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A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google'the fastest-growing company in history'to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything'from corporations to governments, nations to individuals'must evolve in the Google era. Along the way, he looks under the hood of a car designed by its drivers, ponders a worldwide university where the students design their curriculum, envisions an airline fueled by a social network, imagines the open-source restaurant, and examines a series of industries and institutions that will soon benefit from this book's central question. The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It's about you.

Jeff Jarvis (Author), Jeff Jarvis (Narrator)

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Leader Effectiveness Training

In today's high-tech, globally connected business world, the challenge for leaders remains the same - motivating people to work together and contribute to the success of the organization. Armed with Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.) skills, people work with you, not just for you. L.E.T. has changed countless corporations and private businesses with its down-to-earth communication and conflict-resolution skills. Dr. Gordon's L.E.T. program is a core program in more than 1,000 corporations around the world, including many Fortune 500 companies. The methods and skills that have proven to be essential for so many leaders can work for you, too.

Dr. Thomas Gordon (Author), Laurie Andrews (Narrator)

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The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By

Crack the leadership code - and take your leadership to the next level. What makes a great leader? It's a question that has been tackled by thousands. In fact, there are literally tens of thousands of leadership studies, theories, frameworks, models, and recommended best practices. But where are the clear, simple answers we need for our daily work lives? Are there any? Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman set out to answer these questions - to crack the code of leadership. Drawing on decades of research experience, the authors conducted extensive interviews with a variety of respected CEOs, academics, experienced executives, and seasoned consultants - and heard the same five essentials repeated again and again. These five rules became The Leadership Code. In The Leadership Code, the authors break down great leadership into day-to-day actions, so that you know what to do Monday morning.

Dave Ulrich, Kate Sweetman, Norm Smallwood (Author), Norm Smallwood, Sean Pratt (Narrator)

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Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls "positively deviant performance"-performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational development and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron shows that to go from successful to exceptional, leaders must learn how to create a profoundly positive environment in the workplace. They must build on strengths rather than simply focus on weaknesses; foster positive emotions like compassion, optimism, gratitude, and forgiveness; encourage mutually supportive relationships at all levels; and provide employees with a deep sense of meaning and purpose. In this concise, inspiring, and practical guide, Cameron describes four specific positive leadership strategies, lays out a proven process for implementing them, and includes a self-assessment instrument and a guide to assist leaders in the implementation process. **Contact Customer Service for Additional Material**

Kim Cameron (Author), David Drummond (Narrator)

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Why Businessmen Need Philosophy and Other Essays

'Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth,' wrote Ayn Rand. In the title essay of this collection, Leonard Peikoff applies this principle to the world of business. He shows that certain philosophic ideas, such as reason, egoism, and individualism, are needed to defend and protect the freedom of businessmen, while the opposite ideas, such as mysticism, altruism, and collectivism (which dominate our universities), destroy that freedom. Other essays in this volume will help businessmen understand the crucial role of philosophy in free trade, free markets, health care, and business ethics.

Ayn Rand, Dr. Jaana Woiceshyn, Dr. John Ridpath, Edwin A. Locke, Harry Binswanger, Jaana Woiceshyn, John Ridpath, Leonard Peikoff, Richard M. Salsman, Various Authors (Author), Susan O'Malley, Susan O’malley (Narrator)

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Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion" is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"...then it's time for a reality check. For nearly three decades, Kawasaki has earned a stellar reputation as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and irreverent pundit. His bestseller The Art of the Start has become the most acclaimed bible for small business. And his blog is consistently among the fifty most popular in the world. Now, Kawasaki has compiled his best wit, wisdom, and contrarian opinions in handy book form. From competition to customer service, innovation to marketing, he shows readers how to ignore fads and foolishness while sticking to commonsense practices. He explains, for instance: —How to get a standing ovation —The art of schmoozing —How to create a community —The top ten lies of entrepreneurs —Everything you wanted to know about getting a job in Silicon Valley but didn't know who to ask Provocative, useful, and very funny, this straightforward book will show you why readers around the world love Guy Kawasaki.

Guy Kawasaki (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator)

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Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business

Each of us enters the workplace not only as a human being, but as a woman or man, Leadership and the Sexes links the actual science of male/female brain differences to every aspect of business. Written by the New York Times bestselling author and gender expert Michael Gurian and acclaimed workplace gender consultant Barbara Annis, this groundbreaking audio book weaves brain science and gender studies with real life examples from business leaders to provide a new vision of gender diversity. Leadership and the Sexes presents brain science tools with which listeners can look into the brains of men and women to understand themselves and one another. Provided are five GenderTools, which can be used immediately in executive, management, design and marketing teams. The gender science presented here has been used successfully by such diverse corporations as IBM, Nissan, Proctor & Gamble, Deloitte & Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Brooks Sports, and many others. This gender science helps leaders increase their organization's competitive edge, profits, and bottom line by: -Increasing gender intelligence between men and women -Discovering new ways to supervise, negotiate, and manage -Revising male/female relationships to meet the demands of the global economy -Understanding how to use gender science to sell and market products and services The corporation that utilized the authentic differences between men and women is the organization that discovers significant competitive advantage. The company or firm that helps women and men understand each other discovers maximum success.

