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Understanding Organizations...Finally!: Structuring in Sevens

"The iconic Henry Mintzberg provides a crystal-clear map to the forms and forces that shape all human organizations, synthesizing his fifty years of research. We live in a world of organizations, from our birth in hospitals until our burial by funeral homes. In between, we are educated, employed, entertained, and exasperated by organizations. We had better understand how these strange beasts really work. But where can we go to find out? Welcome to Understanding Organizations . . . Finally! For half a century, Mintzberg has been observing organizations, advising them, engaging them, and escaping them. Here he offers a masterful update and revision of his 1983 classic, Structure in Fives. Believing there is one best way to structure organizations is the worst way to do so. A better place to start is by recognizing different species of organizations. Mintzberg identifies seven-personal enterprises, programmed machines, professional assemblies, project pioneers, and others. He explores these forms and the seven forces that drive them toward hybrids and across their life cycles. You will find no better guide to the care and feeding of these extraordinarily varied and vital creatures than this book."

Henry Mintzberg (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Building Better Organizations: How to Fuel Growth and Lead in a Digital Era

"This essential playbook shows how companies can scale success by coupling digital strategies with an investment in the health of their organizations and the people within. To scale and grow, a company must get the organizational elements right. That begins with having the right strategy, the right leadership to drive it, and the right talent, culture, and organizational design to realize a company's potential. This is especially true in the AI era, where a company's most valuable assets are its people. To begin with, leaders must rethink their value creation strategies. To hone their organizational edge, leaders must prioritize their organization's health in seven vital areas: strategic direction, culture, leadership, talent, organizational design, EID (equity, inclusion, and diversity), and well-being. No matter what type or size of business, those essential conditions must be leveraged for increased value and growth. Put simply: organizational matters matter. To hone their digital edge, leaders must understand AI, as advances in technology allow leaders to build organizations that can compete and win in the future. Finally, an investor mindset will enable leaders to invest wisely in the technology (and leverage that tech) that sets their organizations apart."

Claudy Jules (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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The Winning Walk

"Walking involves practically every muscle in the body. And no one is born with the ability to walk. It requires training, strength, balance, coordination, determination and time. Walking with God is no different. Nobody instantly becomes an overcoming Christian. We must take those first timid steps clinging to the Father's hand before we can walk worthy of our calling as a child of the King. Like all journeys, walking the winning walk requires the proper equipment and preparation. By outfitting our lives with the Word of God, we will be able to follow where the Master leads. In this book, Dr. Ed Young will motivate you to begin your life-long adventure, walking with Jesus, endowed with supernatural power."

Ed Young (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business Agility

"This guide shows readers how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change. The key to surviving organizational change is sorting through the truths, half-truths, and lies-beginning with the ones you tell yourself. That way you don't end up overpromising and underdelivering, and you can weather troubling times in your organization. Truth, including inner truth, is key to surviving organizational change and achieving truly agile leadership. Using case studies from the most successful companies, Michael and Audree Sahota demonstrate how creative, collaborative, and adaptive thinking can ripple from the leader outward. If you can change your own mindset, you can change your organization. This holistic approach bridges the gap between traditional management and agile ways of working. If you can truly understand the reasons people resist new ways of working, you will no longer meet passive resistance, and an authentic transformation will result."

Audree Tara Sahota, Michael Sahota (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Do What Matters Most: Lead with a Vision, Manage with a Plan, Prioritize Your Time

"Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the habits and processes used by top leaders worldwide to minimize distractions and maximize accomplishments. In working with more than 724 managers and leaders from more than fifty different organizations, Steven and Robert Shallenberger were shocked to discover that although 68 percent of them feel like their number one challenge is time management, 80 percent don't have a clear process. Despite the availability of so many books, seminars, and workshops on time management, there is still a huge need. Drawing on forty years of leadership research, Steven and Robert Shallenberger offer three simple principles that the top 10 percent of leaders use to 'do what matters most.' They found that successful executives lead with a vision, manage with a plan, and prioritize their time. Implementing these simple and easy-to-understand principles, supported by tools like their Personal Productivity Assessment and Pre-Week Planning process, you will learn how to live a life by design, not by default. You'll feel the power that comes with a sense of control, direction, and purpose."

