29 Best Human Resources & Personnel Management, Business & Economics Books
Human Resources & Personnel Management, Business & Economics is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Human Resources & Personnel Management, Business & Economics audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Human Resources & Personnel Management, Business & Economics audiobooks below.
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Black Faces in High Places
- By: Randal D. Pinkett
- Narrator: Randal D. Pinkett
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: February 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.89(9 ratings)
4.89(9 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there. Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up throughA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.
Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up through their organizations or industries but need a roadmap for how to get to the top and stay there. Based on the authors’ considerable experiences in business, in the public eye, and as a minority, the book shows how African-American professionals can (and must) think and act both entrepreneurially and “intrapreneurially”.
In this book, you will:
- Expand yourself beyond your comfort zone
- Recognize and demonstrate the four facets of excellence
- Build beneficial relationships and powerful networks
- Identify different mentors and learn from others’ experiences
- Discover ways of working with others to facilitate collective action
Black Faces in High?Places highlights the experiences of other Black faces in high places who were able to navigate various crossroads, reach the top, and stay there, including insights from President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Cathy Hughes, Angela Glover Blackwell, Ken Chenault, Senator Cory Booker, Geoffrey Canada, and others.
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Leadership Offense
- By: Paul Falcone
- Narrator: Paul Falcone
- Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: March 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.67(3 ratings)
4.67(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDMASTER EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Ready-to-use quick-guide to streamline employee reviews, create effective career development plans, and monitor year-round employee performance. Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult ConversationsMASTER EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Ready-to-use quick-guide to streamline employee reviews, create effective career development plans, and monitor year-round employee performance.
Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert, gives you powerful scripts and templates you can apply immediately to your employee reviews and development conversations.
Along with key tactics for appraisal, motivation, and professional and career development, Leadership Offense:
- Reduces the time it takes to complete employee reviews by offering sample phrases for key performance areas.
- Gives you the framework and language for concrete and constructive feedback.
- Hones your ideas for evaluations and development plans with examples of employee behaviors, strengths, and opportunities.
This handy, quick-guide turns a task many managers dread–giving performance reviews–into a positive opportunity to hone your leadership skills and guide your employees to the path for success.
Accompanying templates are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Empathetic Workplace
- By: Katharine Manning
- Narrator: Katharine Manning
- Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: February 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.56(32 ratings)
4.56(32 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThis critical resource gives managers, HR, and anyone who may come into contact with someone in trauma–including workplace violence, harassment, assault, illness, addiction, fraud, bankruptcy, and more–the tools they need to be preparedThis critical resource gives managers, HR, and anyone who may come into contact with someone in trauma–including workplace violence, harassment, assault, illness, addiction, fraud, bankruptcy, and more–the tools they need to be prepared for what lies ahead.
This book is crucial for every manager or HR representative who shouldn’t just prepare to one day be faced with a report of a traumatic experience at work, but plan on it. This five-step method will help managers make survivors feel supported and understood. The Empathetic Workplace guides supervisors of any level through an understanding of how stories of trauma impact the brain of both the survivor and the listener, as well as the tools to handle the interaction appropriately, to help the listener, the organization, and most importantly, the survivor.
The easy-to-follow LASER method outlined in these pages includes the following elements that all managers should know and understand:
- Listen-Controlling your own reaction, managing your body language, asking open-ended questions, hearing what is not being said, and winding down the speaker when the conversation becomes unproductive are essential elements in being a good listener.
- Acknowledge-Once someone shares a difficult personal story with you, it is important to acknowledge that gift.
- Share-You can help the speaker regain some measure of control by sharing information with him or her about what happened or what happens next, your personal or organizational values, and what you don’t yet know but hope to learn.
- Empower-You can help the traumatized person by providing him or her with resources that are available to them through the company or outside groups.
- Return-The final step is to ensure that the traumatized person has a way to come back later when he or she cannot remember all that you said, thinks of more questions, or wishes for updates.
The LASER technique can benefit all who are responsible for others, from top-tier managers at Fortune 500 companies to Residence Advisors in college dormitories.
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The Way of the Shepherd
- By: Kevin Leman
- Narrator: Kevin Leman
- Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.33(1764 ratings)
4.33(1764 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDDiscover a fresh perspective on the art of leading in Dr. Kevin Leman’s story about a young reporter who lands the meeting of a lifetime and walks away with the keys to exceptional leadership. The Way of the Shepherd points you beyond datedDiscover a fresh perspective on the art of leading in Dr. Kevin Leman’s story about a young reporter who lands the meeting of a lifetime and walks away with the keys to exceptional leadership. The Way of the Shepherd points you beyond dated trends and out-of-touch management techniques to the strategies that will make you a truly outstanding leader.
