22 Best Organizational Development Books
Organizational Development is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Organizational Development audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 22 Organizational Development audiobooks below.
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Turbo Charge
- By: Terri Levine
- Narrator: Laura Chase
- Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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5(3 ratings)
5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDLearn to grow your business and create more profitability and more fun in your business from one of today’s top coaching and consulting experts. Achieve the same success she has shared with clients over the past several decades and finallyLearn to grow your business and create more profitability and more fun in your business from one of today’s top coaching and consulting experts. Achieve the same success she has shared with clients over the past several decades and finally enjoy the business success you deserve.
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Made From Scratch
- By: Kent Taylor
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.58(100 ratings)
4.58(100 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD* An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller * From founder Kent Taylor, the incredible made-from-scratch success story of Texas Roadhouse.In Made From Scratch, the late business maverick Kent Taylor tells the legendary story of Texas Roadhouse and* An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller *
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From founder Kent Taylor, the incredible made-from-scratch success story of Texas Roadhouse.
In Made From Scratch, the late business maverick Kent Taylor tells the legendary story of Texas Roadhouse and in the process reveals its recipe for success: embracing unorthodox business practices. Because isn’t it a little unusual for a company to do almost no advertising? Is it wild to give away free peanuts and rolls and keep prices low, even as costs rise, or to keep the menu basically the same since it opened? Does it fly in the face of reason to prohibit coats and ties at headquarters and to have a CEO who dressed like he was part of the landscaping crew?
These business practices might be unconventional, but for Kent and Texas Roadhouse, they worked. What Kent and his Roadies cooked up is an island of misfits who are cool with being different. They love to have fun, but are serious about following meticulous recipes to serve up hand-cut steaks, fall-off-the-bone ribs, made-from-scratch sides, ice-cold beer, and irresistible fresh-baked bread. It’s Legendary Food, Legendary Service, the Texas Roadhouse way.
To show how this company became a staple of American dining and survived a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Kent took a trip back in time to offer the lessons learned from his pathbreaking life, revealing how a distracted kid from Louisville, Kentucky, created anything worthwhile at all. -
The Leader’s Greatest Return
- By: John C. Maxwell
- Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Language: English
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4.37(338 ratings)
4.37(338 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDDive into a masterclass with world-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell as he shares the most important lessons he’s learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century. What is the greatest return on aDive into a masterclass with world-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell as he shares the most important lessons he’s learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century.
What is the greatest return on a leader’s time? After leaders have invested in their own leadership growth, what is the best way to accomplish their vision and grow their organizations? Develop other leaders! The more leaders an organization has and the better equipped they are to lead, the more successful the organization and its leaders.
In the last twenty-five years, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell has grown from equipping a handful of leaders in one organization to developing millions of business, government, and nonprofit leaders in every country around the world. In this book, Maxwell takes the reader step-by-step through the process of identifying, attracting, empowering, and positioning leaders to create a culture capable of then reproducing and compounding the value of its leaders.
In The Leader’s Greatest Return, you will be instructed on:
- The Leadership Table – Create a place where people not yet leading at your level can come, be welcomed and try on leadership.
- The 7 Motivators – Review the seven motivators and discover what motivates each person and then lead him or her accordingly.
- Team Success – Use the 10-80-10 method to set people up for success and empower them to perform at a high level.
- Who to Grow as a Leader – Love and value everyone but use the Pareto principle to choose who to grow as a?leader.
This is where leaders really experience the compounding value of developing leaders and go to the highest levels of leadership themselves. The Leader’s Greatest Return is perfect for anyone who wants to take the next step in their leadership, build their organization or team today, and create their legacy for tomorrow needs to read.
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Homegrown
- By: Alex Speier
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 13, 2019
- Language: English
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4.33(255 ratings)
4.33(255 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDThe captivating inside story of the historic 2018 Boston Red Sox, as told through the assembly and ascendancy of their talented young core–the culmination of nearly a decade of reporting from one of the most respected baseball writers in theThe captivating inside story of the historic 2018 Boston Red Sox, as told through the assembly and ascendancy of their talented young core–the culmination of nearly a decade of reporting from one of the most respected baseball writers in the country.
