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HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy Audiobook

Set your company up for the long term. Every company needs a strategy. A focused strategy aligns decision making throughout the organization and helps establish a competitive edge in the marketplace. But with so many options to consider, how do you define a unique strategy that will ensure growth? Whether you're starting a business from scratch or in an existing company facing new threats, this book offers the direction you need. The HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy provides practical tips and advice that break down the process of crafting strategy so you can identify the areas your company should build on and help it thrive long into the future. You'll learn to: understand what strategy is-and what it isn't; define your mission, values, and purpose; recognize your company's distinct capabilities; conduct better strategic discussions with your team; communicate your strategy throughout the company; and make a plan for pushing your strategy forward. 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), Barry Abrams, Randye Kaye (Narrator)

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Joint Force Leadership: How SEALs and Fighter Pilots Lead to Success

Navy SEALs lead on the ground. Fighter pilots lead in the air. Together, they can lead anyone, anywhere. Joint Force Leadership brings together Jim 'Boots' Demarest and Mark McGinnis's combined fifty years of military and business experience, and presents battlefield and boardroom tested tools and skills that will resonate with business people, travelers, and military enthusiasts alike. In military parlance, a 'Joint Force' is the combination of forces from different service branches into a single unit. Each comes with its own culture, identity, and vocabulary. And just like corporate teams, getting these diverse groups to work together creates a unique problem set, and leading these teams is varsity-level work. Demarest and McGinnis are both products of some of the best leadership laboratories anywhere: United States military service academies. Their lifetime of military and civilian leadership experience has taught them lessons they feel compelled to share. Their intent is to provide simple, practical, time- and battle-tested tools you can use right now to improve your leadership skills.

Jim 'boots' Demarest, Mark Wayne Mcginnis (Author), Shawn Compton (Narrator)

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Seeing People Through: Unleash Your Leadership Potential with the Process Communication Model®

NASA, Pixar Animation Studios, and BMW all use the Process Communication Model as a way of training leaders to connect effortlessly with anyone. This book simplifies the complex model to make it easy for anyone to use. Today, more than ever, leaders need a new style of leadership. They are realizing that true transformation happens through meaningful relationships, and discovering that the key to sustainable connections that create possibility and potential is through communication. In Seeing People Through, we take a deep dive into The Process Communication Model® (PCM), a behavioral communication model that teaches people how to assess, connect, motivate, and resolve conflict by understanding the personality types that make up a person's whole self, which is the key to leveraging personality diversity. PCM is more than a lens for understanding how people see things differently; it's a deep journey into self-awareness and self-transformation. In this book, new emerging leaders, senior leaders, and seasoned consultants alike will develop a fresh and relevant framework on leadership that is consistent with emerging trends, and they will learn how individual and collective concerns can be reconciled in leadership. NASA, Pixar Animation Studios, and BMW are just some of the companies who have all used PCM as a way to build better relationships through authenticity, trust, agility, and positive influence-and now you can, too!

Nate Regier, Nate Regier, Phd (Author), Jeff Hoyt (Narrator)

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Mentally at Work: Optimising health and business performance through connection

If you haven't got your head buried in the sand, you can't help but notice how much the developed world is talking about mental health. Whether it be discussions on the rates of mental ill-health or the latest 'thing to do' to cope with the anxieties and challenges of an ever-changing world. Rapid changes in the world are impacting our collective mental health, and as a leader, you need to get ahead of the curve if you don't want to leave performance on the table. But to not leave performance on the table you have to get under the skin of how your mental health is connected to the way you lead, your team's mental health and the performance of the business. Real Estate agents shout 'Location, Location, Location', this book shouts 'Connection, Connection, Connection'. This book is about understanding the science behind why connection matters, and the practical strategies to build your mental health, the mental health of the team and the strength of connection that delivers results. This book is written by a senior manager for senior managers. It pushes away the jargon and 'fluff' to give you insights into why you can't afford to ignore the tsunami hitting the developed world. Your health, your business performance and your future leadership impact depend upon it.

Genevieve Hawkins (Author), Genevieve Hawkins (Narrator)

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The Winning Attitude: Your Key to Personal Success

John C. Maxwell (Author), Henry O. Arnold (Narrator)

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How Not to Manage People: The Leadership Mistakes Keeping Your Team from Greatness

The How Not To… series is a branded family of titles that will help people recognize the mistakes they are making that are preventing them from achieving their goals by focusing on the common pitfalls professionals are making. Each book will be written by a professional writer or journalist who has researched and interviewed authorities on each title. The series will take listeners on a humorous journey, leading them through a process of self-discovery that will shine light on the issues they are facing. Listeners will learn: - How to identify areas where they are struggling and the impact those frustrations are having. - What they are doing wrong, and the ways others are doing it right. - The actionable changes they can make and how to implement them. - How to recognize success and maintain it over time. - Opportunities to laugh at others while also laughing at themselves through humorous examples of lame performance. The market is filled with books that focus on what professionals need to do, but this series focuses on the practices that may be sabotaging their efforts. And, for many, the best way to learn is from the mistakes of others, rather than their successes. This series addresses the fear of failure and alleviates the loneliness that accompanies it. In recognizing that they aren’t the only ones experiencing the pain points they are facing and hearing the stories of others who have overcome those same issues, readers are able to focus on the path to success.

