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Title: Fearless Leadership

Subtitle: How to Overcome Behavioral Blindspots and Transform Your Organization

Author: Loretta Malandro

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-12

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Do you want to move your company in a new direction? Fearless Leadership provides you with the tools to successfully drive change, overcome obstacles, and engage and align people in working effectively together to achieve your business objectives.

Leadership guru Dr. Loretta Malandro has developed a groundbreaking behavior-based methodology that is used around the globe to create top-performing leaders and high-performance organizations. It is based on a simple but profound concept: In order to change your organization, you must be willing to alter your behavior and help others make the choice to change their behavior. This means demanding 100% accountability from your people - and yourself.

In today's ultra-competitive business environment, a new leadership approach is needed. Fearless Leadership takes you step by step through the process of raising behavioral standards that directly impact the bottom line. You will learn the secrets behind:

Too many people in leadership positions attempt to enact change through systemic means, such as restructuring or altering processes. The secret to real and lasting change lies in changing behavior - how people work together. Change the level of ownership and performance of people and you will transform your organization.

Leaders who are able to act courageously when faced with uncertainty or fear, take bold stands, and engage with people in very real ways are those who generate great and long-lasting results. Fearless Leadership shows you how.

Members Reviews:

Go straight to chapter marked 3

Very accurate information once you reach the goods. Introduction is too long though. Before those who need this information reach it they have switched off thinking she's just mot going to get to the point. But she does and quite clearly. I have experienced this in organisations I have worked for. Chapters are not marked correctly. The good stuff starts at #3 - I'm just not sure if those that need it will want to hear it.

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Title: The Inspiring Leader

Subtitle: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders Motivate

Author: John Zenger

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-12

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

In their best-selling work The Extraordinary Leader, performance-thought leaders John Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest. Since that book's publication, they and coauthor Scott Edinger discovered, through an extensive study conducted over four years, that leaders who possessed the ability to inspire and motivate out-performed all others.

The authors found that the impact of inspiring and motivating others is consistent across different kinds of organizations and within different cultures. The Inspiring Leader reveals the authors' newest proprietary research on how top leaders inspire teams to greatness. It discusses the behaviors exhibited by the most successful leaders and includes advice on how to implement them. Drawing from statistically significant data and objective empirical evidence, the book shows how to:

Zenger, Folkman, and Edinger lay out the strategies and concepts used by the world's greatest leaders to motivate their teams. With The Inspiring Leader as your guide, you will learn how to put those strategies to work in your own business.

Members Reviews:

An Extraordinary Book on Leadership

This is an extraordinary book on leadership from the experts in extraordinary leadership. In 2002, legendary training and development expert Jack Zenger (he's been given numerous international awards and citations) and Joe Folkman (renowned psychometrician with extensive expertise in survey research and leader assessments) published their groundbreaking bookThe Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders. That book was based on their extensive database of more than 200,000 multi-rater or 360-degree feedback reports describing 20,000 managers. It became the foundation for Zenger Folkman's thriving leadership development and consulting firm.

The Inspiring Leader draws from this deep well of research to bring an evidence-based or hard scientific approach to the very soft issue of inspirational leadership. There are countless opinions, platitudes, theories, anecdotes, and leadership models competing for attention today. Periodically I search Amazon for an update on how many leadership books are available. Today's search shows over 50,000!

What's refreshingly unique about all of Zenger Folkman's books and services is their very powerful combination of solid research, building on strengths, and practical how-to applications. As they write in Chapter One, "this book is not a creation of ideas for how leaders inspire. Rather, it provides you with a discovery of what the best leaders around the world do to inspire and motivate others."

The Inspiring Leader emerged from Zenger Folkman's ongoing analysis of their extraordinary leader database in answer to the question "aeSo if I have to choose one thing to work on, what should it be?" A deeper look at their leadership research led to the conclusion; "that there was one leadership competency that deserved some special attention. It was 'inspires and motivates to high performance.'"

This proved to be the most powerful predictor of anyone being seen as an extraordinary leader from their empirical field of 16 leadership competencies.

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Title: The Heart of Higher Education

Subtitle: A Call to Renewal

Author: Parker J. Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, Megan Scribner

Narrator: Scott Woodside

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education.

From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being - mind, heart, and spirit - an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time. The book offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and proposals for action from two educators and writers who have contributed to developing the field of integrative education over the past few decades. This book:

The Heart of Higher Education is for all who are new to the field of holistic education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning on their campuses.

