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Incorporating examples ranging from Alexander the Great to IBM and General Electric, this audio edition gives listeners proven ideas for increasing their company's ROI and maximizing their strengths and opportunities. Read by the author.

By Brian Tracy

This audio edition introduces us to the "Relationship Era," where the only path for businesses seeking long-term success is to create authentic customer relationships.

By Bob Garfield, Doug Levy

This audio edition shares a proven formula for dramatically solving an organization's toughest challenges in mere days.

By David Benjamin

Containing mind-stimulating exercises and down-to-earth strategies, this audio edition will help anyone tap into the root source of their own intuitive genius. Read by the author.

By Brian Tracy

This audio edition confronts the new market reality that customers choose which companies to do business with completely on their own terms.

By Chuck Wall

This audio edition provides the insight, knowledge and focus you require to transform your business - unlocking the power of data and revealing its hidden value.

By Caroline Carruthers, Peter Jackson

In this audio edition, how does one exactly do data science? John Foreman will teach how you how it's done within the familiar environment of a spreadsheet.

By John W. Foreman

This audio edition examines what it takes for companies to break through the gravitational pull of their legacy organizations and capture the full value of digital.

By Anand Swaminathan, Jurgen Meffert

This audio edition will show you how to assess your readiness, learn the disruptive mindset, and innovate rapidly, starting right within your own business. Read by the author.

By James McQuivey

This audio edition delivers practical insights from those on the front lines of major digital upheaval.

By Graham Waller, Mark Raskino

This audio edition will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to you.

By Whitney Johnson

This audio edition will help you grow your business by getting more yield from assets already in place, relationships already established, and investments already made.

By Alan Lewis, Dan McKone

In this audio edition, author Rich Horwath provides leaders with a framework and toolkit for developing advanced strategic thinking capabilities.

By Rich Horwath

This audiobook is a framework and set of tools that will help you develop a deep awareness of yourself, your teams, and your stakeholders. The powerful four-step process ensures that you are embracing adversity, driving disruption, and unlocking your full leadership potential.

By James Brett

This audio edition shows the importance of being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism. Read by the authors.

By Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan

This audio edition provides an innovative and highly effective process for holding honest conversations with everyone in your organization.

By Michael Beer

This audio edition presents a fun and inspirational time management process that can-and will-change your life in ways you could never imagine possible.

By Stephen R. Covey

This audio edition will empower you with wisdom - not just to win in every strategic situation (or "game") you face but to change those games and the ecosystems in which they reside to transform your life and our lives together for the better.

By David McAdams

This audio edition will help us turn our ideals into reality, and connect who we are with what we do. Read by the author.

By Daniel Goleman, Howard Gardner

Uplifting and practical, this audio edition describes the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

By Harvard Business Review

This audio edition is for anyone who wants to break down the barriers that separate us and facilitate discussions on potentially polarizing topics.

By Mary-Frances Winters

This audio edition shows how to arrange data into stories that deliver insights and inspiration.

By RJ Andrews

This audio edition is a playful investigation of popular opinions and consumer trends that permeate our society. Read by the Author.

By Dave Farina

This audio edition gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a roadmap for discovering new markets, new products and services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.

By David Farber, Jessica Wattman, Stephen Wunker

This audio edition introduces a model that taps the collective judgment of an organization so that the right decisions are made.

By Brook Manville, Thomas H. Davenport

This audio edition highlights how large companies in traditional industries-from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals-are using digital to gain strategic advantage.

By Andrew McAfee, Didier Bonnet, George Westerman

This audio edition demonstrates that no matter where you are in your firm, you can drive the shift to sustainability - if you have the right approach, tools, and vision. Read by the authors.

By Daniel Goleman, Peter Senge

This audio edition will show just how much you've come to rely on jargon, why it's holding you back, and how to trim it away to more effectively convey information and ideas.

By Bart Egnal

This book explain about Essential tools to help you: develop a strong data science intuition quotient, lead and scale AI and analytics throughout your organization, move from "best-guess" decision making to evidence-based decisions, and craft strategies and tactics to create real impact.

