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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters Author: Eric J. Johnson Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: A leader in decision-making research reveals how choices are designed—and why it’s so important to understand their inner workings Every time we make a choice, our minds go through an elaborate process most of us never even notice. We’re influenced by subtle aspects of the way the choice is presented that often make the difference between a good decision and a bad one. How do we overcome the common faults in our decision-making and enable better choices in any situation? The answer lies in more conscious and intentional decision design. Going well beyond the familiar concepts of nudges and defaults, The Elements of Choice offers a comprehensive, systematic guide to creating effective choice architectures, the environments in which we make decisions. The designers of decisions need to consider all the elements involved in presenting a choice: how many options to offer, how to present those options, how to account for our natural cognitive shortcuts, and much more. These levers are unappreciated and we’re often unaware of just how much they influence our reasoning every day. Eric J. Johnson is the lead researcher behind some of the most well-known and cited research on decision-making. He draws on his original studies and extensive work in business and public policy and synthesizes the latest research in the field to reveal how the structure of choices affects outcomes.             We are all choice architects, for ourselves and for others. Whether you’re helping students choose the right school, helping patients pick the best health insurance plan, or deciding how to invest for your own retirement, this book provides the tools you need to guide anyone to the decision that’s right for them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1% Better: Reaching My Full Potential and How You Can Too Author: Nik Nikic, Chris Nikic Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: What would life look like if you measured your success by improvements instead of victories? Nik Nikic shares the incredible story of his son Chris’s journey to become the first person with Down syndrome to ever complete an IRONMAN® triathlon, inspiring others to achieve their goals by getting 1 percent better every day. From the moment Chris Nikic was born, his parents knew he could achieve anything he set his mind to do. So when he became involved in triathlons with the Special Olympics, his dad, Nik, took on the role of coach and encouraged Chris to aim even higher. Together, they set their sights on making history—Chris becoming the first person with Down syndrome to complete an IRONMAN® triathlon. Written from Chris’s father’s perspective, Nik shares the 1% Better mindset that has helped Chris achieve many of his goals—and the underlying principles of the 1% Better system can help you pursue and achieve your dreams too! Through Chris and Nik’s story, learn the benefits of applying the model to your own life and discover how to: - Overcome the mental hurdles of pain - Stay motivated using three irrefutable laws of motivation - See failures as opportunities for improvement - Form a lifelong habit of success You may never be the best. But you can be better than your best when you stop imposing self-limitations and begin the journey to reach your goals—one confident step at a time. Publisher’s Note: 1% Better is written in Nik Nikic’s voice. Chris and his accomplishments are the focus of 1% Better, and Chris is a coauthor of the book as he was interviewed by his father and the writer. Accompanying figures and appendix are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive Author: Jonathan Fields Narrator: Jonathan Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Discover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive, fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it. We’re all born with a certain “imprint” for work that makes us come alive. This is your 'Sparketype®,' your DNA-level driver of work that lets you know, deep down, you’re doing what you’re here to do. Work that motivates you, fills you with purpose and, fully-expressed in a healthy way, becomes a main-line to meaning, flow, performance, and joy. Put another way, work that “sparks” you. Sparked draws upon years of research, experimentation, more than 25-million data-points generated by over half-a-million people, and hundreds of deep-dive conversations with luminaries from science to art to industry and wellbeing. Award-winning author, serial wellness-industry founder, and host of the top-ranked Good Life Project®, Jonathan Fields, and his team at Spark Endeavors, developed the Sparketype imprints and methodology that is the basis of this book. In this book, Fields and his team will help you: - Discover what sparks you, what drains you, where you stumble and come alive, so you can reclaim a sense of direction, control, and purpose; - Understand the “real” reasons certain experiences, jobs, and roles leave you empty and know how to make things better, without having to endure big disruptive changes; - Learn from real-world, relatable stories, case-studies, and data-driven insights; - Identify the action steps to begin immediately transforming the way you work and live. Sparked takes you deep into the world of the Sparketypes, revealing an entirely new depth of insights about what makes you come alive in work life, along with what empties you out and trips you up, so you can avoid those life-drains. You’ll discover tons of case studies, stories, and real-world applications, creating a comprehensive guide to help you discover what you are meant to do and how to get started.