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Title: The Founder's Mentality

Subtitle: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth

Author: James Allen, Chris Zook

Narrator: Robert Feifar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 85 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment - find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen (authors of the best-selling Profit from the Core) researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external - increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What's more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further - and can actively lead to decline.

The key insight from Zook and Allen's research is that managing these choke points requires a "founder's mentality" - behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder - to restore the speed, focus, and connection to customers, all of which are lost as companies grow:

Based on the authors' decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, The Founder's Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds - not just start-ups - and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader - not only a founder - can instill and leverage a founder's mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.

Members Reviews:

Insights to help founders pivot tired businesses

Real world examples that offer founders transformation skills to refound their businesses as others have.

Lots of good tips

One of the. Est books I have listed a long time. I really enjoyed it from the start until the end. Thank you

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Title: Organizational Culture and Leadership, Fifth Edition

Author: Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The book that defined the field, updated and expanded for today's organizations.

Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership. Author Edgar Schein is the 'father' of organizational culture, world-renowned for his expertise and research in the field; in this book, he analyzes and illustrates through cases the abstract concept of culture and shows its importance to the management of organizational change. This new fifth edition shows how culture has become a popular concept leading to a wide variety of research and implementation by various organizations and expands the focus on the role of national cultures in influencing culture dynamics, including some practical concepts for how to deal with international differences.

Special emphasis is given to how the role of leadership varies with the age of the organization from founding, through mid-life to old age as the cultural issues vary at each stage. How culture change is managed at each stage and in different types of organizations is emphasized as a central concern of leader behavior.

This landmark book is considered the defining resource in the field. Drawing on a wide range of research, this fifth edition contains 25 percent new and revised material to provide the most relevant new concepts and perspectives alongside the basic culture model that has helped to define the field.

The resurgence of interest in organizational culture has spurred an awakening in research, and new information is continuously coming to light. Outdated practices are being replaced by more effective methods, and the resulting shift affects organizations everywhere. Organizational Culture and Leadership is an essential resource for scholars, consultants and leaders seeking continuous improvement in the face of today's business realities.

Members Reviews:

Absolutely fantastic. Very informative .

It is an excellent read. I think everyone should have this audible app and have this book on at all phases of their life. This is extremely functional and important material/information for college students, Individual seeking self improvement or Those just trying to improve their working environments. Should listen to frequently as every time I have I've always learn something new. It's like one of those little hidden perspectives that just sneaks up on you and says here I am. Extremely useful. Run with-it!

Leadership and Organization = Package Deal

There is no leadership without a thorough understanding of organization. In this book, the author demonstrates their encyclopedic knowledge of organizations and uses that to educate their listener as to the strengths and weaknesses in each case. The thing I found compelling about this book is the author's humility in the approach to the subject. He preaches the need of a company to not be told about their organizational challenges but to figure it out for themselves. The author helps us understand our own situation and provides a robust framework from which we can adjust accordingly.

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Title: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

Subtitle: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm

Author: Verne Harnish

Narrator: Verne Harnish

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-17

Publisher: Gazelles, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 64 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous "One-Page Strategic Plan" to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Included is an instructive chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff, revealing winning tactics to get banks to finance your business. Please note: the endorsement pages and case studies found in the printed book are not included in this audiobook.

Members Reviews:

Great business read.

Really enjoyed the book. Great foundation for strategy and meeting structure. Lots of ideas to improve management performance.

Academic look at business

To author is to the point with a no nonsense helpful business book. Good reference on growing from start to major mid-level player. This is a good companion to work by Jim Collins. I will be studying both the next time I go through "Good to Great".

The single best book I have read on business

This really works. I don't understand any negative reviews. My partners and I have read dozens of business books and never before has anything been so immediately usable.

Straight up practical advice that you can start using immediately. We have been at it for 4 months only and are already seeing results.

If an entrepreneur asks me for advice the first thing I will say is read Scaling Up.

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Title: Hiring for Attitude

Subtitle: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude, 1e

Author: Mark Murphy

Narrator: Todd Belcher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Common hiring practices are destined for failure. Here's how to hire the right people and build a company culture designed for long-term success.

In a recent groundbreaking study, the training firm Leadership IQ found that 46 percent of all new hires fail within their first 18 months. But here's the real shocker: 89 percent fail for attitudinal reasons - not skills.

Most hiring managers are getting it wrong. Of course skills are important, but a particular skill set is about the easiest thing to test in an interview. Although much harder to recognize, attitude should be your number-one focus during the hiring process. Don't suffer from poor chemistry - even one employee with the wrong attitude could cause years of suffering for your other employees and customers.

