HR & Office Administration Audiobooks | Business & Economics

The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation

High-velocity change is the fundamental challenge facing companies today. Few companies, however, are prepared to continuously innovate-because they focus on the short-term and do not emphasize the wisdom needed. In The Wise Company, legendary management experts Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi highlight how various companies have confronted the challenge of rapid change. The key: a relentless self-renewal process where companies realize the future they envision, rather than only responding to changes in the environment. Companies that have resilience, longevity, and sustainability share a number of characteristics, Nonaka and Takeuchi show. Strategies are based on alignment of organizational and societal benefits. Leaders grasp the core of any situation or problem quickly, and intuitively comprehend the nature and meaning of people, things, and events. But wise leadership is not enough: wisdom must infuse the organization through informal as well as formal shared interactions and communications that focus on metaphors and stories that convey the essence and meaning of strategies and actions. Nonaka and Takeuchi demonstrate how continuous innovation results from companies creating new knowledge, disseminating knowledge throughout the organization, and converting that knowledge to action.

Hirotaka Takeuchi, Ikujiro Nonaka (Author), Tim Lounibos (Narrator)

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100% Capacity: The End of Gender Balance as We Know It

There is a wealth of natural leadership resources in your company just waiting to be unearthed. In this ground-breaking new book, author Jennifer Kenny shows that every organization contains hidden gems in the form of underutilized leadership traits, and teaches how to identify and amplify them, for outrageous success. Drawing on 25 years of experience in management and leadership coaching, along with extensive research in business and science, Kenny explores the spectrum of masculine and feminine leadership traits—traits both men and women may have in different balances—and the benefits of all when utilized equally in leadership and teambuilding. She clearly explains how a gender-balanced approach over an often male-dominated one can work to your company’s advantage and breaks down the 7 key areas of corporate performance metrics to give you the tools to optimize success in each one. Do you want to capture new markets? Ensure employee loyalty? Make smarter, faster decisions? Goldmine will have you extracting the leadership potential from within your organization and seeing the benefits in both your workforce and your bottom line.

Jennifer Kenny (Author), Jennifer Kenny (Narrator)

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Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustai

Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead-whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors-a greater understanding of character will challenge your thinking, inspire new ideas, and elevate your personal and professional performance. Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us about Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future provides an exceptional opportunity to become a better leader by applying the extraordinary yet down-to-earth insights from the authors' accessible scholarship and interviews with truly distinguished leaders whose lessons on building stronger societies through character-based leadership are moving, powerful, and evergreen.

Gerard H. Seijts, Gerard Seijts, Kimberley Young Milani, Kimberly Young Milani (Author), Senn Annis (Narrator)

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HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict

While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way. We jockey for position. How can you deal with conflict at work in a way that is both professional and productive-where it improves both your work and your relationships? You start by understanding whether you generally seek or avoid conflict, identifying the most frequent reasons for disagreement, and knowing what approaches work for what scenarios. Then, if you decide to address a particular conflict, you use that information to plan and conduct a productive conversation. The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict will give you the advice you need to understand the most common sources of conflict; explore your options for addressing a disagreement; recognize whether you-and your counterpart-typically seek or avoid conflict; prepare for and engage in a difficult conversation; manage your and your counterpart's emotions; develop a resolution together; and know when to walk away.

Amy Gallo (Author), Liisa Ivary (Narrator)

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The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurolog

In The Neurodiversity Edge, renowned Oxford-trained cognitive scientist, neurodiversity expert, and business leader, Dr. Maureen Dunne presents a pioneering framework to harnessing the power of neurodiversity to navigate the most important human resources revolution in the modern era. With this indispensable guide, you'll cultivate a values-driven approach to building a culture of sustained authentic inclusion where everyone can thrive; learn how to improve the interview process to avoid missing game-changing talent; develop a hybrid office protocol that works for everyone and a support infrastructure that aligns with universal design principles; uncover and eliminate the destructive influence of unconscious cognitive biases; understand unique problem-solving abilities such as lateral thinking, visual-spatial thinking, multisensory thinking, leaps of creative insight, and hyperfocus; and much more. The Neurodiversity Edge is an essential guide for executives, board directors, human resources professionals, managers, recruiters, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, allies, educators, nonprofit leaders, and anyone with an interest in better understanding neurodiversity, authentic neuroinclusion, and the human mind.