By Eric Anderson, Florian Zettelmeyer

This book refer how empathy can help alleviate some of the more harmful effects of hardship and offers key actions that empathic leaders can take to inspire their followers.

By Gautham Pallapa

This audio edition draws on a wealth of examples in order to propose a new paradigm for decision making in sync with the way we have to operate in the real world.

By Phil Rosenzweig

This audio edition provides a fascinating look at how visionary leaders and creative thinkers-from Ludwig van Beethoven to Apple CEO Steve Jobs-use a process of small, experimental steps to test new ideas and achieve breakthrough results.

By Peter Sims

This audio edition explores how many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, and explains how to develop the capacity to make ideas happen-a capacity that endures over time.

By Scott Belsky

This audio edition combines scientific research with real-world studies, presenting the most authoritative and effective arsenal of persuasion techniques ever.

By Kurt W. Mortensen

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review about strategy in baseball

By Ben Shields, Paul Michelman

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review about Defensive Analytics in pro basketball

By Ben Shields, Paul Michelman

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses Technological advancement in industrial times

By Carl Frey

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review about COVID-19, Climate Change.

By Andrew Winston

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review on Data Storytelling.

By Nancy Duarte

This audio edition is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy.

By James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, Richard Dobbs

This audio edition will show you how to use the powerful AREA Method to make complex personal and professional decisions with confidence and conviction.

By Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

This audio edition offers tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence. When turbulence is the new normal, an organization's survival depends on vigilant leadership.

By George S. Day, Paul J. H. Schoemaker

This audio edition demystifies the science behind statistics and makes it easy to spot the fraud all around.

By Gary Smith

This audio edition introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving, transcending traditional solutions to conflict by forging a path toward a third option - 3rd Alternative.

By Stephen R. Covey

This audio edition presents a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the day-to-day whirlwind. Read by the authors.

By Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, Sean Covey

This audio edition teaches how to focus on your top priorities and get the critical things accomplished. Whether you are a member of a team, lead a team, or lead an entire organization, The 4 Disciplines of Execution will equip you to deliver on your top priorities consistently.

By Chris McChesney, Stephen R. Covey

This audio edition helps us navigate our digital age in this thoughtful exploration of the social, moral, and ethical challenges of our ongoing interactions with artificial intelligence.

By Jason Thacker, Richard J. Mouw

This audio edition offers a proven step-by-step approach for finding and achieving your goals and desires through a complete mind, body, and spiritual transformation. Read by the author.

By Joe Vitale

This audio edition distills the lessons of today's greatest digital innovators and makes them usable for businesses at any stage.

By David L. Rogers

This audio edition cuts through the chatter to focus on disruption in its initial use as a business term, identifying new ways to understand it and suggesting new tools to manage it.

By Joshua Gans

In The Empathy Advantage, Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley deliver a guidebook for leaders navigating the uncertainty of a post pandemic world in this sequel to The Adaptation Advantage.

By Chris Shipley, Heather E. McGowan

This audio edition will revolutionize the way you understand yourself, relate to your loved ones, and connect to every person in your life.

By Helen Riess

This audio edition provides leaders with the skills and confidence they need to transform their leadership, and in turn, their organizations, while also providing guidance to institutions-businesses, communities, and schools-on how to develop and nurture digital leadership.

By Charlene Li

This book explores the effect of the Feeling Economy on our everyday lives in the areas such as shopping, politics, and education. And that AI is rapidly assuming a larger share of thinking tasks, leaving human intelligence to focus on feeling.

By Ming-Hui Huang, Roland T. Rust

This audio edition is an insider's guide to consulting, providing invaluable insights and practical knowledge including unwritten rules and career strategies.

By Christie Lindor

This audio edition provides a vivid description of the ideal talent profile for future leaders.

By Bob Johansen

This audio edition enables leaders to create a culture where psychological safety is a given, risk taking is embraced, and collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured.