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sell Different!: All New Sales Differentiation Strategies to Outsmart, Outmaneuver, and Outsell the Competition Author: Lee B. Salz Narrator: Lee B. Salz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. Game-changing new strategies to outsmart, outmaneuver, and outsell your competition! Salespeople face fierce competition in their pursuit of winning deals. Differences in product features and functions get smaller by the minute and are not always meaningful to buyers. How do you stand out from the pack and not just land the account, but win deals at the prices you want? Lee B. Salz’s previous ground-breaking, bestselling book, Sales Differentiation, armed salespeople with strategies to differentiate both what they sell and how they sell it. Sell Different! provides a new component of Sales Differentiation strategy to help you outsmart, outmaneuver, and outsell the competition to win more deals at the prices you want. This book provides you with the tools you need to land new accounts and grow existing ones. The practical, proven strategies presented in Sell Different! include: - How to defeat your toughest competitor (hint: it’s not who you think it is) - An actionable 16-phase plan to reach and engage elusive prospects - Finding more of your best clients (it’s easier than you think) - Acquiring more referrals than you ever dreamed possible - Virtual selling and how to harness its potential - Neutralizing the fear of change that paralyzes buyers and kills deals - Structuring pilot programs that advance your deals - Identifying the critical person needed to win more deals at the prices you want - Solving closing problems and fixing the real issue limiting your success - Dissecting and resolving the most challenging sales objection—price! - What 99.999% of salespeople don’t do, but should - Expanding account relationships to explode revenue and lock out the competition - How to address a major flaw when comparing salespeople with professional athletes - And much, much more!   If you are a salesperson, executive, or business owner who desires to win more deals at the prices you want, then this book is for you.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor Author: Carey Nieuwhof Narrator: Carey Nieuwhof Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: “A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.”—ADAM GRANT   “Carey’s book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.”—SETH GODIN You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That’s the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar:   ● Slammed is normal. ● Distractions are everywhere.  ● Life gets reduced to going through the motions.   Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.   Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you.   At Your Best will help you ● replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity ● break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough ● clarify what matters most by restructuring your day ● master the art of saying no, without losing friends or influence ● discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems ● develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul Author: Brad Stulberg Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: “This book gets to the heart of the matter.” --Ryan Holiday, New York Times bestselling author of Stillness Is the Key and Ego Is the Enemy “This book taps into something that so many of us feel but can’t articulate.” --Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global   “Ambitious, far-reaching, and impactful.' --David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of Range and The Sports Gene From the bestselling author of Peak Performance comes a powerful antidote to heroic individualism and the ensuing epidemic of burnout. Achievement often comes at a cost. Angst, restlessness, frayed relationships, exhaustion, and even substance abuse can be the unwanted side effects of an obsession with outward performance. While the high of occasional wins can keep you going for a while, playing into the always-on, never enough hustle culture ultimately takes a serious toll.   In The Practice of Groundedness, bestselling author Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success. At the heart of this model is groundedness--a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain. To be grounded is to possess a firm and unwavering foundation, a resolute sense of self from which deep and enduring, not shallow and superficial, success can be found. Groundedness does not eliminate ambition and striving; rather, it situates these qualities and channels them in more meaningful ways.   Interweaving case studies, modern science, and time-honored lessons from ancient wisdom traditions such as Buddhism, Stoicism, and Taoism, Stulberg teaches readers how to cultivate the habits and practices of a more grounded life. Readers will learn:     •  Why patience is the key to getting where you want to go faster--in work and life--and how to develop it, pushing back against the culture’s misguided obsession with speed and “hacks.”   •  How to utilize the lens of the wise observer in order to overcome delusion and resistance to clearly see and accept where you are—which is the key to more effectively getting where you want to go   •  Why embracing vulnerability is the key to genuine strength and confidence   •  The critical importance of “deep community,” or cultivating a sense of belonging and connection to people, places, and causes. Provocative and practical, The Practice of Groundedness is the necessary corrective to the frenetic pace and endemic burnout resulting from contemporary definitions of success. It offers a new—and better—way. * This audiobook includes a downloadble PDF of recommended reading from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business Author: Tiziana Casciaro, Julie Battilana Narrator: Samantha Desz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 31, 2021 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Discover how to gain (and keep) power in any situation with this “remarkably insightful read on what power is, how it’s gained, and how it can be used for good” (Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again). Power is one of the most misunderstood—and therefore vilified—concepts in our society. Many assume power is predetermined by personality or wealth, or that it’s gained by strong-arming