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The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

The best of Peter F. Drucker's articles on management, all in one place. That 'management' exists as a concept, a practice, and a profession is largely due to the thinking of Peter F. Drucker. For nearly half a century, he inspired and educated managers-and powerfully shaped the nature of business-with his iconic articles in Harvard Business Review. Through the lens of Drucker's broad vision, this volume presents an opportunity to trace the great shifts in organizations in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-from manufacturing to knowledge work, from career-length employee tenures to short-term contract relationships, from command-and-control structures to flatter organizations that call for new leadership techniques. These articles also offer a firm and practical grasp of the role of the manager and the executive today-their responsibilities, their relationships, their decisions, and detailed processes that can make their work more effective. A celebrated thinker at his best, in this volume Drucker paints a clear and comprehensive picture of management thinking and practice-both as it is and as it will be.

Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker (Author), Steven Cooper (Narrator)

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Harvard Business Review Manager's Handbook: The 17 Skills Leaders Need to Stand Out

Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes: a direct report's anxious questions, your boss's last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you need to master a new set of business and personal skills. Packed with step-by-step advice and wisdom from Harvard Business Review's management archive, the HBR Manager's Handbook provides best practices on topics from understanding key financial statements and the fundamentals of strategy to emotional intelligence and building your employees' trust. In this book you'll find: - step-by-step guidance through common managerial tasks - self-assessments throughout - exercises and templates to help you practice and apply the concepts in the book - concise explanations of the latest research and thinking on important management skills from Harvard Business Review experts such as Dan Goleman, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, and Michael Porter - real-life stories from working managers

Harvard Business Review (Author), Eric Jason Martin (Narrator)

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Leading From The Back: To Achieve The Impossible

Are you looking for a leadership model that is uncomplicated, easy to use and produces amazing results? If so, then Leading from the Back is for you! In it you will find everything you need to become a superstar leader. You will learn how to earn respect from your team members and help them in achieving the impossible. No more learning about numerous principles and laws of leadership. Just a three-part model that has an amazing track record of proven success. Through an engaging parable about the travails of an upcoming young manager, Shiv Kundra, whose leadership style hampers both his ability to lead and his ability to deliver, the authors outline the fascinating concept of 'leading from the back'. Leading from the Back is a distillation of the collective experience and wisdom of Ravi Kant (former CEO, vice chairman, Tata Motors), Harry Paul (co-author of the bestseller FISH! A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results) and Ross Reck (co-author of The Win-Win Negotiator).

Harry Paul, Ravi Kant, Ross Reck (Author), Firdaus Pervez Adenwalla (Narrator)

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Doing Business in Uncertain Times

In the event of a crisis, everyone looks to the leaders for direction. Ramesh Nair is a veteran of steering organizations through the ebbs and flows of economic upheaval including the daunting onslaught of Covid-19 and earlier the debilitating 2008 economic downturn. Doing Business in Uncertain Times is a groundbreaking book which offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and challenges faced during economic downturns. It is divided into fifty thought-provoking chapters that present a unique and multifaceted perspective on downturns, providing instrumental guidance to entrepreneurs and business leaders through Nair’s extensive research and expertise. Shining a spotlight on three key perspectives: business, clients and people, it will teach you to unlearn and relearn, shun past notions, push limits, develop new strengths and realize the potential that lies within you.

Ramesh Nair (Author), Karan Vats (Narrator)

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The 80/20 CEO: Take Command of Your Business in 100 days

THE RISK IN LEADING A BUSINESS is the same as in piloting an airplane; namely crashing and burning. But what if you had an operating system to keep your business airborne until you wanted to land it? How much time would that OS save you? How much money? Written by Bill Canady, the creator of the Profitable Growth Operating System, The 80/20 CEO: Take Command of Your Business in 100 Days is a detailed playbook for aspiring or accomplished senior-level executives who want to lead organizations in profitable strategic growth and to do so on demand, on track, on pace, and without surprises. The reason that 80/20 is so valuable is that it is counterintuitive. We tend to expect that all causes will have roughly the same significance, that all customers are equally valuable, or that every bit of business, every product, and every dollar of sales revenue is as good as another. The 80/20 Management Practice Also known as the Pareto principle, 80/20 is a management concept based on a natural law: 80% of results come from 20% of causes. It is a tool used to prioritize and manage resources, focusing on the most important and impactful activities that generate the majority of results. The principle suggests that organizations can achieve significant improvement by focusing their efforts on the 20% of activities that generate 80% of their results, rather than spreading their resources non-strategically across all activities. Includes a FREE PDF of the figures and charts found in The 80-20 CEO Take Command of Business in 100 Days!

