Management & Leadership Audiobooks | Business & Economics

The Lowdown: Top Tips for Wannabe CEO's.

USEFUL TIPS TO HELP YOU CLIMB THE CORPORATE LADDER In today's competitive job market, you need to find an edge. What if you had one of the top CEOs in the publishing industry as your mentor? What if that mentor gave you inside information and top tips to help you plan your route to the top? And what if that mentor was available at the click of a button? In an effective but light-hearted talk, Richard Charkin (CEO of Bloomsbury, publisher of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter novels) gives the lowdown on how to climb the career ladder: the best way to start, what pitfalls to avoid as you advance, and how to stay on top once you've got there. As a bonus, people at the top of their professions - such as best-selling author Lord Jeffrey Archer and Chief Executive of the British Library Lynne Brindley - provide questions they've always wanted the answers to. Topics covered include: The lessons you should learn before you even begin your climb up the ladder Developing a strategy Making allies and dealing with enemies The importance of networking Dealing with office politics How to get yourself noticed How to know when it's time to move on The things you have to know to be a good CEO

R Pettinger, Richard Charkin (Author), Lorelei King, Steven Pacey (Narrator)

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Recession Proof Your Business Using Agile Management

In today's uncertain economy, companies are struggling to preserve revenues while at the same time dramatically cutting costs. Business leaders are desperately seeking solutions to maintain profitability in the face of global economic pressures. Any solution that can help this situation is seriously looked at by executives, leading many companies to adopt radical changes to their existing business processes. In a world where 'survival of the fittest' rules, it is those who can adapt most rapidly to the changing environment who will succeed. Join host Kevin Aguanno with his special guest, Mishkin Berteig, a noted agile consultant and trainer, as they discuss how agile management techniques are being used today by companies to help them survive the current economic crisis. Learn how to spread agile techniques to non-software projects to maximize the benefits to the company, and position yourself as the business leader who helped save your company from financial ruin.Participart will Discover: Types of non-software business projects that can benefit from agile management.Ways to 'sell' the use of agile to senior management How you can fast-track your career and be seen as a leader within the organization. How to translate your agile software development management skills into general business situations

Mishkin Berteig (Author), Mishkin Berteig (Narrator)

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Service-Oriented Project Management

Over the last decade, organizations have come to realize that poor project execution is impeding their ability to achieve strategic goals. Projects are still failing at a rate of 75 percent, and have been for years despite standards, certification and project management training. It hasn’t helped that projects are growing more complex with offshore resources, multiple vendors, global initiatives, virtual teams, conflicting stakeholders and the like. But the primary reason most projects fail is because the focus of the execution and the measurement of projects is too narrow and inwardly-directed.Typically, most organizations use three metrics to judge project success: on time, on budget, and meets requirements. There are several problems with this narrow view: It often has limited bearing on real value to the client and the organization.Simply meeting requirements does not guarantee optimal performance. Doing the wrong thing on time and on budget serves nobody, even if it does meet “requirements.” It views client satisfaction and total opportunity value as lagging indicators to be measured afterwards when they are, in fact, leading indicators if the project is to be perceived as a success and be a success. It directs the project manager’s focus inward toward the project’s requirements, schedule, and budget and away from the client. Internationally best-selling author and PM guru Jerry Manas has developed a 'lean' project management framework that shifts the focus of projects toward client satisfaction and real business value. He calls it 'Service-Oriented Project Management' or SOPM. Service-Oriented Project Management consists of a four-phased approach: Understand, Prepare, Iterate, and Transform.In this unique approach to project management, Manas challenges the way we currently conceive projects. As an example, instead of beginning projects with a set of requirements, service-oriented project management begins with a set of symptoms or ideas from which the project leadership can work with the client and other constituents - to derive requirements. Listen to this audio recording to learn the basics of the SOPM approach.

Jerry Manas (Author), Jerry Manas (Narrator)

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Put Your Dream To The Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It

What’s the difference between a dreamer and someone who achieves a dream? According to best-selling author Dr. John Maxwell, the answer lies in answering ten powerful, yet straightforward, questions. Whether you’ve lost sight of an old dream or you are searching for a new one within you, Put Your Dream to the Test provides a step-by-step action plan that you can start using today to see, own, and reach your dream. Dr. Maxwell draws on his forty years of mentoring experience to expertly guide you through the ten questions required of every successful dreamer: The Ownership Question The Clarity Question The Reality Question The Passion Question The Pathway Question The People Question The Cost Question The Tenacity Question The Fulfillment Question The Significance Question More importantly, Dr. Maxwell helps you to create the right answers, giving you principles and tips to so you can make good decisions and maximize every moment to achieve your dream. Don’t leave your dream to chance. This book is a must-have and can make the difference between failure and success.

