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Title: The Power of People Skills

Subtitle: How to Eliminate 90% of Your HR Problems and Dramatically Increase Team and Company Morale and Performance

Author: Trevor Throness

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

People are the problem. They're always the problem. If a business person goes home frustrated, if they talk with their significant other about it, if they lay awake at night stewing about it, inevitably the problem is some person at work - a colleague, subordinate, or boss.

Handling people issues is every leader's major headache. It's what takes up the majority of their time and - more important - the bulk of their head space. Every leader can and must develop this most important of all management skills.

The Power of People Skills will teach you that there's one primary difference between a great culture and a poor one: a great culture insists on having star players in every key seat, and a poor culture tolerates under performers. In this powerful book, you will learn how to:

Members Reviews:

Engaging, practical and full of great stories

The Power of People Skills is a must-read for anyone who aspires to be a better team-member or leader in an organization. I often get bored about 50 pages into most business books, but Throness kept me engaged and challenged right to the end. His practical ideas and great storytelling kept my mind whirring about improvements I can make, and also made me chuckle many times.

LOVED IT

I loved the book. Such practical insight offered by the author and I especially loved the section at the end of each chapter called "People Action Steps" and "In Summary" section

Practical Advice for All Leaders

Great read. Concrete tips to help expose weak team members, and provide insight into retaining and developing stars. Having seen the positive results from implementing the writer's strategies, I highly recommend this book.

Awesome!

Awesome Resource! Trevor has run training sessions with our staff team it's been very helpful

Great book !

Great book! Easy to read. Excellent practical advise. Highly recommend it.

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Title: Simplify

Subtitle: How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed

Author: Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood

Narrator: Roger Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

For the past 40 years, Richard Koch has wanted to uncover the simple, elemental, elegant and parsimonious principles that are needed to create great new businesses. To qualify, a principle must be so overwhelmingly powerful that anyone can reliably use it towards extraordinary results. Is there any principle that can tell you how to do that consistently and with a high chance of success?

Working with venture capitalist Greg Lockwood, his coauthor on Superconnect, and supported by research from the elite firm of OC&C Strategy Consultants, Koch has the answer.

The principle Koch and Lockwood have discovered behind extraordinarily successful businesses is simplifying. Some simplify on price - take Ryanair's budget flights, which still take you from A to B but so cheaply that nearly everyone can afford them, multiplying the size of their market - and some simplify on proposition, such as Apple's decision to cut down on the number of their product lines and focus on perfecting only a few devices. With case studies of famous companies in all different industries from finance to fast food, the authors show how anyone can analyse their business' potential to become a simplifier and which route they should take to maximise the impact.

Members Reviews:

Yes we get the Why, more on the How please

Great points but half of the book felt like a white paper or scientific journal. The examples were repetitive and felt stale after awhile. Perhaps a How rather than Why focus would be better.

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Title: The Cyber Risk Handbook

Subtitle: Creating and Measuring Effective Cybersecurity Capabilities

Author: Domenic Antonucci

Narrator: Mark Schectman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Actionable guidance and expert perspective for real-world cybersecurity

The Cyber Risk Handbook is the practitioner's guide to implementing, measuring, and improving the counter-cyber capabilities of the modern enterprise. The first resource of its kind, this book provides authoritative guidance for real-world situations, and cross-functional solutions for enterprise-wide improvement. Beginning with an overview of counter-cyber evolution, the discussion quickly turns practical with design and implementation guidance for the range of capabilities expected of a robust cyber risk management system that is integrated with the enterprise risk management (ERM) system. Expert contributors from around the globe weigh in on specialized topics with tools and techniques to help any type or size of organization create a robust system tailored to its needs. Chapter summaries of required capabilities are aggregated to provide a new cyber risk maturity model used to benchmark capabilities and to road-map gap improvement.

Cyber risk is a fast-growing enterprise risk, not just an IT risk. Yet seldom is guidance provided as to what this means. This book is the first to tackle in detail those enterprise-wide capabilities expected by board, CEO, and internal audit, of the diverse executive management functions that need to team up with the Information Security function in order to provide integrated solutions.

The need to manage cyber risk across the enterprise - inclusive of the IT operations - is a growing concern as massive data breaches make the news on an alarmingly frequent basis. With a cyber risk management system now a business-necessary requirement, practitioners need to assess the effectiveness of their current system, and measure its gap-improvement over time in response to a dynamic and fast-moving threat landscape. The Cyber Risk Handbook brings the world's best thinking to bear on aligning that system to the enterprise and vice-a-versa. Every functional head of any organization must have a copy at-hand to understand their role in achieving that alignment.

