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I Don't Just Work Here: The New Purpose of Workplace Culture

Many employees now show up for work not just to do their jobs but also to discover, debate, and digest important social issues. A growing number of workers want to have an impact in the world, and their preferences are a prompt for employers to be more mindful of the role of business in driving societal change, starting with what people experience at work. Felicia Joy and Elena Grotto, experts on behavioral science, business strategy, and organizational culture, share practical guidance to help organizations rise to these new standards by advancing seven behaviors, including the surprising-and perhaps most important-new business skill for high-performing cultures: forgiveness. Managers today are asked to operate as both business leaders and community leaders within the workplace-and the latter skill set is new to many. I Don't Just Work Here helps managers leverage culture to bolster business results as they replace anxiety with confidence and lead with greater purpose in providing the expanded support employees need to develop and perform. Organizations that take heed, elevate people managers, invest in building a strategic culture, and lead with clear values and behaviors are more likely to have a decisive competitive advantage and greater business impact for years to come.

Elena Grotto, Felicia Joy (Author), Diana Blue (Narrator)

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Stop the Shift Show: Turn Your Struggling Hourly Workers Into a Top-Performing Team

Stop the Shift Show is an essential guide for managers and business owners looking to transform their hourly workforce into a top-performing super team. This book offers practical strategies and techniques for effectively managing and coaching hourly workers, including determining your managerial style and avoiding common mistakes; building trust with your team to create a positive work culture; motivating employees to perform at their best and go above and beyond; developing effective coaching techniques to help team members grow and improve; creating a sense of purpose and ownership among employees to foster a high-performing team; and overcoming common challenges in managing hourly workers, such as turnover and scheduling issues. Whether you're new to management or an experienced leader, Stop the Shift Show provides valuable insights and actionable advice to help you elevate your team's performance and drive success for your business. With its engaging writing style and real-world examples, this book is a must-listen for anyone looking to build a high-performing team in today's competitive marketplace.

Scott Greenberg (Author), Scott Greenberg (Narrator)

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The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health

Resilience is not a given. You need a strategy. Leaders and business professionals handle grueling hours and exceed high expectations. They are undaunted by challenges and embrace opportunities for growth. They assume they are resilient. But given enough demands, anyone can burn out. This makes logical sense, yet you likely still think it could never be you. You are fabulous and at risk of burning out. Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you’re in a leadership role or working as part of a team, you need to implement strategies that build and nurture resilience. You need a resilience plan. Award-winning mental health expert Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on her clinical practice and extensive knowledge in therapeutics and business practices to explore how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves—not with a one-size-fits-all plan but with strategies to help you create a custom plan. Pelletier uses relatable stories and activities to bring her concepts into context. By working through the exercises in this practical guide, you will have a goal-oriented, custom strategy with the knowledge to implement and sustain it, to protect your health and success into the future.

Marie-Hélène Pelletier (Author), Marie-Hélène Pelletier (Narrator)

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FairWays to Leadership®: Building Your Business Network One Round of Golf at a Time

A guidebook for developing your leadership and networking skills through golf Access to the game of golf opens doors to business opportunities for professional development and builds leadership skills. Unfortunately, this access has often been limited to those with club memberships or experience with the game-those privy to the rules, both spoken and unspoken. FairWays to Leadership teaches both advanced and novice golfers how to navigate a round of golf using six key leadership traits-curiosity, adaptability, empowerment, integrity, mindfulness, and strategy-at various leadership moments on the golf course. Listeners learn how to play the game and how to develop leadership skills and expand business networks through the interaction that golf provides. Listeners will be better equipped to advance their professional careers by practicing the strategies and techniques revealed in FairWays to Leadership. The book can also be used as a resource in corporate leadership training and in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Anna Alvarez Boyd, Eric Boyd (Author), Will Tulin (Narrator)

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[German] - Wie unsere Psyche tickt: Die Intelligenz des Unterbewusstseins verstehen. Wie psychosomat

