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Title: The New Social Learning

Subtitle: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media

Author: Tony Bingham, Marcia Conner

Narrator: James Babson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Most business books on social media have focused exclusively on using it as a marketing tool. Many employers see it as simply a workplace distraction. But social media has the potential to revolutionize workplace learning. People have always learned best from one another. Social media enables this to happen unrestricted by physical location and in all kinds of extraordinarily creative ways.

The New Social Learning is the most authoritative guide available to leveraging these powerful new technologies. Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner explain why social media is the ideal solution to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face today, such as a widely dispersed workforce and striking differences in learning styles, particularly across genera-tions. They definitively answer common objections to using social media as a training tool and show how to win over even the most resistant employees. Then, using examples from a wide range of organizations, including Deloitte & Touche, IBM, TELUS, and even the CIA. Bingham and Conner help listeners sort through the dizzying array of technological options available and decide when and how to use each one to achieve key strategic goals.

Social media technologies - everything from 140-character microsharing messages to media-rich online communities - to complete virtual environments and more - enable people to connect, collaborate, and innovate on levels never before dreamed of. They make learning dramatically more dynamic, stimulating, enjoyable, and effective. This greatly anticipated book helps organizations create a contemporary learning strategy that is as timely as it is transformative.

Members Reviews:

Hum-Drum Content. Boring!

What a humdrum audio book. I got nothing out of this purchase. The content herein speaks to the value of SM as a learning tool and not much more. Don't buy this book. If you want a good SM book, get Inbound Marketing or The Digital handshake.

I'd would ask for a refund on my purchase if it was allowed.

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Title: Conquer the Chaos

Subtitle: How to Grow a Successful Small Business Without Going Crazy

Author: Clate Mask, Scott Martineau

Narrator: Don Hagen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-10

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

You started your business for the freedom and adventure of being your own boss, but now you feel buried by your business. So many entrepreneurs experience this, and some have given up the hope of ever finding the money, time, and control they thought business ownership would bring them. But take heart! You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. This realistic, in-the-trenches guide offers six strategies that, when combined, give you a step-by-step approach for reaching entrepreneurial success.

Described with stories and examples anyone running a small business today will recognize, the strategies offered by Conquer the Chaos allow you to:

Chaos is an inherent part of running a small business. How you decide to deal with that chaos - whether to accept it, fight it, or conquer it - is up to you. By business owners, for business owners, Conquer the Chaos enables you to reevaluate your approach, revitalize your operations, and realize the freedom and success your hard work deserves.

Critic Reviews:

"Conquer the Chaos is a great audio book, I love it. This audio is like an entrepreneur's compass, it is an instrument of order. After running my own business for close to fifty years, I recognize genius when I see it. If you are an entrepreneur, Conquer the Chaos will be worth millions to you and your business." (Bob Proctor, contributor, The Secret)

"This powerful, practical, fast-moving audio book shows you how to take complete control of your business and your life, making more money, more consistently, and enjoying more of the things that money can't buy." (Brian Tracy, author of The Way to Wealth)

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Title: Bury My Heart at Conference Room B

Subtitle: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers

Author: Stan Slap

Narrator: Stan Slap

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The stories about Stan Slap are so remarkable that they seem like myths: He brought a room full of top-level Microsoft managers to tears, leaving them cheering "I'm hurting, too!" After a single speech at Patagonia, the company asked him to join its board of directors. One CEO described him as "Stephen Covey meets Nine Inch Nails". All this from a man who never graduated from business school, college, or even high school.

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B harnesses the awe-inspiring insights of Slap's life-changing management workshops. The book is a powerful tool for creating emotional commitment in managers. That means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company. If you've ever witnessed a human being emotionally committed to a cause - working like they're being paid a million when they're not being paid a dime - you know that discretionary effort is worth more than their financial, intellectual, and physical commitment combined. Through unexpected case studies and a battle-tested self-assessment program, Slap shows how to help people live their deepest personal values at work, with huge payoffs for the companies that support their engagement.

Critic Reviews:

"Slap has written the holy grail for companies seeking the most from their managers and for managers seeking the most from their companies. It is fascinating, thought provoking and actionable. This book is not just a 'must read' but a 'must experience.'" (Jack Calhoun, President, Banana Republic)

"There are great insights here for creating a true culture of ethics, integrity, and heartfelt service." (Isadore Sharp, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts)

"Humanity in any organization, whether professional or political, is what will save us. The world needs this book." (Amir A. Dossal, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships)

Members Reviews:

Be human first, a manager second

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

We are all part of a "machine" of some sort along with the ability to detach and/or just strive to hit the all important numbers - whatever that means in your field. This is a call for humanity within leadership positions that begins with you - what do you value? Why do you value it? How do you live your personal values at work (where you spend the majority of your time)? And - most importantly - what is the impact of this journey on yourself, your colleagues, and, well, the numbers?

Fabulous. Refreshingly different. Impactful.

