Management & Leadership Audiobooks | Business & Economics

The 3rd Paradigm: A Radical Shift to Greater Success

The 3rd Paradigm provides a framework for businesses and individuals alike to innovate breakthrough solutions through a process of Co-Creation. Backed by original research involving more than 4,000 business professionals, the authors present the three paradigms of business, the five types of Co-Creation, and a four part step-by-step model that allows you to make the radical shift toward the 3rd Paradigm of Co-Creation-where all stakeholders play a meaningful part in greater success. - Learn from the example of Richard, who tried to solve his business's greatest scaling problem and only found success when he adopted the 3rd Paradigm. - Discover rigorous research findings that pinpoint the top seven advantages of the 3rd Paradigm as well as the top seven drawbacks, so you know what they are-and how to proactively manage through any obstacles. - Expand your leadership capacity by learning how to gain buy-in and consensus and move projects forward despite any challenges that may arise. - And much more The 3rd Paradigm is the radical shift you've been waiting for if you're eager to achieve truly inclusive work cultures, increased profitability, and explosive revenue growth.

Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Heidi Scott Giusto, Ivan Misner, Ivan R. Misner (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)

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The Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

Clayton Christensen's bestselling book, The Innovator's Dilemma, introduced the groundbreaking idea of disruptive innovation, revealing how even well-run companies can do everything right and yet still lose market leadership. In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now. Christensen and Raynor give advice on the business decisions crucial to achieving truly disruptive growth and propose guidelines for developing your own disruptive growth engine. The authors identify the forces that cause managers to make bad decisions as they package and shape new ideas-and offer new frameworks to help create the right conditions, at the right time, for a disruption to succeed. This is a must-listen for all senior managers and business leaders responsible for innovation and growth, as well as for members of their teams.

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor (Author), Joel Leffert, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)

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The Humor Habit: Rewire Your Brain to Stress Less, Laugh More, and Achieve More'er

In The Humor Habit, veteran speaker, corporate trainer, and comedian Paul Osincup delivers a hilarious and effective new take on how to make yourself and your team more productive and resilient by focusing on the funny side of work and life. In the book, you'll learn why humor isn't an in-born quality you're either born with or without. Instead, it's a habit you can develop over time. You'll find 100 ways to have more fun at work, methods to improve your resilience in dealing with adversity, and an explanation of the author's 'LAFTER' model that shows you how to leverage levity at work. You'll also discover: - The latest insights from contemporary positive psychology combined with timeless comedic techniques that enhance your wellbeing - Strategies to help you battle 'chronic seriousness,' a condition affecting virtually every professional in the working world - Ways to boost your team members' brainpower and productivity using humor Perfect for managers, executives, team leads, directors, and other business leaders, The Humor Habit is the practical, hands-on guide to improved productivity that's actually fun to listen to-and even more fun to implement.

Paul Osincup (Author), Paul Osincup (Narrator)

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Make Them Smile: Why Customer Satisfaction Is the Key to Rapid and Sustainable Growth

As a dental student at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston just four years after leaving Zimbabwe for America, Dr. Sulman Ahmed was already looking ahead to an alternative future to private practice, determined to help as many people as possible, innovate within a stagnant industry by putting the customer experience first, and maximize his earning potential. In Make Them Smile, Dr. Ahmed shows listeners how he scaled his customer-centric services and built a national brand-known as the 'Starbucks of dentistry'-and offers guidance on how to identify the ideal gap to fill in your market; leverage your expertise as your competitive advantage; become a compassionate, highly capable leader; standardize operations and scale; navigate the various financing vehicles available at different stages of growth; and build sustainable wealth while creating a legacy of improving customers' lives. For hardworking and dedicated professional service providers, Make Them Smile offers a way out of the grind of living hour to billable hour, providing a road map for how to build a scalable, standardized brand that provides a consistent, repeatable, and high-quality customer experience.

Dr. Sulman Ahmed (Author), Tom Beyer (Narrator)

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The Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller-one of the most influential business books of all time-innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right yet still lose market leadership. Now with a foreword by Marc Benioff, the cofounder and CEO of Salesforce, Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices. Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative-and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time-The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross, L.J. Ganser (Narrator)

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Smaller is Better

Small is the next big thing.When working for a large organization, weeks can pass before leadership makes important decisions that affect you and your team. Meanwhile, you're on the hook to deliver products that dont actually serve the customerproducts you know you could improve, if given the opportunity.After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the drawbacks of working in giant, siloed environments. His book, Smaller is Better, shows you how to use the small, empowered teams model to radically recharge your workplace, make better products, and deliver a phenomenal customer experience. All with better employee engagement and retention!Smaller is Better uses real-world examples of companies who have saved billions and shaved years off their development cycles through small teams. Discover how to form nimble, autonomous teams, optimize them for mission, and scale across your organization. Improve both innovation and delivery while amping up customer satisfaction. Best of all, learn ways to get full buy-in from company leadersand how you can start small today, with or without C-suite support.--"This book is the manifesto for leaders who are ready to revolutionize their organizations. Brady Brim-DeForest redefines success for any business and his own history of multiple successes proves the model. Read this book only if you want to win! - Jeffrey Hayzlett, Primetime TV & Podcast Host, Speaker, Author and Part-Time Cowboy"If youre looking for a comprehensive guide to leveraging the power of Lean principles in the enterprise, using tried and true methods across many industries, look no further than Smaller is Better." - Patrick Vlaskovits, NYT Bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and Hustle