When William Pentak had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interview Ted McBride, one of the most respected CEOs in America, he was shocked by what McBride was willing to share. McBride taught him the seven secrets he inherited long ago from his mentor–an eccentric but brilliant professor who passed on these time-tested management principles that, while ancient in their origin, are still applicable in today’s fast-paced, high-tech world.
Throughout The Way of the Shepherd, you’ll learn how to infuse your work with meaning, no matter your role, title, industry, or the size of your team. Uncover the tried-and-true best practices for how to engage, energize, and ignite your workforce by:
- Getting to know your team, one person at a time
- Relentlessly communicating your values and your mission
- Defining the cause for your people and showing them where they fit in
- Having a heart for the people that you’re leading
- Understanding that great leadership isn’t just professional, it’s personal
If you’re ready to transform your team, create a culture of belonging, and truly learn to lead by example, it’s time to discover The Way of the Shepherd.
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The Person You Mean to Be
- By: Dolly Chugh
- Narrator: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 04, 2018
- Language: English
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4.31(2026 ratings)
4.31(2026 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDForeword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google. An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School ofForeword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google.
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice so that you can make the world (and yourself) better.
Many of us believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion. But how do we stand up for those values in our turbulent world? The Person You Mean to Be is the smart, “semi-bold” person’s guide to fighting for what you believe in.
Dolly reveals the surprising causes of inequality, grounded in the “psychology of good people”. Using her research findings in unconscious bias as well as work across psychology, sociology, economics, political science, and other disciplines, she offers practical tools to respectfully and effectively talk politics with family, to be a better colleague to people who don’t look like you, and to avoid being a well-intentioned barrier to equality. Being the person we mean to be starts with a look at ourselves.
She argues that the only way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish– rather than good–person. Good-ish people are always growing. Second, she helps you find your “ordinary privilege”–the part of your everyday identity you take for granted, such as race for a white person, sexual orientation for a straight person, gender for a man, or education for a college graduate. This part of your identity may bring blind spots, but it is your best tool for influencing change. Third, Dolly introduces the psychological reasons that make it hard for us to see the bias in and around us. She leads you from willful ignorance to willful awareness. Finally, she guides you on how, when, and whom, to engage (and not engage) in your workplaces, homes, and communities. Her science-based approach is a method any of us can put to use in all parts of our life.
Whether you are a long-time activist or new to the fight, you can start from where you are. Through the compelling stories Dolly shares and the surprising science she reports, Dolly guides each of us closer to being the person we mean to be.
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Hire Smart from the Start
- By: Dave Carvajal
- Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 22, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(58 ratings)
4.29(58 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDDon’t rely on instincts alone. Hiring. Is. King. The lesson seems so basic. Yet time after time, good companies stumble and lose their stride – just when they were poised for rapid growth. Why? Because their leaders treated hiring as aDon’t rely on instincts alone. Hiring. Is. King. The lesson seems so basic. Yet time after time, good companies stumble and lose their stride – just when they were poised for rapid growth. Why? Because their leaders treated hiring as a tedious chore. They posted an ad hoc ad. Took the first person with the right skills. Hired for immediate needs, rather than future flourishing. In Hire Smart from the Start, Dave Carvajal distills lessons gained from 20 years in the trenches, building out and staffing two enormously successful Internet startups and helping firms like Tumblr, Buddy Media, and Shutterstock land the talent they need to reach their greatest potential. Whether you’re a high-tech entrepreneur taking a startup public, or a food truck vendor with a concept that’s taking off, this book offers a proven formula to help you: – Find candidates whose values and working style fit your business – Spot the 5 types of applicants you should never, ever hire – Motivate “reach” candidates to leave their jobs and take a chance on your vision – Develop meaningful incentives that make people stay – And more Accelerate success: hire smart from the start. This book shows you how.
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Untapped Talent
- By: Jeffrey D. Korzenik
- Narrator: Jeffrey D. Korzenik
- Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: April 13, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(27 ratings)
4.14(27 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDTens of millions of people in the U.S. with criminal records are highly talented, reliable, and eager to work. Implement these second chance hiring practices to give your company a significant competitive advantage over those that doTens of millions of people in the U.S. with criminal records are highly talented, reliable, and eager to work. Implement these second chance hiring practices to give your company a significant competitive advantage over those that do not.
