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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/194/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you want your children to access knowledge early? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, including categories like Ages 5 & Under, Bedtime Stories, and Early Education, we bring your beloved child useful lessons. Get 3 free audiobooks right away for your child to start exploring. Audiobooks can be listened to on iPhone, iPad, Android, helping your child learn anytime, anywhere. Let's build the future for children together! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to [email protected].
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Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill by Napoleon Hill, Jeffrey Gitomer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/339991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill Author: Napoleon Hill, Jeffrey Gitomer Narrator: Jeffrey Gitomer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer brings you the very foundation of Napoleon Hill’s self-help legacy: his long-lost original notes, letters, and lectures—now compiled, edited, and annotated for the modern reader. Twenty years before the publication of his magnum opus Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill was an instructor, philosopher, and writer at the George Washington Institute in Chicago, where he taught courses in advertising and sales. These rare, never-before-seen lectures were thought to be lost to history. Until now. Given exclusive access to the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Jeffrey Gitomer has unearthed Hill’s original course notes containing the fundamental beliefs in hard work and personal development that established Hill as a global leader of success and positive attitude. In Truthful Living, Gitomer has captured Hill’s foundational wisdom for the twenty-first century. These easy-to-implement real-world strategies for life, family, business, and the bottom line prove as energizing and inspiring today as they were nearly one hundred years ago.
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Leaders: Myth and Reality by Jay Mangone, Jeff Eggers, Stanley Mcchrystal
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leaders: Myth and Reality Author: Jay Mangone, Jeff Eggers, Stanley Mcchrystal Narrator: Stanley Mcchrystal, Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 23, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Stanley McChrystal, the retired US Army general and bestselling author of Team of Teams, profiles thirteen of history’s great leaders, including Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, and Robert E. Lee, to show that leadership is not what you think it is—and never was. Stan McChrystal served for thirty-four years in the US Army, rising from a second lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division to a four-star general, in command of all American and coalition forces in Afghanistan. During those years he worked with countless leaders and pondered an ancient question: “What makes a leader great?” He came to realize that there is no simple answer. With Plutarch’s Lives as his model, McChrystal looks at paired sets of leaders who followed unconventional paths to success. For instance . . . Walt Disney and Coco Chanel, Maximilien Robespierre and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Boss Tweed and Margaret Thatcher, Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr., and finally explores his former hero, Robert E. Lee, from his exceptional military career to leading an army to defeat in service of an immoral cause. He uses their stories to explore how leadership works in practice and to challenge the myths that complicate our thinking about this critical topic. Leaders will help you take stock of your own leadership, whether you’re part of a small team or responsible for an entire nation.
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Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Is Michael Ovitz? Author: Michael Ovitz Narrator: Michael Ovitz, Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “When the history of Hollywood is written, few people will have played a larger role than Michael Ovitz.... It is impossible to read such a chronicle and not see Mr. Ovitz as the Steve Jobs of agenting, possessing a version of Jobs’s fanatical drive and a similar desire to remake an industry.” —The Wall Street Journal Who is Michael Ovitz? He’s a striver who talked his way into the famous mailroom of the William Morris Agency without any connections, then worked his way out of the mailroom in record time. He’s an entrepreneur who left a safe job to launch Creative Artists Agency, growing it from five guys in a rundown office to the most powerful agency in the world. He’s a friend and confidant to megastars such as Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, David Letterman, Sean Connery, Bill Murray, Paul Newman, and Martin Scorsese. He’s a pioneer who reinvented the role of the agent in packaging actors, directors, writers, and producers, which made CAA the essential hub of countless movies and television shows. He’s a master negotiator who drove historic deals for many of his clients, as well as the acquisitions of two major studios by Sony and Matsushita. He’s a self-taught connoisseur of art and architecture, a generous philanthropist, a devoted father... And to his detractors he’s a world-class jerk and a ruthless manipulator who double-crossed his friends, crushed his enemies, and let nothing stand in his way, ever. After decades of near silence in the face of relentless controversy, Ovitz finally tells his whole story in this memoir, with remarkable candor and insight. If you’re going to read just one book about how show business really works, this is the one.
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Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change by Beth Comstock, Tahl Raz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change Author: Beth Comstock, Tahl Raz Narrator: Beth Comstock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 18, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: FROM ONE OF TODAY'S FOREMOST INNOVATION LEADERS, AN INSPIRING, PERSONAL APPROACH TO MASTERING CHANGE IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY. NAMED A 2018 BEST BUSINESS BOOK PICK BY FAST COMPANY AND WIRED UK. Confronting change is incredibly hard, both organizationally and personally. People become resistant. They are afraid. Yet the pace of change in our world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. Imagine It Forward is an inspiring, fresh, candid, and deeply personal book about how to grapple with the challenges to change we face every day. It is a different kind of narrative, a big picture book that combines Comstock’s personal story in leading change with vital lessons on overcoming the inevitable roadblocks. One of the most successful women in business, Comstock shares her own transformation story from introverted publicist to GE’s first woman Vice Chair, and her hard-won lessons in shifting GE, a 125 year old American institution, toward a new digital future and a more innovative culture. As the woman who initiated GE's Ecomagination clean-energy and its (and NBC’s) digital transformations, Comstock challenged a global organization to not wait for perfection, but to seek out emerging trends, embrace smart risks and test ideas boldly, and often. She shows how each one of us can become a “change maker” by leading with imagination. “Ideas are rarely the problem,” writes Comstock. “What holds all of us back, really—is fear. It’s the attachment to the old, to ‘What We Know.’” As Comstock makes clear, transforming the mindset and culture of a company is messy. There is no easy checklist. It is fraught with uncertainty, tension and too often failure. It calls for the courage to defy convention, go around corporate gatekeepers when necessary, and reinvent what is possible. For all those looking to spearhead change in their companies and careers, and reinvent “the way things are done,” Imagine It Forward masterfully points the way.
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Chaos Monkeys Revised Edition: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chaos Monkeys Revised Edition: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley Author: Antonio Garcia Martinez Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 24, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author—the insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley “Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.” — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness—their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future.
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Like She Owns the Place: Unlock the Secret of Lasting Confidence by Cara Alwill Leyba
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/339849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like She Owns the Place: Unlock the Secret of Lasting Confidence Author: Cara Alwill Leyba Narrator: Cara Alwill Leyba Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 10, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Like She Owns the Place written and read by Cara Alwill Leyba. Can you imagine what your life would be like if you abandoned the idea of perfection and decided to embrace your whole self - and even better - love yourself? Imagine if you stopped putting your happiness in the hands of others. Imagine you stopped waiting for validation from external forces and learnt how to be intimate with failure, cellulite, success, wrinkles, imperfection, mistakes, vulnerability. Imagine what life would be like if you just decided to feel good now. In Like She Owns the Place, master life coach and motivational speaker Cara Alwill Leyba teaches you that confidence is all about knowing yourself. Leyba lays down the foundations to help you build confidence from the ground up which include ditching the idea of winning, editing toxic people and habits from your life and embracing the achievements of other women. Follow Cara's advice and you'll be walking into every room like you own the place.
