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Pride - A Leaders Greatest Problem
John Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author. In this audio John talks from Sydney on the subject of pride, a leaders greatest problem. He explains why pride is the cause of all management failure and goes through the 6 temptations (based on pride) that leaders of successful organizations fall into.
Reading Potential
Denis Gianoutsos is a global transformation leadership coach who owns Maximum Stretch Limited. His company consists of a team of strong leaders and offers services such as: executive, leadership and team coaching; leadership development; performance management; business development; facilitation; and effective team building. This extensive knowledge and experience in leadership is reflected in this chapter. If you want to know more about any of these topics (and where leadership is heading in the future) then keep reading.
The 8th Habit
Dr Stephen Covey is a world renowned authority on leadership, business management, family issues, education and effectiveness. His books have sold millions of copies world wide. In this highly successful book, Dr Covey explores the challenges faced by management in the information age and how to inspire people to achieve their greatest potential.
The 8th Habit
Dr Stephen Covey is a world renowned authority on leadership, business management, family issues, education and effectiveness. His books have sold millions of copies world wide. In this highly successful book, Dr Covey explores the challenges faced by management in the information age and how to inspire people to achieve their greatest potential.
The Tribes We Lead
Described as, “the ultimate entrepreneur of the information age”, Seth Godin argues that the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big changes, and he urges us to do so. This profound and fun take on leadership in the 21 century is delivered at the famous TED conferences, so it is a must to watch!
Time to Listen
Avril Henry is an expert on generation X and Y, and the author of Leadership Revelations: An Australian Perspective? In this chapter she reveals an insight into leading and motivating employees and ourselves in the workforce, business and our lives. Plus, with a new generation entering the workforce, she offers advice about providing direction and support to generation X and Y people.
Tough Decisions
Shane Toohey became a skiing fanatic at the age of 23. He made the ambitious goal to make first ski descents on all seven continents, which led him on a path of self discovery and leadership. Ten years later he completed his goal on a summit in Antarctica. During the course of this journey, Shane led a team of people and was faced with many obstacles and many lessons. He learnt about team work - building trust, respect, integrity - and about decision making, communication and listening. He now presents powerful learning programs through his company, Peak Teams, and shares his successful leadership experience in this chapter.
Life Skills
Jennifer Jefferies shares practical real-life strategies that help people to improve their health, wellbeing and productivity by finding balance in their lives. In this chapter she explores these topics in more detail and offers advice on staying sane and not burning out from stress. Her health strategies have not only improved the health of people around the world, but have also made drastic improvements to the productivity in numerous businesses. If you have dark rings around your eyes, have constant colds or can't sleep, then you will benefit from what Jennifer has to say.
Boost Your Business
Ben has personally coached over 100 businesses in 38 different industries over 6 years. Like most business owners, you’re probably looking for ways to make more money and work less hours. The sad thing is that most end up working more hours than they could ever imagined and paying themselves less than they could by working for someone else. Listen as Ben shares dozens of profit making ideas that you can implement into your business.
Core Purpose
Brian Birley has worked in numerous management positions in various industries and has used his knowledge and experience to form P.A.C.E. Corporation Pty Ltd, a consulting practice specialising in strategic planning and human capital management. In this chapter, Brian reveals his secret for effective leadership - simplicity. This knowledge will not only improve your leadership skills, but will also enhance your time management skills and help you move forward in any area of your life.
Crucial Confrontations
This book has been labeled 'The Management Book of the decade' by such business greats as Stephen Covey and Tom Peters. In this book summary, you'll discover the results of 10,000 hours of research into why and how, mastering the skill of effective confrontation is the most important ability you'll ever have at your disposal. This summary will have a profound affect on both your team's performance and productivity.
Crucial Confrontations
This book has been labeled 'The Management Book of the decade' by such business greats as Stephen Covey and Tom Peters. In this book summary, you'll discover the results of 10,000 hours of research into why and how, mastering the skill of effective confrontation is the most important ability you'll ever have at your disposal. This summary will have a profound affect on both your team's performance and productivity.
Developing the most effective work environment
Starting off as a occupational therapist, Dawn Piebenga had no expectation of becoming a highly successful business woman, yet today she runs the business 'Injury Management and Rehabilitation' with multiple offices spanning all over Sydney. A drive to supply the best quality service possible is what has given Dawn her success and through this interview you will discover how she went about this.
Developing The Most Effective Work Environment
Starting off as a occupational therapist, Dawn Piebenga had no expectation of becoming a highly successful business woman, yet today she runs the business 'Injury Management and Rehabilitation' with multiple offices spanning all over sydney. A drive to supply the best quality service possible is what has given Dawn her success and through this interview you will discover how she went about this.
