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Business Leadership Transition Audiobook

Bruce Miller once said leadership is more like a **** ton Denny trophy you keep a trophy but to hand off the baton in succession management expert Jake Appleman warns us senior leadership teams preparing for an executive transition phase one of the most challenging obstacles in today's business world there's no question about it if you have a leadership or management transition taking place in the workplace the stakes are high how you handle this will massively impact the future of your company both in terms of its culture.

Rwg Publishing (Author), Rwg Publishing (Narrator)

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The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, a

Learn how the most successful businesses are creating value and igniting smart growth in a fast-paced, competitive market. Most businesses today focus on competition and disruption instead of collaboration, participation, and engagement. They focus on transactions instead of interactions. They seek to optimize or extract value rather than share it. They build assets and thrive on enormous scale, huge distribution networks, and brand recognition. But then along comes a rival that doesn't care much about your brand and your other assets, and it either rushes past you or mows you down. In The Interaction Field, management expert and professor Erich Joachimsthaler explains that the only way to thrive in this environment is through the Interaction Field model. Companies who embrace this model generate, facilitate, and benefit from data exchanges among multiple people and groups -- from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn't expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators, and even competitors. And everyone in the field works together to solve big, industry-wide, or complex and unpredictable societal problems. The future is going to be about creating value for everyone. Businesses that solve immediate challenges of people today and also the major social and economic challenges of the future are the ones that will survive and grow.

Erich Joachimsthaler (Author), Jason Culp (Narrator)

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Exceptional: Build Your Personal Highlight Reel and Unlock Your Potential

A Three-Step Process to Access and Activate Your Full Potential Imagine switching on the television to see a highlight reel of the best moments from your life. Like a professional athlete, with every clip you'd learn how to repeat past successes, pinpoint positive blind spots, and build confidence in your skills. In Exceptional, London Business School professor and expert social scientist Daniel M. Cable reveals how building your own personal highlight reel-a collection of positive memories about yourself from your network-is key to accessing your potential. Using the latest science and proven research behind best-self activation, his three-step process will help you improve your life by: * Focusing on what you do best * Crafting a life around your strengths * Increasing your confidence and resilience Cable has worked with tens of thousands of people to create their highlight reels and make the most of their gifts. The three-step process ultimately reveals how living up to your full potential can improve the relationships you value most and transform your mindset to one of possibility. Each of us can bring forth a version of ourself that is uniquely outstanding. It's a version of ourself that already exists-all we have to do is access it. * A practical book on how to create one's own human highlight reel, and then use that highlight reel to direct one to success, growth, happiness, and fulfillment in work and life based on scientific results * Great for readers interested in achieving self-improvement and a sense of purpose. * Add it to the shelf with books like Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy, and The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg.

Daniel M. Cable (Author), Daniel M. Cable (Narrator)

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Mentor to Millions: Secrets of Success in Business, Relationships, and Beyond

Kevin Harrington, one of the original 'sharks' of the TV hit Shark Tank, and serial entrepreneur Mark Timm take you on a journey that radically redefines what it means to truly succeed--at work, at home, and in every area of life. On one of the best days of his life as an entrepreneur, Mark Timm found himself sitting in his car at the end of his driveway. In just a minute he would go into the house and greet his wife and children. But as he basked in the success he'd just had, he also had to face a surprising realization: he didn't really want to go home. Mark knew that once he stepped into the happy chaos of his family, the euphoria of the day would evaporate. His work life and his home life might as well have been two different worlds. And at that moment, he acknowledged--as he puts it--that 'my businesses were getting my first and my best, while my family got my last and my least.' Mentor to Millions charts Mark's journey from that pivotal moment to a whole new understanding of how work, life, and relationships can coexist and thrive together. His guide through this journey: his accomplished mentor, Kevin Harrington, one of the original 'sharks' from Shark Tank, who shares amazing stories and imparts invaluable wisdom about how to win in business and in every area of life. This deeply personal, easy-to-follow book invites you to join Mark and Kevin on the journey. Every page pulls back the curtain on entrepreneurship at the highest level, revealing priceless business lessons--which lead to the biggest lesson of all: combining the best of business, family, and personal life. If you're succeeding in business, struggling, or just starting out, and want your life at home to be what you've always dreamed it can be, this is the lesson you need to learn: the most valuable business you'll ever own, work for, or be a part of isn't the business you go to every day, it's the one you go home to.

