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Title: Be a Boss

Subtitle: A Guide to Earning the Trust, Respect and Loyalty of Those Around You

Author: Landon T. Smith

Narrator: Jim D Johnston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-17

Publisher: Make Profits Easy LLC

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Are you in charge, but you don't feel like a boss? Do you crave the respect of your peers and superiors, but you never seem to get it? Are you tired of always running around, trying to do the right things, only to experience frustration at the hands of a world that couldn't care less about you? Well, maybe the problem is that you've been a manager, instead of a boss!

With the help of this book, Be a Boss, you will learn the principles of how to become the kind of guy that everyone wants to be around. You'll learn how to be a true leader in times of trouble, how to care about those around you so that they will follow you and, most importantly, you will learn the confidence that is necessary to be a boss!

Most of the leaders in our lives are leaders in name only. They don't ever seem to have it together enough to command true respect. But if you're someone who's tired of wasting your time trying to get the approval and admiration of others, maybe it's time for a new way of thinking. With Be a Boss, you will be introduced to the concrete and fundamental principles of how influence works and how you can become the kind of leader that you've always wanted to be!

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Title: The Ways to New

Subtitle: 15 Paths to Disruptive Innovation

Author: Jean-Marie Dru

Narrator: Stephen McLaughlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-17

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Break free and lead the market with the road map to disruption.

The Ways to New gives you a blueprint for innovation, helping you dig your organization out of the quicksand and get on the fast track to growth. Author Jean-Marie Dru is the originator of the disruption methodology, which he shares here; he is also an international authority on breaking the mold and leading the market, and this audiobook is his guide to making it happen. Too many companies are too slow with innovation. They lag behind, creating at a snail's pace, and thus miss out on any kind of organic growth. They approach new ideas too conservatively and focus innovation on products only - when there is a whole world out there waiting to be disrupted. This audiobook shows you how to steer your organization toward continued innovation, creation, growth, and success, with 15 proven paths to disruption. Each is described with case studies from companies like L'oreal, Procter & Gamble, and Salesforce.com, to show you the glaring differences between disruption and stagnation.

We like to think that we live in a world where innovation happens at a staggering pace. The reality is that we don't, but that leaves an opening that your organization can fill if you're willing to break from the herd. This book shows you how to start turning in a new direction, toward sustained, forward-thinking growth.

Everyone loves to cite Apple, Google, and Amazon as proof of high-speed innovation. But companies like this represent only 20 percent of companies worldwide - the other 80 percent are still floundering and failing to move forward. The Ways to New gives you a road map to innovation and the tools to make it work.

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Title: The Four Mindsets

Subtitle: How to Influence, Motivate and Lead High Performance Teams

Author: Anna-Lucia Mackay

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-17

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Connect, focus, align, and activate your team to increase performance fast.

The Four Mindsets: How to Influence, Motivate, and Lead High Performance Teams holds the key to significantly increasing productivity, performance, and revenue in your organization. Developed as a guide proven to help all levels of managers to connect, focus, align, and activate their teams to elevate results, this audiobook also serves as a low-cost alternative to expensive training, coaching, and mentoring programs by providing a range of resources and tools to use and become a "best in class" leader today. Management, motivations and mindsets have changed considerably in the last 25 years and leaders are being challenged with the task of keeping their teams engaged while meeting goals that are more stringent than ever before. The High Performance Mindset Model will equip you with the skills you need to take your teams performance to the next level and considers hot topics in today's business environment, such as emotional intelligence, whole brain thinking, and what makes professionals tick, in a format that is applicable at all levels of management and leadership. The Four Mindsets updates you on what matters most today and the most common strategies and techniques used by high performing companies, leaders, and managers - globally.

The Four Mindsets: How to Influence, Motivate, and Lead High Performance Teams is the ultimate handbook for every manager - from team leader to CEO - HR professionals, management consultants, trainers, coaches, and mentors charged with the responsibility of developing today's modern leaders.

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Title: Applied Wisdom

Subtitle: Bad News Is Good News and Other Insights That Can Help Anyone Be a Better Manager

Author: James C Morgan, Joan O'C. Hamilton

Narrator: Dan Triandiflou

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-17

Publisher: ListenUp Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Success in business demands the effective management of people. James C. Morgan, who for nearly three decades led the high-tech powerhouse Applied Materials to both financial success and to the designation as one of America's most admired companies and best places to work, provides a simple, straightforward set of principles and tips that he says can help anyone be a better manager.

Applied Materials is one of Silicon Valley's great success stories and it helped propel the digital revolution. But Jim Morgan's management techniques are not reserved for high-tech: Applied Wisdom shows how the same approaches, tools, and values work at any scale, from start-ups to middle management in a global corporation - and even to non-profits. Rich in stories and practical examples, it's a must-listen for those seeking a timeless and proven management manual.

Members Reviews:

Audio brings the book to life

What did you like best about this story?

Several things: the business insights. The author's experience in the non-profit space and how that aligns with his experience in the for-profit sector. Inspiring story of a farm boy who reaches the top.