This is easily the most impactful business book I "read" last year (and I read quite a few). It helped me gain understanding and insight into my own motives, belief systems and values. These insights have already had a dramatic (and positive) impact on my personal and professional life. I'm having my entire team read it.

And I love the fact that Stan Slap narrates this himself. You can sense his passion and conviction in every word. Includes well-selected, real-world examples that help reinforce the principles. Also, the deeply personal and relevant stories shed light on the author's background and perspectives (which I appreciated). Time very well spend indeed.

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Title: Family, Inc.

Subtitle: How to Manage Parents, Siblings, Spouses, Children, and In-Laws in the Family Business

Author: Larry Colin, Laura Colin

Narrator: Martha Fenton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

More than 24 family businesses in the United States employ 62 percent of America's workforce. And in Asia, Europe, Australia, and Latin America, experts say family businesses could account for as much as 80 percent of the private sector.What's different about dealing with family members compared with dealing with underlings and managers at an impersonal corporation? When was the last time sales for a Fortune 500 company slumped because two brothers couldn't get along? Not that often, if ever. But it happens all the time in family businesses.

Millions of families spanning the globe know they have problems ordinary businesses don't; they know if they don't keep the family on track, the business will derail. Family, Inc. is a witty, engaging blueprint for maintaining peace within the family without busting the business. The authors use characters straight out of "Family Business Central Casting" to provide uncommon insights mixed with commonsense solutions. After all, they know that firing Uncle Bill is a bit more traumatic than firing just any Bill.

You'll meet:

Members Reviews:

Useful

Useful. The stories and case-studies are relevant. My only grouse is if the other family businesses case studies can be shared with more details and application-examples, the benefits would be greater.

family

It's amazing that my families company situations can be summed up in this book. If we only had this 6 years ago.

Excellent book with outstanding guidelines

It includes thorough, comprehensive, detailed, and deep analysis. it is written by an expert in family business and family relations.

Easy to listen, useful and great to re-listen

If you could sum up Family, Inc. in three words, what would they be?

It's a really easy read and useful for all biz owners. The different characters lets the reader easily identify which topics are personally relevant and makes comprehension so much easier.

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Titel: How to Develop Your Personal Mission Statement

Untertitel: Englische Originalfassung

Autor:: Stephen R. Covey

Erzähler: Stephen R. Covey

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-25-10

Herausgeber: Gabal

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Business, Management

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der Hörer erfährt, wie man ein persönliches Leitbild entwickelt und wie es in der Praxis helfen kann, die täglichen Herausforderungen zu meistern. Das Audioprogramm enthält neben den Erläuterungen des Bestsellerautors Stephen R. Covey zahlreiche Beispiele und Stellungnahmen anderer Persönlichkeiten, u.a. von Roger Merrill, Mitbegründer von FranklinCovey.

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Title: Ideas are Free

Subtitle: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

Author: Alan G. Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The authors of Ideas Are Free use real-world examples from their work with hundreds of organizations to show how to exploit the virtually free, perpetually renewable resource of employee ideas. The book explains how sustainable competitive advantages in areas ranging from productivity and responsiveness to cost reduction and quality assurance are only possible with the attention to detail that comes from getting and implementing large numbers of ideas from employees.

Subjects include how to make ideas part of everyone's job, how to set up and run an effective process for handling ideas, how to help people come up with more and better ideas, and how a strong flow of ideas can have a profound impact on an organization's culture.

Members Reviews:

Go and get those ideas!

While this book is a few years old the advice it gives is priceless. It amazes me that more companies do not make use of a suggestion program. Following the recommendations the authors put forward it would be relatively easy and cost effective to introduce such a program. The book is clearly written by individuals who are well versed in the subject with a great deal of experience.

The book includes examples of successful suggestions programs implemented at various companies, the ways in which management encourages and rewards ideas, and many actual improvement suggestions ranging from the obvious & easy to the ingenious & complex. One I found to be particularly interesting was from a large nursery that had issues when it rained with the manure in the soil becoming an irritant for the workers. One such worker suggested putting a tarp over the piles of soil when it rained. This was considered a "moral boosting" suggestion, but as it turned out the wet soil was actually causing them to have almost 60% lower plant yields due to the inconsistent way the soil dried. After implementing the tarp suggestion the company saved a lot of time and money. The book also includes recommended tactics to counteract some of the cultural barriers that are often encountered when trying to begin such a program. I found the "Gorilla Tactics - actions you can take today without the boss's permission" at the end of each chapter quite intriguing.

I only have one criticism of this book; it's a bit wordy.

Totally Changed My Way of Thinking

This book was recommended to me by several people at a recent ESOP conference. Feeling that employee input was one of the best ways to build an ownership culture, I purchased the book. I was only 3/4 of the way through it when I found that we had another employee working on an ideas program, planning to give 10% of savings as employee bonuses. I quickly passed the book on to him. As it did with me, it totally changed his way of thinking; he scrapped his initial plan and will be proposing a completely different program that rewards all employees who submit ideas, without the reward being based on the savings.