Robert R Shallenberger, Steven R Shallenberger (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Work Made Fun Gets Done!: Easy Ways to Boost Energy, Morale, and Results

"Bob Nelson, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, and human performance expert Mario Tamayo offer hundreds of practical, creative tips for helping employees-and their managers-make work more fun. Every business needs happy, engaged, and motivated employees, whether it's a major corporation or one of the over thirty million small businesses in America today. Most elements in modern business work against this basic need: constant change and increasing stress from both the speed of business and its complexity, as well as the expansive application of technology to all aspects of business. Work Made Fun Gets Done gives the reader simple, practical ideas for instantly bringing fun into the workplace. Based on examples from scores of real companies like Pinterest, Asana, Bank of America, Genentech, Zappos, Honda, General Mills, Microsoft, and many more, as well as the authors' collective experience, this book provides clear behavioral examples on exactly what managers can do to immediately lighten the tone of the work environment and excite their teams. The book, written in a fun style, contains lighthearted illustrations and callout boxes to highlight fun practices."

Bob Nelson, Felix Mario Tamayo (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War

"America, how well do you know your history? - Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? - Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor? - Which first lady refused to serve alcohol in the White House? - What famous inventor was called to find the assassin's bullet in President Garfield's back? - Which successful candidate for president insisted on telling the truth about his sex scandal? - Which beloved ex-president raced with death and poverty to write his best-selling memoirs and which famous humorist came to his rescue? - Which president carefully read the trial notes of 303 condemned Sioux warriors and spared all but 38 from the hangman's noose? - Which 'four-eyed' future president beat up a drunken bully in a saloon? In his Farewell Address, Ronald Reagan said if we forget what we have done, we will forget who we are. This book, written by one of Reagan's most loyal lieutenants, responds to Reagan's heartfelt call for an informed patriotism. We all need to know more about this land we love. In this gripping tale of a nation, our country's past comes alive. Here is the story of those we chose to lead us and what they did with the awesome power we gave them. Join Bill Bennett for the great adventure. America's teacher will lead you on a voyage of discovery. What others are saying: 'William J. Bennett artfully and subtly makes connections between our past and current events, reminding us ... that we are intimately and immediately connected to the extraordinary Americans who have bestowed upon us our great heritage.... [T]he importance of America: The Last Best Hope probably exceeds anything Dr. Bennett has ever written, and it is more elegantly crafted and eminently readable than any comprehensive work of history I've read in a very long time. It's silly to compare great works of history to great novels, but this book truly is a page-turner.... Prepare to have your faith in, hope for, and love of America renewed.' -Brad Miner, American Compass 'The Role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's wonderfully readable book is so important. He puts our nation's triumphs, along with its lapses, into the context of a narrative about the progress of freedom. Every now and then it's useful to be reminded that we are a fortunate people, blessed with generations of leaders who repeatedly renewed the meaning of America.' -Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 'For too long Americans have been looking for a history of our country that tells the story of America's triumphs as well as its tragedies. Now Bill Bennett has come forward with America: The Last Best Hope, which tells the story-fairly and fully-from 1492 to 1914. Americans who have been reading recent biographies of the Founding Fathers will love this book.' -Michael Barone, US News & World Report 'Bill Bennett's book will stand as perhaps the most important addition to American scholarship at this, the start of the new century. For the past fifty years American historians have either distorted American history or reduced it to a mess of boring indictments of our cultural and political heritage. With this book Bennett offers to Americans young and old an exciting and enjoyable history of what makes America the greatest nation on earth.' -Brian Kennedy, president, The Claremont Institute "

William J. Bennett (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Captured by Grace: No One Is Beyond the Reach of a Loving God