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

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Strategic Acceleration

In today's ultra-competitive world, getting superior results at the fastest rate possible is critical to success. But the speed of life can sidetrack us, cloud our sense of priority, and make us less effective. Strategic Acceleration presents a methodology that will help you get clear, focused, and efficient. It will bring you the results and success you want - faster. Tony Jeary's Strategic Acceleration method resulted from his study of the distinctions that characterize top-performing high-achievers and organizations. From his study, Tony discovered and proved that the foundational characteristic of great performers was their ability to communicate their vision clearly and to translate their vision into action. Tony labels this distinction Communication Mastery, and it is the basis for his Strategic Acceleration Process. Whether you are a manager, an executive, an entrepreneur, a business developer, a sales team member, a management group, an organization, or anything in between, Strategic Acceleration is guaranteed to help you achieve what you want, when you want it. The Strategic Acceleration approach is based on three pivotal concepts Clarity-Focus-Execution. Strategic Acceleration will help you develop a clear vision, outline priorities and objectives, and tackle goals with a true sense of urgency and focus. Once understood and deployed, Strategic Acceleration is sure to have a powerful, long-term, positive influence on the results and success that so many want yet rarely know how to achieve.

Tony Jeary (Author), Jim Bond (Narrator)

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Walk the Walk

Most leaders focus too much on what they say and not nearly enough on setting an example. This audiobook shows what happened in those unusual cases of true leaders-in business, education, the military, and nonprofits-who always walked the walk, especially when times got tough. In a skeptical world, their actions gave them more credibility than even the best possible speeches. Consider how • Herb Kelleher and Colleen Barrett of Southwest Airlines were serious about putting employees first, and proved it by sticking to a no-layoffs policy while other airlines made major cuts. • Sony founder Masuro Ibuka, who stressed originality over profits, waited for years while his competitors made color televisions-and then released the Trinitron, a breakthrough product that blew the other sets out of the water. • Martin Luther King Jr. was so committed to nonviolence that he let a racist detractor beat him up in front of a crowded auditorium rather than raise a hand against him. Ultimately, leadership doesn't depend on who you are, what you say, or how you say it, but only on what you do. The eye-opening examples in Walk the Walk will inspire leaders at all levels.

Alan Deutschman (Author), Jim Bond (Narrator)

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Hit the Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders

Want to compete with the best of the best? Then hit the ground running. Here's how. The toughest job in business is taking over as a new leader. You have to quickly assess the situation, pull together a strong team, decide on a strategy, and inspire everyone to execute it. The stakes for new leaders are even higher. Whether you've been brought on to fix something that's broken, launch a product, move the company in a new direction, or head up a division, every new leader is under the gun to get up to speed and begin producing strong numbers- ASAP. In Hit the Ground Running, Jason Jennings introduces us to America's best performing new CEOs who pulled off the most impressive transformations of the decade. They doubled revenues, more than tripled earnings per share, and doubled their company's net profit margins. After interviewing and analyzing the stories of these top leaders, Jennings delivers their hard- earned, battle-tested strategies, which will inspire any new leader to take the helm and start delivering. When Richard and Tim Smucker were appointed co-CEOs of The J. M. Smucker Company, they shared their strategy with everyone and got them on board with their mission. Since then, Smucker's went on to dominate the markets and bring in billions of dollars of new business. Mike McCallister, the CEO of a twenty-billion-dollar health-services giant, decided to stop pretending and publicly admit that health insurance is broken. Humana began to replace a crippled, complex, and confusing system with one that works and has more than tripled revenues, earnings, and share price since McCallister took over. By processing change in bite-size pieces, Jeffrey Lorberbaum led Mohawk Industries through twenty successful acquisitions and turned his family's carpet-making business into the largest flooring company in the world. Filled with engaging stories and lessons from the cream of the crop, Hit the Ground Running will help new leaders at every level balance short- and long-term goals as well as the needs of shareholders, employees, customers, and the community

Jason Jennings (Author), Jason Jennings (Narrator)

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The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life

HOW DID COMPANIES, BOTH LARGE and small, in different countries and industries, all achieve breakthrough performances when the odds were stacked against them? How did an engineer turned CEO transform his New Zealand steelmaking company around in one year and become a leader in the industry? How did a 600-person team, within the largest petroleum company in Brazil, overcome skepticism and dysfunctional dynamics to achieve the biggest process integration success in history? How did a major Japanese housing manufacturer thrive despite the worst economy in a generation? How did a South African platinum mine improve its safety performance by 57 percent in one year? All of these results were possible because people applied The Three Laws of Performance and rewrote their futures. This audio book will show you how to do the same in your organization and your life. Although most of us aren't aware of it, we have a future that's already been written. Our future is written by hopes, fears, dreams, expectations, and decisions made about life. In the same way, organizations have futures written by history, circumstances, culture, aspirations, successes, and failures. These already-written futures determine and shape the level of performance that's possible for individuals and organizations. Authors Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan crack the code on rewriting the future for people and organizations, elevating performance to unprecedented levels.