Members Reviews:

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What disappointed you about The Cyber Risk Handbook?

Multiple references to the PDF yet no PDF is included, which greatly takes away from the value of the content.

A substandard child's book
no real technology info

Today's technology professionals writers need to get to the meat of the information and stop wasting our time with stories

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Title: The Project Manager's MBA

Subtitle: How to Translate Project Decisions into Business Success

Author: Dennis J. Cohen, Robert. J. Graham

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-17

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Project managers are no longer judged by the technical success of their projects alone. They're also held accountable for their contributions to the company's financial goals. Yet most project managers don't have the business knowledge necessary to make project-based decisions that lead to bottom-line success. In this audiobook, Dennis Cohen and Robert Graham, both former university professors and experienced project management consultants, provide the skills that, until now, could be gained only through a graduate degree and years of hands-on experience.

Cohen and Graham walk project managers through basic business concepts such as value creation, accounting and finance, strategy, and marketing. They connect these concepts to the decisions project managers face every day. And they make it easy to apply the resulting solutions on the job through a unique business systems calculator. Listeners can use the online calculator in conjunction with the book to understand how different project variables affect business outcomes, to determine the overall impact of proposed project changes, and to evaluate the economic results of many decisions they make.

Cohen and Graham's principles apply equally to projects in business, nonprofit, and government organizations. And each one is illustrated through case studies drawn from a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, the technology sector, even the winemaking business. Whether the mandate is to get new products to market, improve the infrastructure, or better serve customers and clients, this audiobook teaches project managers how to make day-to-day decisions from an upper-management perspective. And it provides a blueprint for planning and pitching potential projects that demonstrates a higher level of business savvy.

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Title: Achieve with Accountability

Subtitle: Ignite Engagement, Ownership, Perseverance, Alignment, and Change

Author: Mike Evans

Narrator: Steven Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

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:

In today's complex, highly competitive, global environment, those who will survive and thrive in this new world of work are individuals, teams, and organizations who can maintain high levels of accountability and remain focused on must-achieve desired results. Achieve with Accountability is your personal handbook for awakening your (or your team or organization's) inner confidence, drive, perseverance, determination, resolve, and can-do mindset. It will hone your skills and capacity to achieve what matters most.

Discover what impels top-performing individuals, teams, and organizations to excel, thrive, and achieve their most desired results. Let leadership expert Mike Evans show you how to awaken and release from in you, your team, and your organization the discretionary performance that resides within, but is often left untapped. Transform accountability into an engaging, upbeat, positive, forward looking experience that will secure you, your team, and your organization a position in the new world of work.

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Title: The Innovation Code

Subtitle: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict

Author: Jeff DeGraff, Staney DeGraff

Narrator: Tom Dheere

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-17

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

From years of research and practical experience as a consultant, Jeff DeGraff has learned that when it comes to any innovation initiative, disharmony is crucial. We innovate when we disrupt, and we first have to disrupt each other.

DeGraff identifies four contrasting types of innovators. There's the wild experimentation of The Artist, the pragmatic caution of The Engineer, the urgent competitiveness of The Athlete, and the patient community-building of The Sage. He includes exercises so listeners can find where they fit into this framework, and shows how to build, manage, and embrace the dynamic discord of a team that contains all four types. When you combine the visionary thinking of The Artist and the practical thinking of The Engineer, you get innovation that's both revolutionary and manageable, highly ambitious without high risk. When you combine the results-oriented attitude of The Athlete with the values-oriented attitude of The Sage, you get innovation that's both a good investment and good for the world. This is a profound but highly accessible guide for achieving breakthrough solutions by utilizing the full - and seemingly contradictory - spectrum of innovative thinking.

Members Reviews:

Read This and Learn a Lot About How to Innovate

My job is to bring innovation into peacebuilding. So, when I see a book with a title like The Innovation Code, I immediately read it. This was well worth it for at least four reasons in this case.

First is a statement they make toward the end of the book. "Collaboration has recently emerged as the defining characteristic of creativity and growth in nearly all sectors and industries." I think they're right except for the sectors and industries I work in that all include social and political policy making. Second, they start the book by suggesting that we encourage conflict if we want to be innovative. Thus, the first paragraph of the preface includes this line. "It's best that we innovate not with people we agree with but with people who challenge us." Rather than surround ourselves with people like ourselves, they suggest working with your polar opposite if you want to do something other than business as usual.

