this practical audiobook, you can quickly learn how to influence without authority.

Everyone has to work with stakeholders.

A must-have for maintaining a competitive advantage. You think that it is possible to use liking in such a powerful context, don't you? Introducing a tested four grid model for influence - understanding the four different styles of influence and communication will alter the way you interact with people around you. The advice is simple and each chapter ends with a summary of the vital concepts to carry on to your practical daily environment.

Members Reviews:

Waste of a credit!

This book should not have been made into an audiobook. It sounds like a manual or a textbook. I was hoping to hear something inspirational, uplifting, or motivating, but was disappointed.

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Title: Fewer, Bigger, Bolder

Subtitle: From Mindless Expansion to Focused Growth

Author: Sanjay Khosla, Mohanbir Sawhney, Richard Babcock (contributor)

Narrator: Scott Merriman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-14

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Why the best way to drive growth might be to focus rather than expand

When Sanjay Khosla took charge of developing markets for Kraft Foods in 2007, the business was floundering. Six years later, annual sales had soared from $5 billion to $16 billion with significant improvement in profitability. The secret? Making fewer, bigger, and bolder bets and stopping a lot of small stuff. Kellogg School professor Mohanbir Sawhney discovered a similar formula for stellar results - focus and simplicity - in advising Fortune 500 companies.

Now Khosla and Sawhney have combined their experiences into a seven-step model for sustained profitable growth in any market, based on fewer but better bets. Drawing on case studies that feature dozens of companies, from Cisco to Hyatt to Spirit Airlines, the authors show how their program applies to global giants, small startups, and any organization in between.

Fewer, Bigger, Bolder is contrarian and sometimes startlingly counterintuitive. But in an era of chronically tight budgets and dangerously short attention spans, it provides a proven formula for moving ahead with success.

Members Reviews:

Achieving success using focus

Your business will be humming along when a tremor suddenly hits. In fact â and this flies in the face of instinct â when trouble looms, usually in the form of pressure for short-term growth, thatâs exactly the moment to make bold bets, according to Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney in this book. Getting to the point of quality growth is the endgame, and to do this you have to identify a very small number of high-potential areas to invest in.

The key principles advocated by the authors:

â Do less. Reduce the number of different activities over which your business is distributing its investment resources.

â Be bold. Focus everything on the highest-potential initiatives.

â Simplify and keep costs low. Eliminate complexity from your processes and plans.

â Execute. Keep testing, learning and adjusting as you go.

â Unleash people. Make bold bets on talented people by giving them disproportionate authority and resources.

So thatâs the theory, but does it work? The book describes numerous examples of major organisations with which the authors have worked, for which the strategy of betting boldly on just a few initiatives has paid off handsomely. The obvious answer is that the strategy works if you manage to pick the right opportunities and people for your big bets, whereas you are far less likely to achieve a happy outcome if your big bets are placed on the wrong candidates. Unfortunately, the only sure way to tell the difference between good bets and bad is using hindsight.

Excellent business insights and recommendations

It is not just about growing but growing sustainably. Professor Khosla gives great advice how to make it happen and how to find new growth strategies. I'm currently applying many of the new concepts I acquired and am already seeing the difference.

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Title: Building Highly Effective Teams

Subtitle: How to Transform Virtual Teams to Cohesive Professional Networks - A Practical Guide

Author: Michael A. Nir

Narrator: Dave Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-14

Publisher: Sapir Consulting

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial skills, as a result the lore concerning the magic of teams has been lost. Leadership: Building Highly Effective Teams, provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective collaborative team environment.

You will learn to:

Members Reviews:

Leadership of virtual teams - great practices

What made the experience of listening to Building Highly Effective Teams the most enjoyable?

It is presented in a concise and precise approach - yet easy to follow - the case study adds flavor

Any additional comments?

Thanks

Info probably good but can't get past the distractions!

As a career leadership/performance professional, I routinely listen to books on topics related to my field. As such, I'm no stranger to getting past bad narration and poor writing to get to the meat of a valuable message.

I can't do it for this book! The narrator is robotic and slow. When I can get past that, he mispronounces too many basic performance terms and my concentration on the content is interrupted time and again as I mentally correct him.

The writing so unnecessarily padded that I frequently think we've moved into another topic only to realize that they're simply saying the same thing again (and again) in a more convoluted way.

No wonder the authors spend so much time on their dubious credentials at the top of the book.

There is some useful content buried in here that might be useful though it's amateurishly stated and there are errors in the content. However, even that is so deeply covered beneath the nonsense that I cannot recommend this book. It should have been about an hour long recording.

Great listen - effective and impacting

If you could sum up Building Highly Effective Teams in three words, what would they be?