Dave Logan, Steve Zaffron (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Managing Thought: How Do Your Thoughts Rule Your World?

From making small day-to-day decisions, to changing company-wide strategies, plotting a career path, finding a life partner, and enjoying life; the way you think shapes your circumstances, your destiny, and your success. Managing Thought: How Do Your Thoughts Rule Your World goes beyond other “positive thinking” and “emotional intelligence” books by offering a practical, timeless, step-by-step approach to turn thoughts and emotions that are working against you into powerful action and new levels of success you never thought possible. Mary J. Lore is an internationally recognized thought leader, public speaker, multiple award-winning author, and mentor to key influencers and thought leaders around the world. Since 2002, she has helped thousands of individuals and over 10,000 organizations develop self-awareness and change the way they think to create profound change, experience their highest vision, and enjoy long-lasting success. Her book and audiobook have received six best book awards in various categories including business motivation, conscious leadership, self-help, communication skills, philosophical thought leadership and enlightenment, and inspiration. Previous winners of the most recent award include Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, and the Dalai Lama. If you want to: RELEASE thoughts and emotions that waste, your time, energy, and money. RECLAIM your peace of mind and transcend stress. REDISCOVER what inspires you. RESTORE your sense of purpose. RETHINK your path to success REFRAME your goals and priorities. REINVOKE your state of wonder and creativity. REVITALIZE your energy. PLEASE NOTE: To download the How Do Your Thoughts Rule Your World?® Self-Assessment and the PrioriTree® Worksheets referred to in the book, go to www.ManagingThought.com and click on Online Tools in the Menu.

Mary J. Lore (Author), Mary J. Lore (Narrator)

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Agile Project Performance Management

With the widespread growth of agile project management and agile development methods, we face challenges when these projects don't (or can't) provide us with our standard performance metrics for project health assessment and project portfolio management. Join Kevin Aguanno, a well-known expert on the agile methodologies, as he explains how project managers can adapt existing control systems (and incorporate the metrics provided by the agile methods themselves) to better track and control projects using these methods.

Kevin Aguanno (Author), Kevin Aguanno (Narrator)

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Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

What if you could improve your performance in the areas that seem to be most at odds with each other-work and life beyond work-at the same time? Most of us assume it can't be done. But contrary to the conventional wisdom, the different domains of our lives don't have to compete in a zero-sum game. However, managing them takes real leadership skill. Adapted from author Stew Friedman's popular Wharton School course, Total Leadership will help you identify your core values-what's fundamentally important to you-and make them come alive in your everyday actions at work, at home, in your community, and within yourself. By improving these areas of life simultaneously, you'll get more done with less stress. Friedman's approach has been pressure-tested by years of working with people at every level of experience, in companies large and small. His step-by-step instruction, engaging examples, and more than thirty hands-on tools will help you create sustainable change and achieve higher levels of performance in all parts of your life. Total Leadership offers a compelling new framework that enables you to: -Be real: Act with authenticity by clarifying what's important -Be whole: Act with integrity by respecting the whole person -Be innovative: Act with creativity by experimenting to find new solutions Gain greater clarity of purpose, accomplish more at work, and feel more connected to the people and causes that matter most to you. Leadership can-and indeed must-be learned. But first you've got to choose to lead. If you're going to make a difference, thinking of yourself as a leader will make it more likely that your legacy-not your fantasy, but the real impact of your life, today and in the long run-is the one you really want.

Stewart D. Friedman, Stewart Friedman (Author), Stewart D. Friedman, Stewart Friedman (Narrator)

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It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For

Roy Spence has helped organizations such as Southwest Airlines, BMW, the University of Texas, Wal-Mart, the Clinton Global Initiative, and many others achieve greatness by obsessing about one big idea: purpose. Simply put, purpose is a definitive statement about the difference you are trying to make in the world. Purpose is the key to creating and maintaining a high-performing organization, deserving just as much attention as strategy, execution, and innovation. A real purpose can't just be words on paper. It has to get under the skin of every member of your organization - like Southwest's purpose of "democratizing the skies" or Wal-Mart's of "saving people money so they can live better." If you get it right, your people will feel great about what they're doing, clear about their goals, and excited to get to work every morning. This audiobook will help you discover your organization's purpose, proclaim it to the world, and apply it to everything you do. It will force your organization to address some tough and profound questions: • What do we really stand for? • Do our employees feel like what they do matters? • Would our customers miss us if we ceased to exist? • Do we bring our purpose to life everywhere we can? Spence's hard-won lessons will change the way you view your job, your business model, your leadership style, and your marketing. They will help you make money, make a difference, and - with a little luck - make history.

Haley Rushing, Roy M. Spence Jr (Author), Bill Weideman (Narrator)

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