Todd Mundt has narrated 17 audiobooks on Listento.it by 40 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 8 ratings. The most-rated is Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail.
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
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Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds, to name a few. In almost every case, the goal has been to cope with a new, more challenging market by changing the way business is conducted. A few of these endeavors have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale. John Kotter is renowned for his work on leading organizational change. In 1995, when this article was first published, he had just completed a 10-year study of more than 100 companies that attempted such a transformation. Here he shares the results of his observations, outlining the eight largest errors that can doom these efforts and explaining the general lessons that encourage success. From the January 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2007 Audible Inc.
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
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©2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved; (P)2007 Audible Inc.Increasing your energy capacity is the best way to get more work done faster and better. From the October 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2007 Audible Inc.
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care (Harvard Business Review)
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Michael E. Porter, the Bishop Lawrence University Professor at Harvard University, and Thomas H. Lee, chief medical officer at Press Ganey and the former network president of Partners HealthCare, write about why providers must lead the way in making value the overarching goal.This article was first published in the October 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2013 Audible Inc.
How the Growth Outliers Do It (Harvard Business Review)
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The characteristics that enable a company to grow revenues by at least 5 percent year after year.This article was first published in the January/February 2011 double issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2012 Audible Inc.
Harvard Business Review, November 2006
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This month's issue includes three complete articles. From "Forethought," Ian Bremmer and Fareed Zakaria explain how to hedge your political risk in China. Then, in "Innovation, The Classic Traps," Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers practical tips on how to keep your creative team from getting bogged down. The third article, by Michael Useem, explores "How Well Run Boards Make Decisions." Plus, you'll hear OnPoint summaries of two other articles: "Breaking the Trade-Off of Efficiency and Services," and "Facing Ambiguous Threats." Finally, you'll get Executive Summaries for the five remaining articles, along with special commentary by Harvard Business Review's Senior Editor Gardiner Morse.
©2006 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2006 Audible Inc.
What Good are Shareholders? (Harvard Business Review)
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How to choose metrics that reveal the cause-and-effect relationships behind value creation.This article was first published in the October 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2012 Audible Inc.
Harvard Business Review, June 2007
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The June 2007 Harvard Business Review begins with a short article from "Forethought": "If You Love Your Information, Set It Free" by David Weinberger that explains why you should embrace information aggregation. Then, in this month's cover story, Roger Martin says it's not enough to mimic the actions of great leaders - you need to really figure out how they think. Then, Jonathan Zittrain says there's a way to keep the Internet safe without entirely sapping it of creative potential. Then the third full-length article this month focuses on ways you can develop talent in your company and use that talent to go after new business opportunities. Finally, you'll also hear executive summaries of the remaining articles in the June 2007 HBR.
©2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2006 Audible Inc.
Harvard Business Review, Managing For the Long Term
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This special issue of Harvard Business Review, Managing for the Long Term, contains three full-length articles. First, Paul Saffo says the goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present. Next, Neil Howe and William Straus discuss how tracking generations' marches through time lends order and predictability to long-term trends. Also, Christian Stadler reveals what separates great companies from the merely good. Finally, you'll hear executive summaries of the remaining articles from this July HBR.
©2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2007 Audible Inc.
Reaching Your Potential (Harvard Business Review)
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The acting president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company writes that fulfillment doesn't come from clearing hurdles others set for you; it comes from clearing those you set for yourself. This article was first published in the July/August 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2008 Audible Inc.
Digital-Physical Mashups (Harvard Business Review)
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Darrell K. Rigby, a partner in the Boston office of Bain & Company, writes about how consumers see the real and virtual world as one – and so should your company.This article was first published in the September 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2014 Audible Inc.
The Founder's Dilemma (Harvard Business Review)
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Discover how new research shows that its tough to make a lot of money and run the show at the same time.From the February 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2008 Audible Inc.
Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers
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To really win customer's loyalty, forget the bells and whistles and just solve their problems. This article was first published in the July 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2010 Audible Inc.
Harvard Business Review, April 2007
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In a short article from "Forethought", Gary Carini and Bill Townsend offer some tips for getting your employees to come forward with strong and specific ideas. Then, Larry Bossidy, the former CEO of AlliedSignal and Honeywell, lays out what he expects of his direct reports and what they can expect from him. Then, James Hackett explains what you need to do to prepare for the perfect product launch, based on his successes and failures as CEO of Steelcase. The third full-length article suggests ways you can do your human due diligence when considering a company for a merger or acquisition. You'll also hear executive summaries of the remaining articles for the April 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review.
©2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2007 Audible Inc.
Reinventing Your Business Model
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©2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved; (P)2008 Audible Inc.One of the secrets to maintaining a thriving business is being able to recognize when it needs a fundamental change. This article was first published in the December 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2008 Audible Inc.
Making Business Personal (Harvard Business Review)
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Robert Kagan, Lisa Lahey, and Matthew Miller, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Andy Fleming, CEO of Way to Grow, Inc, report on how a close examination of two very different companies suggests that melding business excellence with personal development can create a new kind of competitive advantage.This article was first published in the April 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Dismantling the Sales Machine (Harvard Business Review)
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Brent Adamson, managing director at CEB, Matthew Dixon, executive director at CEB, and Nicholas Toman, research director at CEB, report on how reps can’t sell to savvy customers by adhering to strict processes.This article was first published in the November 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2013 Audible Inc.
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning (Harvard Business Review)
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Roger L. Martin, a professor and the former dean at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, writes about how a detailed plan may be comforting, but it’s not a strategy.This article was first published in the January/February 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.
©2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2014 Audible Inc.