John G. Miller has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is QBQ! The Question Behind the Question.
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question
Summary
The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization or individual can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability. John G. Miller believes that the troubles that plague organizations cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others. Rather, the real solutions are found when each of us recognizes the power of personal accountability. In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, Miller explains how negative, inappropriate questions like "why do we have to go through all this change?" and "who dropped the ball?" represent a lack of personal accountability. Conversely, when we ask better questions, QBQs, such as "what can I do to contribute?" or "how can I help solve the problem?" our lives and our organizations are transformed. This remarkable and timely audiobook gives a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily action, with astonishing results: Problems are solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teamwork grows, and people adapt to change more quickly. It is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn, grow, and change. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous worth to our organizations and to our lives by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination.
©2004 QBQ, Inc. (P)2004 Penguin Audio
Parenting the QBQ Way
Summary
How often have we heard complaints like these? "Why don’t my kids do what I say?" "Who made the mess in here?" "When will my teen make better choices?" These are the kinds of questions that parents ask that lead not only to complaining, but to victim thinking, procrastination, and blaming. The solution: Learn to parent the QBQ® way - and bring personal accountability to life within our families. Based on the same concepts that have made John Miller’s signature work, QBQ: The Question Behind the Question, an international best seller over the last decade, Parenting the QBQ Way provides the tool called the QBQ or The Question Behind the Question that will help every parent look behind questions such as "Why won’t my kids listen?" or "When will they do what I ask?" to find better ones - QBQs - like "What can I do differently?" or "How can I improve as a parent?" This simple but challenging concept turns the focus - and responsibility - back to parents and to what they can do to make a difference. With thoughtful commentary, observation, and advice, illustrated with engaging and memorable anecdotes that are the hallmarks of John Miller’s previous books, Parenting the QBQ Way provides all moms and dads with the means and inspiration to be more effective parents - as well as teach their children how to practice their own brand of personal accountability - to create a happy, healthy family for a lifetime.
©2012 John G. Miller, Karen G. Miller (P)2014 Gildan Media LLC
Flipping the Switch
Summary
In his best-selling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller revealed how personal accountability helps to create opportunity, overcome obstacles, and achieve goals by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination. The result? Stronger organizations, more dynamic teams, and healthier relationships. Now Miller takes listeners to the next level to show how they can use the power of the QBQ! and personal accountability every day. When a light switch is flipped the flow of energy that is released reaches the lightbulb in an instant, bringing it to life. Similarly, asking the right kind of question - a QBQ - is the first step to empowering what Miller calls the Advantage Principles - five essential practices that will lead to a richer experience in every aspect of life: LEARNING: live an engaged and energized life through positive personal growth and change OWNERSHIP: attain goals by becoming a solution-oriented person who solves problems CREATIVITY: find new ways to achieve by succeeding "within the box" SERVICE: build a legacy by helping others succeed TRUST: develop deep and rewarding relationships with compelling real-life stories and keen insights Miller demonstrates how anyone can find success and satisfaction by "flipping the switch".
©2005 John G. Miller (P)2014 Gildan Media LLC
Outstanding!
Summary
The best-selling author of of QBQ! shows how anyone can use the unlimited potential of accountability to create an outstanding organization. Do people fire companies? You bet they do. But anyone can fireproof their organization with the timely and timeless ideas in Outstanding. Every day outstanding organizations do things that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. These successful organiÂÂzations comprise people who hold values and take actions - individually and collectively - that are simple but not always easy or obvious. Informed by Miller's own commitment to the power of perÂÂsonal accountability and enlivened by compelling true stories, Outstanding identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides listeners with ways to integrate these concepts into their own work and companies. With its short pithy entries that carry a lot of impact and takeaway value, Outstanding is filled with practical ideas that can and should be used every single day by individuals and groups, from the boardroom to the stockroom, for creating a distinguished organization with which customers and stakeholders will want to work.
©2010 John G. Miller (P)2010 Penguin