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Title: The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

Author: David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Release date: December 28, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area—not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert Kaplan and David Norton in The Execution Premium. Building on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy. This book shows you how to: develop an effective strategy—with tools such as SWOT analysis, vision formulation, and strategic change agendas; plan execution of the strategy—through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards; put your strategy into action—by integrating operational tools such as process dashboards, rolling forecasts, and activity-based costing; and test and update your strategy—using carefully designed management meetings to review operational and strategic data. Drawing on extensive research and detailed case studies from a broad array of industries, The Execution Premium presents a systematic and proven framework for achieving the financial results promised by your strategy.

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Title: The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact

Author: Richard W. Beatty, Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker

Narrator: Rudy Sanda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Release date: December 28, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution. Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high performers aren't getting the necessary resources, development opportunities, or rewards. In The Differentiated Workforce, the authors expand on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, and recommend that you manage your workforce like a portfolio—with disproportionate investments in the jobs that create the most wealth. You'll learn to: rise above talent management 'best practice' and instead create a differentiated workforce that can't be easily copied by competitors; differentiate those capabilities in your company that are truly strategic; identify your wealth-creating 'A' positions; create a new relationship between HR and line managers, and articulate the role each plays in a differentiated workforce strategy; and develop the right measures for your organization. Based on two decades of academic research and experience working with hundreds of executives, The Differentiated Workforce gives you the tools to translate your talent into strategic impact.

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Title: Entrepreneurship as Networking: Mechanisms, Dynamics, Practices, and Strategies

Author: Elco Van Burg, Kim Klyver, Tom Elfring

Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Release date: December 28, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

In the world of business, who you know is usually more important than what you know. While most research highlights the personal characteristics and expertise important to business success, this book demonstrates that networking is the core of entrepreneurship. Both counterintuitive and powerful, this perspective reframes entrepreneurial action by placing networking at the center of the process. Traditionally, networks have been regarded as facilitators of business, but Tom Elfring, Kim Klyver, and Elco van Burg argue that networking is actually the basis of entrepreneurial action, and conversely, that entrepreneurial action is networking. They describe the key dynamics, mechanisms, and practices of entrepreneurship as networking, and point at fruitful networking strategies for entrepreneurs. Thus, the authors provide an integrated and dynamic account of entrepreneurial agency that prioritizes interaction with the surrounding social environment. They also explain what a viable network is for entrepreneurs and how networking activities affect their endeavors. Their perspective sheds new light on the origins of opportunities and how entrepreneurs access and mobilize resources. The approach also explains how entrepreneurs build legitimacy and exploit the networks they work within.

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Title: Future Skills for Modern Business: Discover Success Through Entrepreneurial Behavior Models

Author: David K. Ewen, M.Ed.

Narrator: M.Ed., David K. Ewen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 30 minutes

Release date: December 24, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Success is a choice. It’s a choice to make a sacrifice to change what is wrong and turn it into right. The sacrifice is letting go of past behaviors and to not miss them while embracing new behaviors designed for success. It’s a choice. A methodology to create success comes from systematically developing the models of excellence to achieve and awareness of dangers that attack the core of success. To embrace the methodology requires embracing the model and discerning the dangers. These two skills together give the ammunition that leads only to success while blocking anything from achieving that goal. Respected business leaders and entrepreneurs have the character and integrity that need not be boasted. People only need to observe and realize respect is earned. The book, “Future Skills for Modern Business” holds the truth of what is needed for future businesses to survive a changing world. It comes from a foundational set of lectures over the years conducted by the author and consolidated into one short book for conciseness. Award winning David K. Ewen, M.Ed. is a highly acclaimed sought after business leader specializing in entrepreneurial studies, global communication and digital multimedia technologies. He is currently a visiting professor at American Heritage College in Los Angeles, California. He is the founding Ambassador Professor of Enterprise College, a consortium of award winning subsidiaries and international partners in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Russia, and Latin America, and the United States.

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Title: The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the World

Author: Janesh Janardhanan, Aroop Zutshi, Shivaji Das

Narrator: Erik Bloomquist

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of insider accounts describing the organizational impact of COVID-19. In The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the Globe, expert strategists Shivaji Das, Aroop Zutshi, and Janesh Janardhanan deliver an insightful exploration of this once-in-a-lifetime event to unearth invaluable learnings for the future. Told through the experiences of CXOs at billion-dollar companies, star start-ups, and non-profits from around the world, the book chronicles the ups and downs of sophisticated organizations as they navigated the COVID-19 crisis through initiatives impacting people, processes, and technology. The leaders contributing their organization's survival and revival stories include those from Julius Baer, SAP, Terumo, IndiGrid, Tapsi, Fonterra, Hornet Networks, Globalization Partners, beCuriou, GoGoX, Abacus Pharma, SOS Children's Villages, Bangalore International Airport, and A Lange & Sohne. Perfect for executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Great Lockdown is an invaluable addition to the libraries of anyone interested in case studies of corporate resilience and endurance in the face of unprecedented economic challenges. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

