Listen to New Releases of Audiobooks in Business, Management

Uncomplicate Business Audiobook by Howard Farran

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Howard Farran) — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:48:37 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Uncomplicate Business Subtitle: All It Takes Is People, Time, and Money Author: Howard Farran Narrator: Howard Farran Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 04-07-16 Publisher: Farran Enterprises, LLC Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 75 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: A bold, useful, uncomplicated guide to mastering the three keys of business success: In this practical book, Dr. Howard Farran shows that running a business isn't all that complicated - if you're focusing on the right three areas: -People: maximizing the potential of employees, customers, and yourself Time: mastering the efficiency that helps a business turn the biggest profit possible Money: learning to love the numbers that function as the business's scorecard With simplicity, good humor, and plenty of stories, Dr. Farran reveals the actions that can lead anyone to bigger profits, happier people, and a more fulfilling life. Members Reviews: Must read for all those entrepreneurs out there! Great information. Well organized and narrated. It was really nice have the action points at the end of each sections. Nice little recap of important points. Howard's insights are simply invaluable. A must read for every dentist or any entrepreneur in America. Howard writes with passion and experience. He is truly a legend. Great info for any business especially dentistry Dr Farran gives great, practical advice for any business owner in what matters most when succeeding in business. The stories he uses to explain his experiences and those of other successful companies helped me to understand what's needed to succeed in business and in life. A must read for the entire dental team. Full of Pragmatic Advice! If you're like me, you're irritated by the ilk of self-help books that just babble on with common sense, repetitive nonsense that somehow empowers people. Farran's book is a reprieve from this, as he explains many key aspects of his business systems and philosophies that have made him successful. It's a quick read with many great takeaways that can be implemented to improve your business or get you on the right track to starting one. An absolute must read Howard is genius! This is a timeless piece of literature. This will go down in history as the books along side of Jim Collins "Good to Great" and Dale Carnegie "How to win Friends and Influence people". An Absolute must read!

Project Management Audiobook by Donald J. Scott

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Donald J. Scott) — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:07:14 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Project Management Subtitle: A Quick Start Beginner's Guide for the Serious Project Manager to Managing Any Project Easily Author: Donald J. Scott Narrator: Pete Beretta Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 11-10-16 Publisher: Open Spirit Publishing, LLC Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: This book spells out the qualities of a good project manager and takes you through the exact steps that you need to master to become competent as a project manager. Once you go through the tips provided in this book, you will not have to worry about the nature of the project at hand or its magnitude. You will have gained so much courage that no project will intimidate you. As you will realize after going through the book, it is not easy to forget the project management tips provided owing to their mode of delivery. In this book you will learn: Members Reviews: I highly commend this book! If you're not a PM, but find yourself being delegated projects to oversee, people to manage, and deadlines to meet under budget, then this book is an excellent read! It's written in a very easy style. If you're an underliner, you'll have to be careful - the author makes so many good points, and outlines the five principles of project management in a very clear and understandable way. I found that I could easily implement so many of his ideas and suggestions. Innovative I can't deny that these lessons and the guidance of this eBook had contributed a great deal to what position I may have at the present time. Being a manager is one of the most sizzling and best vocation choices at this moment and there are a ton of rivalries who are quite recently sitting tight for a position to be unfilled. Most havenât had any project management training or understand what is involved in order to keep a project on track. That is the thing that my edge is, aside from my resume full of proven track records this book has equipped me with the mandatory knowledge a manager must possess. Good beginner's guide It was a win-win situation. I have gained in so much about project management and it wasnât that expensive. This eBook upholds and supports cooperation. It also stated that a project unites individuals to share thoughts and give motivation. This eBooksâ management lesson and flawless collaboration is the foundation of viable project planning and management. Resources, regardless of whether money related or human, are costly. By implementing project management disciplines , for example, project tracking and hazard administration, all assets are utilized proficiently and monetarily. Divine My first impression of this book is that it was very well structured. As I reach the end section of this book, I am happy to say that there are no points invalid. This book is a work by dedicated project management guru that has heaps of incredible undertaking administration tips and data dependably told imaginatively. The substance and composing quality was one of a kind and educational. It has phenomenal rundown of intriguing strides on how a decent supervisor handles and shuts a venture on segment 15. It was my most loved segment. Have it under control As we may have acknowledged sooner or later in our life, extend administration is not kidâs monopoly game. It's entirely bunch of work and, in the event that you don't have the fundamental aptitudes, it can wind up harming our group's and our organization's outcomes.

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Audiobook by Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Peter M. Senge) — Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:33:31 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Author: Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts Narrator: Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner Format: Abridged Length: 6 hrs Language: English Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 90 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The Fieldbook is an intensely pragmatic guide. It shows how to create an organization of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the lifeblood of every endeavor, and where the tough questions are fearlessly asked. The stories here show that companies, businesses, schools, agencies, and even communities can undo their "learning disabilities" and achieve superior performance. If ever a work gave meaning to the phrase hands-on, this is it. Senge and his four co-authors cover it all including: reinventing relationships, being loyal to the truth, building a shared vision, organizations as communities, and designing an organization's governing ideas. Members Reviews: Practical outworking of the Fifth Discipline This will help you to be a systems thinker, and there is a great chance that you need to think more systems than you are. I know I do. Good review/overview The systems thinking concepts put forward in the Fifth Discipline books is profound. It would be very hard to understand the concepts from an audio book alone. However, if you want a review after reading the book or an overview prior to spending time with the concepts the audio book is helpful. Putting the Fifth Discipline into practice What made the experience of listening to The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook the most enjoyable? This book follows on Senge's business classic, The Fifth Discipline, with practical application and examples from real companies. Since it's a fieldbook, it is not ideally suited to the audiobook format--it would be useful to have the print or Kindle edition as well, for note taking and reference later on, and I found myself listening to 15 or 20 minutes and then stopping to reflect on what I had heard. But, since I have more time to listen in my car than to read at other times, this is an excellent compromise. In this format, the most engaging parts of the audiobook are the examples, which were well-chosen and very interesting. What other book might you compare The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook to and why? The obvious comparison is to The Fifth Discipline, which was a bit more theoretical, while the Fieldbook is more applied. What about Peter M. Senge and Art Kleiner s performance did you like? Senge's sections seemed very conversational, like reflections on the more formal parts of the audiobook. Kleiner's performance was quite good as well. A better read than even the Fifth Discipline If you have read the Fifth Discipline then these stories add flavour and context to the book. If you haven't and like me you learn thru story telling and narratives you could start with this book and then go to the theory in Senge's main works. great ideology. a must for every CEO great audible! great ideology, a must for every CEO worldwide. heard from it in a class and been hearing it simce then.

Idea to Execution Audiobook by Ari Meisel, Nick Sonnenberg

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ari Meisel) — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:04:13 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Idea to Execution Subtitle: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business Author: Ari Meisel, Nick Sonnenberg Narrator: Drew Birdseye Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 12-06-16 Publisher: Podium Publishing Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Please download the supplementary PDF for a list of the figures referenced in the audio. When Ari Meisel and Nick Sonnenberg launched their high-end virtual assistant (VA) company, Less Doing™, they changed the culture of start-ups forever, effectively debunking the gospel that every new venture requires months of preplanning and a hefty investment of capital. A business born from scribbled notes on a cocktail napkin during dinner was an up-and-running concern less than 24 hours later, ingeniously brought to life with the help of free, readily available digital tools and apps and no outlay of cash whatsoever. Meisel and Sonnenberg reveal how a scalable start-up is done to perfection in this fascinating and informative chronicle of their first year in business together. An essential listen for any budding entrepreneur, it follows the creative commercial process from inspiration to inception to success, detailing a bold new approach to 21st century business based on a fearless ingenuity and a willingness to rewrite the rules. Members Reviews: more like how to automate "our" business I thought this book was going to be about helping me automate and outsourced my life but really it was about a story of how they built an Outsourcing company and the tools they use. It was a good story for sure but in the end it didn't really help me out at all Good info but... Took to long to get to the meat. The front end of the book came off like a verbal infomercial that would never end. Once I forwarded past all of the sales pitch for the company I found the rest of the book for the most part pretty informative... OAO Masterpiece I really enjoyed hearing the tenacity and perseverance of the authors. Also, they have a firm understanding of Unique Ability. Only If you wanna start a VA business There is no added value to this book unless you wanna start a VA business. Game Changer I don't know many people that write a box by simply voice recording into DropVox each week about what's happened in their business with a view to provide value to a future audience. That drops to a copy writer and then publisher. Finished once they are! Can't recommend this short, punchy to the point review of how to create immense leverage in your biz and personal life. I can't wait to work with these lads.

HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:19:29 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Are your working relationships working against you? To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority or when you have a boss who gets in your way or when you're juggling others' needs at the expense of your own? You can do it by managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it whether you're a young professional or an experienced leader. The HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across will help you: Members Reviews: Only Once You've Made It! What disappointed you about HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across? This is just a series of editorials from people who have already made it to the top. This has nothing to do with building relationships with difficult managers, taking control of your own management environment, or gaining traction in a hostile working environment. What do you think your next listen will be? Anything else. How could the performance have been better? It could be relevant??? What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment? Dissappointment Any additional comments? The last thing I need is advice from people who are at the top of the game when I'm trying to find creative ways to advance a company stuck in the mud of the early 80s from a marketing, sales, and operational point of view. Get the physical copy This book has solid content. It is a collection of articles from the many issues of the Harvard Business Review. The main weakness is that there are many charts/spreadsheets in the articles, and the narrator doesn't do a great job of making them accessible for a listening audience. If you're cool with that, it has good advice for managing your social capital at work. Rehashing old HBR articles Would you try another book from Harvard Business Review and/or Jonathan Yen? This book takes old HBR articles and rehashes them. It does not give you true strategies for managing up, but rather talks in very broad generalities. I don't fell like I have a better handle on how to manage up than I did before listening to this book.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:50:23 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams Author: Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Lynda Gratton Narrator: Gregory St. John, Susan Larkin Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: New from the best-selling HBR's 10 Must Reads series. Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you listen to nothing else on building better teams, listen to these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results. Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to: Looking for more Must Read articles from Harvard Business Review? Check out these titles in the popular series: Members Reviews: HBR Must Read Summaries The reviews provided an excellent brief on various topics assisting in listening selection. the reviews were very comprehensive allowing good take aways of concept and strategies remembering approaches learned prior and set aside.

Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Fifth Edition Audiobook by Sharon Jordan-Evans, Beverly Kaye

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Sharon Jordan-Evans) — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:08:01 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Fifth Edition Subtitle: Getting Good People to Stay Author: Sharon Jordan-Evans, Beverly Kaye Narrator: Andrea Gallo Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins Language: English Release date: 03-06-15 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Since employees who walk out the door cost their companies up to 200 percent of their annual salaries to replace, retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. And with so many surveys reporting that employees are unhappy and not working up to their full potential, engagement is a second serious and costly issue. The latest edition of this Wall Street Journal best-seller offers 26 simple strategies - from A to Z - that managers can use to address their employees' real concerns and keep them engaged. The fifth edition has been revised and updated throughout and includes many more international examples, reflecting the fact that Love 'Em or Lose 'Em is available in 22 languages, from Albanian and Arabic to Thai and Turkish. Its message is truly one that spans continents and cultures. Members Reviews: Leadership by inspiration Does a pretty good job of getting to the heart of the matter of retaining and elevating good employees. Tried to order the Audible version, but many Kindles won't play it, and the Audible site offers very limited help if it doesn't work in your Kindle version or model. They must have hired some ad copy writers to do their FAQs. Useless. And they don't have any refund mechanism even if they screw it up. But the book itself is a worthwhile read. As a consultant and trainer of medical personnel, I've found that people who choose to work in that field don't work for the money, they are inspired by the opportunity to contribute to others. And if they're not inspired by that, they are often not great employees. The problem we encounter ant that this book addresses is that doctors must learn to elevate all conversations about change and services to the level of fulfilling an ideal, the mission, rather than efficiency or other mundane points. This is really a very practical look at leadership by inspiration. Four Stars Work made me get it Great resource I really liked the A-Z format if this book and how you could pick and choose what was applicable. I ended up reading the entire thing and I will be referring my colleagues to this book as well. Five Stars Love this book. Current, clever and easy to apply. Five Stars Received the book and it looked like it was NEW!!!

Supply Chain Management Audiobook by Khalid Zidan

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Khalid Zidan) — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:09:46 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Supply Chain Management Subtitle: Fundamentals, Strategy, Analytics & Planning for Supply Chain & Logistics Management Author: Khalid Zidan Narrator: Thomas Hogan Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 06-30-16 Publisher: MapToBuy LLC Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The supply chain is not a new concept for economists. The idea of the supply chain is a basic one that has permeated economic systems since the earliest days of trade and commerce. It is simply a term referring to the collection of businesses or individuals responsible for transforming raw materials into products and then getting those products into the hands of consumers. Though it may be obvious to some, it is important to remember that supply chains exist whether or not they are managed - it is a term that refers to the processes necessary to turn raw materials into a product and distribute them to customers. The difference in the modern era is not that supply chains have been invented but that they have become a much more complicated proposition, given the expansion of the international economy that's been made possible by the rise of the Internet and globalization. Whereas in the past, businesses worked with mainly local or regional suppliers and factories, the door is now opened for a company in the United States to own a factory in India and a warehouse in Japan - all without having ever stepped foot outside their city. The customer end of the supply chain has been similarly opened up. Shopping on the Internet allows anyone, anywhere to find and buy from your company - a double-edged sword that lets you expand your reach even as a small business, but also increases the competition presented by other small businesses everywhere in the world. Members Reviews: Lacks sustenance Highly uninformative. This book would be most useful for children in the 4th or 5th grade learning social studies. knowledge for your brain thru your ears, very info rmative, great book to have. Paused and easy to understand, help me tremendously in my assignments The best description of a wide range topic. Logistics is an idustry that surrounds our daily lives and most of the information at some degree l have participated in. Great narrator as well.

The Organized Mind Audiobook by Daniel Levitin

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Daniel Levitin) — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 08:35:00 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Organized Mind Subtitle: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Author: Daniel Levitin Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 07-02-15 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Modern society is in a state of information overload. Neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin investigates how and why our brains are struggling to keep up with the demands of the digital age. Why is email so addictive? Is multitasking really possible? And what do successful people keep in their junk drawers? The Organized Mind debunks myth and presents one simple idea - storing information in the physical world instead of the mind - to revolutionize 21st-century living. In a world where information is power, The Organized Mind holds the key to harnessing that information and making it work for you. Members Reviews: A book to read - not to listen to Would you try another book from Daniel Levitin and/or Luke Daniels? No Would you recommend The Organized Mind to your friends? Why or why not? I might suggest they dip into it for 'headlines' but not as a cover to cover read. Would I like to sit next to a person at dinner with this kind of 'organised mind? No thank you! How did the narrator detract from the book? Terrible reading really impacted my enjoyment (?) of the book. Rushed and with no natural spacing or helpful intonation. And also, you end up having to read out full url links and table contents. This simply does not work If this book were a movie would you go see it? No. Any additional comments? When a book does have some useful data, having it on audio is really annoying as it is so much more difficult to go back and revisit or reference. Great and relevant A necessary subject these days! The narrator reads it as good as the author would! I intend to buy the book on paper, also! Amazingly helpful and enjoyable book! Very well organized story, which will show you just that, how to organize your life. Amazing book! Way too long to provide usefulness Sadly I couldn't wait to finish this book so I could move onto so thing with more precision & beneficial to my busy life. Yes there were a few great nuggets to learn but most was common sense for me. Why spend an absolute age going on about different categories No where near as good as 'the one thing' or essentialism Just not for me & am sure I can find much more beneficial books consuming less time. Unnecessarily Long - Information overload What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? While this book has some interesting points it definitely doesn't keep your mind organised while listening to it. Some examples where explained in such excruciatingly detail that you aren't sure what kind of audience this book was aimed at. I believe there is a part where for no less than 30 minutes you have to listen to how a filing cabinet could be organised. Followed by the narrator reading out twice a random set of 64 letters, just to explain how bits work. Instead of 16 hours of information overload, it could have been 6 hours of straight forward talking. Would you recommend The Organized Mind to your friends? Why or why not? This might work as a book, but definitely not as an audiobook.

Smart Collaboration Audiobook by Heidi K. Gardner

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Heidi K. Gardner) — Tue, 16 May 2017 10:19:02 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Smart Collaboration Subtitle: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos Author: Heidi K. Gardner Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 05-16-17 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right. Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems - everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle. Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive. Unless you know why you're collaborating and how to do it effectively, it may not be smart at all. That's especially true for partners who have built their reputations and client rosters independently, not by working with peers. In Smart Collaboration, Heidi K. Gardner shows that firms earn higher margins, inspire greater client loyalty, attract and retain the best talent, and gain a competitive edge when specialists collaborate across functional boundaries. Gardner, a former McKinsey consultant and Harvard Business School professor now lecturing at Harvard Law School, has spent over a decade conducting in-depth studies of numerous global professional service firms. Her research with clients and the empirical results of her studies demonstrate clearly and convincingly that collaboration pays, for both professionals and their firms. But Gardner also offers powerful prescriptions for how leaders can foster collaboration, move to higher-margin work, increase client satisfaction, improve lateral hiring, decrease enterprise risk, engage workers to contribute their utmost, break down silos, and boost their bottom line. With case studies and real-world insights, Smart Collaboration delivers an authoritative case for the value of collaboration to today's professionals, their firms, and their clients and shows you exactly how to achieve it. Members Reviews: Too much padding I was disappointed with this audio book. The message conveyed in 8 hours of audio could have been achieved in 2.

Startup Boards Audiobook by Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Brad Feld) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:08:41 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Startup Boards Subtitle: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors Author: Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 06-10-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 85 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: An essential guide to understanding the dynamics of a startup's board of directors Let's face it, as founders and entrepreneurs, you have a lot on your plate - getting to your minimum viable product, developing customer interaction, hiring team members, and managing the accounts/books. Sooner or later, you have a board of directors, three to five (or even seven) Type A personalities who seek your attention and at times will tell you what to do. While you might be hesitant to form a board, establishing an objective outside group is essential for startups, especially to keep you on track, call you out when you flail, and in some cases, save you from yourself. In Startup Boards, Brad Feld - a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist - shares his experience in this area by talking about the importance of having the right board members on your team and how to manage them well. Along the way, he shares valuable insights on various aspects of the board, including how they can support you, help you understand your startup's milestones and get to them faster, and hold you accountable. Engaging and informative, Startup Boards is a practical guide to one of the most important pieces of the startup puzzle. Members Reviews: Nice but too long In my opinion, should have been half the length, then I would have given it 4.5/5. awesome starter guide for first time boards not enough good books focus on this. to small a market I guess, but this is critical if you want to understand the agent/principle relationship. boring It's hard to learn when you can't focus because you're bored. Great insights I'm sure, but there are more interesting books to get them from. quite informative and enjoyable the information contained within is detailed and articulated well for 1st time entrepreneurs. highly recommend Great information among many obvious facts Is there anything you would change about this book? There are some catching points but on the other hand, there are plenty of very obvious topics and ideas. When someone aspires to to become an entrepreneur they should really understand such ideas and the authors should have been aware of this.

Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & the Will to Change Audiobook by Jennifer Brown

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jennifer Brown) — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:12:52 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & the Will to Change Author: Jennifer Brown Narrator: Jennifer Brown Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 10-25-17 Publisher: Jennifer Brown Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Embrace diversity and thrive as an organization In the rapidly changing business landscape, harnessing the power of diversity and inclusion is essential for the very viability and sustainability of every organization. Talent who feel fully welcomed, valued, respected, and heard by their colleagues and their organizations will fuel this growth. We will only succeed in this transformation if those in leadership pivot from command and control management styles to reinvent how we look at people, every organization's greatest asset. It's also critical that we build systems that embrace diversity in all its forms, from identity and background to diversity of thought, style, approach, and experience, tying it directly to the bottom line. Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & the Will to Change stands up and embraces what true diversity and inclusion represent to any organization in any industry - an opportunity. Open your heart and prepare to be inspired as award-winning entrepreneur, dynamic speaker, and respected diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brown shares proven strategies to empower members of your entire organization to utilize all of their talents and potential to drive positive organizational change and the future of work. Members Reviews: Outstanding book! Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? Jennifer Brown has done it again.....she is smart, clear and committed to changing the culture. This book really helps that!

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 05:30:26 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation Author: Harvard Business Review, Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Vijay Govindarajan Narrator: Susan Larkin, Bryan Brendle Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 70 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: New from the best-selling HBR's 10 Must Reads series. To innovate profitably, you need more than just creativity. Do you have what it takes? If you listen to nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, listen to these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you innovate effectively. Leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter provide the insights and advice you need to: Looking for more Must Read articles from Harvard Business Review? Check out these titles in the popular series: Members Reviews: Excellent for corporate America, ok for startups For anyone at mid to large organizations, this is an excellent book with strategies and tactics to help move the ship and make change happen. It is useful for startups too. Some good ideas sprinkled in a BORING listen OK, the content in some of the 10 is pretty strong and thought provoking. The readers drone on with seemingly no investment in the content - it might not be their fault - imaging reading someone else's term paper - someone with some solid ideas about innovation, but probably who hasn't actually done it. Very disappointing. While I got some good ideas, I just couldn't get through it. I'm returning the book. Good information, dry delivery Good information, dry delivery. The narrators could have been better. It was hard to stay focus while listening. loaded with great ideas in general, there are tons of brilliant ideas in this work. the concept that IRR and DCF bias organizations away from innovation is powerful. Clayton M. Christensen and Peter Drucker are both great in here. -1 point on story just because there is a lot of frivolous MBA speak--obtuse jargon for simple concepts--which smacks of pseudoscience and detracts from the credibility of some of the authors. but I still recommend it! Amazing This book is well thought out and presented Stories fit together to promote innovation thinking and its value.

People Follow You Audiobook by Jeb Blount

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jeb Blount) — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:56:10 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: People Follow You Subtitle: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership Author: Jeb Blount Narrator: Jeb Blount Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 05-08-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Discover the secrets to influencing the performance of the people you lead. Managers don't get paid for what they do but rather for the performance of their people; therefore, a manager's most important job is coaching behaviors in order to improve performance. In People Follow You managers will learn five easily understood and implemented levers critical to influencing the performance of the people they lead. Ultimately, people follow people that they like, trust, and believe in. Understand how to build stronger relationships with direct and indirect reports that lead to loyalty, higher productivity, and long-term development. Relevant to middle and high-level managers, People Follow You provides a foundation for managing people. Practical lessons help managers employ winning interpersonal skills to move others to take action. Author Jeb Blount is the most downloaded sales expert in iTunes history; his Sales Gravy and Sales Guy audio programs have been downloaded more than 3 million times. When all else is stripped away, people don't work for companies, paychecks, perks, or slogans, people work for you. Become a manager people will follow, and lead your team to greater achievements and measurable gains. Members Reviews: This Beachbody Coach, Loves this Book! I love this Book, it taught me, to Ask questions then Listen for what my team, customers, and those I interact with are really saying, and respond accordingly. Not Respond the way I want, but the way they Need. Outstanding! A MUST for ALL! In life, we are all leaders in some way or another. in business, as leaders we shape experiences and opportunities for those that follow us. This book is very insightful, grounded and practical. This book will become a go-to reference for enhancing and maximizing my leadership journey! Thanks Jeb! Insightful Loved this book! Insightful and very helpful in my network marketing business. Lots of great, simple tips to apply to my business and my life :) This should be required reading! I really liked the narrator, the subject matter is awesome - I got some great take aways and would definitely listen again!

Double Your Profits Audiobook by Bob Fifer

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Bob Fifer) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:08:23 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Double Your Profits Subtitle: In Six Months or Less Author: Bob Fifer Narrator: Bob Fifer Format: Abridged Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 01-03-12 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 68 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: One of the nations' foremost financial consultants shares 78 proven ways to cut costs dramatically, send productivity through the roof, and, in just six months, double profits. Members Reviews: A must-have resource for Business Consultants This is a must-have resource / tool for Business Consultants, business managers, and entrepreneurs. you will want to listen and or read this at least once a month. Best business book out there This is the best business book you'll read. If you have the guts to implement these practices, you will see huge results. Powerful A handful of the examples are irrelevant because they are outdated (early 90s) but the overarching principals and foundation is solid, even in 2016.

Big Data Audiobook by Bernard Marr

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Bernard Marr) — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:20:56 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Big Data Subtitle: Using Smart Big Data, Analytics and Metrics to Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance Author: Bernard Marr Narrator: Piers Wehner Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 08-31-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 189 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Get smart - learn to convert the promise of Big Data into real-world results. There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to use big data to get solid, real-world business results - and putting that in place to improve performance. Big Data shows you how to implement the same practices that leading firms have used to access new dimensions of profitability. You'll learn from clear explanations and countless examples how successful organisations large and small use the SMART model to get ahead. Members Reviews: It would deserve an A (if it was a school paper) This book would be a good introduction to a real book about Big Data. There's some good concepts in it, but it barely touches the issue making it sound like a introduction book about data itself, not big data. Dealing with big data brings some issues specific to the task that were not addressed. Some questions I still have: what are the technologies I can apply in order to deal with huge amounts of data? Where should I store it? What do I plug-in in order to extract some information from it? Where do I get more information? What kind of professionals should I hire? I already have the damned smart questions, I have the datasets, how do I move on? Hiring the author is the only solution? If my customers ask me about big data I'll have nothing pragmatic to tell them. Meh Mostly stuff you already know. Really seems like the book was written for an older and less tech savvy person. Fluff Data This book is targeted towards an absolute neophyte who is interested in understanding what the term big data means when he/she heard it advertised by IBM during last year's Superbowl. What this book does. It takes all the buzz words that can be found by google or Wikipedia, and defines them. Marr attempts to put big data a structure that is too simplistic it's akin to summing up raising a child as: birth, growth, teenage conflict, adulthood. True, but is it worth the credit? NO. This is a pass of "big data" proportions. Light on both Big Data and business acumen What did you like best about Big Data? What did you like least? The book is strongest for those with little big data experience making it great for small and medium firms looking to start using the data that they have. Good framework to approach Big Data Good intro to Big Data. Provides a framework through which one should approach big data within their organization and a good many examples of case studies. This is not an advanced technical book about how to apply analytics.

Simplify Audiobook by Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Richard Koch) — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:13:45 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Simplify Subtitle: How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed Author: Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood Narrator: Roger Davis Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 07-27-17 Publisher: Hachette Audio UK Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: For the past 40 years, Richard Koch has wanted to uncover the simple, elemental, elegant and parsimonious principles that are needed to create great new businesses. To qualify, a principle must be so overwhelmingly powerful that anyone can reliably use it towards extraordinary results. Is there any principle that can tell you how to do that consistently and with a high chance of success? Working with venture capitalist Greg Lockwood, his coauthor on Superconnect, and supported by research from the elite firm of OC&C Strategy Consultants, Koch has the answer. The principle Koch and Lockwood have discovered behind extraordinarily successful businesses is simplifying. Some simplify on price - take Ryanair's budget flights, which still take you from A to B but so cheaply that nearly everyone can afford them, multiplying the size of their market - and some simplify on proposition, such as Apple's decision to cut down on the number of their product lines and focus on perfecting only a few devices. With case studies of famous companies in all different industries from finance to fast food, the authors show how anyone can analyse their business' potential to become a simplifier and which route they should take to maximise the impact. Members Reviews: Yes we get the Why, more on the How please Great points but half of the book felt like a white paper or scientific journal. The examples were repetitive and felt stale after awhile. Perhaps a How rather than Why focus would be better.

The Loudest Duck Audiobook by Laura A. Liswood

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Laura A. Liswood) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:40:39 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Loudest Duck Subtitle: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work Author: Laura A. Liswood Narrator: Lisa Rothe Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 12-07-09 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 41 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Here is a business fable that explains why organizations need to move beyond the old-style diversity efforts to actually benefit from difference. In today's modern workplace,s with their many different types of people, cultural and personal differences can be challenges - whether you're a team-member or a business leader. Different cultures teach different values, and we carry those values throughout adulthood and into the office environment. Understanding the cultural and gender viewpoints of our colleagues is a major key to healthy, conflict-free work environments. This fable takes its name from a Chinese children's parable about how "the loudest duck gets shot". It's a parable that contrasts with the American idiom "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". Comparing the two, it's clear that different cultures teach different views, and those views often translate into distinct ways of doing business. In today's global business world, understanding each other - where we come from and what we're taught - is more important than ever. The Loudest Duck uses an entertaining story to share important lessons about why diversity efforts are bound to fail unless we really understand how we unconsciously respond to difference and how to move to beyond it. Members Reviews: Super reminder of cognitive diversity It's good to hold up the fact that diversity is not only about being diverse. The Noah's Ark metaphor and Grandma are really useful. Good examples of natural bias Would like specific workshop ideas or activities to help people accept bias not as an accusation, but as a realization of a diverse workforce.

