Audiobooks Narrated by Jason Jennings

The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture

How great companies succeed by building speed into everything they do Bestselling author Jason Jennings believes that urgency and speed are keys to the growth of any business. Leaders need to adapt and ignite their workplace culture to prevent everyone from falling behind. Jennings draws on years of research and 11,000+ in-depth interviews with executives, business owners, and CEOs across the country to uncover how successful leaders build a culture that supports constant innovation and growth. Based on his findings, he offers prescriptions for creating teams that consistently grow revenues and profits through a strong purpose, guiding principles to make fast decisions, a laser focus on exceeding customer expectations, and practices that support transparency and accountability. Writing in his trademark down-to-earth style, and featuring true stories from companies such as Google, Charles Schwab, and Johnson & Johnson, Jennings can help companies think fast and move faster.

Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton (Author), Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton (Narrator)

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Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change

Eventually every job and every business will become irrelevant. According to Jason Jennings, the past few decades have seen unprecedented shifts; former third-world nations have transformed themselves into high-tech manufacturing powerhouses; technology has democratized business and increased competition in ways never before seen; and customers, used to getting exactly what they want when they want it, are no longer beholden to the corporate giants. Jennings and his research team examined thousands of articles and news stories and selected the 100 best examples of companies, including Best Buy, Cirque du Soleil, and Avon, that have successfully reinvented themselves. After interviewing the key players in these transformations, Jennings established what he calls the "reinvention rules," including: Abandon all ego: Being a master of conventional thinking yields conventional results.Take lots of small chances: Small bets allow you to see what works-and what doesn't-without putting your neck on the line.Be frugal: The best companies know how to fix problems and effect change using the resources already available.Grow constantly: If you want to nurture and retain your best people, you need to make sure you can give them opportunities that will make them want to stay. With the same friendly style of Jennings's previous titles, this audio book is a must-hear for any leader who wants to stay relevant for years to come.

Jason Jennings (Author), Jason Jennings (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

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Think Big, Act Small: How America's Best Performance Companies Keep the Start-Up Spirit Alive

A bestselling business author shows how the culture of a small start-up combined with the ambition of a big company produces unbeatable results, and translates what he has learned from his analysis of nine companies into powerful lessons any company can apply.

Jason Jennings (Author), Jason Jennings (Narrator)

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