The 2018 season was a coronation for the Boston Red Sox. The best team in Major League Baseball–indeed, one of the best teams ever–the Sox won 108 regular season games and then romped through the postseason, going 11-3 against the three next-strongest teams baseball had to offer.
As Boston Globe baseball reporter Alex Speier reveals, the Sox’ success wasn’t a fluke–nor was it guaranteed. It was the result of careful, patient planning and shrewd decision-making that allowed Boston to develop a golden generation of prospects–and then build upon that talented core to assemble a juggernaut. Speier has covered the key players–Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Jackie Bradley Jr., and many others–since the beginning of their professional careers, as they rose through the minor leagues and ultimately became the heart of this historic championship squad. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews and years of reporting, Homegrown is the definitive look at the construction of an extraordinary team.
It is a story that offers startling insights for baseball fans of any team, and anyone looking for the secret to building a successful organization. Why do many highly touted prospects fail, while others rise out of obscurity to become transcendent? How can franchises help their young talent, in whom they’ve often invested tens of millions of dollars, reach their full potential? And how can management balance long-term aims with the constant pressure to win now?
Part insider’s account of one of the greatest baseball teams ever, part meditation on how to build a winner, Homegrown offers an illuminating look into how the best of the best are built.
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People Powered
- By: Jono Bacon
- Narrator: Jono Bacon
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: November 12, 2019
- Language: English
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4.24(121 ratings)
4.24(121 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDWhat if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand’s reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and yourWhat if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand’s reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and your customers?
Communities have been a popular topic since the rise of the Internet and social media, but few companies have consistently harnessed their power, driven tangible value, and effectively measured their return on investment (ROI) like Salesforce.com, Star Citizen via Kickstarter, and Red Hat. Companies such as PayPal, Facebook, Bosch, Microsoft, CapitalOne, and Google, have also built communities inside their organizations, which have fostered innovation, broken down silos, and helped their organizations to operate more efficiently and collaboratively.
People Powered helps C-suite leaders, founders, marketers, customer advocates, and community leaders gain a competitive advantage by answering the following questions:
- What is the key value proposition of building a community?
- What kind of community do we need and how do we build and integrate it into our organization?
- How do we incentivize and encourage people to get involved, build reliable growth, and keep community members engaged?
- How do we develop authentic, productive relationships with community members both online and in person?
- How do we get departmental buy-in, hire effectively, and create consistent, reliable community engagement skills in our organization?
- What are the strategic and tactical pitfalls and roadblocks we need to avoid?
- How do we make sure that our community continues to grow with us–and more importantly, how do we make sure that we continue to grow with them?
People Powered pulls together over 20 years of pragmatic experience into a clear, simple methodology and blueprint to not just answer these questions, but deliver results.
Don’t get left behind–become an industry trailblazer and ensure your company’s longevity by tapping into the most dynamic force both outside and inside your organization: the people.
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The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player
- By: John C. Maxwell
- Narrator: John C. Maxwell
- Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: October 25, 2011
- Language: English
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4.07(1190 ratings)
4.07(1190 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDJohn C. Maxwell breaks down the personal characteristics necessary for becoming an effective team player. Leadership expert John C. Maxwell follows his bestselling The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork with this powerfully succinct companion book.John C. Maxwell breaks down the personal characteristics necessary for becoming an effective team player.
Leadership expert John C. Maxwell follows his bestselling The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork with this powerfully succinct companion book. Stating that great team players are developed from the inside out, Maxwell identifies the seventeen qualities that make up an in-demand team player while outlining how to embody those qualities.
In The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, Maxwell outlines the successes of team players who have been:
- Intentional – making every action count toward a long-term goal
- Relational – focused on others
- Selfless – willing to take a subordinate role for the sake of the team
- Tenacious – hardworking and optimistic in the face of setbacks
This instructional resource shows how these qualities, among many others, impact the team and its success. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players.
The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player is not feel-good platitudes and abstract thinking, but concrete actions designed to improve the value of every team player.