Das Standardwerk von Andreas Winter! Wir Menschen gelten als 'Krone der Schöpfung'. Und doch leiden viele von uns unter chronischen, oft diffusen Beschwerden, fühlen sich gestresst, werden Opfer ihrer schlechten Angewohnheiten und haben das Gefühl, sich im Kreis zu drehen. Was steckt hinter den scheinbar unlösbaren Problemen? Zu verstehen, wie unsere Psyche tickt, ist der Schlüssel zum Begreifen der Ursachen. Viele sogenannte Krankheiten oder Verhaltensstörungen – etwa Allergien, chronische Schmerzen, Suchtverhalten, Übergewicht, Burn-out und andere psychische Beschwerden – haben tiefe und alte Wurzeln, die in die frühe Kindheit oder sogar in die Zeit noch vor der Geburt zurückreichen. So handelt es sich bei diesen Symptomen in Wirklichkeit oft um intelligente Schutzmechanismen unserer Psyche. Mithilfe der Andreas-Winter-Methode werden die individuellen Auslöser und Ursprünge ins Bewusstsein gehoben, emotional umgedeutet und unschädlich gemacht. Auf diese Weise kann der seit 30 Jahren bewährte Coachingansatz psychische, psychosomatische und chronische Beschwerden und Blockaden umgehend und nachhaltig auflösen. * Der Algorithmus der Psyche * Die Andreas-Winter-Methode – von der Fragetechnik bis zum Reframing * Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele und Reflexionsimpulse * Ergänzende Praxisempfehlungen für Therapeuten und Coaches Das Hörbuch wurde von Andreas Winter selbst eingesprochen. Weitere Sprecherinnen: Andrea Winter und Pia Fluch.

Andreas Winter (Author), Andrea Winter, Andreas Winter, Pia Fluch (Narrator)

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Grow Your Business: Scale Your Business For Long-Term Success

You've done the work-your small business is a huge success and you're ready for the next step. But amplifying your business into a self-sustaining, exponentially profitable entity requires its own set of skills. With Grow Your Business, you'll learn the modern strategies for taking your burgeoning venture up a notch, all while avoiding the common pitfalls of expansion. Learn the necessary tools to identify and adjust the scale of your business, create symbiotic systems that transition seamlessly from sale leads to payroll, and pinpoint the sales funnels that are right for your unique operation. You'll also discover: - Fifteen go-to strategies for company growth - Modern marketing and advertising techniques to bolster your customer base - Effective sales funnels and verticals to create multiple revenue streams - Blueprints to determine your company's growth potential - Personal tips and suggested software to maximize profits without sacrificing efficiency Scale-up your start-up and discover what Grow Your Business has to offer!

Eric Butow, The Staff Of Entrepreneur Media (Author), Christopher P. Brown (Narrator)

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Smooth Scaling: 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization

Why do some businesses “fail to scale”? Smooth Scaling offers a clear diagnosis, along with twenty practical Rituals to boost your organization’s performance and achieve frictionless growth. Smooth Scaling addresses the most pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction. Expert Rob Bier reveals why organizational frictions take hold as you grow and how they slow your company down. These growth pains are both predictable and preventable, yet they almost always take leaders by surprise. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Until now, there’s been no resource to guide executives through this challenge. As a result, they end up playing “Whack-a-Mole,” reacting to a never-ending stream of organizational, team, and people problems one at a time—only for new ones to crop up. Smooth Scaling addresses this gap, presenting a proven approach based on real-life experience and application. Drawing on his extensive experience building high-performance organizations, Bier has created twenty foundational Rituals that integrate seamlessly into the daily habits of your company. These Rituals make your organization as frictionless as possible, allowing you to scale faster—and more sustainably—than ever before. In Smooth Scaling, you will learn how to: - Build trust proactively across your organization - Turn your managers into a powerful driver of productivity and scalability - Build high-performance teams with the people you’ve got - Break down barriers between departments to prevent silos - Maintain a cohesive high-trust culture as you grow Smooth Scaling is your indispensable guide to building a scalable, high-performing organization.

