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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
After two decades in the trenches of helping companies design and build better, more efficient operations, Karen Martin has pinpointed why performance improvement programs usually fail: Chaos, the sneaky but powerful force that frustrates customers, keeps business leaders awake at night, and saps company morale. In The Outstanding Organization, Karen offers a toolbox for combating chaos by creating the organizational conditions that will allow your improvement efforts to return greater gains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good breadth, shallow depth
- By aochoa19 on 02-09-21
By: Karen Martin
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Moments of Impact
- How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change
- By: Chris Ertel, Lisa Kay Solomon
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
Moments of Impact is an audiobook on a mission: to eradicate time-sucking, energy-depleting workshops and meetings. In our fast-changing world, organizations have important challenges and opportunities to address - and no time to waste. Moments of Impact delivers the single most useful resource for managers and leaders who need better strategic conversation - now - to shape the future of their organizations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another audiobook failure. Buy the real book
- By Jonathan on 02-08-15
By: Chris Ertel, and others
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Toyota Kata
- Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
- By: Mike Rother
- Narrated by: Todd Belcher
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower. Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines - called kata - that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good deeper learning
- By bzymom on 02-25-24
By: Mike Rother