Management & Leadership Audiobooks | Business & Economics

Love Your Neighbor: A Spiritual Defense of Capitalism and Freedom in a Hostile Age

Love Your Neighbor makes the case for capitalism as the only system that can end poverty, solve intractable crises, and increase human flourishing. Love Your Neighbor builds on the National Best Seller Flight of the Buffalo by Ralph Stayer with James Belasco. Ralph's story and experience transformed the business world. It offers a bold and straightforward plan for rethinking leadership—still taught in business schools and leadership seminars worldwide. Finally, after decades of more experience, Love Your Neighbor delivers the sequel that readers demanded. Love Your Neighbor is the fruit of that patience—and thirty years of reflection and leadership. As the longtime CEO of Johnsonville Foods, Ralph learned to let his workers lead. Love Your Neighbor shows that the real secret behind Johnsonville's success was a conscious decision to align the company's practices with God's plan for human flourishing. Love Your Neighbor defends and champions capitalism which continues to be under attack in America—and why faith-informed capitalism is the only vehicle that can bring prosperity and purpose to everyone. Love Your Neighbor goes beyond that of another pretty sermon—it's a blueprint for transformation based on Ralph's decades of experience as one of America's most successful CEOs. It provides a moral foundation for capitalism during a time of challenge and crisis, demonstrating its vast superiority over socialism and other fallen economic systems. Ralph's experience at Johnsonville Foods points to a proud and unapologetic conviction in capitalism that serves God, builds strong communities, and embodies what it means to love your neighbor.

Ralph C. Stayer (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

Brought to you by Penguin. Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout. The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before. While its founder had idealistically dreamed of building a 'digital town square,' he detested Wall Street and never focused on building a profitable business. Musk joined the platform in 2010 and, by 2022, had become one of the site’s most influential users, hooking over 80 million followers with his mix of provocative posts, promotion of his companies, and attacks on his enemies. To Musk, Twitter — once known for its almost absolute commitment to free speech — had badly lost its way. He blamed it for the proliferation of what he called the “woke mind virus” and claimed that the survival of democracy and the human race itself depended on the future of the site. In January of 2022, Musk began secretly accumulating Twitter stock. By April, he was its largest shareholder, and soon after, he made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company for the unimaginable sum of $44 billion dollars. Backed into a corner, Twitter’s board accepted his offer—but Musk quickly changed his mind, forcing Twitter to sue him to close the deal in October. The richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world—but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically new and different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up. The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire’s takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers. This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost? © Kate Conger, Ryan Mac 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Kate Conger, Ryan Mac (Author), Edoardo Ballerini, TBD (Narrator)

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Directional Living: A practical guide to a conscious career

Brought to you by Penguin. Are you suffering from career burnout? Do you feel as though you're brimming with ideas and talent, but all that energy is misplaced in a job that just isn't right for you? Too many people focus on their destination - having a perfect, fulfilled life on paper - and not their direction, what they enjoy doing and what makes them feel good. This leaves us feeling frustrated and stuck. In Directional Living, life coach and career guru Megan Hellerer will teach you how to: - Practice aligned ambition not blind ambition - Ask yourself difficult questions about where you are in life and where you really want to go, in order to illuminate your authentic path - Battle inner saboteurs that are blocking you from conquering resistance and boosting your productivity Directional Living will help you to find work that doesn't feel like work, to look forward to Monday as much as Friday, and to wake up every morning and think 'I am doing exactly what I'm meant to be doing'. It's a powerful new philosophy packed with practical tools to help you find meaning in your career and therefore life. ©2023 Megan Hellerer (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Megan Hellerer (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Hive Mind at Work: Harnessing the Power of Group Intelligence to Create Meaningful and Lasting C

Learn a new model for understanding how organizations really operate and implement changes that get real results. With so many forces of change buffeting the business world today, a scary state of flux has replaced any sense of certainty, stability, and familiarity, delivering a wake-up call to make crucial changes happen, make them happen quickly, and make them stick. Traditional approaches to change management fall into one of two categories: Organizations function like machines, where managers pull change levers to "fix" problems with an engineer's mindset (IQ). Or People form social networks wherein individual "influencers" make change happen by developing effective interpersonal relationships (EQ). Neither of these models offer a full picture to what really happens in an organization. In this groundbreaking new book, change expert Siobhan McHale offers a third option: organizations are complex ecosystems that require a Hive Mind or Group Intelligence (GQ) to bring about meaningful and lasting change. We can learn a lot of lessons from how bees operate: - Hard work: An individual bee spends its entire 40-day life span gathering food for the hive. - Teamwork: Inside each teeming beehive an entire community works collectively to achieve shared goals. - Role clarity: Every bee has a specific job, with the queen, drones, and worker bees faithfully playing their part. - Resilience: Bees can overcome daunting challenges, including all the parasites, pathogens, pesticides, and climate fluctuations from Maine to Miami and beyond. See how a hive mindset solves many of the common problems all businesses struggle with today!