Members Reviews:

Why does the narrator sound like a computer?

I love Parker Palmer's work -- and yet I'm about to give up on audio books because the performer/narrators' readings are killing me. I had a hard time listening to this. Scott Woodside has a fine voice, but the way his performance is robotic. It's too evenly timed in a way that makes it hard to listen to. He sounds like he recorded himself saying 8,000,000 words and then a computer puts them together to make the narration. Each - word - is - its - own - moment - evenly - across - the - book. Wish I just went for the ebook. [Not sure the story rating has anything to do with this particular book.] Thinking its about time to cancel my audible account. Who says ped-o-gog-ee? How about ped-o-goj-ee?

AWESOME!!!

Would you listen to The Heart of Higher Education again? Why?

Empowering, thoughtful and well worth reflection

What did you like best about this story?

Inspires questions and innovative thoughts about how to do things differently in higher education.

Any additional comments?

Will listen frequently as a form of self reflective feedback on ones own teaching methods.

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Title: One Piece of Paper

Subtitle: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership

Author: Mike Figliuolo

Narrator: Chris O'Brien

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A robust, authentic model for creating and clearly articulating a personal leadership philosophy....

Based on leadership expert Mike Figliuolo's popular "Leadership Maxims" training course, One Piece of Paper teaches decisive, effective leadership by taking a holistic approach to defining one's personal leadership philosophy. Through a series of simple questions, readers will create a living document that communicates their values, passions, goals and standards to others, maximizing their leadership potential.

Simple, applicable, and without pretense, One Piece of Paper provides a model for real leadership in the real world.

Members Reviews:

simple effective. .. read it do it

This is a straightforward leadership book. Listen ... do ... and then lead your people. The book helps you discover your own leadership style. It also provides a mechanism to share your leadership style with others.

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Title: Gold Medal Strategies: Business Lessons from America's Miracle Team

Author: Jim Craig, Don Yaeger

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Business lessons from one of the greatest Olympic teams of all time.

It's been called the greatest upset of all time, the most memorable Olympic moment ever, the "Miracle on Ice". No matter which superlative is used, no one can deny that the U.S. men's hockey team's defeat of the Soviet Union in the medal round of the Lake Placid Olympic Games was a defining moment for Cold War America.

The U.S. team's goalie was a Boston University student named Jim Craig, who is now a leadership expert and keynote speaker to business audiences. Gold Medal Strategies gives you Craig's unique lessons from the "Miracle" team on team dynamics, leadership, motivation, and other important management topics. With his unparalleled perspective, Craig dissects and analyzes the elements of a successful team, how to assemble one, and what philosophies will keep the team's shared goal a reality. This book outlines the necessary skills and details the specific techniques you need to maximize your business readiness, hone competitive cooperation, gather your strategies, and attack your challengers.

Members Reviews:

Loved this book

Seller packaged this book very well. It looked new and I loved the price.

Enjoyed the lessons I learned. Jim is a great story teller and I appreciated how much I got from this book. As a business owner I found this book to be one I could easily recommend.

Great read with outstanding insight for leadership

Just finished reading this book. I have been a big fan of Jim Craig since the thrilling 1980 Olympic games. Jim has written his formula for sucsess and how he transitioned his athletic achievements and leadership methods to 30 years of success in corporate america. These Gold Medal Strategies will outline a sucsessfull blue print for potential leaders as well as sharpen the skills of those who are already successful business men and women. Gold Medal Strategies gives great insight into the dynamics of what has driven Jim to greatness both in the rink and in corporate america. Great read as well as an outstanding reference on how to be successful in all of your endeavors.

A Gold Medal for Gold Medal Strategies

Gold Medal Strategies by Jim Craig is truly a great read and a must have for anyone who works in the business world. Wether you are looking to recruit a top team, striving to hold each other accountable or looking to set common objectives (have a shared dream), this book is for you. Craig does an excellent job weaving stories from the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team into his real life experiences as an accomplished salesmen and marketer. Jim Craig's passion and desire to succeed shows throughout the book.

What separates this book from some of the other athlete books on business is that Jim Craig has the 30 year business career and practical application to back up what he writes. You will pick up several key take aways from the book. Outstanding and highly recommended.

Excellent leadership principles and stories

This is an excellent book that will be added to the reading lists in my classes in the College of Technology at Purdue University. The book is a great blend of principles and their applications, told through stories and many links to the USA Miracle on Ice team of the 1980 Olympics. I read it this summer while on vacation near Lake Placid and had the opportunity to visit the rink where it happened.

