Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success

Speaking As a Leader: How to Lead Every Time You Speak...from Board Rooms to Meeting Rooms, from Town Halls to Phone Calls

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Judith Humphrey
• Narrated By Vanessa Hart
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Whether it's among colleagues at lunch or an audience of 1000, a leader's role is to move and inspire others. It's not only the big occasions that test a leader's mettle, but the little ones as well - in a casual conversation in the elevator, in phone calls, or one of many incidental, seemingly "insignificant" interactions in everyday work life. Written by one of the world's leading communications coaches, Speaking as a Leader shows you how to make the most of your daily communications.

All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Suzanne Bates
• Narrated By Barbara Hawkins-Scott

You know it when you see it. That rare combination of qualities that makes a truly great leader. Until now, executive presence has been hard to define and even harder to develop. But after years of extensive research, executive coach and best-selling author Suzanne Bates and her team have identified the 15 traits you need to be all the leader you can be.

The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 29 mins)
• By John Beeson
• Narrated By Dan Woren
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As predictable career paths have become extinct in most organizations, managers aspiring to the C-level job are left to their own devices to determine how to advance their careers. Even in companies committed to talent development, guidance to aspiring executives is often vague and contradictory. This happens, executive coach John Beeson argues, because executive promotions are made based on the decision makers' intuitive sense of whether or not a manager can succeed at higher levels within the organization. Beeson decodes these leadership criteria that companies use to make decisions about who gets promoted.

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Amy Cuddy
• Narrated By Amy Cuddy
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Brilliantly researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them. Every listener will learn how to approach their biggest challenges with confidence instead of dread, and to leave them with satisfaction instead of regret.

Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Dianna Booher
• Narrated By Sandy Weaver Carman
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Personal presence is difficult to define but easy to recognize. People with presence carry themselves in a way that turns heads. When they talk, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow. Personal presence can help you get a date, a mate, a job, or a sale. It can help you lead a meeting, a movement, or an organization. Presence is not something you're born with - anyone can learn these skills, habits, and traits.

The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs)
• By Kristi Hedges
• Narrated By Karen Saltus

Everyone recognizes leaders with "presence." They stand out for their seemingly innate ability to command attention and inspire commitment. But what is this secret quality they exude, exactly? Executive and CEO coach Kristi Hedges demystifies this elusive trait, revealing that leadership presence is the intersection of outward influencing skills and internal mental conditioning. Using her I-Presence model, the author shows how anyone-regardless of position or personality-can strengthen their impact.

Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Amy Jen Su, Muriel Maignan Wilkins
• Narrated By Karen Saltus

People are drawn to, and influenced by, leaders who communicate authentically, connect with people, and have immediate impact. So how do you become one? How can you learn to “own the room?” This book will help you develop your leadership presence. The authors offer a simple and compelling framework as well as practices for developing your "signature voice." Wherever you sit in an organization, you can develop presence if you are able to do two things well: demonstrate your authentic value and distinction; and connect to others in a positive way.

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (A Nice Girls Book)

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Lois P. Frankel
• Narrated By Lois P. Frankel

The New York Times bestseller, which for 10 years has been a must-have for women in business, is now completely revised and updated. In this new edition, internationally recognized executive coach Lois P. Frankel reveals a distinctive set of behaviors-over 130 in all-that women learn in girlhood that ultimately sabotage them as adults. She teaches you how to eliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back and offers invaluable coaching tips that can easily be incorporated into your social and business skills.

The Hidden Factor: Executive Presence

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Sally Williamson
• Narrated By Sally Williamson
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The Hidden Factor defines what executive presence really is, how you get it, and how it can be leveraged to define a leader better than any other quality being measured. Executive presence has always existed, but in recent years, it has resurfaced as a hot topic among C-Suite executives, succession planners, and development officers. It is one of the top qualities evaluated in potential leaders and is often the missing component that limits promotion.

Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Brendan Reid
• Narrated By Dana Hickox
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Stealing the Corner Office is mandatory listening for smart, hardworking managers who always wonder why their seemingly incompetent superiors are so successful. It is a unique collection of controversial but highly effective tactics for middle managers and aspiring executives who want to learn the real secrets for moving up the corporate ladder. Unlike virtually all other business books, Stealing the Corner Office explores the unconventional tactics people less competent than you use to get ahead and stay ahead.

Pushback: How Smart Women Ask - and Stand Up - for What They Want

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Selena Rezvani, Lois P. Frankel
• Narrated By Vanessa Hart

In Pushback, top leadership consultant Selena Rezvani argues that self-advocacy is critical to success. Yet women initiate negotiations four times less often than men, resulting in getting less of what they want - promotion opportunities, plum assignments, and higher pay. This book shines a light on the real rules of holding your own and pushing back for what is rightfully yours. Drawing on interviews with high-level leaders, Rezvani offers listeners the truth about how women have asked their way to the top.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Kim Scott
• Narrated By Kim Scott
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From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. When you become a manager, it’s your job to say it--and your obligation. Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she developed a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor. Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly.

The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Michael Watkins
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition. Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success.

Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Sylvia Ann Hewlett
• Narrated By Karen Saltus
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Who's pulling for you? Who's got your back? Who's putting your hat in the ring? Odds are this person is not a mentor but a sponsor. Mentors can build your self-esteem and provide a sounding board - but they're not your ticket to the top.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful!

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
• Narrated By Marc Cashman
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What's holding you back? Marshall Goldsmith is an expert at helping global leaders overcome their (sometimes unconscious) annoying habits and attaining a higher level of success. His one-on-one coaching comes with a six-figure price tag. But with this audiobook, you'll get Marshall's great advice without the hefty fee!

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Michael Bungay Stanier
• Narrated By Daniel Maté
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In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how - by saying less and asking more - you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: Fourth Edition: How to Take Charge, Build or Merge Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 12 mins)
• By George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, John A. Lawler
• Narrated By Darren Stephens

Your first 100 days in a new leadership position are critical, as they set the foundation for your team's success going forward. The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan helps you start gaining traction even before your first day in a new job. The playbook gives you a concrete strategy for getting a fast start - engaging the culture, setting direction, aligning the team, avoiding common missteps, and delivering results.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Kerry Patterson
• Narrated By Joseph Grenny
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Perhaps once a decade, a book comes along that transforms people's lives in a very real, measurable way. This is one of them. Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene 10 years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book. Now, the authors have revised their best-selling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation.

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Peter F. Drucker
• Narrated By Jim Collins, Tim Andres Pabon
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For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country's business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management - the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done". This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive.

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Katty Kay, Claire Shipman
• Narrated By Sandy Rustin
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Working women today are better educated and more well-qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence.

Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition - with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media, and business - Kay and Shipman go beyond admonishing women to "lean in".

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Robert B. Cialdini
• Narrated By George Newbern
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Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say yes - and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His 35 years of rigorous, evidence-based research, along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior, has resulted in this highly acclaimed book. You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader - and how to defend yourself against them.

Leading Executive Conversations

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Sally Williamson
• Narrated By Sally Williamson
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There's no question that executive-level conversations are difficult ones. When we surveyed managers about executive conversations, 90 percent said these conversations are harder, and an overlap of 20 percent said that they are significantly harder. Executives are a tough audience. Luckily they are also a predictable one.

Executive Presence for Women

• UNABRIDGED (45 mins)
• By Barbara Pachter
• Narrated By Barbara Pachter

What is Executive Presence for Women? Do you have it or want it? Barbara Pachter provides the expert advice that has helped thousands of women achieve the respect and success they deserve. Follow the eight steps on this lively recording and learn what's essential for creating a dynamic professional image. Subjects include correcting common mistakes in your appearance, assembling a powerful wardrobe, even on a tight budget, and sending the right message with your voice and body language.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Int'l Edit.)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Simon Sinek
• Narrated By Simon Sinek

Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their successes over and over? People like Martin Luther King, Jr.; Steve Jobs; and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. Their natural ability to start with why enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.