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Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman's international bestseller Emotional Intelligence changed our concept of "being smart," proving that emotional intelligence- how we handle ourselves and our relationships-matters more than IQ or technical skill in educational success. Now, Goleman teams with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, experts on emotional intelligence research, to explore the consequences of emotional intelligence for leaders and organizations. The authors argue that a leader's emotions are contagious, and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organization is to thrive.

Annie McKee, Annie Mckee, Daniel Goleman, Prof. Daniel Goleman Ph.D., Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., Richard Boyatzis (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator)

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Managing in the Next Society

Peter F. Drucker (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator)

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Das Prinzip Selbstverantwortung: Wege zur Motivation

Eigeninitiative ist gefragt - das gilt nicht nur für das Privatleben, sondern auch für den Job. Deutschlands meistgelesener Managementautor Reinhard K. Sprenger zeigt, was Manager tun können, damit ihre Mitarbeiter Verantwortung übernehmen, initiativ werden und Kreativität und Leistungsfreude entfalten. Anhand vieler Beispiele beschreibt Sprenger, was Selbstverantwortung ist und wie Führungskräfte sie fördern können: indem sie ihre Überzuständigkeit angemessen reduzieren und Mitarbeiter in der Verantwortung lassen. Dieses Audiobook ist eine gekürzte und dramaturgisch bearbeitete Fassung der gleichnamigen im Campus Verlag als Buch erschienenen Ausgabe.

Reinhard K. Sprenger (Author), Elke Schützhold, Helge Heynold, Peter Heusch, Susanne Grawe (Narrator)

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The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization--an often overlooked but essential element of business life that is the linchpin of sustained success. Readers are treated to a story of corporate intrigue as the frustrated head of one consulting firm faces a leadership challenge so great that it threatens to topple his company, his career, and everything he holds true about leadership itself. In the story's telling, Lencioni helps his readers understand the disarming simplicity and power of creating organizational health, and reveals four key disciplines that they can follow to achieve it.

Patrick Lencioni (Author), Charles Stransky (Narrator)

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1001 Ways to Inspire: Your Organization, Your Team and Yourself

If you're looking for a management system that has genuine staying power and consistently produces dramatic results, or if you're seeking a way to inspire yourself, every day, it's time to get back to the basics. This unique, results-oriented audio enables you to select from a menu of everyday motivational issues that include plenty of curve balls and mistakes to avoid. David E. Rye shows you how to apply his theory in real-life situations with your boss, your peers, your employees, and the most important center for positive "teamwork", your family.

David E. Rye (Author), Alexander Marshall (Narrator)

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before. In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two bestselling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.

Patrick Lencioni (Author), Charles Stransky (Narrator)

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Execution

The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job.Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others are not. Together they've pooled their knowledge and experience into the one book on how to close the gap between results promised and results delivered that people in business need today.After a long, stellar career with General Electric, Larry Bossidy transformed AlliedSignal into one of the world's most admired companies and was named CEO of the year in 1998 by Chief Executive magazine. Accomplishments such as 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth of 13 percent or more didn't just happen; they resulted from the consistent practice of the discipline of execution: understanding how to link together people, strategy, and operations, the three core processes of every business.Leading these processes is the real job of running a business, not formulating a "vision" and leaving the work of carrying it out to others. Bossidy and Charan show the importance of being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism.The leader's most important job-selecting and appraising people-is one that should never be delegated. As a CEO, Larry Bossidy personally makes the calls to check references for key hires. Why? With the right people in the right jobs, there's a leadership gene pool that conceives and selects strategies that can be executed. People then work together to create a strategy building block by building block, a strategy in sync with the realities of the marketplace, the economy, and the competition. Once the right people and strategy are in place, they are then linked to an operating process that results in the implementation of specific programs and actions and that assigns accountability. This kind of effective operating process goes way beyond the typical budget exercise that looks into a rearview mirror to set its goals. It puts reality behind the numbers and is where the rubber meets the road.Putting an execution culture in place is hard, but losing it is easy. In July 2001 Larry Bossidy was asked by the board of directors of Honeywell International (it had merged with AlliedSignal) to return and get the company back on track. He's been putting the ideas he writes about in Execution to work in real time.

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan (Author), John Bedford Lloyd, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan (Narrator)

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Whale Done!

Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships provides an invaluable management tool to increase your effectiveness as a manager at work and as a parent/spouse at home. Whale Done! is the inspirational story of how business manager and family man Wes Stanzel visits Sea World and is amazed at the ability of human trainers to lead 5,000 to 10,000 pound killer whales, among the most feared predators in the ocean, to perform amazing acrobatic leaps and dives. Later, talking to the chief trainer, he learns the revolutionary techniques of building trust, accenting the positive, and redirecting undesirable behavior that make these extraordinary performances possible. Along the way he discovers some of his own shortcomings as a manager (as well as a husband and father) and learns how to transform his own obnoxious and intimidating behavior into a totally different and infinitely more effective management style. It is all the difference between "GOTcha" (catching people doing things wrong), and "Well (Whale) Done" (catching people doing things right). "GOTcha" is the traditional response handed down over the years from one's father or teachers or bosses and passed on to the next generation. At the heart of the story is the revolutionary concept of redirecting undesirable behavior. When observing undesirable behavior, a manager or trainer's impulse to punish or offer a negative response merely leads to low trust and a damaged relationship. Instead, the book shows you how to redirect the message, offering positive responses and creating a mutually trustful relationship. The result is greater effectiveness, and a more productive workplace, as well as a happy, flourishing home life. Destined to become a classic, Whale Done! is a rare and wise story that is easy to grasp and instantly applicable.