Developing Top Bananas
From his experience as a manager for Fortune 500 companies as well as a local community bank, Phillip Van Hooser understands the importance to inspire employees to improve their performance and productivity as well as the significance of customer service to profitability. Through his masterful storytelling you will learn leadership and customer service lessons drawn from the real work world that can be quickly transferred to current circumstances to create immediate improvements.
Enthusiasm
Tanya Hamersfeld launched her business from home with the start-up capital of $10,000 while she was still at university. Within eight years Corporate Training Australia (CTA) had become one of Australia's largest companies. Today, her clients include: Nike, Myer, JR Duty Free, Ernst & Young and the Mitre 10 group. Succeeding in business has been the direct result of positive team building, recruiting quality people, recognising staff members and encouraging teamwork. Although she lacked finance skills in the beginning, her management abilities have led to her outstanding business growth - as a person and a business.
Expose Yourself
Love them or hate them, the media can play a contributing factor in providing publicity and advertising - good or bad - for your business. For Suzy Yates, the media has had a huge impact on her life. At 18, she worked at a radio station selling radio advertising before landing her own talk-back show at 2UE. Realising that many business people lacked media education, she thought about setting up her own public relations company. With no previous experience, Suzy founded Bay Street Mediaworks and now helps people with matters involving public relations, advertising and publicity.
Fireside Chat With Dr John Kotter - Sense Of Urgency
Dr. John Kotter, author of A Sense of Urgency and 16 other titles, is Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and has been rated as the Number One “leadership guru” by Business Week magazine. In this interview Dr. Kotter discusses the key factor that often determines whether change efforts are successful or a failure – a sense of urgency. Learn through this interview how to utilise a true sense of urgency for your organisation's success.
Good To Great
Good To Great is the defining management study of our decade. Author Jim Collins and his team of 21 researchers spent five years analysing, interviewing and examining America's top companies. They studeies 1,435 Fortune 500 companies and found only 11 that were able to make the leap to success and hold on to it for at least the next 15 years. Read on to find out how a good company becomes great!
Good To Great
Good To Great is the defining management study of our decade. Author Jim Collins and his team of 21 researchers spent five years analysing, interviewing and examining America's top companies. They studeies 1,435 Fortune 500 companies and found only 11 that were able to make the leap to success and hold on to it for at least the next 15 years. Read on to find out how a good company becomes great!
High Standards
Phil Jones is a highly respected business and property speaker and is the author of six books. His numerous business activities have allowed him access to some of the world's richest businesspeople, entrepreneurs, celebrities and sportspeople. In this chapter you will read about wealth, success, empowerment, real estate investing, education, leveraging and many more elements that encompass the concept of leadership.
How to Build A More Innovative and Creative Culture
Dr Ken Hudson, Founder, The Idea Centre. Innovation is vital to any size business. It's the best way for small business to compete in today's environment. Building a more innovative culture is often the most difficult but the most sustainable action. Dr Ken Hudson talks about overcoming the barriers to innovation.
Innovate With Beauty
At just 21, Shelley Barrett started her own boutique modeling agency and turned it into Shelley's Management Group. The group managed a talent pool of 1,200 actors and models across Australia, with her clients gracing the pages of international fashion magazines and worldwide advertising campaigns. Based on her success, which involved management, marketing and creativity, Shelley created a range of innovative beauty products to fill a niche in the market. Her growing business, ModelCo, has experienced international expansion and now distributes throughout Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East.
Jack Welch On Leadership
As a CEO, Jack Welch transformed the General Electric Company into a $400 Billion dollar powerhouse! In this book summary, you'll learn how Jack Welch's watertight business principles can offer you a roadmap to success in commercial life. You'll discover how the Welch legacy has helped countless other business leaders reduce over-managment and streamlining processes. Now you can learn the secrets Welch used to take GE to the top- and keep it there!
Jack Welch On Leadership
As a CEO, Jack Welch transformed the General Electric Company into a $400 Billion dollar powerhouse! In this book summary, you'll learn how Jack Welch's watertight business principles can offer you a roadmap to success in commercial life. You'll discover how the Welch legacy has helped countless other business leaders reduce over-management and streamlining processes. Now you can learn the secrets Welch used to take GE to the top- and keep it there!
Leadership Qualities
Katherine Edgar worked in a variety of management consulting roles before establishing The Synergy Group, an international professional services firm that delivers transformational development programs to many of the world's leading corporations. If you want to know about leadership, management, or would simply like to know whether mission statements actually work, then Katherine has the answer for you - plus more!
