HR & Office Administration Audiobooks | Business & Economics

Changes: The Busy Professional's Guide to Reducing Stress, Accomplishing Goals and Mastering Adaptab

Why do people struggle with creating the changes they say they want? Stress, demands, assumptions, pressure, and expectations can often hijack our ability to create sustainable change. With over a decade of work with thousands of clients in the fields of organizational consulting, executive coaching and psychotherapy, author Michael Diettrich-Chastain reveals the seven life dimensions that impact our ability to make professional and personal changes...as well as why we succeed at making certain changes and fail at others. Ever wonder why things aren't going the way you planned? Have you set out to create change in your life and then been drawn back into old patterns that you tried so hard to avoid? Do you know what questions to ask that will create the most momentum for your professional and personal life? CHANGES will help you ask the right questions, integrate the various parts of your life experience, and translate understanding into behavior. In this book you'll discover: - Which specific aspects of your life (mental, emotional, physical, environmental and more) are helping or hurting your ability to make change. - How to finally reduce your stress with actionable strategies that have been tested and proven effective. - Which stressors are REALLY affecting your daily life. - How to improve your ability to manage fear and increase your motivation while building greater personal and professional discipline. - The 7 aspects of your lived experience that have the most influence on your ability to accomplish goals while reducing stress! CHANGES is an evergreen resource that will assist busy professionals in reaching goals, adapt to challenging circumstances, and reduce stress along the way.

Michael Diettrich-Chastain (Author), Michael Diettrich-Chastain (Narrator)

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Jolt!: Get the Jump on a World That's Constantly Changing

In Jolt! television producer, social media guru, and cultural commentator Phil Cooke helps you discover how you can navigate today's culture of disruption and actually use it to your advantage. You'll learn that changing a company and changing your life are based on virtually the same key principles. The world is changing at light speed, but mastering the power of change can revolutionize your business and your life. Stop feeling overwhelmed with changing technology, culture, business, trends, and values and regain the confidence that can give you a real advantage.The book reveals twenty-five 'jolts' that anyone can leverage to establish a new direction, maximize potential, overcome insecurity, and create an amazing future and legacy. Jolt! will revolutionize your thinking and shake up your life!

Phil Howard Cooke (Author), Bill Dewees (Narrator)

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The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a focus on profits over people and the environment, but this approach to capitalism is no longer viable. We are at an inflection point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations can become healing forces. Conscious Capitalism pioneer Raj Sisodia and organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb were inspired to write The Healing Organization because of the epidemic of unnecessary suffering connected with business, including the destruction of the environment; increasing numbers living paycheck-to-paycheck and barely surviving (despite working full-time or even multiple jobs); rising rates of depression and stress leading to chronic health problems; and because the enmity and dividedness between those who champion unfettered capitalism and those who advocate socialism is exacerbating rather than solving our problems. Based on extensive in-depth interviews and inspiring case studies, the authors show how companies such as Shake Shack, Hyatt, KIND Healthy Snacks, Eileen Fisher, H-E-B, FIFCO, Jaipur Rugs and DTE Energy are healing their employees, customers, communities and other stakeholders. They represent a diverse sampling of industries and geographies, but they all have significant elements in common, besides being profitable enterprises: Their employees love coming to work.They have passionately loyal customers.They make a significant positive difference to the communities they serve.They preserve and restore the ecosystems in which they operate.In a world that urgently needs healing on many levels, this is a movement whose time has come,. This audiobook shows how it can be done, how it is being done, and how you can begin to do it too.

Michael Gelb, Raj Sisodia (Author), Gabe Wicks, Josh Childs (Narrator)

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Bet on Talent: How to Create a Remarkable Culture That Wins the Hearts of Customers

When it comes to running a business, the most important decisions a leader makes are not about products or locations-they're about people. For the past thirty-three years, Dee Ann Turner has been recruiting, training, and retaining some of the best employees in the restaurant business. Now she's ready to share her secrets on how to build, sustain, and grow an organizational culture that attracts world-class talent and consistently delights customers, no matter what your industry. In Bet on Talent, Turner shows you how to create a remarkable company culture; select, sustain, and steward talent; nurture internal relationships; create company loyalty that leads to customer loyalty; instill the practice of servant leadership within your organization; treat everyone with honor, dignity, and respect; and much more.