Relevant, exciting and empowering this book really helped me - highly recommend read for your library

I think it was great

I thought it was great. I needed some direction in building my team and it did just that.

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Title: Managing Employee Performance

Author: Ali Asadi

Narrator: Barry Lank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-14

Publisher: Asadi Business Consulting, Inc

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

This authoritative volume on human resource management is highly recommended listening for the small business owners and HR professionals. Written by an acknowledged expert in all areas of business management, Managing Employee Performance is a well-organized guide to understanding this vitally important area of your business.

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Title: The Liberated CEO

Subtitle: The 9-Step Program to Running a Better Business So It Doesn't Run You

Author: Scott A. Leonard

Narrator: Anthony Haden Salerno

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Achieve a better work/life balance with the innovative approach outlined here.

Author Scott Leonard is a successful business professional who adapted his business to allow him to achieve his goals and live his dreams now - while still working in the business he loves. His experience is an inspiring example of extreme work-life empowerment that can help you whether you're the owner of a business or just want more freedom and flexibility in your career. Now, in The Liberated CEO, Leonard shares his story and strategies with you.

In The Liberated CEO, he turns the conventional portrait of the 24/7 entrepreneur as multi-tasking control freak on its head by using strategies that unshackle individuals from the "daily grind", inspiring you to perform your responsibilities on your own terms and schedules. In addition to giving the individual more freedom, the benefits of The Liberated CEO principles will increase the success, profitability, operational efficiency, and, ultimately, the enterprise value of any business.

Members Reviews:

Doesn't live up to the title's promise

As a book for financial planners running their own business, I'd give this 4 stars.

As a general business book to help CEOs become "liberated" it fails to deliver. Throwing in the liberal use of "or any small business" doesn't make the lessons in the book applicable to general small businesses.

So, if you run a consulting business--especially a financial firm--buy it. For everyone else, you won't get much out of it.

Great quick read

I finished the book in just two sittings. Being in the same profession I easily identified with the ideas that he presents. Is a very easy read but has some good ideas and details that I took note of to incorporate into my practice. Would recommend to anyone that is in the business, or any small business owner that is looking to maximize his "team" to maximize his business.

Applicable Advice

It is rare to read a how to book by someone who actually did it. Everyone is always looking for the silver bullet or easy fix that will solve all of their problems, but few ever find it. Scott Leonard laid out a plan that corresponded with his goals and takes the reader on a journey, step by step, of how he made it work. The book is full of ideas that can be applied to your business.

A Must Read For All Financial Advisors

Scott has done a great job in showing all advisors on what is possible in creating the ultimate lifestyle practice. This is a must read for any advisor who wants to have it all. I have recommended this book to all my clients.

Coach Joe lukacs

A great outline for freedom from routine business leadership

Scott offers good advice on structuring your business to free yourself from the tool as an essential daily element of the business do you can be liberated.

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Title: The Art of Social Enterprise

Subtitle: Business as if People Mattered

Author: Carl Frankel, Allen Bromberger

Narrator: David Skulski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-14

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Nonprofits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain their existence. Social enterprise is an exciting, blended model driven by the desire to create positive change through entrepreneurial activities.

The Art of Social Enterprise is a practical guide that supplies everything you need to know about the mechanics of social entrepreneurship including:

This valuable resource also provides an unparalleled legal perspective to help you take advantage of established legal organizational forms, recent statutory creations, contract hybrids, certification programs and more.

Aimed at emerging as well as established social entrepreneurs, for-profit leaders who want to introduce an element of social responsibility into their companies, and nonprofit organizations who want to increase their stability by generating income, The Art of Social Enterprise is the definitive guide to doing well while doing good.

* Be sure to download the PDF that accompanies this audiobook.

Carl Frankel has been writing about green business for over two decades and is a serial social entrepreneur and acknowledged thought leader in his own right. He has extensive experience consulting for for-profits, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

Allen Bromberger is the leading social enterprise lawyer in North America. Over the years, he has advised thousands of social entrepreneurs: his expertise is as broad as it is deep and specialized.

Members Reviews:

Ok information, too many opinions...

Couldn't finish the book. Way too much liberal opinion and new age thought for me. Would've been much better if they had presented facts and the basics. Their own ideas and language made it unbearable for me. Tried for the longest time to muddle through, because I wanted the info, but finally gave up...

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Title: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Author: Steven G Carley

Narrator: Susan Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-14

Publisher: SGC Production

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

"Industrial/Organizational Psychology,/i>

"Industrial/Organizational Psychology" offers different theoretical perspectives to the field as well as various means of conducting employment and retention testing. The science of I/O psychology aims at both improving and maintaining efficient workplace practices.