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Title: Who's in the Room?: How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them

Author: Bob Frisch

Narrator: Melissa Reizian Frank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Is your company run by a team with no name? At the top of every organization chart lies a myth - that a Senior Management Team makes a company's critical decisions. The reality is that critical decisions are typically made by the boss and a small group of confidants - a "team with no name" - outside of formal processes. Meanwhile, other members of the management team wonder why they weren't in the room or even consulted ahead of time. The dysfunction that results from this gap between myth and reality has led to years of unproductive team building exercises. The problems, Frisch shows, are ones of process and structure, not psychology.

Who's In the Room is based on interviews with CEOs at organizations ranging from MasterCard to Ticketmaster to The Red Cross.

Organizations will get better decisions and superior results by unleashing the full potential of their Senior Management Teams. And bosses will see a dramatic drop-off in people coming into their offices asking, "Why wasn't I in the room?"

Members Reviews:

Clear Methodical Guide for the CEOs Team

This is a great book for CEOs, consultants and other business leaders. In this book, the author illustrates the necessity of recognizing the CEOs closest team for they really are.

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Title: TouchPoints

Subtitle: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments

Author: Douglas R. Conant, Mette Norgaard

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A fresh, effective, and enduring way to lead - starting with your next interaction...

Most leaders feel the inevitable interruptions in their jam-packed days are troublesome. But in TouchPoints, Conant and Norgaard argue that these - and every point of contact with other people - are overlooked opportunities for leaders to increase their impact and promote their organization's strategy and values. Through previously untold stories from Conant's tenure as CEO of Campbell Soup Company and Norgaard's vast consulting experience, the authors show that a leader's impact and legacy are built through hundreds, even thousands, of interactive moments in time.

The good news is that anyone can develop "TouchPoint" mastery by focusing on three essential components: head, heart, and hands. TouchPoints speaks to the theory and craft of leadership, promoting a balanced presence of rational, authentic, active, and wise leadership practices. Leadership mastery in the smallest and otherwise ordinary moments can transform aimless activity in individuals and entropy in organizations into focused energy - one magical moment at a time.

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Title: Executing Your Business Transformation: How to Engage Sweeping Change Without Killing Yourself Or Your Business

Author: Mark Morgan, Andrew Cole, Dave Johnson, Rob Johnson

Narrator: Bruce Lorie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Practical, tested, implementable real-world advice for transforming any business and is written by people that have been there and done that.

Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket science either. By taking a realistic, simple and direct view of what is required to transform an enterprise, the authors reduce the noise and nonsense that surrounds much of the discussion of transformation and provide straight forward lessons, examples and thought provoking questions to guide the listener to a more powerful position as an agent of change.

Based on the authors' decades of experience dealing with major business transformation, this book provides valuable guidance for any company engaged in large scale change brought on by shifts in the competitive landscape, mergers, acquisitions, or a major restructuring of their business model. Many organizations undergo transformation with lots of enthusiasm, but are frustrated with the results. This book contains a set of lessons gained in the process of working in and with organizations in the process of transformation. The book starts out by framing transformation and explains the overall system the enterprise that is involved in transformation. By doing so, clarity is brought to the question of why change is so difficult and problematic.

What you can expect to get by reading this book is:

With rare insight and candor, the authors provide thoughtful advice backed by examples from their comprehensive experience.

If you don't like transformation, you are going to hate irrelevance. This book is your best bet for getting the insight you need to transform your organization before it becomes irrelevant.

Members Reviews:

Best book I have read on business transformation.

this is one of the best business books I have read. It jumps right into a description of the problems many companies face and the path that needs to be taken. The sample companies used are spot on accurate descriptions ... it's obvious that the author rally knows that of which he writes.

Transformation is not a choice ... can you make it?

"Executing Your Business Transformation without Killing Yourself or Business" is a must read for anyone involved in managing changes in enterprises of any size. The book explains the complexity of transforming an existing organization while illustrating organizational anatomy, followed by lessons that the readers can apply to their organizations in their own circumstances.

Why changes fail? Inertia.

To successfully transform, you must deal with your organization's core, context, and organizational capability that make up the organizational inertia. Dealing with one facet, but not the other is sure to fail in achieving any sustainable change.

The authors advise that stand-alone cultural change initiative is misguided and sets the organization back. To foster cultural change, you must simultaneously consider the organization's new goals, structure, strategy, purpose, identity, and long-range intention.