The 27 Challenges Managers Face Audiobook by Bruce Tulgan

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Bruce Tulgan) — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:50:39 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The 27 Challenges Managers Face Subtitle: Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems Author: Bruce Tulgan Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 12-16-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 93 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: For more than 20 years, management expert Bruce Tulgan has been asking, "What are the most difficult challenges you face when it comes to managing people?" Regardless of industry or job title, managers cite the same core issues - 27 recurring challenges: the superstar whom the manager is afraid of losing, the slacker whom the manager cannot figure out how to motivate, the one with an attitude problem, and the two who cannot get along, to name just a few. It turns out that when things are going wrong in a management relationship, the common denominator is almost always unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss communication. The real problem is that most managers are "managing on autopilot" without even realizing it - until something goes wrong. And if you are managing on autopilot, then something almost always does. The 27 Challenges Managers Face shows exactly how to break the vicious cycle and gain control of management relationships. No matter what the issue, Tulgan shows that the fundamentals are all you need. The very best managers hold ongoing one-on-one conversations that make expectations clear, track performance, offer feedback, and hold people accountable. For every workplace problem - even the most awkward and difficult - The 27 Challenges Managers Face shows how to tailor conversations to solve situations familiar to every manager. Tulgan offers clear approaches for turning around bad attitudes, reducing friction and conflict, improving low performers, retaining top performers, and even addressing your own personal burnout. The 27 Challenges Managers Face is an indispensable resource for managers at all levels, one anyone managing anyone will want to keep on hand. One challenge at a time, you'll see how the most effective managers use the fundamentals of management to proactively resolve (nearly) any problem a manager could face. Members Reviews: Great for new managers This is very applicable information, showing case by case how to apply fundamental management skills in most of the situations you'll face. Micromanaging? Some good concepts but a little too micromanaging for my style. Doesn't take much about building a team and makes it mostly about manager to employee relationships. Not practical Ir just says "think about this", or "take unto consideration". Many things are obvious. Very very few concepts actually helped me in my job.

HBR Guide to Project Management Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:27:19 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR Guide to Project Management Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 58 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Meet your goals - on time and on budget. How do you rein in the scope of your project when you've got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention? Whether you're managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly. The HBR Guide to Project Management will help you: Members Reviews: So disappointed What disappointed you about HBR Guide to Project Management? I stopped listening after chapter 9. The content is between 15-20 years old, even though the audible site says that published in 2015. Through the first 9 chapters, it repeatedly cites studies from 1999-2003 What could Harvard Business Review have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you? Throw it in the garbage and produce something relevant to 2012-2017 You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities? No relatable, comprehensive, cross-discipline as a small, private, and singly manned consultant -this work greatly enhanced a fundamentally essential knowledge base-on audible.com gave me ability to consume this approachable and understandable work that definitely assists with helping me be of max service to my clients. MikeMoore ThePulsarGroup

The Art of Business Value Audiobook by Mark Schwartz

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Mark Schwartz) — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:33:12 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Art of Business Value Author: Mark Schwartz Narrator: Eric Martin Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins Language: English Release date: 10-16-17 Publisher: IT Revolution Press Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means - and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements "tossed over the wall" by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead. Members Reviews: Outstanding. A true eye opener. You have heard many of the things Eric Martin writes before, but he assembles the ideas in a way that yields true new meaning. This book is a most for everyone working in an organization that is in a position to create value or should. Interesting perspective, poses good questions Got me to think about business value in a new light. Also has a very interesting stance on bureaucracy as a form of business value and institutional memory. As a millennial trained to hate bureaucracy in all its forms this matured my view on the issue I think. Anyway, good quick listen. Will likely need to listen to again later. The book also made a useful distinction between customer value and business value. That while often overlapping these can be distinct things.

Dein nächstes großes Ding Hörbuch von Matthew Mockridge

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Matthew Mockridge) — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:29:06 GMT

Hören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> Titel: Dein nächstes großes Ding Untertitel: Gute Ideen aus dem Nichts entwickeln Autor:: Matthew Mockridge Erzähler: Moritz Pliquet, Sabina Godec Format: Unabridged Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 1 min Sprache: Deutsch Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-08-17 Herausgeber: Gabal Kategorien: Business, Management Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers: Ob du deine eigene geniale Geschäftsidee verwirklichen, mit jeder Person im Raum connecten, eine neue App entwickeln oder Surflehrer auf Hawaii werden möchtest - dieses Hörbuch hilft dir, deine Ziele zu entwickeln, und zeigt dir die nächsten Schritte für deinen ganz großen Coup. Es liefert dir zahlreiche Killer-Ideen, um dein nächstes großes Ding in die Tat umzusetzen. Ausnahmejungunternehmer Matthew Mockridge zeigt dir die Muster und Strategien hinter echten Erfolgsideen und macht sie für dich sofort umsetzbar. In 60 Killer-Applikationen vermittelt er dir anschaulich und mit vielen eigenen Backstage-Storys Themen wie Trendbeobachtung, Start-up-Lifestyle, Ideenentwicklung und Evaluierung, explosives Wachstum, Produktivitäts-Hacking und vieles mehr. Lern die Systeme hinter den erfolgreichsten Ideen kennen, um dein Leben und dein Business sofort zu verändern. ©2016 GABAL Verlag GmbH (P)2017 GABAL Verlag GmbH

Starting a Business: How to Start a Business This Weekend Audiobook by Tuan Luu

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Tuan Luu) — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:24:35 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Starting a Business: How to Start a Business This Weekend Subtitle: The Complete Newbie's Guide to Launch a Successful Business within 72 Hours Author: Tuan Luu Narrator: Mike Norgaard Format: Unabridged Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 08-30-16 Publisher: Tuan Luu Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Are you ready to be your own boss? Work from the comfort of your own home? Earn money doing what you love? The first step is coming up with what you want to turn into your own business. The second step is to find out what is needed to start on your journey to becoming an entrepreneur! One of the biggest struggles people have when they want to venture into running a business is they just don't know where to start! This book will cover exactly what you need to consider going in, what type of business you will want to run, how to make your business legal, how to evaluate your competition and market, and many more practical aspects of business ownership! Here is a preview of what you will learn inside: There has never been a better time to start your own business than now. This book is designed to not only give you the steps to start your business quickly, but also food for thought as you venture into business so you know where you want to be heading! Members Reviews: A helpful read for someone starting a business A good walk thru for starting your own business with little knowledge of the proper steps. Decent, not earth shattering Packed quite a bit of information into an hour but most of it was very general. Goes through all the steps from conception to maintaining and marketing a business and while there were a couple things that were helpful to consider most of it seemed to be common sense. Worth the hour though. Waste of time and money. It is just basically an outline of the obvious stuff. No insights. No help. Worthless. highly recommended I learned a lot from this book. I knew the basics but this gave me some information on licensing business insurance how to hire employees. I will be listening to this over and over Good book It's definitely helpful. If you have never started a business it will give you some great tips with good description. I recommend that you read it and take notes.

Agile Product Management: Product Owner Audiobook by Paul VII

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Paul VII) — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:01:11 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Agile Product Management: Product Owner Subtitle: 26 Tips to Manage Your Product and Work with Scrum Teams Author: Paul VII Narrator: Randal Schaffer Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 06-27-16 Publisher: Pashun Consulting Ltd. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Product Owner - Your Job Just Got Easier In this audiobook you will be given a multitude of proven tips to effectively create a product and work with scrum teams. I am confident that this audiobook will enable you to learn a multitude of skills, since it starts by giving you a full introduction to the concept of scrum and agile product development, scrum and agile principles, and a host of other valuable information that will give you a full understanding of the topic. I then walk you through the process of understanding your role as a product owner, how your role differs from that of a traditional product manager, how to create products, and a lot more. Once you've learned all that, I will then give you valuable tips for effectively creating a product and working with teams. As you go through the class, you will come across a wide range of practical examples that you can use to understand the scrum framework a lot better. This audiobook is broken up into easy-to-digest parts. In it you will learn: So let's get started, and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management. Table of contents: Members Reviews: Short Even at $4 it was pretty light on content. More of a basic overview than tips

Take Charge Product Management Audiobook by Greg Geracie

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Greg Geracie) — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 02:55:23 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Take Charge Product Management Subtitle: Time-Tested Tips, Tactics, and Tools for the New or Improved Product Manager Author: Greg Geracie Narrator: Eric Burr Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 11-04-16 Publisher: Actuation Consulting Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: If you're looking for an effective and proven approach to product management - one that recognizes that the majority of product managers enter the field with little or no training and must learn through trial and error - this is the book for you. Take Charge Product Management guides you step-by-step along the product management path with tips, tactics, and tools to make you and your products more successful. Whether you're a new or experienced product manager, or a seasoned executive leading a team of product managers, this hands-on guide arms you with best practices to optimize your time and effectiveness and increase your value. Members Reviews: Loved it! This was an amazing book to read, and the narration made it easy for me to process! Great job!

The Mathematical Corporation Audiobook by Josh Sullivan, Angela Zutavern

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Josh Sullivan) — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 02:46:20 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Mathematical Corporation Subtitle: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible Author: Josh Sullivan, Angela Zutavern Narrator: Fleet Cooper Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-17 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 68 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future. We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the Internet age in the 1990s. Leaders must transform how they run their organizations, or competitors will bring them crashing to earth - often overnight. Mathematical corporations - the organizations that will master the future - will outcompete high-flying rivals by merging the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are still the drivers of breakthroughs. Only they can ask crucial questions to capitalize on business opportunities newly discovered in oceans of data. This dynamic combination will make possible the fulfillment of missions that once seemed out of reach, even impossible to attain. Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern's extraordinary examples include the entrepreneur who upended preventive health care, the oceanographer who transformed fisheries management, and the pharmaceutical company that used algorithm-driven optimization to boost vaccine yields. Together they offer a profoundly optimistic vision for a dazzling new phase in business and a playbook for how smart companies can manage the essential combination of human and machine. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Critic Reviews: "Shrewd corporate executives are realigning their organizations to harness the burgeoning power of cyberintelligence.... Nonetheless, both corporate executives and government leaders still need inquisitive and creative humans.... A lucid overview of the management principles rapidly moving that world forward." (Booklist ) Members Reviews: USEFUL FODDER, but nothing groundbreaking The best part of this book is that it brings the whole conversation concisely into one place. You can read other related books & articles & reconstitute all of the knowledge & stories here... but this book is an easy button to have yourself a virtual conversation with the refinement of proper book editing. It was worth my while but not something I studied & took notes on as more groundbreaking works. Information gathering the the future of privacy Whether we like it or not information is being gathered at a stupendous rate about us. Private information, privileged information, confidential information, and public information. If you use the internet it's all being gathered. How companies should use this is what this book is about. It's not as simple as one might think. Corporations can get ahead by using grey areas where information in the public domain can be considered non private. The author and this book are rightfully against such use, whether they can control its proliferation or not. It is the information that does not infringe or the information that would make society a better place that is discussed in detail.

The Innovator's Method Audiobook by Nathan Furr, Jeff Dyer

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Nathan Furr) — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:52:58 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Innovator's Method Subtitle: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Author: Nathan Furr, Jeff Dyer Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 09-19-16 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service, but didn't take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company - perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven't known how to take the next step, you need to understand what the authors call the innovator's method - a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development that are revolutionizing how new ideas are created, refined, and brought to market. To date, these tools have helped entrepreneurs, designers, and software developers manage uncertainty - through cheap and rapid experiments that systematically lower failure rates and risk. But many managers and leaders struggle to apply these powerful tools within their organizations, as they often run counter to traditional managerial thinking and practice. Authors Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer wrote this book to address that very problem. Following the breakout success of The Innovator's DNA - which Dyer wrote with Hal Gregersen and best-selling author Clay Christensen to provide a framework for generating ideas - this book shows how to make those ideas actually happen, to commercialize them for success. Based on their research inside corporations and successful start-ups, Furr and Dyer developed the innovator's method, an end-to-end process for creating, refining, and bringing ideas to market. They show when and how to apply the tools of their method, how to adapt them to your business, and how to answer commonly asked questions about the method itself, including: This book focuses on the "how" - how to test, how to validate, and how to commercialize ideas with the lean, design, and agile techniques successful start-ups use. Whether you're launching a start-up, leading an established one, or simply working to get a new product off the ground in an existing company, this book is for you. Members Reviews: Great mix of methods Great book that takes innovation methods from several different fields such as software engineering and start ups and combines them into one super method. Makes sense to see different innovation methods learn from each other, and this book brings up tons of examples of successes and failures from real world business leaders.

That's Not How We Do It Here! Audiobook by John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber

biacuaduc@gmail.com (John Kotter) — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 04:49:50 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: That's Not How We Do It Here! Subtitle: A Story About How Organizations Rise and Fall - and Can Rise Again Author: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber Narrator: Bahni Turpin, John Kotter Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 06-07-16 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 51 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: What's the worst thing you can hear when you have a good idea at work? "That's not how we do it here!" In their iconic best seller Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the process of leading people through major changes. Now, 10 years later, they're back with another must-listen story that will help any team or organization cope with their biggest challenges and turn them into exciting opportunities. Once upon a time, a clan of meerkats lived in the Kalahari, a region in Southern Africa. After years of steady growth, a drought has sharply reduced the clan's resources, and deadly vulture attacks have increased. As things keep getting worse, the harmony of the clan is shattered. The executive team quarrels about possible solutions, and suggestions from frontline workers face a soul-crushing response: "That's not how we do it here!" So Nadia, a bright and adventurous meerkat, hits the road in search of new ideas to help her troubled clan. She discovers a much smaller group that operates very differently, with much more teamwork and agility. These meerkats have developed innovative solutions to find food and evade the vultures. But not everything in this small clan is as perfect as it seems at first. Can Nadia figure out how to combine the best of both worlds - a large, disciplined, well-managed clan and a small, informal, inspiring clan - before it's too late? This book distills Kotter's decades of experience and award-winning research to reveal why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again in the face of adversity. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Members Reviews: Simple book on Organizations Author does a good job of showing the impact of communication and collaboration with any organization. Light read a good book for a junior manager or employee. A good reminder to us veterans as well. Spot On. Spot on with describing the challenges of an organization in rapid growth and the need to develop both exceptional Leadership and Management. Good book for project teams! Message was good and the book was short! I did not care for the narrator though. Insightful Thoughts are real exciting body of work that helps me In the classroom as well as professionally. Focus and enables you to understand the difference between venge ment and leadership perspectives and how they work synonymously as well as how stratified they are. I'm sure you'll enjoy it . Good book, bad narrator The narrator has a hard accent. The story is lost because of that. Heavy rolling r's

Summary: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Audiobook by Readtrepreneur Publishing

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Readtrepreneur Publishing) — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:33:41 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Author: Readtrepreneur Publishing Narrator: Douglas Birk Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 09-22-17 Publisher: Readtrepreneur Publishing Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 26 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Teamwork or the lack thereof can make or break a team. Having a good team that can work efficiently together is more important than you think. This book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, tells the story of DecisionTech, a promising start-up company that starts to fall apart because of the dysfunctional team managing the company. However, Kathryn Peterson is hired just in time and aims to make things right again. (Note: This summary is wholly written and published by readtrepreneur.com. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way) "When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer." - Patrick Leoncioni The conflicts presented in the story may very well be what we are already facing. Through different characters in the story, this book shows the many different kind of personalities that exist within an organization, and how we, as leaders or employees, can tackle them. Understanding the five dysfunctions that a team can face allows us to be in better control when we face similar situations and helps us apply the right strategy to solve problems. P.S. - Gain invaluable insight on what could make or break a team. What you thought you knew about trust and conflict may be proven wrong with this compelling fable. Members Reviews: great resource to use with the book Great team exercises to help overcome team dysfunctions. I recommend leaders and/or teams consider buying both the book and guide together and get the whole package!Absolutely fantastic! excellent expert advice This books didcussed an interesting concept. This book not only lists the reason of dysfunction , but also gives idas on how to work as a Team. This book will help your Team to become successful Very insightful and spot on. This would be an integral book to righting a dysfunctional organization if only you could get the leadership to buy in. If you are a leader, start here! This book changed my life Excellent breakdown of what makes teams dysfunctional. His insights and musings are priceless.The best part of the book are the chapter summaries Amazingly Outstanding! Any additional comments? Excellent breakdown of what makes teams dysfunctional. His insights and musings are priceless.I enjoyed and learned a lot!

The Cyber Risk Handbook Audiobook by Domenic Antonucci

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Domenic Antonucci) — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 05:22:39 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Cyber Risk Handbook Subtitle: Creating and Measuring Effective Cybersecurity Capabilities Author: Domenic Antonucci Narrator: Mark Schectman Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 07-17-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Actionable guidance and expert perspective for real-world cybersecurity The Cyber Risk Handbook is the practitioner's guide to implementing, measuring, and improving the counter-cyber capabilities of the modern enterprise. The first resource of its kind, this book provides authoritative guidance for real-world situations, and cross-functional solutions for enterprise-wide improvement. Beginning with an overview of counter-cyber evolution, the discussion quickly turns practical with design and implementation guidance for the range of capabilities expected of a robust cyber risk management system that is integrated with the enterprise risk management (ERM) system. Expert contributors from around the globe weigh in on specialized topics with tools and techniques to help any type or size of organization create a robust system tailored to its needs. Chapter summaries of required capabilities are aggregated to provide a new cyber risk maturity model used to benchmark capabilities and to road-map gap improvement. Cyber risk is a fast-growing enterprise risk, not just an IT risk. Yet seldom is guidance provided as to what this means. This book is the first to tackle in detail those enterprise-wide capabilities expected by board, CEO, and internal audit, of the diverse executive management functions that need to team up with the Information Security function in order to provide integrated solutions. The need to manage cyber risk across the enterprise - inclusive of the IT operations - is a growing concern as massive data breaches make the news on an alarmingly frequent basis. With a cyber risk management system now a business-necessary requirement, practitioners need to assess the effectiveness of their current system, and measure its gap-improvement over time in response to a dynamic and fast-moving threat landscape. The Cyber Risk Handbook brings the world's best thinking to bear on aligning that system to the enterprise and vice-a-versa. Every functional head of any organization must have a copy at-hand to understand their role in achieving that alignment. Members Reviews: PDF not found What disappointed you about The Cyber Risk Handbook? Multiple references to the PDF yet no PDF is included, which greatly takes away from the value of the content. A substandard child's book
no real technology info Today's technology professionals writers need to get to the meat of the information and stop wasting our time with stories

Power Score Audiobook by Geoff Smart, Randy Street, Alan Foster

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Geoff Smart) — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:16:60 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Power Score Subtitle: Your Formula for Leadership Success Author: Geoff Smart, Randy Street, Alan Foster Narrator: Randy Street, Alan Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 06-16-15 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: ghSMART, the best-selling team behind Who: The A Method for Hiring, returns with a breakthrough formula for how the best leaders and teams deliver results. "ghSMART is the number one firm in the world that helps leaders hire talented teams and run them at full power." (Marshall Goldsmith) "The most useful book about leadership." That is what we hope you and your team will say after finishing Power Score. Is your team running at full power? Only 10 percent of leaders run their teams at full power. The formula you are about to learn is based on the most extensive research of its kind, spanning more than 15,000 careers with over nine million data points. The idea has been battle-tested for more than two decades by leaders in every major industry. It works. Successful leadership starts with three key questions: 1. Priorities - do we have the right priorities? (Only 24 percent of leaders do.) 2. Who - do we have the right people on the team? (Only 14 percent of leaders do.) 3. Relationships - do we have the right relationships that deliver results? (Only 47 percent of leaders do.) Learn how to calculate your team's power score and how to improve each of the three key areas of leadership. Learn what to do and what not do from compelling statistics and inspiring stories of those leaders who have succeeded and those who have failed. You may be surprised how easy it is to absorb this little audiobook. And you may be even more surprised by how fast this approach will boost your team's results. When you dial up your team's power score, you will make a greater impact as a leader, help your team earn more money for your cause (whatever your cause may be), and enjoy greater career success. Critic Reviews: "ghSMART is the number one firm in the world that helps leaders hire talented teams and run them at full power." (Marshall Goldsmith) Members Reviews: Great Practical Leadership Book I can tell you, from what I've experienced over the past 10 years and what we are working on now, this book is 100% on-target. Great points made concisely with interesting real-life examples. I will be reading their book "Who" (about finding and hiring the right people) next. a bit cliche not that interesting, too many stories and assertions. Every thing is from the authors own line of thoughts and no critical thinking. everyone know prioritize is important, correct person is critical relationsip is vital. but how? nothing new on it.

Millennials and Management Audiobook by Lee Caraher

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Lee Caraher) — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 06:56:58 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Millennials and Management Subtitle: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work Author: Lee Caraher Narrator: Karen Saltus Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-14 Publisher: Bibliomotion, Inc Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: As management ages and prepares to work longer than previous generations, and Millennials join companies at steady rate, companies are suffering through tension and dissonance between Millennials and Boomers, and realizing that they can't just wait for management to age out to fix it. Finding productive ways to work across the generation gap is essential, and the organizations that do this well will have significant strategic advantages over those that don't. Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work addresses a very real concern of large and small businesses nationwide: how to motivate, collaborate with, and manage the Millennial generation, who now make up almost 50% of the American workforce. The key is to change Boomer attitudes from disbelief and derision to acceptance and respect without giving up work standards. Using real world examples, author Lee Caraher gives leaders data-driven steps to take to co-create a productive workplace for today and tomorrow. Critic Reviews: "Caraher's compilation of best practices will help organizations make the most of a cross-generational workforce and build a more productive and positive workplace." (Publishers Weekly) Members Reviews: Average Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not? Same approach you use for coaching any high-maintenance/low-performers. Important legal aspects are not mentioned. What was one of the most memorable moments of Millennials and Management? The first and half of the second sections are filler. Muy útil Muy interesante y práctico. Aplicable y sobretodo crea conciencia de las brechas generacionales. Básico tanto para milenio como para todas aquellas personas que sean sus líderes From a millennial manager managing millennials As a millennial manager managing millennial team members I found this book really insightful with some great, operational advice on crossing the generational divide and creating an engaged workforce.

Rhythm Audiobook by Patrick Thean

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Patrick Thean) — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:48:06 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Rhythm Subtitle: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth Author: Patrick Thean Narrator: James Conlan Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 09-04-14 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: A simple system to help your team execute better and faster. All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. In order to burst through ceiling after ceiling and innovate with growth, a company must develop a reliable system that prompts leaders to be proactive and pivot when the need arises. Drawing on his experience as a successful serial entrepreneurial and speaker, author Patrick Thean demonstrates how to identify the signs of setbacks before they occur, track those signs, and make adjustments to keep your plan on track and accelerate growth. Thean introduces a simple system to empower everyone in your company to be focused, aligned, and accountable, a three-rhythm process for effective execution: Theans process applies to any growing business and ensures that your organization gets into the habit of achieving success, week after week, quarter after quarter, year after year. Members Reviews: A sales pitch if I ever heard one If you went to a good MBA Program and have more then 10 years experience in a dynamic company or industry you don't need this book. It's basic 101 running teams and organizations. Good content, but very boring The content in this book is very good and will be useful. But it is very tedious to listen to.

The New One Minute Manager (The One Minute Manager) Audiobook by Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Kenneth Blanchard) — Thu, 07 May 2015 00:09:29 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The New One Minute Manager (The One Minute Manager) Author: Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 05-07-15 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 46 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard. The original, best-selling blockbuster which has transformed businesses worldwide. The blockbuster number-one international best-selling phenomenon is back...not that it ever really went away. This easily read story quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands. The One Minute Manager also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioural sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. The book is brief, the language is simple, and best of all...it works. Members Reviews: genetic advice with no real sory makes wrong feeling managing is as easy as 123 generic steps. ilustrated by fairy tale. This is a #Winning Tool ONE minute goal! ONE minute praise! ONE minute redirect! This is an invaluable strategy for all managers! life changing fantastic book. Very engaging and a strategy I have now adopted. A book you can go back to and get something new each time. Absolutely brilliant! Highly recommend to anyone looking to take leadership seriously, using proven methods for successfully managing a high performance Team! Awesome I have this in hard back but have found audio is much better. Very very useful.

Daring Greatly Audiobook by Brené Brown

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Brené Brown) — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 21:37:25 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Daring Greatly Subtitle: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Author: Brené Brown Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 01-28-16 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 76 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, read by Karen White. Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. In a powerful new vision, Dr. Brené Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability and dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. She argues that in truth, vulnerability is strength, and when we shut ourselves off from vulnerability - from revealing our true selves - we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives. Daring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of groundbreaking social research across every area of our lives, including home, relationships, work, and parenting. It is an invitation to be courageous, to show up and let ourselves be seen, even when there are no guarantees. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. Members Reviews: Narrator I found this voice very annoying and difficult to listen to. However the content was fascinating ! Amazing perspective! I absolutely loved this book. It touched me and many different ways as there were so many stories within the book that I could relate to regarding shame, guilt and vulnerability. It's an essential work Brenè does with her research and I can't thank her greatly enough for this contribution. Absolute must read if you are working towards self healing or if you are looking for inspiration how to have compassion for other people, not to mention if you are working in this field or want to work in this field. Thank you Brenè! Listening to your carefully written words filled me with inspiration, compassion for myself and more longing to dive deeper into my own research of human behavior and struggles. Thank you thank you thank you! Great subject I like it a lot really great teaching but the voice was very annoying and bad. Audio I found the audio terrible. It may be a technical issue. The narrator sounded robotic and inconsistent voice pitch. Very distracting to listen to. So disappointing Worst narrator! I love Brene Brown and have all her books. I just can't listen to this one because of the narrator. She is definitely one of the worst narrators I've heard on Audible and not at all representative of the voice that Brene writes in. :(

Managing Projects Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:50:30 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Managing Projects Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: James Edward Thomas Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Harvard Business School Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 80 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: You've been asked to manage a key project - or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics, including: About HBR's 20-Minute Manager series: Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly listen to and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives - from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook. Members Reviews: great little overview Would have liked more detail in the pdf, but the audio book was a great little overview -- something quicknto ground me in the midst of a convoluted project. Will buy the ebook and/or print book. A good quick review of the subject, but very dry. Listening to this is like listening to someone read their study guides aloud. They're interesting because they cover everything the course taught, but there is no real substance beneath the notes. To get the most of the notes, you've got to already have learned the subject. Refer to this book as a reminder. Don't listen to this book as a learning source. straight to the point all you need is a little guide. this book gives you basics. so don't expect to get advanced tips. Good overview & reminder of the big points ! Good practical overview for the newbie to project management & checklist of "do I do that" for the more experienced project manager.