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Title: Selfish, Scared and Stupid

Subtitle: Stop Fighting Human Nature and Increase Your Performance, Engagement and Influence

Author: Kieran Flanagan, Dan Gregory

Narrator: Derek Shetterly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-17

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

If you want to succeed...prepare for failure!

Why is change so difficult? Why are leaders experiencing unprecedented levels of disengagement? Why are sales people falling so short of their targets?

And, perhaps most importantly, why is it that so many seemingly sound businesses and worthy causes falter, relegating exciting new ideas to the scrap heap?

After years of having motivational smoke blown up our collective backsides, we've started to act as if we are all generous, bold, and intelligent - all of the time! We've designed our organizations, teams, systems, products, relationships, and lives so we can succeed only under ideal 'laboratory' conditions. Anything less than perfection often means catastrophe. The problem is that's not how human beings work at all.

Behavioral strategists Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan argue that if you want to increase your chances of success in business and life, you should design for reality. Offering real-world strategies with a healthy dose of wit and charm, Selfish, Scared & Stupid will help you design for success by aligning with natural human behaviors: selfishness, fear, and stupidity.

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Title: Co-Create

Subtitle: How Your Business Will Profit from Innovative and Strategic Collaboration

Author: David Nour

Narrator: David Nour

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-17

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationships they have built with you.

Most important...is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort? That's the provocative and ultimately earthshaking question David Nour poses. He argues that co-creation is a transformational journey that naturally leads to growth and evolution...because it gives birth to shared interests that dwarf anything that existed previously.

In Co-Create, David Nour makes the case that co-creation leads to Market Gravity™, a force that attracts stakeholders to your business because they recognize that many others have also united their interests with yours. It's the sense - backed by tangible metrics - that this is bigger than any of us imagined...except that you imagined precisely such an outcome. That's the power of co-creation.

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Title: The Captain Class

Subtitle: The Hidden Force Behind the World's Greatest Teams

Author: Sam Walker

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-17

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker, read by Keith Szarabajka.

Several years ago Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sport: what are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula and applied it to thousands of teams across the world from the English Premier League to the NFL. When he was done, he had a list of the 16 most dominant teams ever. At that point he became obsessed with another more complex question: what did these freak teams have in common?

As Walker dug more deeply, a pattern emerged: the teams were all driven by a singular type of leader, but not one with the characteristics you might expect. They were unorthodox outliers - awkward and disagreeable, marginally skilled, poor verbal communicators, at times aggressive and rule-breaking, and, rather than pursue fame, they preferred to hide in the shadows both on and off the field. Captains, in short, who will challenge your assumptions of what inspired leadership looks like.

From the captains of world-renowned teams like Barcelona, Brazil, the All Blacks and the New York Yankees to lesser known successes of Soviet ice hockey or French handball, The Captain Class unveils the seven key qualities that make these elite leaders exceptional. Drawing on original interviews with athletes from two dozen countries as well as coaches, managers and others skilled at building teams, Walker attempts to answer questions such as: are great captains made or born? Why do so many teams pick the wrong captains? Why has the value of the captain fallen out of favour, and how can it be revived? The culmination of 10 years' research and a lifetime of sports watching, The Captain Class is like no other sports book and is guaranteed to spark endless debate and heated argument among fans of every sport.

Members Reviews:

Eye opening on team sporting greatness

I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about the common thread that links the greatest sporting teams.

I also liked that Keith Szarabajka attempted the different global accents, some of them were so bad I loved them. It added an extra flavour to what was being told.

The captain class told fascinating stories on the people who drove their respective team amongst the 16 greatest teams in the world of sport to the top of their games.

excellent stuff

loved it, very insightful and very interesting! to hear about different sides of sports stars you think you know about!

Great book about teams and their leaders

9 hours for an audiobook might seem long but the story is really fascinated and keep listener engaged until the end.

An interesting read for followers of team sports

A great insight into what makes elite teams better than their rivals over a long period - water carrying, selfless leaders. Lessons learned can be applied to sports and business alike.

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Title: Going Lean

Subtitle: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits

Author: Stephen A. Ruffa

Narrator: Jim Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 1.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way. Drawing from the lessons of a new breed of companies that have stood apart, it sets aside the notion that efficient operations and powerful innovations are possible only when business is steady and demand is growing. By using lean dynamics - based on principles from the now-famous Toyota Production System - it shows how companies everywhere can thrive across a broad range of changing conditions. In Going Lean, you will learn how to:

Members Reviews:

Same chapter repeated over and over. Nothing useful.

Highly repetitive and highly superficial, never defines lean dynamics nor offers any help other than "every company will do it differently."

No point to this book at all other than to constantly tell how good this undefined process that has to be done differently at each company has worked for Southwest Airlines and Walmart. Pure drivel, good only for use as a sleep aid. Complete waste of time and money.

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Title: The Millennial Myth

Subtitle: Transforming Misunderstanding into Workplace Breakthroughs

Author: Crystal Kadakia

Narrator: Julie Eickhoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-17

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Despite the countless books written on the subject of managing millennials (most often authored by non-millennials), no one has until now diagnosed the real issue of generational differences in the workplace: generations do not define themselves, their environment defines them.

