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Title: Leaders Open Doors

Subtitle: A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits, and Performance

Author: Bill Treasurer

Narrator: Steven Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-14

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topic in business. In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten the leadership load by distilling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity for others. Using personal stories and anecdotes, Treasurer presents the idea of open-door leadership - that is, the responsibility that leaders have for noticing, identifying, and creating opportunities for the benefit of people, organizations, and society.

Each chapter includes useful and specific tips that can immediately be put into practice. Drawing on two decades of consulting experience, Treasurer introduces six unique opportunity doors: the proving-ground door the thought-shifting door the door to a second chancethe doors you open for othersthe door to personal transformationthe door to your open heartTreasurer shows that leadership isnt a complex and abstract concept. Its a set of practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations and generations. It is a tradition that makes peoples lives better by opening doors of opportunities for them to thrive, achieve, and lead.

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Title: Quick and Nimble

Subtitle: Creating a Corporate Culture of Innovation

Author: Adam Bryant

Narrator: Jeff Gurner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

More than 200 CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives results

In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than 200 CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of a start-up, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy.

By analyzing the lessons that these leaders have shared in his regular "Corner Office" feature in The New York Times, Bryant has identified the biggest drivers of corporate culture, bringing them to life with real-world examples that reflect this hard-earned wisdom.

These men and women - whose ranks include Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Angie Hicks of Angies List, Steve Case of Revolution (and formerly AOL), and Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania - offer useful insights and strategies for creating a corporate culture of innovation and building a high-performing organization that unleashes the passion and energy of its employees.

As the world shifts to more of a knowledge economy, the winners will be companies that can attract and retain the best and brightest employees by creating an environment where they can grow, contribute, and feel rewarded. Through the wisdom of these leading chief executives, Quick and Nimble offers a keen understanding of the forces that shape corporate culture and a clear road map to bring success and energy to any organization.

Members Reviews:

A must read for all business leaders

Culture eats strategy for breakfast sums up this entire book.

The strength of any company comes from its people and this book personifies this completely.

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Title: How CIOs Can Make Innovation Happen

Subtitle: Tips and Techniques for CIOs to Use in Order to Make Innovation Happen in Their IT Department

Author: Jim Anderson

Narrator: Jim Anderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-13

Publisher: Blue Elephant Consulting

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Every company wants to grow and become more successful. There is no magic formula to make this happen, but it is generally agreed that in order for this to happen the company cannot stand still. Instead, they always have to be trying new things and growing.

What You'll Hear:

In the IT department, in order to make this kind of growth occur, innovation has to be encouraged to happen. All too often the workers in the IT department can get too involved in their day-to-day tasks to spend any time thinking about innovation. That's where the CIO has to step in.

As the CIO, it is your job to create an IT environment in your department that will not only encourage innovation to happen but will also help it to grow once it starts. A great deal of this has to do with how you communicate to the rest of the department what you want to happen.

Innovation is something that we all know that we want to have happen, but just exactly how to make it occur is what often eludes us. As CIO you are going to have to identify the innovation strategies that will work with your company and your department and then implement them.

It's possible that either innovation projects have been tried in the past and have not worked or, more likely, there is no innovation going on right now. It is your job to change this and make innovation take root and become part of everyone's daily routine.

This book is filled with tools that CIOs can use to introduce innovation into their IT departments. These ideas range from using creative abrasion to employing faux market secrets. No matter what approach you decide to take, the goal is the same: cause innovation to take root and grow.

Making innovation happen is not easy. By listening to this book you will have the ideas and the techniques that you need to cause it to happen in your IT department. Once this happens, it can spread to the rest of the company. This is the kind of leadership that the company is looking for from their IT department.

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Title: Two Birds in a Tree

Subtitle: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders

Author: Ram Nidumolu

Narrator: Jim Manchester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Looking back to the ancient knowledge of the Indian scripture, the Upanishads, Ram Nidumolu finds the core philosophy of sustainable leadership that's needed today. In this remarkable book, he uses a powerful parable from these scriptures to create a business vision that our world desperately needs.

"There are two birds, two sweet friends, who dwell in theselfsame tree," says the Upanishads. The first bird, dwelling on the lower part of the tree, lives "in sorrow and anxiety." Unable to see beyond the branches, it hops around compulsively indulging its appetites, eating every fruit, sweet and sour.

The other bird, higher up, can see the whole tree and the wider world - this perspective puts it in touch with its innate sense of being, the quality of existence that it shares in common with all other living beings and the natural world. Content, it "looks on in compassionate silence" at the other bird.