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Restoring the Soul of Business
- By: Rishad Tobaccowala
- Narrator: Rishad Tobaccowala
- Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Language: English
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4.07(143 ratings)
4.07(143 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDFrom old-fashioned bricks-and-mortars to cutting-edge startups, businesses are moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to move from an analog past to a digital future effectively. How can you make sure not to leave human instinctFrom old-fashioned bricks-and-mortars to cutting-edge startups, businesses are moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to move from an analog past to a digital future effectively. How can you make sure not to leave human instinct behind?
Businesses are leaving behind traditional meetings in favor of virtual ones, transitioning from surveys and studies to analytics and algorithms. The startling and often unacknowledged truth is that?the promise of digital transformation can only be realized when we find a way to balance it with the promise of people.?In the end, it’s the people that matter, and companies must never forget the soul that drives them.
In Restoring the Soul of Business, business leader Rishad Tobaccowala?teaches you to:
- Understand how to unleash the significant benefit that can be realized by combining emotion and data, human and machine, analog and digital.
- Spot the warning signs of data-blinded companies: cold cultures with little human interaction, poor innovation stemming from discouraged employees who don’t contribute ideas, and poor customer service due to automated, robotic processes.
- Explore how organizations of various sizes and from different industries have successfully reoriented their thinking on how to fuse technology and humanity.
- Gain skills to become an expert in connections critical to growth and success, including the connection between being creative and using technology.
- Everyone working in an organization will find penetrating observations and guidance about how and why establishing the proper balance between human intuition and creativity and data-driven insights can lead to increased revenue, profitability, retention–and even joy–in their careers and business.
Restoring the Soul of Business provides practical tools and techniques that every organization can and should implement, and challenges you to move forward with the kind of balance that capitalizes transformation and produces one great success after another.
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Designed to Win
- By: Po Chung
- Narrator: Tanner De Bruyne
- Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4(2 ratings)
4(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDDesigned to Win, written by Po Chung–the co-founder of DHL–reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories! Warning: Listening to this book and followingDesigned to Win, written by Po Chung–the co-founder of DHL–reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories!
Warning: Listening to this book and following the advice within can result in designing an industry that doesn’t yet exist!
Start listening now to:
Discover how caring about things bigger than ourselves drives effective leadershipFind out how a unique marriage between Eastern and Western values inspired an inter-cultural leadership modelDiscover why you should address leadership needs rather than management needsLearn how to design, develop, and lead a global service networkUnderstand why superior leaders practice noble visions, competence, character and careLearn how to articulate human–and company–actualizationFigure out how better followers and leaders build more competitive networksDiscover how happy people led by happy leaders run like a well-oiled machine… and much more!
Designed to Win answers the question: How do I design a global company?
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Alive at Work
- By: Daniel M. Cable
- Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 27, 2018
- Language: English
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3.94(533 ratings)
3.94(533 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDPoll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem? In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takesPoll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem? In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takes leaders into the minds of workers and reveals the surprising secret to restoring their zest for work. Disengagement isn’t a motivational problem, it’s a biological one. Humans aren’t built for routine and repetition. We’re designed to crave exploration, experimentation, and learning–in fact, there’s a part of our brains, which scientists have coined “the seeking system,” that rewards us for taking part in these activities. But the way organizations are run prevents many of us from following our innate impulses. As a result, we shut down. Things need to change. More than ever before, employee creativity and engagement are needed to win. Fortunately, it won’t take an extensive overhaul of your organizational culture to get started. With small nudges, you can personally help people reach their fullest potential. Alive at Work reveals: How to encourage people to bring their best selves to work and use their greatest strengths to help your organization flourish How to build creative environments that motivate people to share ideas, work smarter, and embrace change How to enhance people’s connection to their work and your customers How to create personalized experiences that help people feel a deeper sense of purpose Filled with fascinating stories from the author’s extensive research, Alive at Work is the inspirational guide that you need to tap into the passion, creativity, and purpose fizzing beneath the surface of every person who falls under your leadership.
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Unleashing the Idea Virus
- By: Seth Godin
- Narrator: Seth Godin
- Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2001
- Language: English
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3.93(44 ratings)
3.93(44 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDCounter to traditional marketing wisdom, which tries to count, measure, and manipulate the spread of information, Seth Godin argues that information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. GodinCounter to traditional marketing wisdom, which tries to count, measure, and manipulate the spread of information, Seth Godin argues that information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. Godin calls this powerful customer-to-customer dialogue the ideavirus.
