Leadership & Management

Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Simon Sinek
• Narrated By Simon Sinek, Stephen Shedletzky
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Find Your Why is the follow up to Start with Why, the global best seller and the subject of the third most watched TED Talk of all time. With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. Now, along with two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, Sinek has created a guide to the most important step any business can take: finding your why.

Principles: Life and Work

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ray Dalio
• Narrated By Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Stephen R. Covey
• Narrated By Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answer some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Simon Sinek
• Narrated By Simon Sinek
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Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work. This is not a crazy, idealised notion. In many successful organisations, great leaders are creating environments in which teams trust each other so deeply that they would put their lives on the line for each other. Yet other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why? Today's workplaces tend to be full of cynicism, paranoia and self-interest.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Int'l Edit.)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Simon Sinek
• Narrated By Simon Sinek
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Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their successes over and over? People like Martin Luther King, Jr.; Steve Jobs; and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. Their natural ability to start with why enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• Narrated By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
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In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life. With riveting firsthand accounts of making high-pressure decisions as Navy SEAL battlefield leaders, this audiobook is equally gripping for leaders who seek to dominate other arenas.

Think and Grow Rich

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Napoleon Hill
• Narrated By Erik Synnestvedt
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Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history. The text read in this audiobook is the original 1937 edition written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie - and while it has often been reproduced, no updated version has ever been able to compete with the original.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Cal Newport
• Narrated By Jeff Bottoms
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Popular blogger Cal Newport reveals the new key to achieving success and true meaning in professional life: the ability to master distraction. Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves their attention the most. When Cal Newport coined the term deep work on his popular blog, Study Hacks, in 2012, he found the concept quickly hit a nerve.

48 Laws of Power

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Robert Greene
• Narrated By Richard Poe

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Kerry Patterson
• Narrated By Joseph Grenny
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Perhaps once a decade, a book comes along that transforms people's lives in a very real, measurable way. This is one of them. Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene 10 years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book. Now, the authors have revised their best-selling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation.

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Josh Kaufman
• Narrated By Josh Kaufman
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Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Daniel Priestley
• Narrated By Daniel Priestley, Roger Davis
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Don't fight for customers; let them fight over you! Have you ever queued for a restaurant? Preordered something months in advance? Fought for tickets that sell out in a day? Had a hairdresser with a six-month waiting list? There are people who don't chase clients; clients chase them. In a world of endless choices, why does this happen? Why do people queue up? Why do they pay more? Why will they book months in advance? Why are these people and products in such high demand?

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
• Narrated By Timothy Miller, Claire Hamilton
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This is an audiobook for busy people. If you want less on your plate and more for your life and career, tune in to the #1 Wall Street Journal best seller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The ONE Thing will bring your life and your work into focus. Authors Gary Keller and Jay Papasan teach you the tricks to cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, dial down stress, and master what matters to you.

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Brené Brown
• Narrated By Karen White
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, read by Karen White. Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. In a powerful new vision, Dr. Brené Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability and dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness.

TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Chris Anderson
• Narrated By Chris Anderson, Tom Rielly, Kelly Stoetzel
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Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted short talks can be the key to unlocking empathy, stirring excitement, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream. Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience's worldview. Done right, a talk is more powerful than anything in written form.

The Richest Man in Babylon

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 4 mins)
• By George S. Clason
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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A modern day classic, The Richest Man in Babylon dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. These famous "Babylonian parables" offer an understanding of - and solution to - a lifetime's worth of personal financial problems, and hold the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and earning more money.

Side Hustle: Build a side business and make extra money - without quitting your day job

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Chris Guillebeau
• Narrated By Chris Guillebeau

For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to start their own business is exhilarating. For many others, the loss of a stable paycheck is terrifying. But what if we could easily create new income without giving up the security of a full-time job? Enter the side hustle, a mini-business that earns you extra money. With Chris Guillebeau's step-by-step guide, you can go from idea to income in just 27 days.

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Seth Godin
• Narrated By Seth Godin

What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last? Face it, the checklist of tired P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few - aren't working anymore.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Michael E. Gerber
• Narrated By Michael E. Gerber
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In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Eric Ries
• Narrated By Eric Ries
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
• Narrated By Christian Steiner

Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow-up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic 3.6 million copy global best seller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step by step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space.

What the CEO Wants You to Know, Expanded and Updated: How Your Company Really Works

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Ram Charan
• Narrated By David H. Lawrence XVII

Completely rewritten for today's business world, What the CEO Wants You to Know, expanded and updated, written by best-selling author Ram Charan, describes the fundamentals behind every business, from street vendors in Mumbai to Fortune 500 companies. Drawing on stories from Uber, Amazon, Apple, Toyota, Netflix, Lyft, The Limited, Walmart, GE, and Starbucks, Charan, in the most accessible language imaginable, explains the ins and outs of how companies work.

Restaurant Success by the Numbers, Second Edition: A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next New Hot Spot

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Roger Fields
• Narrated By Jonathan Yen

A one-stop start-up guide from an accountant-turned-restaurateur. Ninety percent of all restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! A man of many hats - money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant - Roger Fields shows how a restaurant can survive its first year and keep diners coming back for years. Featuring real-life start-up stories (including many of the author's own), this comprehensive how-to walks listeners through the logistics of opening a restaurant: concept, location, menu, staff, and, most important, profit.

The Leader's Bookshelf

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By R. Manning Ancell, ADM. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.)
• Narrated By Bob Souer
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For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over 200 active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success in spite of the many demanding challenges they faced. The Leader's Bookshelf synthesizes their responses to identify the top 50 books that can help virtually anyone become a better leader.

Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager Revised Edition: Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to Suceed

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler
• Narrated By Dan Woren

Through a captivating business parable, Ken Blanchard and coauthors Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins show listeners how to apply the world-renowned Situational Leadership II method to their own development. The story centers on Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. Through a series of talks with a One Minute Manager protégé named Cayla, Steve learns the three secrets of self leadership.

The Hollywood Commandments: A Spiritual Guide to Secular Success

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 15 mins)
• By DeVon Franklin, Tim Vandehey
• Narrated By DeVon Franklin
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You can be wildly successful without losing your faith. In fact your secular success will strengthen your faith if you allow it. Too often we believe that success in secular environments contradicts the core principles of faith, but the opposite is true: Your faith was designed to thrive in the secular world and to transform it as a result. You may never experience the true fulfillment you were created for until you pursue the secular ambitions in your heart. DeVon Franklin knows this to be true.

Musician's Map: The Complete Guide to Building Success in Music

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Kane Power
• Narrated By Kane Power

The Musician's Map is a complete guide to building success in music. Whether you're just thinking about learning music, or you're already in the process of building a career; this book will help you. Musician's Map provides practical advice for musicians just starting out and musicians looking to get ahead and further their career. This book is a step-by-step guide that will save you years of time, thousands of dollars, and will make you a better musician.

Summary: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 21 mins)
• By Readtrepreneur Publishing
• Narrated By Douglas Birk

Teamwork or the lack thereof can make or break a team. Having a good team that can work efficiently together is more important than you think. This book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, tells the story of DecisionTech, a promising start-up company that starts to fall apart because of the dysfunctional team managing the company. However, Kathryn Peterson is hired just in time and aims to make things right again. The conflicts presented in the story may very well be what we are already facing.

LeadershipYOU: Your Future Starts with You: The Outlier Series

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 27 mins)
• By John Shufeldt
• Narrated By John Shufeldt

It's up to you to take control of your life. But where are you supposed to start? Challenge yourself to do better and be better by applying the 10 principles in LeadershipYOU. You'll notice yourself becoming a more effective, higher-achieving leader, colleague, and professional. More than anything, you'll be reminded of the necessary traits to lead the most important player in your life - you.

Side Hustle: Build a side business and make extra money - without quitting your day job

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Chris Guillebeau
• Narrated By Chris Guillebeau

For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to start their own business is exhilarating. For many others, the loss of a stable paycheck is terrifying. But what if we could easily create new income without giving up the security of a full-time job? Enter the side hustle, a mini-business that earns you extra money. With Chris Guillebeau's step-by-step guide, you can go from idea to income in just 27 days.

Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
• Narrated By Christian Steiner

Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space.

Corporate Executive Protection: An Introduction for Corporations and Security Professionals

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Christian West, Brian Jantzen
• Narrated By Alexander Masters

In this first-of-its-kind book, seasoned security pros Christian West and Brian Jantzen share lessons learned from years of protecting some of corporate America's most prominent people. Full of practical, hands-on information, this guide provides a comprehensive overview of how to conceive, build and run successful executive protection programs in corporate settings. With insights that only experience in all phases of program execution can provide, the authors dig into the key questions that corporations need to ask and answer.

Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct, and Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Joseph Daniel McCool
• Narrated By Richard Lyddon

Deciding Who Leads offers a front-row seat from which to witness the high-stakes drama, victories, and missteps that characterise the executive search process amid what has become an intense, truly global competition for leadership talent. Enter the secret world of executive search consulting... and discover how this influential - but largely invisible - profession is charting the course of global business.

The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Scott E. Page
• Narrated By L. J. Ganser

Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments around the world, makes a clear and compellingly pragmatic case for diversity and inclusion. He presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls "diversity bonuses".

Summary of Five Frogs on a Log by Mark L. Feldman and Michael F. Spratt | Includes Key Takeaways & Analysis

• UNABRIDGED (46 mins)
• By FastReads
• Narrated By Anthony Pica

Don't miss this summary of Feldman and Spratt's entertaining and no-nonsense book Five Frogs on a Log: A CEO's Field Guide to Accelerating the Transition in Mergers, Acquisitions and Gut Wrenching Change. This helpful field guide offers valuable insight into what so many CEOs get wrong in the midst of drastic change. Absorb their professional wisdom in minutes along with key takeaways and analysis in this FastReads book summary!

Agile Product Management: Product Backlog 21 Tips & Scrum Master: 21 Tips to Coach and Facilitate

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Paul Vii
• Narrated By Randal Schaffer

In this class, you will be given a multitude of proven tips to manage your product backlog as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of the product backlog. I then walk you step-by-step through the steps involved in managing a backlog.

Principles: Life and Work

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ray Dalio
• Narrated By Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Jennifer Riel, Roger L. Martin
• Narrated By Jack Garrett

A practical four-step methodology for any leader or manager facing a tough choice, and for creating integrative solutions to big, complex, and pressing problems. Stimulating and practical, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

Ego Free Leadership: Ending the Unconscious Habits That Hijack Your Business

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Brandon Black, Shayne Hughes
• Narrated By Brandon Black, Shayne Hughes, Amy Anouk
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Told from two lively first-person perspectives, Ego Free Leadership brings listeners along for Encore's incredible success story. They'll see a CEO overcome his unconscious resistance to modeling the change he wants in his team and discover a time-tested road map for eliminating the destructive effects of the ego in teams and organizations.

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris
• Narrated By L. J. Ganser

From two pioneers in business analytics, an update of the classic book on how analytics and business intelligence are transforming competition and how leading organizations build and compete on an analytical capability. Leading companies are doing more than just collecting and storing data in large quantities - they're now driving their competitive strategies based on data-driven insights. In Competing on Analytics, Davenport and Harris explain how analytics are transforming the basis of competition in industry after industry.