Kenneth Blanchard (Author), Tony Roberts (Narrator)

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Boss Talk: Top CEO's Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Sucessful Companies

Timeless and effective business lessons from twenty-one top CEOs Every business leader-from manager to entrepreneur-wants to know the ideas that motivate and inspire the world's most successful CEOs. Boss Talk presents twenty-one CEOs who give expert advice on issues important to today's businessperson. The topics include: •Motivating Your Employees •Managing Growth •Building a Brand •Learning from the New Economy •Trendspotting •Beating the Competition •Leading a Successful Turnaround or Transition Here's what some bosses are talking about: "You have to get rewarded in the soul and in the wallet. The money isn't enough, but a plaque isn't enough either." -Jack Welch, General Electric Co. "Lead by example. If you do that as CEO, your style will filter down through your team." -John Chambers, Cisco Systems "We do a lot of quantitative stuff. But coupled with that is having an employee staff and culture that is inherently interested in what we do." -Tom Freston, MTV Networks "Surround yourself with people you trust. You can't run a business over a certain size and sign off on everything." -Emily Woods, J.Crew

The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal (Author), Bill Meisle, Jay Gregory, Jennifer Wiltsie, Robert MacNamara (Narrator)

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Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win

Eight true stories show that Leaders today arent just bosses, theyre self-starters who take charge even when they havent been given a charge. Upward leaders get results by helping their superiors lead. They make sure that good ideas dont die on the vine because a bosss understanding doesnt reach down deep enough into the organization. Upward leadership assures that advice arrives from all points on the corporate compass, not just from the top down. And it applies at every level: Even CEOs need to learn about leading up because they ultimately answer to their boards. In Leading Up, Michael Useem offers instructive accounts of this vital and unexplored facet of leadership. Drawing on the extraordinary experiences of real people, Useem shows us what happens when those not in charge rise to the challenge, and also what happens when those who should step forward fail to do so: * Civil War generals openly disrespected and frequently misinformed their commanders in chief, with tragic consequences for both sides. * COO David Pottruck learned how to lead with his superiors at Charles Schwab & Co. in order to radically change Schwabs core business. * Had he been able to convince his superiors of the dire situation in Rwanda, United Nations commander Roméo Dallaire might have prevented the genocide that claimed 800,000 lives. * The CEOs of CBS, Compaq, and British Airways concentrated on leading down when they needed to lead up to their boards, too. The result: All three were fired. * U.S. Marine Corps general Peter Pace reconciled conflicting priorities while reporting to six bosses with varying agendas by keeping all of them informed and challenging them when necessary. * Mount Everest mountaineers admitted they might have protected themselves and others from harm during a fateful ascent if only they had questioned their guides flawed instructions and decisions. * Even in government, representatives often need to first strike a deal, then lead their bosses to embrace it, as examples from the United States and Argentina illustrate. * No one ever had a tougher job of leading up than Old Testament prophets Moses, Abraham, and Samuel, who interceded with the ultimate authority. Leading up is not the same as managing up. Managing up is running the office; leading up is taking the reins and exceeding whats expected. As hierarchies everywhere shed much of their rigidity, upward leadership at all levels becomes more possible, and more necessary. Leading Up is a call to action. It asks us to build on the best in everybodys nature, and it offers a pragmatic blueprint for doing so.From the Hardcover edition.

Michael Useem (Author), James Lurie (Narrator)

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The Agenda: What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade

New rules for the new game: the ideas that every business needs to win in the customer economy In The Agenda, Michael Hammer shows companies how to prosper in today's world of slow growth, fierce competition, and enormously powerful customers. The winners in this extraordinarily difficult environment-companies like IBM, Duke Power, Progressive Insurance, and GE-succeed through superior operations. Their costs are lower and their quality higher than their competitors'; they get new products to market faster and they provide better customer service. How do they do it? Through near-fanatical attention to the basics of business, and by managing these basics in new and creative ways. The Agenda teaches the ideas and techniques that any company-large or small, service ï¬rm or manufacturer-can use to out-execute and out-innovate its competitors. Businesses that follow these principles will grow by taking market share away from those that do not. While others decline, your company can thrive. The Agenda will show you how.

Michael Hammer (Author), Michael Hammer (Narrator)

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McKinsey Mind

The groundbreaking follow-up to the international bestsellera hands-on guide to putting McKinsey techniques to work in your organization McKinsey & Company is the most respected and most secretive consulting firm in the world, and business readers just can't seem to get enough of all things McKinsey. Now, hot on the heels of his acclaimed international bestseller The McKinsey Way, Ethan Rasiel brings readers a powerful new guide to putting McKinsey concepts and skills into actionThe McKinsey Mind. While the first book used case studies and anecdotes from former and current McKinseyites to describe how 'the firm' solves the thorniest business problems of their A-list clients, The McKinsey Mind goes a giant step further. It explains, step-by-step, how to use McKinsey tools, techniques and strategies to solve an array of core business problems and to make any business venture more successful. Designed to work as a stand-alone guide or together with The McKinsey Way, The McKinsey Mind follows the same critically acclaimed style and format as its predecessor. In this book authors Rasiel and Friga expand upon the lessons found in The McKinsey Way with real-world examples, parables, and easy-to-do exercises designed to get readers up and running.

Ethan M. Rasiel, Paul N. Friga (Author), Marc Cashman (Narrator)

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