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Title: Driving into the Future

Subtitle: How Tesla Motors and Elon Musk Did It - The Disruption of the Auto Industry

Author: Can Akdeniz

Narrator: Andrea Erickson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-15

Publisher: Can Akdeniz

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Tesla Motors is undeniably one of the most exciting, innovative, and in-the-moment companies in the automotive industry, but the company's reach will continue expanding much wider in the coming years. From its disruptive reputation to its forward-thinking leader, Elon Musk, Tesla Motors has the potential to change the world as we know it. The questions are: How have they done so much so quickly, and what is their secret to success? From business professionals looking for guidance to the everyday listener who wants a sneak preview of the future, this book highlights the intricate brilliance behind one of the most fascinating companies of the moment.

Members Reviews:

Just an Ad for Tesla Stock

You will learn nothing from this, except Tesla stock will go up and up, and Elon Musk was a child prodigy and now a successful genius and a great boss. I listened to this only because I just finished The Great Race and The Powerhouse (both about the future of EV cars). Certainly not worth a Credit! Was it worth the $2.75? HumNope. The narration is clear but way too peppy and too partial.

Tesla has a $25B market cap but is yet to show a profit. Maybe Tesla will be the next Google but this book will not help anyone decide.

pretty worthless...

Pretty worthless listen, just an Add for Tesla really, nothing about the Company foundation or rise, no how to etc. I should have been suspect when when a female was chosen to narrate, sounds like a TV commercial :-(

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Title: Convert Your Cozy Home into a Money-Making Factory

Subtitle: Tips on Starting Your Own Profitable Home Business

Author: Nancy Hall

Narrator: Anna Starr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-15

Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Achieving financial freedom is a goal on the list of many entrepreneurs with big dreams and it's completely doable with hard work, dedication, and tips from a book on how to make it all happen. This is something that also takes time and some experimentation with various niches until you find the right niche that works for you. There are many ways to work from home and obtain financial freedom you just have to find the one that works for you and this book will help you get started on the path to success.

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Title: Turbo Startups

Subtitle: Analysis of the 10 Most Successful Startups (The Rise of the Next Big Thing)

Author: Can Akdeniz

Narrator: David Golightly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-15

Publisher: Can Akdeniz

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Embarking on a business venture is often one of the most exciting, intimidating, and challenging decisions that a person can make. However, in our technologically advanced and mobile age, it has actually become easier than ever for startup companies to form, but that doesn't mean that all of them will find success. This short book highlights 10 recent startup successes in the business world and explores how they work differently, which clever strategies they employed, and what lessons they can teach you to implement in your own startup business. There's nothing wrong with taking a few words of wisdom from some of the fastest-growing players in the startup world!

Members Reviews:

Totally Misleading - Absolute Garbage

What disappointed you about Turbo Startups?

Turbo Startups is, basically, a very poorly written, poorly read ADVERTISEMENT for 10 "start-ups" you have most likely never heard of.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

I will be contacting audible.com to request a refund.

Any additional comments?

Save your money and, more importantly, don't encourage this kind of nonsense by paying for it.

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Title: A Collection of General Accounting for Decision Making Discussions

Author: Trevor Clinger

Narrator: Myla J. Gorham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-15

Publisher: Trevor Clinger

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Without accounting, managers wouldn't have any information to use as evidence of why they need to make certain spending or selling decisions. Accounting must be one of the most accurate jobs of the business, because all financial decisions are based off numbers. There is no general goal for this paper, but just to include random discussions about accounting terms, processes, and opinionated gestures towards accounting practices. This is a great reference guide for college classes because it contains over 13 jam-packed discussions.

Members Reviews:

ALL ACCOUNTANTS SHOULD READ THIS

What made the experience of listening to A Collection of General Accounting for Decision Making Discussions the most enjoyable?

I think it was enjoyable because it answered all the accounting questions I've ever had throughout my career.

Very helpful with my business studies

I appreciate this guide you have written for us business students. Accounting is one of the most difficult college subjects, but you have made it a lot more easier for me. Thank again for your examples!

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Title: The Agility Advantage

Subtitle: How to Identify and Act on Opportunities in a Fast-Changing World

Author: Amanda Setili

Narrator: Jennette Selig

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

How to win market leadership in a fast-changing world.

In the past, companies could pick a strategy and stick with it, maintaining a competitive edge for years. But today, companies surge ahead, fall behind, or even disappear in mere months. If you and your company are going to thrive for the long run, you need to continuously evolve, change, and stay a step ahead of your competition. The ability to see and capitalize on new opportunities is the cornerstone of agility. Successful technology-based firms like Google, Tesla, and Amazon have all mastered agility within their core business practices, but companies in any sector can - and must - learn to spot new opportunities and make the right choices about what to invest in, what to change, and what to abandon.