Ram Nidumolu's provocative book on business leadership uses this allegory from Indian scripture to highlight why many businesses are distrusted by the public and contribute to social ills like environmental destruction, wealth inequality, and climate change: they mimic the bird on the lower branch. But can business, compassion, and stewardship really coexist? Ram's surprising insight is to hearken back to the earliest Indian philosophical texts to reclaim their lessons for acting in accordance with our connection to Being.

He outlines a four-part framework for what he calls "being-centered leadership" and offers examples of this kind of leadership in action, from companies such as Harley Davidson, Timberland, Puma, Pepsi, and many others. It is time, he writes, to "look up from our rickety perch on the lower branch of a storm-tossed tree and begin the journey to the higher branch."

Members Reviews:

Very long while can be shortened

Very long book

Can be written in less than 1/4 the given size

Also lots of unknown Indian philosophy to the general reader needs more explanation

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Title: Grow Regardless: Of Your Business's Size, Your Industry or the Economy... and Despite the Government!

Author: Joe Mechlinski

Narrator: Jon Goffena

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-13

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Author Joe Mechlinski provides a simple, yet powerful, growth strategy for small to midsized businesses to create fundamental organizational change. The author shares the method he has used to help hundreds of companies grow despite a tough economy and what he calls a government in gridlock. His step-by-step method, beginning with a reset in culture and direction, will reinvigorate your company, improve employees experience, create a remarkable client experience, and enable you to tell your companys story in a compelling way.

The goal of Grow Regardless is to give business leaders the tools to overcome inertia and even reverse a decline by becoming a mission-driven growth organization.

Members Reviews:

Growth Starts Here...

I had the pleasure of working for Joe Mechlinski for several years prior to leading my own Sales and Marketing Team. For those who don't get the good fortune of working side by side with Joe, this book is the second best thing. Grow Regardless provides the strategy you need to help grow your business. By not accepting the "noise" that is economic, government, or industry factors as potential road blocks preventing success, Joe shows how you can break down your company and help build each facet of your organization to drive growth. This book will help open your eyes to how much every member of an organization "touches" the success of the business and how you as a leader can facilitate this process. I strongly recommend this book for people building teams and for anyone looking to step back and rethink how to grow their organization regardless of other factors.

Great tips and practical advice; a must read for entrepreneurs and small business owners!

I've found Grow Regardless to be a great read! Joe Mechlinski offers a straight-forward approach that draws on his wide breadth of experience to nail the essentials and stress the finer points of business growth, despite of the economic environment surrounding it.

The author's thoughts include the style of work-place culture small business owners must strive foster in order to grow; this is something which I personally I believe is an essential building block for business success. His knowledge of those successful values and traits make him a resource, a mentor, and a helpful guide for any business that thinks similarly.

To sum it all up, Joe is to be commended for writing this book as a "small business cartographer", laying out a clear and detailed map for growth that feels both intuitive and instinctive.

I've personally aided a diverse group of small businesses with start-up and growth in a variety of fields and, and this book is now on the highly recommended list for all of my clients!

Wow - ran the highlighter out!

I've known Joe for many years and have been a passionate believer in his message and style of doing business as well as having the privileged of calling him a friend.

Responsible for growing a mid-sized IT Solutions company in the DC Metro area, I'm always looking for ways to get ahead... so when Joe took his many years of passion towards growth and put it into a book, I wanted to get my hands on it.

When I read a management book, I carry a highlighter.

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Title: The Simple Truths of Service

Subtitle: Inspired by Johnny the Bagger

Author: Ken Blanchard

Narrator: Don Hagen, Rose Itzcovitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-13

Publisher: Simple Truths

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

If you want your customer service team to get creative about excellent customer service, this audiobook will do the job. An unforgettable true story about a young man with Down Syndrome who changes the culture of a grocery store.

Gildan Media is proud to bring you these uplifting and life-changing inspirational books from Simple Truths, which can be used throughout every facet of your life. These audiobooks may be short in length, but their words speak volumes.

Members Reviews:

Inspiring

Thank you! This was a great book to refocus me and my staff on what is most important. I loved it and have been implementing many ideas from this book into my business.

Wheres the beef?

This is the length of a magazine article, not a book. Good story, good theme, good idea but it should be sold for $1.99 because its basically the size of a magazine article. To market this as a book is a misrepresentation.

