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Title: The Clayton M. Christensen Reader

Author: Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review

Narrator: James Conlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The best of Clayton Christensen's seminal work on disruptive innovation, all in one place.

No business can afford to ignore the theory of disruptive innovation. But the nuances of Clayton Christensen's foundational thinking on the subject are often forgotten or misinterpreted. To achieve continuing growth in your business while defending against upstarts, you need to understand clearly what disruption is and how it works and how it applies to your industry and your company.

In this collection of Christensen's most influential articles - carefully selected by Harvard Business Review's editors - his incisive arguments, clear theories, and listenable stories give you the tools you need to understand disruption and what to do about it. The collection features Christensen's newest article looking back on 20 years of disruptive innovation: what it is and what it isn't.

Covering a broad spectrum of topics - business model innovation, mergers and acquisitions, value-chain shifts, financial incentives, product development - these articles illuminate the impact and implications of disruptive innovation as well as Christensen's broader thinking on management theory and its applications in business and in life.

This collection of best-selling articles includes: "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave", by Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen; "Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change", by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf; "Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure", by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, and Taddy Hall; "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things", by Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih; "Reinventing Your Business Model", by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "The New M&A Playbook", by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck; "Skate to Where the Money Will Be", by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Matthew Verlinden; "Surviving Disruption", by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen; "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald; "Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory", by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor; and "How Will You Measure Your Life?", by Clayton M. Christensen.

Members Reviews:

One of the best books ever!!

Extremely impactful!

I am sure I will be coming back to this book again and again as I build my career and life!

Thank you for your amazing research and insights - Prof. Christensen.

Well researched and in depth

Well researched,and in depth from one of the experts in the domain. Focus area could be seen as narrow but he articles go deep into a narrow subject.

Great insight into the thru theory of disruption

Would you consider the audio edition of The Clayton M. Christensen Reader to be better than the print version?

If you want to find out what disruption theories really mean then this selection does just that. Far more comprehensive then loose selections this overview shows you what disruption IS and, just as important, what it IS NOT and how you can act on it.

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Title: Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business

Subtitle: Opening, Operating, Running and Building a Small Business, Book 1

Author: Manual Jobs

Narrator: J. Scott Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Creating Residuals Inc

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

This is a complete guide to how to create a plan for, open, operate, and market a new small business.

Manual Jobs, the author, will walk you through the process of:

Here is a tip on starting a business: Take time to write a business plan. Never use the fact that you are just starting a small business as an excuse to skip writing a formal business plan. You may not be proposing to anybody. You may not be facing a team of investors. You may not be looking forward to reaching out to angel investors. You may not even be thinking of applying for a bank loan. Still, you need a proper business plan.

Review your business plan often. Make changes to it in accordance with what is and is not working in your business. If you find one or two things that are really profitable in your adventures, alter your plan to accommodate getting laser focused on these areas.

In business, when you discover what is really working, you focus on ramping up those areas in order to make more money as fast as possible. Your business plan will help you see what is profitable.

As you can see, Manual Jobs offers suggestions that are easy to understand. Starting a small business does not have to be complicated.

This book intends to help you overcome fear and inspire you to own and operate your own small business.

Members Reviews:

Get your business started!

Would you consider the audio edition of Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business to be better than the print version?

I can follow along with my own papers and ideas while its playing out loud.

What did you like best about this story?

Learning how to get my plans in order as I work on business. I am going to open up a massage business and I thought this was a great way to get my affairs in order.

Which character as performed by J. Scott Bennett was your favorite?

No characters, self help book.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yep! Nice and easy, short enough to get all done, but packed with good information.

Perfect for getting started!

What made the experience of listening to Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business the most enjoyable?

Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business is great because it offers both motivational encouragement as well as pragmatic advice from an experienced business owner. The balance of both makes the work both inspiring and useful.

What other book might you compare Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business to and why?

This is my first experience with a book on entrepreneurship -- it is something that I have recently become interested in because my family is attempting to open up a health food store. I can't, therefore, really offer any comparisons to other books on the topic, but I can say that, especially for a newcomer, Small Business is approachable and compelling.

Have you listened to any of J. Scott Bennetts other performances before? How does this one compare?

This is the first time that I have listened to one of J. Scott Bennett's performances.

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Title: Uncomplicate Business

Subtitle: All It Takes Is People, Time, and Money

Author: Howard Farran

Narrator: Howard Farran

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Farran Enterprises, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 75 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

A bold, useful, uncomplicated guide to mastering the three keys of business success: In this practical book, Dr. Howard Farran shows that running a business isn't all that complicated - if you're focusing on the right three areas:

-People: maximizing the potential of employees, customers, and yourself

Time: mastering the efficiency that helps a business turn the biggest profit possible

Money: learning to love the numbers that function as the business's scorecard

With simplicity, good humor, and plenty of stories, Dr. Farran reveals the actions that can lead anyone to bigger profits, happier people, and a more fulfilling life.

