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Title: Contagious Culture

Subtitle: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives

Author: Anese Cavanaugh

Narrator: Caroline Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-16

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Get inspired. Get excited. Get results. A proven approach to corporate culture that's positively contagious.

You are about to enter a new era of leadership. With more competition, more connectedness, and more opportunities than ever before, this exciting new era demands a workplace culture that is collaborative, productive, energized, and contagious. A culture that encourages extraordinary growth and innovation. A culture that starts with you - showing up, setting the tone, and lighting the fire....

This book is about answering that call and setting yourself up for success.

It's about improving your leadership presence and your impact, not just on others but on yourself.

It's about creating the space you need to share your vision, state your intention, and jump-start your team.

It's about working yourself over - from the inside out - so you can become the strong, effective, inspiring leader you know you can be.

This is Contagious Culture, a game-changing guide to transforming corporate culture from within, developed by the award-winning creator of the IEP method to strengthen your "intentional energetic presence". This is more than a leadership book - this is your future calling.

Award-winning organizational advisor Anese Cavanaugh reveals the secrets of IEP - intentional energetic presence - for transforming your workplace and your life.

The key to any company's success lies in its culture. This game-changing guide shows you how to shape and revitalize this culture by setting the tone, engaging the team, and creating a dynamic working environment that encourages growth, productivity, and innovation. It all starts with you....

Using the book's unique IEP method, you can:

With these proven step-by-step techniques, you can take control of the culture you work in and build a healthier, more functional environment - from the inside out. You'll find helpful, transformative tools and exercises for improving collaborations, opening communications, and implementing changes. You'll discover the best methods for handling the toughest challenges, whether it's hiring and firing, strategizing and organizing, busyness or burnout. Best of all, you'll learn how to enhance your intentional energetic presence (IEP) so you'll always be fully present, purposeful, and prepared to share your vision with infectious energy and enthusiasm.

Members Reviews:

Good book!!

This was a very informative book on culture. I will have my team read it also

Must get this book!!!

I reached a point in my life when I had a HARD time with my energy. I could be happy or I could let other people's negative energy bring me down. And then there were a few people in my world (I couldn't get rid of them) that as soon as I heard their name or saw them I would be flustered, anxious and angry. Don't hide it...we all have those people.

Well I started putting into practice the things Anese discussed in her book and I have been able to hold my IEP high and protect my bubble around the severely toxic people.

I'm not perfect and it will be a life long learning process but I'm looking forward to getting better.

This book isn't just for companies. You can develop a contagious culture in your home or in your marriage/dating life.

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Title: Daring Greatly

Subtitle: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Author: Brené Brown

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-16

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 76 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, read by Karen White.

Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect.

In a powerful new vision, Dr. Brené Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability and dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. She argues that in truth, vulnerability is strength, and when we shut ourselves off from vulnerability - from revealing our true selves - we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.

Daring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of groundbreaking social research across every area of our lives, including home, relationships, work, and parenting. It is an invitation to be courageous, to show up and let ourselves be seen, even when there are no guarantees. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

Members Reviews:

Narrator

I found this voice very annoying and difficult to listen to. However the content was fascinating !

Amazing perspective!

I absolutely loved this book. It touched me and many different ways as there were so many stories within the book that I could relate to regarding shame, guilt and vulnerability. It's an essential work Brenè does with her research and I can't thank her greatly enough for this contribution.

Absolute must read if you are working towards self healing or if you are looking for inspiration how to have compassion for other people, not to mention if you are working in this field or want to work in this field.

Thank you Brenè! Listening to your carefully written words filled me with inspiration, compassion for myself and more longing to dive deeper into my own research of human behavior and struggles. Thank you thank you thank you!

Great subject

I like it a lot really great teaching but the voice was very annoying and bad.

Audio

I found the audio terrible. It may be a technical issue. The narrator sounded robotic and inconsistent voice pitch. Very distracting to listen to.

So disappointing

Worst narrator!