Whether you're hiring new employees, choosing existing employees for a new team, or upgrading your current talent pool, you need people with the right attitude!

Attitude is what makes employees give 100 percent effort and turns customers into raving fans. Attitude sets your company apart from the competition.

In Hiring for Attitude, top leadership strategist Mark Murphy shows you:

Hiring for Attitude includes case studies from Microchip, Southwest Airlines, The Ritz-Carlton, Google, and other companies that drive great results by hiring for attitude.

Whether your company is small or big, highly social or hypercompetitive, flat or hierarchical, every person on your payroll has to fit your culture. You can't afford to hire blind. You need to be Hiring for Attitude.

Members Reviews:

Tons of pearls big or small business

I am a dentist. This is a great book. The pace was good and it didnt have too much fluff.

Not a bad 2nd or 3rd book to read on the topic

I just finished reading the book who! and that was a very thorough step-by-step guide to hiring. This book is not quite like that. It's mainly talking about things to do during the interview process and even when posting the job to try to attract the better employees. Although I did get some good information from it, I would say the vast majority is either very much common sense or self-serving promotion for their services. I do recommend reading it but not as a primary source for finding out how to hire better Talent. This is definitely a second or third book on the topic to fill in a few points that may not have been covered in another more thorough book

Great Book

Loved it, very useful and innovative. I will certainly recommend it to my colleagues who are studying HR.

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Title: SPARK

Subtitle: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success

Author: Frederick W. Smith - foreword, Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, Sean Lynch

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 42 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Leadership isn't about a job title - it's about action and behavior.

In SPARK, entrepreneurs, business consultants, and military veterans Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch show how anyone can become an extraordinary leader by embracing seven key behaviors.

Many people believe that leaders are the rare few at the upper echelons of a business or other enterprise. But the truth is leaders can be found at any level of an organization.

These are the Sparks - the doers, thinkers, innovators, and key influencers who are catalysts for personal and organizational change. Sparks aren't defined by the place they hold on an organizational chart. They are defined by their actions, commitment, and will.

When Sparks are ignited, their actions can shape their future. They make things better. They're the individuals who have the courage to challenge the status quo and take action.

Frederick W. Smith, Chairman & CEO of FedEx Corporation, adds: The concept of leadership is not a difficult one to understand. It's that straight-forward, but it's by no means intuitive. It must be learned and practiced. SPARK will help you do just that.

SPARK's, insights were hard-earned by its authors, Angie Morgan (Marine Corps), Courtney Lynch (Marine Corps), and Sean Lynch (Air Force), who today are sought-after consultants and keynote speakers, through their firm Lead Star, due to the relevant, engaging way they help individuals reimagine themselves as leaders so they can reach their true potential.

Not only does SPARK, provide you with the encouragement and motivation to be a leader, it also offers online resources that will further support your leadership development. With SPARK, as a blueprint, anyone can become a catalyst for change, and any organization can identify and develop Sparks.

Members Reviews:

Great content and stories.

Great book. 1 issue was one part of a chapter repeated itself on the recording. Only place I would say to improve the listening experience would be to have male voice tell the men's stories, at times I had to remind myself who's story was being told.

Ready

I'm ready to be a strong leader now. This book is perfect for future leaders of the world.

Great Lessons in Leadership

i really enjoyed this book and had some very practical application of the concepts that can be used for yourself or if you are seeking to develop others nicely done

Inspirational and Relevant

Very engaging and no nonsense approach to ignite your leadership potential. So obvious. Excellent Book!

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Title: The Amazon Way on IoT

Subtitle: 10 Principles for Every Leader from the World's Leading Internet of Things Strategies

Author: John Rossman

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 95 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The Amazon Way on IoT is for the leader who wants to understand how the Internet of things is transforming business and society. Listeners will discover business cases, key concepts, technologies and tools to help develop, explain and execute their own IoT approach through understanding Amazon's and other leading companies sophisticated IoT technologies and strategies.

Connected devices, wearables, cloud computing, sensors, machine learning and algorithms are all capabilities and technologies dramatically changing business, government and organizational landscapes. These are the core components enabling the Internet of things, which Harvard professor Michael Porter writes is the backbone for a third wave of technology-led innovation and digital disruption. This book gives you the easy recipes to identify the opportunities in your business.

Members Reviews:

Very insightful, but quite boring

Good book if you are looking for "death by academic approach" to IOT principles. I was left a bit uninspired and I found it a lacking on comparative applications and examples, but I guess should have known from the title. A bit of a homage to Amazon. Narration and writing style zzzzzzzz

Great Info about Amazon. So limited about IoT

The book gives a good perspective about Bussiness model, from the Amazon perspective about IoT.

