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Title: Play Bigger

Subtitle: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

Author: Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The how-to playbook for start-ups and established companies on a groundbreaking discipline called category design.

Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game - defining a new market category, developing it and dominating it over time. You can't build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the best product is all it takes to win, you're going to lose.

In this farsighted, pioneering guide, the founders of Silicon Valley advisory firm Play Bigger rely on data analysis and interviews to understand the inner workings of 'category kings' - companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Uber and IKEA - that give us new ways of living, thinking or doing business, often solving problems we didn't know we had. In Play Bigger, the authors assemble their findings to introduce the new discipline of category design. By applying category design, companies can create new demand where none existed, conditioning customers' brains so they change their expectations and buying habits. While this discipline defines the tech industry, it applies to every kind of industry and even to personal careers. Drawing on examples from within and beyond our own practice, Play Bigger shows both entrepreneurs and established enterprises how to define, develop and rule a category over time.

Critic Reviews:

''A new spin on the 'something from nothing concept'.... Aimed at entrepreneurs, this book has practical advice for anyone in business.'' (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

The premise in one sentence: Pick an opening and own it.

I suspect the authors ate a little too much of their own dog food and were attempting to create a new category of consulting.

Its a good book for those new to strategic thinking, unfamiliar with product positioning or have become complacent with regurgitating the same ideology time and time again, getting little traction. As for content, the book sells the premise early on and then reiterates itself in pretty much every chapter. Good for an educational aid where questions may be asked of you at the end, but otherwise would have made a great article and shouldve stopped there.

For me, I now have a new deck of buzzwords that I can use for those that drank the Play Bigger Kool-Aid. Never a bad thing.

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Title: The Peter F. Drucker Reader

Subtitle: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

Author: Peter F. Drucker

Narrator: Steven Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The best of Peter F. Drucker's articles on management, all in one place.

That "management" exists as a concept, a practice, and a profession is largely due to the thinking of Peter F. Drucker. For nearly half a century, he inspired and educated managers - and powerfully shaped the nature of business - with his iconic articles in Harvard Business Review.

Through the lens of Drucker's broad vision, this volume presents an opportunity to trace the great shifts in organizations in the late 20th and early 21st centuries - from manufacturing to knowledge work, from career-length employee tenures to short-term contract relationships, from command-and-control structures to flatter organizations that call for new leadership techniques.

These articles also offer a firm and practical grasp of the role of the manager and the executive today - their responsibilities, their relationships, their decisions, and detailed processes that can make their work more effective.

A celebrated thinker at his best, in this volume Drucker paints a clear and comprehensive picture of management thinking and practice - both as it is and as it will be.

This collection of articles includes:

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Peter Drucker is one of my all time favorites. He is required reading in my courses.

Hereâs the most important question that every executive must ask: âWhat must be done?â

In my opinion, Peter Drucker (1909-2005) is the most influential business thinker as indicated by the endless list of other thought leaders who continue to acknowledge his value and significance to their own work. He always insisted on referring to himself as a âstudentâ or âbystander.â With all due respect to his wishes, I have always viewed him as a pioneer who surveyed and defined dimensions of the business world that no one else had previously explored.

In this volume, we have ten of his most highly-regarded articles, each of which was first published in Harvard Business Review over a period from 1963 until 2004. Here are annotations provided by the HBR editors that accompany the first four articles:

âWhat Makes an Effective Executiveâ (HBR, June 2004): âDrucker argues that charisma is not, in fact, a necessary factor of leaderships. He identifies eight practices that effective leaders follow, ranging from big-picture tasks such as asking themselves, âWhat is right for the enterprise?â to fundamental managerial skills such as running productive meetings.â

âThe Theory of Businessâ (HBR, September-October 1994): âDrucker addresses âwhat to doâ â what some might call business strategy. Beginning with the question of why successful companies stagnate, he homes in on the challenge of matching and organizationâs priorities and goals with the changing realities of a changing world and then making sure that competencies are in place to achieve them.â

âManaging for Business Effectivenessâ (1963): âThe primary responsibility of a manager is to strive for the best possible economic results from the resources currently available.

