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Title: The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

Author: Sarah Stodola

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its undervalued role in today’s world economy—as the industry approaches a climate reckoning. With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints, and the inevitable overdevelopment and decline that comes with a soaring demand for popular shorelines. The Last Resort weaves Stodola’s firsthand travel notes with her exacting journalism in an enthralling report on the past, present, and future of coastal travel. She takes us from Monte Carlo, where the pursuit of pleasure first became part of the beach resort experience, to a village in Fiji that was changed irrevocably by the opening of a single resort; from the overdevelopment that stripped Acapulco of its reputation for exclusivity to Miami Beach, where extreme measures are underway to prevent the barrier island from vanishing into the ocean. In the twenty-first century, beach travel has become central to our globalized world—its culture, economy, and interconnectedness. But with sea levels likely to rise at least 1.5 to 3 feet by the end of this century, beaches will become increasingly difficult to preserve, and many will disappear altogether. What will our last resort be when water begins to fill the lobbies? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back

Author: Maurice E. Stucke, Ariel Ezrachi

Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley’s genius combined with limited corporate regulation promised a new age of technological innovation in which entrepreneurs would create companies that would in turn fuel unprecedented job growth. Yet disruptive innovation has stagnated even as the five leading tech giants, which account for approximately 25 percent of the S&P 500’s market capitalization, are expanding to unimaginable scale and power. In How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke explain why this is happening and what we can do to reverse it. While many distrust the Big-Tech Barons, the prevailing belief is that innovation is thriving online. It isn’t. Rather than disruptive innovations that create significant value, we are getting technologies that primarily extract value and reduce well-being. Using vivid examples and relying on their work in the field, the authors explain how the leading tech companies design their sprawling ecosystems to extract more profits (while crushing any entrepreneur that poses a threat). As a result, we get less innovation that benefits us and more innovations that surpass the dreams of yesteryears’ autocracies. The Tech Barons’ technologies, which seek to decode our emotions and thoughts to better manipulate our behavior, are undermining political stability and democracy while fueling tribalism and hate. But it’s not hopeless. The authors reveal that sustained innovation scales with cities not companies, and that we, as a society, should profoundly alter our investment strategy and priorities to certain entrepreneurs (“Tech Pirates”) and cities’ infrastructure. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: Build The Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business if You're Not a Rich White Guy

Author: Kathryn Finney

Narrator: Kathryn Finney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Release date: June 23, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Build The Damn Thing is a battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has excluded. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up; from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks; arms readers with responses to investors who say, 'great pitch but I just don't do Black women'; and inspires them to overcome naysayers. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed by the 'Entitleds.' Don't wait for the system to let you in - break down the door and build your damn thing. © Kathryn Finney 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: Unlock: 5 Questions to Unleash Your Company's Hidden Power

Author: Matt Hulett

Narrator: Matt Hulett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Release date: June 21, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

You CAN change your business destiny. From a veteran technology executive comes an essential toolkit to reveal exactly where your company’s true value lies—and how to reap its rewards. Over his 30 years as an executive in the technology sector, Matt Hulett has become the go-to company fixer. From RealNetworks to Rosetta Stone to Expedia, he has steered start-ups and large companies into renewed areas for growth and driven more than $2 billion in value creation. Now, he shares five key questions that will uncover new insight into your business’ potential—without the need for a lengthy and costly strategic planning process. Through real-life examples, personal stories, and insights from thought leaders and CEOs, Hulett guides you through the steps of taking a deep dive into your company’s pivot potential. He shows you how to take stock of your business, from your company’s alignment to market trends and your supply chain position, to your value proposition for customers, to your ability to raise capital. Along the way, you’ll begin to identify where your true potential lies, and map out a plan to capitalize on it. With expert advice on assessing industry shifts, valuable insights on leading teams, and tips for raising money and pitching investors, Hulett shows you exactly where to look, and what you need to find, in order to map out a new future for you and your company.

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Title: Profit from the Source: Transforming Your Business by Putting Suppliers at the Core

Author: Daniel Weise, Alenka Triplat, Wolfgang Schnellbacher, Christian Schuh

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Release date: June 21, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Procurement can be your company's surprising secret weapon for winning in turbulent times. In most companies, procurement is an unglamorous, unloved part of the business. Sourcing and supplier management are strictly about costs, the thinking goes, and all that matters is playing hardball to get these as low as possible. No connection to innovation or strategy or creating positive value. Not so fast. As BCG thought leaders explain in Profit from the Source, procurement should be regarded in a new light because it has the potential to be a CEO’s secret weapon in these fast-moving, disruptive times. With vivid stories and in-depth case studies, they illustrate that no other business function offers the same holistic view of a company—from suppliers who provide the organization with raw materials and components through to consumers who buy the finished product. While it's true that a core task of procurement is to control costs, the authors show how it can help businesses generate phenomenal value in innovation, quality, sustainability, speed, and risk reduction. Drawing on BCG research and the authors' first-hand experience working with some of the world's leading companies, Profit from the Source provides proven strategies to drive new bottom-line, and top-line, growth for your company.

