The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 7 mins)
By Jeffrey Liker, Gary L. Convis
Narrated By Jim Meskimen
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The missing link to long-term Lean success! Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former executive V.P. and managing officer of Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts - from simply performing their singular function to continuously improving in collaboration across the organization.
Tamara says:
"ONLY leaders should read, bean counters shouldn't"
Companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, but none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former executive V.P. and managing officer of Toyota, help managers get employees to refocus their efforts - from simply performing their singular function to continuously improve in collaboration across the organization.
Google+ for Business: How Google's Social Network Changes Everything
UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 44 mins)
By Chris Brogan
Narrated By Chris Brogan
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Every week, millions more people sign up for Google+. Suddenly, it’s today’s hottest new social network. Google+ for Business reveals why Google+ offers business opportunities available nowhere else - and helps you grab those opportunities now, before your competitors do. Top social media professional speaker and business advisor Chris Brogan shows how to get great results fast, without wasting time - and without wasting a dime.
Find out why Google+ offers business opportunities available nowhere else, and helps you grab those opportunities now, before competitors do. Top social-media professional speaker and business adviser Chris Brogan explains how to get great results fast, without wasting time or money. The author guides you through using Google+ for promotion, customer service, community building, referrals, collaboration, and more.
Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real-estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his number-one best-selling Liar’s Poker.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 45 mins)
By Steven Levy
Narrated By L. J. Ganser
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Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes listeners inside Google headquarters - the Googleplex - to explain how Google works.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 17 mins)
By Tony Hsieh
Narrated By Tony Hsieh
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In this, his first audiobook, Tony Hsieh - the widely admired CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer -explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors, and backers. Using anecdotes and stories from his own life experiences, and from other companies, Hsieh provides concrete ways that companies can achieve unprecedented success.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 45 mins)
By Patrick Lencioni
Narrated By Charles Stransky; introduction by Patrick Lencioni
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In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.
Mark says:
"Clear Headed Guidance on Building Teams"
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 1 min)
By Jim Collins
Narrated By Jim Collins
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 32 mins)
By Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
Narrated By Jack Canfield
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The Success Principles by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the phenomenal best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, will teach you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions. This audio spells out the timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history. And the fundamentals are the same for all people and all professions, even if you're currently unemployed.
First published in 1923, this lightly fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the resource that generations of investors have turned to when they needed deeper insight into their own investing habits and those of others. Listen to this work, featuring narrator Rick Rohan, and you'll soon discover your portfolio growing in new and unexpected ways!
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable
UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 1 min)
By Patrick Lencioni
Narrated By Charles Stransky; introduction by Patrick Lencioni
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As CEO, most everything that Rich O'Connor did had something to do with at least one of the four disciplines on his famed "yellow sheet." Rich never suspected that it would become the blueprint of an employee's plan to destroy the firm. Best selling author Lencioni brings us a fable that focuses on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization.
How to Stay Motivated: Developing the Qualities of Success
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
By Zig Ziglar
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How to Stay Motivated provides you with clear and proven techniques to use to enhance relationships, improve your self-image, set and achieve goals, and so much more! Apply these winning steps from the motivational master himself to build a better, more productive, satisfying life for yourself and your family. Change your picture and change every facet of your life.
Entreleadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 15 mins)
By Dave Ramsey
Narrated By Dave Ramsey
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If you’re at all responsible for your company’s success, you can’t just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both! If you’re at all responsible for your company’s success, you can’t just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both! This book presents Dave’s playbook for creating work that matters; building an incredible group of passionate, empowered team members; and winning the race with steady momentum that will roll over any obstacle.
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
Jim says:
"The Reference Manual of Human Relations"
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 55 mins)
By D. Michael Abrashoff
Narrated By D. Michael Abrashoff
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The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of U.S.S. Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 58 mins)
By Stephen R. Covey
Narrated By Stephen R. Covey
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Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new forward and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant.
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
Jim says:
"The Reference Manual of Human Relations"
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
By Eric Ries
Narrated By Eric Ries
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Maxime says:
"The simple and efficient way to get on the market!"
What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
By Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
Narrated By Paul Costanzo
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Listen to this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins)
By David Allen
Narrated By David Allen
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From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done has the potential to transform the way you work - and the way you experience work. At any level of implementation, David Allen's entertaining and thought-provoking advice shows you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 30 mins)
By Geoff Colvin
Narrated By David Drummond
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One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called "What It Takes to Be Great." Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field - from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch - are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn't come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.
The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In Great by Choice, Collins and his colleague, Morten T. Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. The new study: Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 1 min)
By Jim Collins
Narrated By Jim Collins
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real-estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his number-one best-selling Liar’s Poker.
Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history. The text read in this audiobook is the original 1937 edition written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie - and while it has often been reproduced, no updated version has ever been able to compete with the original.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 38 mins)
By Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell
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In The Tipping Point, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in society happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 45 mins)
By Steven Levy
Narrated By L. J. Ganser
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Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes listeners inside Google headquarters - the Googleplex - to explain how Google works.
Part I - Oil and Gas Operations covers oil and gas operations in the field. It includes historical and structural geology, seismic surveying, drilling a well, well logging, completions, production methods, reservoir drive mechanisms, selling oil and natural gas, and workovers. Part II - Oil and Gas Business delves deeply into the business side of oil and gas investments. Part III - 150 Questions to Consider Before You Invest - provides over 150 specific questions to ask before you invest in an oil and gas deal.
Public Speaking Survival Kit: Expert Training to Dazzle Your Audience
ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 42 mins)
By Brian Tracy
Narrated By Brian Tracy, Dianna Booher
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Effective public speaking starts here. Learn how to create and deliver a dazzling speech for any occasion. In this self-paced audio series, two of the world’s top communicators share the powerful techniques they have developed in their experience speaking to millions of people. In addition to the basics of public speaking, you’ll learn how to think on your feet, play off your audience, and banish anxiety and stress.
For centuries, we have learned what s not taught through our own experiences and the stories of others. Even today, only 3 percent of leadership development occurs due to classroom training and coursework. In fact, for most managers, the penny drops only when we are at the end of our careers. R. Gopalakrishnan, author of the best-selling The Case of the Bonsai Manager, has many stories to tell.
Consulting 101: 101 Tips for Success in Consulting
UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 43 mins)
By Lew Sauder
Narrated By Jeff Porter
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Consulting firms hire bright people directly out of college or with industry experience to help their clients solve business problems.Consulting 101 provides you with 101 useful tips to optimize your professional performance and jump-start your consulting career with success.
101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges
UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
By Paul Falcone
Narrated By Walter Dixon
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Inappropriate attire, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues...these are just a few of the uncomfortable topics you may have to discuss with your employees. 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides you with proven guidance and realistic sample dialogues you can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with your people, helping to sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head on.
Google+ for Business: How Google's Social Network Changes Everything
UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 44 mins)
By Chris Brogan
Narrated By Chris Brogan
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Every week, millions more people sign up for Google+. Suddenly, it’s today’s hottest new social network. Google+ for Business reveals why Google+ offers business opportunities available nowhere else - and helps you grab those opportunities now, before your competitors do. Top social media professional speaker and business advisor Chris Brogan shows how to get great results fast, without wasting time - and without wasting a dime.
The Method Method: Seven Obsessions That Helped Our Scrappy Start-up Turn an Industry Upside Down
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 14 mins)
By Eric Ryan, Adam Lowry with Lucas Conley
Narrated By Sean Pratt, Eric Ryan, Adam Lowry
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An inspiring case study for the next generation of start-ups by the unconventional founders of Method. Founded ten years ago by childhood pals Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry, Method has been making headlines and profits with a revolutionary blend of culture and commerce, style and substance. Today, Method's ecofriendly soaps, detergents, and cleaners are ubiquitous in stores, capturing valuable shelf space long dominated by the tired old products of giants P&G and Unilever.
People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
By Paul Whitfield
Narrated By Brian Sutherland
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Why does a fish only bite another fish if no one else is watching? Why do people overshare online? Why do some people meet trivial insults with extreme violence? Why do so many gods have multiple eyes? Science writer John Whitfield shows how reputation helps answer all of these questions, and more. Listen to People Will Talk and discover how to polish your own reputation, understand what you hear about others, and make the most of both.
201 Knockout Answers to Tough Interview Questions: The Ultimate Guide to Handling the New Competency-Based Interview Style
ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 26 mins)
By Linda Matias
Narrated By Walter Dixon
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These days more and more employers are using “competency-based” job interview questions to try to ensure that new hires’ experience and abilities match the demands of the positions they’re filling. Designed to elicit real-life career events demonstrating your knowledge, judgment, and skills, this new breed of interview question can trip up even the savviest job seekers. And in this extremely tough job market, there are no second chances.
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 41 mins)
By Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha
Narrated By Kaleo Griffith
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The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over, and traditional job security is a thing of the past. Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s competitive world.
This program, loaded with easy to implement success strategies, geared toward helping you create a focus, sense of purpose and direction in your life, career and business, is a great way to energize you to and from work, or on the way to seeing a potential client.
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 13 mins)
By Pamela Meyer
Narrated By Karen Saltus
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People - friends, family members, work colleagues, salespeople - lie to us all the time. Daily, hourly, constantly. None of us is immune, and all of us are victims. According to studies by several different researchers, most of us encounter nearly 200 lies a day. Now there’s something we can do about it. Liespotting links three disciplines - facial recognition training, interrogation training, and a comprehensive survey of research in the field - into a specialized body of information developed specifically to help business leaders detect deception....