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Title: Meaningful Work

Subtitle: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul

Author: Shawn Askinosie, Lawren Askinosie

Narrator: Shawn Askinosie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate, an award-winning craft chocolate factory, shows listeners how he discovered the secret to purposeful work and business - and how we can, too, no matter what work we do.

Askinosie Chocolate is a small-batch, award-winning chocolate company widely considered to be a vanguard in the industry. Known for sourcing 100 percent of his cocoa beans directly from farmers across the globe, Shawn Askinosie has pioneered direct trade and profit sharing in the craft chocolate industry with farmers in Tanzania, Ecuador, and the Philippines. In addition to developing relationships with smallholder farmers, the company also partners with schools in their origin communities to provide lunch to 1,600 children every day, with no outside donations. Twenty-five years ago, Shawn Askinosie was a successful criminal defense lawyer trying his first murder death penalty case that would later go on to become a Dateline special. For many years he found law satisfying, but after several high-profile trials he reached a breaking point and found solace in the search for a new career.

In this inspiring guide to discovering a vocation that feeds your heart and soul, Askinosie describes his quest to discover more meaningful work - a search that led him to volunteering in the palliative care wing of a hospital, to a Trappist monastery where he became inspired by the monks' focus on "being" rather than "doing", and eventually traipsing through jungles across the globe in search of excellent cocoa bean farmers to make award-winning chocolate. Askinosie shares his hard-won insights into doing work that reflects one's values and purpose in life. He shares with listeners visioning tools that can be used in any industry or field to create a work life that is inspired and fulfilling. Askinosie shows us that everyone has the capacity to find meaning in their work and be a positive force for good in the world.

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Title: Leadership on the Line (Revised)

Subtitle: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change

Author: Marty Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz

Narrator: Jack Garrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disrupting the status quo, and surfacing hidden conflict. And when people resist and push back, there's a strong temptation to play it safe. Those who choose to lead plunge in, take the risks, and sometimes get burned. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to renowned leadership experts Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky. In Leadership on the Line, they show how it's possible to make a difference without getting "taken out" or pushed aside. They present everyday tools that give equal weight to the dangerous work of leading change and the critical importance of personal survival. Through vivid stories from all walks of life, the authors present straightforward strategies for navigating the perilous straits of leadership. Whether you're a parent or a politician, a CEO or a community activist, this practical book shows how you can exercise leadership and survive and thrive to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

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Title: Leaders Made Here

Subtitle: Building a Leadership Culture

Author: Mark Miller

Narrator: Joseph Bronzi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-17

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The most important attribute high-performing organizations have in common is that they are well led. Every organization dreams of having enough leaders. Yet too many organizations take a haphazard or inconsistent approach to leadership development. The result is a dearth of leaders and a failure to leverage the full capacity of the enterprise.

Leadership guru and Chick-fil-A executive Mark Miller describes how any organization can create a culture in which leaders are routinely and systematically developed, resulting in a surplus of leaders. Miller details how to nurture leaders throughout the organization, from the front lines to the executive ranks. He provides a game plan for organizations to create a deep leadership bench.

To help bring the ideas to life, Miller uses the story of Charles, a new executive, as he and his team discover best practices from around the world to ensure a continuous supply of capable leaders. Charles and his team then translate their findings into a practical plan that any organization can use to create a leadership culture that will assure a sustainable competitive advantage and long-term success.

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Title: The Leader Who Had No Title

Subtitle: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Author: Robin Sharma

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 713 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

For more than 15 years, Robin Sharma has been quietly sharing with Fortune 500 companies and many of the super-rich a success formula that has made him one of the most sought-after leadership advisers in the world. Now, for the first time, Sharma makes his proprietary process available to you, so that you can get to your absolute best while helping your organization break through to a dramatically new level of winning in these wildly uncertain times.

In The Leader Who Had No Title, you will learn:

Regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim that staggering power, as well as transform your life and the world around youin the process.

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Title: The High Potential's Advantage

Subtitle: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader

Author: Jay A. Conger, Allan H. Church

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Are you a high potential? Your managers and HR department are constantly wondering that about you - and assessing whether or not you have what it takes to advance. Here's how to get them to answer yes.

Being seen as a high potential leader is essential to getting promoted and reaching an organization's upper echelons, but most companies keep their top talent list a closely guarded secret. And the assessment process they use to decide who is and isn't a future leader is an even greater mystery.

The High Potential's Advantage takes listeners "behind the scenes" and shows them how to get on, and stay on, their company's fast track. Leadership development experts Jay Conger and Allan Church draw upon decades of their research and experience - designing high potential programs for hundreds of large well-known global organizations, and managing and coaching thousands of developing leaders - to answer the critical questions asked by ambitious employees and managers: What will it take for me to advance in this organization? What does my boss look for when deciding whether or not I'm a high potential? Once I'm on the list, then what? Can I fall off of it, and how does that happen?

Revealing a set of key differentiators - the five "X factors" - that set people apart across companies of all types, listeners learn what they have to do to achieve and maintain the coveted top talent status. Packed with examples of high potential leaders - from those on the verge of their first promotion to those only a step away from the C-suite - the authors provide detailed advice for cultivating and practicing each "X factor".

In addition, the authors show listeners how to identify their company's "signature factors" - those special capabilities particular to their organization - and how to gain insight into, and excel at, the specific process their company uses to identify and develop high potentials.

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Title: Leadership 101

Subtitle: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Author: John C. Maxwell

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-15

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Drawing from John Maxwell's best sellers Developing the Leader Within You, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, and Becoming a Person of Influence, Leadership 101 explores the timeless principles that have become Dr. Maxwell's trademark style.

In a concise, straightforward style, Maxwell focuses on essential and time-tested qualities necessary for true leadership - influence, integrity, attitude, vision, problem solving, and self-discipline - and guides listeners through practical steps to develop true leadership in their lives and the lives of others.

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Title: Summary of Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Subtitle: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Author: FlashBooks Book Summaries

Narrator: Dean Bokhari

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-17

Publisher: FlashBooks Book Summaries

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This is a summary of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and not the original book.

From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. When you become a manager, it's your job to say it - and your obligation.

Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she developed a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor.

Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring, it's obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging, it's ruinous empathy. When you do neither, it's manipulative insincerity.

This simple framework can help you build better relationships at work and fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback (praise and criticism), building a cohesive team, and achieving results you're all proud of.

Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Taken from years of the author's experience, and distilled clearly giving actionable lessons to the listener, it shows managers how to be successful while retaining their humanity, finding meaning in their job, and creating an environment where people both love their work and their colleagues.

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