Audiobooks by Linda A. Hill

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Audiobook

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on becoming a new manager, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to becoming a great manager of others. This book will inspire you to develop your emotional intelligence; influence your colleagues through the science of persuasion; assess your team and enhance its performance; network effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancement; navigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peers; get support from above; view the big picture in your decision making; and balance your team's work and personal life in a high-intensity workplace. This collection of articles includes 'Becoming the Boss,' by Linda A. Hill; 'Leading the Team You Inherit,' by Michael D. Watkins; 'Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves,' by Carol A. Walker; 'Managing the High-Intensity Workplace,' by Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan; 'Harnessing the Science of Persuasion,' by Robert B. Cialdini; 'What Makes a Leader?' by Daniel Goleman; 'The Authenticity Paradox,' by Herminia Ibarra; 'Managing Your Boss,' by John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter; 'How Leaders Create and Use Networks,' by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; and more.

Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Herminia Ibarra, Linda A. Hill, Robert B. Cialdini (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

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.

Emily Truelove, Greg Brandeau, Kent Lineback, Linda A. Hill (Author), Tom Pile (Narrator)

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Influencia y persuasion (Influence and Persuasion)

Para cambiar la mente es importante transformar los corazones. Las últimas investigaciones demuestran que apelar a las emociones puede fortalecer y afianzar tu autoridad como líder. Escrito por reputados especialistas de la Harvard Business Review en temas de inteligencia emocional en el entorno profesional, el libro ofrece estrategias generales para desarrollar la capacidad de influencia, así como pequeñas tácticas para persuadir a los demás. Changing hearts is an important part of changing minds. Research shows that appealing to human emotion can help you make your case and build your authority as a leader. This book highlights that research and shows you how to act on it, presenting both comprehensive frameworks for developing influence and small, simple tactics you can use to convince others every day.

Harvard Business Review, Linda A. Hill, Nancy Duarte, Nick Morgan, Robert Cialdini (Author), Patricia Velasco, Paty Velasco (Narrator)

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Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership

In your career, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial-going from individual contributor to competent manager. New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this timeless, indispensable book, Harvard Business School professor and leadership guru Linda Hill traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year in the role. She reveals the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. We hear the new managers describe how they reframed their understanding of their roles and responsibilities, how they learned to build effective cross-functional work relationships, how and when they used individual and organizational resources, and how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of leadership. Hill vividly shows that becoming a manager is a profound psychological adjustment-a true transformation-as well as a continuous process of learning from experience. Becoming a Manager, a veritable treasury of essential leadership wisdom, is a book you will turn to again and again no matter where you are on your career journey.

Linda A. Hill (Author), Machelle Williams (Narrator)

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Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader

Are you the boss you need to be? You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates, from those above you, and from your peers and customers. You're not alone. As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It requires trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey and instead just learn how to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This essential book, now with a new preface, explains how to avoid that fate by mastering three imperatives: - Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about doing all the work on your own. It's about leading others to accomplish things with you as their guide. - Manage your network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization, and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment - Manage your team: Create a high-performing 'we' out of all the 'I's' who report to you.

Kent Lineback, Linda A. Hill (Author), Erik Synnestvedt, Randye Kaye (Narrator)

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You're the Boss: Bare Knuckle People Management; Instant Influence; Being the Boss

YOU'RE THE BOSS...NOW WHAT! GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EMPLOYEES WITH THESE 3 INDISPENSIBLE GUIDES. One of the biggest challenges for new managers is how to get the best out of each of their team members so they achieve superior results-and make you, the new manager, look good! In Bare Knuckle People Management authors Sean O'Neil and John Kulisek cut through the crap to show managers how to push their teams to success, not by following fluffy leadership training but by using the skills that got them promoted in the first place. What could be better than getting anyone to do anything in seven minutes...or less? Finally, a revolutionary new approach scientifically proven to create instant, effective, and lasting change in anyone-coworkers, friends, family, strangers, even yourself. With six simple questions, motivational specialist Dr. Michael V. Pantalon teaches you how to plant the seeds for change, help others discover their own powerful reasons for change, identify effective "change talk," make an action plan, and create successful outcomes even with people who are resistant to change. You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide for not only first-time managers but all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.

John Kulisek, Kent L. Lineback, Kent Lineback, Linda A. Hill, Michael Pantalon, Sean O'Neil, Sean O'neil (Author), Erik Synnestvedt, Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader

You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate, by mastering three imperatives: * Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others. * Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment. * Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide for not only first-time managers but all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.

Kent L. Lineback, Kent Lineback, Linda A. Hill (Author), Erik Synnestvedt (Narrator)

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