I love Brene Brown and have all her books. I just can't listen to this one because of the narrator. She is definitely one of the worst narrators I've heard on Audible and not at all representative of the voice that Brene writes in. :(

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Title: Scrum

Subtitle: The art of doing twice the work in half the time

Author: Jeff Sutherland

Narrator: JJ Sutherland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-16

Publisher: Penguin Random House UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 40 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its cocreator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland.

Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to health care in major American hospitals. In this major new book, its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.

Take the FBI's attempt to digitize its records, for example. As with so many software projects, the first attempt failed, having taken four years and cost over $400 million. Then the FBI turned to Scrum and, just over a year later, unveiled a functioning system that cost less than a tenth of the first project and employed a tenth of the staff.

And it's not just grand projects that Scrum can help with. Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget. Scrum shows you how. It explains how to define precisely what it is that you are seeking to achieve, how to set up the team to achieve it, and how to monitor progress until the project is successfully completed.

Filled with practical examples drawn from all types of organisations, it will make you rethink the fundamentals of successful management - and show you how to get things done however everyday or ambitious, however small or large your organisation.

Members Reviews:

The best book for Project Managment ever.

We tried out this approuch during a huge project. That was great. The book is really worth reading. I strongly recommend it.

un buen libro

Es un excelente libro para entender los orígenes y aplicaciones de SCRUM más allá del desarrollo de software

Mandaroty for project managers

If you want to launch a product doesn't matter in what area. You must read this book!

Exceptional

This book is most definitely worth the time. It can give you visible insight into the why and how of Scrum.

Great concept, lacked implementation

Great concept but they could have gave a bit more insight to the how to do it.

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Title: Design Thinking in Business and IT: Overview, Techniques and Example Workshop

Author: Florian Heuer

Narrator: Bryan Stout

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-15

Publisher: Heuer Coaching

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 54 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

You might have talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype?

Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods. That's where design thinking comes into play. Design thinking is basically a discipline that facilitates innovation and problem solving by taking the human-centered approach and focusing on the needs and wants of the end-user. It follows a string of steps and involves teams with mixed skills and backgrounds so it can combine their different strengths and points of view.

Because it brings people in the same environment, with the help of an experienced facilitator, they can establish common ground. The result is that everyone's voice will be heard and collaboration is achieved in a fun and informal way. Everyone within the group is encouraged to share their ideas, experiences, skills and expectations so the group can work through the different options following the DT process and collaborate to reach a solution for the problem at hand.

©2015 Heuer Coaching (P)2015 Heuer Coaching

Members Reviews:

Basic design thinking lesson

Very basic and instructive steps that all designers should know. Might be a bit too basic for some of us that are looking into more context...

Very fast speaking hard to listen

Very fast speaking hard to listen. Maybe the text would be better than the audio.

Really informative

Would you listen to Design Thinking in Business and IT: Overview, Techniques and Example Workshop again? Why?

Yes, there's a wealth of good fundamental and practical knowledge here.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

"Ideation is the transition between defining the problem and finding the solution. You need to look at all the options without restrictions. The volume (fluency) and the variety (flexibility) will ensure you dont leave anything un explored. "

Usefull

Helpfull for prope who wants to enrace there productivity. Its an basic step by step of how lead a project.

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Title: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni

Subtitle: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

Author: Instaread

Narrator: Michael Gilboe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-15

Publisher: Instaread

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni is a practical guide to organizational health. Organizational health is a characteristic of many successful businesses and organizations. Leaders can adopt organizational health strategies to transform their own operations and company culture in order to see the same successes that many other healthy organizations do. Through analysis, case studies, and applicable step-by-step explanations, executives and leadership teams can uncover where their own organizational health is lacking and how to improve upon it.

Please Note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book.

Members Reviews:

Lousy! Gives impression that it's the whole book, but it's just a poor summary.

Lousy! Gives impression that it's the whole book, but it's just a summary. And not a very good one as such, as I've read Lencioni's book. It should say Summary: in it's name.