Researched, tested, and written by the chief investment strategist of one of the country’s leading business banks, Jeffrey Korzenik includes dozens of examples of businesses that have successfully implemented the second chance hiring practices outlined in this book.
Korzenik shows those companies that have learned to go beyond the label and to evaluate the qualities of the individual applicant have tapped into an often-overlooked source of loyal and productive talent.
In Untapped Talent, you will:
- Understand what goes into a successful second chance hire, from the support that will be needed internally to the resources that are available from outside agencies.
- Learn how businesses from a variety of industries have instituted successful second chance hiring programs and how this has positively impacted their culture and bottom line.
- Gain practical onboarding and coaching strategies that will help ensure a smooth transition and a productive, happy new employee.
- Acquire relevant knowledge of the criminal justice system to provide context in identifying the potential of second chance hiring.
Your path to a loyal, engaged, and productive workforce starts with the clear competitive advantage you’ll gain by implementing the second-chance hiring practices within Untapped Talent.
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Becoming a Coaching Leader
- By: Daniel S. Harkavy
- Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: December 14, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(112 ratings)
4.14(112 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDAs a leader, a coach is the most significant role you can play. Discover how coaching makes developing people a high-payoff activity where you can equip tomorrow’s leaders, today. As a coach to some of the country’s highest-profileAs a leader, a coach is the most significant role you can play. Discover how coaching makes developing people a high-payoff activity where you can equip tomorrow’s leaders, today.
As a coach to some of the country’s highest-profile executives, Daniel Harkavy has witnessed the transformation – both professional and personal – that comes when leaders utilize coaching to turn their paycheck-driven teams into cultures of vibrant and successful growth.
Since founding his company Building Champions Inc. in 1996, Harkavy and his team have coached thousands and shared their knowledge by certifying coaching leaders across the country. Now, in this strategic and thought-provoking guide, he shares his proven strategy for improving your team’s performance while raising quality of life inside and outside of the office.
In Becoming a Coaching Leader, you will learn:
- the core four foundations to every coaching strategy,
- the most powerful leadership tools you can and should leverage,
- and the key behaviors and disciplines of successful coaching leaders.
Becoming a Coaching Leader shows you how to leverage coaching techniques to equip tomorrow’s leaders and pave a lasting leadership legacy.
Quick leadership quizzes, companion graphics, and a quick-reference road map for implementation are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Business of Friendship
- By: Shasta Nelson
- Narrator: Shasta Nelson
- Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: August 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.03(69 ratings)
4.03(69 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDIt is virtually impossible to feel connected and supported in life when you don’t feel that way where you spend most of our time–at work. In The Business of Friendship, friendship expert Shasta Nelson unpacks the distinct ways we canIt is virtually impossible to feel connected and supported in life when you don’t feel that way where you spend most of our time–at work.
In The Business of Friendship, friendship expert Shasta Nelson unpacks the distinct ways we can make work relationships the healthiest they can be, both for the sake of the employee and the mission of the company. She inspires readers to see why friendship is crucial to our health and our careers, and teaches us exactly how to develop the supportive and meaningful connections we need.
Our organizations benefit as friendships at work result in higher levels of workplace productivity, employee retention, safety, innovation, collaboration, and profitability. In having a best friend at work, we are seven times more engaged in our job, which translates to better customer service, less absenteeism, fewer workplace accidents, and more loyalty to our organizations.
Through Shasta’s stories, research, and practical guidance, she:
- Breaks down what creates healthy bonds and reveals the 3 requirements necessary in all healthy relationships and teams.
- Helps managers and employees assess the health of their relationships and learn ways to repair and improve them.
- Provides advice for addressing some of the biggest fears around workplace friendships, such as increased drama, favoritism, confidentiality, gossip, toxic coworkers, relationship with bosses, and potential romantic attractions.
The Business of Friendship is for those who are ready to maximize the two most significant factors of our wellbeing–career and relationships. Whether you are a leader or an employee, when you feel more connected and supported at work, everyone wins.
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The Loyalist Team
- By: Linda Adams
- Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 12, 2017
- Language: English
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4(128 ratings)
4(128 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDGreat teams are built and maintained with great intention, though they can make it look deceptively easy. Too many teams engage in dysfunctional behaviors or fall into territorialism, apathy, and unproductive relationships. The result? AnGreat teams are built and maintained with great intention, though they can make it look deceptively easy. Too many teams engage in dysfunctional behaviors or fall into territorialism, apathy, and unproductive relationships. The result? An overwhelmed, unengaged, and stressed-out workforce that settles for average or poor performance.