By David Crawley, Deborah Perry Piscione

This audio edition offers a 6-point checklist for leading strategically that will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.

By Harbir Singh, Michael Useem

This audio edition is about the organizational changes required to harness the power of technology.

By Ahn Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky

This audio edition offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need.

By Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, Sydney Finkelstein

This audio edition provides principles and techniques empowering listeners with a more critical and nuanced approach to making decisions.

By Vikram Mansharamani

This audio edition presents a unique framework for matching specific types of workers with the management strategies that yield the greatest performance.

By Thomas H. Davenport

This audio edition offers an insider's revealing and in-depth examination of Big Tech's failure to keep its foundational promises and the steps the industry can take to course-correct in order to make a positive impact on the world.

By Maelle Gavet

Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead

By Tony Saldanha

This audio edition will lead you to better decision-making, higher levels of creativity, clearer strategies, and overall success in business, work and life.

By Matthew E. May

This audio edition is a high-powered tool for driving your company above and beyond its limitations, its definitions of success, and ultimately, its competitors.

By Geoffrey A. Moore

This audio edition will show you how to create a clear path to success with an efficient and collaborative team. Share your vision and engage with your team members to create an environment that promotes and promises success!

By Bob Nelson

This audio edition helps us avoid the casualties of conflict through openness, resourcefulness, and persistence.

By Nate Regier

This audio edition gets you past the hard parts of dialogue and helps you achieve relationships that are real, productive, and that will enrich your life and career. Read by the author.

By Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Paterson, Ron McMillan

This book addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You'll learn how to: respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you; identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it; and communicate more effectively across digital mediums.

By Al Switzler, Emily Gregory, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio, Ron McMillan

This audio edition offers an essential primer for improving all your interactions with people from any background.

By Michael Landers

Don't Get Mad at Penguins breaks down the factors that escalate conflict to dangerous heights and shows us how to defuse conflict and make it work for us rather than against us.

By Gabe Karp

This audio edition will help you to truly understand the abilities of your team and how each member makes things go. Read by the author.

By Laura Stack

In this audio edition, Brian Tracy shows how all managers can hold the keys to unlocking superstar performance from their teams. Read by the author.

By Brian Tracy

This audio edition unlocks the secrets of how the world's movers and shakers use Connectional Intelligence to achieve their personal and professional goals--no matter how ambitious.

By Erica Dhawan, Saj-nicole A. Joni

"Giving Effective Feedback" quickly walks you through the basics of delivering feedback that gets results, including: Choosing the right time to talk; Engaging in productive dialogue; Helping both star and struggling performers; Developing a plan for effective follow-up.

By Harvard Business Review

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

By Harvard Business Review

This book will inspire you to: develop your cultural intelligence, overcome conflict on a team where cultural norms differ, adopt a common language for more efficient communication, use the diverse perspectives of your employees to find new business opportunities, take varying cultural practices into account when resolving ethical issues, and accommodate and plan for your expatriate employees.

By Erin Meyer, Hal Gregersen, Harvard Business Review, Jeanne Brett, Yves L. Doz

This audio edition will forever alter the way all of us think about and practice what we do when we try to help.

By Ellen Van Oosten, Melvin Smith, Richard Boyatzis

This audio edition explains how to use the art of persuasion to get what you want.

By Susan M. Weinschenk

This audio edition provides a wealth of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday lives - and less of a chore.

By Benedict Carey

This audio edition gives leaders a way to get the best out of their teams by focusing their energy where it will make the biggest difference.

By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince

This audio edition outlines an approach that enables leaders to transcend internal and external boundaries and help people to collaborate, even people over whom they technically have no power.

By Dean Williams

This audio edition present straightforward strategies for navigating the perilous straits of leadership.

By Marty Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz

This audio edition presents a four-part model and four mindsets that allow leaders to deal with multiple changes simultaneously without drowning in the churn.

By Bill Pasmore

This book's basic principles apply to leaders across a wide variety of organization types and sizes.

