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Title: Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change

Subtitle: Inspire the People and Succeed Where Others Fail

Author: H. James Dallas

Narrator: Steven Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-17

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Conquer the most daunting change initiative with the right people, tools, and strategies.

James Dallas' Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change is an informative, insightful guide to effectively leading the transition through change. While most change management books present case studies about what happened at other companies, this audiobook is based on the author's own experiences managing over 10 transformational and turnaround initiatives, 15 acquisition integrations, and five operations/quality shared services centers of excellence. By relating personal lessons learned, how they were subsequently applied, and how you can benefit from them, this book provides a unique firsthand perspective on successful agents of change. You'll learn the qualities and skills required to usher in the new paradigm and how to break a large initiative into manageable chunks that are more likely to proceed as planned. By crafting your strategy based on proven methods, you're far and away more likely to meet or even exceed your change objectives.

The majority of change initiatives fail because people mistakenly think that a change agent is the same as a project leader. They're not. This audiobook shows you why, and how get the tools, strategies, and people you need at the helm of your initiative to come out the other side much stronger as an organization.

Change is occurring within and across all industries, countries, and organizations. They begin with the best of intentions, but most fail to meet their objectives. Don't let your organization be one of the failures. Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change shows you how to plan, lead, and manage a successful transition.

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Title: Leading Through the Turn

Subtitle: How a Journey Mindset Can Help Leaders Find Success and Significance

Author: Elise Mitchell

Narrator: Elise Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-17

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The journey matters as much as the destination.

Scrap the map, and go full throttle.

Most leadership books tell you how to set and achieve goals. This one is different. This one is written by a communications leader who's as passionate about riding motorcycles as she is about running her business. Her name is Elise Mitchell, and she wants to tell you about her journey - from starting her own agency to building a world-class brand to enjoying the ride along the way. But mostly she wants to talk to you about your journey....

Ask yourself:

Where do you want to go?

Pick a destination. Not just for your career but for your life.

Answer this:

How do you plan to get there?

Look at the road ahead. Then plot your course.

But be prepared for some major twists, turns, and detours.

Most importantly:

Are you enjoying the journey?

If not, maybe you need to throw away the map. Restart your engine.

And get ready for the ride of your life.

Whether you're just stepping into leadership, an accomplished leader seeking something more, or simply stalled along the way, Mitchell's refreshing approach to modern leadership will help you navigate the curves and pit stops on your own path to fulfillment. You don't need a motorcycle. You just need to get revved up for the road ahead.

Members Reviews:

An excellent journey of growth

An excellent journey of growth, exploration, and achievement that holds lessons for us all. Elise is a strong and driven business leader who, through my personal experience with her, was also always there for her husband and children. She is a successful inspiration on leadership, on personal growth, and understanding that there are seasons of life, which you must embrace as you can. As the book says, she had her own personal enlightenment during her journey, a reminder that we can have it all, but maybe not all at the same time. If you are a business leader, If you are a young business person searching for how to get ahead, If you are trying to integrate business and family, this is the book you must read.

Love the energy and passion throughout this book

Love the energy and passion throughout this book. A true leader is one who can share those bumps and bruises along the way hoping that others can learn from the valuable insights. Elise Mitchell's story shows real-life examples of how she built her company from her kitchen table to a multi-million dollar business though hard work, passion and a humble and giving heart. Love the analogy of always looking through the turn which is a motorcycle theme for bike riders. It applies so well to the real business world, as well as personal life. And, I loved the honesty and sharing of her own personal struggles from time to time while learning how to balance her personal and work life balance. A great read!

A Must Read with actionable take aways

Great book, well written and fun to read. I am learning so much and I feel like I am gaining insight on how I can grow my own business while maintaining close relationships with my clients. Great ideas are included to help anyone in business at any level. I enjoy the motorcycle stories and how Elise relates her personal experience of success and failures.

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Title: Speed

Subtitle: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution

Author: John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman

Narrator: Dave Clark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Seize the competitive advantage by building speed into your leadership DNA.

The rapid pace at which change occurs in business today is unprecedented. Speed has become a major source of competitive advantage. Leaders who act quickly and inspire others to do the same are the ones who ultimately win the day. But achieving increased levels of speed is not always easy.

Culled from the data of one million 360-degree feedback assessments, Speed provides valuable insights into the qualities that make a leader successful and productive. Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman reveal eight essential leadership behaviors shown to improve performance and ultimately drive organizational effectiveness.

The authors will help you assess the pace at which you work and determine how you stack up against others in their firm's database. You'll discover tactics for speeding up critical elements of your day and learn how you can use the eight companion behaviors - including innovation, develop courage, initiate action, and set stretch goals - to help you increase your speed.

Members Reviews:

A Well-researched, Practical, and Easy Read Thatâs Very Timely

Impermanence and constant change has always been one of natureâs mighty laws. Today that pace is accelerating. Organizations are turning to Agile, Lean, and other strategies to become a victor, rather than victim, of change.