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Title: What to Ask: How to Learn What Customers Need but Don't Tell You

Author: Andrea Olson

Narrator: Rachel Perry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Release date: June 14, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Does capturing customer feedback feel like a pointless exercise? No matter the number of surveys, interviews, or studies conducted, we regularly fail to uncover those gems needed to make our organization stand out. It's no surprise given that 'expert' guidance states the obvious, like 'Ask open-ended questions,' 'Identify patterns,' or 'Extract insights.' What's needed is a way to discover what we're missing. Traditional customer feedback methods ignore two essential sources of insight: context and behavior. These reveal the why behind the what, eliminating the ambiguity of open-ended customer feedback—and this requires a different approach. In What to Ask, author Andrea Belk Olson, CEO of applied behavioral science consulting firm Pragmadik, and head of the University of Iowa JPEC startup incubator, delivers a unique, cognitive method for discovering hidden customer needs, converting them quickly into differentiators, and avoiding the pitfalls of traditional research. Olson also details how individuals and organizations can better tune into customer needs by sharpening their strategic focus, cultivating customer-focused behaviors, and challenging cognitive biases.

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Title: The Nature of the Game: Links Golf at Bandon Dunes and Far Beyond

Author: Stephen Goodwin, Mike Keiser

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Essential reading for every golfer from the sport’s most acclaimed course developer—a comprehensive, firsthand account of restoring the inherent satisfactions of this centuries-old game, from the beauty of natural courses to the joys of walking the course   “Mike Keiser is the best thing to happen to golf since the Big Bertha. He’s the guy who single-handedly saved us from the Fake 100-foot Waterfall Era. He gave us back nature, walking and buddy trips. This is a fascinating read on how in the world he did it.”—Rick Reilly, golf writer An avid golfer with a demanding career in the greeting card business, Mike Keiser found a new calling on the authentic links courses of Scotland and Ireland. Seized by the beauty of the landscape and the holes running through it, he determined this was how golf was meant to be: inclusive, not private; played on foot, not riding a cart; the courses natural, neither lavish nor contrived. Vowing to transplant this experience to the States, Keiser entered the golf business and, ignoring the advice of experts, built a true links course in Oregon. Bandon Dunes has redefined the game here and become a destination for golfers everywhere.   Those same convictions have now produced other top-ranked courses by Keiser—in Wisconsin, Nova Scotia, Tasmania, and elsewhere—whose magical allure demonstrates what the world’s most gifted golf course architects can accomplish by working on designs that hew to the natural landscape. Keiser’s further commitments—to the caddies, greens crews, and staff at his resorts; to the communities in which they’re located; and to deep environmental stewardship—enhance the singular appeal of these immensely popular courses.   At once an account of inventing a new, life-changing business, a guide to historic course design, and a paean to the sport that has recently experienced a surge of growth, The Nature of the Game is essential reading for every golfer. *Includes a downloadable PDF containing beautiful photographs and mementos from the printed book

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Title: The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy

Author: David Gelles

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized for growing GE into the most valuable company in the world. But Welch’s achievements didn’t stem from some greater intelligence or business prowess. Rather, they were the result of a sustained effort to push GE’s stock price ever higher, often at the expense of workers, consumers, and innovation. In this captivating, revelatory book, David Gelles argues that Welch single-handedly ushered in a new, cutthroat era of American capitalism that continues to this day. Gelles chronicles Welch’s campaign to vaporize hundreds of thousands of jobs in a bid to boost profits, eviscerating the country’s manufacturing base, and destabilizing the middle class. Welch’s obsession with downsizing—he eliminated 10% of employees every year—fundamentally altered GE and inspired generations of imitators who have employed his strategies at other companies around the globe. In his day, Welch was corporate America’s leading proponent of mergers and acquisitions, using deals to gobble up competitors and giving rise to an economy that is more concentrated and less dynamic. And Welch pioneered the dark arts of “financialization,” transforming GE from an admired industrial manufacturer into what was effectively an unregulated bank. The finance business was hugely profitable in the short term and helped Welch keep GE’s stock price ticking up. But ultimately, financialization undermined GE and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies. Gelles shows how Welch’s celebrated emphasis on increasing shareholder value by any means necessary (layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, acquisitions, and buybacks, to name but a few tactics) became the norm in American business generally. He demonstrates how that approach has led to the greatest socioeconomic inequality since the Great Depression and harmed many of the very companies that have embraced it. And he shows how a generation of Welch acolytes radically transformed companies like Boeing, Home Depot, Kraft Heinz, and more. Finally, Gelles chronicles the change that is now afoot in corporate America, highlighting companies and leaders who have abandoned Welchism and are proving that it is still possible to excel in the business world without destroying livelihoods, gutting communities, and spurning regulation.