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Cal Turner presents My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company Author: Cal Turner Narrator: Cal Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 22, 2018 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape that Dave Ramsey calls a must-read. Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father, Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal's narrative is at its heart a father-son story, from his childhood in Scottsville, Kentucky, where business and family were one, to the triumph of reaching the Fortune 300 -- at the cost of risking that very father/son relationship. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse. Chronicling three generations of a successful family with very different leadership styles, Cal Jr. shares a wealth of wisdom from a lifetime on the entrepreneurial front lines. He shows how his grandfather turned a third-grade education into an asset for success. He reveals how his driven father hatched the game-changing dollar price point strategy and why it worked. And he explains how he found his own leadership style when he took his place at the helm -- values-based, people-oriented, and pragmatic. Cal's story provides a riveting look at the family love and drama behind Dollar General's spectacular rise, pays homage to the working-class people whose no-frills needs helped determine its rock-bottom prices, and shares the life and lessons of one of America's most compelling business leaders.
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We All Scream: The Fall of the Gifford's Ice Cream Empire by Andrew Gifford
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Scream: The Fall of the Gifford's Ice Cream Empire Author: Andrew Gifford Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: For more than seventy years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. But behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, two million dollars of missing cash, and a tragic suicide. As the last Gifford heir unfolds his story with remarkable immediacy and candor, he reveals the byzantine betrayals and intrigue rooted in the company from its modest beginnings—dark influences that would ultimately destroy the legendary Gifford business and its troubled founding family.
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Enjoy Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers from Nicholas Smith
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers Author: Nicholas Smith Narrator: Christopher J. Grove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart of American life was just getting started. In this rollicking narrative, Nicholas K. Smith carries us through the long twentieth century as sneakers became the totem of subcultures from California skateboarders to New York rappers, the cause of gang violence and riots, the heart of a global economic controversy, the lynchpin in a quest to turn big sports into big business, and the muse of high fashion. Studded with larger-than-life mavericks and unexpected visionaries—from genius rubber inventor, Charles Goodyear, to road-warrior huckster Chuck Taylor, to the feuding brothers who founded Adidas and Puma, to the track coach who changed the sport by pouring rubber in his wife's waffle iron—Kicks introduces us to the sneaker's surprisingly influential, enduring, and evolving legacy.
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WIKID POWER - How To Make Influential Decisions For Superiority by Ian Coombe
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: WIKID POWER - How To Make Influential Decisions For Superiority Author: Ian Coombe Narrator: Ian Coombe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 14, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Decision-making is as vital to success as mathematics! How many decisions have you made today? Were you taught how? Everyone makes decisions more often than they use mathematics but decision-making is not taught ... until now. The process outlined in Wikid Power shows you how to make influential decisions that deliver such incredible results that the military wanted to classify the process beyond "Top Secret". Following an easy to remember step-by-step process Ian leads you on the journey to become masterful and superior in all your decision-making. This book is for anyone who makes decisions anytime or anywhere: Leaders get the best decisions and results from your team Parents ensure your decisions are the best for your children and help them learn how to make decisions for their future Teachers from prep to university determine futures, be a teacher who's remembered for moulding great futures Everyone make personal decisions that get you where you want in life Ian Coombe developed Wikid Power to help military leaders learn a decision-making process vital to succeed. He introduced his military's first group decision-making capability and then facilitated myriad decisions for others from everyday matters to the Olympics and to urgent national security issues. He has been awarded a US military commendation and an Australian Leadership Excellence Award (ALEA). His decision-making process, experience and authority is unrivalled. If you're not using Wikid Power those you deal with might be. Join the decisions leaders!
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Epitaph for the Ash: In Search of Recovery and Renewal by Lisa Samson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Epitaph for the Ash: In Search of Recovery and Renewal Author: Lisa Samson Narrator: Charlotte Strevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 22, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Inspired by her uncle, Lisa Samson has communed with trees since her childhood. Tragically, a disease from mainland Europe now poses a very serious threat to the ash tree’s survival. Epitaph for the Ash explores how barren our landscape could become without the ash’s familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and chalky cliff faces. The trees’ grave prognosis takes on a personal resonance when, in the course of writing this book, Lisa is diagnosed with a brain tumour. While she receives treatment, and learns to walk and talk again, Lisa finds solace once more in the natural world. She continues to research her beloved forests, which once sheltered a wealth of flora and fauna, seeking out the possibilities that modern science might provide for their survival. Taking us from the lowlands of Norfolk to northernmost reaches of the British Isles, Lisa's book is a celebration of the deep cultural and historical significance of the ash. As Lisa contemplates her own mortality, and the trees’ likely fate emerges, Epitaph for the Ash offers up a rallying cry to treasure these remarkable woodlands while we still can, before it is too late.
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The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness by Mary Pilon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness Author: Mary Pilon Narrator: Andrew Sellon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 6, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Monopolists, the incredible story of Olympic sailor Kevin Hall, and the psychiatric syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life. Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic and America's Cup sailor. Kevin has an Ivy League degree, a winning smile, and throughout his adult life, he has been engaged in an ongoing battle with a person that doesn't exist to anyone but him: the Director. Kevin suffers from what doctors are beginning to call the 'Truman Show' delusion, a form of psychosis named for the 1998 movie, where the main character is trapped as the star of a reality TV show. When the Director commands Kevin to do things, the results can lead to handcuffs, hospitalization, or both. Once he nearly drove a car into Boston Harbor. His girlfriend, now wife, was in the passenger seat. In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, journalist Mary Pilon's The Kevin Show reveals the many-sided struggle by Kevin, his family, and the medical profession to understand and treat a psychiatric disorder whose euphoric highs and creative ties to pop culture have become inextricable from Kevin's experience of himself. Interweaving his perspective, journals, and sketches with police reports, medical records, and interviews with those who were present at key moments in his life, The Kevin Show is a bracing, suspenseful, and eye-opening view of the role that mental health plays in a seemingly ordinary life.
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Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire by Ryan Holiday
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire Author: Ryan Holiday Narrator: Ryan Holiday Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called 'one helluva page-turner' and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as 'riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read.' Pick up the book everyone is talking about. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the 'Gawker Problem.' When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture? In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory. Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.
