Career Development Audiobooks | Business & Economics

Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen

Turn creativity from a hit-or-miss proposition into something you can count on with this highly praised program. Its co-authors, Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern, are top thinkers in the field of corporate creativity and together they have advised dozens of major organizations in the United States and abroad. In this convenient audio format, they'll show you how innovation and improvement can actually happen in your corporation.

Alan G. Robinson, Sam Stern, Sam Sternberg (Author), Sam Stern, Sam Sternberg (Narrator)

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The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus

Many enlightened leaders and their organizations are learning that Jesus' teachings can be applied to contemporary leadership principles, leading to tremendous payoffs—both professional and personal. Remarkably contemporary, The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus challenges listeners to evaluate their own leadership style and consider time-tested wisdom to make them more effective leaders. He explores powerful themes such as: • The advantage of forgiveness over judgment • The importance of love and service • The wisdom of recognizing the deeper value of every person, and more The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus is a call for wise and compassionate leadership, providing today's leaders with useful lessons that transcend religion.

Charles C. Manz (Author), Charles C. Manz (Narrator)

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Patton on Leadership: Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare

As commander of the Third Army, General George S. Patton, Jr.'s wartime success inspired the remarkable performance of his troops, and the grudging admiration of his enemies. Having stormed across France and Germany with lightning speed, Patton revealed himself as a courageous warrior, a gifted strategist, an inspiring communicator, a masterful motivator, and, most importantly, a brilliant leader. Patton On Leadership distills Patton's brilliance into essential lessons every leader must know to win in today's merciless corporate wars. Vibrant with the earthy wit and wisdom that was Patton's hallmark, these lessons show managers how to develop and project a leadership image, communicate effectively across large organizations, establish clear priorities, build a winning team, mentor future leaders, resolve conflict, sustain optimum performance against all obstacles, and instill the kind of loyalty that inspires consistent outstanding achievement. In a work equally engaging to current or future managers and history buffs alike, General Patton's leadership in battle is turned into the ultimate manual for victory.

Alan Axelrod (Author), Bruce Winant, Robert Foxworth (Narrator)

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Grace Under Pressure

In 1968, a teenage girl in a chartreuse dress delivered a breathtaking free-skating program that captured the only winter Olympics gold medal for the United States. Peggy Fleming continued to earn the highest marks in her skating career, but she deserved even higher marks for her grace under pressure off the ice.

Peggy Fleming (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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How To Win Friends & Influence People

Simon & Schuster Audio is proud to present one of the best-selling books of all time, Dale Carnegie's perennial classic How to Win Friends and Influence People -- presented here in its entirety on 8 compact discs. For over 60 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this audiobook has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. With this truly phenomenal audiobook, learn: * THE SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU * THE TWELVE WAYS TO WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING * THE NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT AROUSING RESENTMENT And much, much more! There is room at the top, when you know...How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie (Author), Andrew MacMillan, Andrew Macmillan, Andrew Macmillian (Narrator)

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Winning With the P&G 99: Principles and Practices of Procter & Gamble's Success

Instantly recognizable as the company behind such familiar products as Ivory soap, Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste, Procter & Gamble is admired as one of the world's best managed companies. Marketing training at P&G rivals that of an MBA degree, and Harvard Business School teaches P&G's brand-management system. Now, a former P&G marketing executive identifies ninety-nine practices and principles that fuel this $35 billion powerhouse -- strategies for success in business and in life. As a brand manager, Charles Decker saw P&G wisdom at work from the inside. For this book, he interviewed dozens of ex-"Proctoids," as they call themselves, to incorporate their perspectives on P&G. Here are the beliefs ("A brand can't stand still"), the code of business conduct ("Do the right thing") and the rules of engagement for television advertising ("Show the package in the first eight seconds") that are at the heart of this marketing giant. Here are anecdotes of a corporate culture where winning is the goal, risk avoidance the criterion, and the airtight memo the basis for action. Accessible and engaging, WINNING WITH THE P&G 99 offers the time-tested strategies that have kept P&G on top -- practical insights for anyone managing a business, a career, or striving for a personal best.

