Leadership Problems

Turquoise Eyes combines compelling narrative while teaching problem solving and critical thinking skills. Set after a bank begins implementing a new retail banking strategy, we follow Teresa García Ramírez de Arroyo, a director general in the Mexican government, who has received some disturbing news. A whistleblower has emailed Teresa with troubling news about a mistake in the loan default calculations and reserve ratios. The numbers do not add up. This audiobook teaches advanced business concepts through a compelling storyline.

As complexities, ambiguity, and disintegration have increased across organizations in the “age of digital transformation” and continuous innovation, Dr. Ichak Adizes’ Mastering Change is an oasis of systematic approaches to turn problems into opportunities for growth and elevate your ability to manage change as effectively as possible. Make better decisions, and implement more efficiently, as Dr. Adizes’ models for change management will adeptly bring you into tighter alignment with the keys to harnessing your organization’s true potential.

Tackle your thorniest problems using the wise fool's savvy strategies! The wise fool is the archetypal contrarian known for his creativity, irreverence, and humor. He looks at life in unorthodox ways and pushes back against the status quo. Throughout history, powerful decision-makers (Egyptian pharaohs, Chinese emperors, Persian sultans, and European kings) consulted wise fools to question the assumptions that kept them mired in stale and obsolete solutions.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Shane Parrish’s The Great Mental Models in 23 minutes or less.

This book will help you to navigate conflict and make better decisions. As author Christi Scarrow points out, all of us have the opportunity to make decisions that count, whether in our professional or personal lives. To do so, we must become what Scarrow calls “Truth Warriors”. We must believe in ourselves, yet question our most firmly held assumptions and beliefs. We must know when to speak up and when to be quiet. In the end, says Scarrow, “making better decisions is about making your voice about our voice and your truth about our truth. Only then can we change the world.”

Self-made millionaire Harvey Mackay knows about life at the top--and knows what it takes to stay there. Now, he tells you how to get there too, with dozens of common-sense lessons from all walks of life. Whether you're selling, managing, or punching the clock, you'll find the questions and the answers you need to questions like: Do you do what you love? (The Mackay self-inventory test will help you find out.); Do you love what you do? Do you deliver more than you promise?

There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to use big data to get solid, real-world business results - and putting that in place to improve performance. Big Data shows you how to implement the same practices that leading firms have used to access new dimensions of profitability. You'll learn from clear explanations and countless examples how successful organisations large and small use the SMART model to get ahead.

High-level executives, it turns out, are often the least able to diagnose—much less solve—an organization's systemic problems. Hans Norden draws on a wealth of experience in in-house change management to help both established and up-and-coming C-suite leaders analyze the problems and create authentic, sustainable solutions. In The Root Cause, listeners will learn how executing change initiatives requires a different form of leadership than routine operations. Norden shows leaders a way to solve the seemingly unsolvable problems—and prevent more from arising in the future.

Dan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behind closed doors when their leadership chops are on the line.

Listen to this gem and learn how to answer all of these questions with a resounding yes! This quick and easy listen is overflowing with curated wisdom from Charlie Jones, one of the top 25 gurus of personal development, along with the real-world expertise from his daughter, Tracey C. Jones, a leadership expert in her own right. A Message to Millennials is a must for any individual looking to develop their leadership skills or organization intent on developing the next generation of leaders.

Think of your to-do list at work. Chances are the most important tasks require you to work with others - and the success of those endeavors depends on the effectiveness of your collaboration. According to management expert Leigh Thompson, collaboration that is conscious, planned, and focused on generating new ideas builds excitement and produces what she calls a "creative conspiracy". Teams that conspire to organize themselves, motivate one another, and combine their talents to meet creative challenges are the hallmark of the most successful organizations.

The One-Page Project Manager set a new standard as an understandable and easy-to-apply organizational tool, allowing managers to summarize complex projects on a single information-rich page. This audiobook, third in the OPPM series, describes how to combine the OPPM with the Toyota A3 report to create an enhanced, integrated management tool. With a refreshingly clear style, the authors walk users through implementing the OPPM/A3 using a variety of real-world case studies, as well as their own experience at O.C. Tanner Company.

Dr. Liker's book, Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. We have taken the time to extract the individual seminars and lectures of Dr. Liker used to create this world-renowned publication and offer them in a series of bite-sized, topic-specific learning modules. Here we'll: explain Nemawashi; discuss how to develop people through problem-solving; and share the activities related to the PDCA cycle.

No one understands better than Joseph Michelli how businesses create and leverage world-class customer experiences. In The Airbnb Way, he shows how innovative leaders have managed to build an unique brand by inspiring and engaging a community of hospitality entrepreneurs - a feat unparalleled in the shared economy.

Congratulations! You’ve made it to your teens! This is an important phase of life, packed with discoveries about yourself, the people around you, and the world you live in. The teenage years mark the beginning of a new chapter where you’ll figure out what being an adult is all about. You’ll begin to settle into WHO you are, HOW you feel, and WHAT you want from life.

Maximize your chances to get what you want by making the right decision, every time. Never Be Wrong Again - Four Steps to Making Better Decisions in Work and Life, by best-selling author and decision expert Michael Costa, combines more than 10 years of research with decades of experience in a listener-friendly guide to making better decisions faster and with less stress.

In these turbulent times, companies can be forced to pivot on a dime to meet new market challenges. But how do you know which move to make? How do you hit on the solution to what’s threatening your bottom line? Ali Davachi draws from his decades of experience turning around companies to detail his innovative and proven system to creating positive change. In addition, Davachi walks the listener through common obstacles that hold businesses back from effectively confronting new challenges—and shows them how to create meaningful transformation that’s both powerful and profitable.

Many leadership books are either shallow (focusing on only one element of leadership), narrow (examining leadership out of context), or biased (selling an idealized model). This book seeks simplicity without being simplistic and focuses on the listener in their context rather than describing other people's leadership in theirs.

Do people drive you nuts? Are silos and turf wars challenging the culture? Wondering if it ever gets any easier? The toughest - and best - part of leadership is the people. But let’s face it, people dynamics can be tricky. Solutions are within. People Stuff is your map to the complex territory of human behaviour and leadership strategies. People Stuff goes well beyond frustrating "personality clashes" to uncover the dynamics of human interactions at work.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM), and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to explain the core skill of a Lean Leader; how to associate problem-solving with closing a gap between the current state and your target; how to make a distinction between the Toyota Way philosophy and the traditional western philosophy.