Ego Free Leadership: Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business
- 7h 27m 47s
- Brandon Black, Shayne Hughes
- Blackstone Audio, Inc. dba Blackstone Publishing
- 2017
"I've got a solution," Encore's CFO tells Brandon, "but it's unorthodox". It's 2005, and Brandon Black has just been promoted to CEO of Encore Capital, a company struggling to navigate an increasingly difficult business environment. Faced with a rapidly declining stock price and low workplace morale, Brandon knows he needs change - and fast. Following his CFO's advice, he and his executive team start working with Learning as Leadership (LaL) and its president, Shayne Hughes. Through their partnership, Encore's executive team learns to root out the unproductive ego habits that undermine collaboration and performance.
As they instill these more effective behaviors throughout the organization, Encore begins to solve problems collectively, prioritize resources without infighting, and focus on the initiatives with the greatest strategic value. When the financial crisis of 2008-09 forces 90 percent of its competitors out of business, Encore thrives, with its profits increasing by 300 percent and its stock price by 1,200 percent. 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.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1 - That Voice in Your Head Does More Damage Than You Realize
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Chapter 2 - No, It's Not Just Your Personality
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Chapter 3 - Workplace Politics are Your Fault Too
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Chapter 4 - Stop Pretending You're Not Vulnerable
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Chapter 5 - You're Not Really Listening, are You?
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Chapter 6 - Your Ego Loves an Enemy
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Chapter 7 - We Can't Talk about “That” (Meet Amy Anuk)
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Chapter 8 - “Those” People Have Something Important to Teach You
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Chapter 9 - Tell Me again, What Gets You up in the Morning?
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Chapter 10 - Why it All Matters