The Agility Advantage first shows how to identify those aspects of your business where agility is most crucial - where the business environment is changing fast - and which elements have the greatest impact on the customer's decision to buy. Amanda Setili then shows how to master the three components of agility: Market agility: Gain ideas from your most demanding and forward-thinking customers and from outside your industry. Engage, observe, and mix with customers to identify the opportunities created by their changing demands.

Decision agility: Anticipate the changes that may affect you and turn even troubling trends into opportunities. Design your strategy to maximize learning and to manage risk. Generate diverse alternatives and make fast, fact-based decisions about which to pursue.

Execution agility: Build new capabilities, shed what doesn't fit, and take the first steps in a new direction. Experiment, then reinforce and build on what works. Enlist and inspire your organization around a compelling purpose and grant employees the autonomy and resources to continuously adapt and adjust course.

Members Reviews:

Strategic. Universal, and Practical

The Agility Advantage is one of the best books I've read on the topic of strategy in some time. Three reasons come to mind: 1) It is truly strategic. 2) The principles are broadly applicable. 3) The book is practical. Let me take those in turn.

I consider it truly strategic because Setili recognizes that a strategy is dynamic, not static. In my days as a strategy consultant we left clients with one of two end products. The more common one was a strategic plan. The problem with this approach is that it doesn't properly recognize that the strategic environment is in a constant state of flux. Competitive actions change, new technologies enter the market, customer requirements change, the economy rises or falls, and so on. A strategic plan can be out of date soon after it is prepared. The other approach is what we referred to as a "roadmap". It had a beginning strategy along with a set of principles and milestones to guide future changes. The roadmap recognizes that markets are dynamic and cannot be anticipated. Setili does a remarkable job of describing strategy as a roadmap. She strongly advocates continuous improvement in a company's strategy that is constantly reevaluated and updated. Continuous updates that she advocates go far beyond the perfunctory updates of the status quo seen in most companies.

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Title: Catching Lightning in a Bottle

Subtitle: How Merrill Lynch Revolutionized the Financial World

Author: Winthrop H. Smith Jr.

Narrator: Allan Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

The fascinating story behind the company that revolutionized the financial world.

Catching Lightning in a Bottle traces the complete history of Merrill Lynch and the company's substantial impact on the world of finance, from the birth of the once-mighty company to its inauspicious end. Throughout its 94-year history, Merrill Lynch revolutionized finance by bringing Wall Street to Main Street, operating under a series of guidelines known as the Principles. These values allowed the company to gain the trust of small investors by putting the clients' interests first, driving a business trajectory that expanded capital markets and fueled the growth of the American post-war economy.

Written by the son of Merrill Lynch co-founder Winthrop H. Smith, this audiobook describes the creation and evolution of the company from Charlie Merrill's one-man shop in 1914 to its acquisition by Bank of America in 2008. Author Winthrop H. Smith Jr. spent 28 years at the company his father co-founded, bringing a unique perspective to bear in telling the story of the company that democratized the stock market and eventually fell from its lofty perch.

Revolutionary vision is rare, and enduring success is even more so. When a single organization demonstrates both of those characteristics, it is felt throughout the world. Discover the fascinating story behind Merrill Lynch and the men who built it from an insider's perspective in Catching Lightning in a Bottle.

Members Reviews:

A great lesson

No matter how large your business, if you forget you principals and the interests of your clients you will fail. What a shame Mother Merrill

Now serves as the example.

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Title: Lean Banking

Author: Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA

Narrator: Forris Day Jr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-16-14

Publisher: Ade World LLC

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In response to the recent economys woes, banks have placed a growing premium on reducing costs and improving operational efficiencies and many banks have turned to lean programs as a useful tool. Most of these banks will find themselves disappointed, however, because few lean initiatives, in our experience, deliver the expected results. The near and longer-term impact on costs proves to be far less than expected, and any gains in efficiency prove to be either temporary or too limited in scope to make a real difference. There is no fundamental, lasting change in the way the bank conducts its operations and hence little impact on long-term performance. The problem is not with lean itself, however. Indeed, we believe that lean has much to offer banks. The problem lies in the approach and implementation. Typically, banks go wrong in one of two ways. One, they apply lean too narrowly and from too limited a perspective. There is no cohesive, end-to-end view of the process itself or the alignment of all of its elements. Alternatively, the effort is driven solely from the top down and fails to engage and involve the key people who actually perform the critical tasks within the process. This leads to a lack of process ownership and accountability. The end result, in either case, is that the lean effort delivers only a fraction of its potential benefits.