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In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin examines how companies like Napster and Hotmail have successfuly launched ideaviruses. He offers a recipe for creating your own ideavirus, and shows how businesses can use ideavirus marketing to succeed in a world that doesn’t want to hear it anymore from traditional marketers. -
Six Simple Rules
- By: Yves Morieux
- Narrator: Yves Morieux
- Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 14, 2017
- Language: English
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3.92(404 ratings)
3.92(404 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDNew tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increasedNew tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems-has increased by a whopping factor of thirty-five. In their attempt to respond to the increasingly complex performance requirements they face, company leaders have created an organizational labyrinth that makes it more and more difficult to improve productivity and to pursue innovation. It also disengages and demotivates the workforce. Clearly it’s time for leaders to stop trying to manage complexity with their traditional tools and instead better leverage employees’ intelligence. This book shows you how and explains the implications for designing and leading organizations. The way to manage complexity, the authors argue, is neither with the hard solutions of another era nor with the soft solutions-such as team building and feel-good “people initiatives”-that often follow in their wake. Based on social sciences (notably economics, game theory, and organizational sociology) and The Boston Consulting Group’s work with more than five hundred companies in more than forty countries and in various industries, authors Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman recommend six simple rules to manage complexity without getting complicated. Showing why the rules work and how to put them into practice, Morieux and Tollman give managers a much-needed tool to reinvigorate people in the face of seemingly endless complexity. Included are detailed examples from companies that have achieved a multiplicative effect on performance by using them. It’s time to manage complexity better. Employ these six simple rules to foster autonomy and cooperation and to effectively handle business complexity. As a result, you will improve productivity, innovate more, reengage your workforce, and seize opportunities to create competitive advantage.
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Innovation By Design
- By: Thomas Lockwood
- Narrator: Thomas Lockwood
- Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 20, 2017
- Language: English
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3.86(275 ratings)
3.86(275 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDWhy are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap into, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all typesWhy are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap into, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities. But they also report struggling with how to engage their cultures to implement the changes necessary to maximize their ?innovative targets. In Innovation by Design, authors Thomas Lockwood and Edgar Papke share the results of their study of some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including: – The 10 ways leaders can create and develop effective cultures of innovation. – How to use design thinking as a powerful method to drive employee creativity and innovation. – How to leverage the natural influence of the collective imagination to produce the “pull effect” of creativity and risk taking. – How leaders can take the “Fifth Step of Design” and create their ideal culture. Innovation by Design offers a powerful set of insights and practical solutions to the most important challenge for today’s businesses-the need for relevant innovation. Author bios: Thomas Lockwood is the author/editor of the books Design Thinking, Corporate Creativity, and Building Design Strategy. He has a PhD in design management and is recognized as a thought leader at integrating design and innovation practice into business. He has produced 22 conferences about design leadership, lectured and led workshops in over 20 countries, and is a design adviser to numerous companies. Edgar Papke is a leadership psychologist, author, and globally recognized expert in business alignment, leadership, and organizational culture. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies, multinational organizations, and governments to small businesses and individuals. He is an award-winning speaker and the author of True Alignment and The Elephant in the Boardroom.
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Unsafe Thinking
- By: Jonah Sachs
- Narrator: Jonah Sachs
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 24, 2018
- Language: English
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3.85(130 ratings)
3.85(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDA Financial Times Book of the Month: “An enchanting book about how to question the conventional, challenge the status quo, and unlock the creative solutions right under your nose.” –Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author ofA Financial Times Book of the Month: “An enchanting book about how to question the conventional, challenge the status quo, and unlock the creative solutions right under your nose.” –Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg
“Unsafe Thinking delivers an array of fresh insights on creativity, motivation, and staying in ‘flow.’ Packed with powerful case studies, it will propel you out of your rut and onto a path of better, sharper thinking.” — Daniel H. Pink, author of When and To Sell Is Human
How can you challenge and change yourself when you need it most? We’re creatures of habit, programmed by evolution to favor the safe and familiar, especially when the stakes are high. This bias no longer serves us in a world of constant change. In fact, today, safe thinking has become extremely dangerous.