Lean in Construction Audiobook by Ade Asefeso, MCIPS MBA

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ade Asefeso) — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:01:41 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lean in Construction Subtitle: Key to Improvements in Time, Cost and Quality Author: Ade Asefeso, MCIPS MBA Narrator: Forris Day, Jr. Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 08-28-14 Publisher: Ade World LLC Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Lean Construction is a way to do more and more with less and less; less effort, less equipment, less time and less space whilst providing customers with exactly what they want. A Lean system, process, and organisation is one that is waste free. Lean is not about size or number of people employed. A reduction in employees may cut costs, and eliminate the waste of those employees, but does not decrease the proportion of waste to value adding within the organisation or process. Most waste is through products waiting to be worked on by succeeding activities. Construction is possibly the last frontier for lean. Although manufacturing's productivity has improved during the last 40 years, the construction industry has experienced a slight decline. Even though the construction world has embraced high-tech tools, we still manage projects the same way we always have, and we are still getting the same poor results. Less than thirty percent of projects come in on time, on budget, and within specification. The answers to improving construction productivity are not in more software or technology. Members Reviews: Great narration. Good material. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? Having listened to a number of Lean-related audiobooks, I found this one interesting, fairly quick to get through and easy to listen to. Would you recommend Lean in Construction to your friends? Why or why not? Yes. Have you listened to any of Forris Day, Jr.s other performances before? How does this one compare? My first book by Forris Day Jr. I found his delivery very clean and easy to listen to. Much better quality than many of the other audiobooks I've purchased here. I'll definitely be looking for more by him. Too much Jargon For an audio book, there is too much jargon. I find that I must concentrate too hard on the speaker's voice to track the multiple clauses in each sentence and the many compound noun jargon phrases in order to follow the thought process. The editor could expand the thoughts into a longer volume and trade efficiency in word count for ease of understanding. Good Book for Contractors Loved it from works to apply the Lean Process in Construction and Projects. A great model on how best to bring together Teams and maximize productivity. Pretty basic Pretty basic and a little repetitive. Ok as an overview. Voice is a little boring to listen to. A good refresher I guess

Busy Audiobook by Tony Crabbe

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Tony Crabbe) — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:16:21 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Busy Subtitle: How to thrive in a world of too much Author: Tony Crabbe Narrator: Tony Crabbe Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-15 Publisher: Hachette Audio UK Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: It's difficult to ask anybody "how are you?" without hearing the word "busy" somewhere in their response. We feel overwhelmed by busyness because of the demands on our time: our inboxes and our to-do lists are bulging, a huge amount of people expect things from us and our organisations are trying to do more with fewer people. But it doesn't have to be that way. In reality, busyness isn't essential. Yes, there is a lot to do, but believing you're always busy because you have so much to do is both false and unhelpful. Busyness is a normal response to a world of too much, but it isn't the only response. In Busy Tony Crabbe draws on solid psychological research to address one of the great problems of modern life: we're too busy. But it isn't a time-management book. Rather than providing advice for increasing productivity and efficiency, it sets out four key strategies (corresponding to sections of the book) for thriving despite of the overload of too much: 1. Mastery - to move beyond busyness you need to regain a sense of mastery over your life. This section shows you how to build a sense of control back into your life, take responsibility for making choices and set boundaries to protect you from the flood of demands and information. 2. Focus - in a world of too much, success is not about doing more at work but about making an impact. This section outlines three ways to move to a career strategy that doesn't rely on productivity alone. 3. Engagement - busyness can cause you to disengage from the people, values and activities that are important to us. This section provides you with the three keys to reengaging with your work and life. 4. Momentum - part of the challenge to moving beyond busyness is that even if you agree you should make the change, you're too busy to find the time and energy to do anything about it. This section is dedicated to helping you make the change, creating the impetus, energy and clarity to move to a life less busy. Critic Reviews: "This book has the power to change your life. In this thought provoking guidebook to today's world of 'too much', Tony Crabbe destroys the myth of 'busyness' and provides practical, thoughtful advice to help individuals (and their organisations) unleash their true potential." (Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer, Microsoft UK and author of Business Reimagined) "Over the past 20 years, all of us who are connected to the Internet have been overwhelmed by the disease of busy-ness. We seem to have less control over professional and social lives and ever more and more consumed by a world of 'too much'. This book is the medicine we have been looking for to become healthier, happier and successful human beings. It is packed with great ideas built on cutting-edge research and best practices. Interesting stories and wonderful practical strategies help the reader to be able to truly thrive in today's busy world. This is the best book I have read in the past 10 years!" (Michael Marquardt, professor, George Washington University; president, World Institute for Action Learning; and best-selling author of Leading with Questions) "Solid psychological research to address one of the great problems of modern life." (The Courier Mail)

Six Simple Rules Audiobook by Peter Tollman, Yves Morieux

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Peter Tollman) — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:19:11 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Six Simple Rules Subtitle: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated Author: Peter Tollman, Yves Morieux Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 03-24-17 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: New 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 60 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 35. 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 500 companies in more than 40 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 co-operation 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. Members Reviews: helped me better understand workplace disfunction also suggest buying the hardcopy to study and reference gave me so many insights into why people do things as they do at my job and how I could help

Contagious Culture Audiobook by Anese Cavanaugh

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Anese Cavanaugh) — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:30:58 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Contagious Culture Subtitle: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives Author: Anese Cavanaugh Narrator: Caroline Miller Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 02-01-16 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Get inspired. Get excited. Get results. A proven approach to corporate culture that's positively contagious. You are about to enter a new era of leadership. With more competition, more connectedness, and more opportunities than ever before, this exciting new era demands a workplace culture that is collaborative, productive, energized, and contagious. A culture that encourages extraordinary growth and innovation. A culture that starts with you - showing up, setting the tone, and lighting the fire.... This book is about answering that call and setting yourself up for success. It's about improving your leadership presence and your impact, not just on others but on yourself. It's about creating the space you need to share your vision, state your intention, and jump-start your team. It's about working yourself over - from the inside out - so you can become the strong, effective, inspiring leader you know you can be. This is Contagious Culture, a game-changing guide to transforming corporate culture from within, developed by the award-winning creator of the IEP method to strengthen your "intentional energetic presence". This is more than a leadership book - this is your future calling. Award-winning organizational advisor Anese Cavanaugh reveals the secrets of IEP - intentional energetic presence - for transforming your workplace and your life. The key to any company's success lies in its culture. This game-changing guide shows you how to shape and revitalize this culture by setting the tone, engaging the team, and creating a dynamic working environment that encourages growth, productivity, and innovation. It all starts with you.... Using the book's unique IEP method, you can: With these proven step-by-step techniques, you can take control of the culture you work in and build a healthier, more functional environment - from the inside out. You'll find helpful, transformative tools and exercises for improving collaborations, opening communications, and implementing changes. You'll discover the best methods for handling the toughest challenges, whether it's hiring and firing, strategizing and organizing, busyness or burnout. Best of all, you'll learn how to enhance your intentional energetic presence (IEP) so you'll always be fully present, purposeful, and prepared to share your vision with infectious energy and enthusiasm. Members Reviews: Good book!! This was a very informative book on culture. I will have my team read it also Must get this book!!! I reached a point in my life when I had a HARD time with my energy. I could be happy or I could let other people's negative energy bring me down. And then there were a few people in my world (I couldn't get rid of them) that as soon as I heard their name or saw them I would be flustered, anxious and angry. Don't hide it...we all have those people. Well I started putting into practice the things Anese discussed in her book and I have been able to hold my IEP high and protect my bubble around the severely toxic people. I'm not perfect and it will be a life long learning process but I'm looking forward to getting better. This book isn't just for companies. You can develop a contagious culture in your home or in your marriage/dating life.

The Sticking Point Solution Audiobook by Jay Abraham

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jay Abraham) — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:23:37 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Sticking Point Solution Subtitle: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth Author: Jay Abraham Narrator: Jay Abraham Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 05-12-09 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 119 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The purpose of The Sticking Point Solution is to help entrepreneurs and executives recognize the ways in which their businesses may be stuck, and to then give them tools for getting unstuck and enjoying exponential growth. To achieve this, Jay will help you to identify the nine "sticking points". They are: Members Reviews: Bad News.. For your competition that is! Jay lays out a massive game changing plan that had me fizzing to get to work and start implementing his strategies. After just a few months a number of his recommendations have delivered new sales to our business. Most importantly I know that these sales will not be isolated, but ongoing as his ideas are 'bolt on' profit generators. I just can't continue I've listened to some great audio books thanks to the wonderful service that Audible offers. I was hoping that this audiobook would continue that string of quality "reads". Unfortunately, it hasn't. When you are 2 chapters into a book and the content is still speaking to and selling you (IN ACTUAL TEXT) on the value the book will provide, you start to wonder if it ever will. I'm going to try to continue listening to the book because it would be a shame to give up on it after just over 90 minutes. However, so far, it has been nothing but a sales pitch for the value to be rendered "later" and business generalities that provide very little in specific actionable recommendations. If my evaluation of the audiobook were to change, I will back to revise this review. If it doesn't, you'll know from my silence. Worst I've Listened To The other reviews led me astray to waste one of credits on this. I got nothing out of this at all. Anything that could be called advice was very basic common sense that I would expect anyone in business to know. The majority of the so called advice followed the lines of telling the listener to figure out your problems and fix them. As far as action items; at the end of a chapter he says figure out what you want to change in your business and change it now. It goes on and on listing all the great things you'll do and how much better your business will be over your competitors but I found myself constantly saying 'be quiet all ready and get to the how instead of telling me I'll be able to do this and I'll do that' but was never satisfied. In my oppinion this book is just a money grab by the author, full of hype and worthless fluff. I feel totally ripped off and didn't like listening at all. The best business book I read! Jay Abraham's very analytic methodical way based on years of practical experience brought me some really great insight and immediate tools to use. Very practical, based on hard facts, tons of case studies. I heard it at least five times beginning to end, and I am sure I will come back to it. A must to listen to This is an amazing book. Narrated by the marketing wizard himself. This book is a must to listen. It lays out for me what i need to do in the next little while. Moe Tabesh, CPA, CGA (Accounting Wizard) Tbco.ca

Sprint Audiobook by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jake Knapp) — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:03:03 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Sprint Subtitle: How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days Author: Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 03-10-16 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 43 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day. How should you be focusing your efforts? What will your idea look like in real life? How do you start? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you've got the right solution? Now there's a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint. Created by three partners at Google Ventures, the sprint is a unique five-day process aimed at helping businesses to answer crucial questions and deliver the best results in the least time, allowing the businesses to move on to the next level. It's a 'greatest hits' of business strategy, innovation, behaviour science and design thinking - packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use. Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Chrome to Google X. With John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz at Google Ventures, the team has run more than 100 sprints with start-ups across all kinds of business, including mobile, e-commerce, health care and finance. Sprint is about arming your business with a process to get problems solved by short-circuiting the endless debate cycle, avoiding groupthink and utilising the people, knowledge and tools that every team already has. It's for companies or groups of any size, from small start-ups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits - anyone who has a big opportunity, problem or idea and who needs to get started. Members Reviews: Amazing! A truly great new system. If you like building things and the Lean Startup this book will fit right in. Stop wasting time and use this system to test assumptions quickly. Highly Recommended Design sprint fanatics I found this enlightening and encouraging I hope use the techniques at work and gain buy in from my peers and colleagues. Ok, if you can suffer the google talk Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not? The idea of a sprint is good and the scrum people have been using it for a good while now. The authors of this book claim their definition of sprint is different but I can't see a whole lot of difference, apart for the insufferable google hype. People who work for that company come across as the most corporate-indoctrinated folks in the world. Its really tedious to listen to and it ruins the book in my opinion. Not ideal for the audio book format While the topic isn't anything new, seeing examples of how sprints can be used to solve problems was very interesting. The problem, I found, was that it's more of a reference on running a sprint and for that the physical book would be more helpful. There were frequent lists, timetables and tools to use. In an audio Io book format these were hard to follow. You'd probably need to by the book as well. Patronising Nothing innovative in here. Just insulting junk about how to use post it notes etc.

Good Authority Audiobook by Jonathan Raymond

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jonathan Raymond) — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 08:55:13 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Good Authority Subtitle: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For Author: Jonathan Raymond Narrator: Jonathan Raymond Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 10-01-16 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 34 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Imagine a world where personal and professional growth are combined, where improving your relationships and owning your strengths at work translate directly into the rest of your life. Creating a company culture like that is not a dream. Through personal stories and real-life conversations, Jonathan Raymond takes you into the room with managers and employees where real culture change happens and shows you a new kind of employee mentoring where each person gets the real-time feedback, support, and clear boundaries we all need to get beyond the patterns that hold us back. In this provocative and timely new book, Jonathan brings together what he has learned over a 20-year journey as an executive, an entrepreneur, a team leader, and a leadership trainer. Combining his experience as the CEO and CBO of EMyth, where he led the transformation of a global coaching brand with the lessons learned along his own personal growth journey, Jonathan walks us through a step-by-step approach that integrates the leading edges of both. You'll discover a way to lead your team that is both profoundly human and results-oriented at the same time. Whether you're a CEO or business owner, an executive, a team leader, a consultant, or a coach, Good Authority will give you new ideas and inspiration you can put into practice. Most importantly, it will give you permission to be more of who you are at work than you ever thought possible. Members Reviews: Can't wait to implement with everyone on my team I was able to begin using the material immediately. Simple and effective. This changed my mindset on how to help those in my charge. This is going to impact our company's culture, one conversation at a time. Short and to the point. I like this book because it was short and to the point with just enough content but no useless information Concepts are simple to understand, and examples are easy to follow. Just have to get pass the very beginning as it is a little strange when thinking about what the book is about. But at the same it helps to let the reader where he is coming from. This will allow the listener/reader to accept or not his information.

How to Start a Cleaning Service Audiobook by Entrepreneur Magazine

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Entrepreneur Magazine) — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:19:02 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How to Start a Cleaning Service Author: Entrepreneur Magazine Narrator: Michael Drew Shaw Format: Abridged Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 11-15-06 Publisher: Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Low startup costs, minimal overhead, and the promise of repeat business (when things get cleaned, they usually get dirty again) make this one of the easiest and most profitable businesses to start. This guide is jam-packed with everything you need to successfully plan, start, and run your own cleaning service, including: © and (P) Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Members Reviews: Terrible, Juvenile, Assaultv on one's intelligence this should be a book focused on and geared toward 13 year olds who are wanting to go into business. first of all the name is misleading it never mentions a cleaning business secondly is about as basic as I've ever heard. It's amazing that they would actually put something like this out there and gear it toward adults. they actually had the nerve to tell someone what a computer monitor is... seriously great startup cleaning services audiobook loved it, listen to it over and over. one of the best business books on audible

ITIL & ITSM - QuickStart Guides Audiobook by ClydeBank Technology

biacuaduc@gmail.com (ClydeBank Technology) — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 19:38:50 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: ITIL & ITSM - QuickStart Guides Subtitle: The Simplified Beginner's Guides to ITIL & IT Service Management Author: ClydeBank Technology Narrator: Peter Bierma, Amy Barron Smolinski Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 08-09-16 Publisher: ClydeBank Media LLC Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: For over two decades ITIL has informed the way in which IT delivers services to customers while remaining methodically in-synch with the needs of business. A cottage industry has emerged offering formal ITIL trainings and certifications. ITIL For Beginners was reviewed and licensed by Axelos, the government-sponsored publisher of ITIL. IT Service Management (ITSM) bridges the world of business with the world of technology. In ITSM For Beginners, ClydeBank Media traces the modern evolutions in information technology that precipitated the need and inspiration for ITSM. The listener is treated to a comparative analysis of several ITSM philosophies and systematic components. From the core facets of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) to more specialized ITSM frameworks such as ISO/IEC 20000 and eTOM, ITSM For Beginners offers listeners a comprehensive look at the various theories and metrics that define ITSM. Please note: There is a companion PDF that is available after you have purchased this audiobook. Follow the instructions in the Introduction chapter to receive your companion PDF. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Members Reviews: Concise material, but one of the books is too dry and monotonous ITIL book s hard to listen as it is read quite monotonously almost robot-like. ITSM while written in a similar style is narrated much more brightly and has a lot of examples and not only theoretical material. This made this book easy to listen and I retained more information as a result. However the books compliment each other very well. So overall is a the value for the money and time is good. it's really don't focus on giving great details it only talked more on ITSM.... not really recommended for the ITIL exam. overall it was just okay

The Lean Enterprise Audiobook by Obie Fernandez, Trevor Owens

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Obie Fernandez) — Wed, 14 May 2014 02:40:40 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Lean Enterprise Subtitle: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups Author: Obie Fernandez, Trevor Owens Narrator: Steve Carlson Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 05-14-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 119 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The first and most comprehensive book on bringing the startup mindset into large organizations. Forget vague notions of creating an "innovative culture". This book reveals the methodologies, tools, and incentive structures guiding the world's largest organizations to reclaim their innovation prowess. Even in a tough economic climate, small startups have found ways to create innovative products in shockingly short timeframes. So why should larger, more established companies take notice? Because they have everything to gain when they examine and adopt the process, strategies, and mentality of high-growth startups. The guidelines in this book will help companies shake the lethargy, bureaucracy, and power struggles that plague large organizations. At the heart of this comprehensive resource is a practical approach to innovation based on specific timetables, compensation structures, and financial investments. Respected thought leaders in lean startup methodologies, the authors cover successful enterprise development, development innovation labs, corporate venture arms, and acquisition and integration of startups. Don't be mystified by the success of startups. Master the methods of this new generation and compete on a level playing field. Members Reviews: Best insights for newbies and professionals ... What did you love best about The Lean Enterprise? It gives a comprehensive overview of a topic that's at the edge of modern business operations and therefor a must-read for newbies in lean management as well as for professionals. What other book might you compare The Lean Enterprise to and why? management 3.0 by apello, because it also gives modern insights towards managing business and people ... Which character as performed by Steve Carlson was your favorite? the general all examples and best practices Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? yes, by finding out that there is wide proof of the principles Any additional comments? helps preparing for current management tasks and responibilities Want to innovate like a startup? Read this... Would you listen to The Lean Enterprise again? Why? I've already read (listen) to this book twice as there are more concepts than can possibly be assimilated in one read through. If you are responsible for creating value in a large organization the concepts here are invaluable. What did you like best about this story? Leverages Eric Reis and Steve Blanks Lean Startup and Customer Develop concepts through the lens of the Enterprise. What aspect of Steve Carlsons performance would you have changed? Not particularly bad, however I've enjoyed books read by their author more as they generally have the passion behind the point Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? The overall concept maps to me and my business specifically as a consultant working with large enterprise business to help them innovate like startups. Any additional comments? Great Book period Good input for Lean StartUp Methods The authors explain very well different lean startup methods from the point of view of an enterprise and combine it with great case studies from lean startup in the corporate world.

Managing the Millennials Audiobook by Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja, Craig Rusch

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Chip Espinoza) — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:49:11 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Managing the Millennials Subtitle: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce Author: Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja, Craig Rusch Narrator: David Leslie Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 08-10-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 46 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: A valuable tool for anyone who wants to effectively manage and motivate twenty-something workers. Many books are being published on how to manage employees of the "millennial" generation, but the solutions offered are anecdotal at best. Backed by years of serious research, Managing the Millennials provides managers of all ages with specific recommendations and tools for engaging this burgeoning demographic-some 78 million strong. Each chapter shares relevant interviews, case studies, and offers research-backed ideas and best practices to help any organization and their leaders address the challenges generational diversity presents. Answering the perplexing question of how does one lead and manage younger employees, this book: Insightful and practical, Managing the Millennials is a valuable tool for millions of managers globally whose job it is to manage and motivate their twenty-something workers. Members Reviews: Limited perspective I feel I purchased this book under false pretenses. I was expecting a management tool, utilizing objective research to support my working with a young employee base. Instead, a Christian slanted manual on how to get young people to think a certain way. I thought this book was quite an insult to the millennials! Now I understand the Millennials! Great overview of the Millennials - how to work with them and, as a leader, how to motivate them!

Creating Business Plans Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:35:30 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Creating Business Plans Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: James Edward Thomas Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Harvard Business School Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 41 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success - whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to: About HBR's 20-Minute Manager series: Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly hear and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives - from the most trusted source in business. Members Reviews: Good Review it was nice to have examples of each section of a business plan. Looking forward to read more books/reviews from the HBR 20 minute management series. Disappointed What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? A total rewrite What do you think your next listen will be? Business plan QuickStart guide by Clydebank was my next read and by comparison a much more comprehensive guide to writing a business plan. What aspect of James Edward Thomass performance would you have changed? Quite possibly a little to Mono tone If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Creating Business Plans? Instead of following one single business concept/idea from start to finish it, I would die versify various plug-and-play Business concepts other than Just anInternet service/product company. Seem like more of an advertising piece for a fitness product/service. Excellent summary of a Business Plan. A quick guide to write a Business Plan, everything is clear with a pragmatic focus. It is really helpful. Thanks!!

How to Hire A-Players Audiobook by Eric Herrenkohl

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Eric Herrenkohl) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:49:13 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How to Hire A-Players Subtitle: Finding the Top People for Your Team - Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department Author: Eric Herrenkohl Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 07-17-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: How to find great employees, make great hires, and take your business to the next level. It is always easy to find people who want a job, but it's never easy to find and hire A-players. In How to Hire A-Players, consultant Eric Herrenkohl shows owners, executives, and managers of small and medium-size businesses where and how to find A-player employees. It is these individuals who will help keep quality high and growth and profits strong. Herrenkohl explains how to use your existing marketing, sales, and networking efforts to find top candidates. He provides current examples of companies that consistently hire A-players without big recruiting departments as well as step-by-step explanations for making these strategies work in your own company. Herrenkohl's client list includes privately held businesses in over 50 industries as well as big corporate names like Bank of America, Edward Jones, and Northwestern Mutual Life. A-player employees are the life blood of any growing business. This handy hiring guide shows you where to look, what to ask, and who to hire to boost your business today. Members Reviews: A different take on recruiting. Good stuff There are better base level recruiting books such as Who and Topgrading (skill side recruiting considerations) and Hire for attitude and Patrick Lencionis the ideal team player (that focus on culture fit), but this book brings something different to the table. Here are a couple (1) the book focuses on WHERE to find people, (2) in depth analysis of how to pick a good recruiting firm, (3) how developing an organizational chart can help flesh out what roles you need for the business you are running. This book is good about explaining the creation of a pipeline of talent by using a variety of baseball like farm team methods. Its good. Its different. Im a new entrepreneur in the legal field. This book adds a lot to ones learning in the area of recruitment. slow read the summary instead, good info just slow the book has good suggestions get information but since I've already read similar books there's nothing very new here better just to get a summary then read it Excellent information Mr. Eric Herrenkohl has illustrated the importance of A Players and Roadmap towards attracting and keeing A Players Arrogant title, from a C player author Waste of time...executive summery of this book, 10 pages long or 50 min will be sufficient. God doesn't think about people in these terms, why does the author feels compelled to classify human being to three categories?

Remarkable! Audiobook by Dr Randy Ross, David Salyers

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Dr Randy Ross) — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:52:27 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Remarkable! Subtitle: Maximizing Results Through Value Creation Author: Dr Randy Ross, David Salyers Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 03-11-16 Publisher: Mission Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: When it comes to qualities such as passion, enthusiasm, energy, and creativity, the majority of the American workforce could be described as "severely lacking". Too many people just go through the motions, viewing work as something they have to do rather than something they love to do. This translates into lackluster performance, lost opportunities, and a staggering loss of profits. So how does a team leader turn a business-as-usual team into a remarkable one? Remarkable! is an entertaining and enlightening business parable that has the power to turn any team around. Through the humorous and eye-opening story of Dusty, leaders will discover how to build a culture that inspires team members to bring the best of who they are to the table every day. Addressing the three dimensions of culture - values, beliefs, and behaviors - Remarkable! introduces listeners to the Four Maxims of Value Creation: creativity, positivity, sustainability, and responsibility. It shows leaders the most effective ways to cultivate these qualities in their team members and how to craft a corporate culture where people can thrive. Members Reviews: Inspirational and well worth the read / listen. Took away a lot of useful information and ideas from this. Planning to share with as many people as I can.

The Network Imperative Audiobook by Barry Libert, Megan Beck, Jerry Wind

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Barry Libert) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 07:36:01 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Network Imperative Subtitle: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models Author: Barry Libert, Megan Beck, Jerry Wind Narrator: Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 01-17-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Digital networks are changing all the rules of business. New, scalable, digitally networked business models, like those of Amazon, Google, Uber, and Airbnb, are affecting growth, scale, and profit potential for companies in every industry. But this seismic shift isn't unique to digital start-ups and tech superstars. Digital transformation is affecting every business sector, and as investor capital, top talent, and customers shift toward network-centric organizations, the performance gap between early and late adopters is widening. So the question isn't whether your organization needs to change but when and how much. The Network Imperative is a call to action for managers and executives to embrace network-based business models. The benefits are indisputable; companies that leverage digital platforms to cocreate and share value with networks of employees, customers, and suppliers are fast outpacing the market. These companies, or network orchestrators, grow faster, scale with lower marginal cost, and generate the highest revenue multipliers. Supported by research that covers 1,500 companies, authors Barry Libert, Megan Beck, and Jerry Wind guide leaders and investors through the 10 principles that all organizations can use to grow and profit regardless of their industry. They also share a five-step process for pivoting an organization toward a more scalable and profitable business model. The Network Imperative, brimming with compelling case studies and actionable advice, provides managers with what they really need: new tools and frameworks to generate unprecedented value in a rapidly changing age. Members Reviews: This book is informative and fun. You'd be remiss not to check this book out. The information contained here is like a survival manual for the digital age.

The Way We're Working Isn't Working Audiobook by Jean Gomes, Tony Schwartz

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jean Gomes) — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:12:06 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Way We're Working Isn't Working Subtitle: How Intense Focus and Frequent Renewal Fuel Great Performance Author: Jean Gomes, Tony Schwartz Narrator: Tony Schwartz Format: Abridged Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 05-21-10 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 223 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live. Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. The Way Were Working Isnt Working offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so were both more satisfied and more productive, on the job and off. By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the number-one best-selling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that were neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we're at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs. Organizations undermine sustainable high performance by forever seeking to get more out of their people. Instead they should seek systematically to meet their four core needs so they're freed, fueled, and inspired to bring the best of themselves to work every day. Drawing on extensive work with an extraordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working. Critic Reviews: "The foundations of great leadership are self-awareness and thoughtful action, and the ideas in this book can be truly life-changing for both. The transformative power of this lies in its ability to help very smart and already high-performing people change their current behaviors to be even more effective, fulfilled and connected to others." (Evan Wittenberg, Head of Global Leadership Development, Google, Inc.) Members Reviews: Get More Sleep, Get More Done I was pleasantly surprised by this book. The performance was solid. He did a great job of explaining the charts that are included the book. Most importantly, the content was incredible. I'm the type of person that tries to squeeze every hour out of the day. This year I cut back on sleep so that I could fit in more time for my faith, family, fitness, job, etc. I was getting 4-6 hours per night but still felt like I wasn't getting everything I wanted out of the day. This book brought to my attention some simple ideas on how to structure time for work, and more importantly, to also structure time for renewal. Tony uses a series of matrices to help you identify where you're spending time and where you should be spending your time. If you feel as though you're burning the candle at both ends, this books is for you. Excellent resource What did you love best about The Way We're Working Isn't Working? I have the hard copy of this book, but I wanted to review it several times.

Managing the Unexpected Audiobook by Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Karl E. Weick) — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:38:04 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Managing the Unexpected Subtitle: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty, 2nd Edition Author: Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe Narrator: Judy Mahby Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 08-13-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 54 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Since the first edition of Managing the Unexpected was published in 2001, the unexpected has become a growing part of our everyday lives. The unexpected is often dramatic, as with hurricanes or terrorist attacks. But the unexpected can also come in more subtle forms, such as a small organizational lapse that leads to a major blunder, or an unexamined assumption that costs lives in a crisis. Why are some organizations better able than others to maintain function and structure in the face of unanticipated change? Authors Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe answer this question by pointing to high reliability organizations (HROs), such as emergency rooms in hospitals, flight operations of aircraft carriers, and firefighting units as models to follow. These organizations have developed ways of acting and styles of learning that enable them to manage the unexpected better than other organizations. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the groundbreaking audiobook Managing the Unexpected uses HROs as a template for any institution that wants to better organize for high reliability. Members Reviews: Invaluable read for managers wanting to improve Phenomenal book on structuring teams to be resilient in the face of unpredictable events. Worth the read. From one of the Biggest Names in Org Theory Would you listen to Managing the Unexpected again? Why? I am not sure. I might, just for some of the particular examples of preparedness What was one of the most memorable moments of Managing the Unexpected? The simple and powerful idea that typically, we provide weak responses to weak signals of trouble, and in many situations that's inadequate. Weak signs of trouble require strong responses. That idea stunned me. What aspect of Judy Mahbys performance would you have changed? I hate to sound mean, but I would prefer somebody else. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? NO. It is not a book for fun. It is a book for work. Any additional comments? Karl Weick is one of the most influential scientists studying how firms operate. His theory of sensemaking was extremely influential. In this book, there are some pretty interesting ideas on how to manage things in a way that terrible things do not happen. What bothered me in this book is I could not necessarily see WHY would organizations go through all that trouble and the unpleasantness of executing the things needed, some sort of cost-benefit analysis if you will. In the examples that were provided it was pretty clear - sure, a terrible fire that could not be stopped is a horrible consequence. But let's face it, most of us work in far less critical environments and the worst that would happen - well maybe there'd be a scandal and the place would close. Is the added trouble worth it? I would like to see that addressed a bit more. Excellent read for those interested resilience The principles and practices of Nuclear Air craft carriers provided a very valuable insight into best practices. A culture of safety is highlighted really well through good leadership and chronic unease.

The Failure of Risk Management Audiobook by Douglas W. Hubbard

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Douglas W. Hubbard) — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:32:18 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Failure of Risk Management Subtitle: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It Author: Douglas W. Hubbard Narrator: Jonah Cummings Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 08-02-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 78 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach. The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular "risk management" methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the 2008 credit crisis, natural disasters, outsourcing to China, engineering disasters, and more, Hubbard reveals critical flaws in risk management methods and shows how all of these problems can be fixed. The solutions involve combinations of scientifically proven and frequently used methods from nuclear power, exploratory oil, and other areas of business and government. Finally, Hubbard explains how new forms of collaboration across all industries and government can improve risk management in every field. Critic Reviews: "Doug Hubbard, a recognized expert among experts in the field of risk management, covers the entire spectrum of risk management in this invaluable guide. There are specific value-added take aways in each chapter that are sure to enrich all readers including IT, business management, students, and academics alike" (Peter Julian, former chief-information officer of the New York Metro Transit Authority. President of Alliance Group consulting) "In his trademark style, Doug asks the tough questions on risk management. A must-read not only for analysts, but also for the executive who is making critical business decisions." (Jim Franklin, VP Enterprise Performance Management and General Manager, Crystal Ball Global Business Unit, Oracle Corporation) Members Reviews: Not a risky read Hubbard gives good examples why simple risk modeling techniques such as red, yellow, green rankings and others are too simple. He makes the argument that those that say that at least they are something and better than nothing can be blatantly wrong since they give a false since of control. The last part of the book he makes the case for Monte Carlo analysis. The power of Monte Carlo and other techniques like it is the ability to look for multiple variables impacting a risk and looking for causality and other things that can amplify the effects of one variable on another. More subjective than expected but still good Hubbard knows his stuff but he spend too much time on blasting the scoring models that don't work than showing how to use the ones that do. Last third of the book is good and very useful. Excellent critical book on risk management In my consulting practice, I see so many risk management "methodologies" that have no scientific foundation, no proven track record, no statistical foundation, nothing but gratuitous statements. This book sheds harsh critical light on this paraphernalia. Please send a copy to the FSA & SEC Really good book, a bit longer than it needed to be but very good at pointing out massive flaws in what people understand by the term 'risk' Good but..... Any additional comments? Where to start. I thought that this book was worth listening too, there were definitely some points that I hadn't considered in my career which I thought were worth following up. But there was a lot that grated against a nerve for me.