By Ken Wilcox

This audio edition details a powerful, four-step model for becoming more adept at managing across cultures.

By David Livermore

This audio edition presents a proven, five-step method that takes businesses where they need to go in these uncertain economic times.

By Beverly D. Flaxington

This audio edition offers an invaluable road map, providing both bearings to help you determine where you are in life and directions on how to get to where you want to go. Read by the author.

By David Allen

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review about Traditional excuses for why the problem exists - and why traditional strategies to address it have failed - just don't add up.

By Katica Roy

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review shares examples of how AI is accelerating innovation at Porsche - by enhancing product design and the driving experience, improving production and sustainability efforts, and better managing the global supply chain.

By Mattias Ulbrich

This audio edition shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.

By Deepak Malhotra

In this audio edition, author Gayle Cotton offers five simple guidelines to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multiculturally.

By Gayle Cotton

This audio edition delivers an authoritative case for the value of collaboration to today's professionals, their firms, and their clients and shows you exactly how to achieve it.

By Heidi K. Gardner

This audio edition brings together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change.

By Chip Heath, Dan Heath

This audio edition shares the vital principles of team building that are necessary for success in your business, family, church, or organization. Read by the author.

By John C. Maxwell

Combining creativity tools and techniques with real-world stories of innovative people and businesses, this audio edition is a provocation, an inspiration, and an invitation to unleash the innate creativity that lies within each of us. Read by the author.

By Natalie Nixon

This audio edition unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture.

By Daniel Coyle

This audio edition explores the unique and challenging relationship that leaders have with conflict, and offers the know-how needed to use conflict as the engine of innovation and creativity.

By Edgar Papke

This audio edition provides leaders with the skills and confidence they need to transform their leadership, and in turn, their organizations, while also providing guidance to institutions-businesses, communities, and schools-on how to develop and nurture digital leadership.

By Charlene Li

With its gripping narrative and relatable takeaways, this audio edition is both inspiring and pragmatic, a book that will energize and enlighten current and aspiring leaders everywhere - whether male or female.

By Shannon Huffman Polson

This audio edition provides concise explanations of proven leadership frameworks from Harvard Business Review contributors.

By Brook Manville, Ron Ashkenas

Combining research, interviews, and inspiring stories with the lessons that have earned the author the respect of the world's foremost corporations including CISCO, FedEx, Sprint, the U.S. Army, and State Farm, this audio edition shows leaders the skills necessary to be an effective coach and to build effective teams. Read by the author.

By Nathan Jamail

This audio edition examines how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish and shows how even the most monocultural among us can gain the advantages of a multicultural mind.

By David C. Thomas

This audio edition reveals how companies regarded as world-class base their stellar performance decade after decade on their systems for finding and nurturing leadership talent.

By Bill Conaty, Ram Charan

This audio edition offers prescriptions for an economic world turned upside down. Read by the author.

By Tom Peters

This audio edition offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling to explain why extraverts don't make the best salespeople, and shows how giving people an "off-ramp" for their actions can matter more than actually changing their minds. Read by the author.

By Daniel H. Pink

This audio edition offers step-by-step instruction to help you create positive, sustainable change in your world. Read by the author.

By Stewart D. Friedman

This audio edition describes a leadership paradigm that will motivate, inspire, and drive new thinking in today's disruptive business environment where traditional modes of managing are no longer working.

By Nancy M. Schlichting

This audio edition will help you rise to the challenge and become the game changer your organization needs. Read by the author.

By Dave Anderson

This audio edition provides you with the tools to successfully drive change, overcome obstacles, and engage and align people in working effectively together to achieve your business objectives.

By Loretta Malandro

This audio edition can help new leaders get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be--starting right now.

By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry

In this audio edition, Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston reveal their remarkable discoveries about what drives and sustains successful women leaders.

By Geoffrey Lewis, Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston

This audio edition gives women the information they need to become high-potential leaders but don't get in business school: how to build a career on their own terms, gain the critical business-management skills needed to advance, and advocate successfully for themselves.