Start Training
Anne Thanudchang is the founder of Propex Pty Ltd, a finance company that has since expanded into mortgage broking. In this chapter, Anne talks about negotiating, body language, planning, patents, management and plenty more as she describes her business journey and how it all began. If you are interested in starting a business in the property industry or would simply like some advice about building a business, then this chapter will help you.
Succession Planning for Baby Boomers
Grant Bloxham CEO Bstar, Australia’s leading succession and transition specialist. Succession planning is a major event facing Small to Medium Enterprises (SME’s), however very few businesses are prepared for it. With the predicted massive transition of business wealth, baby boomers need to do all they can to protect, grow and successfully transition their business wealth. In this interview, Grant Bloxham explains what succession planning is, and how it affects you as a business owner.
Survival Is Not Enough - Part 2
Why must companies embrace change in order to achieve great success? Seth Godin is one of the business world's most radical and renowned authors. In this valuable book summary, the former Yahoo executive and author explores one of the biggest challenges to companies today...change! Read on to find out how you can use your own ideas and harness inevitable change to create explosive growth and personal success that can transform your company and your life!
Survival Is Not Enough - Part 2
Why must companies embrace change in order to achieve great success? Seth Godin is one of the business world's most radical and renowned authors. In this valuable book summary, the former Yahoo executive and author explores one of the biggest challenges to companies today...change! Read on to find out how you can use your own ideas and harness inevitable change to create explosive growth and personal success that can transform your company and your life!
Switched On
Andrew May is the founder of Good Health Solutions, Australia's largest corporate health and wellbeing consultancy and employs over 100 full-time staff members. While building Good Health Solutions, Andrew maintained his involvement in sport and worked with the New South Wales cricket team, AFL players, Olympic athletes and gold medal performers in track and field, swimming, basketball, netball, hockey and tennis. Andrew left Good Health Solutions and for 12 months took on the exciting role of physical performance manager for the Australian cricket team. He is now considered one of Australia's leading experts on performance and presents keynote presentations around the world, coaches CEOs and senior managers. Read Andrew's chapter if you want to find out how to maximise the performance of your business team.
The Goal
Eliyahu Goldratt is an Israeli born business visionary. He has been a myth shattered in the case of management and manufacturing related concepts since 1979. In this 'novel style' book summary, you'll uncover hidden secrets about yourself and your business as you share in this three month journey from crisis to triumph. The story revolves around saving a manufacturing plant, but the principles used to save the company can be applied to every industry and every kind of business.
The Goal
Eliyahu Goldratt is an Israeli born business visionary. He has been a myth shattered in the case of management and manufacturing related concepts since 1979. In this 'novel style' book summary, you'll uncover hidden secrets about yourself and your business as you share in this three month journey from crisis to triumph. The story revolves around saving a manufacturing plant, but the principles used to save the company can be applied to every industry and every kind of business.
The Seven Day Weekend: Finding the Work/Life Balance
Ricardo Semler has been branded a Latin American revolutionary by many. His company, Semco, has been reengineered with no business plan, no goal or mission statement and no CEO! In his rather unorthodox approach to leadership, Semler has empowered his workforce to make key decisions and set their own personal challenges. With a growth rate of 40% per year, Semco is still one of Latin America's fastest growing companies. Read this exciting book summary to find out why!
The Seven Day Weekend: Finding the Work/Life Balance
Ricardo Semler has been branded a Latin American revolutionary by many. His company, Semco, has been reengineered with no business plan, no goal or mission statement and no CEO! In his rather unorthodox approach to leadership, Semler has empowered his workforce to make key decisions and set their own personal challenges. With a growth rate of 40% per year, Semco is still one of Latin America's fastest growing companies. Read this exciting book summary to find out why!
Time to Question
Since starting Business Coaching Systems (BCS), the only dedicated organisational coaching business in Australia, John Vamos has become recognised as the pioneer of organisational coaching in Australia. Gain an insight into building a business by understanding the various elements of your business. Discover about communication, staff mindsets, behaviour and attitudes, change, systems and many other things required by leaders when growing a business. Plus, John also speaks about business planning and the wealth formula.
Understanding Generation 'Y'
Best selling author and speaker, Peter Sheahan is Australia's leading generation 'Y' expert and has worked with over 100,000 generation Y's and has delivered over 1,500 presentations all over Australia. In listening to this interview you will gain an understanding of who the generation 'Y' demographic are and how to market to this area of people.
When Goliaths Clash!