The four main traits - entitled, lazy, disrespectful, and disloyal - are misguided assumptions made about millennials that Kadakia argues are actually positive attributes that every business and industry should internalize. The four "faults" are in fact four qualities of the evolved workplace and worker. Millennials are simply reflecting the fast-changing environment around them. Therefore, understanding millennials is not just about managing a generation, it is about seeing the future of business as changing at an exponential rate and making the necessary adjustments to remain vital and competitive.

Kadakia's mindset shift details the ways in which business can evolve their thinking to include technological advances as well as supporting the technological thinker, otherwise known as the Millennial. This book is not only a guide to managing millennials, but can also influence the development of business as a whole.

Members Reviews:

Changing the Millennial Conversation

This book truly blasts apart several key Millennial myths and is destined to be the subject of many live and virtual watercolor discussions around the globe. For instance, the author reframes the idea that Millennials are entitled into the idea that they are entrepreneurial. She takes on the critique about not being loyal and instead, says that what is driving Millennials is a move towards purpose. Each chapter is clear and compelling with just enough research to give added juice to her well-formed arguments. There are plenty of actionable ideas to run with for leaders who want to capitalize on their talent and truly break through. Thank you, Crystal Kadakia, for changing the conversation and providing much-needed clarity and direction to all of us!

Traditional companies couldn't keep this high potential millennial. Wish they had Crystal's book!

I bought The Millennial Myth after attending one of Crystal Kadakia's keynotes.

Something that hooked me early in the book was when Crystal applied a few millennial stereotypes to another subgroup. For example, "All women are lazy and entitled." Statements like that would never be acceptable, but stereotypes like these have been present and vocalized in the workplace for millennials as well as other generations.

I consider myself a high potential millennial. I worked for a major consulting firm where I successfully consulted to over 20 public companies in less than a year. Although considered one of the best companies in the industry, I was clear in what would retain me but my employer was too prehistoric to meet my needs. As a result, they lost a great employee and never fully harnessed my potential.

I've met a lot of people that would benefit greatly by reading this book and/or seeing Crystal speak. I would recommend parents of millennials to read this book, especially if their children are in college, or early in their careers.

In Summary: If you're a Millennial or Gen Z, I'd recommend this book to help you be more equipped to handle stereotypes more professionally when communicating to discriminatory people.

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Title: The Elephant Catchers

Author: Subroto Bagchi

Narrator: Sartaj Garewal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

'Unlike an operation to catch rabbits, trapping an elephant calls for expertise over enthusiasm. Those who hunt rabbits are rarely able to rope in elephants.'

Many organizations, even those that may have brilliant starts, falter in their attempts to achieve transformational growth in their later phases. In The Elephant Catchers, Subroto Bagchi distils his years of on-the-ground learning to explore why this happens and what such organizations and their people must do to climb to the next level and beyond.

Through a combination of engaging anecdotes from his experiences as cofounder and subsequently chairman of Mindtree Ltd, and insightful stories from our everyday world, Bagchi demonstrates a crucial point: organizations with real ambition to get to the top need to embrace the idea of scale and then ensure that it systematically pervades every aspect of its functioning. In doing this, he leads you to evaluate:

Practical advice on real issues, from how to deal with consultants to the question of succession, words of caution on strategy traps and M&As, and invaluable insights into a whole range of growth-related issues - The Elephant Catchers has it all. Engaging, wise and thoroughly accessible, this book is a must-listen for everyone in every organization seeking breakout success.

Members Reviews:

Enjoyable reading

Mr Bagchi has addressed some very key issues in a very simple and lucid manner. While he has addressed this book towards the start ups, however, it makes a lot of sense to the operating managers also. As most of the concepts are from his own experiences, it does not read like a text book theory.

His views on strategy is quite blunt and forces one to accept that strategy sessions lacks energy as there is no emotional appeal. The reference of trying to cross oceans on bamboo bridges is also quite telling on the belief that strategy executors have on their own strategy.

I liked the cat and dog story in terms of getting unlikely breakthroughs. That is a story which I am not going to forget fast. His views on the importance of having a well designed sale team is very interesting and am sure tech start ups could well learn from that. The same goes with his very apt views on exchanging equity as a mode of currency.

Where I could identify with his views the most was the approach towards consultants. Having spent close to about 20 yrs in corporate life, I have come across this situation where the senior management is in awe of the them while the operating team loathes them. The result is two teams operating at counter purpose. To see that in the best form, just put in an outcome based remuneration formula. The review meetings in such cases do not appear any less exciting than a WWF event (the wrestling one not wild life)

Mr. Bagchi's view on M&A is also quite drawn from real life events and all the cautions he has advised are relevant. However, the challenge today, especially for the those in the emerging technology area, is that innovations will not necessarily come from inside. Open innovation is one option to keep an organisation going and for that M&A will be necessary.

The ending reference to the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu , Mahesh is a great comparison and a thought provoker.

I enjoyed reading the book. I would recommend the book for those looking for some very practical concepts of running and growing a business.

Real integration of thought and experience.