They're Your Rules, Break Them!
50 Ways to Smash Silos, Bust Bureaucracy and Create a High-Performance Culture
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"Rules are not sacrosanct. They are human constructions imposed upon the world. When these constructions are not useful to us, we can and should transcend them, because results matter more." (Douglas Kruger)
They're Your Rules, Break Them! offers 50 innovative ways of looking at your business as a long-term, dynamic, progressive entity. Here you will find 50 ways to ditch the atrophying forces and create an exponentially achieving, high-performance culture in your organization. Disruption is everywhere. Rather than suffering its blows, what if you could institutionalize it into your business? What if, rather than being rigid and rule-bound, you could make your business "ever changing" within? Some rules help us, but some don't. Do you know which ones to ditch? And do you know how to create a high-performing, dynamic learning culture that doesn't rely on blind bureaucracy? Elon Musk did it with Tesla and Space-X. Pixar does it, too. The Israel Defense Forces and US Navy SEALs have been doing it for decades, and their results have been astonishing.
In a world of exponential organizations, rule-bound dinosaurs will fall and fade. But you don't have to. They're your rules. Break them!
Douglas Kruger is a business strategist, an author, and a global speaker. He helps organizations untangle the thinking that makes them industry dinosaurs and shows them where all the levers are for real-world innovation and growth. Douglas is the author of Own Your Industry, Relentlessly Relevant, How to Make Your Point Without PowerPoint, and Is Your Thinking Keeping You Poor?, published by Penguin. In 2016, the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa inducted him into the Speakers Hall of Fame.
View his videos on growth techniques at www.douglaskruger.co.za or follow him on Twitter: @douglaskruger.
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"Years ago, I wrote about a retail store in the Palo Alto environs—a good one, which had a box of two-cent candies at the checkout. I subsequently remember that 'little' parting gesture of the two-cent candy as a symbol of all that is Excellent at that store. Dozens of people who have attended seminars of mine have come up to remind me, sometimes 15 or 20 years later, of “the two-cent candy story,” and to tell me how it had a sizable impact on how they did business."
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Really hard to listen
- By Alexander on 06-03-10
By: Tom Peters
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The High-Speed Company
- Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture
- By: Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton
- Narrated by: Jason Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Best-selling author Jason Jennings believes that urgency and speed are keys to the growth of any business. Leaders need to adapt and ignite their workplace cultures to prevent everyone from falling behind. Jennings draws on years of research and 11,000+ in-depth interviews with executives, business owners, and CEOs across the country to uncover how successful leaders build cultures that support constant innovation and growth.
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Incredible testament to the spirit of positive growth and change
- By Alexandra d. on 04-05-23
By: Jason Jennings, and others
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Good to Great
- Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
- By: Jim Collins
- Narrated by: Jim Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
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Good info, over-the-top narration
- By Anaxamaxan on 08-31-10
By: Jim Collins
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The Oz Principle
- Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
- By: Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 8 hrs
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The Oz Principle is the groundbreaking work that demonstrates the vital role of accountability in the achievement of business results and the improvement of both individual and organizational performance. With more than a half million copies sold, The Oz Principle has emerged as one of the most influential and useful business ideas of recent times. The Oz Principle shows how to overcome The Blame Game that is so prevalent in organizations today.
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Trustless Accountability
- By Michael on 04-23-17
By: Roger Connors, and others
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Predictable Success
- Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track - and Keeping It There
- By: Les McKeown
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number one goal is success. Predictable Success takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization.
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No substance or real solid information to take
- By Desiree Sherbundy on 07-06-22
By: Les McKeown
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Ideaflow
- The Only Business Metric That Matters
- By: Jeremy Utley, Perry Klebahn
- Narrated by: David Kelley, Jeremy Utley, Perry Klebahn
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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How can you come up with great ideas by yourself, or in the context of your team, and quickly determine which are worthy of investment? The simple metric of ideaflow determines success like no other. Ideaflow is a mindset, a way of approaching all your business problems, that multiplies your efforts and unleashes your full potential. Nurture ideaflow and watch your results transform.
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Great book, but…
- By Mark Nutting, CSCS*D, NSCA-CPT*D on 12-27-22
By: Jeremy Utley, and others
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- By: Simon Sinek
- Narrated by: Simon Sinek
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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The inspirational best seller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our why. Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time - with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the why of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever.
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Useless Dribble
- By Chimdi Azubuike on 03-10-18
By: Simon Sinek
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How Did That Happen?
- Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way
- By: Roger Connors, Tom Smith
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Drawing on case studies, many from client companies, the authors show how to establish clear expectations and manage the unmet expectations that inevitably occur. And they offer a positive, principled way that engages hearts and minds. This book can help people at every level---from senior executives to front-line workers---enjoy greater productivity, profitability, and job satisfaction.
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HELP - How Can I Get The Lost Hours Back ?
- By Mike on 09-23-09
By: Roger Connors, and others
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Power Listening
- Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All
- By: Bernard T Ferrari
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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Listening is harder than it looks - but it's the difference between business success and failure. Nothing causes bad decisions in organizations as often as poor listening. But Bernard Ferrari, adviser to some of the nation's most influential executives, believes that such missteps can be avoided and that the skills and habits of good listening can be developed and mastered. He offers a step-by-step process that will help you become an active listener, able to shape and focus any conversation.
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Better listening made easy
- By Alejandro A. on 09-07-12
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Glimmer
- How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World
- By: Warren Berger
- Narrated by: Ax Norman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The first book to reveal how thinking like a designer can help solve the greatest challenges we face in business, society, and our daily lives. What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our world? In this highly original book by journalist Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated designer Bruce Mau, ten groundbreaking principles of design are shown in action-addressing business, social, and personal challenges and improving the way we think, work, and live.
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not for those who know about design thinking...
- By Pierre on 09-06-10
By: Warren Berger
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Design a Better Business
- New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
- By: Patrick van der Pijl, Lisa Kay Solomon, Justin Lokitz
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you've likely never seen before, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over 20 total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.
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Good for people who don't have an experience with Agile and Lean Startup
- By Jovan Vidic on 08-26-17
By: Patrick van der Pijl, and others
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The Starfish and the Spider
- The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
- By: Ori Brafman, Rod Beckstrom
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: "spiders", which have a rigid hierarchy, and "starfish", which rely on the power of peer relationships.
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Centralized and decentralized models
- By Chan Meng on 12-07-07
By: Ori Brafman, and others
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- Roxanne
- 09-05-17
A must read
Very entertaining and enlightening, I enjoyed it thoroughly and learned a lot. One of the best books I've listened to this far.
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