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Mythos Motivation: Wege aus einer Sackgasse

Lob, Prämien, Boni, Incentives, leistungsvariables Einkommen: Alles, was in Unternehmen an Tricks und Kniffen zur Mitarbeitermotivation praktiziert wird, ist kontraproduktiv. In der Hörbuchversion seines Longsellers zeigt Reinhard K. Sprenger kurz und prägnant, wie Sie Leistungsfreude entfesseln und gute Mitarbeiter halten können.

Reinhard K. Sprenger (Author), Elke Schützhold, Helge Heynold, Helmut Winkelmann, Susanne Grawe (Narrator)

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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully implementing a turnaround strategy. Filled with Gerstner's personal insights as he explores the company, institutes changes, and rebuilds IBM for the 21st century, readers will have unprecedented access to the mind of the CEO. Refreshing and candid throughout, Gerstner pulls no punches as shows readers what he did and why he did it.

Jr. Louis V. Gerstner, Louis V. Gerstner (Author), Edward Herrmann (Narrator)

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Who Says Elephants Can\'t Dance?: Inside IBM\'s Historic Turnaround

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman\'s position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully implementing a turnaround strategy. Filled with Gerstner\'s personal insights as he explores the company, institutes changes, and rebuilds IBM for the 21st century, readers will have unprecedented access to the mind of the CEO. Refreshing and candid throughout, Gerstner pulls no punches as shows readers what he did and why he did it.

Jr. Louis V. Gerstner, Louis V. Gerstner (Author), Edward Herrmann (Narrator)

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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Research. Together, they outline an innovative plan that urges businesses to create disruption rather than fleeing from it. Named one of 2003's Best Business Books by Business Week, this book is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best-seller.

Clayton Christensen, Michael E. Raynor (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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The E-Myth Revisted

In this first compact disc edition of the totally revised one million copy underground bestseller The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed -- and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have listened to The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

Michael E. Gerber (Author), Michael E. Gerber (Narrator)

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Lead Like Jesus

Jesus is simply the greatest leadership model of all time, and He asks us to make a difference in the world we live in by being effective servant leaders. Ken Blanchard, Rick Warren and Bill Hybels join forces to offer a clear, insightful look at Jesus, the servant leader. Lead Like Jesus is a new concept to help people take God out of the spiritual compartment of their private spiritual life and give Him free reign in all their daily actions and relationships, especially their leadership roles. Jesus set the basic foundation for the leadership journey throughout his ministry. During His time on earth, Jesus poured His life into the training of His disciples in the first three leadership arenas, and during that process, He equipped them to follow His leadership philosophy after He was gone as they moved to the organizational level and attempted to establish the church.

Bill Hybels, Ken Blanchard, Rick Warren (Author), Bill Hybels, Ken Blanchard, Rick Warren (Narrator)

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Fit to Lead: The Proven 8-Week Solution for Shaping Up Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Career

Improve your body, improve your career: An executive fitness plan by experts from the Cooper Wellness Clinic o Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, runs four miles a day and spend 30 minutes on the Nautilus machine o Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare, uses time between flights to jog around airports o Julian C. Day, chief financial officer for Sears, Roebuck & Company, surfs o President George W. Bush runs three miles a day, four days a week Why do these four extremely busy and powerful executives place fitness at the top of their priorities list? Because leaders who are physically fit are better able to handle the enormous demands and pressures that confront them, including endless meetings, grueling travel schedules, high pressure, and stress. For years, The Cooper Wellness Program in Texas has taught high-level executives (including President Bush) the financial benefits of a fitness program. Now this two cd plus one cd-Rom program brings an eight-week, three-part fitness formula to executives across the nation, using the best knowledge available to help busy leaders achieve not just the obvious health benefits, but more effective performance on the job.

Charles C. Manz, Christopher P. Neck, Emmet C. Thompson, Ii Emmet C. Thompson, Tedd L. Mitchell, Various Authors (Author), Richard Rohan (Narrator)

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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni (Author), Jack Arthur (Narrator)

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More Tales from the Dugout: More of the Greatest True Baseball Stories of All Time

The latest collection of littleknown baseball stories from the acclaimed author of Tales from the Dugout. Mike Shannon, top-selling author of the critically acclaimed baseball classics Tales from the Dugout and Tales from the Ballpark, returns for a third success to deliver a brand-new collection of more than 100 true stories and never-beforetold anecdotes that come straight from the insider's circle. Entertaining and masterfully told, More Tales from the Dugout brings together delightful stories from the great and the not-so-great, both on and off the field, including baseball personalities from the past and present such as: Roger Maris Ken Griffey Jr. Pete Rose Phil Rizzuto Gaylord Perry At turns hilarious and heartwarming, this compilation is sure to join Shannon's previous books as a baseball classic.