Here, four authors with a combined century of management experience show readers how every team can be extraordinary. The authors introduce their field-tested Loyalist Team 3D assessment that allows anyone to get to the heart of why teams break down, identify the weaknesses in their own team, and build a Loyalist Team. This kind of team has members who ensure each other’s success as they work to ensure their own, operate with absolute candor, and value loyalty and authenticity to deliver results, create a healthy work environment, and help companies succeed. The Loyalist Team is a must-read for anyone who wants their team to achieve extraordinary results.
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Skin in the Game
- By: Jim Gilreath
- Narrator: Curt Simmons
- Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)
4(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDThis audiobook is the definitive resource for learning the tricks of the trade and potential pitfalls in the hiring process, as well as how to conduct an effective skin-in-the-game C-Suite job search. Skin in the Game is about middle-market privateThis audiobook is the definitive resource for learning the tricks of the trade and potential pitfalls in the hiring process, as well as how to conduct an effective skin-in-the-game C-Suite job search. Skin in the Game is about middle-market private equity hiring of C-Suite executives, coupled with the author’s unique due diligence screening process.
In this audiobook, you’ll discover
examples of hires who earned millions,the difference between a stakeholder and a hired hand,how to write an incredible bio and elevator pitch,how to find private equity investors that fit your profile,secrets to hiring effective C-level employees, andsample job offers and bonus materials.
The award-winning author has twenty-eight years of experience placing CEOs and other C-level executives in middle-market portfolio companies for private equity firms. Skin in the Game is essential listening for M&A industry professionals, C-Suite executive job seekers, middle-market private equity partners, headhunters, HR executives, MBA students, and corporate hiring authorities.
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Effective Hiring
- By: Paul Falcone
- Narrator: Paul Falcone
- Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: March 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4(3 ratings)
4(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDPUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN PLACE THE FIRST TIME with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise. Paul Falcone, author for 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Your Employees and renownedPUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN PLACE THE FIRST TIME with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise.
Paul Falcone, author for 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Your Employees and renowned hiring, performance management, and leadership development expert, walks you through the challenges you’ll face during the interviewing, hiring, and onboarding process.
This quick guide to Effective Hiring:
- Offers new interpretations of candidate responses to the most often used interview questions.
- Identifies red flags in the candidate assessment process, such as unrelated responses to questions that delay getting to the answer to your question.
- Provides leaders who often struggle to meet crucial HR demands with simple tools to guide them through effective interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
Getting the best employees on board is one of the most crucial and difficult jobs of leaders and human resources professionals. This book provides quick, reliable information on how to hire effectively.
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Stewardship
- By: Peter Block
- Narrator: Sherman Allen
- Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.93(179 ratings)
3.93(179 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.95 USDThe classic first edition of this book argued that organizations that place service above self-interest and practice a far-reaching redistribution of power, privilege, and wealth stewardship will succeed far beyond those with a narrower, moreThe classic first edition of this book argued that organizations that place service above self-interest and practice a far-reaching redistribution of power, privilege, and wealth stewardship will succeed far beyond those with a narrower, more selfish focus. As a successful managing strategy for corporate, governmental, and nonprofit organizations, “stewardship” is, fundamentally, the spirit of partnership and service. Organizations that absorb the principles of stewardship will offer equity and partnership at all levels for its employees, and managers who identify themselves as “stewards” will hold themselves accountable to all those over whom they exercise power.
In this revised and updated edition, Block explores what has and has not changed in organizations and in the world in the twenty years since the first edition was published. He argues that the concept of stewardship is more relevant and necessary than ever, and shows how the idea of stewardship can and must be expanded out from organizations into our communities, societies, and nations. Peter Block is one of our most provocative and original thinkers. Here, he extends the scope of his insights to help us create not just productive and humane workplaces but vibrant communities, an engaged democracy, and a healthy planet.