Maureen Dunne (Author), Nan Mcnamara (Narrator)

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Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace

You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive. Recent years have revealed just how stressed out many workers are. While the trend to longer hours has been developing for several decades, the trend's effects have been aggravated during the pandemic by the growing use of Zoom and other new technologies for meetings with clients, customers, and coworkers. Exhausted and fed up, today's workers are starting to insist on shorter hours and greater flexibility as to where they do their work. There is growing consensus that the forty-hour week, the norm since the 1940s, has outlived its usefulness. And there is an urgent need for new work schedules that adequately reflect the far greater intensity of work today, as well as the greater family demands on a labor force made up of almost fifty percent women, who bear the brunt of domestic duties. Work Less offers practical scheduling suggestions to employers and workers and numerous policy options for government policy-makers to improve working conditions.

Jon Peirce (Author), Dean Gallagher (Narrator)

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Overcoming Ageism (HBR Women at Work Series)

Combat age discrimination in your workplace. Everyone experiences age-related bias at some point in their careers, but for women the costs are greater. Sure, there are laws and organizational rules prohibiting age-related discrimination, but lived experience shows there's no 'right age' to be a woman. Whether you're seen as too old or too young, ageism affects the opportunities you have access to, how others perceive you, and how much your contributions are valued. Overcoming Ageism offers stories, research, and advice about navigating gendered age discrimination and bias at work. From advocating for yourself to ensuring continual learning and curiosity, you'll learn how to show others the unique expertise you bring to the organization and take back control of your career growth. This book will inspire you to: - Establish your credibility with those around you - Overcome imposter syndrome - Build a support system across age groups - Work together to end age bias in your organization

Harvard Business Review (Author), Amy Bernstein, Ann Sprinkle (Narrator)

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The 3rd Paradigm: A Radical Shift to Greater Success

The 3rd Paradigm provides a framework for businesses and individuals alike to innovate breakthrough solutions through a process of Co-Creation. Backed by original research involving more than 4,000 business professionals, the authors present the three paradigms of business, the five types of Co-Creation, and a four part step-by-step model that allows you to make the radical shift toward the 3rd Paradigm of Co-Creation-where all stakeholders play a meaningful part in greater success. - Learn from the example of Richard, who tried to solve his business's greatest scaling problem and only found success when he adopted the 3rd Paradigm. - Discover rigorous research findings that pinpoint the top seven advantages of the 3rd Paradigm as well as the top seven drawbacks, so you know what they are-and how to proactively manage through any obstacles. - Expand your leadership capacity by learning how to gain buy-in and consensus and move projects forward despite any challenges that may arise. - And much more The 3rd Paradigm is the radical shift you've been waiting for if you're eager to achieve truly inclusive work cultures, increased profitability, and explosive revenue growth.

Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Heidi Scott Giusto, Ivan Misner, Ivan R. Misner (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)

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The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power are Undermined - and How to Fight Back

'The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.' Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you've wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? The world of work is supposedly changing, embracing diversity - yet are the opportunities we're giving to women really equal to those of men? Drawing on almost 20 years of research from around the world, The Glass Cliff phenomenon - whereby women are often only hired in leadership roles when a business is already underperforming, meaning their chances of success are limited before they ever even start in the role - is well established, but little known. Until now. This is the story of The Glass Cliff: a story of a structural inequality disguising itself as the personal failures of women. When activist Sophie Williams gave her viral TED talk on the subject, she was subsequently flooded with accounts of confident, accomplished women who had taken what seemed like a dream leadership role only to quickly find themselves in a waking nightmare. Without the language to describe their experiences they had been left blaming themselves. But learning about The Glass Cliff enabled them to reframe and reexamine what they'd gone through. Once we understand The Glass Cliff - once we can stand together and face it head-first - we can start to unravel so many other false narratives about women's leadership experiences that just don't make sense without it. By understanding the phenomenon, and by telling one another about it, we can affect the conversation, empower one another to overcome societal bias and, ultimately, change the world of work for women forever.

