Business & Economics Audiobooks

100% Capacity: The End of Gender Balance as We Know It

There is a wealth of natural leadership resources in your company just waiting to be unearthed. In this ground-breaking new book, author Jennifer Kenny shows that every organization contains hidden gems in the form of underutilized leadership traits, and teaches how to identify and amplify them, for outrageous success. Drawing on 25 years of experience in management and leadership coaching, along with extensive research in business and science, Kenny explores the spectrum of masculine and feminine leadership traits—traits both men and women may have in different balances—and the benefits of all when utilized equally in leadership and teambuilding. She clearly explains how a gender-balanced approach over an often male-dominated one can work to your company’s advantage and breaks down the 7 key areas of corporate performance metrics to give you the tools to optimize success in each one. Do you want to capture new markets? Ensure employee loyalty? Make smarter, faster decisions? Goldmine will have you extracting the leadership potential from within your organization and seeing the benefits in both your workforce and your bottom line.

Jennifer Kenny (Author), Jennifer Kenny (Narrator)

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Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustai

Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead-whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors-a greater understanding of character will challenge your thinking, inspire new ideas, and elevate your personal and professional performance. Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us about Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future provides an exceptional opportunity to become a better leader by applying the extraordinary yet down-to-earth insights from the authors' accessible scholarship and interviews with truly distinguished leaders whose lessons on building stronger societies through character-based leadership are moving, powerful, and evergreen.

Gerard H. Seijts, Gerard Seijts, Kimberley Young Milani, Kimberly Young Milani (Author), Senn Annis (Narrator)

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The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

From microaggressions to the wage gap, The Memo empowers women of color with actionable advice on challenges and offers a clear path to success. Most business books provide a one-size-fits-all approach to career advice that overlooks the unique barriers that women of color face. In The Memo, Minda Harts offers a much-needed career guide tailored specifically for women of color. Drawing on knowledge gained from her past career as a fundraising consultant to top colleges across the country, Harts now brings her powerhouse entrepreneurial experience as CEO of The Memo to the page. With wit and candor, she acknowledges 'ugly truths' that keep women of color from having a seat at the table in corporate America. Providing straight talk on how to navigate networking, office politics, and money, while showing how to make real change to the system, The Memo offers support and long-overdue advice on how women of color can succeed in their careers.

Minda Harts (Author), Minda Harts (Narrator)

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Which Way Is North: A Creative Compass for Makers, Marketers, and Mystics

Where does creativity come from? The answer is unique for each of us-our True North-and this book will help you find yours. As artificial intelligence gains an increasing foothold in our work and our lives, the need to find and maintain our uniquely human creativity is growing more urgent. This guide will ensure that you stay on course as you navigate through the complexity of modern times. It will help you open new pathways to creativity and equip you with tools for your personal and professional journey to becoming a conscious participant in creation. Through a combination of essays, meditations, and memoir, Which Way Is North offers an illuminating journey into the interior of the human heart and mind, revealing how your inner experience informs who you can be and what you express out in the world. In the course of learning more about your creative potential, you'll learn how to: - Reliably calm your nerves in order to come up with ideas - Decode the stories the media tells and their effects on viewers - Pursue experiences that feed your creative process with purpose

Will Cady (Author), Will Cady (Narrator)

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The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external-increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What's more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. The key insight from Zook and Allen's research is that managing these choke points requires a 'founder's mentality'-behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder: - An insurgent's clear mission and purpose - An unambiguous owner mindset - A relentless obsession with the front line Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader can instill and leverage a founder's mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.

Chris Zook, James Allen (Author), Robert Feifar (Narrator)

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Start with Who: How Small to Medium Businesses Can Win Big with Trust and a Story

Start with Who, with a foreword by EOS Visionaries Mike Paton and Mark O'Donnell, is the next generation beyond business books written decades ago, including Simon Sinek's Start with Why and The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson. The groundbreaking science, examples, and concepts in this book are delivered in easy-to-understand terms and designed to help drive meteoric success for sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals who have started or work for small to medium businesses. Over 90 percent of customers buy on trust, but only 3 percent of salespersons are trusted. Start with Who takes science-based storytelling for sales, marketing, and talent acquisition to a new level by showing you how to blend Aristotle's Persuasion Model, business neuromarketing, the educational 4MAT system, and a new approach to the Three-Act Play to build customer and candidate trust with only twelve bullet points and a story. All salespersons know that 'facts tell and stories sell.' Having trained and coached thousands of sales and marketing professionals for leading firms, New York Times bestselling author W. Craig Reed leverages decades of experience to help individuals hone their messaging down to a few short bullet points presented in a compelling yet easy-to-understand story format designed to teach, persuade, and drive action.