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No Ego
- By: Cy Wakeman
- Narrator: Cy Wakeman
- Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 22, 2017
- Language: English
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3.88(1077 ratings)
3.88(1077 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDNew York Times bestselling author and leadership trainer says: Getting your employees to do their work shouldn’t have to be so much, well, work! For years now, leaders in almost every industry have accepted two completely false assumptionsNew York Times bestselling author and leadership trainer says: Getting your employees to do their work shouldn’t have to be so much, well, work! For years now, leaders in almost every industry have accepted two completely false assumptions – that change is hard, and that engagement drives results. Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to shield employees from change, involve them in high-level decision-making, and keep them happy with endless satisfaction surveys and workplace perks. But what these engagement programs actually do, Cy Wakeman says, is inflate expectations and sow unhappiness, leaving employees unprepared to adapt to even minor changes necessary to the organization’s survival. Rather than driving performance and boosting efficiency, these programs fuel entitlement and drama, costing millions in time and profit. No Ego is about increasing awareness of just how often individuals are operating out of ego at work, breeding drama and discord rather than innovation and constructive collaboration. It is high time to reinvent leadership thinking. The current work experience is so full of emotional waste that it’s seen as a foregone cost in today’s business environments. Cy Wakeman teaches straightforward strategies in which this time and energy can be re-commissioned and put toward the value that hired talent is intended to provide. No Ego disposes with unproven HR maxims, and instead offers a complete plan to turn your office from a den of discontent into a highly productive place where happy employees are accountable employees.
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The Wisdom of Teams
- By: Jon R. Katzenbach
- Narrator: Jon R. Katzenbach
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 30, 2017
- Language: English
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3.86(800 ratings)
3.86(800 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors’ clarion call that teams shouldThe Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors’ clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance. Wisdom lies in recognizing a team’s unique potential to deliver results and in understanding its many benefits-development of individual members, team accomplishments, and stronger companywide performance. Katzenbach and Smith’s comprehensive classic is the essential guide to unlocking the potential of teams in your organization.
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Courageous Cultures
- By: Karin Hurt
- Narrator: Karin Hurt
- Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: July 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.86(84 ratings)
3.86(84 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDFrom executives complaining that their teams don’t contribute ideas to employees giving up because their input isn’t valued–company culture is the culprit. Courageous Cultures provides a road map to build a high-performance,From executives complaining that their teams don’t contribute ideas to employees giving up because their input isn’t valued–company culture is the culprit. Courageous Cultures provides a road map to build a high-performance, high-engagement culture around sharing ideas, solving problems, and rewarding contributions from all levels.
Many leaders are convinced they have an open environment that encourages employees to speak up and are shocked when they learn that employees are holding back. Employees have ideas and want to be heard. Leadership wants to hear them.
Too often, however, employees and leaders both feel that no one cares about making things better. The disconnect typically only widens over time, with both sides becoming more firmly entrenched in their viewpoints. Becoming a courageous culture means building teams of microinnovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates working together.
In our world of rapid change, a courageous culture is your competitive advantage. It ensures that your company is “sticky” for both customers and employees.
In Courageous Cultures, you’ll learn practical tools that help you:
- Learn the difference between microinnovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates and how they work together.
- See how the latest research conducted by the authors confirms why organizations struggle when it comes to creating strong cultures where employees are encouraged to contribute their best thinking.
- Learn proven models and tools that leaders can apply throughout all levels of the organization, to reengage and motivate employees.
- Understand best practices from companies around the world and learn how to apply these strategies and techniques in your own organization.
This book provides you with the practical tools to uncover, leverage, and scale the best ideas from every level of your organization.
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How Not to Manage People
- By: Mike Wicks
- Narrator: Mike Wicks
- Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: August 25, 2020
- Language: English
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3.84(17 ratings)
3.84(17 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDThis book shows you the leadership mistakes you’re making that are keeping your team from achieving greatness. To any outsider looking in, you’re doing everything right in your management role. However, your employees still want nothingThis book shows you the leadership mistakes you’re making that are keeping your team from achieving greatness.
To any outsider looking in, you’re doing everything right in your management role. However, your employees still want nothing to do with you. They scoff when you tell them what to do and suddenly get quiet when you walk into the room. You know you must get your team behind you if you’re going to stay on the management team. Chances are it’s not about what you’re doing right–it’s about what you’re doing wrong.
How Not to Manage People is filled with interviews and stories of people who were being held back by the things they didn’t realize were working against them. The workplace is a minefield filled with politics and unspoken rules. This book is here to teach you:
- How you’re screwing it up and what to do about it
- How other people screwed it up before figuring it out
- What you should stop doing immediately
- What you should be doing more of
Now, stop panicking and letting frustration hold you back. How Not to Manage People is the tool you need to get your team on your side and rock the manager title!