Annie Gurian, Annis Gurian, Barbara Michael, Barbara Michaels (Author), Jonathan Marosz (Narrator)

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Halftime

Midlife is no longer a crisis, but a growing awareness. The achievements that energized your success no longer seem as rewarding. You find yourself thinking, there's got to be more. You're ready to move from success to significance. Welcome to halftime: your personal timeout in the game of life. Time to pause and take inventory of what really matters to you in order to chart an even more meaningful and satisfying second half. 'My passion is to inspire business and professional leaders to embrace God's calling and move from success to significance,' writes Bob Buford. Proven in the lives of thousands of men and women worldwide, the values, wisdom, and hands-on applications in Halftime are timeless. Features of this newly updated edition include a foreword by the bestselling author of Good to Great, Jim Collins; new questions for reflection or discussion; brand new 'halftime' stories of men and women enjoying a second half of significance; specific halftime assignments to guide readers into their second-half mission; and a special update from the author on how the halftime movement is growing nationally.

Bob P. Buford, Max Bloomquist (Author), Max Bloomquist, Zondervan Publishing (Narrator)

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The McKinsey Engagement: A Powerful Toolkit For More Efficient and Effective Team Problem Solving

The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world's most respected consulting firms. Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual. True to its stated goal of arming consultants and corporate problem solvers with a blueprint for achieving consistently phenomenal results, The McKinsey Engagement is short on theory and long on action. Each chapter focuses on one element in the celebrated TEAM FOCUS problem-solving model and features a concise discussion of a key concept or principle, followed by: Clear rules of engagement A set of operating tactics Sophisticated problem solving tools Easy-to-follow action steps Exercises, checklists, and training tips War stories and best practices case studies A toolkit for bringing clarity, discipline, and purpose to all your problem-solving and change management initiatives, The McKinsey Engagement is an indispensable guide for consultants, as well as for executives, managers, students, and corporate trainers.

Paul N. Friga (Author), Kirby Heyborne (Narrator)

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The Small Business Owner’s Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep: Preventing and Solving Chronic and Costly

How would you respond to embezzlement? How about allegations of sexual harassment? Or a serious accident involving a company vehicle? Debra Traverso tells you how to prepare for the surprises most likely to throw small businesses off course. She helps you to anticipate both predictable hurdles and devastating ordeals, so that no crisis will catch you off guard. You’ll have a plan for response, even if – Your best employee resigns, taking your best client– Some inflated invoices are discovered by your accountant– Another company claims you’ve illegally used their logo– The EPA finds environmental hazards on your property No need to waste emotions, time, money, and resources when a crisis hits. You can get a good night’s sleep!

Debra Koontz Traverso (Author), Anna Fields (Narrator)

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Introduction to Agile Modeling

During requirements gathering and solution design, one of the most common techniques used to create a shared vision is modeling. Over the years, many tools and techniques have emerged for modeling in different fields that take in to account the various complexities of the solutions involved; however, one drawback that most share in common is the need to understand a modeling language (or notation technique) to create or even read and understand the models.The agile management movement has turned its attention to modeling in an effort to streamline the process and to more efficiently deliver needed stakeholder value during the modeling process. The result is a practice called agile modeling that focuses on creating models tailored to the specific information needs of their consumers, using language and techniques shared by both creator and consumer, and employing collaborative modeling strategies. In this short recording of a teleseminar, learn the underlying principles of agile modeling, some practical techniques that are used, and how you can get started today.

Kevin Aguanno (Author), Kevin Aguanno (Narrator)

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Save Time and Money with Agile Documentation

Tired of wasting time creating documents that no one will ever read? Spending hours fussing with documents to make them “perfect” only to find out that they didn’t include the right content? Spinning your wheels updating documents to keep them current?Modern agile management practices propose techniques to operate our businesses more efficiently, to be responsive to changing needs, and to greatly improve our throughput. Agile Documentation is composed of a set of practices that will help you document only the necessary things, in the most efficient way, for exactly the right audience, and in a way that minimizes ongoing updates.This recording will teach you how to save time and money while still producing quality documents, the agile way.

Kevin Aguanno (Author), Kevin Aguanno (Narrator)

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