Sophie Williams (Author), Sophie Williams, TBD (Narrator)

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Relentless Caring: If You Don't Give a Damn, Don't Expect Anyone Else To

Relentless Caring details an approach to leadership focused on the well-being of others. By following its step-by-step guide to delivering kindness every day at all levels of your organization and to all your customers, you will earn dedicated employees, repeat customers-and, ultimately, profitability. As founder and executive chairman of MarineMax, William H. McGill Jr. helped transform the company from a disparate group of boat dealers into a highly profitable $2 billion global conglomerate. In Relentless Caring, McGill Jr. shares what he's learned about how to truly care about others 24/7 and generate solid profits at the same time. Listeners will learn why having the right people in the right jobs matters; how to take care of your people and their families, including providing high-quality, low-cost health care; why long-term thinking is essential for success; why persistence, consistency, and risk are essential, too; and more. Relentless Caring is a playbook for 'managing from the heart'-tirelessly delivering goodness and kindness to your team members and to customers to build strong loyalties that can buoy your organization even in the most challenging economic circumstances.

William H. Mcgill Jr. (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator)

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The lncluders: The 7 Traits of Culturally Savvy, Anti-Racist Leaders

It's a simple fact that the people who make policy and oversee government, sports, business, and the arts and entertainment are most commonly white men. Another fact: We cannot achieve meaningful progress if we exclude the very people who have the power to make systemic change. This handbook is free of any attempts to shame, blame, or guilt leaders for the choices they made in the past or privileges they were born with. Instead, listeners will learn to view the work they do through a racial equity lens so they can easily and immediately begin making changes. In The Includers, Colette Phillips explores the core qualities that inclusive leaders share: character, cultural intelligence, connections, communications, collaboration, courage, and commitment. With humor and poignancy, and backed by research, Phillips shares stories of real Includers: the CEOs, politicians, and public figures-all white male allies-she's admired, known, and, in some cases, counseled. For leaders who are ready to do their part, this eye-opening guide offers practical, actionable insights from allies and advocates who are willing to listen, learn, and 'lead from behind' to create sustainable systemic change.

Colette A.M. Phillips (Author), Diana Blue (Narrator)

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Unwavering: Rejecting Bias, Igniting Change, Celebrating Inclusion

When Nellie Borrero joined Accenture, bigotry and bias went unnoticed and unchecked; it was simply the workplace norm. Now, thirty-five-plus years later, this first-generation Latina shares how she led diversity strategy and developed award-winning inclusion and diversity programs that transformed Accenture into the #1 ranked employer for inclusion, diversity, and equity. In Unwavering, Borrero draws on her experiences with remarkable candor and courage to inspire you to think bigger, know your value, and show up with it everywhere, every day. She reveals how to remove barriers and claim space not just for yourself but for others as well. You'll become aware of biases that negatively impact professionals of color; recognizing that belonging and uniqueness don't have to be at odds; standing up and standing out: taking your career from the margins to center stage; what to do when mentoring fails-and the power of embracing and accepting help; staying true to yourself when your values collide with reality; and showing up strategically, intentionally asserting yourself, and competing. A manifesto for understanding and action, Unwavering provides a proven framework for how to create transformational relationships that make diversity and inclusion an integral part of your success and your company's competitive advantage.

Nellie Borrero (Author), Hannah Carmona (Narrator)

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