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Title: Think Like Zuck

Subtitle: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Author: Ekaterina Walter

Narrator: Donna Postel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-14

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. Facebook accounts for one of every seven minutes spent online. More than one billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook.

Theres no doubt about it. Mark Zuckerbergs creation has changed the world. Literally. Facebook has singlehandedly revolutionized the way more than one-seventh of the worlds population communicates, engages, and consumes information.

If you run a business or plan to start one, youre probably asking yourself the same question organizational leaders worldwide are asking: What did Mark Zuckerberg do right?

At long last, the answer is here. Think Like Zuck examines the five principles behind Facebooks meteoric rise, presented in actionable lessons anyone can apply - in any organization, in any industry. Written by social business trailblazer Ekaterina Walter, this groundbreaking audiobook reveals the five Ps of Facebooks success: Passion, Purpose, People, Product, Partnerships.

Members Reviews:

Ego-Inflated Biography

What disappointed you about Think Like Zuck?

The book reminds me of the recordings in the Bioshock games when they talk so highly of Andrew Ryan, thus painting him as a god. If the book was objective, it would have made it a 5-star book. Objectivity would make the book much more credible. Making Zuck into a god just makes it harder to see through the BS.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Think Like Zuck?

The book discusses numerous goings-on in the life of Zuck and how he thinks about business. While there are a lot of valid points in the book, it's difficult to know the level of importance that the author places on each point as the book reads too much like a glorification of Zuck. It's performed the same way.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Donna Postel?

I'd cast someone who doesn't make it sound so scripted.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Think Like Zuck?

Don't cut anything. I want to hear everything in the book where it relates to the storyline.

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Title: The Practical Drucker

Subtitle: Applying the Wisdom of the World's Greatest Management Thinker

Author: William A. Cohen Ph.D.

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-13

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Business gurus come and go. But not Peter Drucker, who remains a towering figure, widely regarded to be the father of modern management and the worlds most influential business thinker.

Druckers uncanny ability to codify management practices and predict future trends has ensured his lasting impact. His dozens of books include the landmark Concept of the Corporation and The Effective Executive, which remains a best seller decades after its first appearance. Drucker aimed high to illuminate the big picture of organizations, their people, and the global forces affecting them. As such, his focus on the what to do eclipsed the how to do it that managers and executives crave. Yet crystalline insights into how were always there.

Scattered throughout his massive oeuvre are solutions to recurring problems and answers to perplexing questions. The Practical Drucker culls 40 of the most important how-to lessons, each interpreted for todays business challenges and illustrated with fascinating stories and examples.

As a student, scholar, and longtime friend of Peter Drucker, author William A. Cohen is uniquely positioned to illuminate these timeless teachings of the management master, which resonate today with as much force and relevance as when they were first articulated.

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Title: Management: A Very Short Introduction

Author: John Hendry

Narrator: Craig Jessen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

John Hendry, a leading management scholar, looks at the nature and practice of management in this Very Short Introduction. Tracing the development of management over the last century, he looks not only at what managers do, but also provides insight into modern management theory. He considers the influences of national and organizational culture, the relationship between power and domination, managing in different cultures, approaches to management, and the accountability of managers and morality. This is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in, or studying, business and management.

Members Reviews:

excellent overview

Knowing nothing about the discipline of management prior to reading this book, I now have a much better grasp of it. And I have a much better idea of which texts, studies, and authors to follow up on if I want to learn more. Thank you Oxford U Press and Professor Hendry!

Not Recommended

I had to read this book for one of my classes, and it was the worst book I have ever read. It is supposed to be a short introduction, but sits at about 120 pages, which is not short to me. Each chapter is extremely dull and boring, and could have been summed up in a few paragraphs. Not only was the content bad, but the book is really small, and therefore, harder to hold than it could have been.

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Title: Finding the Next Steve Jobs

Subtitle: How to Find, Hire, Keep, and Nurture Creative Talent

Author: Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone

Narrator: Joseph C. Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari, the restaurant chain Chuck E. Cheese's, and two dozen other companies. He also launched Steve Jobs' career, along with those of many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business. In his eagerly awaited first book, Bushnell explains how to find, hire, and nurture the people who could turn your company into the next Atari or the next Apple.

The business world is changing faster than ever, and every day your company faces new complications and difficulties. The only way to resolve these issues is to have a staff of wildly creative people who live as much in the future as the present, who thrive on being different, and whose ideas will guarantee that your company will prosper when other companies fail.

Members Reviews:

Great book for creative!

I have often wondered what needed to keep my creativity alive. This book is an excellent primer. for creating a company where creative types would love to work.

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Title: The Manager and the Monk

Subtitle: A Discourse on Prayer, Profit, and Principles

Author: Jochen Zeitz, Anselm Grun

Narrator: Mark Whitten

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

An exploration of spirituality, values, and sustainability in business

When Jochen Zeitz and Anselm Grn first met onstage as "the manager and the monk", Zeitz was CEO and Chairman of Puma, and Father Grün was a monk serving as cellarer, the business manager of his Benedictine abbey. They came together to discuss their shared goal: what it means to lead and manage responsibly and sustainably in today's shifting world.

Available for the first time in English, The Manager and the Monk features these topical essays and dialogues, drawing on sources as diverse as the Bible, contemporary religious thought, psychological theory, and the innovative "environmental profit & loss account" Zeitz developed for Puma. Together, Zeitz and Grün explore their intersecting definitions of prosperity, values, sustainability, among a host of other topics.

The Manager and the Monk is a thoughtful, impassioned plea for how to manage responsibly in the modern world.

Members Reviews:

Hard to follow

Any additional comments?