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Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe Esther Author: Katja Petrowskaja Narrator: Emma Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family’s entanglement with twentieth-century history AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘Intensely involving … a fervent meditation on love and loss, with a remarkable cast of characters’ Financial Times ‘Rich, intriguing … Maybe Esther calls to mind the itinerant style of W. G. Sebald’ Guardian ‘Unflinchingly potent … Revolutionaries, war heroes, teachers and phantoms populate these magnetic pages’ Irish Independent Katja Petrowskaja’s family story is impossible to untangle from the history of twentieth-century Europe. There is her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomat in Moscow in 1932 and was sentenced to death. (Could this act have had more significance than anyone at the time understood?) There is her Ukrainian grandfather, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years later. (How was it that he then went back to normal family life, as though nothing had happened?) And there is her great-grandmother (was she really called Esther?) who was too old and frail to leave Kiev when the Jews there were ordered to leave, and was brutally killed by the Nazis on the street. Taking the reader from Moscow to Kiev to Warsaw to Berlin, and deep into archives and pieced-together conversations, photos and memories, Maybe Esther is a journey into language, memory, philosophy, history and trauma, and a singular, beautiful, unforgettable work of literature.
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My Life and Work | Henry Ford
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life and Work Author: Henry Ford Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: December 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The book that has inspired entrepreneurs for generations, My Life and Work by Henry Ford is not only a memoir of an American icon, but also shows the spirit that built America. Written in 1922, this work provides a unique insight into the observations, ideas, and problem-solving skills of this remarkable man.
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Obroni and the Chocolate Factory: An Unlikely Story of Globalization and Ghana's First Chocolate Bar by Steven Wallace
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obroni and the Chocolate Factory: An Unlikely Story of Globalization and Ghana's First Chocolate Bar Author: Steven Wallace Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: What country makes the best chocolate? Most people would answer “Switzerland,” or, if they’re discerning, “Belgium” or “France.” But, how many cocoa trees grow in Zurich? Lyon? Antwerp? Shouldn’t the country known for growing the best cocoa beans be the one that makes the best chocolate? So, captivated by theories of international trade but with precious little knowledge of cocoa or chocolate, Steven Wallace set out to build the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company in Ghana—a country renowned for its cocoa and where Wallace spent part of his youth—in a quest to produce the world’s first export-ready, single-origin chocolate bar. What followed would be the true story of an obroni—white person—from Wisconsin taking on the ultimate entrepreneurial challenge. Written with sensitivity and devastating self-awareness, Obroni and the Chocolate Factory is Steven’s chaotic, fascinating, and bemusing journey to create a successful international business that aspired do a bit of good in the world. This book is at once a penetrating business memoir and a story about imagining globalism done right. Wallace’s picaresque journey takes him to Ghana’s residence for the head of state, to the Amsterdam offices of a secretive international cocoa conglomerate, and face-to-face with key figures in the sharp-elbowed world of global trade and geopolitics. Along the way he’ll be forced to deal with bureaucratic roadblocks, a legacy of colonialism, corporate intrigue, inscrutable international politics, a Bond-esque villain nemesis, and constant uncertainty about whether he’ll actually pull it off. This rollicking love letter to both Ghana and the world of business is a rare glimpse into the mind of an unusually literate and articulate entrepreneur.
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The Journey of Not Knowing: How 21st Century Leaders Can Chart a Course Where There Is None by Julie Benezet
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Journey of Not Knowing: How 21st Century Leaders Can Chart a Course Where There Is None Author: Julie Benezet Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The Journey of Not Knowing is a fast-paced, entertaining book that gets to the heart of a critical state in today’s business climate and society overall: the constantly changing, ambiguous twenty-first century and the uncharted waters ahead. This book will inspire leaders of any size organization to come to grips with the scariness of the unknown while it advances a new approach to leadership that leverages the discomfort of the new as a powerful source of inspiration rather than a deterrent to building a better future. Written by former Amazon executive, coach, and lawyer, Julie Benezet, the book combines storytelling, business experience, and human psychology to create a roadmap through the ambiguity of building something better in the context of the realities of humans in organizational life. The book tells a story of a day in the life at Arrow, Inc., a fictional company. It follows the defended behaviors throughout that day of its eight very recognizable leadership team members as they work first to avoid and then finally to solve the mystery of why a client fired them. The reward of the discovery is a critical piece of new business and substantial personal growth. To get there, each of the team members must face their past, present, and future. The memorable characters in the book are persons with whom the listeners may cringingly identify. The book creates a framework for them to confront their own resistance to change, and tools to start them on their way toward pursuing new possibilities for their lives once they can confront and embrace the scariness of the unknown. The author opens the book with a description of an experience at Amazon that led to her belief about leadership and the unknown. It ends with a primer on the Journey of Not Knowing leadership model, using the Arrow story to illustrate its principles. The Journey of Not Knowing forms the core of a leadership program that been attended by executives from around the world over the past five years.
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Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir (Authored by Charlie Daniels)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir Author: Charlie Daniels Narrator: Charlie Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America’s musical landscape than Charlie Daniels. Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie Daniels that has never before been documented. In his own words, he presents the path from his post-depression childhood to performing for millions as one of the most successful country acts of all time and what he has learned along the way. The book also includes insights into the many musicians that orbited Charlie’s world, including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette and many more. Charlie was officially inducted into The Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016, shortly before his 80th birthday. He now shares the inside stories, reflections, and rare personal photographs from his earliest days in the 1940s to his self-taught guitar and fiddle playing high school days of the fifties through his rise to music stardom in the seventies, eighties and beyond. Charlie Daniels presents a life lesson for all of us regardless of profession: “Walk on stage with a positive attitude. Your troubles are your own and are not included in the ticket price. Some nights you have more to give than others, but put it all out there every show. You're concerned with the people who showed up, not the ones who didn't. So give them a show and…Never look at the empty seats!”