Kevin Harrington, Mark Timm (Author), Kevin Harrington, Mark Timm (Narrator)

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Disruptive Leadership: 8 Counterintuitive Secrets to Running a Successful Business

Are you ready to disrupt your industry? Disruptive Leadership, written by the founder of Babylon Telecommunications, reveals the 8 counterintuitive secrets that will skyrocket your business! Warning: reading this book and following the advice within can result in developing the key trait of disruptive leadership that has been integral to the success of leaders such as Melinda Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Sheryl Sandberg, and Jeff Weiner. Start reading now to: Discover how trusting your intuition lights your path toward wisdom;Find out why only giving others as much information as they can handle is a win-win;Discover how to build, sell, and rebuild a business;Learn the pitfalls of taking the power away from your partners;Understand the logical reason to get your ego out of the way;Learn how to improve yourself by embracing failure;Figure out how to guide others with humility and thoughtfulness;Discover how permitting others to manage their own decisions empowers your workforce; andMuch more.Disruptive Leadership: 8 Counterintuitive Secrets to Running a Successful Business answers the question: How do I use my successes and my failures to lead others?

Christopher Catranis (Author), Brian J. Callanan (Narrator)

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Team Relationship Management: The Science of Inspiring Trust & Peak Performance

Inspiring Trust and Peak Performance Even in the hardest of times, business goes on and the demand for innovative solutions requires the collaboration of the best minds across networks of teams. Many of these teams are now working remotely, compounding the complexity and frustrations that come with the stress of uncertainty and change. Most leaders work hard to inspire their teams to peak performance; yet, too often, friction is high and trust is low, resulting in unnecessary stress and disappointing performance. But there are the stellar exceptions, teams that consistently deliver exceptional performance. What makes them different? Over the past 25 years, Dr. Jeb Hurley has held GM, VP, and CEO roles at companies ranging from Fortune 100 to startups. While doing his doctoral research, he spent five years walking together with today’s team leaders experiencing what was and wasn’t working on the front lines. Team Relationship Management looks at team leadership and superior team performance through the lens of behavioral science, focusing on the behaviors that inspire trust and peak performance on teams. In five parts, you’ll journey from the rise of team-based organizations in the 20th century to discovering the three behaviors the best team leaders employ that deliver greater inclusion, higher engagement, and superior performance: - Laying a foundation of core values and norms that bring out the best in people. - Inspiring individual motivation through understanding people’s core psychological needs - Managing team relationships in a manner that creates and sustains trust This book is a practical guide for a new generation of conscious leaders. If you are as passionate about people’s well-being at work as you are about their performance, and understand the connection between the two, this book is for you.

Dr. Jeb S. Hurley (Author), Colin Key (Narrator)

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Effective Remote Working Techniques for Managers: Nine Ways to Boost Your Productivity While Working

Anyone who’s been there and done it will tell you that managing a team remotely brings a different set of challenges to managing a team in an office. From creating a sense of structure to boosting team morale, keeping your team working productively when none of you are in the same room can be tricky. That’s where author Hari Singh can help. Whether you’re used to managing your team remotely or you’ve been forced into it by circumstances beyond your control, this book will help you not just survive, but thrive. Each of the chapters in this book addresses a different aspect of managing your team remotely, teaching you the practical steps and techniques needed to boost your own productivity as well as that of your team. You’ll discover insider secrets including how to: - Build a high-performance remote team - Create a distraction-free work space - Develop high levels of productivity - Stay healthy and relaxed while working remotely - Give your team the tools they need to function even better from home than they do in the office Author Hari Singh is a web development specialist contractor. Over the course of his 16-year career, he’s seen the transition from on-site to remote working and witnessed remote senior managers making every mistake in the book. Using the performance optimisation techniques Singh describes in this book, these same managers were able to enjoy an explosion in their productivity, getting done in four or six hours what used to take eight. Now you too can enjoy a seamless transition to remote management and take your productivity to the next level, with no stress and no fuss.

Hari Singh (Author), Graham Mack (Narrator)

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Be the Best at What Matters Most: The Only Strategy You will Ever Need

Be the Best at What Matters Most is about simplifying how you think and go about your business. Most businesses of today are more focused on the newest gimmicks and tricks of the trade that they believe can save the day. This book focuses on the view that success is a result of quality, consistency of performance, and relentless improvement on those things that matter most and not about the wow factor provided by flashy tricks. It will teach companies to be so good at the basics that they are cutting edge. Questions, activities, and action steps will be built into every section of the book.

Joe Calloway (Author), Noah Michael Levine (Narrator)

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Who Killed Creativity?: ...And How Do We Get It Back?