Third, they don't encourage conflict for conflict's sake. Rather, they stress the importance of bringing together diverse teams that share at least some kind of "shared investment in the project." Finally, they help us figure out ways of working with people whose modus vivendi is different from our own which always involves heightening our understanding of or empathy

A Must Read. Engaging, Brief, and Useful on Innovation Theory

Organizations who don't understand the value of different type of behaviors will learn to appreciate and unleash their people by reading and reflecting on this book. The book borrows from the big five personalities, and define four archetypes: artist, engineer, atheletes, and sage. Dr Degraff also reminds us of his prior work on the Competing Value Framework 4Cs: creative, control, collaborate, compete and how to put it work in an organization with interesting story and character. I read the book on a flight from Minneapolis to Boston plus another hour. It's a short read with many gold nuggets to apply to your team.

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Title: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic

Subtitle: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations

Author: Kent D. Seltman, Leonard L. Berry

Narrator: Gary Regal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-17

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The leader's guide to building a service powerhouse using the approach that made Mayo Clinic the number one healthcare system in America.

Mayo Clinic is among the best service organizations in the world. It fosters a culture that exceeds customer expectations and earns deep loyalty from both customers and employees. This classic business guide offers a rare, up-close look at the best practices that drive Mayo Clinic's success. By examining the operating principles that guide every management decision at this legendary institution, authors Leonard Berry and Kent Seltman:

Learn how to apply the Clinic's winning methods to your own organization: business concepts that produce stellar results, effective organizational efficiency, and world-class interpersonal service.

Members Reviews:

The subject, how to provide top quality health service ...

The subject, how to provide top quality health service and survive as a non profit organization for a hundred years is facinating and the book contains a detailed description of the Mayo Clinic, its core values and strategies. I have no practical knowledge when it comes to working for or being admitted to one of the clinics but I miss the story about the pitfalls, what is the biggesr challenges in such a gigantic structure based on a set of core values from the beginning of the last century ?

It is easy to read and follow

I had to purchase this book for a class. It is easy to read and follow. I found it very interesting and it really did enhance my understanding of management in healthcare

A gem on health care--and management

This book is a gem from multiple standpoints. It describes to a tee the culture and processes at the Mayo Clinic. (As a long time patient there, I can verify that the unbelievable level of service and attention is experienced by patients exactly as Berry and Seltman describe it.) They describe not only the what, but also the why and how, of service at Mayo. But going beyond Mayo and health care, the authors include a "Lessons for Managers" section at the end of each chapter, detailing how the principles in that chapter could be applied to a wide range of organizations. Mayo is repeatedly voted one of the top health care providers in America, and patients come from all over the world to be treated there. Read this book and you'll understand why.

I admit I'm only half done with this book....

but I already know that it's clearly 5 stars. I've already underlined numerous passages throughout the book to apply to my job. (I work in the hospital industry.) I recommend this book to everyone in a hospital leadership position, not only to learn more about hospital leadership best-practices, but also to get re-energized about working in the hospital industry.

Five Stars

It is .

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Title: Prescription for the Future

Subtitle: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations

Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrator: David DeVries

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

How can America's health-care system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in health care matters more.

Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost care, and from their examples distills 12 transformational practices that could transform the entire health-care sector.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel looks at individual physician practices and organizations who are already successfully driving change and the specific practices they have instituted. They are not the titans everyone seems to know and assume to be the "best"; instead, Emanuel has chosen a select group - from small physician offices to large multispecialty group practices, accountable care organizations, and even for-profit companies - that are genuinely transforming care.

Prescription for the Future shines a bright diagnostic light on the state of American health care and provides invaluable insights for health-care workers, investors, and patients. The book gives all of us the tools to recognize the places that will deliver high-quality, effective care when we need it.

Members Reviews:

Prescription is Evolutionary not Revoluionary

Dr. Emanuel demonstrates that there are incremental improvements that could, if more widely adopted, reduce the cost of delivering health care in the United States.

What is good about the book is that it's approach is evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

What needs is improvement -- perhaps one more chapter at the end -- is a GREATER SENSE OF URGENCY re: broader implementation of these basic and achievable results.