Siobhan Mchale (Author), Siobhan Mchale, TBD (Narrator)

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On Leadership: A Practical Guide

Brought to you by Penguin. Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country’s governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail. The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will flourish while others flounder. Why? Quite simply, some have leaders who understand the principles of good government, and some don’t. Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time he came to understand that there were certain key characteristics of successful government that he wished he had known when he started. Since then, he has seen how, though circumstances and contexts differ enormously, the challenges of governing are basically the same in any nation, whatever its stage of development. Not just that: there are also decades of political experience on which modern leaders can draw. Unfortunately, while practical guides to other professions abound, governing is treated as a dimension of politics, not as an art and science in its own right, and practical, non-partisan advice is consequently hard to find. Now Tony Blair has written the manual on political leadership that he would have wanted back in 1997, sharing the insights he has gained from his personal experience and from observing other world leaders at first hand, both while he was in office and since, through his Institute’s work with political leaders and governments globally. Written in short, pithy chapters, packed with examples drawn from all forms of political systems from around the world, the book answers the key questions: How should a leader organise the centre of government and his or her own office? How should he or she prioritise and develop the right plan and hire the right personnel, cope with unforeseen events and crises, and balance short-term wins with long-term structural change? What’s the best way to deal with an obstructive or inert bureaucracy, to attract investment, to reform healthcare or education, and to ensure security for the citizen? And how should governments harness the massive opportunities of the 21st- century technological revolution? ©2024 Tony Blair (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Tony Blair (Author), TBD, Tony Blair (Narrator)

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Lead Bigger

Drawing from over three decades of experience, former CEO of AT&T Business Anne Chow shares how to lead bigger by leveraging inclusion beyond DEI, to elevate your work, workforce, and workplace. For generations, when we've needed to innovate and grow, we've been told to "think bigger"—it's now time to Lead Bigger. In a world that's become more interconnected yet polarized, inclusion has been overly politicized and narrowly defined to issues of gender and race. As a result, we need a new approach to inclusive leadership that goes beyond DEI, harnessing its power for innovation and growth. In Lead Bigger, Anne Chow reframes inclusion as the required leadership competency of expanding our perspectives for greater performance in our work, workforce, and workplace. As former CEO of AT&T Business, she was the first woman of color to hold the position of CEO in the company's over one hundred and forty year history. Chow draws from her expertise in transforming organizations to teach you how to create a dynamic environment that engages everyone you and your company interact with—as well as those you wish to be connected to—while adapting to the ever-changing world. This book equips you with the necessary tools to expand your inclusive leadership skills, including prompts, tactics, and enriching insights from leadership visionaries General Stanley McChrystal, Arianna Huffington, and Adam Grant. Chow illuminates a seismic shift in the business world, in which a more humanistic approach is required as technology upends work as we know it. If you're committed to advancing work that matters, engaging a dynamic workforce, and fostering an agile workplace, you're ready to Lead Bigger.

Anne Chow (Author), Anne Chow, Chris Henry Coffey, Gabra Zackman, Graham Halstead, TBD (Narrator)

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Business Outcome Selling Strategies: How Next Gen B2B Sales Organizations Accelerate Sales Productiv

In Business Outcome Selling Strategies Jeb Blount, one of the most celebrated sales strategists of our generation, and business transformation guru Jason Eatmon, give you the secrets for how next generation B2B sales organizations are accelerating sales productivity, operationalizing hyper-growth strategies, and locking out competitors. You'll learn powerful strategies for: building the foundation for hyper-growth; connecting cross organizational disciplines to build an agile sales and growth driven culture; winning mindshare early through familiarity and shaping; nine box qualifying and the 4Rs: Right Prospect, Right Message, Right Time, Right Fit; digital sales transformation and integration; targeting tactics, sales engagement strategies, and sequencing; mastering the four levels of sales to rapidly respond to buyer expectations; leveraging the MLP strategy to bend win probability in your favor; effective stakeholder mapping; deploying the READ Influence Methodology to gain stakeholder buy-in and consensus; differentiating with the MBO + EBO value equation; leveraging the powerful SCORE Discovery Model to get below the surface and become a true partner for your customers; uncovering the Metrics that Matter that lead to higher prices and long-term margins; mapping and presenting outcome based solutions; and much more.