Mike Wicks (Author), Jill Blackwood (Narrator)

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New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development

Packed with examples and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals. No matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers, the lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. With refreshing honesty and some much-needed humor, sales expert Mike Weinberg examines the critical mistakes made by most salespeople and executives and provides tips to help you achieve the opposite results. You’ll learn how to: identify a strategic list of genuine prospects; draft a compelling, customer-focused “sales story”; perfect the proactive telephone call to get face-to-face with more prospects; use email, voicemail, and social media to your advantage; build rapport; prepare for and structure a winning sales call; stop presenting to and start dialoguing with buyers; and make time in your calendar for business development activities. Landing on HubSpot’s Top 20 Sales Books of All Time, New Sales. Simplified. is about overcoming--and even preventing--buyers’ anti-salesperson reflex by establishing trust. The easy-to-follow plan will remove the mystery surrounding prospecting and have you ramping up for new business.

Mike Weinberg (Author), Mike Weinberg (Narrator)

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VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life

VisuaLeadership [noun]: The art and science of applying visual thinking and visual communication tools, tips, and techniques, in order to turn your vision into reality. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and finding the right words takes time, and time is money, then wouldn't it follow that business leaders could make more money-in less time-if they simply took a more 'visual' approach to how they manage and lead? Okay, it's not quite that simple . . . but VisuaLeadership will forever change the way you think and communicate by showing how you can quickly and easily leverage the power of visual imagery, mental models, metaphor, analogy, storytelling, and humor to help you take your game to a whole new level. The French novelist Marcel Proust famously wrote that, 'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.' So, if your vision is to become a better communicator and presenter, a more innovative thinker, a more productive performer, a more efficient manager, a more effective coach, or a more visionary and inspirational leader, then this exciting new book will open your 'mind's eye' to a whole new world: the world of VisuaLeadership.

Todd Cherches (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator)

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Leader Evolution: From Technical Expertise to Strategic Leadership

Most individuals who move into leadership positions experience the modern day version of trial by ordeal. It's sink or swim. To reduce the learning curve and create a more effective process, this book describes a road map for leadership development, a series of four stages that expand personal competence as well as create a broader impact on the organization or business. Each stage requires unique changes in thinking, perspective taking, and behavior, both those needed to acquire as well as those needed to jettison. The book is a pragmatic approach for self-motivated individuals to take control of their professional development by giving them the concepts, tools, techniques, and assignments to develop their leadership effectiveness where it counts the most-on the job. While highly relevant to new and existing managers, the book is ideally suited for technical professionals and leaders in technical organizations looking to develop critical leadership skills distinct from technical expertise. The concepts and principles are directed toward the individual for on-the-job application; however, this also serves as an organizational and leadership development resource for Executive MBA programs, as well as a blueprint for in-house leadership development programs.

Alan Patterson (Author), Steve Menasche (Narrator)

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Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence

At the height of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, a man who had recently returned from West Africa with a fever and severe abdominal pain entered a hospital in Dallas-and was sent home. Even after healthcare workers learned their patient had come from Liberia, ground zero of the Ebola hot zone, not one of those treating him considered the deadly virus as a possible cause of his condition. Shortly after the man died, one of the nurses who had treated him sought clearance from the Centers for Disease Control to board a commercial flight. She reported a fever of 99.5 degrees, but because the protocol restricted travel at 100.4 degrees or higher, she was cleared. She was later confirmed to be infected with Ebola. How could this happen? As Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. We've stopped thinking for ourselves. (Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot?) Of course, experts, protocols, and computer-based systems are essential to helping us make informed decisions. What we need is a new approach for integrating these information sources more effectively. The author provides principles and techniques for doing just that, empowering listeners with a more critical and nuanced approach to making decisions.

Vikram Mansharamani (Author), Mike Lenz (Narrator)

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Smart Calling, 3rd Edition: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling

In the newest edition of Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling, celebrated author and sales trainer Art Sobczak packs even more powerful insight into what many people fear: prospecting by phone for new business. This bestselling guide to 'never experiencing rejection again' has consistently found its way into the Top 20 in Amazon's Sales category, because its actionable sales tips and techniques have helped many minimize their fears and eliminate rejection. The newest edition builds upon the very successful formula of the last edition to help sales professionals take control of their strategy and get more yeses from their prospects. With new information, this info-packed release provides powerful sales insights, including: the foundational concepts of cold calling, featuring real-life examples you can carry with you into your sales career; multiple case studies and messaging from successful salespeople across the globe, providing even more insight into what works and what's a waste of your time; and new methodologies that are proven to push you past your fear and into the world of successful prospecting. If you're failing to convert your prospects into dollars, Smart Calling will help you push past the obstacles holding you back until you're an expert at taking a 'no' and turning it into a 'yes.'

Art Sobczak (Author), Art Sobczak (Narrator)

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Project Management for Small Projects, Third Edition

Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine. Managing projects requires time, effort, and discipline, regardless of the project size. The difference between managing larger and smaller projects is not only the amount of time, effort, and discipline but also the processes and tools. For years, this book has helped managers of small projects design scalable processes and simplified tools for immediate use in managing small projects. And since most small projects tend to be similar in structure or outcome, a template for one project can be used for future projects. This third edition has been updated to align with the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and provides new tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes. In addition, there is new material on agile project management and on the essential leadership skills for small-project managers. (PMBOK® is a trademark of the Project Management Institute Inc., which is registered in the United States and other nations.)

Sandra F. Rowe (Author), Anna Crowe (Narrator)

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