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Title: Charging Ahead: GM, Mary Barra, and the Reinvention of an American Icon

Author: David Welch

Narrator: Tee Quillin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Release date: September 20, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Barra’s quest to move GM to a manufacturer of electric cars has captured the attention of automobile aficionados, green-business advocates, and leaders of all types who have to admire Mary’s toughness in moving forward despite the overwhelming obstacles in her path. A decade ago, no one would have guessed that GM would be the company poised to lead America into the future. At a time when business book readers seem endlessly fascinated by soaring tech giants like Amazon and Netflix, and ill-fated startups like WeWork and Theranos, why is it important to put the spotlight back on 112-year-old GM? Because Charlie Wilson’s quip from 1952 is still true: What’s good for GM is still good for America, and vice versa. America needs to transition to a new era of clean energy and environmentally sustainable transportation. We also need to adapt to a world with far fewer assembly-line jobs, but far more skilled jobs for people who can design, build, and operate robots and other high-tech machines. GM’s attempt to lead those transitions is as important as it is dramatic. Equally compelling is the story of GM’s CEO, Mary Barra, who against all odds took the reins at GM in 2014. Since that time, she has attempted to reinvent a century-old company and equip it for the biggest change in transportation since the internal combustion engine replaced the horse. In the process, she has been ripping out GM traditions by the roots—and taking flak from all sides. Her plan is to make GM—the company famed for the gas-burning Corvette, hulking Cadillac Escalade, and carbon-spewing Silverado pickup—purely electric and clean by 2035.   She may not be as wealthy as Jeff Bezos, as brash as Elon Musk, or as powerful as Mark Zuckerberg, but Mary Barra is just as important as any of them. And as one of the most powerful female executives in the world, she is overdue for an in-depth look at her forward-thinking vision, her approach to leadership, and her accomplishments against the odds.

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Title: Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

Author: Mark Bergen

Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are uploaded to the site, a technical feat unmatched in the history of computing. YouTube invented the attention economy we all live in today, forever changing how people are entertained, informed, and paid online. Everyone knows YouTube. And yet virtually no one knows how it works. Like, Comment, Subscribe is the first book to reveal the riveting, behind-the-scenes account of YouTube’s technology and business, detailing how it helped Google, its parent company, achieve unimaginable power, a narrative told through the people who run YouTube and the famous stars born on its stage. It’s the story of a revolution in media and an industry run amok, how a devotion to a simple idea—let everyone broadcast online and make money doing so—unleashed an outrage and addiction machine that spun out of the company’s control and forever changed the world. Mark Bergen, a top technology reporter at Bloomberg, might know Google better than any other reporter in Silicon Valley, having broken numerous stories about its successes and scandals. As compelling as the very platform it investigates, Like, Comment, Subscribe is a thrilling, character-driven story of technological and creative ingenuity and the hubris that undermined it.

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Title: Watch and Learn: How I Turned Hollywood Upside Down with Netflix, Redbox, and MoviePass—Lessons in Disruption

Author: Mitch Lowe

Narrator: Mitch Lowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Get an inside perspective on the entertainment distribution revolution from an executive who lived it with Netflix, Redbox, and MoviePass, and who continues to consult, speak, and share his unique understanding of how to disrupt the status quo and adapt to what the customer wants. When Warner Brothers announced they'd be streaming all their new 2021 theatrical releases simultaneously on HBO Max, it sent shock waves through the entertainment industry. But it was also an inevitable decision, and one soon to be copied by the other major studios scrambling to keep up with just how radically the way we watch movies has changed over the past two decades. Mitch Lowe has been at the forefront of that revolution, helping to shape a world where you can watch whatever movie, wherever and whenever you want. Lowe was one of the founding executives at Netflix; served as president of Redbox, the DVD rental kiosks outside Walmart and supermarkets around the country; and as the CEO of MoviePass, the much-lauded monthly movie theater subscription that, even as it failed, changed the way movie theaters operate forever. Along the way, Lowe learned that genuine disruption doesn't always mean aggressive upheaval and overnight success. More often than not, true disruption is the result of perseverance, imagination, and a constantly evolving quest to understand what it is that customers really want. In Watch and Learn, Mitch Lowe will tell the inside story of the dramatic evolution of the entertainment business, from the days of early cable television, Beta, and VHS to a world where consumers have infinite choice and control of the movies they see. He'll also share personal stories from a wild ride that began with his dropping out of high school and living on the edge of conflict in an Israeli kibbutz, smuggling goods and money between Europe and the Middle East, and ultimately embracing Buddhism. Along the way readers will gain essential insights and lessons that extend far beyond the entertainment industry, rooted in Lowe's keen sense for seeing ahead of the curve and intuiting customer needs, and applicable to anyone who has ambitions to disrupt and succeed: from leading with love and imagination, to reinforcing the intrinsic power of gut instinct with data and testing, to the ultimate competitive advantage of getting closest to the customer, and the value of perseverance and tinkering. "Whether you're just starting out in business or already have a long track record of success, you'll find plenty to learn from a man who has seen it all, done most of it, and met everyone. You'll see . . . there's nobody else like Mitch." —from the Foreword by Marc Randolph, Co-founder and First CEO of Netflix, and author of That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