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Turn Your Passion Into Profit : Zai Miztiq
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312170 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turn Your Passion Into Profit Author: Zai Miztiq Narrator: Zai Miztiq Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 6, 2017 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: This book is especially for the aspiring at heart , those who are in need of contagious energy and enthusiasm, those who really want to make a difference in their life and willing to follow the lead of change, those who are looking for a new and fresh perspective, those who are seeking an appreciation of the mystery and wonder of life and all creation. This book is for you. It is time now for you to react with immediacy to the immediate. It is now or never! We are never Forever. The question is, Where do I begin? How do I get there? I do not know what I want to do! This book will help you uncover your potential and share with you 5 Secret Formulas to Turn Your Passion to Profits. The formula of truth will take you on a journey of selfdiscovery, self-appreciation and on a journey to becoming the next selfmade millionaire. Did you know that every things being have the freedom to experience the joy and the drama of life. What is this life without drama? What is this life without defamation if we intentionally refuse to take action. Living life to the fullest has always been my number one top priority. Zai Miztiq
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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Greg Shaw, Satya Nadella
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Author: Greg Shaw, Satya Nadella Narrator: Shridhar Solanki, Satya Nadella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Foreword by Bill Gates Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to action for leaders everywhere. Hit Refresh is about individual change, about the transformation happening inside of Microsoft and the technology that will soon impact all of our lives—the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced: artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It’s about how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform ''hit refresh'' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. At its core, it’s about us humans and how our one unique quality—empathy—will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will disrupt the status quo as never before. Satya Nadella explores a fascinating childhood before immigrating to the U.S. and how he learned to lead along the way. He then shares his meditations as sitting CEO—one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He tells the inside story of how a company rediscovered its soul—transforming everything from culture to their fiercely competitive landscape and industry partnerships. Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of technology and by exploring the potential impact to society and delivering call to action for world leaders. ''Ideas excite me,'' Nadella explains. ''Empathy grounds and centers me.'' Hit Refresh is a reflection, meditations, and series of recommendations presented as algorithms from a principled, deliberative leader searching for improvement—for himself, for a storied company, and for society.
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[Russian] - Never Give Up [Russian Edition]: The Story of AliExpress by John Grisham
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Never Give Up [Russian Edition]: The Story of AliExpress Author: John Grisham Narrator: Maxim Kireev Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: July 14, 2017 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Secrets of success and wealth from Jack Ma - a man named by Forbes as the most influential businessman in Asia! Jack Ma's small Internet company, which provides small enterprises the opportunity to sell their goods and services, since its start in 1999 has turned into a large company, with value exceeding $231 billion! The Alibaba group includes Alibaba.com, Yahoo! China, Alibaba Pictures, and even payment system Alipay. A billionaire, a well-known philanthropist, and one of the 30 most powerful people in the world, Jack Ma behaves in a reserved and modest manner in public. He is a person who has created a real revolution in Internet commerce and has achieved incredible success.
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Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures by Jennifer Romolini
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures Author: Jennifer Romolini Narrator: Em Eldridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want—from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world. Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward twenty-seven-year-old misfit, navigated her way through New York media and became a boss—an editor-in-chief, an editorial director, and a vice president—all within little more than a decade. Her book, Weird In A World That’s Not, asserts that being outside-the-norm and achieving real, high-level success are not mutually exclusive, even if the perception of the business world often seems otherwise, even if it seems like only office-politicking extroverts are set up for reward. Part career memoir, part real-world guide, Weird in a World That’s Not offers relatable advice on how to achieve your dreams, even when the odds seem stacked against you. Romolini helps you face down your fears, find a career that’s right for you, and get and keep a job. She tackles practical issues and offers empathetic, clear-cut answers to important questions: - How do I navigate the awkwardness of networking? - How do I deal with intense office politics? - How do I leave my crappy job? - How do I learn how to be a boss not just a #boss? - And, most importantly: How do I do all this and stay true to who I really am? Authentic, funny, and moving, Weird in a World That’s Not will help you tap into your inner tenacity and find your path, no matter how offbeat you are.
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Audiobook: Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider by Brian Cruver
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider Author: Brian Cruver Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Brian Cruver first entered the 'Death Star,' Enron's office complex, in March 2001. He was twenty-nine years old, an eager MBA ready to cash in as a new hire with one of America's most highly valued companies. But, from his first day—when his new boss warned him, 'there was a mix-up in the hiring process,' but that it was 'no big deal...just think of it like you're adopted'—to his last, when he and his colleagues were given thirty minutes to leave the building, Cruver found himself enmeshed in a business cult that each day grew only more bizarre.With dark humor and page-turning momentum, Cruver lays out firsthand: the giddy group-think nurtured by Enron's leadership, whose incessant cheerleading for the company's stock price rendered many Enronians unable to believe that they were routinely being spoon-fed lies; the 'rank and yank' peer review process that fostered horse-trading among managers over which employees would be given poor evaluations; the traders who made dubious deals to ensure their own lucrative bonuses; and the sinister designs and funding of Enron's fraudulent off-the-books partnerships. As Cruver probes the sleazy escapades that Enron executives milked for personal gain, he introduces us, up close and personal, to such storied figures as Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, along with other important Enron personalities like Rebecca Mark; Lou Pai; Thomas White, George W. Bush's Secretary of the Army; Joe Sutton; the 'Mr. Blue,' a disillusioned Enron executive; and Cruver's trading floor neighbor, a machine he christened 'Sherman the Shredder'—who was always working overtime.Cruver's day-by-day chronicle, which includes a running stock ticker to show the trajectory of Enron's collapse, is instantly reminiscent of such bestsellers as Liar's Poker and Barbarians at the Gate. Told in a fresh, empathetic voice, Anatomy of Greed is brimming with grist for political pundits and comic relief for victims of corporate collateral damage. It is also the personal story of a young executive, a Houston native, whose dream job and dream company crashed around him in an avalanche of lies and greed. From the wreckage, this newly hardened veteran of the corporate wars has written a cautionary tale that our leaders must heed—or imperil us all to future disasters.
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way (Written by Ryan White)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way Author: Ryan White Narrator: Gibson Frazier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A candid, compelling, and rollicking portrait of the legendary pirate captain of Margaritaville—Jimmy Buffett. In Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, acclaimed music critic Ryan White has crafted the definitive account of Buffett’s rise from singing songs for beer to his becoming a tropical icon and inspiration behind the Margaritaville industrial complex, a vast network of merchandise, chain restaurants, resorts, and lifestyle products all inspired by his sunny but disillusioned hit “Margaritaville.” Filled with interviews from friends, musicians, Coral Reefer Band members, and business partners who were there, this book is a top-down joyride with plenty of side trips and meanderings from Mobile and Pascagoula to New Orleans, Key West, down into the islands aboard the Euphoria and the Euphoria II, and into the studios and onto the stages where the foundation of Buffett’s reputation was laid. Buffett wasn’t always the pied piper of beaches, bars, and laid-back living. Born on the Gulf Coast, the son of a son of a sailing ship captain, Buffett scuffed around New Orleans in the late sixties, flunked out of Nashville (and a marriage) in 1971, and found refuge among the artists, dopers, shrimpers, and genuine characters who’d collected at the end of the road in Key West. And it was there, in those waning outlaw days at the last American exit, where Buffett, like Hemingway before him, found his voice and eventually brought to life the song that would launch Parrot Head nation. And just where is Margaritaville? It’s wherever it’s five o’clock; it’s wherever there’s a breeze and salt in the air; and it’s wherever Buffett set his bare feet, smiled, and sang his songs.
