Die Fähigkeit effektiv und effizient zu sein ist für praktisch jedermann nötig, damit er oder sie in einer Organisation überhaupt angestellt werden kann. Um effektiv zu sein, reichen Intelligenz, Fleiß und Wissen allein nicht aus. Effektivität ist eine andere, eine eigene Qualität. In diesem Hörbuch erfahren Sie, wie man seine eigenen Stärken in Leistung umwandelt und dadurch Erfolg hat sowie Sinn und Erfüllung findet. 

Peter F. Drucker gilt als Vordenker des modernen Managements und als einer der renommiertesten Wirtschaftsautoren unserer Tage. Seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert verdankt die Businesswelt Peter F. Drucker Inspiration, Information und Ausbildung auf höchstem Niveau. Drucker fokussiert und analysiert die zentralen Themen, denen Manager gegenüberstehen: von der Unternehmensstrategie über Führungsstil hin zu sozialem Wandel.

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that the Objectives and Key Results system has spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules, and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable, while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers - only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new audiobook, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset.

For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country's business and management philosophers" ( Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management - the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done". This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive.

Kaum ein anderer Managementdenker war so produktiv und tiefgründig wie Peter F. Drucker. Er hat die Frage: "Wie führe ich ein Unternehmen am besten?" jahrzehntelang aus immer neuen Blickwinkeln diskutiert und beantwortet. Die folgenden Beiträge sind Auszüge aus Artikeln, die Drucker in der Harvard Business Review und im Harvard Businessmanager veröffentlicht hat. Drucker starb am 11. November 2005 im Alter von 95 Jahren.

Viele Führungskräfte wissen nicht genau, was sie können und wie sie am liebsten arbeiten, stellt Managementguru Peter F. Drucker fest. Doch Menschen sind nur dann wirklich erfolgreich, wenn sie ihre Stärken und ihre Werte kennen. Drucker zeigt in diesem Beitrag, wie gutes Selbstmanagement funktioniert. Der heute 95-jährige Vordenker ist emeritierter Professor an der Claremont Graduate University in Kalifornien. Er hat mehr als 30 Bücher verfasst und mit seinen Ideen die Management-Disziplin entscheidend geprägt.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss' head.

In this intriguing business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. Alex's attempts to find the path to profitability and to engage his employees in the struggle involve the listener; and thankfully the authors' economic models.

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.

The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its cocreator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland. Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to health care in major American hospitals. In this major new book, its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.

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 author of the legendary best seller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini, shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn't lie in the message itself but in the key moment before that message is delivered.

Viele Menschen wollen raus aus dem Hamsterrad, in dem sie sich tagtäglich bewegen, und wünschen sich, dass Arbeit erfüllend und sinnvoll ist. Der Unternehmer Bodo Janssen und der Benediktinermönch Anselm Grün durchleuchten die deutsche Unternehmenskultur und zeigen Wege aus der Krise auf. Sie stellen dar, wie wichtig Verbundenheit, Offenheit und gemeinsame Ziele für ein gelingendes Miteinander sind und wie sich das realisieren lässt.