Unmasking the Social Engineer Audiobook by Christopher Hadnagy, Paul F. Kelly, Paul Ekman

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Christopher Hadnagy) — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:12:30 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Unmasking the Social Engineer Subtitle: The Human Element of Security Author: Christopher Hadnagy, Paul F. Kelly, Paul Ekman Narrator: Christopher Hadnagy Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 08-13-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 100 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Learn to identify the social engineer by non-verbal behavior. Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security focuses on combining the science of understanding non-verbal communications with the knowledge of how social engineers, scam artists, and con men use these skills to build feelings of trust and rapport in their targets. The author helps listeners understand how to identify and detect social engineers and scammers by analyzing their non-verbal behavior. Unmasking the Social Engineer shows how attacks work, explains nonverbal communications, and demonstrates with visuals the connection of non-verbal behavior to social engineering and scamming. Sharing proven scientific methodology for reading, understanding, and deciphering non-verbal communications, Unmasking the Social Engineer arms listeners with the knowledge needed to help protect their organizations. Members Reviews: Enjoyed the audio version and them bought the book I loved the topic. It is an abridged version of Dr. Paul Ekman's work with a practical twist. I listened to the audible and them purchased the book. There are several images that they refer to in the text. Ideally it would help to have a PDF of the images handy when listening. Almost Useless in Audible Format Hadnagy reads off tables, figures, and pictures which you cannot see. And he recites in-text citations word for word. Very frustrating, and some content is useless without that data, not even being described. For content, as someone who is experienced with Ekman's work, Hadnagy gives a fine, basic overview. This is a good book for beginners, with no training or little knowledge of Paul Ekman's work or microexpressions. Eye opener Very great book. Definitely worth the read. You should get the physical copy to follow along with the figure references however a lot of information given even without being able to see the pictures. Referencing figures = useless audio book What disappointed you about Unmasking the Social Engineer? Frequent references to figures render a book useless on audio What was most disappointing about the authorss story? Frequent references to figures. I had no idea what was being discussed You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities? Not really. The preface lasted forever and once it finally got into the subject matter there were constant references to figures and there was no way to infer from context what specifically was being referenced. Any additional comments? Don't buy this audio book. It is probably fine in a print edition. excellent insights into social engineering Chris hadnagy excellently portrays what it's like to be a social engineer how to think like a social engineer and things too watch for when looking at potential targets or potential social Engineers or con artists.

Agile Project Management Audiobook by Marcus Ries, Diana Summers

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Marcus Ries) — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 02:09:48 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Agile Project Management Subtitle: A Complete Beginner's Guide to Agile Project Management! Author: Marcus Ries, Diana Summers Narrator: Douglas Birk Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 12-28-16 Publisher: Open Spirit Publishing, LLC Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: In understanding methodologies and agile project management, we look at the different techniques in which you can successfully develop management skills. As you know, it is quite important to adopt a multifaceted approach when it comes to management, to get your job done in a facile manner. Agile methodology is a multifaceted approach that finds its application in many different fields and can be considered an umbrella concept. Right from engineering to IT to business management, there are many areas where one can effectively apply the ideologies of agile management. Once you go through the book, you will understand how easy it is for you to adopt and utilize it to enhance your business. The agile management technique focuses on four main aspects, namely - effective communication with clients/parties, delivering a work application, collaborating with clients and changing up the scope of work. All of these need to be controlled and managed in order to enhance productivity. That is exactly where this book comes into play. In the course of this book, you will learn how to: Members Reviews: Not a good example of audio book... This is too much theory written by synthetic thinking. Very difficult to listen to... A bad base for narration. You learn almost nothing the way it is told... Try other books if learning is your purpose Torture If you like listening to long lists of bullet points, then you should buy this "book"

Culture Is Everything Audiobook by Tristan White

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Tristan White) — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 04:51:26 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Culture Is Everything Subtitle: The Story and System of a Start-Up That Became Australia's Best Place to Work Author: Tristan White Narrator: Tristan White Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 10-19-17 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: How one company is redefining the meaning of going to work.... Tristan White's story started like many others. He had a dream to work in a job that inspired him. He didn't find that job, so he created it. In 2004, The Physio Co (TPC) was born with one team member: Tristan White. In the 13 years since, TPC has become a remarkable health care success story based upon fast growth and a thriving, systemised company culture. Tristan's obsession with creating an inspiring place to work for himself and others has resulted in more than a decade of learning, testing and refining. If you've ever wondered how to build and sustain a thriving company culture, the Culture Is Everything system developed by Tristan White and The Physio Co team is your answer. Members Reviews: A nice description of a Success Framework Congratulations are in order to Tristan White. He is one of the fortune people that listen to and find what really motivates them. Culture is what makes organizations of any kind successful. But it doesn't come for free, you have to hire, you have to adapt and you have to practice the behaviors, habits that form sustainable culture. There are some great lessons to be learned on how to scale culture as your business grows.

Key Person of Influence Audiobook by Daniel Priestley

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Daniel Priestley) — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:00:22 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Key Person of Influence Subtitle: The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry Author: Daniel Priestley Narrator: Michael Maloney Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 02-29-16 Publisher: Creative Content Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 78 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunities. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This audiobook shows you that there is a five-step strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by listening to this audiobook. Members Reviews: Undiluted snake oil The author offers an easy 5 step plan to fortune and success. Everybody can do it. As a bonus, there is a hidden message in the book which he refers to often. In the epilogue he tells you to keep searching for the hidden message, which, if found, will turn you into a super productive successful key person of influence? Does that sound too good to be true? That's because it is. He collects a bunch of personal experiences and platitudes, not hindered by any research, and simply claims over and over again that success will follow. He probably means his own success. When he sends the snake oil to many people. I didn't learn anything from this book. The only good thing is that it was very short. So I didn't waste too much time on this. My tip, read books from actual leaders or people who've actually done the research. Eg Jim Collins, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, Jocko Willink. Real insights from real leaders. Nuanced and humble. No simple 5 step plan to success. But the truth. Amazing! life changing perspectives for me. Learning to be a key person of influence in a micro niche is exactly what I dreamed of and now Daniel has given me the confirmation and strategy to pursue this with vitality! Full of banalities. Waste of time This book had really good reviews so I downloaded it. First of all, the narration was not good. Secondly the content was full of banalities and really general knowledge. He spends a whole chapter self-congratulating himself by saying how this book will make you rich and the method is amazing. But there is no content - nothing! Most of the advice he gives is really common sense things that everyone knows now. He recommends using social media and publishing content... Well, this is obvious. 16years old people know this without having to buy a book! So why bother with this book? What a waste of time!!!! Excellent!! This is an excellent audio book. Gives you so many ideas & possibilities. It's given me direction and actions to get moving! Will be listening to it many times yet! Inspirational I have now created my category of one and perfect pitch delivery. I will become a KPI in my industry

Collective Genius Audiobook by Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, Kent Lineback

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Linda A. Hill) — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 06:25:11 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Collective Genius Subtitle: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation Author: Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, Kent Lineback Narrator: Tom Pile Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 03-30-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help - but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: You need to lead it - and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how. Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a "good" leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of individual leaders at companies like Volkswagen, Google, eBay, and Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where innovation is allowed to happen again and again - an environment where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete, practical guidance you need to build innovation into the fabric of your business. Members Reviews: New ideas and concepts Enjoyed the analysis and application with practical examples from organisations. Some repetition and the narration could have been more engaging reducing the time I listen at times.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Collaboration Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:20:36 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Collaboration Author: Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Morten Morten Narrator: Chris Kayser Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: New from the best-selling HBR's 10 Must Reads series. Join forces with others inside and outside your organization to solve your toughest problems. If you listen to nothing else on collaborating effectively, you should at least hear these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you work more productively with people on your team, in other departments, and in other organizations. Leading experts such as Daniel Goleman, Herminia Ibarra, and Morten Hansen provide the insights and advice you need to: Members Reviews: Good Content; Awful Audio Reading There are some great articles on collaboration in this collection. It's an important topic that most businesses have no idea how to deal with. Unfortunately, the audio version is stifled by the incredibly mechanical reading of the content. I listen to audio content (books, podcasts) all the time, and can get through most anything. But the reading on this was so bad that I just couldn't listen to the audio anymore and had to turn it off. Four Stars enjoyable and good tips "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.â Ancient African proverb This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider to be âmust readsâ in a given business subject area, in this instance collaboration. I have no quarrel with any of their selections, each of which is eminently deserving of inclusion. Were all of these ten articles purchased separately as reprints, the total cost would be at least $60 and the practical value of any one of them exceeds that. Given the fact that Amazon US now sells this one for only 119.52, thatâs quite a bargain. The same is true of volumes in other series such as âHBR Guide toâ,â âHarvard Business Review onâ,â and âHarvard Business Essentials." I also think there is great benefit derived from the convenience of having a variety of perspectives and insights gathered in a single volume. In all of the volumes in the âHBR 10 Must Readsâ series that I have read thus far, the authors and their HBR editors make skillful use of several reader-friendly devices that include âIdea in Briefâ and âIdea in Actionâ sections, checklists with or without bullet points, boxed mini-commentaries (some of which are âguestâ contributions from other sources), and graphic charts and diagrams that consolidate especially valuable information. These and other devices facilitate, indeed accelerate frequent review later of key points later. Those who read this volume will gain valuable information, insights, and counsel that will help them to forge strong relationships up, down, and across their organization, build a collaborative culture, bust silos (often disguised as human beings, âthe living deadâ), harness informal knowledge sharing, select the right collaboration(s) outside their business, manage conflict wisely, and know when [begin italics] not [end italics] collaborate. The healthiest organizations are those with a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive.

The Sales Manager's Guide to Greatness Audiobook by Kevin F. Davis

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Kevin F. Davis) — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:28:03 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Sales Manager's Guide to Greatness Subtitle: 10 Essential Strategies for Leading Your Team to the Top Author: Kevin F. Davis Narrator: Derek Shetterly Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 03-21-17 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Straightforward advice for taking your sales team to the next level! If your sales team isn't producing the results expected, the pressure is on you to fix the situation fast. One option is to replace salespeople. A better option is for you to optimize your performance as a sales leader. In The Sales Manager's Guide to Greatness, sales management consultant Kevin F. Davis offers 10 proven and distinctly practical strategies, skills, and tools for overcoming the most challenging obstacles sales managers face and moving your team ahead of the pack. This book will help you: You can apply the strategies outlined in this book immediately to take control of your time and priorities as a sales manager, become more strategic, deliver high-performance coaching that grows revenues, and ultimately drive your team to greatness. Critic Reviews: This really is an excellent piece of work. I like very much the way Kevin has created a one step at a time plan, guiding both novice and experienced sales managers alike, through a program of self-improvement. This should be a must read for all managers who have an ambition to develop into genuine leaders. -- Linda Richardson, Founder of Richardson, Best Selling Author, Consultant, Faculty Wharton Graduate School This fast-moving, practical book shows you how to immediately boost the performance and productivity of every salesperson. It will make you look like a genius! -- Brian Tracy, Author, The Psychology of Selling Im always excited about books that help managers become true leadersand The Sales Managers Guide to Greatness is one of those books. -- Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager and Collaboration Begins with You Members Reviews: EXCELLENT book! Well rounded book that is concise and to the point. Loaded with good advice on dealing with underperforming sales reps, how best to handle sales meetings and coaching sessions, and my favorite being to view the sales funnel from the buyers perspective and not the sellers perspective. Good stuff :) Moving from salesman to manager Really good book. Gives training and and measuring advice for sales team. Wish there was accompanying pdf with it. I will buy paperback version to review again. In meantime will listen again

Supply Chain Management Crash Course Audiobook by IntroBooks

biacuaduc@gmail.com (IntroBooks) — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 06:10:52 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Supply Chain Management Crash Course Author: IntroBooks Narrator: Andrea Giordani Format: Unabridged Length: 38 mins Language: English Release date: 01-05-18 Publisher: IntroBooks Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: In the field of commerce, the term supply chain management (SCM) is referred to as the effective management of the flow of products as well as services from the manufacturing units to the end customers. This process also involves the storage as well as the movement of the desired raw materials, of the work in progress inventory, and of the final goods from the origin point to the end consumption point. The process of effective supply chain management also includes the interlinked or interconnected networks, node businesses and channels which are used for combining the provisions of the given goods and services that might be required by the customers in the given supply chain. The definition and importance of effective supply chain management needs to be understood by the organizations of the world to ensure seamless operations and satisfaction of the end customer at the same time.

Nonprofit: How to Start Your Nonprofit the Right Way So It Will Survive and Thrive Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jerry Levy) — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:51:24 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Nonprofit: How to Start Your Nonprofit the Right Way So It Will Survive and Thrive Subtitle: Practical Step-By-Step Guide to Forming A 501(C) Nonprofit Corporation Author: Jerry Levy Narrator: Michael Stuhre Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Jerry Levy Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: It is easy to make mistakes when you are creating or reorganizing your nonprofit. There are so many organizational laws, administrative requirements, and tax considerations to navigate when you are organizing your nonprofit corporation that it can seem overwhelming. Lawyers, accountants, and advisors can be expensive, but so can setting up your nonprofit incorrectly or forgetting to file the right documents. What you need is the knowledge to get it done right the first time without breaking the bank. It doesnt have to be complicated. This guide makes it fast and easy to form your 501(c) nonprofit corporation and get your organization started on the right foot. The aim of this guide is action. It gives you the knowledge you need to get your nonprofit up and running without making costly mistakes in the process, or being so paralyzed by the overwhelming nature of organizing your nonprofit that you keep putting it off. Avail yourself of the many advantages a 501(c) nonprofit corporation offers. Many organizations find that organizing their operation as a nonprofit corporation is the best and most efficient organization from the perspective of taxation and legal protection for their activities. Learn the secrets so many successful nonprofits have used to get where they are today. This easy step-by-step guide walks you through everything you need to know including: Members Reviews: Five Stars great Essential reading for anyone serious about starting a nonprofit This book answered pretty much all of the questions I had about starting up a 501 C nonprofit corporation. There is a lot of misinformation out there on the internet and seeing a lawyer is very expensive. I don't know that this book can be a complete alternative to hiring a lawyer, but it can get you off the ground in the right way and make sure you don't make any big blunders in the process. For what it costs this book is excellent value and if you are at all serious about setting up a nonprofit then I would say it is essential reading. Even if you do end up hiring a lawyer, at least have the knowledge and background you need to ask intelligent questions and understand what is going on so no one takes you for a ride. Way better value than hiring a lawyer This book did basically exactly the same thing as the lawyer did except I paid the lawyer $1000 last time I started the business and this time I read this book and did it myself. Don't bother with the blood sucking lawyer just get this and set your nonprofit fast and easy all by yourself. You don't have money to waste when you're starting a nonprofit and too many lawyers just don't understand this. Saved a bundle and a lawyer approved of our docs My partner and I successfully used this book to start out non-profit. We had a lawyer look over the final docs and saved a bundle. Lawyer said everything was good to go. The book has specific advice pertaining to different states where they differ so you can probably use this guide to get your non-profit up and running regardless of where you live. but in a way that makes me feel like the author and I are being smart together This is an engaging book, and I ate it up in about three or four sittings.

Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic Audiobook by Kent D. Seltman, Leonard L. Berry

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Kent D. Seltman) — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:11:46 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic Subtitle: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations Author: Kent D. Seltman, Leonard L. Berry Narrator: Gary Regal Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 06-21-17 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The leader's guide to building a service powerhouse using the approach that made Mayo Clinic the number one healthcare system in America. Mayo Clinic is among the best service organizations in the world. It fosters a culture that exceeds customer expectations and earns deep loyalty from both customers and employees. This classic business guide offers a rare, up-close look at the best practices that drive Mayo Clinic's success. By examining the operating principles that guide every management decision at this legendary institution, authors Leonard Berry and Kent Seltman: Learn how to apply the Clinic's winning methods to your own organization: business concepts that produce stellar results, effective organizational efficiency, and world-class interpersonal service. Members Reviews: The subject, how to provide top quality health service ... The subject, how to provide top quality health service and survive as a non profit organization for a hundred years is facinating and the book contains a detailed description of the Mayo Clinic, its core values and strategies. I have no practical knowledge when it comes to working for or being admitted to one of the clinics but I miss the story about the pitfalls, what is the biggesr challenges in such a gigantic structure based on a set of core values from the beginning of the last century ? It is easy to read and follow I had to purchase this book for a class. It is easy to read and follow. I found it very interesting and it really did enhance my understanding of management in healthcare A gem on health care--and management This book is a gem from multiple standpoints. It describes to a tee the culture and processes at the Mayo Clinic. (As a long time patient there, I can verify that the unbelievable level of service and attention is experienced by patients exactly as Berry and Seltman describe it.) They describe not only the what, but also the why and how, of service at Mayo. But going beyond Mayo and health care, the authors include a "Lessons for Managers" section at the end of each chapter, detailing how the principles in that chapter could be applied to a wide range of organizations. Mayo is repeatedly voted one of the top health care providers in America, and patients come from all over the world to be treated there. Read this book and you'll understand why. I admit I'm only half done with this book.... but I already know that it's clearly 5 stars. I've already underlined numerous passages throughout the book to apply to my job. (I work in the hospital industry.) I recommend this book to everyone in a hospital leadership position, not only to learn more about hospital leadership best-practices, but also to get re-energized about working in the hospital industry. Five Stars It is .

The Best Team Wins Audiobook by Adam Robinson

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Adam Robinson) — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:60:42 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Best Team Wins Subtitle: Build Your Business Through Predictive Hiring Author: Adam Robinson Narrator: Adam Robinson Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs Language: English Release date: 08-01-17 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Reduce hiring risks and predict success. New mind-set. In The Best Team Wins, author Adam Robinson gives you a proven, straightforward, and effective method for hiring new employees. He teaches you how to rethink the process of finding, assessing, and hiring the right people. New methods. Robinson, a recruiting professional with over 20 years' experience, shows you how to: Better results. By following Robinson's in-depth process, you can eliminate guesswork and focus on building a team that will bring value to your company's culture and bottom line. Members Reviews: A Business book that is a quick listen and has actionable takeaways I listened to this while cleaning out my Garage on a Saturday, it has shifted the way I think about employees and our business. Highly recommend for anyone who hires and manages people.

Customer Service Training 101 Audiobook by Renee Evenson

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Renee Evenson) — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:36:27 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Customer Service Training 101 Subtitle: Quick and Easy Techniques That Get Great Results, Third Edition Author: Renee Evenson Narrator: Sandra Burr Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 12-12-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Employees aren't just the front line of any business. To customers, they are the business. Nothing is more important than arming these essential employees with the knowledge they need to find the best solution for each and every customer. Whether you're a manager, owner, or employee, Customer Service Training 101 gets you up to speed fast. The completely revised and updated third edition addresses every aspect of face-to-face, phone, online, social media, and self-service interactions. Using scenarios, guidelines, and practice exercises, this inspiring training manual explains what to say and do, what to avoid, and why interactions go astray. Assessments and examples help you: Customer service skills are essential to the success of your company. This popular crash course equips you and your employees to excel in this important role.

Originals Audiobook by Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg - foreword

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Adam Grant) — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:30:43 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Originals Subtitle: How Non-Conformists Change the World Author: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg - foreword Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 06-23-16 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 72 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The New York Times best-selling author examines how people can drive creative, moral and organisational progress - and how leaders can encourage originality in their organisations. How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity and bucking outdated traditions. Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act and manage fear and doubt. Parents will learn how to nurture originality in children, and leaders will discover how to fight groupthink to build cultures that welcome dissent. Told through dazzling case studies of people going against the grain, you'll encounter an entrepreneur who pitches the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who challenged secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees who don't criticize him and the TV executive who saved Seinfeld from the cutting room floor. Originals will give you groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and how to change the world. Critic Reviews: "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world." (Sheryl Sandberg, best-selling author of Lean In) Members Reviews: Thought-provoking and implementable Many of the ideas in this book are why I left the corporate world to work with entrepreneurs and small businesses. Awesome I really enjoyed this. Adam covers a lot of bases in this book. I found it really inspiring and challenging. I'll definitely be listening to it again and taking notes this time. I might even buy the ebook version too. Interesting book One of my favourites as far as these kinds of books go. Fred Sanders narration Brilliant Brilliant book. Full of not just insight and illustrations, but I really appreciated the application of ideas towards the end of the book. So glad I read it. Very helpful. It comes with multiple examples so it is really easy to comprehend. I would recommend you to speed up the audio.

The Innovation Code Audiobook by Jeff DeGraff, Staney DeGraff

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jeff DeGraff) — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:59:21 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Innovation Code Subtitle: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict Author: Jeff DeGraff, Staney DeGraff Narrator: Tom Dheere Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 06-22-17 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: From years of research and practical experience as a consultant, Jeff DeGraff has learned that when it comes to any innovation initiative, disharmony is crucial. We innovate when we disrupt, and we first have to disrupt each other. DeGraff identifies four contrasting types of innovators. There's the wild experimentation of The Artist, the pragmatic caution of The Engineer, the urgent competitiveness of The Athlete, and the patient community-building of The Sage. He includes exercises so listeners can find where they fit into this framework, and shows how to build, manage, and embrace the dynamic discord of a team that contains all four types. When you combine the visionary thinking of The Artist and the practical thinking of The Engineer, you get innovation that's both revolutionary and manageable, highly ambitious without high risk. When you combine the results-oriented attitude of The Athlete with the values-oriented attitude of The Sage, you get innovation that's both a good investment and good for the world. This is a profound but highly accessible guide for achieving breakthrough solutions by utilizing the full - and seemingly contradictory - spectrum of innovative thinking. Members Reviews: Read This and Learn a Lot About How to Innovate My job is to bring innovation into peacebuilding. So, when I see a book with a title like The Innovation Code, I immediately read it. This was well worth it for at least four reasons in this case. First is a statement they make toward the end of the book. "Collaboration has recently emerged as the defining characteristic of creativity and growth in nearly all sectors and industries." I think they're right except for the sectors and industries I work in that all include social and political policy making. Second, they start the book by suggesting that we encourage conflict if we want to be innovative. Thus, the first paragraph of the preface includes this line. "It's best that we innovate not with people we agree with but with people who challenge us." Rather than surround ourselves with people like ourselves, they suggest working with your polar opposite if you want to do something other than business as usual. Third, they don't encourage conflict for conflict's sake. Rather, they stress the importance of bringing together diverse teams that share at least some kind of "shared investment in the project." Finally, they help us figure out ways of working with people whose modus vivendi is different from our own which always involves heightening our understanding of or empathy A Must Read. Engaging, Brief, and Useful on Innovation Theory Organizations who don't understand the value of different type of behaviors will learn to appreciate and unleash their people by reading and reflecting on this book. The book borrows from the big five personalities, and define four archetypes: artist, engineer, atheletes, and sage. Dr Degraff also reminds us of his prior work on the Competing Value Framework 4Cs: creative, control, collaborate, compete and how to put it work in an organization with interesting story and character. I read the book on a flight from Minneapolis to Boston plus another hour. It's a short read with many gold nuggets to apply to your team.

Design Thinking in Business and IT: Overview, Techniques and Example Workshop Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Florian Heuer) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:42:52 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Design Thinking in Business and IT: Overview, Techniques and Example Workshop Author: Florian Heuer Narrator: Bryan Stout Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 12-15-15 Publisher: Heuer Coaching Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 54 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: You might have talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods. That's where design thinking comes into play. Design thinking is basically a discipline that facilitates innovation and problem solving by taking the human-centered approach and focusing on the needs and wants of the end-user. It follows a string of steps and involves teams with mixed skills and backgrounds so it can combine their different strengths and points of view. Because it brings people in the same environment, with the help of an experienced facilitator, they can establish common ground. The result is that everyone's voice will be heard and collaboration is achieved in a fun and informal way. Everyone within the group is encouraged to share their ideas, experiences, skills and expectations so the group can work through the different options following the DT process and collaborate to reach a solution for the problem at hand. ©2015 Heuer Coaching (P)2015 Heuer Coaching Members Reviews: Basic design thinking lesson Very basic and instructive steps that all designers should know. Might be a bit too basic for some of us that are looking into more context... Very fast speaking hard to listen Very fast speaking hard to listen. Maybe the text would be better than the audio. Really informative Would you listen to Design Thinking in Business and IT: Overview, Techniques and Example Workshop again? Why? Yes, there's a wealth of good fundamental and practical knowledge here. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? "Ideation is the transition between defining the problem and finding the solution. You need to look at all the options without restrictions. The volume (fluency) and the variety (flexibility) will ensure you dont leave anything un explored. " Usefull Helpfull for prope who wants to enrace there productivity. Its an basic step by step of how lead a project.

The Cleveland Clinic Way Audiobook by Toby Cosgrove

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Toby Cosgrove) — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:48:47 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Cleveland Clinic Way Subtitle: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Healthcare Organizations Author: Toby Cosgrove Narrator: Eli Woods Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 01-24-14 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 72 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: This is the future. Join the revolution. Transform your organization the Cleveland Clinic way. "One of the best healthcare systems in the world." President Barack Obama American healthcare is in crisis. It doesnt have to be. There's a revolution going on right now. On the frontiers of medicine, some doctors have developed an approach for treating people that is more effective, more humane, and more affordable. It's an approach to healthcare that has captured the attention of the media and business elite - and the President of the United States. It's all happening at Cleveland Clinic, one of the most innovative, forward-looking medical institutions in the nation. In this groundbreaking audiobook, the man who leads this global organization, Toby Cosgrove, MD, reveals how the Clinic works so well and argues persuasively for why it should be the model for the nation. He details how Cleveland Clinic focuses on the eight key trends that are shaping the future of medicine. Readers will learn: At its core is Cleveland Clinic's emphasis on patient care and patient experience. A refreshingly positive and practical vision of healthcare, The Cleveland Clinic Way is essential listening for healthcare and business executives, medical professionals, industry analysts, and policymakers. It gives leaders lessons they can apply to their own organizations to achieve results and empowers average Americans to make more informed healthcare decisions. Critic Reviews: "A brilliant doctor and leader lays out practical and thought-provoking prescriptions for America's healthcare future. A must-read." (Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric Company) "The Cleveland Clinic Way is what the healthcare system in this country needs: honesty about the challenges, optimism about our ability to address them, and a focus on solutions. A must-read for healthcare leaders, it's written in clear, inclusive language that makes it just as valuable for the rest of us." (John Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco) "A pioneer in American healthcare, Toby Cosgrove shows just how the diligence and innovative thinking behind Cleveland Clinic has helped solve fundamental problems most other places barely touch. There are lessons here for everyone--patient, physician, and policymaker alike." (Atul Gawande, MD, professor at Harvard Medical School and bestselling author of The Checklist Manifesto) "Toby Cosgrove frames the eight important trends that will transform the U.S. healthcare system. The Cleveland Clinic Way is a good road map for those who want to make the U.S. healthcare system better." (Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric Company) Members Reviews: Good read - very Cleveland-Clinic centric Where does The Cleveland Clinic Way rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far? Top 20% What did you like best about this story? The details on how the Cleveland Clinic thinks about healthcare delivery Any additional comments? It offered some really good gems about how the Cleveland Clinic delivers its services - such as "care paths" and bundled offerings. This book will certainly make you want to go to the Cleveland Clinic for any serious healthcare need. Great book Great book.

HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case Audiobook by Raymond Sheen, Amy Gallo

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Raymond Sheen) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:44:56 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case Author: Raymond Sheen, Amy Gallo Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Get your idea off the ground. You've got a great idea that will increase revenue or boost productivity - but how do you get the buy-in you need to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows your idea's value. That's not always easy: Maybe you're not sure what kind of data your stakeholders will trust. Or perhaps you're intimidated by number crunching. The HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case, written by project management expert Raymond Sheen, gives you the guidance and tools you need to make a strong case. You'll learn how to: Members Reviews: good advice, depends on your experience if you have never written or delivered or thought about a business case/business plan or the like before this is a great guide. if you are an intermediate at this skill or close to, then this doesn't add much.