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Applied Wisdom: Bad News Is Good News and Other Insights That Can Help Anyone Be a Better Manager by James C. Morgan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Applied Wisdom: Bad News Is Good News and Other Insights That Can Help Anyone Be a Better Manager Author: James C. Morgan Narrator: Dan Triandiflou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 20, 2017 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Success in business demands the effective management of people. James C. Morgan, who for nearly three decades led the high-tech powerhouse Applied Materials Inc. to both financial success and to the designation as one of America's most admired companies and best places to work, provides a simple, straightforward set of principles and tips that he says can help anyone be a better manager. Applied Materials is one of Silicon Valley's great success stories and it helped propel the digital revolution. But Jim Morgan's management techniques are not reserved for high-tech: Applied Wisdom shows how the same approaches, tools, and values work at any scale, from start-ups to middle management in a global corporation — and even to non-profits. Rich in stories and practical examples, it's a must-read for those seeking a timeless and proven management manual.
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How Not To Run A B&B by Bobby Hutchinson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/317741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Not To Run A B&B Author: Bobby Hutchinson Narrator: Randye Kaye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Bobby Hutchinson, a bestselling Harlequin writer, decides to open a B&B in Vancouver, B.C., when sales of romance novels falter. Despite never having stayed in a B&B and knowing absolutely nothing about running one, she jumps right in. Strange people from nearby and halfway around the world arrive at her home with their stories and struggles, not to mention their baggage, psychological and otherwise. Each chapter is peppered with a humor, a little tragedy and many life lessons (but mostly humor). There are sure fire breakfast recipes guaranteed to turn out even if the cook is half asleep. In explaining why she opened a B&B, she says, 'I was far too old for prostitution, the only other job I could think of which might net enough to pay the mortgage.'
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Jack Ma: The Biography of a Self-Made Billionaire and CEO of Alibaba Group | My Ebook Publishing House
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jack Ma: The Biography of a Self-Made Billionaire and CEO of Alibaba Group Author: My Ebook Publishing House Narrator: Matt Montanez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 2.75 of Total 4 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of the Alibaba Group, a privately owned Internet-based e-commerce company in China whose sales are estimated to be bigger than its American competitors eBay and Amazon.com combined. This book unveils Jack Ma s thousand faces in real life from different angles, and it reveals a Jack Ma different from your imagination. How did Jack overcome his humble origins and early failures to achieve massive success with Alibaba? How did he outsmart rival entrepreneurs from China and Silicon Valley? Can Alibaba maintain its 80% market share? Jack Ma is a man who does not see failure as an option, not a final one anyway. Ma has been through more failure than success in his life, we just don't hear much about it because his success has been so big! Ma's education through failure more than traditional channels has shaped a man that is globally savvy, compassionate and fiercely passionate about entrepreneurship. He recently shared with Charlie Rose, 'I failed a key primary school test 2 times, I failed the middle school test 3 times, I failed the college entrance exam 2 times and when I graduated, I was rejected for most jobs I applied for out of college.' (Ma was one of 5 applicants to the police force and the only one to be rejected. Then there is the application as one of 24 applicants to be a KFC manager and also be rejected. 'I applied for Harvard ten times, got rejected ten times and I told myself that'Someday I should go teach there.' Even in the early success of Alibaba Ma was told by Silicon Valley venture capitalists that his business model was wholly unprofitable and he was sent back to China unfunded. In the face of all this adversity Ma did not give up, give in or blame, he just continued to try.
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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market (Written by Edward O. Thorp)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market Author: Edward O. Thorp Narrator: Edward O. Thorp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Accounting & Finance Publisher's Summary: The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack table. As a result he launched a gambling renaissance. His remarkable success—and mathematically unassailable method—caused such an uproar that casinos altered the rules of the game to thwart him and the legions he inspired. They barred him from their premises, even put his life in jeopardy. Nonetheless, gambling was forever changed. Thereafter, Thorp shifted his sights to “the biggest casino in the world”: Wall Street. Devising and then deploying mathematical formulas to beat the market, Thorp ushered in the era of quantitative finance we live in today. Along the way, the so-called godfather of the quants played bridge with Warren Buffett, crossed swords with a young Rudy Giuliani, detected the Bernie Madoff scheme, and, to beat the game of roulette, invented, with Claude Shannon, the world’s first wearable computer. Here, for the first time, Thorp tells the story of what he did, how he did it, his passions and motivations, and the curiosity that has always driven him to disregard conventional wisdom and devise game-changing solutions to seemingly insoluble problems. An intellectual thrill ride, replete with practical wisdom that can guide us all in uncertain financial waters, A Man for All Markets is an instant classic—a book that challenges its readers to think logically about a seemingly irrational world. Includes a PDF of appendices from the book. Advance praise for A Man for All Markets “An amazing book by a true icon . . . Edward O. Thorp launched revolutions in Vegas and on Wall Street by turning math into magic, and here he weaves his own life lessons into a page-turner as hot as a deck full of aces. Loved it!”—Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires “Whether you are an aspiring professional player, a casual gambler, or an occasional visitor to Las Vegas, you can feel the impact of Edward O. Thorp’s intellect on that desert city. In 1962, Thorp published the classic book Beat the Dealer. The text was based on Thorp’s original research that stemmed from his curiosity about the game of 21 and was billed as a how-to book for the layperson to beat the casinos at blackjack. Simply stated, it changed everything. A Man for All Markets chronicles Thorp’s personal journey in navigating the unexpected and sometimes dangerous obstacles that come along with challenging the status quo of a wealthy corporate adversary.”—Nicholas G. Colon, professional advantage gambler and managing director, Alea Consulting Group “What a CV! Figure out how to win at blackjack using card counting? Check. Build the world’s first wearable computer? Check. Find the formula for valuing financial options but use it to make money rather than win a Nobel Prize? Check. This book is in part the gripping story of how one man’s genius and dedication has solved so many problems in diverse fields. But more important, it’s a fascinating insight into the thought processes of someone with little interest in fame, who has mostly stayed under the radar, yet who has followed his inquisitive mind wherever it has led him, and reaped the resulting rewards. There is nothing more important than knowing how to think clearly. Read this book and learn from a master.”—Paul Wilmott, founder, Wilmott magazine
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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family Author: Ron Chernow Narrator: Jonathan Reese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 35 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for anti-Semitism, and their sense of patriotism became increasingly dangerous in a Germany that had declared Jews the enemy. Ron Chernow's hugely fascinating history is a group portrait of a clan whose members were renowned for their brilliance, culture, and personal energy yet tragically vulnerable to the dark and irrational currents of the twentieth century.