Dee Ann Turner (Author), Pam Ward (Narrator)

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Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work +

Life isn't about "finding" fulfillment and success - it's about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer. Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition. The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill-it's a habit available to everyone: beginners and lifelong creators, entrepreneurs to executives, astronauts to zookeepers, and everyone in between. Through small, daily actions we can supercharge our innate creativity and rediscover our personal power in life. Whether your ambition is a creative career, completing a creative project, or simply cultivating a creative mindset, Creative Calling will unlock your potential via Jarvis's memorable "IDEA" system: Imagine your big dream, whatever you want to create-or become-in this world.Design a daily practice that supports that dream-and a life of expression and transformation.Execute on your ambitious plans and make your vision real.Amplify your impact through a supportive community you'll learn to grow and nurture.

Chase Jarvis (Author), Chase Jarvis (Narrator)

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Reinventing the Organization: How Companies Can Deliver Radically Greater Value in Fast-Changing Mar

Your Company Isn't Fast Enough. Here's How to Change That. The traditional hierarchical organization is dead, but what replaces it? Numerous new models-the agile organization, the networked organization, and holacracy, to name a few-have emerged, but leaders need to know what really works. How do you build an organization that is responsive to fast-changing markets? What kind of organization delivers both speed and scale, and how do you lead it? Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich provide leaders with a much-needed blueprint for reinventing the organization. Based on their in-depth research at leading Chinese, US, and European firms such as Alibaba, Amazon, DiDi, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and Tencent, and drawing from their synthesis of the latest organization research and practice, Yeung and Ulrich explain how to build a new kind of organization (a 'market-oriented ecosystem') that responds to changing market opportunities with speed and scale. While other books address individual pieces of the puzzle, Reinventing the Organization offers a practical, integrated, six-step framework and looks at all the decisions leaders need to make-choosing the right strategies, capabilities, structure, culture, management tools, and leadership-to deliver radically greater value in fast-moving markets.

Arthur Yeung, Dave Ulrich (Author), Steve Menasche (Narrator)

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Create a Gender-Balanced Workplace

Brought to you by Penguin. Equality at work expert Ann Francke reveals how to understand and tackle the damaging consequences of gender imbalance in the workplace Gender balance is first and foremost a business issue. McKinsey estimates we could add 28 trillion to global GDP if we achieved gender equality everywhere - that is more than the GDPs of the US and China combined. But it is so much more than that. Gender balance is one of the best levers we can pull to build better managers and leaders at every level, improve team performance and create better cultures where everyone can thrive. In the Penguin Experts: Create a Gender-Balanced Workplace, Ann Francke, the CEO of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), introduces her solution to combating the problems at the heart of the continued imbalance and offers clear, actionable strategies for making a positive change in your organisation.

Ann Francke (Author), Kirsty Dillon (Narrator)

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Leading With Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, And Inspire A

You have the opportunity to lead: to show up with confidence, connected to others, and committed to a purpose in a way that inspires others to follow. Maybe it's in your workplace, or in your relationships, or simply in your own life. But great leadership-leadership that aligns teams, inspires action, and achieves results-is hard. And what makes it hard isn't theoretical, it's practical. It's not about knowing what to say or do. It's about whether you're willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it. In other words, the most critical challenge of leadership is emotional courage. If you are willing to feel everything, you can do anything. Leading with Emotional Courage, based on the author's popular blogs for Harvard Business Review, provides practical, real-world advice for building your emotional courage muscle. Each short, accessible chapter details a distinct step in this emotional 'workout,' giving you grounded advice for handling the difficult situations without sacrificing professional ground. By building the courage to say the necessary but difficult things, you become a stronger leader and leave the 'should'ves' behind.

