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Jolted: Why We Quit, When to Stay, and Why It Matters

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What Great Leaders Do: Ten Principles to Create and Organization That Refuses to Settle Down

"Essential insights that get to the heart of who you want to be as a leader and help you identify the actions that will take you there. What is it that differentiates a good enough leader from a truly great one? In What Great Leaders Do, bestselling author Andy Stanley shares timeless and transformational leadership insights he has learned (sometimes the hard way!) that are essential to breaking through the noise and getting to the core of who you want be as a leader and that set you on a path to transforming your organization into something greater while unlocking the potential of its people. In this essential guide, Andy supplies 10 leadership imperatives learned through his own experience and working with others that will help you: - Ask the right questions and listen well. - Set priorities. - Empower employees and set direction. - Know the difference between solving a problem and managing a tension - Create and recreate systems. Yes, there may be certain basics to effective leadership, and you can find those lists anywhere, but it's the understanding of how to put those in place that separates the great from the average. From one leader to another, Andy details how to build a lasting legacy and be the leader your organization needs."

Andy Stanley (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make that Sabotage their Careers,

"Since 2004, Dr. Lois P. Frankel's Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office has been an essential resource for women seeking advice and empowerment to stop sabotaging their careers and get ahead in the workplace. This completely updated and revised vital new 3rd edition is everything a modern working girl needs to get what she wants. We've leaned in, we've girl bossed, we've untamed, and it's still challenging to be a woman at work. Though the workplace looks different than it did twenty years ago, women still face considerable challenges that men do not. In this new 3rd edition of The New York Times bestseller Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, Dr. Lois P. Frankel teaches you how to reject the "nice girl" mentality, which manifests as a distinctive set of behaviors learned in girlhood that ultimately sabotage you as an adult, and still exists in today's modern workplace. Dr. Frankel provides tools and guidance for eliminating these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back in your career. Mistakes such as: Mistake #4: Believing Negative Self-Talk. Counter negative messages with positive ones. Mistake #26: Fear of Coming Across too Strong. Don't dumb down, shut down, or tone down--be assertive! Mistake #55: Poor Boundaries. If you're going to work from home, set boundaries. Mistake #85: Doing Instead of Leading. Picking up others' slack becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You have the power to take control of your career without being controlling, to speak your mind while still being respected, and to chase your ambitions without fear or shame."

Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Manager Method

"A practical, real-world guide that helps managers lead with confidence using a proven 3-step framework-Pause, Consider, Act-to navigate challenges, build strong teams, and avoid burnout. Most managers are promoted because they excel at their jobs-but the moment they step into a new leadership role, they're expected to know how to motivate teams, navigate tough conversations, and drive results with little to no guidance. Manager Method fills this gap, and provides managers at any level with practical, real-world strategies to help them lead with clarity, confidence, and impact-without burning out. Built on Ashley Herd's proven 3-step framework-Pause, Consider, Act-this book simplifies leadership into an actionable process that helps managers make better decisions, set expectations, and build high-performing teams. Unlike theory-heavy leadership books, Manager Method is designed for busy professionals who need answers now and delivers the step-by-step techniques to make that happen now. With a background as a former Chief People Officer at McKinsey, employment attorney, and corporate strategist, Ashley has trained over 160,000 managers throughout her career. Manager Method delivers these tools directly to readers to help them lead effectively, build trust, and grow their careers without sacrificing their well-being."

Ashley Herd (Author), Ashley Herd (Narrator)

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Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church

"A captivating exploration of why many high-performing Black business leaders attribute their transformational leadership qualities to their experiences growing up in the Black Church and how we can foster these skills in younger generations despite waning church attendance. The Black church in the U.S. has long been a “one-stop shop” for developing Black leaders, teaching them many of the qualities required to lead effectively in today’s ultra-competitive, digital, and swiftly transforming corporate world. Many high-performing Black leaders benefited from their experiences growing up in this cultural institution steeped in rich history. Merging cultural study with applied neuroscience and tenets of positive psychology, L. Michelle Smith dissect how these qualities are demonstrated by leaders across industries, from resiliency to their sense of undeniable purpose, their ability to build community and collaborative environments, the delivery and language of their speaking style to their unique leadership flair. She reveals how this historic institution has served as a timeless wellspring of leadership development, empowerment, and cultural preservation and ultimately, is Black leaders’ “secret sauce.” Call & Response also explores whether the Black Church will be able to continue to ingrain these skills in future generations. Smith examines how cultural shifts have resulted in a decline in church attendance, how online attendance has risen since the Covid pandemic, and finally, how Black leaders may—or may not—be passing these traditions down to their children."