How to Start a Home Inspection Service Audiobook by Entrepreneur Magazine

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Entrepreneur Magazine) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:12:16 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How to Start a Home Inspection Service Author: Entrepreneur Magazine Narrator: Michael Drew Shaw Format: Abridged Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 11-16-06 Publisher: Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: If you have construction experience, or are simply handy around the house, home inspection could be the home-based business for you. This guide teaches you everything you need to know to start and run a lucrative home-inspection service. Topics covered in this information-packed audio guide include: © and (P) Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Members Reviews: Needs to be updated Seriously outdated advice how to start your own Home Inspection Service Amazon Verified Purchase! Book is a bit disappointing in that much of it is generic 'how to start your own business' with very limited input on the Home Inspection Service focus. Chas Poole OK Helpful, but not very in-depth with the specific inspection procedures. Was lookinjg for more of a technical manual. NO help for starting an inpsection business!! I bought a lot of books to learn how to do home inspections and become a pro home inspector for a new career. This book was one of the worst since the title makes you think you will learn about how to start and run a home inspector company. But the fact is that the concepts explained in the book can be applied to ANY business because they are so basic and general and have NO specific link to home inspector companies. The book is written by someone who definitely is NOT a home inspector and knows nothing about home inspections. Perhaps they know about starting a general type of business or company. The problem is that they just took general basic information and put it into a book that can be applied to anything and has no relevance to home inspectors. You could change the title and put any type of business on the title and you would not have to change the text inside and you would see the simple ideas in the book do NOT help you out. I do NOT think this is the right choice for anyone looking to be an inspector or start an inspection business. There are other books on Amazon that are far better than this one!! This book is very informative if you have no previous ... This book is very informative if you have no previous knowledge of running a business or any common entrepreneurship knowledge. The book does not have a lot of technical information about conducting a home inspection, or the mechanical systems of a home. This book is simply a book written about how to start up a general business, and every now and then they mention home inspection information.

Prescription for the Future Audiobook by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ezekiel J. Emanuel) — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 08:11:16 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Prescription for the Future Subtitle: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel Narrator: David DeVries Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-17 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: How can America's health-care system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in health care matters more. Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost care, and from their examples distills 12 transformational practices that could transform the entire health-care sector. Ezekiel J. Emanuel looks at individual physician practices and organizations who are already successfully driving change and the specific practices they have instituted. They are not the titans everyone seems to know and assume to be the "best"; instead, Emanuel has chosen a select group - from small physician offices to large multispecialty group practices, accountable care organizations, and even for-profit companies - that are genuinely transforming care. Prescription for the Future shines a bright diagnostic light on the state of American health care and provides invaluable insights for health-care workers, investors, and patients. The book gives all of us the tools to recognize the places that will deliver high-quality, effective care when we need it. Members Reviews: Prescription is Evolutionary not Revoluionary Dr. Emanuel demonstrates that there are incremental improvements that could, if more widely adopted, reduce the cost of delivering health care in the United States. What is good about the book is that it's approach is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. What needs is improvement -- perhaps one more chapter at the end -- is a GREATER SENSE OF URGENCY re: broader implementation of these basic and achievable results. Urgent Care a spot on analysis about the shortcomings of our current healthcare system and real-world examples of how it can be fixed. Good policy perspectives I'm only almost through chapter two right now but am getting excited about some policy implementation information shared in the book. Good stuff! The author seems to have a great grasp of big picture issues. Provides hope for change in the political negative environment: pragmatic and sound advice! The book is be readable with practices that are backed up by many examples and stories. I also liked answering how do you pick your provider-if we as customers asked those questions it would be a catalyst for change. Though I am a health IT person I liked the practical discussion of not getting enamored by virtual medicine hyped appeal but seeing the very practical telehealth and new care coordination models can work. The other key concept is the packaging of changes that can be adapted and extended to meet the organization's situational specific needs. I wish there were a few pictures- I like them and I think some of the states are really working transformation like Delaware and others. This is a great read for optimists like me! Must read for health care leaders I teach health care at the college level. Dr. Emanuel does a great job of laying out some of the solutions providers have found to both improve customer service and healthcare outcomes. If you work in healthcare and are wondering where the ACA is leading the Amercian Healthcare systems.

Blue Ocean Shift Audiobook by Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Renee Mauborgne) — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 02:24:15 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Blue Ocean Shift Subtitle: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth Author: Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim Narrator: Christian Steiner Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 09-21-17 Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow-up to Blue Ocean Strategy by world-renowned professors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth. Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the audiobook. Whether you are a cash-strapped start-up or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people's confidence so that they own and drive the process. With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical material for listeners, managers and entrepreneurs alike. You'll learn what works, what doesn't and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This audiobook will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future. Members Reviews: It's really a Business Workbook Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? I'd recommend this book in its printed form to organisations looking to, in old terminology, think outside the box and look for new ways to prosper. There are a lot of steps, exercises and references out to secondary material that needs physical study over listening. What do you think the narrator could have done better? I found the narrators speed a little slow. Any additional comments? If you're following the book, it mentions a bonus PDF which you would need to contact the publisher for as it's not included in the download. I'd still recommend a physical/digital copy over the audio. Riding off success of their first book overly academic, boring and could be summed up in a few chapters. no where near as good as the first one. do yourself a favour and fast forward the first 2 hours. we know what a red and blue ocean are!! you don't need to keep harping on about opening new value frontiers! A great step by step process to finding a blue ocean Slow to start, but a lot of great insights and steps on how to create a blue ocean, with some out of the box examples including toilet paper, governments and French fry makers. This book complements Sprint really well for making an organisational shift.

Appreciative Inquiry Audiobook by David L. Cooperrider, Diana Whitney

biacuaduc@gmail.com (David L. Cooperrider) — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:00:09 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Appreciative Inquiry Subtitle: A Positive Revolution in Change Author: David L. Cooperrider, Diana Whitney Narrator: Don Sobczak Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 10-06-14 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 32 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Written by the originators and leaders of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) movement itself, this short, practical audio guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities that signal "something different is happening this time." That difference systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, and their communities more adaptive and more effective. AI, a theory of collaborative change, erases the winner/loser paradigm in favor of coordinated actions and closer relationships that lead to solutions at once simpler and more effective. Members Reviews: too many tables an and figures This book features a lot of tables, lists and figures. It might be a good read if you have the book on paper, but it is not fit to be an audio book.

Trust Factor Audiobook by Paul J. Zak

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Paul J. Zak) — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:44:52 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Trust Factor Subtitle: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies Author: Paul J. Zak Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 24 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: For decades, alarms have sounded about declining engagement. Yet companies continue to struggle with toxic cultures, and the low productivity and unhappiness that go with them. Why is "culture" so difficult to improve? What makes so many good employees check out? Neuroscientist Paul Zak shows that innate brain functions hold the answers. It all boils down to trust. When someone shows you trust, a feel-good jolt of oxytocin surges through your brain and triggers you to reciprocate. This simple mechanism creates a perpetual trust-building cycle - the key to changing stubborn workplace patterns. Drawing on his original research, Zak teases out science-backed insights for building high-trust organizations. Trust Factor opens a window on how brain chemicals affect behavior, why trust gets squashed, and ways to consciously stimulate it by celebrating effort, sharing information, promoting ownership, and more. The Ofactor(TM) survey, data, and examples support the action plans. Engagement programs and monetary rewards are Band-Aids on broken bones. To get to the root of the problem, you've got to go deeper. Packed with examples from The Container Store, Zappos, and Herman Miller, Trust Factor harnesses our neurochemistry to effectively cultivate work places where trust, joy, and commitment compound naturally. Members Reviews: encapsulated a dozen management books into one I read or listen to many business books this one is one of the best. it brings the latest research from the last ten years into a single place. great book, I highly recommend it Very usful toolkit to improve organizations The research presented in this book are good news for everyone. Enterprises will have greater productivity and all colleges Will be happier.

Summary: The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni Audiobook by Better Business Summaries

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Better Business Summaries) — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 11:14:60 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary: The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni Author: Better Business Summaries Narrator: Kevin Theis Format: Unabridged Length: 38 mins Language: English Release date: 09-02-16 Publisher: Better Business Summaries Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Summary: The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues by Patrick Lencioni Patrick Lencioni is the author of the book The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues. In this book Patrick emphasizes the idea that if a person wishes to succeed in anything they do, it is very important that they learn how to be a valuable team player. This book places a focus on how being a team player will bring success in business. A successful business owner should learn how to pick out effective team players so that they are able to hire the right people. Hiring successful team players is one of the most important aspects of business because it will give a distinct advantage when it comes to rising above competitors. This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. This book contains: Members Reviews: Great summary. I read the actual book prior to reading the summary. The summary was great, it covered the key topics and provided enough detail to understand each concept.

HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:53:35 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Find the right person to help supercharge your career. Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking for you - and you'll probably be waiting forever. Instead you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals. Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and efficient tool for moving up. The HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need will help you get it right. You'll learn how to: Members Reviews: Helpful! I really enjoyed this. It helped put mentoring into a perspective I could fully relate to.

Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Manual Jobs) — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:44:00 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business Subtitle: Opening, Operating, Running and Building a Small Business, Book 1 Author: Manual Jobs Narrator: J. Scott Bennett Format: Unabridged Length: 36 mins Language: English Release date: 04-08-16 Publisher: Creating Residuals Inc Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: This is a complete guide to how to create a plan for, open, operate, and market a new small business. Manual Jobs, the author, will walk you through the process of: Here is a tip on starting a business: Take time to write a business plan. Never use the fact that you are just starting a small business as an excuse to skip writing a formal business plan. You may not be proposing to anybody. You may not be facing a team of investors. You may not be looking forward to reaching out to angel investors. You may not even be thinking of applying for a bank loan. Still, you need a proper business plan. Review your business plan often. Make changes to it in accordance with what is and is not working in your business. If you find one or two things that are really profitable in your adventures, alter your plan to accommodate getting laser focused on these areas. In business, when you discover what is really working, you focus on ramping up those areas in order to make more money as fast as possible. Your business plan will help you see what is profitable. As you can see, Manual Jobs offers suggestions that are easy to understand. Starting a small business does not have to be complicated. This book intends to help you overcome fear and inspire you to own and operate your own small business. Members Reviews: Get your business started! Would you consider the audio edition of Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business to be better than the print version? I can follow along with my own papers and ideas while its playing out loud. What did you like best about this story? Learning how to get my plans in order as I work on business. I am going to open up a massage business and I thought this was a great way to get my affairs in order. Which character as performed by J. Scott Bennett was your favorite? No characters, self help book. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? Yep! Nice and easy, short enough to get all done, but packed with good information. Perfect for getting started! What made the experience of listening to Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business the most enjoyable? Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business is great because it offers both motivational encouragement as well as pragmatic advice from an experienced business owner. The balance of both makes the work both inspiring and useful. What other book might you compare Small Business: Helpful Ideas for Planning, Starting, and Marketing a Small Business to and why? This is my first experience with a book on entrepreneurship -- it is something that I have recently become interested in because my family is attempting to open up a health food store. I can't, therefore, really offer any comparisons to other books on the topic, but I can say that, especially for a newcomer, Small Business is approachable and compelling. Have you listened to any of J. Scott Bennetts other performances before? How does this one compare? This is the first time that I have listened to one of J. Scott Bennett's performances.

Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide Audiobook by ClydeBank Business

biacuaduc@gmail.com (ClydeBank Business) — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:55:49 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide Subtitle: A Simplified Beginners Guide to Agile Project Management Author: ClydeBank Business Narrator: Kevin Kollins Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs Language: English Release date: 03-13-15 Publisher: ClydeBank Media LLC Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 83 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Number-one Amazon best seller: Get projects done quickly and add value immediately through agile project management Agile project management is simply shifting the world of project management at its core, and there's a reason why. With an approach to projects that is quite different from the traditional waterfall methodology, agile project management focuses on adding value fast while staying on track to achieve a defined business goal. Completing projects in small chunks, piece by piece, allows project stakeholders to implement deliverables much faster than waiting for all phases of the project to be completed as well as allowing for modifications to project items based on changing needs. Often overlooked as a project management style that is only for IT-related projects, agile methodology can be utilized to complete projects across any industry, including company reorganization, improving upon or redefining business processes, and simply any project that has short production and implementation times. In order to take full advantage of the numerous added benefits of utilizing agile methodology in projects, you must understand the philosophy behind the strategies. In this book I will teach you everything you need to know about Agile project management so you can comfortably and confidently deploy the techniques and strategies in your projects. I'll take you step by step through the phases of an agile project, how to schedule iterations during your project, and how to win over project stakeholders with this progressive methodology. Broken down into simple, easy-to-understand concepts, this book will become your agile project management Bible that will take you from understanding the concepts to learning how to deploy successfully to complete awesome projects. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Members Reviews: Great Beginnings the information was very clear concise and educational also a good primer for agile practices Easy to follow introduction This is an introductory book giving a general overview of Agile management so if you have already studied agile them this will be too basic. For the beginner, it is concise and practical, and the information presented was easy to follow. I would recommend this to starters and beginners in agile management. The quality of the audiobook was good. Its a reference book, so not much excitement or story really for the narrator to do different voices or anything, but he has a clear voice and pronunciation which is what is important. A few times I missed something while listening, but it was easy enough to backup and find my place. I find with audiobook reference or learning books especially it is easier to tell when I glossed over something, and its easy enough to back up. This audiobook was provided to me for the purpose of an honest review. Informative not Practical Informative but not Practical I would revise with some practical examples of Agile process. however the vase studies were interesting A Great Overview of Agile Project Management A great overview of Agile Project Management that was informative and easy to listen to. a little dry and basic but to the point and a quick read for the very intro-est of introduction texts.

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go Audiobook by Beverly Kaye, Julie Winkle-Giulioni

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Beverly Kaye) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:47:04 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go Subtitle: Career Conversations Employees Want Author: Beverly Kaye, Julie Winkle-Giulioni Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 09-17-12 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, its frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number-one reason is that they just dont have time - for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops. But theres a better way. Members Reviews: Craptastic Hope you enjoy listening to people read PowerPoint slides! Because that's all this "book" is. The reader also sounds slightly condescending. Or maybe that's how the text is written. agony to listen to. a different narrator needed. this narrator was very hard to listen to. I didn't buy into this..... not believable. I did not feel that I learned anything. a lit of basic generalities and Made up acronyms. I'm on the fence on this one! Where does Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far? I'm on the fence on this one! The ideas are nice but overall this book is did not moved me like other audiobooks that I listen to. This is the first time I've listened to a book of this kind (management) so it's a bit interesting. But the narrator is really dry. I can easily mistake it to a machine trying to read a book. Why is this worth the buy? This is recommended in our company so I listened to it. This is important to our CEO so I have to read it and sort of get in his mind on how he sees professional growth. I found gems here like: Hindsight, foresight, and insight conversations. I like the tern mentworking and I found it really practical. How could the performance have been better? I think they have to re-record this book. They have to change the robot... sorry the narrator in this book. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? Hindsight, foresight, and insight conversations. I like the tern mentworking and I found it really practical. easy read - lots of ideas Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? a good compilation of ideas based around a shift in mindset around how we see employees.

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Instaread) — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:24:31 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni Subtitle: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Author: Instaread Narrator: Michael Gilboe Format: Unabridged Length: 32 mins Language: English Release date: 12-09-15 Publisher: Instaread Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni is a practical guide to organizational health. Organizational health is a characteristic of many successful businesses and organizations. Leaders can adopt organizational health strategies to transform their own operations and company culture in order to see the same successes that many other healthy organizations do. Through analysis, case studies, and applicable step-by-step explanations, executives and leadership teams can uncover where their own organizational health is lacking and how to improve upon it. Please Note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Members Reviews: Lousy! Gives impression that it's the whole book, but it's just a poor summary. Lousy! Gives impression that it's the whole book, but it's just a summary. And not a very good one as such, as I've read Lencioni's book. It should say Summary: in it's name.

Coaching para Milagros [Coaching Miracles] Audio Libro por Raimon Samso

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Raimon Samso) — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:20:20 GMT

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> Título: Coaching para Milagros [Coaching Miracles] Subtitular: Consigue mas clientes, ayuda a las personas y se la referencia [Get More Customers, Help People and Reference] Autor: Raimon Samso Narrador: Yazmin Venegas Formato: Unabridged Duración: 3 hrs and 41 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 10-01-13 Editor: raimon samso Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 49 votos Categorías: Business, Management Resumen del editor: El audiolibro para las personas que desean ayudar a otras personas (dentro del coaching, consultores, terapia) creando su marca personal. Eres coach o terapeuta y no te ganas bien la vida? Este audiolibro te ayudara; a multiplicar tus ingresos y a sistematizarlos. Tus clientes a veces te desbordan con sus problemas? Este audiolibro te ayudara; a ayudar de verdad a tus clientes o pacientes. Aprende a conseguir mss clientes (como ganar mas dinero), a lanzar una consulta, crea un estilo de vida libre financieramente y conviertete en la referencia en tu mercado o profesion. Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish. Opiniones de los miembros: Muy recomendable! Where does Coaching para Milagros [Coaching Miracles] rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far? Creo que ha sido uno de los mejores audiolibros que he escuchado, ya que Raimon Samsó, es muy directo y conciso en su explicación. Este audiolibro te aporta muchas ideas fantásticas para mejorar tanto tu espacio profesional, como tu vida a nivel más espiritual. Muy completo!!! Me ha encantado!! What was one of the most memorable moments of Coaching para Milagros [Coaching Miracles]? Me ha gustado mucho la segunda parte que explica como ir más allá de nuestro límites mentales para poder producir milagros en nuestro día a día. Realmente transformador. Which character as performed by Yazmin Venegas was your favorite? Creo que tiene una voz dulce y agradable, que hace que la escucha del audiolibro sea fácil y amena If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be? Trabajar desde el corazón para ver el amor que hay detrás de cada experiencia que tengo en mi vida. Any additional comments? En este libro, Raimón Samsó nos explica como podemos ayudar a ayudar. Como podemos crear nuestro propio espacio de ayuda a las personas, tanto desde la perspectiva empresarial, como la humana. Es un libro que no os dejará indiferentes, ya que aborda muchas de las ideas de un curso de milagros de forma sencilla y muy amena. Es un libro que te enseña a ir más allá de tus límites mentales. Os lo recomiendo! No Me gusto Un relato que no.

How to Start a Bar/Tavern Audiobook by Entrepreneur Magazine

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Entrepreneur Magazine) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:41:09 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How to Start a Bar/Tavern Author: Entrepreneur Magazine Narrator: Michael Drew Shaw Format: Abridged Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 11-09-06 Publisher: Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Want to open a bar or tavern that's the life of the party? There are few businesses as glamorous as owning a bar or tavern. But you need to know a lot more than just how to mix drinks if you're going to succeed. Whether your dream is to own a cozy neighborhood watering hole or the hottest nightclub in town, this easy-to-use audio guide will tell you everything you need to know before you open your doors. Topics covered include: Members Reviews: Good Basic Information This book will at least let you realize if you should get into the business or not. It goes over the most basic planning steps and warns of the difficulties of running your own bar/tavern. Some of the info is dated and doesn't take into account the age of the internet.

Project Management for Dummies Audiobook by Stanley Portny

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Stanley Portny) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:10:44 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Project Management for Dummies Subtitle: Second Edition Author: Stanley Portny Narrator: Brett Barry Format: Abridged Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 10-28-08 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 100 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: More than two-thirds of American companies use teams to execute their most important projects, making project management a highly valuable skill for advancing your career. Project Management For Dummies, Second Edition introduces you to the principles of successful project management and shows you how to motivate any team to gain maximum productivity. You'll find out how to: Check out more in the series. ©2007 Wiley Publishing, Inc.; (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers Members Reviews: Does not translate well into an audiobook What would have made Project Management for Dummies better? A downloadable guide of some of the lists that they talk about or some downloadable tools. It's not that it is a bad book. It just doesn't translate well into an audiobook. It's basically a 3.5 hour long list of things to do before your next big project. You can imagine how frustrating it is to hear a very long list being read to you while you are trying to drive. Having at least an outline in hardcopy is a must. What three words best describe Brett Barrys performance? Did a good job of reading a 3.5 hour list of things to do before your next big project. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Project Management for Dummies? None Any additional comments? Please give some additional hardcopy downloads. Not in line with the PMBOK The book may be good in general but I could not listen to it because it is not in line with PMI's PMBOK. get up to speed fast this is a great way to get up to speed fast presented in a simple and intuitive way for businessmen. Good to read What did you love best about Project Management for Dummies? The flow Would you be willing to try another book from Stanley Portny? Why or why not? Yes I will What about Brett Barrys performance did you like? Yes Any additional comments? If it can have an PDF attachment with some of the info. It will help the read, and if it can use the same words in PMI it will make the connection faster Don't buy this if you are in project management. What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment? This is a shallow book. Project management book can be largely bullet point treatises on the stuff you do in project management. This is barely that and certainly not a good audible book.

Dealing with Difficult Customers Audiobook by Noah Fleming, Shawn Veltman, Debra Margles - Foreword

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Noah Fleming) — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:47:27 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Dealing with Difficult Customers Subtitle: How to Turn Demanding, Dissatisfied, and Disagreeable Clients Into Your Best Customers Author: Noah Fleming, Shawn Veltman, Debra Margles - Foreword Narrator: Tom Parks, Cristina Panfilio Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 12-28-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Whether you're in the trenches or the boardroom, you're going to encounter demanding, dissatisfied, and disagreeable customers. Are your people (and you) prepared to deal with them? Ignore a valid complaint and you could be the next viral sensation for all the wrong reasons. But give in to every demand and you may be consumed with the often petty complaints of your worst customers and wind up pandering to them with freebies, discounts, and special attention. That will cost you time and money, and perhaps worse, do little or nothing to solve the root problem. What if the customer's dissatisfaction was the result of your sales procedures, your lack of training, or the expectations gap created by your marketing people, not the customer's fault at all? What if you could turn those customers into your best customers by making a few simple changes? Dealing with Difficult Customers will show you:

Management: Take Charge of Your Team Audiobook by Alan Anderson

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Alan Anderson) — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 17:18:52 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Management: Take Charge of Your Team Subtitle: Communication, Leadership, Coaching and Conflict Resolution Author: Alan Anderson Narrator: Martin James Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 01-06-17 Publisher: Martin James Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Team management is important, but it isn't about being important. It's about being there for your team members when they need you and overseeing the project from a managerial point of view. That means that you need to have a lot of skills including the ones shown in this book. Your team can only be as effective as you are. There is nowhere to throw blame when you are a team manager because the buck stops with you. However, when you do succeed as a team manager or leader, what you find is that your team members will follow your lead and will do so with added enthusiasm if they see that you have enthusiasm and vision to get the job done. The idea behind writing this book was to use my experience to help those starting out and to be able to give useful and sound advice. There are many corporate-style books on leadership. What makes mine different is that it's written by someone who has been where you are, and who understands your difficulty in being faced with the job of team leader for the first time. Listen and learn how it's done. It's actually easier than you may imagine, once you know what it is that you need to be doing. In this book you will learn how to: Members Reviews: wtf?? audio is by a bloody robot???!? sounds like listening to a voice to text program that doesnt take a breath!!

Scrum: The First Agile Methodology for Managing Product Development Step-by-Step Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harry Altman) — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:56:34 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Scrum: The First Agile Methodology for Managing Product Development Step-by-Step Author: Harry Altman Narrator: Bridger Conklin Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 10-16-17 Publisher: Harry Altman Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 25 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. It is a framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. Scrum is lightweight, simple to understand, and not difficult to master. Scrum is not a process or a technique for building products; rather, it is a framework within which you can employ various processes and techniques. Scrums makes clear the relative efficacy of your product management and development practices so that you can improve. The Scrum framework consists of Scrum teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum's success and usage. The rules of Scrum bind together the events, roles, and artifacts, governing the relationships and interaction between them. The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less during which "done", useable, and potentially releasable product is created. Sprints best have consistent duration throughout a development effort. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint. Sprints contain and consist of the Sprint planning, daily Scrums, work development, the Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective. The rules of Scrum are described throughout the body of this book with the specific tactics for using the Scrum framework: Members Reviews: A lot of ground to cover. This audio book is extremely dense for the amount of time it takes, and I had to take breaks. There's a lot of jargon and specific information. I feel like it is important to take breaks to review PDF document and let the information sink in. Not a lot of people that Scrum is a methodology for software development. If it's something you are looking for, then this would be a great starting point. It's a very cut and dry audiobook, very textbook feel, but very well structured and has all the core information. Good info and helpful This was a very good audio book. It was informative and gave me some new info. I'm not a big fan of the narrator, but the info itself is great. Provided a good background on Lean and Project Mgt, and went quickly from there. I received this item at a discount in exchange for an honest review. A new way to complete project tasks, The book is well laid out, and I'd recommend it to anyone looking to complete new software projects. I thought the "Sprint Review" section was particularly helpful as it acted much like a checklist. In my view, the ideas laid out in this book, if applied correctly would encourage knowledge sharing and help upskill all members of your team. Wonderfully written a joy to listen to. This quick guide is a must for anyone new or seasoned. It covers all aspects and give great samples of projects using scrum. I think this was a pretty decent book, but I can't help but think that it could've been somewhat condensed. I do love the flow and the book's thoroughness. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest assessment of this book. Good Suppliment if You're Taking a Class The content itself is really relevant to the course I'm taking this semester about software development management.

Lean Procurement and Supply Chain Management Audiobook by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA) — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:18:25 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lean Procurement and Supply Chain Management Subtitle: Key to Reducing Costs and Improving Profitability Author: Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA Narrator: Louis Winfield Bailey Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 07-09-14 Publisher: Ade World LLC Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 17 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Lean Procurement and Supply Chain Management is for many companies. It is not just for manufacturers who practice lean management. It is also for non-manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and others. During the past few years, companies have focused on supply chain improvements with initiatives centered on operational excellence and cost cutting. But have they worked? In today's on-demand environment, companies are facing growing challenges around market volatility, costs, long lead times, and unpredictable forecasts. Your inventory management decisions can make or break your firm's financial bottom line. You will find strategies in this book that will let your company meet these daily challenges and optimize working capital efficiency. Members Reviews: Review of lean procurement I found that the content of this audiobook was deminished and overshadowed by the absolute shocking narration by the narrator. I found my mind wondering far away due to the absurd tone used by the narrator. Obvious a terrible audio This book is a joke. Content is obvious and the audio is awful. Should be taken down. Audio is horrible! Sounds like the narrator did his job in the restroom. I couldn't finish the first chapter. I hope this is not how Audible is normally. For $15/mo, I have higher expectations. Sounds like James Earl Jones reading on the toilet. I have finished 407 audio books for free from my public library. My library has no more books to offer for me. I have exhausted the catalog. I need more supply chain, but if this is all there is, then I'm writing my own. Did head this in the bathroom? Couldn't get past the first 30 minutes. The reader sounds as if he is in a large public bathroom. The echo is significantly distracting to the material.

Mark H. McCormack's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ant Hive Media) — Wed, 11 May 2016 16:43:08 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Mark H. McCormack's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive Summary Author: Ant Hive Media Narrator: Tony Armagno Format: Unabridged Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 05-11-16 Publisher: Ant Hive Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: This is a summary of Mark H. McCormack's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive. Mark McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer and less than 1,000 dollars, he started International Management Group and, over a four-decade period, built the company into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with offices in more than 40 countries. To this day, McCormack's business classic remains a must-listen for executives and managers at every level, featuring straight-talking advice you'll never hear in business school. Relating his proven method of "applied people sense" in key chapters on sales, negotiation, reading others and yourself, and executive time management, McCormack presents powerful real-world guidance on: Available in a variety of formats, this summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour the whole book. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. Ant Hive Media reads every chapter, extracts the understanding and leaves you with a new perspective and time to spare. We do the work so you can understand the book in minutes, not hours. Members Reviews: Love it I honestly love it. I can see myself listening to this one more than one's. Glad I got exec summary than waste money on book Full of no brainer advice. Another marginal business book that the world does not need. Better to invest your time elsewhere...might as well read a Marvel comic Fell asleep while driving What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? The content was boring and the delivery was boring. Common sense advice delivered by a Ben Stein disciple. Has Mark H. McCormack's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive Summary turned you off from other books in this genre? Not far from it. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Tony Armagno? Anyone with a pulse What character would you cut from Mark H. McCormack's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive Summary? I'm not sure. it was so repetitive sounding that I lost track of the content. Not great The notes don't do Mark justice I'm afraid. Buy the book. It is fantastic and you will not be disappointed.

The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Verne Harnish) — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:33:00 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time Subtitle: How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and Others Made Radical Choices That Changed the Course of Business. Author: Verne Harnish, Editors of Fortune, Jim Collins (foreword) Narrator: Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 08-13-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 176 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Decisions equal success - nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive - they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension. What made Apple's board bring back Steve Jobs to the company? How did Johnson & Johnson decide to recall every bottle of Tylenol after a poisoning scare that involved only a small batch of the drug? What made Henry Ford decide to double the wages of his autoworkers, and how did that change the American economy for the next century? Here, management consultant Verne Harnish, the CEO of Gazelles, and editors of Fortune provide the background stories behind the greatest business decisions of all time. In this fully original book, you'll get a glimpse into the thought processes leading up to these groundbreaking moments and will learn how the decisions have shaped the thinking of today's top leaders. The book also contains an insightful foreword by management guru Jim Collins, the author of Built To Last and Good To Great, which explains the importance of decision making in creating a successful company. Members Reviews: Unfortunately, beyond the average For me, personaly, book was way detailed, in the parts, that dont really needed explanation. All ideas of the whole book, can be explained in 5 minutes, maximum. He included a lot of biography, the exact dates, like "in 28 August ninteen sixty four he went to the office of the Bob Duclan, that was located in Beverly Bils, where they moved recently, and was there already 5 years after Bob leaved the office", - I dont really care, who where went, and too many data was really anoying and boring, especially by the end of the book. In the book, was some insight, but in comparison to the other, even avarage books, insights was too little. He speaked a lot about trust, honesty and respect toward the customer, but dont really respected the time, of those who will dedicate 5 hours of their life, that will never come back. So, I DONT RECOMMEND, to waste your time and be disrespected, by the guy, that dont appreciate the time, money, and attention of their customers. The great lesson, that I learned from this book, its that DONT BUY BOOK BEYOND THE 15$ PRICE, ESPECIALLY IF ITS LONG LIKE THAT. Anyway, good luck to you guys, if you still with me) Interesting and left you wanting more wish there were more extraneous info as to what each change maker was dealing with to get a better understanding of the total picture of that time. Good Book! It's not necessarily a game changing book like "Good to Great." However you'll find value in the stories of leadership.

