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ID: 465875

Title: Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results

Author: Geoffrey M. Bellman, Kathleen D. Ryan

Narrator: Kymberly Dakin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:41:07

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Why are some teams described in such exceptional terms, while most are not? Bellman and Ryan argue that people instinctively sense when a group experience is something special, something different from the ordinary, something that surpasses their expectations in a positive, remarkable, and hard-to-describe way. These extraordinary groups achieve outstanding results and their members--individually or collectively--experience a profound shift in how they see their world. They are transformed. However large or small, visible or intangible, such transformative shifts happen because the group experience satisfies core needs that members intuitively bring to any group they join. Bellman and Ryan's study suggests there are six needs, forming three pairs related to one's self, the group, and the world in which the group exists. These six elements combine in what the authors describe as the Group Needs model: Acceptance of self while moving toward one's Potential A Bond with others that grows while pursuing a common Purpose Understanding the Reality of the world while collectively making an Impact Whether at work, at home, or in the community, when a group experience meets two or more of these needs, it will stand out for the members of the team. Based on extensive research and filled with examples from amazing groups, Extraordinary Groups presents the Group Needs Model to help anyone nurture extraordinary experiences in their groups and achieve outstanding results. This book is a timely resource for anyone who leads groups including HR and OD professionals, managers, executives, nonprofit managers and directors, virtual teams leaders, and trainers.

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ID: 465878

Title: Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Potential

Author: Jay Moran, Jeffrey Cohn

Narrator: Ramon De Ocampo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:31:17

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Most people don't understand what it takes to get ahead. They don't understand what leadership means or how their organizations make leadership decisions.As a result, they feel lost.A sense of frustration creeps into their careers, communities and personal ambitions.This new book from two of the top names in leadership and succession planning will help those who struggle with understanding 'leadership.'ThroughCohn courage, andvision. While many top managers and aspiring executives excel in one or several of these areas, great, lasting leadershave an integrated approach to all. Why Are We Bad At Picking Good Leaders? incorporates exciting, first-hand stories taken from the real leadership challenges of some of today's most recognizable names: people like Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, Bono's RED campaign, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Hollywood director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), and dozens more.Their stories bring the attributes to life and willhelp readers understand what words like 'empathy' or 'authenticity' or 'passion' mean in the context of effective leadership. These stories are original accounts gathered by the authors especially for this book. The overall result is an entertaining read that explains leadership in a fresh and original way, one that offers the unique, insider access to closed conference rooms in top corporations; the thoughtfulknowledge of the world's top academics and thought leaders, and the entertining stories of celebrities from all areas of business, sports, and entertainment. This is a comprehensive look,at how to find, create, and regonize great leaders, where all essential attributes of great leaders are explained in one book.

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ID: 465941

Title: Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing

Author: Roger Dooley

Narrator: Mark Ashby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Negotiation & Communication

Summary:

Neuromarketing studies the way the brain responds to various cognitive and sensory marketing stimuli. Analysts usethis to measure a consumer's preference, what a customer reacts to, and why consumers make certain decisions. This scientific approach to marketing has helped many brands and companies determine how to best market their products to different demographics and consumer groups. Brainfluence explains how to practically apply neuroscience and behavior research to everyday marketing problems. This book is designed to be a practical guide with quick and easy takeaways offered in 60 short chapters, each containing one key strategy. The chapters are organized into major groups, mainly by application: in-person sales, Web marketing, print advertising, and many others. The book explains several key concepts, including: New insights into what makes people buy Ways for brands to form emotional bonds with customers Short, easy to digest ideas that can be accessed in any order Techniques for all types of businesses, including small businesses and non-profits This book contains practical, easy-to-understand ways to improve marketing, advertising, and sales efforts.

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ID: 465852

Title: Overload!: How Too Much Information is Hazardous to Your Organization

Author: Jonathan B. Spira

Narrator: Adam Henderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:37:42

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

This groundbreaking book reveals how different kinds of information overload impacts workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial costs of e-mail overload and interruptions and how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee production, efficiency, and moral. The book then shows how to fight information overload, including some interesting cases is what companies like IBM, Morgan Stanley, and Intel are doing about it. Chapter contents follow: Chapter 1 Infromation Revolutions from Papyrus to e-Readers, Chapter 2 The Shift Occurs: The Construction of an Information Society, Chapter 3 Where Information Comes From, Chapter 4 What We do with Information, Chapter 5 What Too much Information is Doing, Chapter 6 Fighting Back, Chapter 7 Managing Information and Maintaining Sanity, Chapter 8 Enterprise of the Future: The All-Informed Organization.

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ID: 485659

Title: Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting

Author: Gert H. N. Laursen, Jesper Thorlund

Narrator: Bill Deweese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:53:10

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

Many companies are unsure exactly what business analytics is and how it can be used to improve their performance. Much of the material currently in the marketplace is technical in nature. This books focus is not on the technical aspects of business analytics but takes a business holistic approach. It provides an explanation of what business analytics is and how it should be important to people in sales, marketing, management, finance, HR, production as well as analysis and controlling. This book provides a business analytics model that focuses on the interaction of IT technology, strategy, business processes, and a broad spectrum of human competencies, organizational circumstances, and cooperation across the organization. This book will be comprised of nine chapters: (1) The Business Analytics Model; (2) Business Analytics at the Strategic Model; (3) Development and Deployment of Information at a Functional Level; (4) Business Analytics at an Analytical Level; (5) Business Analytics at the Data Warehouse Level; (6) The Companys Collection of Source Data; (7) The Structuring of a Business Intelligence Competency Center; (8) Assessment and Prioritization of Business Analytics Projects; and (9) Business Analytics in the Future.