Charlie L. Decker (Author), Charlie L. Decker (Narrator)

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The Portable Coach

Thomas J. Leonard is the father of personal coaching, an explosively growing movement, as well as the founder of Coach University, a virtual university that has trained thousands of personal coaches in thirty countries. Now, in The Portable Coach, Leonard presents his 28-step Principles of Attraction program -- an exciting, profoundly transformational system that will reorient your approach to life and help you attract success, happiness, and fulfillment as surely as a magnet draws steel. Originally developed for the professional coaches at Coach University, Leonard's set of strategies draws on wisdom from psychology, career counseling, management consulting, personal growth programs, motivational training, and good old common sense. By employing the strategies in The Portable Coach you will: -Discover What Matters Most to You -Stop Chasing Success and Let it Find You -Get that Promotion You Deserve -Clean Up Your Personal Finances -Organize Your Life The Portable Coach is the closest possible thing to having the inventor of the personal coaching movement in your corner. A vigorous, highly encouraging blueprint for success, this audiobook will teach you a lively new way of honoring yourself and remaking the world on your own terms! Copyright copy; 1998 by Thomas J. Leonard. Performance copyright 1998, Simon amp; Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Thomas J. Leonard, Thomas J. Leonard (Author), Jesse Boggs (Narrator)

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The Artist's Way at Work

The groundbreaking book The Artist's Way has helped more than a million people access their creativity and realize their dreams. Now, authors Mark Bryan, Julia Cameron, and Catherine Allen extend and expand the original Artist's Way tools in an all-new program specifically designed to encompass the world of the workplace. The authors asked hundreds of businesspeople to tell them the things that concerned them, receiving such heartfelt questions as: How do I stay creative in a hostile and competitive environment? How can I remain creative despite criticism? How can I clarify and apply my strengths to my work? How can I overcome the depression I feel at my job? How can I handle an impossible workload? This audiobook answers these questions and many more. The Artist's Way at Work will help you thrive at the job you now have, move into the career you truly want, or launch the business of your dreams. It combines the strength of three fields, the art world, which gave rise to the original Artist's Way, the entrepreneurial world, and the corporate world. The Artist's Way at Work will give you a more satisfying, fully creative life in which you will feet a sense of wholeness, not fragmentation, a sense of cooperation, not competition. This audiobook will help you become more authentic, more productive, and better able to see and speak your truth in all facets of your life.

Julia Cameron, Mark Bryan (Author), Mark Bryan (Narrator)

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Love Your Job

An estimated twenty million Americans are staying in jobs they hate in order to keep their health insurance, while research indicates that job stress will ensure they use it. We can't all quit our jobs, so how do we cope? Barbara Reinhold offers some excellent solutions for managing stress and taking more control in your life.

Barbara Reinhold (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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Kaplan Word Power: Vocabulary Building for Success

You'll Never Be at a Loss for Words Again. The words you use say a lot about who you are and where you're headed. Whether you want to express yourself clearly to impress a prospective employer during a job interview, or just brush up on those pesky words you encounter every so often reading the newspaper, Kaplan Word Power is the essential tool to help you expand your daily vocabulary. Energize Your Vocabulary with: * Must-know everyday words that are the essentials of a good vocabulary * Engaging lessons to help you utilize words in context * Hot words often found on standardized tests like the SAT and GRE * Tips to help you figure out new words, roots, and more

Kaplan (Author), Kaplan, N/a (Narrator)

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Protect Your Achilles Heel: Crafting Armor for the New Age at Work

Protect Your Achilles Heel mirrors the immensely successful model created by Roberts in his two previous bestsellers Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun and Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun. In that series, Roberts applied Attila's cunning leadership secrets to the modern business world. Now, he uses the story of Achilles to illustrate how seemingly small character flaws are leading to the downfall of managers the world over - just like Achilles's miniscule vulnerability, his heel, led to his demise. The mythic Achilles offers a fascinating example of how great promise can fall victim to moral failings. Roberts draws convincing parallels between Achilles and the destructive behavior of contemporary managers who have forgotten the fundamental principles of effective business. This powerful and insightful audiobook serves as the protective armor managers need to transcend the nine character flaws that erode productivity, create a hostile work environment, and - in the extreme - leads to the self-destruction of one's career. Protect Your Achilles Heel is filled with modern-day parables, observations, and real-life examples that validate these nine flaws as timeless forces that managers in every generation must learn to conquer if they are to protect their own Achilles Heels.

Wess Roberts (Author), Wess Roberts (Narrator)

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First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections--Because Where YouÃ•re Going Is More Important Than

FIRST THINGS FIRST EVERY DAY Because Where You're Headed is More Important Than How Fast You're Going STEPHEN R. COVEY A. ROGER MERRILL AND REBECCA R. MERRILL A multiple-voice recording with an introduction by A. Roger Merrill FIRST THINGS FIRST HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT EVERY DAY... Stephen R. Covey and the Merrills have shown millions of listeners how to balance the demands of a schedule with the desire for fulfillment. The principles they introduced in First Things First are distilled for everyday listening. Let First Things First Every Day be your guide to the rich relationships, the inner peace, and the confidence that come from knowing where you're headed, and why.

Stephen R. Covey (Author), Stephen R. Covey, Various (Narrator)

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