Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen Audiobook (Free)

David Novak learned long ago that you can’t lead an excellent organization of any size without getting your people aligned, enthusiastic, and focused relentlessly over the mission. But how do you do that? There are countless leadership books, but how many will actually help a Taco Bell shift manager, a lot of money 500 CEO, a new business owner, or anyone among?

Over his fifteen years at Yum! Brands, Novak has developed a trademarked system he calls Acquiring People who have You. He spends weeks each about Taking PEOPLE WHO HAVE You: The Only Way to Make Big Issues Happen year individually teaching it to thousands of managers around the world. He convinces them that they’ll never make big things happen until they understand how to get people on their aspect. No skill in business is usually more essential. And Yum!’s extraordinary success (at least 13 percent growth for each from the last nine years) demonstrates his point.

Novak knows that managers don’t need leadership platitudes or business school theories. So he cuts to the chase having a step-by- stage guide to establishing big goals, obtaining people to work together, blowing past your targets, and celebrating once you shock the skeptics. And doing it over and over until consistent superiority becomes a primary part of your culture.

This audiobook has specific tools at the end of each chapter that will challenge you to reflect on how you’re really performing on key aspects of leadership. And if you apply it, you’ll immediately begin to improve.

You’ll understand how to .

• Get in the heads of the people. You can’t convince them of anything until you start to see the world off their perspective.

• Think big. If your sales growth this past year was 3.5 percent, don’t shoot for 4 percent this year, shoot for 15 percent. Even though you fail, you’ll probably do much better than you would possess with a smaller sized goal.

• Practice ‘remarkable authenticity.’ Display periodic vulnerability and admit when you don’t have the answers.

• Search for good ideas in unexpected places. Novak’s team came up with Great Ranch Doritos for Frito-Lay throughout a field trip to a grocery store’s salad dressing aisle.

• Select a can-do mind-set. There’s an enormous difference between a boss who says ‘We can try this’ and one who says ‘We can do that!’

• Cheer for 1st downs, not only touchdowns. Publicly spotting and rewarding small wins will keep everyone motivated for the long haul.

• Get rid of cynics. In many teams one person will reject your beliefs and spread harmful energy. Moving see your face out will present everybody else you’re serious.