Management & Leadership Audiobooks | Business & Economics

The Management Myth: Why the "Experts" Keep Getting It Wrong

Alongside his devastating critique of management "philosophy" from Frederick Taylor to Tom Peters, Stewart provides a bitingly funny account of his own days in a management consulting firm. Combining hands-on experience with the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary fads in efficiency improvement, empowerment, and strategy, Stewart knows his stuff, and thus he lays bare how consultants really have done very little for the business of others-while making a killing for themselves. "Filled with fascinating insider anecdotes. This wry, absorbing book will enlighten executives about the value consultants actually bring to their clients."-Publishers Weekly

Matthew Stewart (Author), William Hughes (Narrator)

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Cash in a Flash

In Cash in a Flash: Fast Money in Slow Times, two of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country share the recipe for wealth that will show you how to turn that dream into a reality now-no matter what your current circumstances or the economic climate. Using the bestselling "two books in one" formula of their blockbuster hit The One Minute Millionaire, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen combine prescriptive information for developing the millionaire mind-set and building wealth on the left-hand pages with the continuation of the inspiring fictional story of Michelle from The One Minute Millionaire as she applies her newfound financial wisdom to a group of women in her community on the right-hand pages. The life of your dreams is not only possible, it's inevitable. Cash in a Flash shows how the right mind-set, the right team, and the right techniques can put you on the road to creating enlightened-and almost instant-wealth.

Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (Author), Daryl Allen, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (Narrator)

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How Did That Happen?: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way

The authors of the bestsellers The Oz Principle and Journey to the Emerald City present the third book in their accountability trilogy, in which they clearly explain how to hold others accountable for results utilizing their patented model of communicating expectations, along with a number of other practical tools that are easily remembered and applied.

Roger Connors, Tom Smith (Author), Lloyd James (Narrator)

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Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blindspots and Transform Your Organization

Do you want to move your company in a new direction? Fearless Leadership provides you with the tools to successfully drive change, overcome obstacles, and engage and align people in working effectively together to achieve your business objectives. Leadership guru Dr. Loretta Malandro has developed a groundbreaking behavior-based methodology that is used around the globe to create top-performing leaders and high-performance organizations. It is based on a simple but profound concept: In order to change your organization, you must be willing to alter your behavior and help others make the choice to change their behavior. This means demanding 100% accountability from your people--and yourself. In today's ultra-competitive business environment, a new leadership approach is needed. Fearless Leadership takes you step by step through the process of raising behavioral standards that directly impact the bottom line. You will learn the secrets behind: Confronting the blind spots that sabotage success Overcoming the success-strangling "need to be right" Eliminating silo mentality and building committed partnerships Ending compliance and gaining full support and alignment Talking straight and confronting difficult situations head on Building a culture of 100% accountability Too many people in leadership positions attempt to enact change through systemic means, such as restructuring or altering processes. The secret to real and lasting change lies in changing behavior--how people work together. Change the level of ownership and performance of people and you will transform your organization. Leaders who are able to act courageously when faced with uncertainty or fear, take bold stands, and engage with people in very real ways are those who generate great and long-lasting results. Fearless Leadership shows you how.

Loretta Malandro (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator)

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The Agile PMO: From Process Police to Adaptive Governance

How should we scale Scrum beyond individual projects? How can PMOs avoid being process police and instead truly support Scrum teams, enable enterprise rollout of Scrum, and sustain long-term Scrum adoption? Listen to this recording as agile project management expert Kevin Aguanno interviews agile guru Sanjiv Augustine. Learn how industry leaders are scaling Scrum with Agile PMOs that: Support and empower agile teams through training, coaching, and organizational obstacle removal,Track project portfolios using Agile tracking techniques, Bring lean discipline to project prioritization, Move towards a stable teams model of resource management Sanjiv will share principles and techniques for the Agile PMO, and discuss how those concepts are being applied in the industry to scale Scrum through adaptive governance of programs and portfolios. Learn how to make the most out of your agile transformation by leveraging an agile PMO.