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A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Truck Full of Money Author: Tracy Kidder Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: “A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola. Tracy Kidder, the “master of the nonfiction narrative” (The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim’s journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Relating to the Internet as if it’s an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming “a Pied Piper” of geeks. His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. Early on, one colleague observes: “Someday this boy’s going to get hit by a truck full of money, and I’m going to be standing beside him.” Yet when English does indeed make a fortune, when the travel website Kayak is sold for almost two billion dollars—the first thing he thinks about is how to give the money away: “What else would you do with it?” The second thing he thinks is, What’s next? With the power of a consummate storyteller, Tracy Kidder casts a fresh, critical, and often humorous eye on the way new ideas and new money are reshaping our culture and the world. A Truck Full of Money is a mesmerizing portrait of an irresistibly endearing man who is indefatigable, original, and as unpredictable as America itself. Praise for A Truck Full of Money “Kidder’s prose glides with a figure skater’s ease, but without the glam. His is a seemingly artless art, like John McPhee’s, that conceals itself in sentences that are necessary, economical, and unpretentious.”—The Boston Globe “Kidder’s portrayal of living with manic depression is as nuanced and intimate as a reader might ever expect to get. . . . You can’t help admiring Mr. English and cheering for him.”—The New York Times
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An Entrepreneur's Impact: A Memoir of Success by David Ewen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Entrepreneur's Impact: A Memoir of Success Author: David Ewen Narrator: David Ewen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 54 minutes Release date: July 14, 2016 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: David K. Ewen, M.Ed. is an author, speaker, and talk show host on media topics related to digital multimedia technology, entrepreneurial studies, marketing, publicity, and business adventurism. He is the former Executive Director of the New England Publishers Association which was sold and re-founded as the Independent Publishers of New England. David toured the seven states of New York and New England with his 'Professor Lecture Series' for 11 years from 2004 to 2015. Since 1998, David has been a radio talk show host, TV producer, filmmaker, and publicity event manager. This branch out to other media formats has made him a subject matter expert on digital multimedia technology. As a touring professor, David K. Ewen, M.Ed. has lectured on a variety of media topics related to digital multimedia technology, entrepreneurial studies, marketing, publicity, and business adventurism. This memoir is a matter of record and a testimony showing that hard work and perseverance driven by passion results in good things. It also includes an understanding that a faith in our God and His Will is incorporated into successful elements of people's lives. David Ewen did not know this in the early stages of his entrepreneurial career, but after nearly a quarter of a century of experience, this has been proven to be evident. This is a discussion of David Ewen’s entrepreneurial experience that will shed light on what truly defines success in business without having to become wealthy. The purpose is to show that wealth does not define success. The best way to describe success is when you enjoy what you are doing and are good at it. Every entrepreneur has a parent or a mentor who always says to them I want you to be happy. That is what David’s parents said to him and that's what his pastors say to him. David Ewen says that he is happy.
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Play It Forward: From Gymboree to the Yoga Mat and Beyond by Joan Barnes
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Play It Forward: From Gymboree to the Yoga Mat and Beyond Author: Joan Barnes Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Play It Forward details the remarkable journey of Joan Barnes, founder and former CEO of Gymboree, and how she learned to align her inner life with outward success. Forty years ago, Joan Barnes founded a play center in a church basement with $3,000. Determined to enable women to achieve personal and entrepreneurial success, Barnes led Gymboree to become an innovative leader in a new industry: activity-based early childhood development. The company eventually became a global billion-dollar brand. But this dramatic entrepreneurial memoir is also a cautionary tale and redemption story. When GymboreeÕs IPO became a phenomenal success story, Barnes was nowhere near Wall Street. She had left the company because of an eating disorder that threatened to destroy her and everything she built. Barnes overcame the disorder, charting a path that replaced demons with an enduring sense of worth and hope. She eventually resumed her business career on healthier terms with a line of yoga studios in an inspiring example of how women can triumph through reinvention. Published to coincide with GymboreeÕs 40th anniversary, Play It Forward offers readers a deeply honest perspective of the challenges of business building and seeking a work-life balance in tune with personal values.
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iCompete: How My Extraordinary Strategy for Winning Can Be Yours by John T. Hewitt
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: iCompete: How My Extraordinary Strategy for Winning Can Be Yours Author: John T. Hewitt Narrator: Qarie Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: John Hewitt's no-nonsense personal story will knock you out of your comfort zone and show you how to win in any business you choose. Hewitt has been called annoying, challenging and brilliant—with a fanatical desire to improve and out-give everyone he meets. He competes to win!
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Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two -- Jim Koch
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two Author: Jim Koch Narrator: Jim Koch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER and named a 2016 Best Book of the Year by Inc., Business Insider, Forbes, and Amazon Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career. In 1984, it looked like an unwinnable David and Goliath struggle: one guy against the mammoth American beer industry. When others scoffed at Jim Koch’s plan to leave his consulting job and start a brewery that would challenge American palates, he chose a nineteenth-century family recipe and launched Samuel Adams. Now one of America’s leading craft breweries, Samuel Adams has redefined the way Americans think about beer and helped spur a craft beer revolution. In Quench Your Own Thirst, Koch offers unprecedented insights into the whirlwind ride from scrappy start-up to thriving public company. His innovative business model and refreshingly frank stories offer counterintuitive lessons that you can apply to business and to life. Koch covers everything from finding your own Yoda to his theory on how a piece of string can teach you the most important lesson you’ll ever learn about business. He also has surprising advice on sales, marketing, hiring, and company culture. Koch’s anecdotes, quirky musings, and bits of wisdom go far beyond brewing. A fun, engaging guide for building a career or launching a successful business based on your passions, Quench Your Own Thirst is the key to the ultimate dream: being successful while doing what you love.