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Title: Pulling Together

Subtitle: 10 Rules for High Performance Teamwork

Author: John Murphy

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-13

Publisher: Simple Truths

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Pulling Together is a fantastic guide for leaders from all walks of life. In it you will learn about the 10 Rules for High Performance Teamwork. They're simple, yet so important! It's not only about leading a team, but also being a part of one. The 10 rules are presented in a way that every person in your organization can understand. Use this audiobook to clarify expectations and foster accountability, build more focus, unity, trust and credibility with your team, align people and systems, mobilize commitment and generate enthusiasm. Here's your chance to create more balance and harmony within your team.

Gildan Media is proud to bring you these uplifting and life-changing inspirational books from Simple Truths, which can be used throughout every facet of your life. These audiobooks may be short in length, but their words speak volumes.

Members Reviews:

Teamwork

This book provides strong advice relating to building a strong team! The advice can be implemented immediately.

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Title: Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams

Subtitle: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results

Author: Roger M. Schwarz

Narrator: Roger M. Schwarz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A proven approach for helping leaders and teams work together to achieve better decisions, greater commitment, and stronger results

More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get great results by just changing what you do. You also need to change how you think. Organizational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz applies his 30+ years of experience working with leadership teams to reveal how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset.

Get the results you and your team need. Start by applying the practical wisdom of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic concept

The idea of the two mindsets - unilateral control and mutual learning - make perfect sense.

no wonder half the time we think we are being good leaders but still wondering about the results we are getting!

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Title: From Smart to Wise

Subtitle: Acting and Leading with Wisdom

Author: Prasad Kaipa, Navi Radjou

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A fresh and timely approach to nurturing wise, resilient, and flexible leadership in a world of growing complexity

Leaders tend to obstinately stick to the leadership style that brought them most success in the past, usually one of two extreme styles: functional leadership that focuses on operational excellence or smart leadership that focuses on growth. When a leader's focus is too functional, the organization becomes introverted and can focus too much on bottom-line profitability while missing out on top-line growth opportunities. But when leaders focus too much on smart leadership, the organization may experience quick growth but lose its effectiveness quickly.

From Smart to Wise offers a new approach that balances the two styles to achieve a form of wise leadership that is both functional and smart. Drawing on inspiring real-life stories of historical and contemporary wise leaders such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and even Mahatma Gandhi, the authors identify six characteristics of wise leaders and offer a practical framework to help listeners develop their own style of wise leadership.

Members Reviews:

Over simplistic aproach, not a single new idea

It is like the authors got every other business theory and put it in a blender. The Business Leader vs. Functional Leader aproach the book takes it is over simplistic and even the leaders they mentioned in ther tales do not fall in one case or another. Don't waste your time like I did.

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Title: The Athena Doctrine

Subtitle: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future

Author: John Gerzema, Michael D'Antonio

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

How feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future

Among 64,000 people surveyed in 13 nations, two thirds feel the world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This marks a global trend away from the winner-takes-all, masculine approach to getting things done. Drawing from interviews at innovative organizations in 18 nations and at Fortune 500 boardrooms, the authors reveal how men and women alike are recognizing significant value in traits commonly associated with women, such as nurturing, cooperation, communication, and sharing. The Athena Doctrine shows why femininity is the operating system of 21st-century prosperity.

Brought to life through real-world examples and backed by rigorous data, The Athena Doctrine shows how feminine traits are ascending - and bringing success to people and organizations around the world. By nurturing, listening, collaborating and sharing, women and men are solving problems, finding profits, and redefining success in every realm.

Members Reviews:

It is more statistics

It does give one inspiration but is more based on numbers... I was looking for a more "motivating" book i guess

This Blew My Mind ( and my patience).

What did you like best about The Athena Doctrine? What did you like least?

The best: A detailed portrayal of the latest global trends that may give us a chance to see a brighter future. Less than best: Unfortunately, the detail given was overly granular. Overall, this was a tedious listen, like trying to survey a landscape scene with a 400 power microscope.

A fast-forward listen helped.

Would you ever listen to anything by John Gerzema and Michael D'Antonio again?

Not at this time.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

The narration was without flaw. There is no finer speaker in the world. Oddly though, I felt as if the pace and alliteration were dialed in for an audience using English as a second language.This may very well be the case. I remember the old Voice of America short wave broadcasts: slow, clear enunciation, perfect but very very slow. I listened to the book on double speed mode and found it tolerable.

Was The Athena Doctrine worth the listening time?

Negative.