In "Ideas are Free," the authors synopsize idea programs at several high-performing companies worldwide. They also point out the pitfalls of trying to develop and manage rewards based on savings, instead recommending making idea generation and implementation a part of everyone's job.

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Title: How the Mighty Fall

Subtitle: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

Author: Jim Collins

Narrator: Jim Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-09

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 52 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Decline can be detected.

Decline can be reversed.

Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?

In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project - more than four years in duration - uncovered five step-wise stages of decline:

Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success

Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More

Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril

Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation

Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death

By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover.

Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover - in some cases, coming back even stronger - even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4.

Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

Members Reviews:

Great but short...

Short book in comparison to Collins' other works...nonetheless an interesting and worthwhile listen! I always acquire new insights from his book. Lookout for the concept of 'hubris' in this book.

Informative

Well researched and pratical. Very good book

Great insight and nice to know

Great to know what signs to look for when the mighty falls. A reading that brings a new perspective, where most other literature focuses on analyzing firms on the way up, rather than looking back on what went wrong. Signs on stage 4 in the 5 point decline model illustrate some key element in poor management as I see it

Business bible

Jim Collins has helped me to build my business right from the beginning and learn from others mistakes.

The research was immense and the guidance seems to fit almost any type of business.

This is a must read -

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Title: The Simple Art of Greatness

Author: James X. Mullen

Narrator: James X. Mullen

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In The Simple Art of Greatness, Mullen explains how managers who are willing to re-think their approach to power and control can transform their company into a vital, enthusiastic, more productive place to work. Using ideas adapted from his favorite philosopher, Aristotle, Mullen outlines the management principles that have helped him build one of the country's most respected advertising agencies, principles that can help managers unleash the hidden potential of employees in any company, and provide the key to living an intelligent, responsible life outside the office as well.

Members Reviews:

Not to be Missed

Mullen is BRILLIANT. Truly inspiring. Forget the book and get the tapes. Hear it from Mullen himself.

Five Stars

as described

In 1970 Jim Mullen founded an ad agency. This is what he learned.

A lot of the guys who write books telling you how to be great are guys who are in the business of telling you how to be great, and their credentials are primarily that they've been telling people how to be great for years, both privately as consultants and publicly in books and lectures.

And while I would not dream of denigrating them or their experience, when someone who has built a successful advertising agency from scratch decides to set down his thoughts on the topic, there is a different kind of gravitas in the telling, an added legitimacy that demands that you stop and pay attention.

Jim Mullen founded the ad agency that bears his name in Boston in 1970 and since then it has grown into one of the most well-respected - (to read the rest of this review, please visit theagencyreview.wordpress.com)

Why isn't this book being published anymore?!

This book is an absolute MUST read for advertising agency management folks. Owning and operating a small advertising agency isn't easy, but having guidelines and practical, powerful, exciting examples of how to apply Mullen's formulae for success helps a great deal. Someone who knows Jim--PLEASE get him to write another book! And, print some more of this one!

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Title: Total Quality Management

Subtitle: Managing Employees

Author: Stephen George, Arnold Weimerskirch

Narrator: Lloyd Bochner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

If you want to know how today's most successful companies are getting the most from their quality initiatives, listen to Total Quality Management. It lays out the best practices for you to put work-today.

Members Reviews:

Great book

What made the experience of listening to Total Quality Management the most enjoyable?

Enjoyed listening to the different areas of quality management as I embark on my own journey.

Have you listened to any of Lloyd Bochners other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, enjoyable to listen to.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The entire book was great. It's definitely a great addition to my library. There's not one moment, there were many moments.

Great

this is a very good piece of work i will recommend to any one who wants a clear view on the subject matter

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Title: Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.)

Subtitle: Skills for Leading Today's Business into Tomorrow

Author: Thomas Gordon

Narrator: Laurie Andrews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-09

Publisher: Big Happy Family, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

L.E.T. has changed countless corporations and private businesses with its down-to-earth communication and conflict-resolution skills. Dr. Gordon's L.E.T. program is a core program in more than 1,000 corporations around the world, including many Fortune 500 companies.

The methods and skills that have proven to be essential for so many leaders can work for you, too. L.E.T. provides specific skills so you can:

Members Reviews:

Valuable, implementable management solutions!

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Yes, I saw the value immediately and could apply the strategies from the start.

Has Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.) turned you off from other books in this genre?

No.

What does Laurie Andrews bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

I wasn't impressed by the Narrator.

Could you see Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.) being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

No.

Any additional comments?

Practical theories every manager should know!

Much easier to listen to than to read!

Tried to read it a while ago and it was a challenge for me to stay focused although the information is really great. so much easier to listen to and I plan on listening again soon so I can retain even more information from this book!

Strong concepts. Very helpful

Despite some poor gendering ("storeman", "my men" etc), the concepts in terms of problem solving make it a very worthwhile read for anyone interested in working on boundary setting, problem solving and having positive relationships.