Through stories of trailblazers in business, health, education and activism, and leveraging decades of research into creativity and performance, Jonah Sachs reveals a path to higher performance and creativity for anyone ready to step out of their comfort zone. He introduces troublemakers willing to challenge corporate culture like the executive who convinced CVS to drop its multibillion-dollar tobacco business. She now leads the pharmacy giant. Readers will get firsthand accounts of breaking from the status quo from a Nobel prize winning doctor who nearly got himself thrown out medicine, a two-time NBA championship coach who brought joy back to his team by tuning down the focus on competition, a CEO who rebuilt her reputation and life from the ashes from one of the biggest flops in internet history and a Colombian mayor who started an incredibly successful career of political reform by mooning an angry crowd.
Unsafe Thinking is full of counter-intuitive insights that will challenge you to rethink how you work. You’ll learn:- Why your area of deep expertise is often where you’ll find your biggest blind spots
- Why anxiety can be fuel for creativity
- When to trust intuition and when to challenge it
- How collaborating only with those that share your values stunts your creativity
- How to build an organization that embraces intelligent risk.
An inspiring and accessible read, Unsafe Thinking has the power to change both the way you approach your work and your life.
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Corporate Canaries
- By: Gary Sutton
- Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: January 10, 2023
- Language: English
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3.84(27 ratings)
3.84(27 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDIn today’s tumultuous business environment, managers want guidance in the form of a timely theme, a unique and memorable metaphor, and outside-the-box thinking. That’s precisely what Corporate Canaries delivers. The book features fiveIn today’s tumultuous business environment, managers want guidance in the form of a timely theme, a unique and memorable metaphor, and outside-the-box thinking. That’s precisely what Corporate Canaries delivers. The book features five core chapters revealing five common business hazards, and each lesson is accompanied by a story based on the author’s grandfather’s work in the coal industry, as well as an applicable “canary warning” for each theme.
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Chutzpah
- By: Inbal Arieli
- Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 20, 2019
- Language: English
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3.81(83 ratings)
3.81(83 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDDiscover the secret behind how Israel, a tiny country with the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide, is raising generations of entrepreneurs who are disrupting markets around the globe and bringing change to the world. DubbedDiscover the secret behind how Israel, a tiny country with the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide, is raising generations of entrepreneurs who are disrupting markets around the globe and bringing change to the world.
Dubbed “Silicon Wadi,” Israel ranks third in the World Economic Forum Innovation Rating. Despite its small size, it attracts more venture capital per capita than any other country on the planet. What factors have led to these remarkable achievements, and what secrets do Israeli tech entrepreneurs know that others can learn?
Tech insider Inbal Arieli goes against the common belief that Israel’s outstanding economic accomplishments are the byproduct of its technologically advanced military or the result of long-standing Jewish traditions of study and questioning. Rather, Arieli gives credit to the unique way Israelis are raised in a culture that supports creative thinking and risk taking. Growing up within a tribal-like community, Israelis experience childhoods purposely shaped by challenges and risks–in a culture that encourages and rewards chutzpah. This has helped Israelis develop the courage to pursue unorthodox, and often revolutionary, approaches to change and innovation and is the secret behind the country’s economic success.
While chutzpah has given generations of Israelis the courage to break away from conventional thinking, the Israeli concept balagan–messiness in Hebrew–is at the root of how Israelis are taught to interact with the world. Instead of following strict rules, balagan fosters ambiguity, encouraging the development of the skills necessary for dealing with the unpredictability of life and business. Living with balagan provides Israelis with the opportunity to constantly practice the soft skills defined by the World Economic Forum as the Skills for the Future, as balagan promotes creativity, problem-solving, and independence–key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs.
By revealing the unique ways in which Israelis parent, educate and acculturate, Chutzpah offers invaluable insights and proven strategies for success to aspiring entrepreneurs, parents, executives, innovators, and policymakers.