The book has good substance but hard to follow, at least in audio form. It is hard to tell who's side you are listening to. I found it mono-tone and both voices very similar.

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Title: Extreme Trust

Subtitle: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage

Author: Don Peppers, Martha Rogers, PhD

Narrator: Don Peppers, Martha Rogers, PhD

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-13

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

If you accidentally try to order the same song twice from iTunes, youll be warned that you already own it. Not because it would be illegal or unethical for Apple to profit from your forgetfulness. Theres a clear business reason: the leaders of iTunes realize theres no better way to make you trust them than to be totally honest when you least expect it.

In the age of the Web, smartphones, and social networks, every action an organization takes can be exposed and critiqued in real time. Nothing is local or secret anymore. If you treat one customer unfairly, produce one shoddy product, or try to gouge one price, the whole world may find out in hours, if not minutes. The users of Twitter, Yelp, Epinions, and similar outlets show little mercy for bad behavior. The bar for trustworthiness is higher than ever and continuing to rise.

Don Peppers and Martha Rogers argue that the only sane response to these rising levels of transparency is to protect the interests of customers proactively, before they have a chance to spread negative buzz - even if that requires spending extra money in the short run to preserve your reputation and customer relationships in the long run.

The payoff of generating extreme trust will be worth it. The companies that Peppers and Rogers call "trustable" remember what they learn from each interaction, and they use these insights to create better and better customer experiences. They focus on winning the long-term battle for trust and loyalty, even if the dollar value of that trust is hard to quantify.

With a wealth of fascinating research as well as practical applications, this book will show you how to earn - and keep - the extreme trust of everyone your company interacts with.

Critic Reviews:

"Trust is the new black. We all rely on those we trust, and thats particularly true when it comes to business. Extreme Trust talks about how trust is increasingly critical in business, and how trustworthiness, or its absence, has become increasingly visible. It discusses what trustworthy behavior means in business, and how to change corporate culture to make it more genuinely trustable." (Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.com)

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Title: Breaking Out

Subtitle: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas

Author: John Butman

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-13

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In Breaking Out, idea developer and adviser John Butman shows how the methods of todays most popular idea entrepreneurs - including dog psychologist Cesar Millan, French lifestyle guru Mireille Guiliano (French Women Dont Get Fat), TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie, and many others - can help you take an idea public and build influence for it. It isnt easy. Butman argues that the rise of the ideaplex (TED, Twitter, NPR, YouTube, online learning, and all the rest) has caused such an explosion in the creation and sharing of ideas that it has become much easier to go public - yet much harder to gain influence. But it can be done.

Based on his own experience in advising content experts worldwide, Butman shows how the idea entrepreneur breaks out - by combining personal narrative with rich content, creating many forms of expression (from books to live events), developing real-world practices, and creating respiration around the idea such that other people can breathe it in and make it their own. The resulting idea platform can reach many different audience groups and continue to build influence for many years and even decades.

If you have an idea and want to make a difference in your organization, build a change movement in your community, or improve the world in some way - this audiobook will get you started on the journey to idea entrepreneurship.

Critic Reviews:

"In Breaking Out, John Butman gives the marketplace of ideas the human form it deserves. He vividly explores the life history of ideas, the people who espouse them, and the world into which they are flung. (Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, Professor, Harvard University; coauthor, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives)

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Title: Turning Setbacks into Opportunity

Subtitle: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book

Author: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Narrator: Julie Eickhoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-13

Publisher: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Setbacks happen to everyone. Surviving them is hard. Surviving failure is even harder. But every successful person has had at least three failures before finding that success. So how do you turn failure to success? The answers lie in this book-length excerpt from the massive Freelancer's Survival Guide by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who will show you how to turn those inevitable setbacks into opportunity.

Members Reviews:

Great book about Business REALITY!

We need more business books just like this! The author has a very engaging style / voice that gives her very personal, warts & all, stories great resonance. I only wish it were longer... KUDOS!

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Title: One Minute Team Building

Author: Justin Sachs

Narrator: Christian de Looper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-12

Publisher: Motivational Press, Inc

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

One-Minute Team Building features "THE" excerpts written by the foremost experts in corporate, non-profit, and community team building. It includes simple tools, strategies, and principles leaders can use to most effectively build their teams to improve productivity, maximize results, and enhance overall success.

The systems provided to you in One-Minute Team building provide you everything you need to know to build your teams with the social proof and real-world examples of its implementation so you have a one-stop-shop for peak performance team development. It is a must listen for anyone looking to empower, unite, and motivate the members of their team.

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Title: The Best Damn Management Book Ever

Subtitle: 9 Keys to Creating Self-Motivated High Achievers

Author: Warren Greshes

Narrator: Warren Greshes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-12

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

If you want your staff to perform at their best, then you need to become the best damn manager ever, someone who can ignite your employees' passion for their jobs, enabling them to execute their duties at a high level whether you're there or not. The Best Damn Management Book Ever teaches managers, executives, and business owners how to do just that.

From the acclaimed author of The Best Damn Sales Book Ever, this concise trove of management wisdom outlines the nine keys to creating self-motivated high achievers. The Best Damn Management Book Ever uses entertaining real-life stories to explain practical, easy-to-implement strategies to hone your leadership skills. Learn to communicate more effectively with the people who report to you, gain insight, and determine each employee's "Hot Buttons" and motivators. Get detailed steps for creating a culture of excellence, including:

Critic Reviews:

"Warren's rapid fire presentations have always provided simple, easy-to-implement ideas that make a real impact and produce results. With his new audiobook, we have a ready reference tool to go back to and get refreshed on those concepts." (Bob Crostarosa, Senior Vice President, Marketing, TBC Retail Group)

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