Geoff Colvin on Why Talent Is Overrated Audiobook by Geoff Colvin

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Geoff Colvin) — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:48:06 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Geoff Colvin on Why Talent Is Overrated Author: Geoff Colvin Narrator: Dave Summers Format: Original Recording Length: 12 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-14 Publisher: American Management Association Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Why are some people - Tiger Woods, Warren Buffett, Yo-Yo Ma - so incredibly accomplished at what they do, while millions of others in those same fields never become very good? Why are some people so extraordinarily creative and innovative? Why can some continue to perform great at ages when conventional wisdom would deem it impossible? Those are the questions Geoff Colvin set out to answer in Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else. Members Reviews: short podcast not the book. Expected a book. Received a podcast. Dissapointed. Couldn't find another version of the actual book available from the search result.

Agile Product Management Audiobook by Paul Vii

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Paul Vii) — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:00:11 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Agile Product Management Subtitle: Agile Estimating and Planning Your Sprint with Scrum & Agile Retrospectives 29 Tips for Continuous Improvement Author: Paul Vii Narrator: Randal Schaffer, Scott Clem Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 12-05-16 Publisher: Pashun Consulting Ltd. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: I am very confident that you will find this class valuable, as it will give you a complete overview of estimating and planning in agile scrum teams. In this class, I go to great lengths to dissect the topic and present it in an easy to understand manner for both beginners and intermediates in scrum. For starters, I will introduce you to scrum, then walk you through the process of preparing for and conducting sprint planning sessions as part of an agile scrum team. As we go on with the class, I give practical examples and tips on how to improve planning in your team or business from the ground up. To give you just a glimpse of what you will learn, here is a quick summary: So let's get started and let me help you to master agile estimating and sprint planning with scrum. Members Reviews: Great tips Great tips that I was able to apply right away. highly recommend for seasoned Scrummasters

Brick by Brick Audiobook by David Robertson, Bill Breen

biacuaduc@gmail.com (David Robertson) — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:20:17 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Brick by Brick Subtitle: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry Author: David Robertson, Bill Breen Narrator: Thomas Vincent Kelly Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 06-25-13 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 126 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the world's best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory. Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance. When the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espoused prescriptions for boosting innovation, they ironically pushed the iconic toymaker to the brink of bankruptcy. The company's near-collapse shows that what works in theory can fail spectacularly in the brutally competitive global economy. It took a new LEGO management team - faced with the growing rage for electronic toys, few barriers to entry, and ultra-demanding consumers (10-year old boys) - to reinvent the innovation rule book and transform LEGO into one of the world's most profitable, fastest-growing companies. Along the way, Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO: Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, just like LEGO. Whether you're a senior executive looking to make your company grow, an entrepreneur building a startup from scratch, or a fan who wants to instill some of that LEGO magic in your career, you'll learn how to build your own innovation advantage, brick by brick. Critic Reviews: A valuable read for any business leader or student, but will also delight those familiar with the beloved toy. Publishers Weekly starred review "A fascinating book. The story of how Lego came perilously close to disaster but then transformed itself into one of the most successful and innovative companies in the world serves both as an inspiration and an object lesson." -Chris Anderson, bestselling author of The Long Tail and Makers "Brick by Brickis a fascinating study of an iconic toy company that figured out how to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market by returning to its core values and the guiding principles that made it a success in the first place. A must-read for any executive struggling with change." Bryce G. Hoffman, journalist and author of American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company "In an era filled with so many disheartening stories of corporate failure its refreshing to witness the turn-a-round success of one we have all grown up with during our childhood and that will continue for generations to come." Adam Reed Tucker, LEGO Architectural Artist David Robertson and Bill Breen have done a wonderful job explaining brick by brick why Lego is loved around the world and what it took to keep this product at the center of toy industry for so long. Like Disney, Legos success can be attributed to their drive for innovation, creativity and persistence. While the bricks are loved by children, Brick by Brick is for any business person wanting to understand what it takes to be great. Lee Cockerell, executive vice president (retired and inspired),Walt Disney World Resort, author, Creating Magic and The Customer Rules From the Hardcover edition.

Sticking Points Audiobook by Haydn Shaw, Stephen M. R. Covey - foreword

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Haydn Shaw) — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:52:24 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Sticking Points Subtitle: How to Get 4 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart Author: Haydn Shaw, Stephen M. R. Covey - foreword Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 01-11-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945), the Baby Boomers (born 1945-1964), Gen X (born 1965-1980), and the Millennials (born 1981-2001). Haydn Shaw, popular business speaker and generational expert, has identified 12 places where the 4 generations typically come apart in the workplace (and in life as well). These sticking points revolve around differing attitudes toward managing one's own time, texting, social media, organizational structure, and of course, clothing preferences. If we don't learn to work together and stick together around these 12 sticking points, then we'll be wasting a lot of time fighting each other instead of enjoying a friendly and productive team. Sticking Points is a must-listen book that will help you understand the generational differences you encounter while teaching how we can learn to speak one another's language and get better results together. Members Reviews: provides good insight on other generations This book did a good job of presenting the different generations and explaining how the times in which the grew up and lived influence their attitudes. He gives good strategies to help the various generations understand each other better, and communicate to solve problems. The whole book is about working with other generations in a business environment. I read it to understand different generations in a ministry environment. I did find some helpful things, though the book was not specifically written to address ministry relationships. Many issues come together when you work together in ministry: personality, culture, background, and generations. This book helped me understand the generation aspect. Very apt management book for us all Describes very well how, for the first time ever, we have four distinct generations in the workplace and other institutions. Need to learn how to approach, understand, and communicate with them differently from when we came through the ranks. Very good treatment on the subject and good writing style for me, hammering the points in repeatedly in different ways. I like his style and this book. Helped in my business. Different perspectives and learning how to work with them will be a new challenge but a good one. Sticking Points brings humor, clarity and understanding concerning the four generations present in the workplace for the first time. Each generation has their own way of dressing, working, and relating to the other three. They are not wrong, learning to know them and how to work with them brings a new insight and challenge rather than the old way of acceptance or not. Every leader formal or informal should read this book I enjoyed how Shaw points out that this isnât just an issue between boomers and millennials.! Itâs between all generations. We do have more in common than we have in differences. Great book! A Very Good Read Excellent book! I needed this book for a class and it opened my eyes to many different "sticking points" my organization is/was facing. Through the discoveries in this book, I have learned to navigate through the dividing barriers and address some difficult issues with a bit more clarity.

The Six Sigma Way Audiobook by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Peter S. Pande) — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:05:01 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Six Sigma Way Subtitle: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance Author: Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh Narrator: John Lescault Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 02-22-06 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 115 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Cost reduction, productivity improvement, customer retention, these are the promises of the Six Sigma quality management system. The Six Sigma Way reveals how GE, Motorola, and numerous other companies are successfully using Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, and increase profits. Now you can learn the roadmap for implementing Six Sigma in your manufacturing or service organization. The authors, who have worked with some of the most visible Six Sigma companies, including GE, provide step-by-step guidance and practical implementation guidelines. Whether your goal is to fix a process problem or implement Six Sigma company-wide, The Six Sigma Way will help you develop an approach customized for your company's needs and the challenges of the 21st-century business environment. The Six Sigma Way: Members Reviews: a struggle I found this hard to get through. I've listen to a bunch of these books and this book was by far the worst. I would not recommend this to anyone. The book doesn't even explain what six-sigma is! Any additional comments? The book just talks about what sigma can do and doesn't explain what six sigma is or how it can be implemented! Doesn't even 'explain' the basics of Six Sigma (DMAIC etc.). An absolute waste of money and time! horrible didnt pick up one insight from this book. not worth the time Painful but necessary If you are in the corporate world, you need to make yourself aware of these things. This book however is a bit painful, and the subject matter could probably have been handled better. useless This is the most useless book I've read or listened to in a long time, maybe ever. no real content. mostly only anecdotes about 6 sigma.

The CIO Paradox Audiobook by Martha Heller

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Martha Heller) — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:51:30 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The CIO Paradox Subtitle: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership Author: Martha Heller Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 02-28-14 Publisher: Bibliomotion, Inc Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 140 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Regardless of industry, most major companies are becoming technology companies. The successful management of information has become so critical to a companys goals, that in many ways, now is the age of the CIO. Yet IT executives are besieged by a host of contradictions: Bad technology can bring a company to its knees, but corporate boards rarely employ CIOs; CIOs must keep costs down at the very same time that they drive innovation. CIOs are focused on the future, while they are tethered by technology decisions made in the past. These contradictions form what Martha Heller calls The CIO Paradox, a set of conflicting forces that are deeply embedded in governance, staffing, executive expectations, and even corporate culture. Heller, who has spent more than 12 years working with the CIO community, offers guidance to CIOs on how to attack, reverse, or neutralize the paradoxical elements of the CIO role. Through interviews with a wide array of successful CIOs, The CIO Paradox helps listeners level the playing field for IT success and get one step closer to bringing maximum value to their companies. Gildan Media and Bibliomotion are proud to bring you another Bibliomotion Audiobook. Featuring exceptional content for todays listener, these notable audiobooks contain the essential tools that can be applied to every facet of your life. Critic Reviews: In The CIO Paradox, Martha Heller has clearly articulated the many contradictions that permeate the CIO role. But more than that, she includes rich examples of how successful CIOs have managed to break through these contradictions. IT leadership is a balancing act, as Heller demonstrates in this entertaining and insightful book. (Carol Zierhoffer, VP & Global CIO, Xerox) Members Reviews: Solid insight into what it takes to be a great CIO Would you listen to The CIO Paradox again? Why? The story was great. However, the narration by Sean Pratt with his excessively long pregnant pauses between each and every sentence almost made me stop listening. If the book was not as great as it was I really would have stopped. Had to move it to 2X speed just to get his pauses to seem normal. I am literally going to check who is reading the book from now on to avoid this if possible. Must Read for anyone in IT For anyone looking to gain a "place at the table" for IT and the relationship with the business customers. This book lays out great strategic tips and examples where IT has been successful in driving business objectives. If you lead any aspect in IT or strive for leadership positions, this book is a great place to start. Narration is so poor hard to really rate How did the narrator detract from the book? No emotion, no inflection, same pace, so mind numbing I could not listen anymore. I tried multiple times and gave up. What did you take away from The CIO Paradox that you can apply to your work? The business does not understand IT and never will, so get use to it. Chapter 1, what other chapters have to say I could not bear to even attempt it. Very good and relavant I recently relistened to this book when taking a new director position.

Thrive Audiobook by Arianna Huffington

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Arianna Huffington) — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:30:55 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Thrive Author: Arianna Huffington Narrator: Agapi Stassinopoulos Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 03-25-14 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: In Thrive, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post and one of the most influential women in the world, has written a passionate call to arms, looking to redefine what it means to be successful in todays world. She likens our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. It may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later were going to topple over. We need a third leg a Third Metric for defining success in order to live a healthy, productive, and meaningful life. In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritising the demands of a career and two daughters. Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplaces, and our lives. Members Reviews: Grateful life changing I really enjoyed the this read & the journey to my new life of thriving. It was good for my soul. Turned me into a "sleep" enthusiast ;) If you could sum up Thrive in three words, what would they be? Practical, Informative, Commonsensical. What did you like best about this story? I don't have a particular favorite but I do love in general that she cited a lot of examples of big shot industry players who made "rest and sleep" a priority and improved the quality of their lives. Have you listened to any of Agapi Stassinopouloss other performances before? How does this one compare? This is the first, and I totally dig that she speaks like Arianna. Great job! Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? None. Any additional comments? After listening to the book, I tried to tweak my sleeping habit. I used to sleep 3-4 hours a day. Now after reading the book, I am making conscious healthy changes in my lifestyle. Now I get to sleep 8 hrs a day with a 1 hour nap in the afternoon. My brain is more alert and I have more energy which in return makes me more productive. I can accomplish more projects which gives me more income. More importantly, while doing my own day to day tasks - I still get to enjoy the company of my husband at the end of the day and not complain anymore of being so tired and stressed. This book helped me jumpstart creating changes towards a healthy life, rather than the downward spiral that I'm heading which is being burned out. Life is simple - Eat well. Sleep well. Live well :) The reader can't pronounce words! English is not the first language of the reader. She mispronounces words and it seems as though she really struggles with fluent sentences. For a book which is 10 hours+ this results in a not very enjoyable experience. Te content is great; the reading is appalling. Read the book, don't listen to it! Best mindfulness book so far Highly recommended for busy women always on the go. Wonderfully narrated, with rich examples and easy techniques to put in to practice. Limited applicability/relevance Narrator is not very easy and enjoyable to listen to.

Focus Audiobook by Al Ries

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Al Ries) — Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:02:45 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Focus Subtitle: The Future of Your Company Depends on It Author: Al Ries Narrator: Al Ries Format: Abridged Length: 3 hrs Language: English Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 65 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: If your company has lost the focus it once had, here are clear solutions for moving your organization back to its key service and discarding everything else. Ries, coauthor of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, gives clear examples from a variety of industries and demonstrates how crucial focus can be. Focus, he offers, is the key component to the successes of on-track companies such as Coca-Cola, Volvo, Sun Microsystems, and Little Caesars. He defines a new standard of corporate competitiveness for companies both big and small and passes on his extensive marketing experience and cutting-edge managerial advice. Get focused: your future depends on it. (P) and ©1996 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Harper Audio, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers Members Reviews: Really the economic history of IBM... This book was referenced from a pastor I follow and so I thought I would check it out. It is out dated. In fact, the author makes fun of Bill Gates for predicting the combining of TV, radio and the internet. Every time you turn around he is referencing IBM. I did catch some jewels in here, but I wouldn't spend a credit on this one. It is basically a "do what you do best" idea, which is not a novel one. Lots of history on mergers and acquisitions that was rather boring. I have the paper copy coming so I guess I will highlight the keepers. If any of this was helpful, please click YES below. Later. Extremely dated yet still has value Would you try another book from Al Ries and/or Al Ries? Possibly. Although this book is incredibly outdated it does share important ideas in businesses recognizing the need to focus and specialize. Has Focus turned you off from other books in this genre? Absolutely not. What three words best describe Al Riess performance? Matter of fact What did you take away from Focus that you can apply to your work? The importance of specializing to set yourself apart in business. Older recording but still very relevant today replaced a warn out tape with this digital recording... this should tell you everything you need to know. if not, then my advice is to listen to this recording over and over, and put the authors advice to work for you and your organization! Great and convincing argument for focus In business and in life focus is counter intuitive to logic. Great read/listen! Listening again. III III II II Excellent book This is worth hearing for any executive, business leader, or entrepreneur. A contrarian view of how to dominate your market.

The Retail Doctor's Guide to Growing Your Business: A Step-by-Step Approach to Quickly

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Bob Phibbs) — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:14:53 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Retail Doctor's Guide to Growing Your Business: A Step-by-Step Approach to Quickly Diagnose, Treat, and Cure Author: Bob Phibbs Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 08-06-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: It's one of the toughest economies in years, but don't fear - the doctor is in. Are you among the thousands of retailers frustrated by market challenges and looking for ways to take control of your business? Are you looking for the advice of an expert consultant, but unable to spend the money? Then The Retail Doctor's Guide to Growing Your Business is for you. By providing a step-by-step approach to evaluate your current business practices, The Retail Doctor offers professional guidance. Following the advice in these pages will help you devise a sound strategy to accomplish your goals and outperform your competitors. You'll also gain clear insight into all areas of human resource management, sales training, merchandising methods, and marketing. While your competitors are looking for a magic bullet to solve their problems, with The Retail Doctor's Guide to Growing Your Business, you can be making changes that will guarantee enormous returns and financial success. Members Reviews: Best book for general retail I've come across! I have read and listened to tons of books about business (in addition to college and being a brick and mortar store owner) and this is by far the best one to date. No experience in retail I have had no past experience in retail but I own a shop which had not been doing well. Listening to this book for the 3rd time and I am beginning to get it now.

Beyond the Pale Audiobook by Ken Grossman

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ken Grossman) — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:10:30 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Beyond the Pale Subtitle: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Author: Ken Grossman Narrator: Jones Allen Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 09-26-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 238 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Personal tales of perseverance and beer making from the founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Beyond the Pale chronicles Ken Grossman's journey from hobbyist homebrewer to owner of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., one of the most successful craft breweries in the United States. From youthful adventures to pioneering craft brewer, Ken Grossman shares the trials and tribulations of building a brewery that produces more than 800,000 barrels of beer a year while maintaining its commitment to using the finest ingredients available. Since Grossman founded Sierra Nevada in 1980, part of a growing beer revolution in America, critics have proclaimed his beer to be "among the best brewed anywhere in the world." Beyond the Pale describes Grossman's unique approach to making and distributing one of America's best-loved brands of beer, while focusing on people, the planet and the product. Beyond the Pale shows how with hard work, dedication, and focus, you can be successful following your dream. Members Reviews: Lots of ancilliary details Great success story, but lacks hearty details. Take away: good beer equals sales when there are no good beers. Business partners aren't family. Money allows you to run a cool business. A love of beer, and friends and family with money He lost me on his whole "health and wellness" stuff. I had hoped to hear more about his relationships with his wife and childdren. That aside, what a wonderful book packed with brew science, tenacious ingenuity and a never give up attitude. it is amazing what you can do when you have drive, and friends and family that. continually loan you money, sell their shares when you finally start making money but need moreetc.. Bless him, he is just so in love with making beer...it is hard to fault a man who loves beer... Nice history about sierra nevada Ken Grossman founded Sierra Nevada and worked and learned about all aspects of his brewing business first hand. The entrepreneurship spirit is amazing. My appreciation has grown. As a individual who went to Chico State, I had gone to Sierra Nevada many times. Whether it was for a tour, dinner or just drinks, I loved the brewery! Every tour I have taken (estate, sustainability and beer geek) have taught me something new. Now living outside of Chico, when we visit we take a tour and again, I'm floored that on the same basic estate tour I'm always amazed at learning something new. Sierra Nevada has trielt embodied wonderful principles from the start and this book opened my eyes even wider to that fact. They are so much more than quality beer. Thank you Ken Grossman for not only writing this book but continuing to believe in your brand even when times got tough! High suggest this book! Great book even greater beer! Great book with a good amount of market information along with the history of the brewery. For an aspiring brewer like myself this books seems to almost talk you out of trying to start your own brewery. Lots of good beer for thought.

The Kanban Guide Audiobook by Paul Vii

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Paul Vii) — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:58:23 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Kanban Guide Subtitle: For the Business, Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Support Team, 2nd Edition Author: Paul Vii Narrator: Randal Schaffer Format: Unabridged Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-17 Publisher: Pashun Consulting Ltd. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Creating the most efficient system for your business, development team, support team or any other organization can often be a game of trial an error. We spend years aiming to create efficient practices which meet the demands of our customers as quickly as possible without overspending our effort, time or money. Imagine if there was a system that helped optimize the effort of our teams to meet the demands of our customers. In this book, you will learn how the Kanban system can do this, and I explain: When you have listened to this guide, you will have an excellent foundation in this popular system, and a great basis for helping others to understand the same. Members Reviews: Half of this explained Scrum not Kanban Very, very elementary. For absolute beginners. At least it explains Scrumban which in itself is a waste of having two separate visualisation boards for one team - seriously?

Helping People Win at Work Audiobook by Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ken Blanchard) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:09:20 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Helping People Win at Work Author: Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge Narrator: Victor Bevine Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 08-21-09 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 48 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Ridge introduces WD-40 Company's year-round performance review system, explaining its goals, features, and the cultural changes it requires. Next, he shares his leadership point of view: what he expects of people, what they can expect of him, and where his beliefs about leadership and motivation come from. Finally, Ken Blanchard explains why WD-40 Company's Partnering for Performance system works so well - and how to leverage its high-value techniques in your organization. Topics include: Members Reviews: Everything you have to know about WD40)) Have great points to create good business team and managment in the supportive way. Can be listened in the car. Great content and ideas and thoughts but a little hard going As a student of the seven habits and a GTD / holacracy certified coach I resonate strongly with the ideas presented in this book. The theory is well presented and thought out in a practical way that really stimulates you to take specific next actions. The performance is a little wooden distracting from the content but well worth preserving for. It would be useful for a website for a downloadable content of the examples of the questionnaires discussed in the audio

We Are All Weird Audiobook by Seth Godin

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Seth Godin) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:53:35 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: We Are All Weird Subtitle: The Myth of Mass and the End of Compliance Author: Seth Godin Narrator: Seth Godin Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 09-21-11 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 373 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: We Are All Weird is a celebration of choice, of treating different people differently and of embracing the notion that everyone deserves the dignity and respect that comes from being heard. The book calls for the end of "mass" and for the beginning of offering people more choices, more interests, and giving them more authority to operate in ways that reflect their own unique values. For generations, marketers, industrialists, and politicians have tried to force us into little boxes, complying with their idea of what we should buy, use, or want. And in an industrial, mass-market driven world, this was efficient and it worked. But what we've learned in this new era is that mass limits our choice, because it succeeds through conformity. As Godin has identified, a new era of weirdness is upon us. People with more choices, more interests, and the power to do something about it are stepping forward and insisting that the world work in a different way. By enabling choice, we allow people to survive and thrive. Members Reviews: Nothing new What would have made We Are All Weird better? I am a big fan of Seth Godin but there is nothing new here. I recommend reading Purple Cow and Lynch Pin and skipping this book Mass market is being fractured. Nothing really fantastic here. Yes we know that the age of the TV advert & one size fits all is over and now you have to use a marketing mix including some clever social media. Problem still exist that the market does not really know what it wants. I don't think Seth Godin presents his case very well and left me feeling like he was just rambling on. I think Tom Peter's book Re-imagine presents a better case. Seth narrates his book in his usual easy way and isn't difficult to listen to but this book isn't one of his better ones. This is a book about marketing to niche audiences This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? Advertising professionals, students with Marketing Majors in college, entrepreneurs. Would you ever listen to anything by Seth Godin again? Possibly What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment? This book would be valuable for people in the advertisong and marketing fields. It tries to make a dry subject (to me) funny. People who are interested in the subject, would likely be delighted. Any additional comments? From the description, I thought this was more of a social commentary. It didn't really describe the focus as being marketing to customers. I listened to a good portion of the book because the narrator / author's voice is soothing and I was uninterested enough in the subject for it to be background noise while I did work that I didn't want interrupted by a more interesting (to me) book. Says same thing over and over and. Listen to the preview and save your money. His idea is that mass market is over; small "tribes" will dictate products. Actually, I don't even think that is true, and there is little to back up his statements other than his idea (wish). And then he says that same idea for over two hours. I'm getting tired of this author who has little substance yet says it authoritatively over and over. The substance of this book could fill a postcard An interesting idea, but not enough to justify an audiobook.

Dan Pink on the Modus Operandi of Motivation Audiobook by Dan Pink

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Dan Pink) — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:00:35 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Dan Pink on the Modus Operandi of Motivation Author: Dan Pink Narrator: Dave Summers Format: Original Recording Length: 13 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-14 Publisher: American Management Association Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Work + produce = reward. This is thought to be the algorithm that inspires efficiency across the workforce. In this episode of Edgewise, best-selling author Dan Pink discusses his findings, based on over 40 years of research: that the stimulus for success isn't just the almighty dollar, but the presence of autonomy, mastery, and purpose in an employees work life. Dan shares tactics to tap into and harness one's personal rhythm of productivity, to empower peak performance and to make lasting contributions to within an organization.

Summary of Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Book Summary) — Fri, 13 May 2016 20:47:49 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary of Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business Author: Book Summary Narrator: Kelly Rhodes Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 05-13-16 Publisher: Book Summary Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: This audiobook instantly catches your attention with relevant and interesting stories about real life situations. Each of these stories lends to the point he is trying to make and heightens the understanding of each productivity tip. He never leaves a story hanging, and gives useful advice throughout each chapter, enhancing it with more stories and results from studies. This audiobook draws upon the knowledge gained from fields such as psychology, neuroscience and even behavioral economics. Throughout each chapter, approaches are discussed that can be easily implemented and improve our lives and lead to success. This audiobook is not just about how to be productive, it provides so much more and guides thought patterns by giving the listener meaningful advice and providing practical and valuable lessons. This audiobook, that encourages effectiveness at all levels will transform your daily activities and can be used to promote productive activities for individuals, groups and businesses alike. You can expect this audiobook to both informative and entertaining and be highly appealing to all who have an interest in improving their productivity and overall success. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: ©2016 Book Summary (P)2016 Book Summary Members Reviews: Save your credit/money What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? Better writing. This "book" is a summary that sounds like it was written by a couple of high school students. There were grammar issues and it was poorly written.I gave up on listening to it halfway through. What do you think your next listen will be? The actual book instead of the summary. How could the performance have been better? You can't make bad writing sounds good, so it's not the fault of the voice talent or production. You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities? The ideas in the materials that it summarized were interesting so I'm going to get the original text. Any additional comments? This was a waste of money/credit. Computer voice annoying! The book is so condensed it it hard to follow. It skips back and forth and at time I thought I had missed something, but no, that's just how disjointed it is. Useless. I would like to have my money back on this one. It was a waste. Good summary but can't stand the delivery A good summary of the book pity this guy sounds like he's using Hawking's text reader.

Digital Vortex: How Today's Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors at Their Own Game

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Michael Wade) — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:48:10 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Digital Vortex: How Today's Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors at Their Own Game Author: Michael Wade, Jeff Loucks, Andy Noronha, James Macaulay Narrator: Mike Norgaard Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-17 Publisher: IMD Business School Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: 2017 winner, Axiom Business Book Award In this book, you will learn how to use the business models and strategies of startups to your own advantage. Instead of waiting to be disrupted, you can maximize the value of your existing businesses and move into profitable new ones. Most importantly, you will learn how to build the agility to anticipate threats, sense opportunities, and seize them before your rivals do. In today's world there are two paths: navigating to a new digital future, or being engulfed by exponential competitive change. With recommendations backed by research with thousands of senior executives from market leaders and startups alike, this book gives you a compass to chart your own course - to compete with disruptors and win. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Members Reviews: Good book with very relevant guidance on how to tackle disruption as an established/incumbent player. There are plenty of books describing some form of utilization of the innovators dilemma mechanisms combined with cheap capital and new business models mixed with digitization. However, these tends to focus on the startup situation - how to beat established companies.. It is refreshing with a book on how to "defend" against disruption, being an incumbent company (where most of us works). Further it provides a pragmatic approach where you have options for, harvest retreat, occupy, disrupt - all as valid options depending on the situation - its not a one answer. It is a bit long with tons of examples, and some times feels a bit blurred partly due to this in the key messages. While the book advice "competences" that you need to have/build, and approaches you can take it is not a change management book - there is not much guidance (but a long list of examples from other companies and what they have done) on how to actually implement needed changes - but I assume this is deliberate. Great read on how digital disruption works Great read on how digital disruption works, inevitable movement of industries toward Digital Vortex, and why it is crucial that companies have to pursue digital business transformation to disrupt themselves and stay ahead. Finally, the "Afterword" chapter describes how this book on digital disruption got published in half the time following a disruptive approach from book cover design to content research to production. Must Read for Executives and Change Managers Compelling research on how industries must recognize & then reorganize for the digital tsunami that is surrounding us. Very readable yet profound insights. Five Stars Good text - worth the read Don't Risk Being Left at the Station! This compact (189 pages of text) book delivers a powerful message to today's business executive: Either climb aboard the fast-moving express of digital change, or else be left behind at the station. Its virtues -- clarity, specificity, and thoroughness of documentation -- will soon become apparent to the reader. Each thoroughly researched chapter presents key concepts in readily understandable, jargon-free language. As these concepts are unpacked, graphic examples are presented, with accompanying visuals such as charts and graphs.