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Organize Your Team Today
- By: Jason Selk
- Narrator: Christian Steiner
- Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 13, 2018
- Language: English
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3.8(28 ratings)
3.8(28 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USD“One of the ten best leadership books so far this year.” — Bloomberg Following up the popular peak performance book Organize Tomorrow Today, a new plan to motivate, set priorities and lead any team to optimal achievement Watch a“One of the ten best leadership books so far this year.” — Bloomberg
Following up the popular peak performance book Organize Tomorrow Today, a new plan to motivate, set priorities and lead any team to optimal achievement
Watch a triumphant speech after a sports championship or business milestone and you’ll almost always hear some variation of this catchphrase: “It couldn’t have happened without the great team we have.” It doesn’t matter if you’re the owner of a 10,000-employee Fortune 500 company or running a small business, you’re a part of a team. With a combined 50 years of experience building, managing, advising, and troubleshooting teams in both the business and sports worlds, Jason Selk and Tom Bartow now reveal the common DNA that links the highest performing teams.
In Organize Your Team Today, Selk and Bartow show how it takes collective mental toughness to win, developed only through a clear understanding of the goals, limitations, roles and personalities on your team. Great leaders respect and embrace channel capacity, Selk and Bartow explain, which means they don’t overload their teams with blizzards of tasks and responsibilities. They bust the “focus” and “relationship” fallacies, as those words are meaningless for teams unless they are byproducts of activities that really matter. And Selk and Bartow teach how to manage expectations, since doing so creates a level of respect between the leader and the team — and among the team members–that is a catalyst for peak achievement.
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The 80/20 Manager
- By: Richard Koch
- Narrator: Roger Davis
- Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.76(541 ratings)
3.76(541 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDBestselling author Richard Koch shows managers how to apply the 80/20 Principle to achieve exceptional results at work — without stress or long hours. In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle , Richard Koch showed readers how to put theBestselling author Richard Koch shows managers how to apply the 80/20 Principle to achieve exceptional results at work — without stress or long hours.... Read moreIn his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle , Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle — the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort — into practice in their personal lives. Now in The 80/20 Manager, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management.
An 80/20 manager learns to focus only on the issues that really matter, achieving exceptional results, and feeling successful everyday while working less hard in fewer hours. A large number of managers — especially in these difficult times — feel completely overwhelmed. Their inboxes are overflowing and they constantly struggle to finish their to-do lists, leaving little time for the things that really matter. The 80/20 Manager shows a new way to look at management — and at life — to enjoy work and build a successful and fulfilling career.
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Competing in the New World of Work
- By: Keith Ferrazzi
- Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.26(94 ratings)
3.26(94 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to win in a world of unprecedented change You’ve shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did yourThe #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to win in a world of unprecedented change
You’ve shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did
you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage?If not, it’s not too late to learn from the best.
New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an
ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work:
* Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the future
* Reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic
* Defines the new model of leadership–radical adaptability–for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformationCompeting in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.
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Work Tribes
- By: Shawn Murphy
- Narrator: Shawn Murphy
- Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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3.22(17 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDAre you building a typical team… or a high-performance tribe? The motivational power of the desire to belong is the key element for ensuring employee satisfaction and retention, as well as your company’s long-term success. With millionsAre you building a typical team… or a high-performance tribe? The motivational power of the desire to belong is the key element for ensuring employee satisfaction and retention, as well as your company’s long-term success.
With millions of exhausted employees “living for Friday,” the place we spend most of our time–our workplace–is drudgery.
But what happens when leaders revive the workplace by tapping into a hardwired human need? That need, a sense of belonging, can resuscitate employee satisfaction and retention, while also contributing to a company’s long-term success.
Employees want more than a job. They want an opportunity to solve essential problems and receive fair pay and benefits. While some companies use slick culture tricks to attract and retain employees, a more meaningful experience can be created by fostering a sense of belonging.
How can businesses achieve this?
In his new book Work Tribes, Shawn Murphy, CEO of WorqIQ and a sought-after leadership speaker, shows readers how to tap into the motivational pull of belonging. Based on findings from his interviews with leaders and employees at companies such as LinkedIn, The Container Store, Canlis Restaurant, and Barry-Wehmiller, Work Tribes reveals why a human-centered approach is more aligned with the way we work in the twenty-first century.