Jason Eatmon, Jeb Blount (Author), Jeb Blount (Narrator)

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The Five Talents That Really Matter: How Great Leaders Drive Extraordinary Performance

A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Strengths-Based Leadership draws from original research comprising interviews with high-performing global leaders to present for the first time a new model that demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders. The leadership space is rife with myths, such as the belief that anyone can be a leader with enough effort or that a leader's strengths can be their greatest weaknesses. According to Barry Conchie and his business partner Sarah Dalton, these statements are complete BS. The Five Talents That Really Matter dispels the fluff in leadership literature, unveiling the traits and characteristics that truly determine high-performance leadership. This book serves as a guide, stripping away misconceptions and providing a template against which career-driven managers and leaders can assess and develop their capabilities. The five evidence-based talent dimensions are: - Setting Direction: High-performing leaders guide their organizations through complex situations and articulate the value that so many employees find motivational and engaging. - Building Energy: Driven by a burning work ethic, Talented leaders set an exacting example. They measure progress, and recognize that the most Talented employees beneath them demand their greatest attention and support. - Exerting Pressure: Talented leaders assert a clear point of view and persuasively drive change and improvement, never settling for average outcomes. - Increasing Connectivity: Outstanding leaders prioritize people, establishing effective followership through purposeful and ethical behavior, and demonstrating care and concern for those they lead. - Controlling Traffic: High performing leaders understand their organizations, driving superior performance by establishing protocols and guardrails while showing agility and flexibility when circumstances change. Through meticulous research, assessment, and testing, Conchie and Dalton have built a database that predicts the talents and behaviors of the most successful leaders. In this book they present for the first the first time a scientific model that demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders.

Barry Conchie, Sarah Dalton (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Overcoming Overwork

Overworked? Overwhelmed? You're not alone. The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for their jobs, women are frequently also asked to take on tasks that don't lead to growth or promotion, and to manage other forms of invisible labor at work and at home. All of this can leave women feeling underappreciated, frustrated, and burned out. We need to end the culture of overwork for women. From saying no to office housework to setting your own priorities, Overcoming Overwork provides practical advice for taking back your time so that you can use it for what matters to you. This book will inspire you to: - Advocate for yourself and your time - Say no to office housework and unwanted tasks - Manage your mental load outside of work - Delegate projects for a more equitable balance of labor

Harvard Business Review (Author), Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)

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Uncommon: Simple Principles for an Extraordinary Life

From former Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, father, and New York Times bestselling author Mark Divine comes Uncommon– an inspirational book following Mark Divine's trademark warrior monk philosophy that will lead you to the summit of personal development. To be common is to be an everyday person. It's to do the things that you are expected to do, whether that's what your parents want for you, or your employer, or your spouse, et cetera. But if you want to be more than you are, more than you think you can be, then you need to recognize and learn from your mistakes to lead a life of excellence. As an elite Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, author, speaker, professor of leadership, and philanthropist, as well as the creator of SEALFIT, Kokoro Yoga, and Unbeatable Mind, Mark Divine uses years of wisdom, business development, martial arts, eastern philosophy and military experience to take you through life's most important principles for finding your pursuit of excellence--so that you or anyone with the proper motivation can become uncommon.

Mark Divine (Author), Mark Divine, TBD (Narrator)

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The 8 Laws of Customer-Focused Leadership: New Rules for Building A Business Around Today’s Customer

A leadership playbook for making customer experience a core aspect of your business. In a rapidly changing world filled with uncertainties, one thing remains crystal clear: customers are increasingly fickle and no longer care about loyalty to any particular company. In addition, many well-intentioned companies are falling short of customer expectations, despite every organization's potential for excellence. The truth is customer experience is not what it used to be. New technologies, values, generational expectations, economic instability, - and the rapid pace of change all must be considered as you forge ahead. How do you put the customer first in the face of all these emerging trends? Using cutting-edge research and interviewing top leaders across industries, customer experience futurist Blake Morgan has pulled together eight new laws that the best companies follow in terms of building and maintaining a focus on the customer. Customer experience is a decision leaders must make every day, and this book shows you how: - C.reate a customer experience mindset. - eX.ceed longterm profit expectations by focusing on both short term and long term profits. - L.ay out your customer experience strategy creation and stick to it. - E.mbark on your 90 day get started plan. - A.nticipate the future by being a customer experience futurist. - D.on't forget that employees are customers too. - E.valuate success and measure what can be measured. - R.eaffirm the priority - keep CX front and center. Learn the laws, see how the best companies apply them, and build them into your organization to become a transformational customer experience leader!

Blake Morgan (Author), Blake Morgan, TBD (Narrator)

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HBR Guide to Emotional Intelligence

Managing the human side of work Research by Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and coauthor of Primal Leadership, has shown that emotional intelligence is a more powerful determinant of good leadership than technical competence, IQ, or vision. Influencing those around us and supporting our own well-being requires us to be self-aware, know when and how to regulate our emotional reactions, and understand the emotional responses of those around us. No wonder emotional intelligence has become one of the crucial criteria in hiring and promotion. But luckily it's not just an innate trait: Emotional intelligence is composed of skills that all of us can learn and improve on. In this guide, you'll learn how to determine your emotional intelligence strengths and weaknesses, understand and manage your emotional reactions, deal with difficult people, make smarter decisions, bounce back from tough times, and help your team develop emotional intelligence. Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Keith Sellon-Wright (Narrator)

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