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Fierce Optimism: Seven Secrets for Playing Nice and Winning Big by Leeza Gibbons
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259414 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Optimism: Seven Secrets for Playing Nice and Winning Big Author: Leeza Gibbons Narrator: Leeza Gibbons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: April 12, 2016 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Attitude can be sexy— a practical and inspirational guide for using kindness and positivity as a winning strategy from Celebrity Apprentice champion, Hollywood veteran, and New York Times bestselling author Leeza Gibbons. We live in a winner-take-all world, in which only the toughest thrive. On the surface, from the living room to the boardroom, it’s certainly no place for nice. Civility and kindness are often the price of admission, and empowering communication is checked at the door. Leeza Gibbons is a culture changer who doesn’t “mess with mean.” She has fiercely redefined optimism, and used positive communication as an empowerment strategy to win with class. She refuses to to sacrifice kindness as she has succeeded in getting ahead. Working for decades in an intense, often merciless industry that rewards novelty, ruthlessness, and the next big thing she has applied smart principles and excelled through savviness—without having to sell her soul or fake it. But redefining nice does not mean being a pushover. As the winning contestant on the hit show Celebrity Apprentice, the former host of Entertainment Tonight relied on her fresh and authentic “no drama” mentality and smart strategies to outmaneuver the other contestants without disempowering them. Throughout the competition, Leeza kept her cool and, most importantly, remained true to herself and her values. In this book, she reveals the secrets of her years of success and bares the stories and vulnerable moments that led to where she is today. Her success is proof that optimism works. You can play it your way and still win. In Fierce Optimism Leeza combines stories from her own life and tales of other pioneering business leaders with core principles that others can apply to take them to the next level of success: • Engage optimism and kindness as your competitive edge • See success unshared as failure • Empower the team, and you win • Pay it forward by mentoring others • Be transparently you Filled with down-to-earth advice and empowering stories, Fierce Optimism makes clear that with kindness, authenticity, and smart teamwork, you can be nice—and win.
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Listen to Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design by Barry Katz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design Author: Barry Katz Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: California’s Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies and boutique studios; research laboratories and academic design programs. Together they form the interconnected network that is Silicon Valley. Apple products are famously “Designed in California,” but, as Barry Katz shows in this first-ever, extensively illustrated history, the role of design in Silicon Valley began decades before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak dreamed up Apple in a garage. Offering a thoroughly original view of the subject, Katz tells how design helped transform Silicon Valley into the most powerful engine of innovation in the world. From Hewlett-Packard and Ampex in the 1950s to Google and Facebook today, design has provided the bridge between research and development, art and engineering, technical performance and human behavior. Katz traces the origins of all of the leading consultancies—including IDEO, frog, and Lunar—and shows the process by which some of the world’s most influential companies came to place design at the center of their business strategies. At the same time, universities, foundations, and even governments have learned to apply “design thinking” to their missions. Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader—including Douglas Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Don Norman—Katz reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley’s ecosystem of innovation.
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Rick Tetzeli, Brent Schlender
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Author: Rick Tetzeli, Brent Schlender Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history. Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and family alike. Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: How did a young man so reckless and arrogant that he was exiled from the company he founded become the most effective visionary business leader of our time, ultimately transforming the daily life of billions of people? Drawing on incredible and sometimes exclusive access, Schlender and Tetzeli tell a different story of a real human being who wrestled with his failings and learned to maximize his strengths over time. Their rich, compelling narrative is filled with stories never told before from the people who knew Jobs best, including his family, former inner circle executives, and top people at Apple, Pixar and Disney, most notably Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Eddy Cue, Ed Catmull, John Lasseter, Robert Iger and many others. In addition, Schlender knew Jobs personally for 25 years and draws upon his many interviews with him, on and off the record, in writing the book. He and Tetzeli humanize the man and explain, rather than simply describe, his behavior. Along the way, the book provides rich context about the technology revolution we've all lived through, and the ways in which Jobs changed our world. A rich and revealing account, Becoming Steve Jobs shows us how one of the most colorful and compelling figures of our times was able to combine his unchanging, relentless passion with an evolution in management style to create one of the most valuable and beloved companies on the planet.
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The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game by Mary Pilon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game Author: Mary Pilon Narrator: Chris Sorensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 17, 2015 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily-and richly-ever after. That story, however, is not exactly true. Ralph Anspach, a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game decades later, unearthed the real story, which traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord's Game more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly. Her game-underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today-was embraced by a constellation of left-wingers from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression, including members of Franklin Roosevelt's famed Brain Trust. A fascinating social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly's real-life winners and losers.
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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! by Nicholas Carlson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226140 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! Author: Nicholas Carlson Narrator: Kiff VandenHeuvel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: A page-turning narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38. When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo's campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair wet and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posed questions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in the room and, behind it, a question: Was Mayer actually going to be able to do this thing? Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! is the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Marissa Mayer's controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an Internet icon. In August 2011 hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb took a long look at Yahoo and decided to go to war with its management and board of directors. Loeb then bought a 5% stake and began a shareholder activist campaign that would cost the jobs of three CEOs before he finally settled on Google's golden girl Mayer to unlock the value lurking in the company. As Mayer began to remake Yahoo from a content company to a tech company, an internal civil war erupted. In author Nicholas Carlson's capable hands, this riveting book captures Mayer's rise and Yahoo's missteps as a dramatic illustration of what it takes to grab the brass ring in Silicon Valley. And it reveals whether it is possible for a big lumbering tech company to stay relevant in today's rapidly changing business landscape.
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy (Authored by Charles R. Morris)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225821 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Author: Charles R. Morris Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings these men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and verve, they built an industrial behemoth—and a country of middle-class consumers. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.
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Chinese Rules: Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons from the Front Lines in China by Tim Clissold
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chinese Rules: Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons from the Front Lines in China Author: Tim Clissold Narrator: Stephen Critchlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 18, 2014 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: From the author of the international bestseller Mr. China comes another rollicking ride through the slick mega-cities and industrial backwaters of twenty-first-century China—part adventure story, part erudite myth-buster, and part practical rule book to help Westerners win in China. China's role as struggling underdog is now firmly a thing of the past. The world has tilted eastward in its orbit even as the West seems mired in self-doubt. Through living and working in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold has uncovered stealth methods Westerners can use to straighten out complicated situations in China and achieve their own objectives. Revealing the hidden logic that governs the Chinese business and political landscape, Clissold puts China's cultural, political, and military history into context and explains the mind-set that drives Chinese political and business leaders—a resource that has been sorely lacking in most books about doing business in China. Here, with sharp observations and a deep appreciation for China's rich past, Clissold presents five rules anyone can use to deal effectively with modern Chinese counterparts. These include understanding that: - China has its own set of rules that provide a unique pathway to success; - the quest for stability overrides all others; - in China, one should never attack directly; - in solving problems, stick to practicalities and avoid arguments over theory; - and knowing yourself and knowing the "other" will help you survive a hundred battles. Combining exuberant storytelling, sly humor, and counterintuitive insights, Chinese Rules traces Clissold's latest adventures, providing an object lesson in the contradictions between reality and conventional belief that continue to make China a fascinating, perplexing, and irresistible destination for Westerners.