When Goliaths Clash' is a book that teaches effective conflict management techniques that will improve team communication and alignment in your business. Author Howard Guttman is the force behind Guttman Development Strategies, which has worked with clients internationally to align strategy and operations, build high performance teams and manage conflict.
When Goliaths Clash!
When Goliaths Clash' is a book that teaches effective conflict management techniques that will improve team communication and alignment in your business. Author Howard Guttman is the force behind Guttman Development Strategies, which has worked with clients internationally to align strategy and operations, build high performance teams and manage conflict.
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance
When Lou Gerstner arrived at company IBM in 1993, it was a monolithic, huge corporation, suffering from cultural rigormortis. Over the next decade, both he and his team literally turned the company's fortunes around. By the time he resigned in 2002, IBM was back in full swing as market leader in information technology. In his own words, Gerstner had taught 'The elephant to dance!'
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance
When Lou Gerstner arrived at company IBM in 1993, it was a monolithic, huge corporation, suffering from cultural rigormortis. Over the next decade, both he and his team literally turned the company's fortunes around. By the time he resigned in 2002, IBM was back in full swing as market leader in information technology. In his own words, Gerstner had taught 'The elephant to dance!'
100 Great Businesses
What do Microsoft, Chupa-chups, Liquid Paper, Ref Bull, Cornflakes and Post-it Notes have in common? All of these companies are household names across the globe! In this business book summary, you will hear of some of the greatest businesses of our time- and the people that created them. And whether you're a natural entrepreneur or just have a brilliant idea, you'll be intrigued, amazed and inspired to take your business to the next level.
100 Great Businesses
What do Microsoft, Chupa-chups, Liquid Paper, Ref Bull, Cornflakes and Post-it Notes have in common? All of these companies are household names across the globe! In this business book summary, you will hear of some of the greatest businesses of our time- and the people that created them. And whether you're a natural entrepreneur or just have a brilliant idea, you'll be intrigued, amazed and inspired to take your business to the next level.
12 Costly Marketing Mistakes That Small Business Owners Make
Keith Banfield is an international professional speaker, business coach and seminar leader He speaks to tens of thousands of business owners every year giving professional marketing advice. Keith’s shares with you some common marketing mistakes made by small business owners over and over again so that you can learn from other people's mistakes rather than having to make your own.
12 Costly Marketing Mistakes That Small Business Owners Make
Michael Fortin is a direct response copywriter with a track record that speaks for itself. He has sold millions of dollars worth of products and services for a wide variety of clients across 200 different industries. In this ebook he reveals some powerful marketing strategies for creating an endless stream of new, repeat and referral business. These techniques will profoundly impact your results and are an enourmous benefit to sales professionals of all types.
46 Action Provoking Money Making and Marketing Ideas
46 Action Provoking Money Making and Marketing Ideas from Australia's Rebellious Master of Cashflow - Mal went from being an illiterate academic failure to a best-selling author and the buyer and seller of more than 30 businesses. Now discover his 46 action provoking money making and marketing ideas for yourself!
5 Secrets To Successful Private Practice Marketing
David Steele is founder of Relationship Coaching Institute and BuildingYourIdealPractice.com. After more than 20 years in the private practice industry and mentoring hundreds of private practice professionals, David exposes the five essential secrets that are critically important to getting clients and building a successful private practice. This audio is ideal for coaches, consultants, therapists, and the like who want to improve their private practice.
7 Most Important Changes, Trends & Opportunities in Informat
Arguably the two of the greatest marketing experts in the world today, Dan Kennedy and Mal Emery are two of the worlds most in-demand marketing gurus for their phenomenal success in helping turn businesses in dozens of industries into money making strategies. Listen as they real the biggest marketing secret that exists, how to use it, and how to apply it to any business, that few, if any business owners know that will create a stampede of clients to your door.
Ability To Leverage
Do you want to experience dramatic business growth by implementing effective marketing and advertising? That's what William Scott, the owner of Sales Marketing and Real Technology (SMART), did! At the age of 28, he is the employer of over 500 staff members in offices across Australia. Since SMART's inception, the company has grown 200% every year. It is now amongst the top three companies in the industry. In this downloadable chapter, William describes his journey and offers his knowledge on subjects like, advertising, branding, the media, databases researching, budgets and much more. Find out more about increasing your profits and growing your business by reading this chapter.
Aim Of Marketing
Wish you could look into a crystal ball and foresee the position of your business? Although, Morris Miselowski doesn't have a crystal ball, he has built up a reputation as a leading business futurist and strategist. With his business strategy consultancy, Success through Focus, Morris's insights have been sought after to assist the daily operations of publicly listed companies, as well as welfare and human resource organisation.