By Laura Henderson, Sharon Hadary

This audio edition will equip you for staying innovative and successful in the wake of major workplace disruption.

By Alexandra Levit

This audio edition shows how each and every one of us can use the power of netgiving-of helping others-to expand our world and achieve our goals, and make a difference in our job, our career, and our community.

By Tommy Spaulding

This audio edition will help you uncover who you truly are and approach your professional life in ways that are authentic and most meaningful to you - and no one else.

By Jennifer W. Martineau, Portia R. Mount

This audio edition will teach you how to make enduring behavioral changes that will produce better business results and create alignment among disparate groups using empathy and leadership language.

By Diana Jones

This audio edition presents a four-part model and four mindsets that allow leaders to deal with multiple changes simultaneously without drowning in the churn.

By Bill Pasmore

This audio edition reveals how the practice of mindfulness--the ability to focus our attention on what is rather than be distracted by what isn't--can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our modern lives, especially our working lives.

By Stephen McKenzie

This audio edition is a timely resource for savvy women who want to leverage their skills, promote themselves effectively, and fast track their careers.

By Lois P. Frankel, Selena Rezvani

This audio edition provides a method for putting personal accountability into daily action, which can bring astonishing results: problems get solved, barriers come down, service improves, teamwork grows, and people adapt to change. Read by the author.

By John G. Miller

This audio edition provides practical advice for building better, more productive business relationships.

By Andre Alphonso, Anne Baber, Jim Wylde, Lynne Waymon

This audio edition highlights the common mistakes that can generate embarrassing headlines and may even call an organization's survival into question, and reveals the best practices of those who got it right.

By Noel M. Tichy

This audio edition explores the relationship between leadership, accountability, and organizational structure.

By Brian Dive

This audio edition provides specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization to put into practice immediately to improve agility and achieve results.

By Pamela Meyer

This audio edition is a guide to leadership that shows how to access and draw upon courage in all that you do.

By Center for Courage & Renewal, Shelly L. Francis

This audio edition offers simple exercises that are quick to deploy and target key areas that benefit most from EQ training, including leadership, project management, customer service, teamwork, sales, and more.

By Adele B. Lynn, Janele R. Lynn

This audio edition is for leaders who want to build and grow a consistently powerful organization that delivers long-term success.

By Jim Grew

This audio edition provides a blueprint for today's leaders, and guides you toward becoming the leader your employees deserve.

By Vince Molinaro

This audio edition shows how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.

By James Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter

This audio edition uses proven techniques of storytelling to demonstrate how you can increase your emotional intelligence and overcome the barriers that are preventing you from realizing your true potential.

By Harvey Deutschendorf

This audio edition will show listeners how to build trust as the foundation for leadership, eschew perfectionism for authenticity, banish limiting thoughts and behaviors, and galvanize their team through visionary, inspiring communications.

By Kristi Hedges

This audio edition explains that while no one will ever wave a wizard's wand and magically solve all your problems, there is a way to experience the near magical impact of personal accountability. Read by the authors.

By Roger Connors, Tom Smith

Through the firsthand accounts of trail-blazing leaders, this audio edition introduces unforgettable, inspiring women who are shaping our world.

By Alyse Nelson

This audio edition shares Marshall Goldsmith's expertise and one-on-one coaching practices to help you overcome your unconscious annoying habits, and lead you to success. Read by the author.

By Mark Reiter, Marshall Goldsmith

This audio edition reveals that the real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of "lifeline relationships."

By Keith Ferrazzi

This audio edition gives you the concepts and confidence to lead regardless of generation, gender, or personality. Read by the author.

By Dawn Jones

This audio edition will show you how to use Mindfulness training to to help reduce stress, increase productivity, and encourage creative problem solving.

By Mirabai Bush

This audio edition provides the insights, strategies, and tools - including relationship reengineering, business systems analysis, and "organizational immunology" - leaders need to accelerate through crucial turning points and continue moving up in their careers.

By Michael D. Watkins