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Management & Leadership Audiobooks in Business & Economics
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Steve Forbes, former presidential candidate and CEO of Forbes, Inc., and classics professor John Prevas team up to tell the riveting story of the parallel and powerful lessons that the great leaders of the classical world have for today's leaders in business and politics.
As this historic downturn continues, managers are struggling to maintain profits, respond to customers, and lead their people. The old rules no longer apply.
But according to Geoff Colvin, one of America's most respected business journalists, even the scariest recession has an upside. Savvy managers can take practical steps to prevail now and come out stronger when the downturn ends.
Based on extensive interviews with global executives and other experts, Colvin synthesizes the ten most important guidelines for tough times. Among them:
· Reevaluate people. Mass layoffs are tempting, but great companies often find alternatives. And if your competitors fire their best people, grab them.
· Keep investing in your core business. It might make sense to actually increase some spending.
· Don't rush to cut prices. The long-term danger often outweighs the short-term boost.
Colvin tells stories of companies that have already adopted these strategies, with encouraging results.
Owning Up
Your world as a director has suddenly changed. You've seen members of other boards take the heat when their companies imploded. The managements of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Washington Mutual clearly failed, but so did their boards. Now the board of every company beset with problems is coming under scrutiny.
The pressure is on. Your board must own up to its accountability for the performance of the corporation. Governance now means leadership.
Boards must change their modus operandi to address the new and complex issues that are emerging. These include
Ensuring liquidity in the context of the global financial crisis
Setting CEO performance targets in a very uncertain economy
Assessing strategy and enterprise risk under extreme volatility
So what should boards do now? What should they be talking about in their meetings and executive sessions? What decisions must they make? How assertive must they be regarding company priorities and operating goals?
In Owning Up, business advisor and corporate governance expert Ram Charan answers these and other burning questions on the minds of directors and business leaders. He describes best practices that are emerging in boardrooms he has observed firsthand. And he provides practical recommendations on a range of issues, from compensation to dealing with external constituencies. Wisely attuned to the human side, he confronts the need for some boards to refresh their composition and for others to rebalance their board dynamics.
Directors, CEOs, general counsels, and operating executives will find here the guidance they need to meet the new and rising standards for corporate governance in this demanding business environment.
Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions-errors of logic and flawed judgments that distort our understanding of the real reasons for a company's performance. In a brilliant and unconventional book, Phil Rosenzweig unmasks the delusions that are commonly found in the corporate world. These delusions affect the business press and academic research, as well as many bestselling books that promise to reveal the secrets of success or the path to greatness. Such books claim to be based on rigorous thinking, but operate mainly at the level of storytelling. They provide comfort and inspiration, but deceive managers about the true nature of business success.
The use of Scrum is rapidly spreading, and the occurrence of 'ScrumBut' is equally rapid. A Scrum But is when an organization adopting Scrum has changed Scrum, under the logic of 'We use Scrum, but we've had to change it because in our organization we ... ' Listen to this 60-minute interview with Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of the Scrum method, as he gives an overview of ScrumButs and then answer questions about some common Scrum Buts that he has encountered. Hear from the expert the dangers of customizing Scrum inappropriately and the problems that arise from an incomplete Scrum implementation.Purchase this 60-minute teleconference to learn about ScrumButs and how you can avoid them.
Agenda : What is a ScrumBut?What are the most common inappropriate customizations and incomplete implementations?What risks and problems result?What are the safest ways to tailor Scrum?Share your own stories during an open Q&A session
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt comes an essential job-hunting book. Harvey Mackay shows listeners how to get hired with techniques that can be applied to everyone's job search, regardless of their expectations or previous experiences. Mackay gives practical advice and explicit instructions on the best ways to find and approach a potential employer. By drawing on decades of experience running his own business and by showing the perspective of the employer, Mackay is able to give listeners the skills needed to assess what the company is looking for in a prospective employee and how to match those expectations. Mackay combines specific advice with just the right touch of humor and inspiration to motivate people and show them how to really make things happen.
The leader within you isn’t waiting to be born… only awakened. All it takes is vision – a Blow Your Socks Off Vision. Exactly the kind of vision you’d expect to get when you follow Jesus of Nazareth. The vision that drove His ministry surpasses all others. That’s why Jesus is the greatest leader who ever was or ever will be, and why following His example can help you lead others – family, church members, friends, or co-workers - toward dreams worth reaching for and goals worth achieving. Bill Perkins tells you how. He’ll show you principles from Jesus’ life that will:
Awaken Your Character - Discover the importance of self-motivation, authenticity, vision, courage, dependence on God, commitment, and self-control.