Startupland Audiobook by Mikkel Svane, Carlye Adler

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Mikkel Svane) — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:26:28 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Startupland Subtitle: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business Author: Mikkel Svane, Carlye Adler Narrator: Christopher Price Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 03-24-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 173 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The real story of what it takes to risk it all and go for broke. Conventional wisdom says most startups need to be in Silicon Valley, started by young engineers around a sexy new idea and backed by VC funding. But as Mikkel Svane reveals in Startupland, the story of founding Zendesk was anything but conventional. Founded in a Copenhagen loft by three 30-something friends looking to break free from corporate doldrums, Zendesk Inc. is now one of the hottest enterprise software companies, still rapidly growing with customers in 150 countries. But its success was anything but predestined. With revealing stories both funny and frank, Mikkel shares how he and his friends bravely left secure jobs to start something on their own, how he almost went broke several times, how they picked up themselves and their families to travel across the world to California and the unknown, and how the three friends were miraculously still together for Zendesk's IPO and (still growing) success. Much like Zendesk's mission itself - to remove friction, barriers, and mystery in order to make customer service easier and more approachable - Startupland removes some of the myths about startups and startup founders. Mikkel's advice, hard won through experience, often bucks conventional wisdom and entrepreneurial tropes. He shares why failure (whether fast or slow) is awful, why a seemingly boring product or idea can be the most exciting, and why giving back to the community is as important as the bottom line. From how to hire right (look for people who are not offended by swearing) to which personas generate the highest response rates, Mikkel answers the most pressing questions from the perspective of someone still in the trenches and willing to share the hard truth, warts and all. Members Reviews: amazing totally worth it! it's an amazing book and very inspirational! helps you get a clear insight! Engaging and Entertaining Good story that is well written and we'll read. I hope it is the catalyst that gets tech companies to have difficult conversations and be more inclusive. Made me think and act differently in the work place. It was sometimes tough, but hey look at me now. Mikkel Svane and the people at Zendesk clearly didn't have it easy. But I think the author fails to really communicate the feelings that came with the process of building the company and overcoming those tough times. It all feels a bit to nice despite the words being said. Also the narrator gets a lot of the names wrong. (I'm Danish like the guys from Zendesk) A good story This is the story of how three friends got together to create a very successful company. The author sounds honest and down to earth. There are no new ways or advice on how to manage your business. Its up to you to get from the story what you think applies to you. Overall, a good book Brilliant. Highly recommend. As the leading global photography platform, this book was a very good and timely boost for team Splento. It repeated many ideas we have discovered ourselves, reinforced and deepened our understanding of the platform model and gave us lots of ideas for future innovations. Huge thanks from team Splento.

How Did That Happen? Audiobook by Roger Connors, Tom Smith

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Roger Connors) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:50:24 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How Did That Happen? Subtitle: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way Author: Roger Connors, Tom Smith Narrator: Lloyd James Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 08-24-09 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 73 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: They offer powerful steps to establish a positive "Accountability Connection", rather than waiting to place blame after problems arise and people fail to deliver. Drawing on case studies, many from client companies, the authors show how to establish clear expectations and manage the unmet expectations that inevitably occur. And they offer a positive, principled way that engages hearts and minds. This book can help people at every level---from senior executives to front-line workers - enjoy greater productivity, profitability, and job satisfaction. Critic Reviews: "Definitely the 'go-to' book for teaching organizational accountability that works - without the backlash." (Steven R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) Members Reviews: HELP - How Can I Get The Lost Hours Back ? I bought this book based on reviews posted to Amazon.com. Across the board superlatives. There were no reviews posted to Audible yet (I may be the first) I just finished the first 5 hours of this book and all I can say is that I must be listening to a different book. This was one of the most painful reads I have experienced in a long time. I do not intend to listen to the 2nd half. The messages contained in 5 hours could have easily been condensed to 1 hour. The authors write in vagaries in many places and the repetition is very, very tiring. The company examples are not very insightful at all. I kept waiting for the content to start to gel, to start coming together to make more concrete points but it just never did -- at least for me. I constantly felt like I was moving between high level "ether" and mind numbing pontification. Some of the "exercises" described in the book seemed like they were ripped out of the pages of an elementary "pop" management course. Some struck me as just silly. I really wish I could have appreciated this book more - the subject fascinates me and as a manager I want to look for ways to improve. It was clear to me that this book was not going to provide that help. If I could get a refund on my purchase I would happily accept it. If you purchase this book I hope you have a different and more positive experience. Otherwise, you too may be asking yourself "How Did This Happen?" wasnt feeling it listened to it and could not get into it... stopped listening after about 4-hours. Good principles to apply anywhere I found this book with good insights and principles you can apply immediately on your day to day, especially your job. True that if you're a manager it will apply more to you, but if you're not it's useful as well. It is a little long, but I think the authors do a good job in talking about each point in detail and with examples.

Managing the Non-Profit Organization Audiobook by Peter F. Drucker

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Peter F. Drucker) — Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:20:46 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Managing the Non-Profit Organization Subtitle: Principles and Practices Author: Peter F. Drucker Narrator: Peter F. Drucker Format: Abridged Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 56 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Here, the author provides strategies for appraisal, innovation, and growth through discussions with top professionals from leading non-profit human-services institutions. But being mission focused, rather than procedure focused, Peter Drucker feels, it's easier to gauge performance, set standards, evaluate effectiveness, and see the bottom line when there is no bottom line. Members Reviews: Difficult to understand I downloaded format 2, but with Peter's thick accent it was very difficult to understand a word he was saying. I don't recommend downloading this in an audio. Perhaps the book itself is better. great advice, bad audio Yes, the audio quality is terrible. Peter Drucker is perhaps the best authority on leadership, especially for non-profits. This books is not an abridgement of his classic work on non-profits, but a series of interviews that he gave on topics covered in his book. The interviews are facinating and full of wonderful information. It is a shame the audio quality is so poor. Managing the Non-Profit Organization I was a bit miffed when I started listening to this audio book. I recall a previous edition that read the entire work but with a reader who was easy to understand. Drucker cannot be understood. The quality of this work is horrible. I would ask the Audible people to drill down into your archives because I do recall an earlier audio book that was much easier to understand. Also, your description of the work fails to state that it is an INTERVIEW about the title not a reading of the title itself. Shame on you!! Very Unclear This audio book is terrible! The speaker is so difficult to understand with his heavy accent that you have to keep rewinding to understand what he is saying. It would be easier and take less time to just read the book. I couldn't even tell you if the content is good, because I can't understand what the content is! Good book, Fair recording The info in the book is outstanding, but the recording quality is just not there. I understand the desire to hear it all "straight from the author," but when the author speaks with a heavy accent and doesn't enunciate well, it makes it hard to mine information from the audio.

Startup Opportunities Audiobook by Sean Wise, Brad Feld

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Sean Wise) — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:52:04 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Startup Opportunities Subtitle: Know When to Quit Your Day Job, 2nd Edition Author: Sean Wise, Brad Feld Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 11-07-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Start strong with essential early-stage guidance from the VC perspective. Startup Opportunities is the go-to guide for anyone with a great business idea. Whether it's your first business or your fifth, realistic assessment from the outset can save you a lot of time and money; why pour your heart and soul into a venture that is doomed to fail? Instead, position yourself to win from the very beginning. In this book, accomplished venture capitalists share their insight on startups and entrepreneurs: who will fail, who will succeed and why, and what you should do to give your business the very best shot at becoming a global success story. You'll learn how to evaluate your business with a critical eye and how early customer development can be key in turning a good idea into a great opportunity. If you're serious about building a business that lasts, this book provides invaluable guidance that you really cannot miss. More than five million people will launch a business this year, and many of them will be great ideas - yet few will be around in five years, and even fewer in 10 years. A great idea is not enough to build a successful business. You need to fortify your idea with the proper foundation and a scaffolding of good planning and early action. This book shows you how. This expert author team has witnessed more than 30,000 pitches over two decades and have participated in over 500 startup launches. Startup Opportunities gives you the benefit of their experience to help you start strong and stay strong. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Members Reviews: It's start-up basics with plenty of details Overall: It's a good book. I've been in building different businesses from scratchs for a while now, and am currently at a point where we're rising the investment. There was a lot info that is simple common sense, but common sense isn't always common practice, so it's important for someone to remind it time to time. Pros: 1. The thing I liked the most about this book is that my startup idea seems to be very good from all sides - well researched, 10x better than everything else on the market, excellent market opportunities and many other good points. What it requires is a better feedback from users, preferably them being ready to pay for it. Indeed, I reduced my valuation of my company and understood what needs to be done to get to the valuation I strive for. 2. The approach to the subject is very, very correct. It gets people out off their dream worlds and shows them the path that a real startup would need to take. 3. Most problems that a startup will conduct are well noted here. And it starts from the very beginning, the idea, and goes to rising money and operating the business when its damn hard. 4. The narrator has an excellent voice, and is easy to listen. 5. The amount of literature references is huge, and when you know what is your weak point - youre able to go and get a specific book on the subject. 6. There are interviews/quotes from many start-upers and people who funded them, which underlines how the concepts Brad and Sean are telling us about are found important and what influence they can have in real life. Cons: 1.

Flash Boys Audiobook by Michael Lewis

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Michael Lewis) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:28:09 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Flash Boys Author: Michael Lewis Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 03-31-14 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 155 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your cash don't know what's happening to it. And the very few who do aren't about to tell - because they're making a killing. This is a market that's rigged, out of control and out of sight; a market in which the chief need is for speed; and in which traders would sell their grandmothers for a microsecond. Blink, and you'll miss it. In Flash Boys, Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on. It's the story of what it's like to declare war on some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. It's about taking on an entire system. And it's about the madness that has taken hold of the financial markets today. You won't believe it until you've read it. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books including the New York Times bestsellers Liar's Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, Boomerang and The Big Short, 'probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written' (Reuters). Lewis is contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio magazine. Critic Reviews: I read Michael Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like (Malcolm Gladwell) Probably the best current writer in America (Tom Wolfe) Members Reviews: The Best story teller No one does it better than Michael Lewis. This was my second book by Michael and got really hooked on. Can't wait for his next book to be available on auidiobooks. Very nice to listen to A sure read to figure out what people will do behind your back to make profits of of you, yes even if they are your broker. An intriguing story An intriguing story for someone who has even a little experience with the stock market. It was my first audio book and I think the narrator was excellent. Really great Facts sometimes difficult to believe in, but seems very true. Good written, good read. Recommend. Wall St tales To my surprise, I found this to be an interesting and absorbing book. I know nothing about the stock exchange and Wall St so at times needed to push through my lack of knowledge and hope it would make sense. It did. There were enough stories about characters in the system - the programmers - to ensure a human dimension. This would be a good book to reread in the near future as I am sure I missed parts of the story because of the specifics in here about the working of the stock exchange. I am now much better informed.

Human Sigma Audiobook by John H. Fleming, Jim Asplund

biacuaduc@gmail.com (John H. Fleming) — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:31:48 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Human Sigma Subtitle: Managing the Employee-Customer Encounter Author: John H. Fleming, Jim Asplund Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 11-29-16 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Six Sigma changed the face of manufacturing quality, creating excellence by reducing variance in finished goods, revolutionizing businesses, and boosting profits. Now, Human Sigma is poised to do the same for sales and service organizations. This book offers an innovative, research-based approach to one of the toughest challenges businesses face today: how to drive success by effectively managing the moments when employees interact with customers. Based on research spanning 10 million employees and 10 million customers around the globe, the Human Sigma approach combines a proven method for assessing the health of the employee-customer encounter with a disciplined process for improving it. Human Sigma is based on five new rules to bring excellence to the way employees engage and interact with customers: RULE #1: E Pluribus Unum. Employee and customer experiences must be managed together - not as separate entities. RULE #2: Feelings Are Facts. Emotions drive and shape the employee-customer encounter. RULE #3: Think Globally, Measure and Act Locally. The employee-customer encounter must be measured and managed at the local level. RULE #4: There Is One Number You Need to Know. Employee and customer engagement interact to drive enhanced financial performance. And this interaction can be quantified and summarized with a single performance metric. RULE #5: If You Pray for Potatoes, You Better Grab a Hoe. This means that good intentions alone do not constitute a plan of action. Sustainable improvement in the employee-customer encounter requires disciplined local action coupled with a companywide commitment to changing how employees are recruited, positioned in roles, rewarded and recognized, and importantly, how they are managed. Essential listening for today's global business leaders, Human Sigma shows how sales and service companies can flourish in the new global economy. It reveals a profoundly different method for managing human systems for growth. Blending strategic analysis with hands-on, practical steps and advice, Human Sigma will change how you view your work, your employees, and your customers forever. Members Reviews: Good start - online resources Interesting approach to connect engagement with profit. It would be good to have more complementary resources on line to complement theory with application. We Are in the Human Business! Fleming has done a great job here of explaining what it means to be human in the workplace. It's hard and it's messy, but it can be a beautiful thing when we understand what people need and want. We have woven the 4 universal customer expectations into our service training, and linked each individual's talents and strengths to meeting those customer expectations in their specific role. Although I love his idea of all front line folks reporting to one area responsible for quality service and building customer loyalty, this is a tall order for organizations that have many "silos". Great reading for anyone passionate about quality service and building customer loyality. Great Book - Worth the Investment and Time Excellent value add in this book. The way they wrote it is not my style but the content , cases, and Analise are of great quality for any reader. By using their own company Gallup data, they brought to the readers a very rich content, well connected and very well organized.

Discipline Without Punishment Audiobook by Dick Grote

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Dick Grote) — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:37:45 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Discipline Without Punishment Subtitle: The Proven Strategy That Turns Problem Employees into Superior Performers Author: Dick Grote Narrator: Steven Roy Grimsley Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 03-12-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The original edition of Discipline Without Punishment introduced a positive approach for getting problem employees to meet - and often even exceed - job requirements. The book still delivers on that promise, and in this revised edition, Dick Grote provides new insights, along with sample dialogues, memos, and worksheets. Grote's revolutionary method helps listeners: This proven guidebook, from one of the country's leading experts on performance management, will help any organization get potentially great employees back on track. Members Reviews: The only outside of approach to discipline If you could sum up Discipline Without Punishment in three words, what would they be? Change how you discipline your employees! What did you like best about this story? It's a different approach to operating a business. Any additional comments? Anyone who is looking for a different approach to handling disciplinary actions needs to read this book. One of those must have books for upper management. Any additional comments? There is some great information on management material in this book! The only reason why I didn't give it 4 stars is because I felt like some of the information that was given was really similar to information given in previous chapters. Basically it could have been more concise. However, that probably does depend on the type of personality you have. If you really enjoy having things spelled out for you about a technique and how it can function in multiple scenarios, then you will be the type of person to give this 4 or 5 stars. As I said the information is great, and I believe that practically all people in management positions should be exposed to this book. Just felt a little repetitive to me. So I guess if it starts feeling repetitive to you, maybe spread out the time you take to listen to it and it may not have the same impact as it did to me. (I practically listened to it in one day.) AWESOME! I can't say enough good things about this book, but if you're serious about creating a positive and lasting change in your company there are few more effective practices you could adopt than the ideas this book introduces you to. Good book. Found the idea to be very innovative. lots of useful information even if you can't change the current program you can still use the ideas on how to deal with employees.

HBR Guide to Coaching Employees Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:08:26 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR Guide to Coaching Employees Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 38 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Help your employees help themselves. As a manager in today's business world, you can't just tell your direct reports what to do: You need to help them make their own decisions, enable them to solve tough problems, and actively develop their skills on the job. Whether you have a star on your team who's eager to advance, an underperformer who's dragging the group down, or a steady contributor who feels bored and neglected, you need to coach them: Help shape their goals - and support their efforts to achieve them. In the HBR Guide to Coaching Employees you'll learn how to: Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges. Members Reviews: Great Ideas and Approaches for Managers and Leaders A great book if you want to really work with your staff but aren't sure how to approach it. Having a variety of authors providing spot on, real-world examples, you'll walk away with new tools and approaches. Coaching is about listening, asking penetrating questions and developing mutually agreed upon action plans. The authors honor coaching, and show how to apply these methods in very common situations. Highly recommend the book and the ideas. It's especially good for new managers and leaders. Four Stars :-) Coach them up The framework & flow were easy to follow. Overall good guidance for first time leaders and those more senior needing a refresher . Great coaching guide Liked the easy to read style .The book uses real life examples that resonated with me . Recommend to all middle manager that manage teams with individuals that have different levels of ability and performance . Worth the read . How to become an effective coach This is the next of the book for anyone have direct reports. Weather you are managing managers or individual contributors you will find this book valuable.

Perfect Dealership Audiobook by Max Zanan

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Max Zanan) — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:35:57 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Perfect Dealership Subtitle: Surviving the Digital Disruption Author: Max Zanan Narrator: Will Stauff Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 12-13-17 Publisher: Max Zanan Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Remember travel agencies? They were a thriving business not so long ago. Then online services transformed the industry, and brick-and-mortar travel agencies died - and died quickly. Today, traditional car dealerships are facing much the same threat. Innovative and convenient digital startups and services threaten to disrupt the traditional car-sale process, egged on by consumers who arent happy with the existing sales process. If car dealerships dont adapt, they too will face an industry-wide extinction. Perfect Dealership offers help and hope for dealerships struggling to adapt to this digital-based paradigm shift. Consultant Max Zanan applies 15 years of automotive-industry experience to the future of the car dealership. Arguing that dealerships must make significant changes if they are to survive the coming storm, Zanan takes a close look at every department within the business, including: By improving the role of each department and transforming them from individual echelons into a cohesive whole, Zanan offers a road map for the creation of a perfect dealership - the only way to remain relevant and solvent in the digital age. Members Reviews: Perfect Dealership - Surviving the digital disruption Perfect Dealership - Surviving the digital disruption. By Max Zanan This book is a must read for anyone in the automotive world. As a seasoned veteran of the car industry, I found the book to cover essential topics, such as utilizing software properly such as CRM, Dealertrack etc, - Online Sales Techniques and Compliance Training. The book broke down each department that one would find in a thriving dealership. The "Perfect Dealership" pointed out the steps & tools that could be immediately implemented that would drive up revenue and retain customer loyalty. Having the "Perfect Dealership" as part of your training materials would help develop and cultivate employee engagement, motivation, by teaching the importance of managing time and dealing with clients. Anyone in a leadership role would be able to grasp Max's usable insight, which in turn would allow them to optimize their teams talents, build a team environment between departments. Thus, improve sales and the overall morale of the dealership. Max, Great Job and Book..... (R. Buckley) A Guide for the Modern Consumer-Friendly Car Dealership I bought this book for a friend. And we BOTH love it. It's a quick, smart read, and should be viewed as critically important to anyone trying to survive in the car dealership business today. That industry is due for massive changes as consumers grow increasingly smart and have better and better tools to shop online for their next car. Consumers are tired of slick dealerships and deals that feel sneaky and hard to compare. It's worse than buying a mattress :) - If you want to bring your dealership in line with consumer expectations today, get this book and let Max Zanan walk you through doing it right. Great read. Even though the topic of the car ... Great read. Even though the topic of the car dealerships is not my area of interest, I still have an MBA and was very interested to find out how New age technologies affect this particular industry. Highly recommend this book!!! Must have!!! âPerfect Dealershipâ is a very educational , up to date view on todayâs very dynamic automobile sales process.

Vendedores perros [Selling Dogs] Audio Libro por Blair Singer

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Blair Singer) — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:21:31 GMT

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> Título: Vendedores perros [Selling Dogs] Subtitular: No necesitas ser un perro de ataque para tener éxito en las ventas [You Do Not Need to Be an Attack Dog to Succeed in Sales] Autor: Blair Singer Narrador: Carlos Torres Formato: Unabridged Duración: 6 hrs and 35 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 10-17-17 Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Calificaciones: 1.5 de 5 de 2 votos Categorías: Business, Management Resumen del editor: Best seller con más de 100 mil ejemplares vendidos. Domina las ventas y conviértete en millonario. Descubre cómo vender tu producto en el mundo de los negocios. Vendedores Perros es un best seller internacional que ha inspirado a pequeños empresarios, vendedores y dueños de negocio en todo el mundo por casi una década. Su mensaje es claro: la diferencia entre tener "una idea millonaria" y realmente ser millonario, es tu habilidad para vender tu idea, concepto, servicio o producto. Ya sea que estés buscando trabajo, reclutando un excelente equipo, vendiendo un servicio, incrementando tu capital, o simplemente convenciéndote...las ventas es tu habilidad número uno. Vendedores Perros te ayudará a: revelar las cinco habilidades simples pero críticas generadoras de ingresos que pueden explotar tu poder adquisitivo; identificar tu "raza" de vendedor perro, para aprovechar tus fortalezas y experimentar una alta efectividad; superar cualquier miedo, duda, o negación que tengas acerca de las ventas; cambiar radicalmente tu actitud en 30 segundos o menos, para que estés en un nivel de confianza óptimo en cualquier situación; tener la habilidad de cambiar cualquier "no" en "sí" -sin importar con quién estés hablando; adquirir las herramientas y tips necesarios para inspirar y dirigir a cualquier esquipo de ventas. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. Opiniones de los miembros: Muy malo El libro no dice nada concreto sobre cómo ser mejor vendedor, solo habla de razas de perros y comparaciones forzadas sin sentido. Lástima por el dinero. no mal gastes tu dinero El libro mas inutil que e escuchado en mi vida no lo recomiendo a nadie

Built for Growth Audiobook by John Danner, Chris Kuenne

biacuaduc@gmail.com (John Danner) — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:35:00 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Built for Growth Subtitle: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win Author: John Danner, Chris Kuenne Narrator: John Danner Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 09-19-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal best seller Are you a driver, an explorer, a crusader, or a captain? Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone start-up or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneur - the particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. And your builder personality is the one resource you can directly control in growing a business that wins. Simply put, who you are shapes how you build for growth. Built for Growth decodes the interplay between builder personality and new business success. Using a patented analytic methodology, authors Chris Kuenne and John Danner discovered four distinct types of highly successful entrepreneurial personalities - the driver, the explorer, the crusader, and the captain. Each is motivated, makes decisions, manages, and leads their businesses differently. Kuenne and Danner blend pioneering research and exclusive personal interviews to illustrate how each type handles the five dynamic challenges in building a business of lasting value: converting ideas into products, galvanizing individual talent for collaborative impact, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business. With assessments and tools, including a brief Builder Personality quiz and in-depth profiles of each builder type, Built for Growth is the ultimate guide for how to play to your strengths, complement and compensate for your gaps, and build a successful business - from start-up to scale-up. Its vivid stories and practical advice show how you can unlock the potential of your builder personality to shape your business, your team, and your ability to win in the marketplace. Please visit http://www.builtforgrowth.com/. to learn more and access the Builder Personality Discovery tool. Members Reviews: Every entrepreneur should read this book! Finally, there is a personality assessment for entrepreneurs! Every smart entrepreneur should buy this book, do the profiling and study the results. Why? Because most successful entrepreneurs don't know what makes them effective! Here is you opportunity to learn about yourself so that you can replicate your success and avoid failure. Don't leave it to chance! The world has too many one hit wonders! Also, share your personality assessment not just with your team but also with your "caregivers". It's the spouse, mother, sibling, nanny, etc who enable you to focus on your venture that can also learn how to support you better. Finally, a guide to understanding how your leadership style can best contribute to growth. While there are lots of books on the mechanics of startups and growing a business in general, this is the only one I recall addressing founders' personality to help them understand their own potential contributions and deficits. It was very self reflecting. The book provides insights across the 4 personality styles and how each can impact a growing business (in both positive and negative ways).

Scrum Audiobook by Jeff Sutherland

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Jeff Sutherland) — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 06:29:53 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Scrum Subtitle: The art of doing twice the work in half the time Author: Jeff Sutherland Narrator: JJ Sutherland Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 01-28-16 Publisher: Penguin Random House UK Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its cocreator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland. Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to health care in major American hospitals. In this major new book, its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere. Take the FBI's attempt to digitize its records, for example. As with so many software projects, the first attempt failed, having taken four years and cost over $400 million. Then the FBI turned to Scrum and, just over a year later, unveiled a functioning system that cost less than a tenth of the first project and employed a tenth of the staff. And it's not just grand projects that Scrum can help with. Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget. Scrum shows you how. It explains how to define precisely what it is that you are seeking to achieve, how to set up the team to achieve it, and how to monitor progress until the project is successfully completed. Filled with practical examples drawn from all types of organisations, it will make you rethink the fundamentals of successful management - and show you how to get things done however everyday or ambitious, however small or large your organisation. Members Reviews: The best book for Project Managment ever. We tried out this approuch during a huge project. That was great. The book is really worth reading. I strongly recommend it. un buen libro Es un excelente libro para entender los orígenes y aplicaciones de SCRUM más allá del desarrollo de software Mandaroty for project managers If you want to launch a product doesn't matter in what area. You must read this book! Exceptional This book is most definitely worth the time. It can give you visible insight into the why and how of Scrum. Great concept, lacked implementation Great concept but they could have gave a bit more insight to the how to do it.

Agile Project Management Audiobook by Robert Keane

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Robert Keane) — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 07:19:17 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Agile Project Management Subtitle: Focus on Continuous Improvement, Scope Flexibility, Team Input, and Delivering Essential Quality Products Author: Robert Keane Narrator: Mike Davis Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 10-03-17 Publisher: Robert Keane Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Are you looking to understand what all the hype is about regarding Agile project management? Do you want to be able to have the knowledge to work in an Agile environment? Do you want to stand out from the crowd of Agile project managers? Agile project management has grown in popularity over the past several years. Change is occurring so fast that many organizations are unable to keep up with the demands of a changing global world. Your ability to quickly change and adapt to your environment will make or break, not only your career but could be the deciding factor as to whether your company survives in the coming years. Those that have implemented the Agile strategies you will learn in this book are the ones that are succeeding and will be around for years to come. Look around at your peers. How many of them are looking to take that next step? The answer is probably very few but not you. You are an action taker. The fact that you are looking for a book like this says so. Individuals like you that take the time to understand the principles of Agile project management are seeing their careers reach new levels. They are able to separate themselves from the masses and have been able to carve out a unique niche for themselves. On the surface, Agile may sound simple, and it truly is, but there are several nuances that make a difference in whether an organization succeeds or fails with Agile. Also, how Agile is applied by the individual practitioner determines whether they will succeed in the field of Agile Project Management. In this guide, you will be taken through the basics of Agile project management and, as an added bonus, how it relates to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Members Reviews: I have seen more ways to write and effectively manage a good project. Agile project management is an iterative approach to planning and guiding project processes. If you find yourself writing any form of project, then you need the guidance of this book. I have seen more ways to write and effectively manage a good project. high quality book Itâs very informative book! Reading it Iâve learned the history of Agile Project Management and itâs benefits. The most interesting for me is Scrum. This book explain in details how you can use Scrum, itâs Ceremonies and how to use them to simplify project. As I supposed Iâve learned a lot in this book! Recommend it! A good book for the start Its a good book to give the reader a good direction and proper project management with Agile style making production smooth as I suppose I really learned a lot in this ... as I suppose I really learned a lot in this book. I'm so much grateful. I learned about Agile strategy and making Agile work within an organization. Thanks. Agile Strategy is really useful for it could make our organization work better and efficient.... Agile Project Management has grown in popularity over the past several years. Change is occurring so fast that many organizations are unable to keep up with the demands of a changing global world. In this book we could learn the brief history of Agile and the benefits it could give us in our organization. Agile Strategy is really useful for it could make our organization work better and efficient.

Summary of The Power of Broke, by Daymond John with Daniel Paisner | Includes Analysis Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Instaread) — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:33:60 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary of The Power of Broke, by Daymond John with Daniel Paisner | Includes Analysis Author: Instaread Narrator: Dwight Equitz Format: Unabridged Length: 23 mins Language: English Release date: 03-28-16 Publisher: Instaread Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Summary of The Power of Broke by Daymond John with Daniel Paisner | Includes Analysis & Preview: The Power of Broke emphasizes that money does not make the entrepreneur. Successful businesspeople seek creative solutions and are able to resolve challenges without simply buying their way out of them.... Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book, and not the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of The Power of Broke: About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary, and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience. Members Reviews: A huge eye-opener! An excellent summary of a book that inspires my hunger for success I am an entrepreneur myself. Daymond John's book, "The Power of Broke" has been a huge eye-opener for me. This Summary of "The Power of Broke" is a great companion book to the original book. I can say that it's well worth the time to read this first before diving in all 288 pages of John's original book. At the same time, reading this Summary has greatly influenced my decision making to eventually purchase the original hardcopy. I am sure it will have the same effect on you. Like the author, I am in constant hunger for success in my journey as an entrepreneur. I have huge respect for Daymond John and have looked up to him since. He is such an inspiration! Overall an excellent purchase and I highly recommend this summary book. I received this book for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. Why it pays to be broke Have you ever felt chained down by your finances? Like its impossible to chase your dreams because you don't have the funds? Its easy to feel like more money would be the answer to all of our problems. However, "The Power of Broke" emphasizes that money does not make the entrepreneur. Successful business people seek creative solutions and are able to resolve challenges without simply buying their way out of them. Daymond John is an entrepreneur best known for his role as an investor on ABC's Shark Tank. His book outlines his journey from a low-income childhood to the business success he enjoys today. This Instaread review of John's book distills the message and argument of creative thinking while broke, into 8 points. While it may be hard sometimes as a large corporation with large coffers, it is possible at any time to think and act broke. The key takeaways of this analysis empowered me to find greater success in my business ventures and to be more creative in my problem solving. As a young millennial with a young family, I'm primed for thinking broke. And if I can use my empty wallet as a powerful tool, so can you. I was given a copy of this book to review. A GOOD OUTLINE FROM THE ORIGINAL BOOK THAT MAY HELP STRUGGLING ENTREPRENEURS This is an overview of the actual book âThe Power of Broke.â Kind of like an abbreviated Cliff's Notes for the full book. It provides a potential reader enough information regarding this bookâs content to determine if we want to invest the extra money and time to actually buy and read the entire book. This book is for "entrepreneurs" who find themselves out of 'cash flow' and with little to no method for borrowing or gaining access to additional working capital.