Rob Bier (Author), Rob Bier (Narrator)

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HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter

Make every minute count. Your calendar is full, and yet your meetings don't always seem to advance your work. Problems often arise with unrealistic or vague agendas, off-track conversations, tuned-out participants who don't know why they're there, and follow-up notes that no one reads-or acts on. Meetings can feel like a waste of time. But when you invest a little energy in preparing yourself and your participants, you'll stay focused, solve problems, gain consensus, and leave each meeting ready to take action. With input from over twenty experts combined with useful checklists, sample agendas, and follow-up memos, the HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter will teach you how to set and communicate your meeting's purpose; invite the right people; prepare an achievable agenda; moderate a lively conversation; regain control of a wayward meeting; and ensure follow-through without babysitting or haranguing. Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Christopher Walker (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on becoming a new manager, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to becoming a great manager of others. This book will inspire you to develop your emotional intelligence; influence your colleagues through the science of persuasion; assess your team and enhance its performance; network effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancement; navigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peers; get support from above; view the big picture in your decision making; and balance your team's work and personal life in a high-intensity workplace. This collection of articles includes 'Becoming the Boss,' by Linda A. Hill; 'Leading the Team You Inherit,' by Michael D. Watkins; 'Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves,' by Carol A. Walker; 'Managing the High-Intensity Workplace,' by Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan; 'Harnessing the Science of Persuasion,' by Robert B. Cialdini; 'What Makes a Leader?' by Daniel Goleman; 'The Authenticity Paradox,' by Herminia Ibarra; 'Managing Your Boss,' by John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter; 'How Leaders Create and Use Networks,' by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; and more.

Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Herminia Ibarra, Linda A. Hill, Robert B. Cialdini (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

With authors from Clayton M. Christensen to Adam Grant and company examples from Intel to Uber, HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017 brings the most important management conversations to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to rethink the way you work in the face of advancing automation; transform your business using a platform strategy; apply design thinking to create innovative products; identify where too much collaboration may be holding your people back; see the theory of disruptive innovation in a brand new light; and recognize the signs that your cross-cultural negotiation may be falling apart. This collection of articles includes 'Collaborative Overload,' by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant; 'Algorithms Need Managers, Too,' by Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan; 'Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy,' by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary; 'What Is Disruptive Innovation?,' by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald; 'How Indra Nooyi Turned Design Thinking into Strategy,' an interview with Indra Nooyi by Adi Ignatius; 'Engineering Reverse Innovations,' by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan; “The Employer-Led Health Care Revolution,' by Patricia A. McDonald, Robert S. Mecklenburg, and Lindsay A. Martin; and more.

Adam Grant, Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review, Thomas H. Davenport, Vijay Govindarajan (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator)

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The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader: The iconic articles by bestselling a

The best of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's articles on blue ocean strategy, all in one place. The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over four million copies globally and is in print in forty-six languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place. Piece by piece, these articles explain the process of creating 'blue oceans'--uncontested market spaces, untainted by competition. Kim and Mauborgne introduce tools for exploring and exploiting these markets, such as the Value Curve, the Strategy Canvas, the Price Corridor of the Mass, and the Business Model Guide-tools that have come to make up the blue ocean strategy framework. This collection also features the authors' latest Harvard Business Review article, 'Red Ocean Traps.' Whether or not you're familiar with blue ocean strategy, this book will give you a new perspective on this important framework-and help you implement it in your organization.

Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim (Author), James Conlan (Narrator)

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The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models

Pivot your organization toward a more scalable and profitable business model. The Network Imperative is a call to action for managers and executives to embrace network-based business models. The benefits are indisputable: companies that leverage digital platforms to co-create and share value with networks of employees, customers, and suppliers are fast outpacing the market. These companies, or network orchestrators, grow faster, scale with lower marginal cost, and generate the highest revenue multipliers. Supported by research that covers fifteen hundred companies, authors Barry Libert, Megan Beck, and Jerry Wind guide leaders and investors through the ten principles that all organizations can use to grow and profit regardless of their industry. They also share a five-step process for pivoting an organization toward a more scalable and profitable business model. The Network Imperative, brimming with compelling case studies and actionable advice, provides managers with what they really need: new tools and frameworks to generate unprecedented value in a rapidly changing age.

Barry Libert, Jerry Wind, Megan Beck (Author), Kevin T. Collins (Narrator)

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