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ID: 465949

Title: Go Mobile: Location-Based Marketing, Apps, Mobile Optimized Ad Campaigns, 2D Codes and Other Mobile Strategies to Grow Your Business

Author: Jamie Turner, Jeanne Hopkins

Narrator: Christine Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:41:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising

Summary:

Go Mobileis packed with tools, tips and techniques that will help readers to set-up, launch, and run a mobile media campaign. The book provides in-depth information about mobile media business models, platforms, solutions, and case studies, combined with actionable information that they can put to use immediately. The book explains how to: Understand the different mobile media platforms (Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm, Windows) Use SMS for your business and develop your mobile website Advance your mobile advertising and search campaigns Use location-based marketing to get new customers Integrate social media with your company's mobile media campaign Use mobile E-commerce to improve brand loyalty Measure the ROI of a mobile media campaign Develop mobile media business models you can use to grow revenues

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ID: 485682

Title: Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion

Author: Steven M. Davidoff

Narrator: Jay Snyder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:51

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

Gods at War (paperback)is an engaging must read exploration of the modern takeover. This book examines this subject by drilling down on deals and events in the last few years that have forever changed the world of mergers and acquisitions. It will be a whirlwind tour of takeovers and the players in this arena, including private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, private equity, management, and sovereign wealth funds. Gods at War will not only explain all of the game-changing takeover events but also put them into context for readers who want to know whats going on behind the scenes on Wall Street. It will provide an explanation and analysis of these events and the players. The book will spell out the future direction of takeovers as well as the authors own prescriptions for needed reform. In telling this tale, Gods at War will cover the strategic issues that guide the modern-day takeover. But since takeovers unfold under the shadow of legal rules, Gods at War will particularly focus on the legal aspects of takeovers. The result will be a book that covers the strategy and rules of the takeover in the context of recent historical events. Each chapter of the book will unfold through the lens of a modern transaction. For example, the chapter concerning hostile transactions will trace the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft to discuss the future of hostile transactions as well as to examine the question of why the tech hostile has achieved recent prominence. The chapter on sovereign wealth funds will examine the slew of investment in financial institutions in the prior year and itsimplication for our economic system. A private equity chapter will study the United Rental/Cerberus dispute to explain the causes and effects of the private equity implosion and trace the future of private equity. And the chapter on hedge funds will discuss Jana Funds use of complex derivatives in its proxy contest to unseat the CNET board to illustrate the new shareholder activism among hedge funds and its discontents.

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ID: 465876

Title: Toxic Workplace!: Managing Toxic Personalities and Their Systems of Power

Author: Elizabeth Holloway, Mitchell Kusy

Narrator: Vanessa Hart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:24:23

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Most of us as leaders have experienced the frustration and confusion of having an extremely difficult person to deal with in the workplace?a person who debilitates individuals, teams, and even organizations.These difficult individuals have the capacity to completely undermine our sense of well-being. Why?Because in a variety of ways they get under our skin, infiltrate our professional and personal space, demoralize us, de-motivate the team, and ultimately affect our competence and productivity. They are ?toxic.? Unfortunately, like bad neighbors, short of picking up and moving to new venues, it seems impossible to escape the deleterious effects of these toxic individuals?and for some victims, even once the toxic person is no longer there! The topic of toxic personalities at work has been long on history but quite sparse on research. Although there are numerous books on the subject that attempt to guide leaders? thinking and behaviors to preserve their own sanity,Toxic Workplace will be the first totackle the underlying systems issues that enable the toxic person to create a path of destruction in the organization, often for a very long time and at the cost of losing talented people all throughout the organization. The author's research has revealed the warning signs that indicate a serious behavioral problem before months or even years of lost productivity has resulted. Further,they haveidentified how this toxicity spreads in systems with long-term effects on organizational climate even after the person has left.Their two-year national research study of approximately 500 leaders provides very specific actions that leaders need to take to reduce both the intensity and frequency of toxic personalities at work. No other book provides this menu of options from a systems perspective with practical relevance in real work situations.

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ID: 465919

Title: Power Base Selling: Secrets of an Ivy League Street Fighter

Author: Jim Holden

Narrator: Pete Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:56:17

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Sales & Retail

Summary:

Focuses on competitive selling: the range of skills that sales professionals need to reach their full potential. It offers practical, step-by-step advice that salespeople can take to prevent the competition from selling their products or services, revealing the components involved in gaining full control of a sales situation. Discusses a key step in this process—the politics of selling—showing how to establish the right relationships with people who are powerful enough to give the salesperson an edge. Will help those who are already good at selling become competitive salespeople capable of strengthening their position with the customer, while at the same time weakening the competition.

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ID: 485687

Title: World Right Side Up: Investing Across Six Continents

Author: Christopher W. Mayer

Narrator: Peter Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:35:38

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

The gap between the developed world and the emerging market has been shrinking and will continue to do so. Hence, the so called gap between the so-called developed West and the other markets in terms of technology, economic size, financial development, incomes is much smaller than in the past. While some people fear this reality, the author feels that it is a positive trend and these new sizeable markets will create extraordinary new opportunities for investors. The book will examine various regions in the world from Latin American, Asia, Africa, North America and the Middle East. Investment topics examined in detail include currency, a contrarian approach and trends for the next decade.

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