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Title: Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career

Author: Jason Feifer

Narrator: Jason Feifer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

“Build for Tomorrow will change the way you think so you can overcome any obstacle and reach your full potential.”—Jim Kwik, New York Times bestselling author of Limitless The moments of greatest change can also be the moments of greatest opportunity. Adapt more quickly and use the power of change to your advantage with this guide from the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of the Build for Tomorrow podcast.   We experience change in four phases. The first is panic. Then we adapt. Then we find a new normal. And then, finally, we reach the phase we could not have imagined in the beginning, the moment when we realize that we wouldn’t go back. Build for Tomorrow is designed to accelerate that process—to help you lessen your panic, adapt faster, define the new normal, and thrive going forward. And it arrives as we all, in some way, have felt a shift in our lives. The pandemic forced a moment of collective change, and we are still being forced to make new plans and adjustments to our lives, families, and careers. Many of us will never go back, continuing to work from home, demanding higher wages, or starting new businesses. To help people along this journey, Entrepreneur magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer offers stories, lessons, and concrete exercises from the most potent sources of change in our world. He speaks to the world’s most successful changemakers—from global celebrities like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Maria Sharapova to innovative CEOs and Main Street heroes—to learn how they decide what to protect, what to discard, and how to move forward without fear. He also draws lessons from history, looking at how massive changes across time can help us better understand the opportunities of today. For example, he finds guidance for our post-pandemic realities inside the power shifts that occurred after the Bubonic Plague, and he reveals how the history of innovations like the elevator and even the teddy bear can teach anyone to be more forward-thinking. We cannot anticipate tomorrow’s needs, but it shouldn’t take a crisis to push us forward. This book will show you how to make change on your own terms.

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Title: We Don't Need Permission: How black business can change our world

Author: Eric Collins

Narrator: Eric Collins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful guide to successful, transformative entrepreneurship for the under-represented from Eric Collins, host of the award-winning Channel 4 reality business show The Money Maker. At a time when half of Black households in the UK live in persistent poverty - over twice as many as their white counterparts - We Don't Need Permission argues that investing in Black and under-represented entrepreneurs in order to create successful businesses is the surest, fastest socio-economic game-changer there is. Durable empowerment - from education to health outcomes - is key to solving the multiple problems that result from systemic racism and sexism. And it is the best way to close the inequality gaps that have hampered and continue to hinder Black people and all women too. To address this problem head on, Eric Collins co-founded venture capital firm Impact X Capital to invest in under-represented entrepreneurs in the UK and Europe. In We Don't Need Permission, Collins identifies ten key principles of successful entrepreneurship, and reveals how it's possible to change a system that has helped some, while holding others back. The book not only aims to inspire and motivate under-represented people to take their future and economic destiny into their own hands, but will demand of current business leaders and organizations that they do business better. It's time to stop waiting for someone else to give permission, Collins tells us, and start boldly making the world we want to see. 'Eric Collins is one of the most powerful business people in Britain.' The Times © Eric Collins 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid

Author: Katherine Blunt

Narrator: Nan Mcnamara

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance) A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart—unraveling a long history of deadly failures in which Pacific Gas and Electric endangered millions of Northern Californians, through criminal neglect of its infrastructure. As PG&E prioritized profits and politics, power lines went unchecked—until a rusted hook purchased for 56 cents in 1921 split in two, sparking the deadliest wildfire in California history. Beginning with PG&E’s public reckoning after the Paradise fire, Blunt chronicles the evolution of PG&E’s shareholder base, from innovators who built some of California's first long-distance power lines to aggressive investors keen on reaping dividends. Following key players through pivotal decisions and legal battles, California Burning reveals the forces that shaped the plight of PG&E: deregulation and market-gaming led by Enron Corp., an unyielding push for renewable energy, and a swift increase in wildfire risk throughout the West, while regulators and lawmakers pushed their own agendas. California Burning is a deeply reported, character-driven narrative, the story of a disaster expanding into a much bigger exploration of accountability. It’s an American tragedy that serves as a cautionary tale for utilities across the nation—especially as climate change makes aging infrastructure more vulnerable, with potentially fatal consequences.

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Title: [Spanish] - ¡Valores!