Bill Canady (Author), Bill Canady (Narrator)

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The 7 Pillars of Successful Manager How to Become a Leader, Inspire Employees and Lead Your Team to

Power -- a word we all know and by which we can imagine what lies behind this term. Power - the majority of people want it, but not everyone knows how to achieve it. Power - has seven important pillars and can have both positive and negative effects for the powerful and the powerless. I would like to provide you with knowledge about power that you will not find anywhere else in such detail. I will also show you why hardly anyone can really handle power. If you want to gain power, you cannot avoid the seven pillars. This book will teach you what true power is and what it means. You will learn that you have a great deal of potential within you to make full use of power. With theoretical models that are so unique that you could call them a secret weapon, you will learn how to successfully assess yourself and your environment. This book can also help you to reflect on yourself using many examples and exercises. So that you can benefit to the full in both your private and professional life, you will learn what alternative courses of action are available to you. The seven pillars are never considered individually, as they are a system that builds on, complements and depends on each other. It is therefore important that you are guided by the structure of the book as you read it.

Thomas Reus (Author), Casey Wayman (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Gestion de Proyectos para el exito empresarial: Maximiza la eficiencia y rentabilidad de

Ya sea que estés lanzando un cohete o planeando una fiesta de cumpleaños, las habilidades de gestión de proyectos son fundamentales para garantizar que todo salga a la perfección. Ahora más que nunca, las organizaciones buscan formas flexibles, rentables y eficientes de lograr sus objetivos, y la gestión de proyectos eficaz es la respuesta. No solo es una habilidad en demanda en casi todas las industrias, sino que también es una de las habilidades más transferibles que puedas adquirir. En el libro aprenderás: - Planificación desde el principio: inicia, planifica y ejecuta proyectos de diversa complejidad. - Cómo funcionan los proyectos: cómo mantener los proyectos en marcha para entregarlos a tiempo y dentro del presupuesto - Cómo minimizar los riesgos del proyecto: cómo detectar y eliminar riesgos o cambiar de rumbo según sea necesario - Fundamentos de la gestión de proyectos: gestión de recursos, liderazgo de un equipo, errores que se deben evitar y más Con estos conocimientos una vez adquiridos podrás: - Aumentar la capacidad de planificación y organización en cualquier ámbito de la vida - Mejorar la capacidad para trabajar en equipo y liderar proyectos con éxito - Establecer objetivos claros y alcanzables para cualquier iniciativa - Maximizar la eficiencia y eficacia en el uso de los recursos disponibles - Proporciona una ventaja competitiva en el mercado laboral al tener habilidades valiosas y buscadas en cualquier industria. No importa si eres un gerente de proyecto reacio que duda en asumir el cargo, un gerente con un nuevo conjunto de responsabilidades o el propietario de un negocio que busca hacer crecer su negocio, puedes aprender e implementar habilidades de gestión de proyectos para alcanzar tus objetivos ¡Consigue tu copia hoy mismo y comienza a llevar tus proyectos al éxito!

Joe Blanton, Pierce Lynch (Author), Sonia De Juana (Narrator)

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TIMEFULNESS: Why Successful People Don’t Match Their Socks - A Simple, Proven Guide to Success

TIMEFULNESS isn’t just a book, it’s a revolution in THINKING. Amir Peled explores a hidden facet of greatness: TIME. Timefulness reveals how luminaries like Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs harnessed time to craft monumental success. It’s a manifesto for those ready to convert fleeting moments into a durable legacy. Discover the Einstein Effect, Peled’s blueprint for wise decision-making based on humanity’s innate ability to make wise choices when time is unmistakably at stake, even in life’s most challenging terrains. Here’s a sneak peek: · A Five-Step Plan drawing on eternal sagacity, emulating the Serially Successful—from Confucius to Elon Musk. · Strategies to weave the Einstein effect into your daily victory march. For devotees of behavioral insights à la Atomic Habits and Outliers, Timefulness introduces a novel lens on the mastery of time, life and success. More than a book, it’s a movement, forging the serially successful within YOU. AMIR PELED, in his book Timefulness, condenses the concept that captured the attention of hundreds of thousands during his record-breaking TV appearance on the Israeli version of Shark Tank. There, he presented the digital implementation of Timefulness, based on two US patents he filed, and was dubbed “The Israeli challenging Google” on prime-time media. His lifelong research and career, spanning biotech, high-tech, and academia has fueled his global vision for a more timeful world—a world where everyone can achieve serial success. A native of Israel, Peled’s global perspective is further enriched by his life in Odense, Denmark, where he resides with his partner, Orit, and their three children.