Members Reviews:

Must read for all those entrepreneurs out there!

Great information. Well organized and narrated. It was really nice have the action points at the end of each sections. Nice little recap of important points.

Howard's insights are simply invaluable.

A must read for every dentist or any entrepreneur in America. Howard writes with passion and experience. He is truly a legend.

Great info for any business especially dentistry

Dr Farran gives great, practical advice for any business owner in what matters most when succeeding in business. The stories he uses to explain his experiences and those of other successful companies helped me to understand what's needed to succeed in business and in life. A must read for the entire dental team.

Full of Pragmatic Advice!

If you're like me, you're irritated by the ilk of self-help books that just babble on with common sense, repetitive nonsense that somehow empowers people. Farran's book is a reprieve from this, as he explains many key aspects of his business systems and philosophies that have made him successful. It's a quick read with many great takeaways that can be implemented to improve your business or get you on the right track to starting one.

An absolute must read

Howard is genius!

This is a timeless piece of literature.

This will go down in history as the books along side of Jim Collins "Good to Great" and Dale Carnegie "How to win Friends and Influence people".

An Absolute must read!

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Title: Difficult Conversations

Subtitle: Craft a Clear Message, Manage Emotions and Focus on a Solution

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell or blame you or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive - not combative.

Difficult Conversations walks you through:

About HBR's 20-Minute Manager Series: Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic.

Advice you can quickly listen to and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives - from the most trusted source in business.

Members Reviews:

Excellent

grestbmaterial, desperately needed much harder to organize and apply to life zituations. wish it came with forms for different steps recommended to do for best results

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Title: Collective Genius

Subtitle: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

Author: Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, Kent Lineback

Narrator: Tom Pile

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot?

You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help - but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: You need to lead it - and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how.

Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a "good" leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization.

Using vivid stories of individual leaders at companies like Volkswagen, Google, eBay, and Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where innovation is allowed to happen again and again - an environment where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires.

Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete, practical guidance you need to build innovation into the fabric of your business.

Members Reviews:

New ideas and concepts

Enjoyed the analysis and application with practical examples from organisations. Some repetition and the narration could have been more engaging reducing the time I listen at times.

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Title: Under New Management

Subtitle: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual

Author: David Burkus

Narrator: Rich Orlow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 56 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

A provocative work that challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management - and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don't work.

Do open floor plans really work? Are there companies that put their employees' welfare first and their clients second? Are annual performance reviews necessary? Dr. David Burkus is a highly regarded and increasingly influential business school professor who challenges many of the established principles of business management. Drawing on decades of research, Burkus has found that not only are many of our fundamental management practices wrong and misguided, but they can be downright counterproductive.

These days, the best companies are breaking the old rules. At some companies, email is now restricted to certain hours, so employees can work without distraction. Netflix no longer has a standard vacation policy of two to three weeks but instructs employees to take time off when they feel they need it. And at Valve Software, there are no managers; the employees govern themselves. The revolutionary insights Burkus reveals here will convince companies to leave behind decades-old management practices and implement new ways to enhance productivity and morale.

Members Reviews:

information age work assembly line management

This book really makes you think. Our work becomes more mental and less physical every day. Our management teams still work as if we had shifts to fill on the assembly line. This book gives real world examples of companies that grew through flexibility in vacation, shifts, mixed open/closed work spaces.

improve the output of you thinking work

A great collection of possible tweaks to improve management practices optimised for thinking work to improve the modern knowledge work environment.

Just wow!

I was hooked just in the intro. Companies need to flip the model and put people and trust first. This book needs to be required reading for anyone in business.

Fresh ideas

Well done, great summary of some interesting concepts. Love the writing style, too! Easy listen and very educational. I'm buying copies for many business owner friends!

Great listen for all managers!

Any additional comments?

In Under New Management, David Burkus has pieced together a fascinating collection of firms that have successfully implemented radical new management ideas. The individual case studies are thought provoking, but collectively they challenge managers to reflect on how their firms might upend business as usual. The author is an engaging storyteller, with a style similar to Charles Duhigg and Malcolm Gladwell. Great listen for all managers!

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Title: Remarkable!

Subtitle: Maximizing Results Through Value Creation

Author: Dr Randy Ross, David Salyers

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-16

Publisher: Mission Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

When it comes to qualities such as passion, enthusiasm, energy, and creativity, the majority of the American workforce could be described as "severely lacking". Too many people just go through the motions, viewing work as something they have to do rather than something they love to do. This translates into lackluster performance, lost opportunities, and a staggering loss of profits. So how does a team leader turn a business-as-usual team into a remarkable one?