An organizationâs speed is set by its leaders. In their newest book, Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution, Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman draw from their firmâs database of over one million 360 assessments of about 80,000 leaders, to show how leaders can provide optimum quality in the quickest time.

Here a few key evidence-based findings documented in Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution:

â When asked âif this organization were able to move faster would it substantially influence our success,â 69 percent of 5,100 people agreed and 77 percent of top management agreed.

â When either doing things fast or doing things right is a strength (rated at or above the 75th percentile) the probability of a leader being in the top 10 percent is only 2 or 3 percent. However, when both are rated as strengths that probability shoots up to 96 percent.

â Correlating pace survey results and stress levels showed that stress is cut in half when people increase their speed.

â Leaders rated in the top 10 percent on speed had direct reports with engagement levels in the top quartile.

â The highest leadership speed correlates to the highest annual performance ratings.

â The slowest leaders were nearly four times more likely to be terminated than their fastest peers.

A tool emerging from this new research is ZFâs Pace Assessment. This helps leaders determine their preference for a slow or fast pace. Answers to 15 pairs of choices are plotted on two scales; quality/quantity and patience/impatience.

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Title: Dirty Little Secrets of Family Business

Subtitle: Ensuring Success from One Generation to the Next

Author: Henry Hutcheson

Narrator: Troy W. Hudson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-17

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

If approximately 70 percent of all businesses are family businesses, and two out of three don't survive to the next generation, what can you do to make sure your business will survive and thrive? Dirty Little Secrets of Family Business comes clean with much-needed info on nitty-gritty issues such as entitlement; letting employees (even family members) go when they just aren't working out; compensation; including your kids in the business (when to bring them in, helping them move up, and prepping them to take over); shareholder agreements; selecting the next leader; deciding whether to keep the business or sell it; exit strategies for outgoing leaders; money matters; succession planning; communication; conflict resolution; establishing an effective board; and transitioning to the next generation. Listeners can apply the numerous ideas and tips in this engaging guide to address any family business situation. Written for current and next-generation owners and utilizing multiple firsthand stories of family business dos and don'ts, Dirty Little Secrets of Family Business gives you the top success strategies that you can use to build a better functioning family business.

Acknowledging that every family is unique and a cookie-cutter approach is not the answer, experienced family business consultant Henry Hutcheson presents a deeper look at the underlying mechanics of what makes a family business work.

Members Reviews:

very informative

There were many valuable topics in this book that could easily be applied to my small family business situation. It provided a lot of food for thought when beginning succession planning.

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Title: Creative Change

Subtitle: Why We Resist It...How We Can Embrace It

Author: Jennifer Mueller

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions - and finds some surprising conclusions.

All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive in a competitive world. But according to startling research from former Wharton management professor Jennifer Mueller, the truth is that many business leaders chronically reject creative solutions and often embrace the familiar, even as they profess commitment to innovation.

Mueller's research also reveals that it's not just CEOs, but educators, scientists, and many, many others who often struggle to accept new and creative ideas even when desired. Mueller parses the tough questions that these findings raise. Could people love but also hate creative ideas? Could the mindset we use to evaluate ideas turn this love or hate on or off - in an instant? Do experts struggle even more than novices with this bias? And even more startling, could the "best practices" that organizations employ to manage innovation activate this bias, and inadvertently, kill innovation?

Mueller diagnoses this hidden innovation barrier, and provides solutions, including:

Based on the latest psychological studies in the field, along with numerous illustrative examples, Creative Change is the kind of provocative creative leadership book that will be discussed for years to come.

Members Reviews:

For the ruckus makers

Absolute fantastic book to read for ruckus makers. I'm guilty of pretty much every wrong approach she describes but would have never really known without reading the book. I should mention I'm only hallway in, but am enjoying the read very much.

Mind opening

For everyone at management positions a fantastic book, it Will help you look ay ideas innovadoras a different way and hopefully implementing them

Shows that there really are no shortcuts, not even fast and easy techniques

The further I got in this book, the more I reflected on the improbability that great ideas about change ever get fully implemented. Here are some of the salient points put in my own words for succinctness:

(1.) People in positions of authority are not eagerly waiting for the rank and file to generate beneficial ideas despite what they say. They're already overwhelmed - aren't we all?

(2.) Stakeholders will want to change any ideas presented to them about change. That's just natural, to be expected. Therefore great new ideas have to go through a process. Because of this, it's not not usually healthy for any of us to front load our investment in ideas that involve change.

(3.) The "selling" of an idea about change requires a whole lot because it's a complex sale; each set of stakeholders has to be sold based on benefits to them. No one sales presentation will do this.

(4.) Making ideas about change happen requires top-level support. So don't push the issue if that's not there.

(5.) Even when organizations support teams that evaluate ideas about change and then use their resources to implement them, there is an incredible amount of work to be done to make the change happen - no free lunch.