If you want ideas about how to apply IoT, Bussiness models, technical insights this is NOT the book.

muy bueno

muy bueno ...... . . . . . .. . . . b. . . ...............

Packed with solid insights for IOT experts

Good book, with many solid insights for those interested in becoming an expert in IOT (at a systems / solution level).

Great book

This book is full overview of the current iot landscape. Worth the read for anyone interested in this space.

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Título: Liderazgo [Leadership]

Subtitular: Lo que todo líder necesita saber [What Every Leader Needs to Know]

Autor: John C. Maxwell

Narrador: Eduardo Gonzales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 21 hrs and 11 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-26-16

Editor: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 28 votos

Categorías: Business, Leadership

Resumen del editor:

Ahora en un solo volumen, la serie best seller 101 de John C. Maxwell de libros de liderazgo que han ayudado a más de un millón de personas a ser mejores líderes. Este libro incluye materiales que, en el estilo de Maxwell, han ayudado a muchos lectores a alcanzar su potencial en cualquier etapa de su carrera. Puede ser considerado como un curso intensivo sobre los fundamentos de liderazgo o como una herramienta práctica para afilar los fundamentos básicos que todo profesional necesita. El contenido incluye el 101 de la actitud, autosuperación, liderazgo, relaciones, éxito, equipo, capacitación y mentoría. Cada libro 101 es una introducción al tema, no el "curso avanzado". Esta colección de libros ayudan a los lectores en el camino hacia un crecimiento significativo en áreas específicas de sus vidas.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Contenido excelente. Narrador insípido

El contenido de este libro es excelente y necesario para el crecimiento personal. Pero el narrador es demasiado insípido y aburrido. Si aguante 21 horas del audio fue SOLO por el contenido. El narrador no añade la mas mínima pizca de emoción al libro.

I learn something new about this material.

I consider that a leader could be better if you constantly learn about leadership. This is the begining, I will continue with experience.

una obra maestra

personalmente estoy muy agradecido por los conocimientos que este libro contiene. puedo dar fe que los principios enseñados los he aplicado y hoy soy un mejor líder en mi empresa y sobre todo en mi familia.

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Title: Discover Your True North

Subtitle: Expanded and Updated Edition

Author: Bill George

Narrator: Peter Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 81 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The leadership classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's listeners.

Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North. Originally based on first-person interviews with 125 leaders, this book instantly became a must-hear business classic when it was introduced in 2007. Now expanded and updated to introduce 48 new leaders and new learning about authentic global leaders, this revisited classic includes more diverse, global, and contemporary leaders of all ages. New case studies include Warren Buffett, Indra Nooyi, Arianna Huffington, Jack Ma, Paul Polman, Mike Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others. Alongside these studies, former Medtronic CEO Bill George continues to share his personal stories and his wisdom by describing how you can become the leader you want to be, with helpful exercises included throughout the book.

Being a leader is about much more than title and management skills - it's fundamentally a question of who we are as human beings. Discover Your True North offers a concrete and comprehensive program for becoming an authentic leader, and shows how to chart your path to leadership success.

Once you discover the purpose of your leadership, you'll find the true leader inside you. This book shows you how to use your natural leadership abilities to inspire and empower others to excellence in today's complex global world. Discover Your True North enables you to become the leader you were born to be, and stay on track of your True North.

Members Reviews:

True North... Anecdotal

Overly lengthy anecdotes intertwined to drive home topics and points. I appreciate the discussion. Decent read.

must read !!!

this book shows you new perspectives on how to forge your own career and future

A step by step exploration of how and why you lead

If you could sum up Discover Your True North in three words, what would they be?

Worth Your Time

Who was your favorite character and why?

Step by Step guide

Which character as performed by Peter Larkin was your favorite?

I loved the opportunity to stop and reflect and pull the wisdom out of my life's lessons.

Great book! It was an easy enjoyable read.

I recommend this book to all aspiring leaders. You will be truly appreciated the stories.

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Title: The Start-Up J Curve

Subtitle: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success

Author: Howard Love

Narrator: Chris Abell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-16

Publisher: Howard Love

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 205 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

A predictable pattern of success, this book provides a clear roadmap for entrepreneurs that shows them where they are and what to do in order to advance their start-up.