Author: Ken Blanchard, Michael O´connor

Narrator: José Gabriel Hernández

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Release date: August 29, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

'Dirige tu vida y la empresa con base en ¡VALORES!' describe una nueva medida de éxito organizacional, gracias a la cual propietarios, accionistas, empleados y clientes por igual ganan en función de su compromiso con un propósito común y un conjunto de valores que se aplican a todos para lograr llegar a la lista de los '500 Afortunados'. En este audiolibro los autores te brindan: -Un plan de juego claro y práctico que comunica y alinea los procesos de la organización en todos los niveles y en todas las áreas, con un conjunto definido y funcional de valores. -Proporcionan una metodología clara para definir e implementar dichos valores para lograr objetivos organizacionales, grupales, de equipo e individuales. -Abordan el vacío y el desafío inherente al proceso de convertirse en uno de los pocos 'afortunados' en el mundo empresarial actual. -Remodelan drásticamente una nueva generación de organizaciones, propietarios, gerentes y empleados. -El secreto de cómo te puedes convertir en uno de los '500 Afortunados'. Este audiolibro está narrado en español latino - Ken Blanchard es un autor, conferencista y consultor empresarial de renombre mundial. 'Dirige tu vida y tu empresa con base en ¡Valores!' encarna toda su filosofía de liderazgo y gestión. Como conferencista, Blanchard ha recibido el mayor reconocimiento posible: el codiciado premio Golden Gavel y el premio a la Excelencia de la Asociación Nacional de Oradores. Michael O´Connor es fundador del Centro de Administración con base en Valores y creador del proceso 'Dirige tu vida y la empresa con base en ¡Valores!', que es la culminación de más de veinticinco años de investigación. Su experiencia en las áreas de comportamiento personal, grupal y organizacional es muy amplia.

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Title: Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis

Author: Beth Macy

Narrator: Beth Macy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Release date: August 16, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick (inspiration for the Peabody Award-winning Hulu limited series) and Factory Man. Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. As pending court battles against opioid makers, distributors, and retailers drag on, addiction rates have soared to record-breaking levels during the COVID pandemic, illustrating the critical need for leadership, urgency, and change. Meanwhile, there is scant consensus between law enforcement and medical leaders, nor an understanding of how to truly scale the programs that are out there, working at the ragged edge of capacity and actually saving lives. Distilling this massive, unprecedented national health crisis down to its character-driven emotional core as only she can, Beth Macy takes us into the country’s hardest hit places to witness the devastating personal costs that one-third of America's families are now being forced to shoulder. Here we meet the ordinary people fighting for the least of us with the fewest resources, from harm reductionists risking arrest to bring lifesaving care to the homeless and addicted to the activists and bereaved families pushing to hold Purdue and the Sackler family accountable. These heroes come from all walks of life; what they have in common is an up-close and personal understanding of addiction that refuses to stigmatize—and therefore abandon—people who use drugs, as big pharma execs and many politicians are all too ready to do.  Like the treatment innovators she profiles, Beth Macy meets the opioid crisis where it is—not where we think it should be or wish it was. Bearing witness with clear eyes, intrepid curiosity, and unfailing empathy, she brings us the crucial next installment in the story of the defining disaster of our era, one that touches every single one of us, whether directly or indirectly. A complex story of public health, big pharma, dark money, politics, race, and class that is by turns harrowing and heartening, infuriating and inspiring, Raising Lazarus is a must-read for all Americans.

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Title: [Spanish] - Clics contra la humanidad: Libertad y resistencia en la era de la distracción tecnológica

Author: James Williams, álex Gibert (translator)

Narrator: Juan Magraner

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

'Un clásico instantáneo de la ética de la tecnología.'—TechCrunch 'Apasionado, provocador, personal y divertido. Partiendo de la filosofía, los videojuegos, la literatura clásica y la ciencia contemporánea, Williams nos ayuda a entender cómo está cambiando la experiencia humana y cómo podemos recuperar el control de nuestras vidas.'—David Runciman Vivimos pegados a la pantalla, sometidos a los cantos de sirena de la tecnología digital. En la era del exceso informativo, la atención ha pasado a ser un bien escaso y codiciado por las grandes empresas tecnológicas. ¿Cómo afecta este fenómeno a nuestra autonomía y nuestra libertad? ¿Cómo podemos oponer resistencia a la colonización de nuestra mente? Con un pie en la antigua Grecia y el otro en Silicon Valley, Clics contra la humanidadarroja luz sobre uno de los problemas más urgentes de nuestro tiempo. James Williams, que fue estratega de Google antes de estudiar filosofía en Oxford, afirma que los sistemas inteligentes de persuasión que condicionan nuestro pensamiento y nuestra conducta constituyen una grave amenaza para la libertad y la democracia. En vez de ayudarnos a alcanzar nuestras verdaderas metas vitales, las tecnologías digitales desvían y explotan nuestra atención, aprovechándose de nuestras vulnerabilidades psicológicas. Hace demasiado tiempo que minimizamos los trastornos resultantes, descartándolos como simples «distracciones» o molestias menores. Sin embargo, son mecanismos que socavan la voluntad humana, cuyos efectos pueden ser irreversibles si no actuamos a tiempo.

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Title: Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

Author: Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins

Narrator: Amy Mcfadden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Release date: July 12, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

'After listening to Amy McFadden's narration of this exposé, salmon croquettes may never taste the same. McFadden uses a podcaster- style of storytelling, friendly and righteous, to animate the history of farmed salmon's calculated rise to prominence.'- AudioFile A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told. A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on America’s dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different. In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way. Just as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.