"Most people won't admit that they hate creativity."

That's because most people don't.

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Title: Why Do You Need a Code of Honor?

Subtitle: A Selection from Rich Dad Advisors: Team Code of Honor

Author: Blair Singer

Narrator: Blair Singer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Without any rules, people make up their own. In business and in life, you need a code of honor.

A selection from the best-selling Rich Dad Advisors: Team Code of Honor.

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Title: Leadership

Subtitle: The Essential Laws of Leadership, Team Management & Emotional Intelligence

Author: George Baisley

Narrator: Paul Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-17

Publisher: George Baisley

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Over the years that I have worked in a business environment and also in charity-based organizations, I've taken some useful courses. I have read numerous books, and have seen and utilized various tools that have all promised success in leading teams and managing successful projects. As helpful as they were, I found that the greatest advantages in leading teams and managing large scale projects is not found in technical tools and procedures but in skillfully relating to your team that you have the privilege of overseeing. You can have the process monitored and procedures memorized, have all the leadership certifications on your office wall, be an expert in all the technical tools and apps, and list out all the terminology without skipping a beat. But if you can't skillfully manage human relationships and interactions, you will fail in your attempt to successfully lead teams and manage extremely successful projects.

If you're not the greatest natural leader since Mahatma Gandhi, this book will help you out. I've listed 10 guidelines to help you expand your ability to lead. If you can master these, you will greatly increase your ability to lead team after team and achieve success in all projects set before you. Keep in mind that you won't always acquire these skills instantly. You'll make some errors along the way.

That is okay, as long as you endeavor to work at it and resolve that no matter what, you'll be a better leader. You need to do this because so few people are good leaders, and this world needs good leadership.

Members Reviews:

Learned the informative and essential laws of Leadership through this book.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. This book has discussed the fundamental tools of leadership and how we can accelerate it by improving our EQ skills. This guide also help to expand our ability to lead. If you can master these, you will greatly increase your ability to lead team after team and achieve the success of all projects set before you. This is definitely a winner book.

This book had helped me out in developing my leadership skills.....

This book had helped me out in developing my leadership skills. This book had listed 10 guidelines that can make me expand my ability to lead. If I can master these tips and techniques my leadership skills will be awesome.

Walk the talk with this book

This one surely helps any one struggling with leadership issues. Walking the talk is essential if your are going to lead and influence people. A great read for upcoming leaders and movers.

Awesome Book

This book perfectly combines real life examples, research based statistics, and applicable actions that show why and how to be a more positive leader. Leading people can be one of the difficulty, but rewarding adventures in life. Everyday you are met with new issues, but having knowledge like this makes those moments less stressful.

Worth Reading.

Excellent book with an insightful assessment tool and lots of interesting and practical advice. This book will help you how to think and be like a leader you want to be. I read a lot on leadership but this is one of my all time favorites.

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Title: Stephen Wunker on Jobs to Be Done

Author: Stephen Wunker

Narrator: Dave Summers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-16

Publisher: American Management Association

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Stephen Wunker says most companies are innovating the wrong way. They're making what their customers say they want. Instead they should be asking "why" their customers want those things and making a product the customer didn't even know they needed. Today on Edgewise, Stephen joins us to give examples of companies doing it right and to talk more about his book Jobs to Be Done, published by AMACOM.

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Title: Summary of Leaders Eat Last from Simon Sinek

Author: Better Business Summaries

Narrator: Adam Dubeau

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-16

Publisher: Better Business Summaries

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Simon Sinek, in his book Leaders Eat Last calls for a style of leadership which puts plenty of emphasis on serving people rather than focusing on individual goals or shareholder interests. Leadership styles in this day and age focus on making money and bonuses instead of making sure the workforce has a good working environment. Engagement and job satisfaction are increased by leaders who see their employers as their family. Doing so increases levels of productivity and reduces stress because the workforce feels some sense of security. Take the US Marine Corps for example; their leaders comes to the table last and the low ranking soldiers eat first to make everyone feel important and loved. This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.

Members Reviews:

Some grammar issues and just weird sentences

Some grammar issues and just weird sentences which make me wonder if I'm getting the right info from the summary.

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Título: Actitud 101 [Attitude 101]

Subtitular: Lo que todo líder necesita saber [What Every Leader Needs to Know]

Autor: John C. Maxwell

Narrador: Eduardo Gonzales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 32 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-26-16

Editor: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 4 votos

Categorías: Business, Leadership

Resumen del editor:

Los grandes líderes comprenden que la actitud correcta brinda el ambiente adecuado que posibilita que los demás tengan las respuestas apropiadas.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Buen libro, la narración ayuda, pero con errores.

Al parecer la versión leída por el narrador contenía errores. Por ejemplo, cada vez que el libro presentaba la palabra "arruinado" el narrador leía "arrumado", quitándole sentido a la oración. Esto entre otros errores. Espero lo puedan corregir. Un saludo