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You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires : Randall Lane
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires Author: Randall Lane Narrator: Walter Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The ultimate insider’s look at the newest titans of tech, from the editorial team at Forbes Silicon Valley’s new billionaires are an unconventional breed, turning ideas into money at a rate never before seen in human history. Their ascension proves a turning point in how great fortunes are made and how technology disseminates. Among these golden boys are: Elon Musk, billionaire bachelor and founder of Paypal, electric carmaker Tesla, and private space company SpaceX; Evan Spiegel, 23-year old founder of Snapchat, who recently turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook; and Alex Karp, the eccentric philosopher with almost no tech background who turned Palantir into a data-mining champion. Over the last three years, Forbes has published indepth profiles of this new batch of billionaires, including the founders of Spotify, Dropbox, Tumblr, and Twitter. Now, in a compilation introduced and updated by Forbes editor Randall Lane, fans and critics alike will get a comprehensive look at who these super-entrepreneurs are and what they say about their own success and their plans for the future.
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How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Google Works Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg Narrator: Jonathan Rosenberg, Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious. Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. How Google Works is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted "smart creatives." Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time. In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works explains how to do just that.
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The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success (By Andy McNab, Kevin Dutton)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success Author: Andy McNab, Kevin Dutton Narrator: Kevin Dutton, Andy McNab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 31, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: If you are bored and unfulfilled by dry and overly worthy self-help manuals, then this is the book for you! Read this and take a very different look at yourself! Former SAS hero Andy McNab and eminent psychologist Professor Kevin Dutton are unlikely partners. As Oxford academic and bestselling author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Kevin Dutton has plenty of experience of psychopaths, but he’d never met anyone quite like Andy McNab, decorated war hero and special forces warrior. And although they took very different paths on their roads through life, their personal stories are remarkably similar. Together they decided to explore the subject of the psychopathic condition using a unique combination of McNab’s personal experiences of 20 years in the army and Dutton’s ability to analyse them. In their words, McNab pulls the trigger, Dutton explains why the gun goes bang! This book sets out to answer two main questions: What is a GOOD PSYCHOPATH? And how can you use the positive attributes of that psychology to be the ‘best that you can be’ In order to do so, they have created a Psychopath Manifesto, an alternative set of rules for life, which begins by asking ‘what do you really want from life’ and ‘what does success look like to you’? It then offers a candid and penetrating insight into those questions viewed using Dutton’s expertise through the prism of Andy McNab’s wild and various career. It aims to provide an unusual and entertaining roadmap to self-fulfillment whether in your personal life, your business life or your social life.
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town Author: Beth Macy Narrator: Kristin Kalbli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2014 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.
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Anita Roddick - The Mind of a Leader Legends : Anita Roddick
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anita Roddick - The Mind of a Leader Legends Author: Anita Roddick Narrator: Anita Roddick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Experience a first-hand interview with the legendary Dame Anita Roddick, Founder of ’The Body Shop’, human rights activist and environmental campaigner. Dame Anita Roddick is an example of an inspirational modern female leader and entrepreneur that was able to think outside the box, walk the talk and achieve tremendous corporate success while upholding humane values. Throughout her career, her personal and corporate reputation followed her actions. The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products, was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries. The Mind of a Leader Legends is an outstanding training and development tool offering practical hands-on advice in regards to both individual and organizational success. A fascinating journey to the inside of successful modern organizations and leadership minds.
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Enjoy Philip Kotler from Philip Kotler
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Philip Kotler Author: Philip Kotler Narrator: Philip Kotler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Experience a first-hand interview with the legendary Philip Kotler, American marketing author, consultant and professor; currently the S. C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Kotler is the author of more than 55 marketing books. He was the first person to receive the "Leader in Marketing Thought" voted on by the academic members of the American Marketing Association. The first recipient of the William L. Wilkie “Marketing for a Better World” Award from the American Marketing Association and the first recipient of the Sheth Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to Marketing Scholarship and Practice. In 2005 The Financial Times surveyed 1,000 executives in 25 countries on the Most Influential Business Writers/Management Gurus and Philip Kotler ranked fourth after Peter Drucker, Bill Gates, and Jack Welch. The modern business topics discussed in each chapter of The Mind of a Leader Legends are closely related to the issues raised in Niccolò Machiavelli's controversial strategic masterpiece “The Prince”. The Mind of a Leader Legends is an outstanding training and development tool offering practical hands-on advice in regards to both individual and organizational success. A fascinating journey to the inside of successful modern organizations and leadership minds.
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Larry Flynt - The Mind of a Leader Legends by Larry Flynt
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Larry Flynt - The Mind of a Leader Legends Author: Larry Flynt Narrator: Larry Flynt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 17, 2014 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Experience a first-hand interview with the legendary Larry Flynt, American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications. Larry Flynt is an example of an innovative and controversial modern leader and entrepreneur. His organization LFP mainly produces sexually graphic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him as the number one on the "50 Powerful People in Porn". Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 assassination attempt by Joseph Paul Franklin. The modern business topics discussed in each chapter of The Mind of a Leader Legends are closely related to the issues raised in Niccolò Machiavelli's controversial strategic masterpiece “The Prince”. The Mind of a Leader Legends is an outstanding training and development tool offering practical hands-on advice in regards to both individual and organizational success. A fascinating journey to the inside of successful modern organizations and leadership minds.
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Mads Øvlisen - The Mind of a Leader Legends by Mads Øvlisen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mads Øvlisen - The Mind of a Leader Legends Author: Mads Øvlisen Narrator: Mads Øvlisen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 17, 2014 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Experience a first-hand interview with the legendary Mads Øvlisen, Chairman of LEGO and fmr. CEO and Chairman of Novo Nordisk and The Royal Danish Theatre. The modern business topics discussed in each chapter of The Mind of a Leader Legends are closely related to the issues raised in Niccolò Machiavelli's controversial strategic masterpiece “The Prince”. The Mind of a Leader Legends is an outstanding training and development tool offering practical hands-on advice in regards to both individual and organizational success. A fascinating journey to the inside of successful modern organizations and leadership minds.
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Pat Boone - The Mind of a Leader Legends by Pat Boone
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pat Boone - The Mind of a Leader Legends Author: Pat Boone Narrator: Pat Boone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 17, 2014 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: Experience a first-hand interview with the legendary Pat Boone, American singer, actor, and writer. Pat Boone was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top 40 hits and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood movies. According to Billboard, Boone was the second biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley. As an author, Boone had a No. 1 bestseller in the 1950s. He continues to perform, and speak as a motivational speaker, a television personality, and a conservative political commentator. The modern business topics discussed in each chapter of The Mind of a Leader Legends are closely related to the issues raised in Niccolò Machiavelli's controversial strategic masterpiece “The Prince”. The Mind of a Leader Legends is an outstanding training and development tool offering practical hands-on advice in regards to both individual and organizational success. A fascinating journey to the inside of successful modern organizations and leadership minds.
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