A Culture of High Performance Audiobook by Quint Studer

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Quint Studer) — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 03:49:05 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Culture of High Performance Subtitle: Achieving Higher Quality at a Lower Cost Author: Quint Studer Narrator: Kevin Young Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 12-26-13 Publisher: West Voice Audioworks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 39 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: In healthcare, even the way we change has changed. Quint Studer's new book helps you hardwire the skills you need to perform at a higher level continuously. Our industry has always dealt with change. But the environment we're navigating now requires change at a whole different level. We've moved from experiencing episodic change to continuous change and as John Kotter has famously noted, that requires a whole different set of skills and a whole different level of urgency. In his new book, A Culture of High Performance: Achieving Higher Quality at a Lower Cost, thought leader Quint Studer explains how to leverage the powerful values that have always defined healthcare people passion, fortitude, willingness to learn to meet the challenges of our disruptive external environment. Writing in his trademark conversational style, he lays out the framework, principles, processes and tactics that hardwire excellence in your organization all the while growing a culture of consistent reliable execution that drives quality higher and higher (and higher!) as it controls costs. The book reveals: A look at the latest research that validates which behaviors and practices truly work The framework and core principles that lay the foundation for dramatic culture change A simple seven-step model that helps you diagnose shortfalls, develop a treatment plan and hardwire the systems that drive performance Why transparency and straight communication build trust and foster engagement How to create and cascade a clear set of objective, weighted, aligned goals that break down silos and hold people accountable for achieving outcomes A method for ensuring that leaders get the training and development they need High-impact tactics that get behavior and processes aligned across your organization The phases of change you can expect and how to help people navigate them How to connect with head people and heart people (most of us are a blend of both) as you seek to drive change A Culture of High Performance is the perfect companion to Studer's best-selling classic Hardwiring Excellence. Packed with new research and fresh insights all brought to life with humorous, thought-provoking and inspiring stories, this book is a must have for any leader struggling to shore up margins while sustaining an organization that's a great place for employees to work, physicians to practice medicine and patients to receive care. Members Reviews: Excellent As usual- Quint Studer doesnât disappoint. this is an easy ready - easy to implement initiatives for a better healthcare workplace Mostly common sense but a great and well written review for any healthcare leader Mostly common sense but a great and well written review for any healthcare leader. I expect nothing less from Studer. A Refreshing Guide to Leading an Organization to Great Performance This text builds on the learning initiated in Hardwiring Excellence. New and updated research take Hardwiring Excellence to the next level in a way that provides new insight and great tips that can be applied right away! A book with healthcare examples at its heart, but meant for any leader who wants to make their organization the very best place it can be. Five Stars Good book. Quint Studer and the Studer group have transformed many healthcare systems and hospitals from good to excellent. Great Book for All Managers! Great book.

Nonprofit Startup Guide for Beginners Audiobook by Raymond Garner

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Raymond Garner) — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 03:25:08 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Nonprofit Startup Guide for Beginners Subtitle: Easy Steps for Fundraising from Small to Success Author: Raymond Garner Narrator: Brendan T. Stallings Format: Unabridged Length: 58 mins Language: English Release date: 06-01-16 Publisher: Raymond Garner Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: This book will help you in being able to start up your own nonprofit group from the ground up. Starting a nonprofit group is not easy and will require work, time, and patience from everyone involved. But, in the end, the work will be worth it because you will have started a business that will begin to impact your town, county, state, maybe even go as far as to impact people nationwide. Everyone has heard of the big nonprofit organizations that are worldwide and reaching out to those that they help. The goal with this book is to give you the steps and help you get to that point. Everyone you are intending to help will, hopefully, get the help that you are wanting them to get! Keep your mind open when going through this book in order to find out how to make your nonprofit business from start to finish. There are rules in place in order to keep nonprofits on the right track, make sure that you follow all the guidelines when it comes to any nonprofit business. It's not going to be easy to start up the nonprofit organization, but in the end, it will be worth it. Just make sure that you stick to your guns and don't give up. This book will give you the basic tools that you need in order to start your own organization. All the work will come from you and take a lot of time, but with the right idea, you will be able to start a high-impact nonprofit organization that will be able to reach out to many. Members Reviews: very brief info, very basic facts on starting. this book is fine, it is extremely short with very basic information. it has a few good suggestions for people who are unfamiliar with the process. terrible narration but has some helpful tips... I could barely stand listening to the narrator, but there are some good ideas. Mostly just common sense

Life Coach Audiobook by K. L. Hammond

biacuaduc@gmail.com (K. L. Hammond) — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:00:17 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Life Coach Subtitle: Turn Your Life Coaching Practice into a Money-Making Machine Author: K. L. Hammond Narrator: Michael Hatak Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 10-16-17 Publisher: K.L. Hammond Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Life Coach: Turn Your Life Coaching Practice into a Money-Making Machine is the book that your life-coaching practice needs to truly find financial success in today's business environment. There is so much advice for life coaches out there on connecting with their clients and finding themselves, which is a necessary foundation for any life coach. However, what most life coaches lack is the ability to turn all that life-coaching expertise into a truly profitable business. This book will dive deep into the strategy, tips, and tactics that will help you figure out exactly how to make money off doing what you do best as a qualified and talented life coach. In here you will find tons of great ways to make money, including the following: All of the above is included in detail in this book, and more! This book is full of proven step-by-step strategies and tips that will leave you with precise actions you can take to start immediately positioning your life-coaching business as a premium and ultimately profitable one. If you are even considering being a professional life coach, the business and marketing skills and mindsets inside are absolutely fundamental. Start listening now so you can make real money as a life coach tomorrow! Members Reviews: Interesting book.... The author makes the process simple. Buy his book, follow his steps, and you won't regret it! You will save time, money and you will avoid unnecessary stress! If you're a new entrepreneur, this one for you! Motivational book I loved this author & her writing style! I will use this book as a reference because it kept me interested; seems not to just string the readers along, it's not just fluff but really good motivating information. Good I learned so much from this book. If I wouldn't have read it, I would have been in serious trouble. Glad to listen this book.... What a fabulous book to help me change my business from a hobby to a career that I can feel confident about! This is an incredibly comprehensive guide that gives you step-by-step information BEST AUDIO BOOK.... The best part is that K. L. Hammond is authentic in her delivery and offers to follow groups and resources throughout the book! Love it!

Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance de rater ses études Livre Audio par Olivier Roland

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Olivier Roland) — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:40:60 GMT

Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> Titre: Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance de rater ses études Auteur: Olivier Roland Narrateur: Cyril Paris Format: Unabridged Durée: 21 hrs and 30 mins Langue: Français Date de publication: 04-13-17 Éditeur: Audible Studios Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 6 votes Genres: Business, Management Résumé de l'éditeur: Vous en avez assez du métro-boulot-dodo, ou de ces études interminables dans lesquelles vous apprenez surtout des choses qui ne vous serviront pas ? Brisez la routine et réussissez en dehors du système en suivant cette méthode étape par étape basée sur l'expérience de centaines d'entrepreneurs et appuyée par plus de 400 références scientifiques. Comprenez les limites du système éducatif et pourquoi il est de plus en plus obsolète, hackez votre éducation en boostant votre QI, apprenez comment vraiment apprendre efficacement et devenez libre en créant une entreprise qui soit au service de votre vie, plutôt que votre vie au service de votre entreprise... bref rejoignez le mouvement grandissant des rebelles intelligents ! >> Ce livre audio en version intégrale vous est proposé en exclusivité par Audible et est uniquement disponible en téléchargement. ©2016 Leduc.s (P)2017 Audible Studios Avis des membres: Super perspectives sur l'éducation Salut, j'ai moi même un bac +5 en gestion d'entreprise et ce livre à complètement changé mes perspectives sur ma manière de me former dans le futur. j'ai d'ailleurs commencé une formation avec Olivier Rolland pour rentabilisé mon blog et je suis presque sûr de réussir et devenir financièrement indépendant. Je deviens de plus en plus un rebelle inteligent en applicant ces conseils! Un énorme merci à Olivier pour ce super livre! Gros bisous à tous ;) La bible de l'entreprise un guide complet de À à Z pour lancer son entreprise. je cumule déjà 4 ans d'expérience dans le domaine, et ce livre m'a appris bien des choses ! merci Olivier ! Références françaises mais intéressant J'ai trouvé ce livre très intéressant et je songe à en faire l'achat. Ça m'a donné plusieurs idées d'entreprises à lancer. Son principal défaut est que toutes les références légales et pratiques concernent la France. J'aurais aimé avoir des informations également sur ces points ici au Québec.

The Power of People Skills Audiobook by Trevor Throness

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Trevor Throness) — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:03:46 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Power of People Skills Subtitle: How to Eliminate 90% of Your HR Problems and Dramatically Increase Team and Company Morale and Performance Author: Trevor Throness Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 08-01-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: People are the problem. They're always the problem. If a business person goes home frustrated, if they talk with their significant other about it, if they lay awake at night stewing about it, inevitably the problem is some person at work - a colleague, subordinate, or boss. Handling people issues is every leader's major headache. It's what takes up the majority of their time and - more important - the bulk of their head space. Every leader can and must develop this most important of all management skills. The Power of People Skills will teach you that there's one primary difference between a great culture and a poor one: a great culture insists on having star players in every key seat, and a poor culture tolerates under performers. In this powerful book, you will learn how to: Members Reviews: Engaging, practical and full of great stories The Power of People Skills is a must-read for anyone who aspires to be a better team-member or leader in an organization. I often get bored about 50 pages into most business books, but Throness kept me engaged and challenged right to the end. His practical ideas and great storytelling kept my mind whirring about improvements I can make, and also made me chuckle many times. LOVED IT I loved the book. Such practical insight offered by the author and I especially loved the section at the end of each chapter called "People Action Steps" and "In Summary" section Practical Advice for All Leaders Great read. Concrete tips to help expose weak team members, and provide insight into retaining and developing stars. Having seen the positive results from implementing the writer's strategies, I highly recommend this book. Awesome! Awesome Resource! Trevor has run training sessions with our staff team it's been very helpful Great book ! Great book! Easy to read. Excellent practical advise. Highly recommend it.

Summary of An Everyone Culture: by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey | Includes Analysis Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Instaread) — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:49:57 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary of An Everyone Culture: by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey | Includes Analysis Author: Instaread Narrator: Sam Scholl Format: Unabridged Length: 26 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-16 Publisher: Instaread Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Summary of An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, with Matthew Miller, Andy Fleming, Deborah Helsing | Includes Analysis Preview: An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Matthew Miller, Andy Fleming, and Deborah Helsing is an academic description of unconventional employee management systems implemented by three example businesses. Cinema chain ArcLight Cinemas, investment firm Bridgewater Associates, and corporate rewards company Next Jump each exemplify the deliberately developmental organization, or DDO. In conventional organizations, employees spend time that could be productive covering up mistakes or hiding weaknesses from coworkers. In a DDO, the company reinvests that time in activities that help its employees learn from their mistakes, build on their shortcomings, and constantly challenge their weaknesses. DDOs rely on the idea that adults continue to develop mentally well beyond physical maturity. The three features of a DDO are the constant pressure to learn new skills, a trusting environment where people accept and give feedback, and consistent practices that strengthen both of the first two features. These three features are known... PLEASE NOTE: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread summary of An Everyone Culture About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience. Members Reviews: Failing greatly "An Everyone Culture" by Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Matthew Miller, Andy Fleming, and Deborah Helsing is an academic description of unconventional employee management systems implemented by three example businesses. In conventional organizations, employees spend time that could be productive covering up mistakes or hiding weaknesses from coworkers. In a deliberately developmental organization (DDO), the company reinvests that time in activities that help its employees learn from their mistakes, build on their shortcomings, and constantly challenge their weaknesses. This Instaread boiled down this dense non-fiction book into 10 key takeaways or the highlight reel. I was able to learn about human development and psychology, how DDOs are formed, and why we all need to push ourselves in our organizations. This was a great read for my lunch break, giving me actionable suggestions on how to improve my work environment. I appreciate the professional development Instaread gave me and would suggest this book to anyone. I was given a copy of this book to review. NEW - 21st CENTURY MANAGING TRENDS & APPROACHES This is an overview of the actual book âAn Everyone Culture.â Kind of like an abbreviated âCliff's Notesâ for the FULL book. It provides a potential reader enough information regarding the bookâs content to determine if we want to invest the extra money and time to actually buy and read the entire book. This non-fiction read is a collaborative effort by five business professionals describing new, original and unorthodox managing techniques.

Summary: Jim Collins' Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Ant Hive Media) — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:51:39 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary: Jim Collins' Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't Author: Ant Hive Media Narrator: Bob Arthur Format: Unabridged Length: 30 mins Language: English Release date: 03-07-16 Publisher: Ant Hive Media Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: What is required to create something that is great (a work of art, an activity, a business)? What are the ingredients that differentiate between simply good and genuinely great? In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't, Jim Collins offers insight into what it takes to transform a business into a truly great one. Inside this summary of Good to Great: About the author: Ant Hive Media reads every chapter, extracts the understanding, and leaves you with a new perspective and time to spare. We do the work so you can understand the book in minutes, not hours.

Developing a Million Dollar Message Audiobook by Brendon Burchard

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Brendon Burchard) — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:05:57 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Developing a Million Dollar Message Author: Brendon Burchard Narrator: Dave Summers Format: Original Recording Length: 13 mins Language: English Release date: 11-25-14 Publisher: American Management Association Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 22 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: You may not realize that you can channel your life experience into valuable advice people will pay to receive. In this episode of Edgewise, Brendon Burchard, author of The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice, explains the 10 steps necessary to break into the lucrative Experts Industry. Listen as Brendon conveys how to leverage inexpensive tools to increase awareness and develop compelling products around your personal expertise. Members Reviews: short and sweet Good, actionable advice. Narrowing down and getting clear on your message strikes me as particularly useful. Great bullet points to build on! Quality Brendon Burchard content as expected. Great interview-style format. Well worth the .99 cent investment. very good :) i even had several ideas while listening :) this is valuable. can do it :)

The Growth Gears Audiobook by Pete Hayes, Art Saxby

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Pete Hayes) — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:34:22 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Growth Gears Subtitle: Using a Market-Based Framework to Drive Business Success Author: Pete Hayes, Art Saxby Narrator: Derek Botten Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 09-16-16 Publisher: Art Saxby & Pete Hayes Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Are you running a highly successful company that just doesn't seem to be growing? You may be so operationally focused that youve ignored one of the most important aspects of an expanding business, working from a market-based perspective. In The Growth Gears, Art Saxby and Pete Hayes share their linear method of transforming your business into a market-focused organization. This book provides a simple framework as well as tools and action steps for identifying and adding these "gears" to give your company a set of repeatable behaviors and processes to fully capitalize on your market potential. Pete and Art bring their years of executive marketing experience, and their years of building a national management consulting firm, to lead you from insight to strategy to execution. In this book, you will learn how to: Align your organization and your employees behind your market-focused initiatives to lead your organization to new levels of growth! Members Reviews: A needed summary Would you consider the audio edition of The Growth Gears to be better than the print version? Missing the PDFs, but that is common in audible. Other than that, at my level of growth is a refreshment and a very insightful find! What did you like best about this story? Everything in the book is to like. Which scene was your favorite? I would recommend it to every CEO that wants to growth to 10,000. Both practical and insightful. Great CMO manual Must read for every marketing leader. Great combination of understanding the fundamentals of marketing that still fuel long term marketing success, and the new ingredients from digital and content driven marketing approaches. The authors clearly ground this book in real life application of the approach, proving the theories they describe. The real customer success stories are very applicable across industries.

HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:01:27 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter Subtitle: Craft a Clear Agenda, Tame Troublemakers, Follow Through Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: Christopher Walker Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 02-14-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Meetings. They hold such promise for moving your business forward but are rarely executed well. We all know what we're supposed to do to run meetings effectively, but we seldom do it. Why? Perhaps we think it's just not worth the time to clarify what we hope to accomplish, craft an agenda, handpick participants, issue pre-work, and send out notes with key decisions and next steps. But meeting preparation and follow-up is time well spent. This guide offers tips to make your meetings easier to prepare for, more enjoyable to run - and more productive. In time, these steps will become so ingrained you won't be able to imagine running meetings any other way. Your team - and your entire organization - will thank you for it. You'll learn how to: This collection includes: Harvard Business Review guides are for busy professionals looking for quick answers to common challenges. They're packed with useful tips and practical advice in a brief, easy-to-understand format. Whether you're looking to expand your skills or refresh your existing ones, these guides offer reliable answers to your most pressing problems. Members Reviews: Great buy!!! Great reminder of how & when you should have a meeting. Everyone should read this in your business. Your company will benefit The book is interesting, The book is interesting, but haven't read it yet ... deserve the whole book - the book will be better off if there will be a summary Information does not deserve the whole book - the book will be better off if there will be a summary. One Star Did not arrive yet!

Difficult Conversations Audiobook by Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harvard Business Review) — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 02:44:42 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Difficult Conversations Subtitle: Craft a Clear Message, Manage Emotions and Focus on a Solution Author: Harvard Business Review Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 04-01-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell or blame you or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive - not combative. Difficult Conversations walks you through: About HBR's 20-Minute Manager Series: Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly listen to and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives - from the most trusted source in business. Members Reviews: Excellent grestbmaterial, desperately needed much harder to organize and apply to life zituations. wish it came with forms for different steps recommended to do for best results

The E-Myth Manager Seminar Audiobook by Michael E. Gerber

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Michael E. Gerber) — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 05:21:29 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The E-Myth Manager Seminar Subtitle: How to Lead with Vision and Purpose Author: Michael E. Gerber Narrator: Michael E. Gerber Format: Original Recording Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 10-14-14 Publisher: Nightingale-Conant Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: As a manager, you face growing pressures to improve productivity, decrease expenses, and motivate employees. Being a leader in today's workforce has never been tougher. Virtually all managers make mistakes along the way, including working harder, working longer, and demanding more from their employees. If you ever dreamed of accomplishing twice as much, twice as fast, and with half the budget, it's time you discovered the remarkable secret of today's top managers. The E-Myth Manager Seminar explores a radical new approach to management. Find out what type of manager you are, and how you can learn to work on the business, instead of in the business. Too many managers do the work themselves, instead of seeing that the work gets done. Others try to coerce or manipulate their employees into becoming more productive. But the key to effective management and efficient use of time is to create a system that employees can manage themselves. This program will help you inspire and organize your team to achieve amazing results. You'll learn how to get average people to produce superior results. Regardless of whether you are a small business, big business, or home-office manager, you'll benefit from Michael Gerber's revolutionary-Myth formula. This new method is currently being used by the best-managed companies in America, such as FedEx, McDonald's, Ritz-Carlton, and Nordstrom, along with thousands of other fast-growing businesses. The E-Myth Manager Seminar will revolutionize the way you manage. It will help you take control of your job, your employees, and your life, as you accomplish more than you ever thought possible. E-Myth managers have a clear vision of the future, a focused plan, and the ability to communicate and motivate. Once you acquire these skills, your business or department will soon be running itself. That's a promise. Members Reviews: powerful stuff for people who want their mind open a concept a growth minded person can truly practice and live by a concept a growth minded person can truly practice and live by Great addition to my list of go to books this book is house upon the idea of the email where small businesses continue to be a small business because they are doing all the wrong things. Now this book will show you that doing the right thing as a small business and Lead to a big business through the years. what's so great about this book is that answers the question what is strategic thinking, what is Tactical. if you are running of this and are looking for the answers this is one of the books May lead you to the correct answer PDF Not available Any additional comments? The book references materials that are not available. The Audible PDF is not functional FAVORITE! this is my absolute favorite book that I have heard on the Audible App. This is my favorite so far that I have listened to from Michael E Gerber change in a nutshell, work on the business and not in the business. Create processes and procedures and mange those instead of people. if your business depends on you, then you have a job not a business. Change your approach to your business. he ranted a but the info is good.

The Corporate Culture Survival Guide, New and Revised Edition Audiobook by Edgar H. Schein

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Edgar H. Schein) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:60:11 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Corporate Culture Survival Guide, New and Revised Edition Author: Edgar H. Schein Narrator: Charlie Glaize Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 08-07-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The father of the corporate culture field and pioneer in organizational psychology on today's changing corporate culture... This is the definitive guide to corporate culture for practitioners. Recognized expert Edgar H. Schein explains what culture is and why it's important, how to evaluate your organization's culture, and how to improve it, using straightforward, practical tools based on decades of research and real-world case studies. This new edition reflects the massive changes in the business world over the past 10 years, exploring the influence of globalization, new technology, and mergers on culture and organization change. New case examples help illustrate the principals at work and bring focus to emerging issues in international, nonprofit, and government organizations as well as business. Organized around the questions that change agents most often ask, this new edition of the classic book will help anyone from line managers to CEOs assess their culture and make it more effective. Members Reviews: No practical benefit. I listened to this book all the way through hoping I would gain some useful knowledge. Unfortunately, this book is more of a textbook or research dissertation than any kind of "survival guide ". Great content - the narration could be better This audiobook is a great introduction to corporate culture and the anecdotes are really fascinating. My only criticism is that the narration sounds electronic for some reason - it is quite distracting

Under New Management Audiobook by David Burkus

biacuaduc@gmail.com (David Burkus) — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:50:04 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Under New Management Subtitle: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual Author: David Burkus Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 03-15-16 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 56 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: A provocative work that challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management - and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don't work. Do open floor plans really work? Are there companies that put their employees' welfare first and their clients second? Are annual performance reviews necessary? Dr. David Burkus is a highly regarded and increasingly influential business school professor who challenges many of the established principles of business management. Drawing on decades of research, Burkus has found that not only are many of our fundamental management practices wrong and misguided, but they can be downright counterproductive. These days, the best companies are breaking the old rules. At some companies, email is now restricted to certain hours, so employees can work without distraction. Netflix no longer has a standard vacation policy of two to three weeks but instructs employees to take time off when they feel they need it. And at Valve Software, there are no managers; the employees govern themselves. The revolutionary insights Burkus reveals here will convince companies to leave behind decades-old management practices and implement new ways to enhance productivity and morale. Members Reviews: information age work assembly line management This book really makes you think. Our work becomes more mental and less physical every day. Our management teams still work as if we had shifts to fill on the assembly line. This book gives real world examples of companies that grew through flexibility in vacation, shifts, mixed open/closed work spaces. improve the output of you thinking work A great collection of possible tweaks to improve management practices optimised for thinking work to improve the modern knowledge work environment. Just wow! I was hooked just in the intro. Companies need to flip the model and put people and trust first. This book needs to be required reading for anyone in business. Fresh ideas Well done, great summary of some interesting concepts. Love the writing style, too! Easy listen and very educational. I'm buying copies for many business owner friends! Great listen for all managers! Any additional comments? In Under New Management, David Burkus has pieced together a fascinating collection of firms that have successfully implemented radical new management ideas. The individual case studies are thought provoking, but collectively they challenge managers to reflect on how their firms might upend business as usual. The author is an engaging storyteller, with a style similar to Charles Duhigg and Malcolm Gladwell. Great listen for all managers!

Quantifiably Better Audiobook by Steve VanWieren

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Steve VanWieren) — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:38:15 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Quantifiably Better Subtitle: Delivering Human Resource (HR) Analytics from Start to Finish Author: Steve VanWieren Narrator: Randal Schaffer Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 04-26-17 Publisher: Technics Publications Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: Your CEO just came to you, the HR leader, and said she was hearing rumors about the turnover rate going up. She asks you why this might be happening and how it is could be affecting the bottom line. Are there certain leadership issues? Are engagement levels changing? Is there a problem with the company culture? These are all logical questions. You have hunches for answers, but you have no way to prove those hunches. You know your CEO is going to want data to support any argument you make. You are sure that the answers to her questions are buried in the employee data collected in the different HR systems you have. You have been reading about "HR analytics", and you wonder how you would answer her question differently if you really understood the data about your people. Quantifiably Better provides a path to follow in search of these answers. It will help you if you are just getting started with your HR analytics initiative, or if you are looking for ways to expand your existing HR analytics practice. In the end, you will find that the insights you desperately seek are easier to find than you ever imagined. Members Reviews: A good place to start I have been asked to dive into our turnover data to the dentist trends, problem areas and to make records recommendations. This short book gave me many ideas on where to start and how to lay out my plan, which was exactly what I was looking for. very useful the book provides useful insight and action for moving ahead with AI in HR very easy to understand some really valuable insights for my human resources assignment on my MBA. I would highly recommend

The Clayton M. Christensen Reader Audiobook by Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Clayton M. Christensen) — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:37:18 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Clayton M. Christensen Reader Author: Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review Narrator: James Conlan Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 04-08-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: The best of Clayton Christensen's seminal work on disruptive innovation, all in one place. No business can afford to ignore the theory of disruptive innovation. But the nuances of Clayton Christensen's foundational thinking on the subject are often forgotten or misinterpreted. To achieve continuing growth in your business while defending against upstarts, you need to understand clearly what disruption is and how it works and how it applies to your industry and your company. In this collection of Christensen's most influential articles - carefully selected by Harvard Business Review's editors - his incisive arguments, clear theories, and listenable stories give you the tools you need to understand disruption and what to do about it. The collection features Christensen's newest article looking back on 20 years of disruptive innovation: what it is and what it isn't. Covering a broad spectrum of topics - business model innovation, mergers and acquisitions, value-chain shifts, financial incentives, product development - these articles illuminate the impact and implications of disruptive innovation as well as Christensen's broader thinking on management theory and its applications in business and in life. This collection of best-selling articles includes: "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave", by Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen; "Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change", by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf; "Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure", by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, and Taddy Hall; "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things", by Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih; "Reinventing Your Business Model", by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "The New M&A Playbook", by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck; "Skate to Where the Money Will Be", by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Matthew Verlinden; "Surviving Disruption", by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen; "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald; "Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory", by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor; and "How Will You Measure Your Life?", by Clayton M. Christensen. Members Reviews: One of the best books ever!! Extremely impactful! I am sure I will be coming back to this book again and again as I build my career and life! Thank you for your amazing research and insights - Prof. Christensen. Well researched and in depth Well researched,and in depth from one of the experts in the domain. Focus area could be seen as narrow but he articles go deep into a narrow subject. Great insight into the thru theory of disruption Would you consider the audio edition of The Clayton M. Christensen Reader to be better than the print version? If you want to find out what disruption theories really mean then this selection does just that. Far more comprehensive then loose selections this overview shows you what disruption IS and, just as important, what it IS NOT and how you can act on it.

Kanban: Step-by-Step Agile Guide Designed to Help Teams Working Together More Effectively Audiobook

biacuaduc@gmail.com (Harry Altman) — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:41:25 GMT

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/277/]]> to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Kanban: Step-by-Step Agile Guide Designed to Help Teams Working Together More Effectively Author: Harry Altman Narrator: Bridger Conklin Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 10-16-17 Publisher: Harry Altman Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes Genres: Business, Management Publisher's Summary: "Kanban" is a Japanese term that can mean visual board. When applied in the context of Lean practices, Kanban is a visual tool for managing the flow of information or work items. It is flexible enough to be introduced to an existing process, whatever that process may be, and without having the need to replace the process, but it is very compatible with Agile methods. In fact, it is being used in many industries such as manufacturing, R&D, supply chain, logistics management, and healthcare, to name a few. Kanban, however, help in the management of projects by visualizing workflow, limiting work in process, creating and improving the flow. This audiobook introduces principles that have already revolutionized the manufacturing industry. By adopting seven Lean principles, people developing software learned how to create a more efficient process optimized for their work environment. These principles help people to eliminate waste, amplify learning, and deliver as fast as possible, among others. Lean practices promote a variety of tools, and one popular tool is Kanban. The book discusses: Members Reviews: Step-by-Step Agile Guide This is a new concept to me and I can't wait to use the principles set fourth in this book. My biggest take away was the board that is used to systemize the To Do's and to get things done quickly and efficiently. I will be looking into a digital board which the book talked about as well for it would be great for my field. Just as anything in life kanban is always in constant refinement Useful Book This book has been so greatly helpful in my job. Recommended to me by a kanban instructor.Excellent follow up to my training because it focused on real life cases where kanban was applied. Thin and easy to read. Not a main course entree, but a lovely side dish. Working Together More Effectively I like the structure of the book, easy to follow and great content. perhaps a litlle more in depth about office kanbans. Great book with the basics of Kanban. I liked the information it provided. Step by Step Guide Great overview over Kanban methodology. If you are already familiar with agile management such as scrum, this short audiobook gives you some clear points. This book introduced me to the Kanban system and how it is able to contribute to a business systems efficiency. Interesting insights. Author was able to lay out a solid foundation of its basic principles through specific examples and scenarios. A recommended tool for project managers! Technical review of Kanban If you are a serious project manager this book is a must. Needs to move forward and embrace the Agile Manifestos values and principles in order to become more efficient, more productive and builders of winning teams. This book is a good start.