Urgent Care

a spot on analysis about the shortcomings of our current healthcare system and real-world examples of how it can be fixed.

Good policy perspectives

I'm only almost through chapter two right now but am getting excited about some policy implementation information shared in the book. Good stuff! The author seems to have a great grasp of big picture issues.

Provides hope for change in the political negative environment: pragmatic and sound advice!

The book is be readable with practices that are backed up by many examples and stories. I also liked answering how do you pick your provider-if we as customers asked those questions it would be a catalyst for change. Though I am a health IT person I liked the practical discussion of not getting enamored by virtual medicine hyped appeal but seeing the very practical telehealth and new care coordination models can work. The other key concept is the packaging of changes that can be adapted and extended to meet the organization's situational specific needs. I wish there were a few pictures- I like them and I think some of the states are really working transformation like Delaware and others. This is a great read for optimists like me!

Must read for health care leaders

I teach health care at the college level. Dr. Emanuel does a great job of laying out some of the solutions providers have found to both improve customer service and healthcare outcomes. If you work in healthcare and are wondering where the ACA is leading the Amercian Healthcare systems.

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Title: The Mathematical Corporation

Subtitle: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

Author: Josh Sullivan, Angela Zutavern

Narrator: Fleet Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 68 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.

We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the Internet age in the 1990s. Leaders must transform how they run their organizations, or competitors will bring them crashing to earth - often overnight.

Mathematical corporations - the organizations that will master the future - will outcompete high-flying rivals by merging the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are still the drivers of breakthroughs. Only they can ask crucial questions to capitalize on business opportunities newly discovered in oceans of data.

This dynamic combination will make possible the fulfillment of missions that once seemed out of reach, even impossible to attain. Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern's extraordinary examples include the entrepreneur who upended preventive health care, the oceanographer who transformed fisheries management, and the pharmaceutical company that used algorithm-driven optimization to boost vaccine yields.

Together they offer a profoundly optimistic vision for a dazzling new phase in business and a playbook for how smart companies can manage the essential combination of human and machine.

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Critic Reviews:

"Shrewd corporate executives are realigning their organizations to harness the burgeoning power of cyberintelligence.... Nonetheless, both corporate executives and government leaders still need inquisitive and creative humans.... A lucid overview of the management principles rapidly moving that world forward." (Booklist )

Members Reviews:

USEFUL FODDER, but nothing groundbreaking

The best part of this book is that it brings the whole conversation concisely into one place. You can read other related books & articles & reconstitute all of the knowledge & stories here... but this book is an easy button to have yourself a virtual conversation with the refinement of proper book editing. It was worth my while but not something I studied & took notes on as more groundbreaking works.

Information gathering the the future of privacy

Whether we like it or not information is being gathered at a stupendous rate about us. Private information, privileged information, confidential information, and public information. If you use the internet it's all being gathered.

How companies should use this is what this book is about. It's not as simple as one might think. Corporations can get ahead by using grey areas where information in the public domain can be considered non private. The author and this book are rightfully against such use, whether they can control its proliferation or not.

It is the information that does not infringe or the information that would make society a better place that is discussed in detail.

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Title: Smart Collaboration

Subtitle: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos

Author: Heidi K. Gardner

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.

Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems - everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle. Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive. Unless you know why you're collaborating and how to do it effectively, it may not be smart at all. That's especially true for partners who have built their reputations and client rosters independently, not by working with peers.

In Smart Collaboration, Heidi K. Gardner shows that firms earn higher margins, inspire greater client loyalty, attract and retain the best talent, and gain a competitive edge when specialists collaborate across functional boundaries. Gardner, a former McKinsey consultant and Harvard Business School professor now lecturing at Harvard Law School, has spent over a decade conducting in-depth studies of numerous global professional service firms. Her research with clients and the empirical results of her studies demonstrate clearly and convincingly that collaboration pays, for both professionals and their firms.

But Gardner also offers powerful prescriptions for how leaders can foster collaboration, move to higher-margin work, increase client satisfaction, improve lateral hiring, decrease enterprise risk, engage workers to contribute their utmost, break down silos, and boost their bottom line.

With case studies and real-world insights, Smart Collaboration delivers an authoritative case for the value of collaboration to today's professionals, their firms, and their clients and shows you exactly how to achieve it.

Members Reviews:

Too much padding

I was disappointed with this audio book. The message conveyed in 8 hours of audio could have been achieved in 2.