others. You might even write it off as “dirty” and want nothing to do with it. But by staying away from power, you give it up to someone else who may not have your best interest in mind. We must understand and use our power to have impact, and pioneering researchers Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro provide the playbook for doing so in Power, for All. Battilana and Casciaro offer a “necessary” (Tarana Burke, creator of the #MeToo movement and bestselling author of Unbound) and “invaluable” (David Gergen, CNN political analyst) vision of power: the ability to influence someone else’s behavior. This influence is derived from having access to valued resources, and once you understand what those are, you can take action to improve life for yourself and others. With proven strategies of agitating, innovating, and orchestrating change, Power, for All shows how those with less power can challenge established structures to make them more balanced. The authors teach you how to power-map your workplace to find who can create real change at work, plan for and cause sustaining shifts, and understand the two basic needs all human beings share—safety and self-esteem—and the resources people seek to satisfy those needs: money and status, but also autonomy, achievement, affiliation, and mortality. They explore how these dynamics play out through vivid storytelling: as Donatella Versace successfully leads her brother’s company after his death—despite having a title, but little influence; what social movements can learn from youth climate activists and how they can go farther; and how a manager can gain the trust of skeptical employees and improve the workplace. Power, for All demystifies the essential mechanisms for acquiring and using power for all people.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too Author: David Sumpter Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For going viral? For deciding how long to stick with your current job, Netflix series, or even relationship? This book is all about the equations that make our world go round. Ten of them, in fact. They are integral to everything from investment banking to betting companies and social media giants. And they can help you to increase your chance of success, guard against financial loss, live more healthfully, and see through scaremongering. They are known by only the privileged few - until now. With wit and clarity, mathematician David Sumpter shows that it isn't the technical details that make these formulas so successful. It is the way they allow mathematicians to view problems from a different angle - a way of seeing the world that anyone can learn. Empowering and illuminating, The Ten Equations shows how math really can change your life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times Author: Donald T. Phillips Narrator: Je Nie Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Read the detailed and absorbing chronicle of Martin Luther King's leadership during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past—featuring a foreword by Dr. Bernice King.   Hailed as America’s greatest civil rights advocate, Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired the people of the United States to demand equality, regardless of the color of their skin. And he did it peacefully. Time may have passed, but in today’s world, his teachings are needed more than ever. Drawing from the actions of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, each section identifies the key leadership skills he displayed, such as: -  Practice what you preach - Take direct action, without waiting for other agencies to act - Give credit where credit is due - Laws only declare rights, they do not deliver them - And much more...  With Martin Luther King, Jr.’s wisdom and unwavering dedication to making the opposition listen, you can become a peaceful leader and advocate for the way the world should look, no matter who stands in your way.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Work, Your Way: Reinvent Yourself, Create the Life You Want and Thrive as a Consultant Author: Lisa Hufford Narrator: Lisa Hufford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. Build your successful consultant life doing the work you love, on your terms utilizing the practical tips, inspiration, and straightforward advice from recognized new world of work visionary and thought leader, Lisa Hufford. Professionals want freedom and flexibility in the work they do, and they have more options than ever before to create the work & life they want on their own terms. They want to make work fit their lives—not the other way around. Lisa’s promise is that consulting is a viable alternative to traditional full-time employment, and you have everything you need to make it happen. Equal parts actionable and inspirational, this is the definitive guide for beginner and experienced consultants. Lisa teaches you how to successfully step off the corporate career ladder and transition to doing the work you love, on your terms. Grounded in Lisa’s experience trading a high-powered corporate career for the freedom and flexibility of consulting, building an award-winning consultancy, and helping thousands of professionals make the same switch, this book enables professionals to redesign their lives and create opportunity in the future of work. This book will enable you to: - Understand the current future of work landscape, what consulting is, why people choose it, and assess whether it’s for you - Build your foundation by defining your personal brand, identifying the work you love to do and your ideal client, and learning the art of the rate - Create your flywheel by landing a contract, setting yourself up for success, delivering excellence, and taking time to reflect and refresh. People who follow these practical, simple steps will learn how to discover their personal brand, identify the work they love to do right now, explore how to do more of that work, and ultimately, create a life with meaning and purpose. Reflection questions and recommended reading are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.