Kevin Aguanno, Sanjiv Augustine (Author), Kevin Aguanno, Sanjiv Augustine (Narrator)

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MBA in a Book

Practical ideas from the best brains in Business A sharp, jargon-free guide to the core curriculum of an MBA program, MBA in a Book shows how to master the big ideas of business and use them in a practical way to build and enhance career success. 'In the world of business, ideas matter. . . . Some of the sharpest minds in the business world give perceptive looks into innovation, marketing, finance, strategy, and leadership, providing stimulating, useful perspectives on these core topics.', Larry Bossidy, retired chairman and CEO of Honeywell International and coauthor of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Great business thinkers such as Michael Porter, Rosabeth Kanter, and Bill George of Harvard Business School; Paul Argenti of the Tuck School at Dartmouth; Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale; Peter Senge of MIT; the entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen; and the financial innovator Michael Milken are just a few of the best brains in business, providing the intellectual nourishment that will help you play the game of business at the highest level. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Glenn Rifkin, Joel Kurtzman, Victoria Griffith (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator)

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The Leader's Way

Born out of a decade of discussion between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and international management consultant Laurens van den Muyzenberg, The Leader's Way is the unique meeting of two worlds: the global business landscape and Buddhism. At first sight, these seem to be an unlikely pairing. After a closer look, however, the best business practices and Buddhist principles in fact have much in common; both are concerned with making rational, holistic decisions and turning them into responsible, effective action. Indeed, the teachings of Buddhism have much to offer business leaders. The world today faces many unique challenges: the worst global recession in over seventy-five years, with millions out of jobs and entire economies in a tailspin; billions of people living in abject poverty; the imminent threat of an environmental meltdown. Even prosperous businesses and leaders feel insecure about the future. A new kind of leadership is needed-one that sees events as they really are and understands the interconnectedness, impermanence, and interdependence of individuals, companies, and the global economic system. Through fascinating insights and day-to-day examples, His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers practical tools and advice on how to lead in our twenty-first-century world. Drawing on the wise teachings of Buddhism, he says, we can become better, more informed leaders as individuals, achieve more progressive leadership in our organizations, and help address some of the world's most pressing problems. Moreover, we can improve the quality of life for all by promoting responsible, ethical, and profitable business practices. That is the leader's way. A rewarding, surprising view into the life and thoughts of one of the world's most inspiring leaders, The Leader's Way provides a powerful manifesto for leading change at every level-in our lives, our organizations, and the wider world.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Laurens Van Den Muyzenberg, Laurens van Muyzenberg, The Dalai Lama (Author), Feodor Chin, Marc Cashman (Narrator)

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Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad decisions and How to Keep it from Happening to You

Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight? Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need. Using examples from business, politics, and history, Think Again deconstructs bad decisions, as they unfolded in real time, to show how you can avoid the same fate.

Andrew Cambell, Jo Whitehead, Sydney Finkelstein (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project-more than four years in duration-uncovered five step-wise stages of decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover. Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover-in some cases, coming back even stronger-even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success

International leadership expert helps listeners change their attitudes and beliefs about failure so they can make positive changes in their lives and achieve their full potential. The major difference between achieving people and average people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell covers the top reasons people fail and shows how to master fear instead of being mastered by it. Listeners will discover that positive benefits can accompany negative experiences—if you have the right attitude. Chock full of action suggestions and real-life stories, Failing Forward will help men and women move beyond mistakes to fulfill their potential and achieve success.

John C. Maxwell, John Maxwell (Author), John C. Maxwell, John Maxwell (Narrator)

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Keeping the Edge

What is a company's balance point between the demands of its customers and the profit expectations of its shareholders? In the era of 'lean and mean' operations, is quality service still the key to a business's bottom line? To answer these corporate life-and-death questions, Dick Schaaf, a leading authority on the subject and co-author of The Service Edge, goes back to the 101 companies he profiled in 1989 and reviews what has happened to them since. Ninety-nine of the original 101 are still in business, but all have had to learn valuable lessons along the way in order to keep, refine, and reinvent their edge in increasingly competitive markets. By looking at what has worked for corporations such as Home Depot, Merck, and McDonald's, and what has not for others such as American Express, Disney, and Acura, Schaaf reveals the new direction in service for CEOs, corporate managers, and small-business owners alike.

Dick Schaaf (Author), Glenn Birney (Narrator)

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Back to Basics Management

Back to Basics Management explains the difference between business administration and business management, how this distinction has been obscured, and the need to revive the craft of leadership in management. It is an invaluable book for every conscientious manager, detailing the tools used in effective management, and it offers concise and comprehensive guidelines for developing and refining primary leadership skills including Creative Listening, Decision Making, Managing Change, Managing Motivation, Managing Time, Managing Delegation, Body Language, Managerial Coaching and Training, Communication Skills, and Managerial Goal Setting.

Arthur H. Young, C. Suzanne Deakins, Matthew J. Culligan (Author), Nadia May, Wanda Mccaddon (Narrator)

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