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Title: [Spanish] - Moonshot Thinking: Transforma la innovación disruptiva en una oportunidad

Author: Ivan Bofarull

Narrator: Juan Magraner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Release date: May 25, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

La disrupción es la nueva normalidad. Esto no debería convertirse en un dolor de cabeza ni en motivo de pánico para tu empresa, sino en el impulso necesario para emprender un apasionante viaje de transformación. 'Ivan Bofarull insiste en que el principal desafío de la disrupción no está en la tecnología, sino en nosotros mismos, en la cerrazón de nuestros modelos mentales a cuestionar radicalmente lo que hacemos. Este libro es una excelente recomendación para empezar a derribar esta barrera.'—Koldo Echebarría, director general de ESADE 'Comprender la complejidad y la diversidad de la innovación es primordial para el futuro de las organizaciones. En este libro, Ivan Bofarull lo hace de una manera mágica.'—Ferran Adrià, presidente de elBullifoundation 'Silicon Valley no es una geografía, sino una forma de pensar. La metodología y los hábitos que Bofarull presenta en este libro son una guía magnífica para que cada emprendedor, trabajador o directivo utilice esa forma de pensar en su día a día.'—Mar Hershenson, cofundadora y managing partner de Pear VC En este libro, Ivan Bofarull, Chief Innovation Officer de Esade, propone tres enseñanzas clave para lograrlo: - Adoptar una mentalidad verdaderamente emprendedora gracias al moonshot thinking, el modelo mental que antepone las mejoras exponenciales (10x) a las incrementales (+10%). - Ser un experto de la disrupción: entender qué significa realmente, qué señales emite, cómo podemos anticiparla, qué podemos aprender de los éxitos y fracasos de distintas empresas, etcétera. - Diseñar un modelo sistemático de innovación disruptiva para tu empresa, la moonshot innovation, que utiliza el moonshot thinking como catalizador y consta de tres fases: anticipación, lanzamiento y aterrizaje. - Tres enseñanzas clave con las que podrás anticiparte, desmarcarte de la competencia y liderar la transformación. 'En este libro encontrarás una síntesis del mundo que viene y obtendrás una extraordinaria capacidad de anticipación ante las siguientes olas de innovación disruptiva.'—Javier Solana, presidente de Esade Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (EsadeGeo) 'El mejor libro sobre innovación disruptiva que se ha escrito en nuestro país. Será una referencia ya no solo a nivel de innovación, si no de liderazgo directivo.'—Telmo Pérez, CIO de Acciona 'Iluminador y metódico. Ivan Bofarull logra despertar en cada persona y organización el potencial para transformar el mundo.'—Alexandra Mitjans, codirectora de Ashoka España 'Los emprendedores y las empresas que entiendan y apliquen los conceptos del moonshot thinking que este libro presenta obtendrán una ventaja determinante.'—Carlos Trenchs, managing partner de Aldea Ventures 'Ivan Bofarull ha logrado algo increíblemente complicado (e importante): sintetizar la energía transformadora que guía al emprendedor y compartirla para que todas las empresas puedan beneficiarse de ella.'—Isaac Castro, emprendedor tecnológico y cofundador de Emerge 'Al leer el libro de Ivan Bofarull, pensé que ahora, por fin, muchos de los aprendizajes del moonshot thinking estarán al alcance de todas las empresas.'—Tobias Duschl, exdirector de operaciones de Tesla Motors y de Relativity Space 'Ivan Bofarull combina de forma magistral elementos de inspiración con insights y acciones concretas para el viaje de una empresa hacia los tiempos exponenciales. Ha sido capaz de crear un must tanto para directivos como para emprendedores. Volverás a leerlo una y otra vez.'—Pascal Finette, presidente de Entrepreneurship y Open Innovation de Singularity University

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Title: The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change

Author: Francois Bonnici, Cynthia Rayner

Narrator: Zoleka Vundla

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Release date: May 10, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only be entrenching the status quo. Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions that no longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visions of 'systems change,' these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distill a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agency for people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.