Brady Brim-Deforest (Author), Matt Pittenger (Narrator)

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The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

Patrick M. Lencioni (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator)

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The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power are Undermined - and How to Fight Back

'The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.' Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you've wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? The world of work is supposedly changing, embracing diversity - yet are the opportunities we're giving to women really equal to those of men? Drawing on almost 20 years of research from around the world, The Glass Cliff phenomenon - whereby women are often only hired in leadership roles when a business is already underperforming, meaning their chances of success are limited before they ever even start in the role - is well established, but little known. Until now. This is the story of The Glass Cliff: a story of a structural inequality disguising itself as the personal failures of women. When activist Sophie Williams gave her viral TED talk on the subject, she was subsequently flooded with accounts of confident, accomplished women who had taken what seemed like a dream leadership role only to quickly find themselves in a waking nightmare. Without the language to describe their experiences they had been left blaming themselves. But learning about The Glass Cliff enabled them to reframe and reexamine what they'd gone through. Once we understand The Glass Cliff - once we can stand together and face it head-first - we can start to unravel so many other false narratives about women's leadership experiences that just don't make sense without it. By understanding the phenomenon, and by telling one another about it, we can affect the conversation, empower one another to overcome societal bias and, ultimately, change the world of work for women forever.

Sophie Williams (Author), Sophie Williams, TBD (Narrator)

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Building a New Leadership Ladder: Transforming Male-Dominated Organizations to Support Women on the

When it comes to the gender gap, it is not enough to ask women to 'lean in' and demand promotions and raises. Organizations have an obligation to level up and provide women with more opportunities for advancement. In this book, leadership and governance expert Carol Geffner makes a strong case that for women to reach their full potential, workplaces and their leaders must take a more proactive role in combating gender discrimination. Based on over 200 hours of interviews with women leaders in the United States and abroad, Building a New Leadership Ladder demonstrates that even when women are promoted to leadership positions, they are rarely given access to the same support networks as their male colleagues. Covering sectors as diverse as higher education, health care, law enforcement, and the military, the book identifies common strategies that all organizations can use to remove obstacles for women's advancement. More than a how-to guide on how women can ascend to the top, Building a New Leadership Ladder is a bold call to action for organizations and their leaders to proactively foster the conditions under which women's efforts to rise up are consistently recognized and rewarded.

Carol J. Geffner (Author), Jennifer Aquino (Narrator)

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Transformed: Becoming a Product-Driven Company

Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies! Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model was written to bridge the gap between where most companies are right now and where they need to be. The leaders of these companies know they must transform to compete in an era of rapidly changing enabling technology, but most of them have never operated this way before. Transformed has three big goals: - First, the book will educate you with a deep understanding of the product operating model, and what it means to work that way. - Second, the book will convince you with detailed case studies of successful transformations, that while difficult, it is absolutely possible for you to transform your company to the product operating model. - Third, the book will inspire you with truly impressive case studies of product innovation, showing what you too will be capable of doing once you successfully transform. Written by bestselling author Marty Cagan and his partners at the Silicon Valley Product Group, Transformed is filled with real-world examples and proven, practical advice from their decades of experience helping companies move to the product operating model.

Marty Cagan (Author), Marty Cagan (Narrator)

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The Model Black: How Black British Leaders Succeed in Organisations and Why It Matters

This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders. Based on candid interviews with thirty successful black leaders, it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organizations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience. This book provides the insights and ideas required to have positive conversations about race at work and to create work environments where black leaders can thrive. This book offers new ways of thinking about black people at work that help to further inclusion. It shines a light on the daily reality of being a black leader in the workplace, providing an alternative entry point for conversations around inclusion and explores what individuals and organizations can do to increase inclusion in the workplace. Through firsthand stories this book explores the challenges, compromises, struggles, and successes that black people encounter, and the range of strategies they employ to achieve success as they navigate the 'white' workplace. It is essential for business leaders in the private, public, and third sector, human resources professionals, students, anyone teaching or mentoring black students or leaders, and everyone interested in understanding race and furthering inclusion in the workplace.

Barbara Banda (Author), Patricia Grant (Narrator)

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Relentless Caring: If You Don't Give a Damn, Don't Expect Anyone Else To

Relentless Caring details an approach to leadership focused on the well-being of others. By following its step-by-step guide to delivering kindness every day at all levels of your organization and to all your customers, you will earn dedicated employees, repeat customers-and, ultimately, profitability. As founder and executive chairman of MarineMax, William H. McGill Jr. helped transform the company from a disparate group of boat dealers into a highly profitable $2 billion global conglomerate. In Relentless Caring, McGill Jr. shares what he's learned about how to truly care about others 24/7 and generate solid profits at the same time. Listeners will learn why having the right people in the right jobs matters; how to take care of your people and their families, including providing high-quality, low-cost health care; why long-term thinking is essential for success; why persistence, consistency, and risk are essential, too; and more. Relentless Caring is a playbook for 'managing from the heart'-tirelessly delivering goodness and kindness to your team members and to customers to build strong loyalties that can buoy your organization even in the most challenging economic circumstances.

William H. Mcgill Jr. (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator)

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