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The Diversity Bonus
- By: Scott E. Page
- Narrator: Scott E. Page
- Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 19, 2017
- Language: English
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3.81(106 ratings)
3.81(106 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDHow businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just?How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other organizations facing complex challenges in the knowledge economy? It can. And The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments around the world, makes a clear and compellingly pragmatic case for diversity and inclusion. He presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions–all of which lead to better performance and results. Page shows that various types of cognitive diversity–differences in how people perceive, encode, analyze, and organize the same information and experiences–are linked to better outcomes. He then describes how these cognitive differences are influenced by other kinds of diversity, including racial and gender differences–in other words, identity diversity. Identity diversity, therefore, can also produce bonuses. Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, and many other fields, The Diversity Bonus also tells the stories of people and organizations that have tapped the power of diversity to solve complex problems. And the book includes a challenging response from Katherine Phillips of the Columbia Business School. The result changes the way we think about diversity in the workplace–and far beyond it. Author bio: Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies and Diversity and Complexity (both Princeton). He has been a featured speaker at Davos as well as at organizations such as Google, Bloomberg, BlackRock, Boeing, and NASA.
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The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change
- By: Siobhan McHale
- Narrator: Siobhan McHale
- Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.8(89 ratings)
3.8(89 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDCulture transformation expert Siobhan McHale defines culture simply: “It’s how things work around here.” The secret to the success or failure of any business boils down to its culture. From disengaged employees to underservedCulture transformation expert Siobhan McHale defines culture simply: “It’s how things work around here.” The secret to the success or failure of any business boils down to its culture.
From disengaged employees to underserved customers, business failures invariably stem from a culture problem. In The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change, acclaimed culture transformation expert and global executive Siobhan McHale shares her proven four-step process to demystifying culture transformation and starting down the path to positive change.
Many leaders and managers struggle to get a handle on exactly what culture is and how pervasive its impact is throughout an organization. Some try to change the culture by publishing a statement of core values but soon find that no meaningful change happens.
Others try to unify the culture around a set of shared goals that satisfy shareholders but find their efforts backfire as stressed employees throw their hands up because “leadership just doesn’t get it.” Others implement expensive new IT systems to try to bring about change, only to find that employees find “workarounds” and soon go back to their old ways.
The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change walks readers through McHale’s four-step process to culture transformation, including how to:
- Understand what “corporate culture” really is and how it impacts every aspect of the way your organization operates
- Analyze where your culture is broken or not adding maximum value
- Unlock the power of reframing roles within your company to empower and engage your employees
- Utilize proven methods and tools to break through deeply embedded patterns and change your company mind-set
- Keep the momentum going by consolidating gains and maintaining your foot on the change accelerator
With The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change, watch your employees go from followers to change leaders who drive an agile culture that constantly outperforms.
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New Managers
- By: Paul Falcone
- Narrator: Paul Falcone
- Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: March 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.8(8 ratings)
3.8(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDMASTER YOUR ROLE AS AN EFFECTIVE MANAGER An accessible and practical quick-guide that will help you develop your skills as a manager from Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have With Your Employees and renowned HR and leadershipMASTER YOUR ROLE AS AN EFFECTIVE MANAGER
An accessible and practical quick-guide that will help you develop your skills as a manager from Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have With Your Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert.
Being a good manager is not a natural skill for anyone, but it’s an easy-to-learn discipline that will allow you to develop a strong team and create an environment that amplifies the skills of everyone on your team. This book breaks down the basics of each aspect that new managers struggle with most.
New Managers covers key leadership topics facing any manager, including:
- Coaching and Mentoring Employees
- Inspiring Employee Engagement
- Fostering Teamwork to Encourage Innovation
- Mastering the Art of Active Listening
- Becoming an Effective Communicator
- Establishing Key Metrics to Drive Business Forward
- How to Create a Positive Relationship Between Yourself and HR
- And, Much More
This quick-guide is an indispensable resource that will guide managers of all levels in becoming their team’s favorite boss.
Accompanying templates are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Engaged
- By: Amy Brann
- Narrator: Esther Wane
- Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.76(14 ratings)
3.76(14 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDNeuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behavior. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizationalNeuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behavior. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational performance and individual achievement.