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Title: Business Process Management

Author: IntroBooks

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-17

Publisher: IntroBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The need for task management is something which no one can deny, whether it be related to studies, housework, or business. Why? It makes the functionality of a particular activity easier and simpler. How? Well, proper management can help you understand the underlying needs of a particular project, and moreover can help you in getting it completed on time.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Thanks for the great deals will check back for future school books.

What I have of the book is great, however I expected all pages to be included ...

What I have of the book is great, however I expected all pages to be included for the price I paid. The book is missing 15 pages.

Useful and comprehensive - from theory to strategy to practice

Jeston and Nelis have produced a comprehensive textbook and guide to BPM - now in its third edition - that actually offers a useful combination of theory and practical guidance, along with enough case studies that you can find something to bolster your case to reluctant management.

I've worked as an IT consultant for years, sometimes doing large strategy-to-implementation BPM projects (as part of a team) and sometimes just doing the technical stuff that falls in the middle of the framework. I've even taught Information Engineering, the James Martin version of part of BPM.

This book, while subject to the usual many-words-for-simple-concepts disease, in fact does stick to what is actually useful and necessary for BPM implementations. It's hard to say much specific about the book, because it covers a huge topic very well. The graphic layout is a bit fussy, with almost every bit of text or diagram set off in a different color or with a different format, or something. Perhaps that helps students find things, but it gets annoying for this old fogey.

While the authors offer an execution framework, they accommodate other standard frameworks (Six Sigma, etc). And they include plenty of material about the hard parts - managing change, getting sponsors, not running out of steam, and all those nontechnical aspects that are vital.

If you're looking for a particular technique and how to implement it, the table of contents and index help you find it - and there's enough coverage that you can do a reasonable job with it.

The BPM INSIGHT paragraphs were annoying - they verged on the obvious. For example: "The most capable people are quite heavily booked, and managers are tempted to place the available, rather than the capable people on projects as Subject Matter Experts. This seriously limits the potential to innovate, especially in transformation projects." Nice to know, on the offchance you didn't know it from your first experience with any such project. No solution is offered, mostly because there isn't one that doesn't involve more political capital than someone reading this book is likely to have. Still, it might be useful to show to some boss, to back up your opinion on the topic and possibly even to get Mr. Timewaster Incomptentus sent back to his department where he can't slow you down too much.

In sum: Excellent textbook, useful for practitioners as well. Unless you're taking a graduate class, don't read from cover to cover. And don't drop it on your foot unless you're wearing steel-toed shoes.

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Title: Grow Your Business with Business Essentials

Author: Business Essentials

Narrator: Business Essentials

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-17

Publisher: BE Media Production

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Get ready to be inspired. This is no ordinary business audiobook. In fact this is not really a book at all; that is, a narrator isn't reading it to you. Instead you are listening to real conversations from real leaders in business to help you grow your own business.

From the producers of Australia's longest-running audio business magazine, Business Essentials, comes this collection of the very best interviews from Australia's leading business experts. Listeners to Business Essentials describe the monthly interviews as 'inspiring', 'invaluable' and 'addictive'.

Each year Business Essentials interviews hundreds of experts and industry leaders on how to grow a business. Grow Your Business with Business Essentials is a collection of 22 of the very best of those interviews covering a wide range of topics, including:

The speakers hail from the breadth and depth of Australia's most sought after business coaches and leaders:

They're just some of the experts you'll hear from, with practical tips you can apply right now to your business. Why pay thousands of dollars and spend hundreds of hours looking for the tools to help your business grow? Let Business Essentials do the hard work of getting the very best advice and information from business experts and from those running successful businesses. You just need to listen - and be inspired!

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Title: A Company of Owners

Subtitle: Maximizing Employee Engagement

Author: Daren Martin

Narrator: Daren Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-16

Publisher: Clovercroft Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Lack of employee engagement is the biggest challenge facing business owners and leaders today. Daren Martin delivers proven insights and solutions he uses to create ownership cultures in some of the biggest companies in the world. This hard hitting, solution oriented book will soon be a staple in top business leaders' libraries. Using insights gleaned from years helping companies and coaching leaders, Dr. Martin teaches company leaders how to turn team members into owners. This book is intense, humorous, challenging, thought provoking and extremely engaging.