After founding or co-founding over 15 start-ups and investing in another 50 early stage ventures as an angel investor, author Howard Love came to understand that a start-up unfolds in a predictable pattern. The more aware entrepreneurs are of this pattern, the better able they will be to capitalize on it. Love calls this pattern the start-up J Curve. The toughest part of the endeavor is the time between the actual start of a new business and when the product and model are firmly established. The Start-Up J Curve gives entrepreneurs the tools they need to get through the early challenges so they can reach the primary value creation that lies beyond.

Love brings 35 years of start-up experience to this comprehensive guide to starting a business. He outlines the six predictable stages of start-up growth and details the activities that should be undertaken at each stage to ensure success and to avoid common pitfalls. Instead of feeling lost and confused after a setback, start-up founders and investors can anticipate the challenges, overcome the obstacles, and ride the curve to the top.

Members Reviews:

Release your product quickly, then be ready to morph.

This book was very informative, but the most helpful takeaway for me was what I learned about the Morph phase.

I have a tendency to really latch on to my initial idea and this chapter helped me understand that this mindset counterproductive. You need to be open, flexible, and willing to change directions (or morph) when the market is telling you to do so.

Not only that, but it is all but guaranteed that version 1.0 of your idea will NOT be a home run. A number of successful businesses that we know and love today started off as something completely different. Only by morphing were they able to finally find product market fit.

So let your first Idea drive you to QUICKLY produce and release a product. But then after that, you need to listen to intently to the feedback of your customers and be prepared to morph.

Knowing this, has taken a lot of the pressure of me to create something perfect in the lab that is my head. We may think I know what people want, but there is often a big difference between what we think people want, and what people are actually willing to use or pay for .

Now, my only goal is to produce a MVP (minimum viable product) as quickly as possible so I can start gathering feedback. The sooner I do this, the sooner I create a product that people love.

Sound Advice, set expectations

I enjoyed reading this book. Setting expectations for new entrepreneurs is critical advice for those that will end up succeeding. There is no fast path, there is only act and react at every step of the way. Expect it is going to happen and prepare for the next set of hard decisions you are going to have to make to keep your start-up moving forward or surviving.

Informative insight.

One of the better books on start ups

I found this book fascinating. It definitely helps you to understand when starting a company the essentials, and that whatever idea you have, its most likely gonna change from your original. The question he asks: what moves do you need to make in order to succeed.

It has many real examples of companies.

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Title: Summary of Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Subtitle: Summary & Analysis

Author: Elite Summaries

Narrator: Ronald Douglas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-16

Publisher: Elite Summaries

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Simon Sinek's book explains what it is that those apparently born leaders do that makes them so successful. He explains how leaders are not necessarily born; that they can be made. Sinek reveals how any of us can learn what the world's "born" leaders do that most people don't. This is a "must listen" book for anyone who wants to lead their organization to success.

What is the great secret that puts one person or organization way out in front of the rest? How do they get to be so much more innovative and successful and remain so, whatever their competitors do? Well, the answer is that asking questions is a good start but they have to be the right questions. Sinek tells us that the most vital question is "why."

In business, it is obviously a good idea to know what you do. You need to know how you do it. But most important of all is to know why you do what you do. In Start with Why, the author explains that it's the basic question all the great leaders in business, social reform, or any other field asked themselves right at the beginning. He examines such leaders as Steve Jobs, Richard Branson or Martin Luther King and notes that they all applied the same thinking and started from the same question: why?

The book goes on to show us how to apply this principle in our own businesses. It explains how to get from "what?" to "how?" and on to "why?" Why are we doing what we do rather than something else? Listen to the book, apply its lessons and you could be the next Jobs or Branson. The sky's no longer the limit!

Members Reviews:

Gets the key points accross

Start With Why is a great book. That said it was also redundant in many areas. That is why this synopsis was very good. It made the point very concisely.

Though it might seem like a TED talk book

Whatever we do in life we do it with a certain goal, a vision of something that will once we achieve that in full. Though it might seem like a TED talk book, Start with why is a compelling guide on how to make it big, by starting from small thing. You might say vision isn't a small thing, but the vision isn't seeing your business as a worldwide business, vision is something within you that will help you grow and make your business bigger than it is. Start small, with a dot in the center and expand, like a pebble dropped on a water.

Though those companies leaders may not be the best role models they did had one thing

So many success stories about business and companies we can learn from. Though those companies leaders may not be the best role models they did had one thing: a clear vision. A vision of their beliefs that lead them straight to the top and among the best. This is something we all can benefit from and learn on how to guide ourselves and grow.

Pretty descent

Would recommend for a quick summary. Haven't read the full book so I can't say how far from the mark it is. Okay though. Had a couple of grammatical errors.

Three Stars

okay as far as summaries go.