Astonishing outcomes result from making your employees feel welcomed, wanted, and valued–and this book will show you how to transform your team into a unified tribe.
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Strategic Thinking and Thinking Big
- By: Jeremi Suri
- Narrator: Jeremi Suri
- Length: 59 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 04, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds ofOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Leaders frequently suffer from tactical overload. They confront a barrage of daily crises, meetings, and other demands on their time. They rarely have time to think beyond their inbox. They rarely have the freedom for creativity. This lecture will provide an explanation for why leaders must break out of this tactical straight-jacket, and it will offer a system for doing just that. Drawing on insights from historical thinking, this lecture will provide a series of concepts and tools for leaders to implement as they strive to think strategically, rather than tactically. The lecture will offer concrete methods and examples of how successful leaders have looked beyond the crises of the moment to push their organizations toward bigger and more important goals. Historical perspective offers the dynamic impetus for long-term success and creativity that all leaders require. This audio lecture includes a supplemental PDF.
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It’s Not the How or the What but the Who
- By: Claudio Fernandez-Araoz
- Narrator: Claudio Fernandez-Araoz
- Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 02, 2016
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDSucceed by mastering the art of the who Why surround yourself with the best? Because it matters-in all aspects of life. In fact, in professional environments, getting people right-what global leadership authority Claudio Fernandez-Araoz callsSucceed by mastering the art of the who Why surround yourself with the best? Because it matters-in all aspects of life. In fact, in professional environments, getting people right-what global leadership authority Claudio Fernandez-Araoz calls “the art of great ‘who’ decisions”-marks the difference between success and failure. To thrive, you need to identify those with the highest potential, get them in your corner and on your team, and help them grow. Yet surprisingly very few of us are able to meet that challenge. This series of short and engaging essays outlines the obstacles to great “who” decisions and offers solutions to address them in a systematic way. Drawing from several decades of experience in global executive search and talent development, as well as the latest management and psychology research, Fernandez-Araoz offers wisdom and practical advice to improve the choices we make about employees and mentors, business partners and friends, top corporate leaders and even elected officials. The personal stories and cutting-edge studies described in the book will help you understand both your own failings and the external forces commonly at play in staffing decisions. The author shares concrete recommendations on how to select the best people, bring out their strengths, foster collective greatness in the groups you’ve assembled, and create not only better organizations but also a better society. Starting with the cases of Amazon pioneer Jeff Bezos and Brazilian tycoon Roger Agnelli and continuing with individual and corporate examples from around the world, Fernandez-Araoz paints a vivid picture of what great “who” decisions look like and presents a fresh and commanding argument about why they matter more than ever today.
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Humanocracia (Humanocracy)
- By: Gary Hamel
- Length: 13 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: October 21, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEn un mundo de incesantes cambios y desafios sin precedentes, necesitamos organizaciones que sean resistentes y que capaciten a todos sus miembros para que se desarrollen almaximo y den lo mejor de si mismos. Desafortunadamente, la mayoria de lasEn un mundo de incesantes cambios y desafios sin precedentes, necesitamos organizaciones que sean resistentes y que capaciten a todos sus miembros para que se desarrollen almaximo y den lo mejor de si mismos.
Desafortunadamente, la mayoria de las organizaciones, sobrecargadas por la burocracia, sonlentas y desconfadas. En una epoca de grandes turbulencias, las estructuras de poder verticales y los sistemas de gestion con regulaciones sofocantes son una desventaja. Impidenla creatividad y limitan
la iniciativa. Como lideres, empleados, inversores y ciudadanos, nosmerecemos algo mejor. Necesitamos organizaciones que sean audaces, emprendedoras y tanagiles como el cambio mismo. De ahi este libro.
* En Humanocracy, Gary Hamel y Michele Zanini presentan un argumento apasionado yapoyado en investigaciones para suprimir la burocracia y reemplazarla por una nueva flosofia de gestion.
* Basandose en mas de una decada de investigacion y acompanado de ejemplos practicos,Humanocracy ofrece un detallado plan para crear organizaciones tan inspiradoras e ingeniosas como los seres humanos que las componen.
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