Members Reviews:

A Company of Owners - A Game Changer of a Book

This was an amazing book! So many great insights and clarifying thoughts on owning, managing and running your company. If you are going to grow and have amazing success an ownership culture in your organization is key!

Dr. Martin brings in thoughts from so many leading minds and adds his thoughts on leadership.

A definite must read if you are growing or want to change your culture.

Buy Your Boss a Present: THIS BOOK!

If your boss has this book, everyone will benefit! "A Company of Owners" is a cool little book! It is an engaging read full of very useful information and ideas. It is about knowing your business, knowing your employees, and knowing the direction you want your company to go. Daren Martin tells you just how to do that. Every business leader AND employee owes it to themself to buy this book for their whole team...and anyone else they want to see succeed. It is a great tool for everyone! My favorite quote in the book is one that sums up the entire concept of "A Company of Owners" nicely: 'Until every team member views the company as an interdependent enterprise, you will never have an OWNER COMPANY.' After reading that profound quote, I looked down to see who said it and it was the author himself! Ha! Yes, Daren Martin quoted himself in his own book! Brilliant!

Applying these concepts changed my life. This book will change yours.

In a word...WOW. Daren has masterfully created a book that is both easy to read AND crammed full of actionable content. I read it in just a few hours, but I will read it again over and over. Why? Because I need the principles within to become a part of my nature, both for my own benefit and also for those with whom I work. I cannot recommend this book enough. The main premise of this book is one I have lived by for many years now, and until I did, my own value and contributions to the companies I worked for was certainly far less than what it could have been. Applying these concepts changed my life. This book will change yours.

Game Changer!

Simplicity at its finest. Dr. Daren Martin takes an in-depth look into the world of corporate America and discusses some of its biggest issues. This book is for any employee looking to become an owner (both physically and mentally). It's also for any CEO who wants to take their company to the next level and sky rocket employee performance. I'm positive this book will become a commonality in businesses across the nation and world. Daren is truly one of the best out there when it comes to boosting employee performance.

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Title: Rewarding Employee

Author: CC Chapman

Narrator: CC Chapman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-16

Publisher: CC Chapman

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Have rewards become too routine at your workplace? Have they lost meaning?

Discussing the three principles of effectively rewarding employees: making sure rewards are earned, unique, and timely. Find out what happened to the CEO who learned a hard lesson about giving rewards that mean something to his team.

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Title: Our Turn

Author: Kirstine Stewart

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Whether you're a CEO or a fledgling administrative assistant, there is something for you in Our Turn.

In Our Turn, Kirstine Stewart, Twitter's VP of North American media partnerships - and recently named as one of Canadian Business's Power 50 of 2016 list because she 'helps women discover their leadership potential' - draws on her extensive experience to share her smart and practical approach to business.

Kirstine Stewart has joined the ranks of technology leaders Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer, but she has come to that position by a very different route. She got her first job when she applied for an entry-level position at a film distribution house. Having worked her way up from the bottom - under women and men, leaders good and bad - she believes it's time we looked past the question of how women might create change in the working world and exploit the fact that profound change is already under way.

The digital revolution, and the wave of millennials who are entering the workforce with very different expectations than the generations who preceded them, have created an environment that demands a new style of leader - one with attributes and perspectives that make women the natural front-runners. The opportunity is there. The question Stewart poses and then tackles is how do we seize it?

Members Reviews:

An inspiring read! A very real and down-to-earth account ...

An inspiring read! A very real and down-to-earth account of navigating through a career with a fresh look at the possibilities for leadership today.

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Title: Scrum Master Box Set

Subtitle: 21 Tips to Facilitate and Coach & Productivity 21 Tips for Explosive Time Management

Author: Paul VII

Narrator: Randal Schaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-16

Publisher: Pashun Consulting Ltd.

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In this class, you will be given many proven tips to effectively facilitate, coach and improve agile scrum teams.