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Title: Busy

Subtitle: How to thrive in a world of too much

Author: Tony Crabbe

Narrator: Tony Crabbe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

It's difficult to ask anybody "how are you?" without hearing the word "busy" somewhere in their response. We feel overwhelmed by busyness because of the demands on our time: our inboxes and our to-do lists are bulging, a huge amount of people expect things from us and our organisations are trying to do more with fewer people. But it doesn't have to be that way.

In reality, busyness isn't essential. Yes, there is a lot to do, but believing you're always busy because you have so much to do is both false and unhelpful. Busyness is a normal response to a world of too much, but it isn't the only response.

In Busy Tony Crabbe draws on solid psychological research to address one of the great problems of modern life: we're too busy. But it isn't a time-management book. Rather than providing advice for increasing productivity and efficiency, it sets out four key strategies (corresponding to sections of the book) for thriving despite of the overload of too much:

1. Mastery - to move beyond busyness you need to regain a sense of mastery over your life. This section shows you how to build a sense of control back into your life, take responsibility for making choices and set boundaries to protect you from the flood of demands and information.

2. Focus - in a world of too much, success is not about doing more at work but about making an impact. This section outlines three ways to move to a career strategy that doesn't rely on productivity alone.

3. Engagement - busyness can cause you to disengage from the people, values and activities that are important to us. This section provides you with the three keys to reengaging with your work and life.

4. Momentum - part of the challenge to moving beyond busyness is that even if you agree you should make the change, you're too busy to find the time and energy to do anything about it. This section is dedicated to helping you make the change, creating the impetus, energy and clarity to move to a life less busy.

Critic Reviews:

"This book has the power to change your life. In this thought provoking guidebook to today's world of 'too much', Tony Crabbe destroys the myth of 'busyness' and provides practical, thoughtful advice to help individuals (and their organisations) unleash their true potential." (Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer, Microsoft UK and author of Business Reimagined)

"Over the past 20 years, all of us who are connected to the Internet have been overwhelmed by the disease of busy-ness. We seem to have less control over professional and social lives and ever more and more consumed by a world of 'too much'. This book is the medicine we have been looking for to become healthier, happier and successful human beings. It is packed with great ideas built on cutting-edge research and best practices. Interesting stories and wonderful practical strategies help the reader to be able to truly thrive in today's busy world.

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Title: Big Data

Subtitle: Using Smart Big Data, Analytics and Metrics to Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance

Author: Bernard Marr

Narrator: Piers Wehner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 189 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Get smart - learn to convert the promise of Big Data into real-world results.

There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to use big data to get solid, real-world business results - and putting that in place to improve performance.

Big Data shows you how to implement the same practices that leading firms have used to access new dimensions of profitability. You'll learn from clear explanations and countless examples how successful organisations large and small use the SMART model to get ahead.

Members Reviews:

It would deserve an A (if it was a school paper)

This book would be a good introduction to a real book about Big Data. There's some good concepts in it, but it barely touches the issue making it sound like a introduction book about data itself, not big data. Dealing with big data brings some issues specific to the task that were not addressed.

Some questions I still have: what are the technologies I can apply in order to deal with huge amounts of data? Where should I store it? What do I plug-in in order to extract some information from it? Where do I get more information? What kind of professionals should I hire? I already have the damned smart questions, I have the datasets, how do I move on? Hiring the author is the only solution?

If my customers ask me about big data I'll have nothing pragmatic to tell them.

Meh

Mostly stuff you already know. Really seems like the book was written for an older and less tech savvy person.

Fluff Data

This book is targeted towards an absolute neophyte who is interested in understanding what the term big data means when he/she heard it advertised by IBM during last year's Superbowl.

What this book does. It takes all the buzz words that can be found by google or Wikipedia, and defines them. Marr attempts to put big data a structure that is too simplistic it's akin to summing up raising a child as: birth, growth, teenage conflict, adulthood. True, but is it worth the credit? NO. This is a pass of "big data" proportions.