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Dying for a Paycheck
- By: Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Narrator: Pat Grimes
- Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 20, 2018
- Language: English
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3.71(296 ratings)
3.71(296 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDYou don’t have to do a dangerous job to endure a health-destroying, possibly life-threatening workplace. Just ask the manager in a senior finance role whose immense workload required frequent all-nighters, leading to alcohol and drugYou don’t have to do a dangerous job to endure a health-destroying, possibly life-threatening workplace. Just ask the manager in a senior finance role whose immense workload required frequent all-nighters, leading to alcohol and drug addiction. Or the dedicated news media producer whose commitment to getting the story resulted in a sixty-pound weight gain thanks to having no down time to eat properly or exercise. These individuals are not exceptions. Every industry is filled with them, and the costs, to both employees and their companies, is enormous. In Dying for a Paycheck, Jeffrey Pfeffer reveals that the management practices that literally sicken and sometimes kill employees do not enhance productivity or the bottom line. Instead, they diminish employee engagement, increase turnover, reduce job performance, and drive up health costs. Offering guidance and practical solutions for enhancing workplace wellbeing, Dying for a Paycheck is a clarion call for a social movement focused on human sustainability.
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Driven by Difference
- By: David Livermore
- Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: December 06, 2022
- Language: English
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3.71(84 ratings)
3.71(84 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDToday’s board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before. These cultural differences can either lead to gridlock among stubborn, single-minded thinkers or they can catalyze innovation and growth among an expansiveToday’s board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before. These cultural differences can either lead to gridlock among stubborn, single-minded thinkers or they can catalyze innovation and growth among an expansive team of creative, distinctive individuals.
Diverse teams are far more creative than homogenous teams–but only when they are managed effectively.¬†Driven by Difference¬†identifies the management practices necessary to minimize conflict while maximizing the informational diversity found in varied values and experiences.¬†
Drawing on the cultural intelligence, or CQ, of diversity success stories from Google, Alibaba, Novartis, and other groundbreaking companies, this must-have resource teaches managers of diverse groups how to:
- Create an optimal environment
- Consider the various audiences when selecting and selling an idea
- Design and test for different users
- Fuse differing perspectives
- Align goals and expectations
New perspectives and talents have joined your company’s ranks in recent years. Are you seeing the increased innovation and success that should be resulting from such diversity?
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Gen Z @ Work
- By: David Stillman
- Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.7(194 ratings)
3.7(194 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce–Generation Z–in this essential study, theA generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce–Generation Z–in this essential study, the first on the subject.
They were born between between 1995 and 2012. At 72.8 million strong, Gen Z is about to make its presence known in the workplace in a major way–and employers need to understand the differences that set them apart. They’re radically different than the Millennials, and yet no one seems to be talking about them–until now. This generation has an entirely unique perspective on careers and how to succeed in the workforce.
Based on the first national studies of Gen Z’s workplace attitudes; interviews with hundreds of CEOs, celebrities, and thought leaders on generational issues; cutting-edge case studies; and insights from Gen Zers themselves, Gen Z @ Work offers the knowledge today’s leaders need to get ahead of the next gaps in the workplace and how best to recruit, retain, motivate, and manage Gen Zers. Ahead of the curve, Gen Z @ Work is the first comprehensive, serious look at what the next generation of workers looks like, and what that means for the rest of us.
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Managers as Mentors, Third Edition
- By: Chip R. Bell
- Narrator: Mark Peckham
- Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDManagers As Mentors is a rapid-fire read and a provocative guide to helping associates grow and adapt in today’s tumultuous organizations. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith placeManagers As Mentors is a rapid-fire read and a provocative guide to helping associates grow and adapt in today’s tumultuous organizations. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith place increased emphasis on the mentor as a learning catalyst for the prot+(r)g+(r) rather than someone who simply hands down knowledge–crucial for younger workers who prize growth opportunities even more than prior generations and who tend to distrust hierarchy. As with previous editions there is a fictional case study of a mentor-prot+(r)g+(r) relationship running through the book, but this is augmented with six actual case studies of top CEOs from organizations like The Nature Conservancy and Bloomin’ Brands, who relate key mentoring experiences in their lives. The new chapters cover topics like the role of mentoring in spurring innovation and mentoring a diverse and dispersed workforce accustomed to interacting and getting information digitally. Also new to this edition is the Mentor’s Toolkit, six resources to help in developing the mentor-prot+(r)g+(r) relationship. This hands-on guide takes the mystery out of effective mentoring, teaching leaders to be the kind of confident coaches integral to learning organizations.
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Why We Work
- By: Barry Schwartz
- Narrator: Barry Schwartz
- Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio / TED
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.65(1402 ratings)
3.65(1402 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.99 USDAn eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor BarryAn eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.
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Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.