The road to becoming a professional scrum master is exciting and challenging. Therefore, I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of the scrum master. I then walk you step by step through the differences between a scrum master and a traditional project manager. Following this, I will give you tips for improving your effectiveness as a scrum master as well as coaching both product owners and development teams. Along the way, I will give you plenty of examples and enlighten you about the best practices for being a scrum master within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn:

A brief recap of agile and scrum principles

So let's get started and let me teach you what it takes to be a scrum master.

Members Reviews:

Good Box Set

This is a good box set. The books complement each other. The first is a book of tips on SCRUM that are very helpful. The second book is filled with tips to improve productivity and time management at work. I really like the tip format.

Useful

Had good information about scrum and some useful tips that I'll try out with my team.

I had already bought one of this author's box sets, and I wanted to know more about scrum so I also got this one without noticing I already had the other book lol. Still 3 books for the price of 2 though.

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Title: Radical Hiring Success

Subtitle: Headhunter Secrets to Target Top Talent from Your Competitors

Author: Mike Adamo

Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-16

Publisher: Med Device Talent

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In Mike's first book, This Book Will Get You Hired for the Job You Want, Mike helped candidates meet their career goals. In his new release, Mike unleashes powerful wisdom to help companies hire better. With his no nonsense style, recruitment expert Mike Adamo will teach you the skills to attract an unparalleled level of talent to your organization.

Regardless of whether you are making your first hire or are ready to take your recruitment to the next level, Mike will change the way you look at hiring.

Members Reviews:

Informative book

I found this book to be helpful for recruiters. It also emphasizes the most important part of recruiting which is strategy.

Highly Recommend!

Mike is definitely a recruitment expert and provides a lot of great insight into hiring

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Title: Death by HR

Subtitle: How Affirmative Action Cripples Organizations

Author: Jeb Kinnison

Narrator: Joe Farinacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-16

Publisher: Jeb Kinnison Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Human resources (HR) departments are widely disliked, and job searchers are generally advised to contact the hiring manager directly if they really want to be considered for a job. There are good reasons why HR acts like an arm of the government bureaucrats pressuring companies to hire more protected minorities and women - because that's what they are, in many companies.

From the best-selling author of Avoidant comes a fresh look at HR and the hiring of mediocre employees favored by affirmative action programs. It's a new age of incompetence, with brain-dead, unaccountable employees holding sinecures at the heart of our government agencies and regulated institutions like banks and hospitals, protected by affirmative action and union policies. The rot is spreading as pressure from state and federal regulation of companies has increased, promoting an internal compliance bureaucracy that has devalued the best job candidates and employees and promoted affirmative action and diversity over team productivity.

The result has been ever-more-costly failures and a steep decline in performance. From the mortgage meltdown that brought down the world's economy in 2008, to the disastrous launch of the healthcare.gov website for Obamacare, major segments of business and government in the US have grown more expensive and less competent over the past few decades. Billions of dollars of waste in government contracts for IT projects, weapons systems, and service failures at the VA are in the news every day. Public schools are widely seen as mediocre, and in the poorest urban districts they are failing to provide a decent education for the students who need good schools the most to make up for bad family backgrounds. Costs for regulated services like schools, colleges, medical insurance, drugs, courts, prisons, and infrastructure like roads and bridges rise far faster than inflation, while time to complete major projects stretches out to decades, and many fail completely and are cancelled after billions have been spent. And the rot is spreading as government pushes businesses to adopt similar employment policies, with HR enforcing government mandates that compromise competitiveness and give overseas companies the advantage.

Silicon Valley and the tech industries are the next targets. If you're a manager at a tech company, we'll suggest some ways to protect your people from HR and its emphasis on credentials and affirmative action (AA) over the best fit for a position. Corporate leaders need to be sure their HR departments are managed to prevent infiltration by staff more interested in correct politics than winning products. And we'll show why appeasement of diversity activists is a dangerous strategy that may make your organization a target for further extortionate demands.

The next battlefield after high tech is discretion in hiring, which the activists believe must be limited to force employers to hire any candidate "qualified" for a job as soon as they apply. Only a few radicals are proposing this kind of blind hiring now, but continuing successes in getting firms to bow to their diversity demands will result in a list of new demands. We have already seen Seattle pass an ordinance requiring landlords to rent apartments to the first applicant who qualifies.