Mike Shannon (Author), Lloyd James (Narrator)

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The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching

The most successful coach in college basketball history, and among the most beloved, offers his comprehensive program for building and maintaining winning teams in sports, business, and life. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success, both in victories won and in shaping the lives of the players he led. Well known are the Michael Jordans, Kenny Smiths, and George Karls, but overall more than 96 percent of Dean Smith's players earned their undergraduate degrees, and more than 33 percent earned graduate or professional degrees. Now, in The Carolina Way, Coach Smith fully explains his entire coaching philosophy and shows readers how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges in their own lives. In his wry, sensible, wise way, Coach Smith takes us through every aspect of his program, illustrating his insights with vivid stories. Accompanying each major point is a "Player Perspective" from a former North Carolina basketball star and an in-depth "Business Perspective" developing some of the wider applications of Smith's precepts from Gerald D. Bell, a world-renowned leadership consultant and a professor at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Each year Coach Smith gave his team the same three goals: - PLAY HARD: Insist on consistent effort. The final result is often outside your control. Create a system that demands effort, rewards it, and punishes its absence. - PLAY SMART: Execute properly. Understand and consistently execute the fundamentals. Reward their execution and punish their absence. - PLAY TOGETHER: Play unselfishly. Don't focus on individual statistics. Recruit unselfish players, reward unselfish play, and punish selfish play and showboating. Coach Smith taught all his teams that if they kept their focus on these three goals, winning would take care of itself. And more times than any other coach in history, he was right.

Dean Smith (Author), Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (Narrator)

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Jesus CEO : Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership

A revolutionary new audio program that will guide business leaders into the next century! He gave them a vision of something larger than themselves. The world is changing at almost breakneck speed, and the leaders who succeed will be those who can marshal their most powerful resources in the most effective ways. With principles embedded in spirituality, ethics and strength, acclaimed motivator Laurie Beth Jones brings us Jesus, CEO -- a bold yet sensitive inspirational guide for leadership success. After years in business, Jones was struck by the notion that Jesus' leadership approach ran counter to most of today's management styles. In Jesus, CEO, she explains that by harnessing the three strengths behind Jesus' leadership techniques (the strengths of self-mastery, action, and relationships), we can become the empowered leaders that the next millenium will require. Following the example of Jesus -- a "CEO" who took a disorganizied "staff" of twelve and built a thriving "enterprise" -- Jesus, CEO details a simple, profound, fresh, and often humor-filled approach to motivating and managing others.

Laurie Beth Jones (Author), Laurie Beth Jones (Narrator)

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Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning

The coauthor of the international bestseller Execution has created the how-to guide for solving today's toughest business challenge: creating profitable growth that is organic, differentiated, and sustainable. For many, growth is about "home runs"-the big bold idea, the next new thing, the product that will revolutionize the marketplace. While obviously attractive and lucrative, home runs don't happen every day and frequently come in cycles. Products like Kevlar, Teflon, and the Dell business model for selling personal computers may be once-in-a-decade phenomena. A surer and more consistent path to profitable revenue growth is through "singles and doubles"-small day-to-day wins and adaptation to changes in the marketplace that build the foundation for substantially increasing revenues. The impact of singles and doubles can be huge. They are not only the basis for sustained revenue growth but, in fact, the foundation for home runs. Singles and doubles provide the discipline of execution, an absolute necessity for successfully bringing a breakthrough technology to market or implementing a new business model. Inherent in this way of thinking is the revolutionary idea that growth is everyone's business-not solely the concern of the sales force or top management. Just as everyone participates in cost reduction, so must everyone be engaged in the growth agenda of the business. Every contact of each employee with a customer is an opportunity for revenue growth. That includes everyone from the people working in a company's call center handling customer inquiries and complaints to the CEO. In this trailblazing book, Ram Charan provides the building blocks and tools that can put a business on the path to sustained, profitable growth. For more than twenty-five years, Ram Charan has been working day in and day out with companies around the world. The ideas he has developed for solving the profitable revenue growth dilemma facing many businesses are based on personally seeing what works in real time. These are ideas that have been tested across industries and that deliver results, and they can be put to use starting Monday morning. Author RAM CHARAN is the coauthor of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, the international bestseller that has changed the way managers run their companies. He is a highly sought-after advisor to CEOs and senior executives in companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500. Dr. Charan earned his doctorate at Harvard Business School and has been on the faculty of that school as well as the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His articles have been published in Fortune magazine and Harvard Business Review, and his other books include What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards At Work, and The Leadership Pipeline.

Ram Charan (Author), Harry Chase, Ram Charan (Narrator)

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