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Title: Money

Subtitle: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy - and What We Can Do About It

Author: Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames

Narrator: Steve Forbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-14

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Digital

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Few topics are as misunderstood today as the subject of money. Since the U.S. abandoned a gold-linked dollar more than four decades ago, the worlds governments have slid into a dangerous ignorance of the fundamental monetary principles that guided the worlds most successful economies for centuries. Todays wrong-headed monetary policies are now setting the stage for a new global economic and social catastrophe that could rival the recent financial crisis and even the horrors of the 1930s. Coauthored by Steve Forbes, one of the worlds leading experts on finance, Money shows you why that doesnt need to happen - and how to prevent it.

After listening this entertaining and hugely well-informed audiobook, you will know more about money than most people in the highest government positions today. Money explains why a return to sound money is absolutely essential if the U.S. and other nations are ever to overcome todays problems. Stable money, Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames argue, is the only way to a true recovery and a stable and prosperous economy.

Todays system of fluctuating fiat money, in which governments manipulate the value of the dollar and other currencies, has been responsible for the biggest economic failures of recent decades, including the 2008 financial crisis, from whose effects we continue to suffer. The Obama/Bernanke/Yellen Federal Reserve and its unstable dollar policies are accelerating our course toward disaster, the authors show, in numerous convincing examples.

Critic Reviews:

"This is an important book well worth reading." (John A. Allison, President and CEO, Cato Institute, and author of the New York Times best-selling The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure)

"Steve Forbes understands money better than most heads of state do, and in this provocative book he shares his vast knowledge and gives us sensible and time-tested recommendations for stopping future financial meltdowns." (Lawrence Kudlow, CNBC Senior Contributor)

Forbes and Amess case can be persuasive, especially on stimulus and inflationary risk.(Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Vienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes?

Subtitle: A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics

Author: Mark Skousen

Narrator: Todd Gaddy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-14

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Two views of Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?

From the Chicago School:

"This tale is thorough, thoughtful, even-handed, and highly readable. All economists, of whatever school, will find it both instructive and entertaining." - Milton Friedman

From the Austrian School:

"In this upbeat tale of two schools, Skousen gives us a delightful blend of theory, history, and political science, and shows that there is much common ground and scope for development." - Roger W. Garrison

Members Reviews:

Disappointing

This was more an essay, than a book. It's obvious the author's purpose is to convey why The Austrian school is the correct model. This could have been have the pages and achieved the same end.

Fair

this is the most reasonable and complete comparison of these two schools I could have asked for.

Great juxtaposition and explanation

What disappointed you about Vienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes??

Nothing about the content of the book itself disappointed me, rather, it was the narration that could have been better. While Todd Gaddy's voice is pleasant and has a lot of vitality, he rushes through so quickly that he doesn't fully pronounce all of his words. At times, this is difficult to understand, and there were several occasions in which I needed to go back to hear something again. If one is not a native English speaker, one might have difficulty following the narration. This is certainly not a major flaw, and I would listen to other books narrated by Todd Gaddy since I now know what to expect.

Any additional comments?

I learned quite a lot from this book, and it answered the questions I had regarding the differences between the two schools of thought. Mark Skousen knows the subject extremely well and objectively shows topics in depth from each point of view.

I wouldn't recommend this as an introductory book to Laissez-faire economics; it is an intermediate-level book. Having a familiarity with subject-specific vocabulary is essential to understanding both the material and the narration.

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Title: CEO Guide to Doing Business in Asia

Subtitle: Thailand, Vietnam, and Philippines

Author: Ade Asefeso, MCIPS MBA

Narrator: Ayn Czubas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-14

Publisher: Ade World LLC

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Are you a CEO, consultant, or entrepreneur interested in entering or expanding your activity in Thailand, Vietnam, and Philippines' market?

Then this audiobook is for you!

The main objective of this audiobook is to provide you with basic knowledge about Thailand, Vietnam, and Philippines; an overview of their economy, business culture, potential opportunities, and an introduction to other relevant issues. Novice exporters, in particular, will find it a useful starting point.

Thailand is well-placed to offer a gateway to both the ASEAN and Asia-Pacific markets - particularly India and China- many of which offer great business potential; on the other hand Vietnam borders China to the north, Laos and Cambodia to the west and South China to the east. It has the third-largest population in South-East Asia, over half of which is below the age of 30; while Philippines boasts a literacy rate of 94.6 percent, among the highest in the region has a highly skilled and educated workforce.