Awaken Your Skills – Learn how to nurture vision in others, make wise decisions, build a team, harness opposing forces, facilitate innovation and change, and put others first
"Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.", Jim Collins
Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed.
Amid 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.
By understanding the stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. As Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover, in some cases, coming back even stronger. As long as you never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
In their bestselling work The Extraordinary Leader, performance thought leaders John Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest. Since that book's publication, they and coauthor Scott Edinger discovered, through an extensive study conducted over four years, that leaders who possessed the ability to inspire and motivate outperformed all others.
The authors found that the impact of inspiring and motivating others is consistent across different kinds of organizations and within different cultures. The Inspiring Leader reveals the authors' newest proprietary research on how top leaders inspire teams to greatness. It discusses the behaviors exhibited by the most successful leaders and includes advice on how to implement them. Drawing from statistically significant data and objective empirical evidence, the book shows how to:
Establish a clear vision and direction
Use the power of emotions
Create stretch goals for your team
Foster innovation and risk taking
Encourage teamwork and collaboration
Champion change, and much more
Zenger, Folkman, and Edinger lay out the strategies and concepts used by the world's greatest leaders to motivate their teams. With The Inspiring Leader as your guide, you will learn how to put those strategies to work in your own business.
Feature-Driven Development is one of six recognized major agile development methodologies. FDD and Jeff De Luca are a part of the Agile Software Consortium, and FDD was one of the original agile methodologies represented at the signing of the Agile Manifesto. While most recent writing about agile has concerned Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP), there are still a sizable number of people succeeding in agile software development using the FDD method. In this 60-minute interview with Jeff De Luca, the co-creator of the FDD method, he tells us about the story behind the development of the FDD approach: how it was conceived, its early evolution, and how it was introduced to development teams and organizations.
Topics Covered
What is Feature-Driven Development?
What sparked the original idea for its creation?
What/Who influenced its structure?
How was it first used?
What early lessons helped change the approach to the format we know today?
How was it first introduced to the broader software development community, and what were the reactions?
And answers to questions raised by the audience
The authors of the national bestseller THE POWER OF NICE once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive book about the importance of sweating the small stuff in our lives and in our careers.
Our smallest actions and gestures often have outsized impact on our biggest goals, say Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. Did you double-check that presentation one last time, or hold the elevator for a stranger? Going that extra inch - whether with a client, customer, family member, or friend - speaks volumes to others about our talent, personality, and motivations. After all, if we can't take care of the small details, how can we be counted on to deliver when it really matters?
In today's challenging times, bigger isn't always better. In fact, it's often the baby steps that put us on the path to delivering a true competitive advantage. The real secret to getting ahead in life and in our careers is to refocus our attention on the small details that, if disregarded, can sabotage a multimillion-dollar ad campaign or undermine your most important relationships. Kaplan Thaler and Koval show how to get more of what you want with surprisingly less than you'd imagine.
Written in the same entertaining, story-driven style that made THE POWER OF NICE the go-to book for finishing first, THE POWER OF SMALL demonstrates how all of us can harness the power of small to improve and reinvent our lives. It's the ultimate guide to shrinking your outlook to broaden your horizons.
Get SMALL and get going!
Says Coach K: "In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family...I BELIEVE IN YOU.
These four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try."
In his previous audiobooks, Coach K has guided readers to success the way he has guided his teams at Duke University - - with the power of his inspirational words and phenomenal leadership skills.
But that was with college kids.....Now, Coach K has stepped up to take on an entirely new challenge - by volunteering to coach the US Olympic Basketball team. Comprised of some of the biggest NBA stars, Coach K had to work with huge egos and personal rivalries in order to create an American team that could win against the best competition in the world and restore Team USA to the gold standard of basketball.
This is more than a celebratory audiobook - it's Coach K's first-hand account of how he dealt with such stars as Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and all the rest to buy into his "total team" play. Half an audiobook on basketball, half an audiobook on management techniques, THE GOLD STANDARD captures Coach K's personal style and approach to getting different (and sometimes difficult) people to work hard and succeed in reaching a common goal.