The authors assert that innovation does not come from the adoption of best practice. It comes from looking upstream from best practice.

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Title: Rippling

Subtitle: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation throughout the World

Author: Beverly Schwartz, Bill Drayton (foreword)

Narrator: Glenda Morgan Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Principles for driving significant change throughout an entire system....

Drawing on the knowledge and experience of working with hundreds the world's top social change leaders in all fields, Beverly Schwartz presents a model for change based on five proven principles that any individual leader or organization can apply to bring about deep, lasting, and systematic change. Rippling shows how to activate the type of change that is needed to address the critical challenges that threaten to destroy the foundations of our society and planet in these increasingly turbulent times.

These actionable principles are brought to life by compelling real-life stories. Schwartz provides a road map that allows anyone to become a changemaker.

Rippling clearly demonstrates how and when empathy, creativity, passion, and persistence are combined, significant, life-altering progress is indeed possible.

Members Reviews:

Excellent ... Novelty 100% & entertaining!

What made the experience of listening to Rippling the most enjoyable?

It is excellently written and every chapter is so inspiring that you cannot but keep reading. Learning NEW innovative things just gives a sense that ALL IS POSSIBLE.

Rippling is so inspiring and motivating that when you finish reading you wish there was a Rippling II!

Please write asap #2!! the world needs more books like this

What was one of the most memorable moments of Rippling?

Each chapter has a riveting story of a social entrepreneur described in such a plausible way ... that first you want to meet that Social Entrepreneur and second the reader is inspired to DO something and become a Social Entrepreneur

What about Glenda Morgan Browns performance did you like?

Great reader

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

YES!!

and one wants to listen to it again!!

this is serious business

This book is about serious business, it is not left wing talk or fuzzy and blurry thinking, these stories (the book is build on several unconnected stories), all, have a 'good for society' start, but these entrepreneurs doing good things for the community from creativity and courage that a lot of starting (or mature) entrepreneurs can learn a lot from. I am very glad that the stories are being told in the movie 'who cares?' coming out in april 2013. This is a book every business administration student should have on his or her list.

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Title: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Subtitle: A Guide for College Students

Author: Marcy L. Shankman, Scott J. Allen

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership is a groundbreaking book that combines the concepts of emotional intelligence and leadership in one modelemotionally intelligent leadership (EIL). This important resource offers students a practical guide for developing their EIL capacities and emphasizes that leadership is a learnable skill that is based on developing healthy and effective relationships. Step by step, the authors outline the EIL model (consciousness of context, consciousness of self, and consciousness of others) and explore the 21 capacities that define the emotionally intelligent leader.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic Book!

Wow. What a fantastic book. Not only does the author go into great detail about the making of the movie, he also gets very involved in the back-stories of the Johnstown Jets and all the real characters and situations of the movie.

I picked this up expecting a basic book that didn't get into too much detail, but what I ended up reading was a fantastic retrospective on not only the making of the movie, but fantastic backgrounds on all the stories that led to the movie.

I really appreciated the detail given on the city of Johnstown as well as the background stories of minor league hockey during the time. It was even cooler seeing my mom and dad quoted a few times!

This is a great book to pick up not only for fans of Slap Shot, but also hockey fans who never seen the movie (do those people even exist?)

I had a hard time putting this book down - I'm glad I bought it!

Funny, but a little long in parts

This book basically goes behind the scenes and behind the story of the greatest sports and hockey movie of all time (IMHO). For the most part, ome of the anecdotes and language used is downright hilarious, but in other parts, some of the one-off background information makes the book seem long to anyone but the most hardcore movie buff.

Any way you slice it though, if you're a fan of the movie, this should be required reading

Hillarious Read according to my husband...

He is a hockey player and a referee. As anyone looking at this review knows this movie was like the bible to hockey players. Reciting lines in the locker room, watching it a million times. This book helps tie it all together and relates some great stories into how the movie became what it was... including what actors were clambering to get into this film (Di Niro for instance wanting to be Reggie - can you imagine?). Buy it for the Hockey fan in your life they will LOVE IT!

Fantastic Subject - Very Good Book

A very good book, written in great detail, about a great subject. It loses its way a little towards the end, but all of the information about the actors and writer and the script's origination etc, will be great for starved fans of this iconic movie.

Interesting read

If you're a fan of the movie and Paul Newman you'll enjoy this book.