"Grace-it's a stained-glass, impersonal word until it happens to you . . . Until you have been broken beyond belief and need a miracle for your soul. Until you have betrayed a loved one and cannot bring him back. Until you have befriended every darkness and are desperate for the light. That's when God's relentless, amazing, very personalized grace finds you. It reached a slave trader onboard a ship raiding Africa's coast in March 1748. He later gave the world its most beloved hymn. It struck the Christian church's most treacherous enemy on a Damascus road in AD 45, and he became the gospel's greatest messenger. And it can free you too . . . of any shameful memory, open wound, unthinking mistake, or willful choice. Encountering God's grace changes lives forever. Let Dr. David Jeremiah show you how the transforming mercy that captured songwriter John Newton and the apostle Paul can awaken within you a fresh experience of the God who loves you fearlessly and pursues you with abandon. "Captured by Grace could just be the fresh experience of the love of God you've been waiting for." John C. Maxwell, Best-Selling Author "You'll never hear 'Amazing Grace' in the same way again." John Tesh, Entertainer and TV Personality "One of the most interesting and compelling books I have ever read." Tim LaHaye, Best-Selling Author"

David Jeremiah (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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And Then the End Will Come: The Completion of the Great Commission and Nine Other Clues Jesus is Com

"WE’RE LIVING IN THE MOST EXCITING TIMES SINCE JESUS WALKED THE EARTH Did you know that the global church is only a few years away from fulfilling Jesus’ command to “make disciples of every nation?” And that Jesus explicitly tied his return to the completion of that task? In And Then the End Will Come, Douglas Cobb, founder of the Finishing Fund, provides a front-line account of the effort to finish Jesus’ Great Commission in our lifetimes. He also explores nine other Biblical clues that Jesus is coming soon, including - the approaching 2000-year anniversary of the resurrection, - the regathering of Israel, - and the prophecies of Daniel 12. He makes the case that the return of Christ is at hand—perhaps in the next year or two, perhaps a little later, but surely soon. And he offers practical instruction about what it means to “live holy and godly lives” as we look for the coming of our Lord and King. If you’re discouraged about the craziness you see in the world today, And Then the End Will Come will offer you hope for better things soon to come—things so great that the Bible says no one can imagine how awesome they will be."

Douglas Cobb (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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From the Ground Up: How Frontline Staff Can Save America's Healthcare

"'Everyone in a hospital leadership role should read this book as it offers a wealth of practical advice for organizations intent on improving their clinical care delivery.' -Amy C. Edmondson, professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Fearless Organization Healthcare continues to be our fastest-growing sector-three times more than the rest of the economy. Yet it costs almost twice as much in the United States as it does in other countries, and its delivery systems are widely acknowledged to be fragmented, uneven in quality, and difficult to negotiate for the patients they aim to serve. Systemic changes are needed to create structures and processes that address these intrinsic flaws. Practical and inspiring, this book draws on theories and practices that promote organizational change and outlines processes for establishing labor-management partnerships that utilize the knowledge and experience of administrators and staff at all levels. Through details of past and current practices of frontline participation, readers will discover proven methods for improving healthcare in the United States by listening to and implementing the ideas of frontline staff and patients."

Marie Rudden, Peter Lazes (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Fall in Love, Stay in Love

"Dr. Harley's blockbuster book His Needs, Her Needs has helped more than a million couples meet each other's needs and fall in love all over again. But that's only part of what makes a spectacular marriage, according to Harley. To stay in love, couples must protect each other and the love they've created. Harley fans have already been introduced to the Love Bank, emotional needs, Love Busters, and fair negotiation. So how do these key concepts work together to strengthen marriages? Fall in Love, Stay in Love has the answer--a complete, step-by-step overview that will leave fans saying "aha!" and new readers ready for more from this respected author. In his new book, Harley promises that if couples are willing to form habits that create love and control instincts that destroy it, they can have the love-filled marriages they've always wanted. Then he sits down with readers to guide them through his tried and proven plan. With profound insights, probing questions, and practical action steps, the man who has helped save scores of marriages leads readers down the road to a love that lasts a lifetime."

Willard F. Harley, Jr. (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Give & Take: The Secret to Marital Compatibility

Willard F. Harley, Jr. (Author), Wayne Shepherd (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Wayne Shepherd