L. Michelle Smith (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Category Creation Formula: Discover, Design, and Win New Market Categories

"Innovative concepts, tools and playbooks for discovering, defining and taking charge of new market categories, by two of the leaders of the category design movement. The most exciting—and often most valuable—companies create, develop and win new categories of products or services. Examples range from the Zamboni company a century ago to OpenAI today. Such companies can be giants like Amazon, creator of the online everything store category—or a niche player like Bob Chandler, creator of the monster truck category. Category creation and development should be the goal of any company that wants to make a difference. And the way to achieve that is through the discipline of strategic category design. Kevin Maney helped introduce category design in his bestseller Play Bigger. Now, he and Mike Damphousse—an experienced CEO, investor and marketing executive—share the secrets that they’ve learned over the past decade. Their advisory firm has worked on strategic category design projects with more than fifty companies and guided workshops for hundreds more at incubators and VC portfolio gatherings. The Category Creation Formula reveals the processes they rely on and the truths about categories that they’ve uncovered, clearly laid out so any entrepreneur or leadership team can benefit from them, too. The Category Creation Formula expands on ideas introduced in Play Bigger and enhances the discipline’s hands-on practices, including how to write a powerful category point of view and how to set the rules for a category so your company always maintains an advantage. From forming an initial category-winning strategy to relentlessly executing on that strategy, The Category Creation Formula is the crucial resource for anyone who has the ambition to change the way we live and work."

Kevin Maney, Mike Damphousse (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Moms in Labor: An Employment Lawyer’s Secrets To Protect Your Baby and Your Career (That HR Won’t Te

"Embrace motherhood without compromising your career. During attorney Daphne Delvaux's first pregnancy, she learned first-hand how the system was set up to make it as difficult as possible for women to juggle a challenging career along with all the responsibilities of being a new mother. The needlessly stressful (and often humiliating) experiences forced upon her by the juggling act of being an attorney and the exclusive source of nutrition for her new baby led her to draft a new maternity leave policy for her firm. Later in her career, she specialized in representing mothers, helping them navigate the competing demands of work and family life. Her goal was to protect their rights while ensuring their careers stayed on track. With this invaluable guide for mothers in the workplace, Daphne outlines everything that new and expectant mothers need to understand about: - Pregnancy rights - Parental leave rights, and - Back-to-work rights You'll learn how to advocate for yourself, see through the sometimes purposely confusing corporate policies, and communicate effectively with your boss and Human Resources to ensure a smooth transition for both you and your employer."

Daphne Delvaux (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Al frente del cambio (Leading Change)

"Las estrategias de cambio son un requisito indispensable para competir en el siglo XXI. Sin embargo, las fórmulas no bastan por sí solas si descuidamos el papel determinante de un liderazgo eficaz para coordinarlas. La prueba está en el elevado índice de fracasos que se asocia a las transformaciones dentro del ámbito de la empresa. John P. Kotter, con su bagaje de veinticinco años de experiencia, nos muestra los errores básicos que surgen en todo proceso de cambio y qué podemos hacer para corregirlos. Al frente del cambio ofrece un modelo de ocho pasos que puede aplicarse en cualquier iniciativa comercial. Éste método, pormenorizado y con numerosos ejemplos prácticos, nos ayuda a evitar la inercia empresarial y a integrar de forma correcta las innovaciones en la estructura de nuestra compañía. Un libro que demuestra la importancia de no bajar jamás la guardia: la necesidad de una nueva reestructuración es siempre impredecible. / Harvard professor Kotter breaks from the mold of M.B.A. jargon-filled texts to produce a truly accessible, clear and visionary guide to the business world's buzzword for the late '90s change. Kotter emphasizes a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Kotter advises those who would implement change to foster a sense of urgency within the organization. ''A higher rate of urgency does not imply everpresent panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which The international bestseller-now with a new preface by author John Kotter. Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and ultimately, recession-we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It's the rule. Now with a new preface, this refreshed edition of the global bestseller Leading Change is more relevant than ever. John Kotter's now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration published in Harvard Business Review. Needed more today than at any time in the past, this bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization. Reading this highly personal book is like spending a day with the world's foremost expert on business leadership. You're sure to walk away inspired-and armed with the tools you need to inspire others."