Who Killed Creativity? reveals what it takes for companies, leaders, managers and individuals to build a culture of creativity and innovation and find new solutions to current problems. Creativity and innovation are critical for future satisfaction and survival: in a recent survey of 1500 CEOs, creativity was found to be the most important quality in leadership, more important than integrity and global thinking. And yet research shows that creativity is now declining at an alarming rate. In this intriguing (and creative!) book, Andrew and Gaia Grant help to reveal why creative thinking and innovation are so important, to identify the possible reasons for the decline of creativity in our generation, and then to provide practical tools in creative thinking and problem solving. The book is organised into two parts: 1. Principles: The death and resuscitation of creativity and 2. Practice: How can we get it back Key features: § How the loss of creative confidence affects the bottom line. § What are the secrets behind creative genius and how can it can be harnessed? § Teaching creative thought and re-wiring the creative brain. § The steps for real transformation comes from strategic planning, innovating, communicating, and implementing. § The three cogs for successful innovation: - 1. Individual approaches method: 7 strategies for creative thinking - 2. Team Actions method: the creative walkaround - 3. Organisation innovation method: the innovation radar and the customer connection

Andrew Grant, Gaia Grant, Jason Gallate (Author), Deryn Edwards, Oliver Fenton (Narrator)

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First Be Nimble: A Story About How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World

The how-to guide to building an adaptive, productive business environment Graham Winter, author of the best-selling Think One Team, brings you First Be Nimble: A Story about How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World. This book addresses the challenge of how to equip businesses to adapt and thrive in an unpredictable and demanding economy. Told in the form of a fable and illustrated with case studies and powerful tools, the book is designed to engage, inspire, and inform readers from all walks of business life. Helping leaders, teams, and whole organisations to bring their values to the frontline of the battle to be adaptive and productive, First Be Nimble shows readers how to align people and teams, collaborate and co-create with others, reduce resistance to change, boost trust, personal resilience, and performance, and prepare for the unique challenges of adaptive change. Helps businesses adapt to today's environment, learn to innovate, and build a "one team'" mentality Gives leaders the practical tools to facilitate change and foster the conversations that help people to learn and grow together Uses a unique, fable-style format, with inspirational examples, to bring key concepts to life While many business leaders are well versed in the importance of company values, they are often ignorant of how to bring them to life, and how to build an adaptive, high performing business. First Be Nimble is here to help.

Graham Winter (Author), John Banks (Narrator)

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Dealing with the Tough Stuff: How to Achieve Results from Key Conversations

A practical toolkit for handling workplace conflict and difficult conversations Dealing with the Tough Stuff is the business leader's critical guide to handling difficult conversations in the workplace. Based on the science of human behaviour -- both verbal and nonverbal -- this book is packed full of practical and pragmatic strategies for managing conflict situations. You'll learn a variety of diagnostics, models and processes that you can start using today, and you'll benefit from expert tips, tricks and tools for leading important conversations with empathy and assertiveness. This updated second edition includes new material on key conversations with distance workers, as well as within the context of a fast-growth company, and a broad selection of real-world case studies from a diverse array of workplaces. Backed by contemporary psychological theory and time-tested amongst thousands of leaders, these highly relevant suggestions give you the power to deal with the tough stuff effectively and compassionately. The human element plays a large part in the manager's role, yet many lack the training needed to deal with people effectively. This book helps you understand what makes people tick, and helps you develop the human skills you need to manage. Achieve clarity and directness in your communications Deal with anger, stubbornness and defensiveness Develop the skills to manage immediate crises Set priorities, and build a foundation of strong communication Avoiding the tough stuff can be extremely costly for managers, staff and the business as a whole. No one enjoys these conversations, but they are inevitable -- and the right set of skills goes a long way toward making them run smoothly, with greater results out the other side. Dealing with the Tough Stuff is your indispensable primer on human behaviour, and effectively navigating tough conversations at work.

Alison Hill, Darren Hill, Sean Richardson (Author), India Fisher (Narrator)

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Philanthropy Revolution: How to Inspire Donors, Build Relationships and Make a Difference

In the first book on philanthropy written from a donor’s perspective, businesswoman and philanthropist Lisa Greer lifts the lid on our charitable sector, with an authentic account that describes exactly how outdated the sector has become and why it’s at risk of collapse. Weaving in her story of instant wealth and philanthropy, Lisa showcases the latest research, as well as dozens of interviews with donors, nonprofit professionals and leading academics in the field. She also provides much-needed ethical solutions that apply to any business, including: • Upfront ways to ask for money • Effective communications strategies • Ways to be transparent from the outset • How to curate meaningful events Philanthropy Revolution is the handbook all fundraisers, nonprofits and donors should be using to create trusting, authentic partnerships that can be sustained long-term. Philanthropy is changing dramatically and it needs nothing short of an intervention to succeed. In this book, Lisa Greer shows us how to 'save giving' by providing a clear path to success. With her help, the nonprofit world will see its donors energized, its charities better supported and its impact increased, all while building a more honest philanthropic culture.

Larissa Kostoff, Lisa Greer (Author), Sarah Borges (Narrator)

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