We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we’ve shaped much of the infrastructure of our society to accommodate this belief. Then why are so many people dissatisfied with their work, despite healthy compensation? And why do so many people find immense fulfillment and satisfaction through “menial” jobs? Schwartz explores why so many believe that the goal for working should be to earn money, how we arrived to believe that paying workers more leads to better work, and why this has made our society confused, unhappy, and has established a dangerously misguided system.
Through fascinating studies and compelling anecdotes, this book dispels this myth. Schwartz takes us through hospitals and hair salons, auto plants and boardrooms, showing workers in all walks of life, showcasing the trends and patterns that lead to happiness in the workplace. Ultimately, Schwartz proves that the root of what drives us to do good work can rarely be incentivized, and that the cause of bad work is often an attempt to do just that.
How did we get to this tangled place? How do we change the way we work? With great insight and wisdom, Schwartz shows us how to take our first steps toward understanding, and empowering us all to find great work. -
The Hands-Off Manager
- By: Steve Chandler
- Narrator: Nick Landrum
- Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.65(147 ratings)
3.65(147 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe #1 reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is ‘my manager. Most managers and executives not only aren’t aware of this obvious problem but probably wouldn’t know what to do about it if they did. In The Hands-OffThe #1 reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is ‘my manager. Most managers and executives not only aren’t aware of this obvious problem but probably wouldn’t know what to do about it if they did. In The Hands-Off Manager, Steve Chandler and Duane Black offer a new vision for all managers. With stories, examples, and vibrant activities for the reader to practice, this book shows any manager–new or seasoned–how to coach and mentor employees rather than hover over their shoulders and goad them into action. In this system, each employee’s strengths are honored and honed in a climate of partnership and mutual goal-setting. Chandler, whose 100 Ways to Motivate Others is a bestselling favorite with small and large businesses alike, has called The Hands-Off Manager his “most original work to date” because it finally solves the age-old problem of getting the best performance out of people without frustrating yourself and them.
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Talent
- By: Tyler Cowen
- Narrator: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 17, 2022
- Language: English
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3.62(518 ratings)
3.62(518 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThis audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the authors. The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people. How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict humanThis audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the authors.
The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.
How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?
Obsessed with these questions, renowned economist Tyler Cowen and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross set out to study the art and science of finding talent at the highest level: the people with the creativity, drive, and insight to transform an organization and make everyone around them better.
Cowen and Gross guide the reader through the major scientific research areas relevant for talent search, including how to conduct an interview, how much to weight intelligence, how to judge personality and match personality traits to jobs, how to evaluate talent in online interactions such as Zoom calls, why talented women are still undervalued and how to spot them, how to understand the special talents in people who have disabilities or supposed disabilities, and how to use delegated scouts to find talent. Talent appreciation is an art, but it is an art you can improve through study and experience.
Identifying underrated, brilliant individuals is one of the simplest ways to give yourself an organizational edge, and this is the book that will show you how to do that. Talent is both for people searching for talent and for those who wish to be searched for, found, and discovered.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Game Changer
- By: Michael Solomon
- Narrator: Michael Solomon
- Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: September 21, 2020
- Language: English
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3.61(52 ratings)
3.61(52 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDHighly skilled 10x talent brings at least 10 times the value to your organization. By understanding how to attract, manage, and retain these sought-after individuals, your business will become more agile, innovative, and experience transformationalHighly skilled 10x talent brings at least 10 times the value to your organization. By understanding how to attract, manage, and retain these sought-after individuals, your business will become more agile, innovative, and experience transformational growth.
10xers can tackle a company’s toughest problems, improve their strongest assets, and blaze a path to success. With the rapid digitization of every conceivable product and service, the environment has transformed so fast that every organization must be equipped with these phenomenally gifted employees to keep up.
Game Changer provides proven strategies on how your company can create the right environment for top talent and breakthrough success by upending traditional business practices.
It also reveals how individuals can evolve from good to great to 10x, and enjoy the many perks and rewards this status brings.
In Game Changer, you’ll learn:
- How highly skilled talent is transforming companies of all sizes and industries through real world stories and first-hand testimonies from top executives and entrepreneurs.
- Ways managers can become coaches that empower their team to accomplish amazing results.
- The unconventional business environment 10xers need for massive productivity, including deep flow states, greater autonomy and ownership, and work time flexibility.
- How to see yourself as both talent and management and become comfortable switching these hats.
Game Changer will show you how to make an impact at work, become a highly skilled and phenomenally gifted employee, and experience the rewards and satisfaction of being 10x.
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