Remarkable! is an entertaining and enlightening business parable that has the power to turn any team around. Through the humorous and eye-opening story of Dusty, leaders will discover how to build a culture that inspires team members to bring the best of who they are to the table every day. Addressing the three dimensions of culture - values, beliefs, and behaviors - Remarkable! introduces listeners to the Four Maxims of Value Creation: creativity, positivity, sustainability, and responsibility. It shows leaders the most effective ways to cultivate these qualities in their team members and how to craft a corporate culture where people can thrive.

Members Reviews:

Inspirational and well worth the read / listen.

Took away a lot of useful information and ideas from this. Planning to share with as many people as I can.

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Title: Sprint

Subtitle: How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days

Author: Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

Narrator: Dan Bittner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-16

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day. How should you be focusing your efforts? What will your idea look like in real life? How do you start? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you've got the right solution? Now there's a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint.

Created by three partners at Google Ventures, the sprint is a unique five-day process aimed at helping businesses to answer crucial questions and deliver the best results in the least time, allowing the businesses to move on to the next level. It's a 'greatest hits' of business strategy, innovation, behaviour science and design thinking - packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.

Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Chrome to Google X. With John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz at Google Ventures, the team has run more than 100 sprints with start-ups across all kinds of business, including mobile, e-commerce, health care and finance.

Sprint is about arming your business with a process to get problems solved by short-circuiting the endless debate cycle, avoiding groupthink and utilising the people, knowledge and tools that every team already has. It's for companies or groups of any size, from small start-ups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits - anyone who has a big opportunity, problem or idea and who needs to get started.

Members Reviews:

Amazing!

A truly great new system. If you like building things and the Lean Startup this book will fit right in.

Stop wasting time and use this system to test assumptions quickly.

Highly Recommended

Design sprint fanatics

I found this enlightening and encouraging I hope use the techniques at work and gain buy in from my peers and colleagues.

Ok, if you can suffer the google talk

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The idea of a sprint is good and the scrum people have been using it for a good while now. The authors of this book claim their definition of sprint is different but I can't see a whole lot of difference, apart for the insufferable google hype. People who work for that company come across as the most corporate-indoctrinated folks in the world. Its really tedious to listen to and it ruins the book in my opinion.

Not ideal for the audio book format

While the topic isn't anything new, seeing examples of how sprints can be used to solve problems was very interesting. The problem, I found, was that it's more of a reference on running a sprint and for that the physical book would be more helpful. There were frequent lists, timetables and tools to use. In an audio

Io book format these were hard to follow. You'd probably need to by the book as well.

Patronising

Nothing innovative in here. Just insulting junk about how to use post it notes etc.

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Title: Summary: Jim Collins' Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

Author: Ant Hive Media

Narrator: Bob Arthur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-16

Publisher: Ant Hive Media

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

What is required to create something that is great (a work of art, an activity, a business)? What are the ingredients that differentiate between simply good and genuinely great? In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't, Jim Collins offers insight into what it takes to transform a business into a truly great one. Inside this summary of Good to Great:

About the author: Ant Hive Media reads every chapter, extracts the understanding, and leaves you with a new perspective and time to spare. We do the work so you can understand the book in minutes, not hours.

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Title: Key Person of Influence

Subtitle: The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry

Author: Daniel Priestley

Narrator: Michael Maloney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-29-16

Publisher: Creative Content

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 78 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunities. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence.

This audiobook shows you that there is a five-step strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by listening to this audiobook.

Members Reviews:

Undiluted snake oil

The author offers an easy 5 step plan to fortune and success. Everybody can do it. As a bonus, there is a hidden message in the book which he refers to often. In the epilogue he tells you to keep searching for the hidden message, which, if found, will turn you into a super productive successful key person of influence?

Does that sound too good to be true? That's because it is. He collects a bunch of personal experiences and platitudes, not hindered by any research, and simply claims over and over again that success will follow.

He probably means his own success. When he sends the snake oil to many people. I didn't learn anything from this book. The only good thing is that it was very short. So I didn't waste too much time on this.

My tip, read books from actual leaders or people who've actually done the research. Eg Jim Collins, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, Jocko Willink. Real insights from real leaders. Nuanced and humble. No simple 5 step plan to success. But the truth.

Amazing!

life changing perspectives for me. Learning to be a key person of influence in a micro niche is exactly what I dreamed of and now Daniel has given me the confirmation and strategy to pursue this with vitality!

Full of banalities. Waste of time

This book had really good reviews so I downloaded it.

First of all, the narration was not good.

Secondly the content was full of banalities and really general knowledge. He spends a whole chapter self-congratulating himself by saying how this book will make you rich and the method is amazing. But there is no content - nothing!

Most of the advice he gives is really common sense things that everyone knows now. He recommends using social media and publishing content... Well, this is obvious. 16years old people know this without having to buy a book! So why bother with this book?

What a waste of time!!!!

Excellent!!

This is an excellent audio book. Gives you so many ideas & possibilities. It's given me direction and actions to get moving! Will be listening to it many times yet!

Inspirational

I have now created my category of one and perfect pitch delivery. I will become a KPI in my industry