Doug Jones has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator. The most-rated is Bending Toward Justice.
High-Performance Teamwork
Summary
Imagine one person at the end of a long line of people trying to push the line forward. It's a tough job, so he or she hires a team of middle managers to join the push at strategic points along the line. Eventually the line starts moving, but as soon as the pushing stops, the movement stops. Now imagine the line of people breaking into small groups, locking arms and running towards a specific goal with team members leading the charge. That's a powerful force that's hard to stop. The first example is like the hierarchical, bureaucratic, top-down management style still used in many companies today. The second example is what High Performance Teamwork is all about. When you have a group of people strongly united and motivated to reach a common goal, almost nothing can stop you from achieving it. In High Performance Teamwork, Doug Jones describes how the nation's top performing corporations are using the team approach to restructure their organizations to make startling improvements in productivity, quality, and profit. Renowned speaker Doug Jones explains how to: Use Teamwork to build quality, service, and innovation. Revolutionize your leadership style with the 6 steps of team building. Motivate co-workers using the 10 dimensions of group involvement. Meld unique talents into an interdependent team with a central goal. Learn the 7 steps to good coaching. Abolish “That's not my job” attitude. Develop 360 vision. Put the 7 factors of high team performance to work. Tap the creativity of the team. Build self-esteem in all team members.
©1994 Nightingale Conant for Doug Jones (P)1994 Nightingale Conant
Bending Toward Justice
Summary
This program is read by the author. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. It was clear that white supremacists were responsible. The community activists who gathered at the church had recently succeeded in desegregating Birmingham public schools, and this was an act of revenge. The girls did not die in vain; the public outrage brought on by this senseless tragedy was crucial to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But who were the perpetrators? Alabamians would have to wait a long time to find out. Due to reluctant witnesses and racial prejudice, the FBI closed the case without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., famously claimed, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." When William Baxley became state attorney general years later, he reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and author Doug Jones himself prosecuted and convicted the final two perpetrators - a correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice that was nearly 40 years in the making. Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of this key moment in our national struggle for equality and the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy, related by an author who played a major role in the investigation. It is destined to become the next addition to our civil rights canon.
©2018 Doug Jones (P)2018 Macmillan Audio