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Title: Bulletproof Decisions: How Executives Can Get it Right, Every Time

Author: Ruben Ugarte

Narrator: Asa Siegel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

We are told from a young age that we should strive to make the right decisions, but we aren't taught exactly how to do this. Every day, we make over 35,000 decisions in our personal and professional lives. How many of those decisions do you get right? In this book, data strategist Ruben Ugarte helps business executives systematically tackle these 35,00 decisions. Executives are forced to make critical decisions that impact their lives, their employees' lives, and their customers. Decisions like what products to create, who should be hired, and what divisions to shut down are all commonplace in the executive suite. The book will offer three strategies for dealing with decisions: problem-solving techniques, routines, and decision-making frameworks. Each strategy is designed to help listeners achieve more clarity, gain time back, and improve the quality of their decisions. The first one will focus on helping listeners solve the right problem instead of wasting time on the wrong one. The second strategy will help listeners deal with decisions that need to be made once but can then be executed regularly. The third and final strategy will provide a three-step framework for making the most important decisions in their lives.

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Title: Lean Six Sigma For Dummies, 4th Edition

Author: Jo Dowdall, Martin Brenig-Jones

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Thinking Lean? Not in terms of weight loss, but operational efficiency? Then you can get into the Lean mindset with Lean Six Sigma For Dummies. A popular process improvement strategy used in many corporations, Lean Six Sigma exemplifies eliminating waste and optimizing flow at an operational level. With the strategies outlined in this book, you'll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency. Written by two experts that have been teaching Lean Six Sigma for over twenty years, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies explains the jargon surrounding this organizational practice, outlines the key principles of both Lean thinking and the Six Sigma process, and breaks it all down into easy-to-follow steps. ● Use Lean Six Sigma to develop a culture of continuous improvement ● Complete repetitive tasks through robotic process automation ● Assess how well your company and employees adapt to Lean Six Sigma ● Discover tips on how to implement Lean Six Sigma every day ● Find best practices to sustain ongoing improvements

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Title: Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams: Navigating the Future of Work

Author: Alberto S. Silveira Jr.

Narrator: Chris Reilly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company. Author Alberto S. Silveira, Jr., leverages his industry knowledge to explore why the high-performance distributed team model is vital to the future of business, and explains how to build and maintain one through times of change. You will learn to differentiate between distributed teams, remote work, offshoring, and what each means in a modern context. Silveira also weaves in stories from his other life as a boater and sailor, using analogies and lessons gained from humankind's thousands of years of maritime adventure to illustrate the value of well-managed teams, and to also convey the importance of life-work balance in today's working world. Whether you are a department head, a business owner, or a team leader, this book presents the no-nonsense knowledge you need now to chart your course for success.

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Title: CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money

Author: Christopher Giancarlo

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Dubbed 'CryptoDad' for his impassioned plea to Congress to acknowledge and respect cryptocurrencies as the inevitable product of a fast-growing technological wave and a free marketplace, Chris Giancarlo is considered one of 'the most influential individuals in financial regulation.' CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money describes Giancarlo's own reckoning with the future of the global economy—at the intersection of markets, technology, and public policy—and lays out the fight for a Digital Dollar. CryptoDad is Giancarlo's own personal story, detailing his forays into the world of Wallstreet to his tenure as the thirteenth chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he pushed for the agency to recognize the digitization of markets. His growing fame as a Twitter presence in this essential debate has given Giancarlo a platform to makes a case for the future of cryptocurrencies as the natural successor to America's current failing financial market infrastructure. CryptoDad argues that the next digital wave will be the coming Internet of Value, where cryptocurrencies will do the Internet of Information did to immaterial things: make them accessible, distributable, and movable instantly across the globe. This book is an ideal introduction to the importance of technology in the marketplace.

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Title: Digital Customer Service: Transforming Customer Experience for An On-Screen World

Author: Rick Delisi, Dan Michaeli

Narrator: Rick Delisi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

As much as technology has improved our lives, for many people customer service experiences remain unnecessarily frustrating. But the advent of Digital Customer Service (DCS) promises to make these interactions seamless and effortless by creating experiences that occur entirely on a customer's own screen, even in situations where it is preferable to speak to an agent. Digital Customer Service traces the evolution of customer service—as well as the evolution of customer expectations and the underlying psychology that drives customer behavior—from the days of the first call centers in the 1980s all the way to today's digital world. Written for customer service and customer experience leaders as well as C-suite executives (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs), Digital Customer Service helps business leaders balance three critical priorities: creating an excellent experience for customers that increases customer loyalty and profitability; driving down the cost of customer service/support interactions, while increasing revenue through sales interactions; and moving quickly toward the goal of 'digital transformation.' When companies commit to achieving true Digital Customer Service, they can make significant progress toward all three of these goals at once. Digital Customer Service provides the roadmap for how your company can get there.