John P. Kotter (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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La estrategia del océano azul (Blue Ocean Strategy): Crear nuevos espacios de mercado donde la compe

"The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 46 languages and is a bestseller across five continents--now updated and expanded with new content. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. A strategy classic. In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves (spanning more than 100 years across 30 industries), the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating 'blue oceans'--untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. This expanded edition includes: A new preface by the authors: Help! My Ocean Is Turning Red Updates on all cases and examples in the book, bringing their stories up to the present time Two new chapters and an expanded third one--Alignment, Renewal, and Red Ocean Traps --that address the most pressing questions readers have asked over the past 10 years A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this bestselling book charts a bold new path to winning the future. Consider this your guide to creating uncontested market space--and making the competition irrelevant. To learn more about the power of BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, visit blueoceanstrategy.com. There you'll find all the resources you need--from ideas in practice and cases from government and private industry, to teaching materials, mobile apps, real-time updates, and tips and tools to help you make your blue ocean journey a success."

Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Be a Sequoia, Not a Bonsai: The Seven Growth Secrets of the World’s Most Successful Companies

"Learn the secrets of the Sequoias and how long-term success comes from implementing a strategy that maximizes growth. Some companies continually prune, focusing mainly on short-term efficiency and perfection. Others maximize sustainable, longer term profitable growth, even if everything isn't perfect in the very short term. Over time, companies that focus on growth will perform better. From 2002 to 2021, the top 20% best performing companies in the world accounted for 116% of all the profit growth. As the Chief Evangelist at Google for five years, Nicolas Darveau Garneau had the incredible opportunity to advise over 1,000 companies on their growth strategy. This book draws from hundreds of conversations with CEOs when they were making difficult decisions. It focuses on the latest, most innovative digital growth techniques reshaping industries today, presenting strategies that have worked across multiple industries and company sizes. Darveau-Garneau's unique vantage point in these confidential, exclusive meetings with CEOs allowed him to uncover seven secrets that propelled them to extraordinary success: - Maximize Profitable Growth. - Focus on the longer term: - Acquire the most valuable customers. - Radically improve the profits of existing customers. - Take your brand to a whole new level. - Deliver an amazing customer experience. - Evolve faster."

Nicolas Darveau-Garneau (Author), Perry Daniels (Narrator)

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Healing Leaders: 7 Steps to Recovery of Self

"Leadership shouldn't cost us our souls, yet too many leaders find themselves spiritually and emotionally exhausted, leading organizations that drain rather than nurture human potential. This book offers a different path—one where personal transformation becomes the foundation for positive organizational change. Written by conscious business pioneer Raj Sisodia and transformational expert Nilima Bhat, this book guides listeners through seven essential steps of inner healing that ripple out to create healthier organizations: Know your self—Strip away the masks you wear as a leader to discover who you truly are. Love your self—Learn to embrace all parts of yourself, even the shadows you try to hide. Be your self—Find the courage to lead authentically, not just effectively. Choose your self—Take back authorship of your leadership story. Express your self—Channel your unique gifts into meaningful impact. Complete your self—Bring together all parts of yourself into wholeness. Heal your self—Transform your wounds into wisdom that serves others. Through vulnerable personal stories, practical exercises, and real-world applications, this book provides a road map for leaders who are ready to begin their healing journey—not just for their own sake but also for the healing of the organizations and communities they serve."

Nilima Bhat, Raj Sisodia (Author), Shawn K. Jain (Narrator)

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Be In the Room: How to Stop Shrinking and Start Leading with Purpose

Lauren Morrison (Author), Tiana Holley (Narrator)

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