Light on both Big Data and business acumen

What did you like best about Big Data? What did you like least?

The book is strongest for those with little big data experience making it great for small and medium firms looking to start using the data that they have.

Good framework to approach Big Data

Good intro to Big Data. Provides a framework through which one should approach big data within their organization and a good many examples of case studies.

This is not an advanced technical book about how to apply analytics.

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Title: HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Find the right person to help supercharge your career.

Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking for you - and you'll probably be waiting forever.

Instead you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals. Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and efficient tool for moving up.

The HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need will help you get it right. You'll learn how to:

Members Reviews:

Helpful!

I really enjoyed this. It helped put mentoring into a perspective I could fully relate to.

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Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Collaboration

Author: Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Morten Morten

Narrator: Chris Kayser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

New from the best-selling HBR's 10 Must Reads series.

Join forces with others inside and outside your organization to solve your toughest problems.

If you listen to nothing else on collaborating effectively, you should at least hear these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you work more productively with people on your team, in other departments, and in other organizations.

Leading experts such as Daniel Goleman, Herminia Ibarra, and Morten Hansen provide the insights and advice you need to:

Members Reviews:

Good Content; Awful Audio Reading

There are some great articles on collaboration in this collection. It's an important topic that most businesses have no idea how to deal with. Unfortunately, the audio version is stifled by the incredibly mechanical reading of the content. I listen to audio content (books, podcasts) all the time, and can get through most anything. But the reading on this was so bad that I just couldn't listen to the audio anymore and had to turn it off.

Four Stars

enjoyable and good tips

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.â Ancient African proverb

This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider to be âmust readsâ in a given business subject area, in this instance collaboration. I have no quarrel with any of their selections, each of which is eminently deserving of inclusion. Were all of these ten articles purchased separately as reprints, the total cost would be at least $60 and the practical value of any one of them exceeds that.

Given the fact that Amazon US now sells this one for only 119.52, thatâs quite a bargain. The same is true of volumes in other series such as âHBR Guide toâ,â âHarvard Business Review onâ,â and âHarvard Business Essentials." I also think there is great benefit derived from the convenience of having a variety of perspectives and insights gathered in a single volume.

In all of the volumes in the âHBR 10 Must Readsâ series that I have read thus far, the authors and their HBR editors make skillful use of several reader-friendly devices that include âIdea in Briefâ and âIdea in Actionâ sections, checklists with or without bullet points, boxed mini-commentaries (some of which are âguestâ contributions from other sources), and graphic charts and diagrams that consolidate especially valuable information. These and other devices facilitate, indeed accelerate frequent review later of key points later.

Those who read this volume will gain valuable information, insights, and counsel that will help them to forge strong relationships up, down, and across their organization, build a collaborative culture, bust silos (often disguised as human beings, âthe living deadâ), harness informal knowledge sharing, select the right collaboration(s) outside their business, manage conflict wisely, and know when [begin italics] not [end italics] collaborate.

The healthiest organizations are those with a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive.

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Title: Creating Business Plans

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: James Edward Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-15

Publisher: Harvard Business School

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success - whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to:

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 hear and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives - from the most trusted source in business.

Members Reviews:

Good Review

it was nice to have examples of each section of a business plan. Looking forward to read more books/reviews from the HBR 20 minute management series.

Disappointed

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A total rewrite

What do you think your next listen will be?

Business plan QuickStart guide by Clydebank was my next read and by comparison a much more comprehensive guide to writing a business plan.

What aspect of James Edward Thomass performance would you have changed?

Quite possibly a little to Mono tone

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Creating Business Plans?

Instead of following one single business concept/idea from start to finish it, I would die versify various plug-and-play Business concepts other than Just anInternet service/product company. Seem like more of an advertising piece for a fitness product/service.

Excellent summary of a Business Plan.

A quick guide to write a Business Plan, everything is clear with a pragmatic focus. It is really helpful. Thanks!!