Amir Peled (Author), Brian Pederson (Narrator)

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Leading With Love: A Nurse's Story

In 'Leading with Love,' Connie Delaney and I, Shelagh Klein, present our heartfelt message, crafted not through AI technology, but from the depths of our heads, hearts, and real-life experiences. This book is a testament to the transformative power of love, written with the conviction that infusing love into our daily conversations can indeed change the world for the better. 'Leading with Love' is not just a book; it's a journey into the heart of what it means to connect with one another and our world. It offers hope and a practical roadmap for fostering love and oneness in our lives. Delaney and I share our vision of a world where unity is not just a concept, but a lived reality, recognizing our profound interconnectedness with all beings and the cosmos. We believe that by embodying love in our actions and embracing oneness, we can collectively elevate our consciousness, leading to a more harmonious, sustainable, and loving world. The book is filled with personal stories, practical advice, and inspiring examples, guiding readers through a process of self-discovery and communal awakening. In a time where division and fear are often magnified, 'Leading with Love' provides a counter-narrative of hope and unity. It encourages readers to embrace love and oneness in everyday life, challenging them to look beyond differences and act with compassion and empathy. This book is more than a guide; it's an invitation to join a movement of positive change. It reminds us that transforming our world starts with individual acts of love, radiating outwards to reshape the future of our planet and beyond. For those who wish to connect further and explore these concepts in a digital space, you are invited to engage with my digital twin at Conniedelaney.com, where the journey of leading with love continues.

Connie Delaney, Shelagh Klein (Author), Connie Delaney, Shelagh Klein (Narrator)

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The Biology of Leadership: Embrace Your Human Nature and Become a Better Leader

Learn how to manage your emotions, energy and actions so that you can better lead others. As a leader, can you say with assurance that you consistently show up as your best and inspire others to do the same? Too many leaders cannot, and the underlying message is that performance suffers. In The Biology of Leadership, expert executive coach Carl Oxholm demonstrates how leaders can harness their better instincts and tap into the remarkable potential that exists in every voice, to get the outcomes they want and need. Drawing on key scientific insights and his decades of experience in corporate leadership roles, Oxholm showcases the relevance of biology to business. He offers techniques that leaders can use to become more intelligent about their emotions and shows how doing so can influence the bottom line. In this book, you will learn: - What drives your reactions and responses, so you can be a more effective leader - The important implications of the physiological fact that 'we feel before we think' - How to direct the quality, focus, and expression of your energy as you lead others to success - The art (and science) of cocreating optimal results - How to develop conscious, intentional relationships so that the performance of your entire team flourishes - And much, much more Each person is a biological wonder, a one-of-a-kind expression of life itself. This book helps you understand how your unique biology affects your ability to be, and how to make the greatest positive impact for yourself, others, and your organization.

Carl Oxholm (Author), Carl Oxholm, Michael Bungay Stanier, Stephen Coghill (Narrator)

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The PMP Project Management Professional Certification Exam Study Guide - PMBOK Seventh 7th Edition:

Everything you need to know to pass the PMP exam in one convenient location. Inside, you will discover: ● Comprehensive, in-depth information covering everything you need to know in the three crucial areas covered on the exam – people, process, and business environment ● The PMP certification basics you need to know – including certification requirements, an overview of the exam, how to improve your chances for certification, and more ● Exam preparation tips and tricks – with helpful information like what to do before and on exam day, how to manage your time while taking the test, and how to use your practical experience to answer tough questions ● Everything you need to know about Project Management Fundamentals – including the PMI Talent Triangle and why it is essential for project managers looking to advance their careers ● An in-depth look at the 12 Principles of Project Management – go into exam day knowing exactly why each is important ● An extensive overview of Project Performance Assessment – including information on measuring performance and agile project performance and more ● 125+ practice questions with thorough explanations for each correct answer – ace every question in this book and go through the exam with ease! And so much more.

Aaron Fink, Smg (Author), Jim Pierson-Perry (Narrator)

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CLEAR LEADER : KIND LEADER

Clear Leader : Kind Leader focuses on 4 time tested and proven principles to take transactional leaders into the realm of TRANSFORMATIONAL leaders. This short listen is the modern day leadership short list of how to create abundance through the results of others, and how to keep sales, profits, and team satisfaction at the highest levels. In one word, this book is about ABUNDANCE.

Patrick Kagan, Patrick L. Kagan (Author), Patrick Kagan, Patrick L. Kagan (Narrator)

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