Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Managers as Mentors, Third Edition: Building Partnerships for Learning Author: Chip R. Bell, Marshall Goldsmith Narrator: Mark Peckham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: Managers As Mentors is a rapid-fire read and a provocative guide to helping associates grow and adapt in today's tumultuous organizations. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith place increased emphasis on the mentor as a learning catalyst for the prot├®g├® rather than someone who simply hands down knowledge—crucial for younger workers who prize growth opportunities even more than prior generations and who tend to distrust hierarchy. As with previous editions there is a fictional case study of a mentor-prot├®g├® relationship running through the book, but this is augmented with six actual case studies of top CEOs from organizations like The Nature Conservancy and Bloomin' Brands, who relate key mentoring experiences in their lives. The new chapters cover topics like the role of mentoring in spurring innovation and mentoring a diverse and dispersed workforce accustomed to interacting and getting information digitally. Also new to this edition is the Mentor's Toolkit, six resources to help in developing the mentor-prot├®g├® relationship. This hands-on guide takes the mystery out of effective mentoring, teaching leaders to be the kind of confident coaches integral to learning organizations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results Author: Bob Knight Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, a classic bestseller, has inspired an optimistic perspective for millions of Americans. Now, in an inspirational and entertaining rebuttal, the legendary basketball coach Bob Knight explains why “negative thinking” will actually produce more positive results, in sports and in daily life. Coach Knight, the second-winningest coach in NCAA history with 902 victories, explains that victory is often attained by the team that makes the fewest mistakes. His coaching philosophy was to instill discipline by “preparing to win” rather than hoping to win. That meant understanding the downside and drilling his teams to prevent the things that could go wrong. And when his teams did win, he made sure they didn’t dwell on their success, but rather looked immediately to the challenges of the next game. He applies this lesson to business strategy as well.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harvard Winning Business Strategies Audiobook: 7 Title Collection Author: Peter Drucker, Various Authors Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: Each audiobook in the Harvard Business School Thoughts: 3 Peter Drucker titles and 4 more! (Seven Audiobook Collection) can be purchased separately. They are included together here for completeness and to offer a better retail value for customers. Three Peter Drucker titles, Managing Oneself, What Makes an Effective Executive?, and The Discipline of Innovation; two by Professor Amar Bhide formerly of Harvard Business School and now at Columbia Business School, Bootstrap Finance and Hustle as Strategy. The final two by Deaver Brown, Harvard Business School Graduate, Simpler & Cheaper: Henry Ford to Google and the timely Free Agent: No Employee World. Approximately 7 hours of listening pleasure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiring Your First Employees and Contractors Author: Deaver Brown, Harvard AB & MBA Narrator: Deaver Brown, Harvard AB & MBA Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: April 28, 2011 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: Hiring Your First Employees and Contractors emphasizes the benefits of starting with contractors and only evolving to employees when absolutely required. The entrepreneur and small firm manager is provided concrete benchmarks and approaches to hire contractors and employees; the emphasis is always on how to extend the entrepreneur's reach so as to focus on their improving their core values and core competencies. If an employee does not extend one's reach, they are an expensive risky distraction. Read this first before hiring your first employee. As the author says, there are shelves of books on hiring exactly because it is so complicated and perilous. This is the first book the author knows of that addresses hiring contractors which suggests it is a far less risky business.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success Author: Harvey Deutschendorf Narrator: Fred Stella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 15, 2010 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: We have known for years that the difference between those who become successful in life and those who struggle is their degree of emotional intelligence (EI), or 'people skills.” Now, The Other Kind of Smart shows readers how they can increase their emotional intelligence and overcome the barriers that are preventing them from realizing their true potential. Emotional intelligence coach Harvey Deutschendorf has shown thousands of people how to relate emotional intelligence to everyday situations. Here, he uses the proven techniques of storytelling, combined with quotes and exercises, to show readers how to apply the principles of EI on the job. Filled with real-life scenarios and solutions, the book offers tools that will bring results in as little as five minutes a day and shows how to develop stress tolerance, cultivate empathy, increase flexibility with co-workers, boost assertiveness, and resolve problems successfully. Complete with an EI quiz that will help readers measure their own level of emotional intelligence, this invaluable guide will enable everyone to improve their relationships and increase their effectiveness at work in a practical, accessible way.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leading Change: An Action Plan from The World's Foremost Expert on Business Leadership Author: John Kotter Narrator: Oliver Wyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 21, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 8 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future. The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies—total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds—routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people—good people—often derail. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides unprecedented access to our generation's business master and a positive role model for leaders to emulate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't Author: Ram Charan Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 2, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: The new grand theory of leadership by Ram Charan . . . The breakthrough book that links know-how—the skills of people who know what they are doing— with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader.How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important. But something big is missing: the know-how of running a business—the capacity to take it in the right direction, do the right things, make the right decisions, deliver results, and leave the people and the business better off than they were before.For well over four decades, Ram Charan has been learning in the most visceral way the underlying reasons why leaders succeed and fail. As one of the most influential advisers to top management teams of leading companies around the world, he has had a front-row seat to observe the cause and effect of leadership practices and behaviors.Ram Charan’s insight into the real content of leadership provides you with the eight fundamental skills needed for success in the twenty-first century: • Positioning (and, when necessary, repositioning) your business by zeroing in on the central idea that meets customer needs and makes money• Connecting the dots by pinpointing patterns of external change ahead of others• Shaping the way people work together by leading the social system of your business• Judging people by getting to the truth of a person• Molding high-energy, high-powered, high-ego people into a working team of leaders in which they equal more than the sum of their parts• Knowing the destination where you want to take your business by developing goals that balance what the business can become with what it can realistically achieve• Setting laser-sharp priorities that become the road map for meeting your goals• Dealing creatively and positively with societal pressures that go beyond the economic value creation activities of your businessKnow-How is the missing link of leadership. By showing how the eight know-hows link to, interact with, and reinforce personal and psychological traits, Ram Charan provides a holistic and innovative portrait of successful leaders of the twenty-first century.