Peter Bregman (Author), Peter Bregman (Narrator)

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WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work

A 'Highest Rated CEO' who has transformed his organization into a billion-dollar company and a 'Top Place to Work' shows leaders how truly prioritizing employees isn't just good for employees-it's good for business. Imagine a company where everyone loves to work, where employees feel not just 'satisfied' but truly cared for, respected, and energized. Think of the impact this would have on recruitment, retention, customer satisfaction, innovation, and overall performance. Aron Ain, the award-winning CEO of Kronos, a global provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions, believes that anything is possible when people are inspired. By embracing employee development and engagement as a growth strategy, Ain transformed his company's culture and built a billion-dollar business. This book takes leaders and managers inside Kronos's highly admired WorkInspired culture, showing them the surprisingly simple rules they can follow to replicate that success. This inspiring guide reveals the best practices that have earned Kronos distinctions on coveted lists, such as Glassdoor's 100 Best Places to Work, Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Forbes's America's Best Employers, and the Boston Globe's Top Places to Work. These best practices include: - overcommunicating and truth-telling - trusting your people (again and again) and keeping them safe - holding managers accountable for being great at what they do - allowing employees flexible schedules and open vacation time - challenging your people to put the company out of business with innovative products - welcoming back boomerang employees - empowering the next generation workforce Many executives talk about how 'their people are their greatest asset.' Ain challenges leaders to 'walk the talk' and put people first, whether they oversee a team of five or an organization of 500,000. When they do, employees won't be the only ones who thank them. Customers and shareholders will, too. This is what it means to WorkInspired.

Aron Ain (Author), Aron Ain, Tom Parks (Narrator)

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The Innovation Mandate: The Growth Secrets of the Best Organizations in the World

In clear language, The Innovation Mandate shows leaders a step-by-step process to continually generate great ideas, implement them, and maximize their value to benefit both customers and investors. In today’s ultracompetitive marketplace, the difference between success and failure is innovation. From small entrepreneurial startups to global Fortune 500 companies, innovation--the steady flow of new ideas--drives sustained success. It allows a company to introduce new products and services, effectively connect with customers, sharpen the supply chain, efficiently manage finances, and hire and retain the best people. Without a steady stream of new ideas, even the best company will slow down, atrophy, lose market share, hemorrhage customers, and eventually close or be sold. The Innovation Mandate offers a clear and straightforward pathway to profitable innovation. It demystifies the concept, making it easy to understand, implement, and measure. The audiobook centers around three simple concepts: innovation generates profits; innovation, in the form of new, profitable ideas, can come from anywhere; and identifying, harnessing, evaluating, and implementing these new ideas cannot be left to chance. Additionally, the audiobook offers a five-point checklist to ensure your company is innovation ready. Charts, tables, and a self-assessment survey are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Nicholas Webb (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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Mission Transition: Navigating the Opportunities and Obstacles to Your Post-Military Career

Mission Transition is an essential career-change guide for any transitioning veteran that wants to avoid false starts and make optimal career choices following active duty. Every year, about a quarter of a million veterans leave the military - most of whom are grossly unprepared for the transition. These servicemembers have developed incredible leadership, problem-solving, and practical skills that are underutilized once they reach the civilian world, a detriment to both themselves and society. Well-intentioned Transition Assistance Programs and other support structures within the armed forces often leave veterans fending for themselves. And the mission-first culture of the military results in servicemembers focusing on their active duty roles in the year leading up to their separation, leaving them little time to adequately prepare to join the civilian world. Mission Transition guides military personnel through the entire process of making a successful move into civilian professional life. This audiobook will: Guide you through the process of discovering what path you want to take going forwardTeach you the strategies that will make your résumé stand outProvide suggestions to help you prepare for and ace the interviewDiscuss ways to acclimate to your new organization's culture and pay it forward to other veteransEach chapter includes advice from other veterans, illustrations of key concepts, summaries, and suggested resources. Charts, tables, and assessments are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Matthew J. Louis (Author), John Behrens, Levi Wiggins (Narrator)

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Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving

An insider's guide to the coming philanthropic revolution Meet the next generation of big donors-the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists who will be the most significant donors ever and will shape our world in profound ways. Hear them describe their ambitious plans to revolutionize giving so it achieves greater impact. And learn how to help them succeed in a world that needs smart, effective donors now more than ever. As 'next gen donors' step into their philanthropic roles, they have not only unprecedented financial resources, but also big ideas for how to wield their financial power. They want to disrupt the traditional world of charitable giving, and they want to do so now, not after they retire to a life of philanthropic leisure. Generation Impact pulls back the curtain on these rising leaders and their 'Impact Revolution,' offering both extensive firsthand accounts and expert analysis of the hands-on, boundary-pushing, unconventional strategies next gen donors are beginning to pursue.

Michael Moody, Sharna Goldseker (Author), Jennifer Jill Araya (Narrator)

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