W. Craig Reed (Author), Steve Marvel (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills

Strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you identify your social and emotional strengths and weaknesses, approach them with a learning mindset, and become a more effective leader today. This book will inspire you to focus your attention inward and outward; connect with others to give more effective feedback; influence with and without authority; navigate differences while maintaining relationships; build trust through active listening; and communicate the right message and deliver it with empathy. This collection of articles includes 'The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most,' by Raffaella Sadun, Joseph Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal, 'The Focused Leader,' by Daniel Goleman, 'Making Empathy Central to Your Company Culture,' by Jamil Zaki, 'Learning to Learn,' by Erika Andersen, 'How to Get the Help You Need,' by Heidi Grant, 'How to Sell Your Ideas up the Chain of Command,' by Ethan Burris, 'When Diversity Meets Feedback,' by Erin Meyer, 'Want Stronger Relationships at Work? Change the Way You Listen,' by Manbir Kaur, 'How to Navigate Conflict with a Coworker,' by Amy Gallo, and more.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Rebecca Lam, Tim Lounibos (Narrator)

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HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict

While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way. We jockey for position. How can you deal with conflict at work in a way that is both professional and productive-where it improves both your work and your relationships? You start by understanding whether you generally seek or avoid conflict, identifying the most frequent reasons for disagreement, and knowing what approaches work for what scenarios. Then, if you decide to address a particular conflict, you use that information to plan and conduct a productive conversation. The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict will give you the advice you need to understand the most common sources of conflict; explore your options for addressing a disagreement; recognize whether you-and your counterpart-typically seek or avoid conflict; prepare for and engage in a difficult conversation; manage your and your counterpart's emotions; develop a resolution together; and know when to walk away.

Amy Gallo (Author), Liisa Ivary (Narrator)

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The Investor's Dilemma Decoded: Recognize Misinformation, Filter the Noise, and Reach Your Goals

Few aspects of life are as important as personal finance, as subject to your control, and as suffused with misinformation, noise, and confusion. Now, authors Dr. Roger D. Silk and Katherine A. Silk cut through that confusion and share with you the fruits of their knowledge and experience developed over the last forty-three years. Unlike many authors in the Personal Finance space, the Silks have the deep technical expertise, decades of experience, and the rare ability to express complex ideas in clear, easy-to-understand prose. The Investor's Dilemma Decoded gives you the tools that 99.9% of investors never master-these tools allow you to understand how to think about almost any category of investment, and almost any investment product or program. In addition, the authors take a deep dive into topics including What actually generates investment returns?; Is owning a home an investment?; Should you own gold?; What is a hedge, and are commodity funds an inflation hedge?; What many well-known investment personalities get wrong about returns; What risk is, and isn't, and why the 'safe' course might be the riskiest (but the government says it's safe); and more.

Katherine A. Silk, Roger D. Silk (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator)

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Trivergence: Accelerating Innovation with AI, Blockchain, and the Internet of Things

In Trivergence, Bob Tapscott, writer, speaker, complex system designer, and former CIO, introduces an exciting new concept in explaining how the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT) will transform business and society. He explains the synergies between these technologies and the disruptive potential that they will offer, as well as the challenges and risks to making it happen. He offers an insightful guide through the difficult decisions that businesses and society must make to thrive in a new era where decisions will be difficult, and uncertainties abound. You'll discover how and why AI's power is now exploding, its growth driven by smarter approaches to neural networks trained on a new hardware architecture that can derive its intelligence from ever more massive datasets. You'll also find discussions of the multiplicative and exponential power of trivergence on the core technologies discussed in the book; explorations of IoT's tendency to bring the physical world to life as it harnesses the capabilities of AI and the blockchain; and how trivergence morphs Big Data into something new Tapscott calls 'Infinite Data', where thinking machines consider trillions of data points to generate their own content, value, and perspectives without programmed code or human intervention.

Bob Tapscott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)

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Leadership Pipeline: Developing Leaders in the Digital Age, 3rd Edition

In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts. The work to be done, the required skills, time application, and the necessary work values for each leadership layer are clearly defined for the digital age. The book explains how to integrate your organization's leadership development process with a succession plan that provides your company with a ready supply of capable leaders. You'll discover the tools and techniques you need to knit together your succession and leadership development programs and constantly renew your leadership pipeline. You'll also: explore anecdotes and stories drawn from the authors' extensive experience with top companies that illustrate the principles discussed in the book; find ways to eliminate bias and tunnel vision when identifying leadership candidates; and learn to objectively consider the efficacy of individual leadership candidates. A powerful resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders at firms of all sizes, The Leadership Pipeline is an effective and insightful blueprint to future-proofing your company.

James Noel, Kent Jonasen, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter (Author), Lee Goettl (Narrator)

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Made You Look: How to Use Brain Science to Attract Attention and Persuade Others

There's an overlooked but critical scientific fact that every marketing professional needs to know: Many decisions start with attention, and it's your job to grab the attention of every prospective customer as effectively as possible. But in this increasingly fast-paced, busy, and noisy world, how do you capture people's attention, much less persuade them? To answer this question, cognitive neuroscientist Carmen Simon leverages insights gleaned from her use of advanced technologies to study where people look, for how long, what type of attention leads to memories, and what keeps the brain coming back for more, to determine the effectiveness of sales pitches, marketing materials, corporate presentations, training videos, and other business content. In Made You Look, Simon presents her four-part framework for effectively attracting the attention of customers and impacting their buying decision. Each section of the book provides detailed guidelines you can use in your communication materials immediately. Attract attention and, as a result, influence memory and decisions with Made You Look, and lead your company to the top of your industry.

Carmen Simon (Author), Ann Richardson (Narrator)

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