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Title: Take on the Street

Subtitle: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know

Author: Arthur Levitt, Paula Dwyer

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-04

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 57 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Arthur Levitt was the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. For years, he attempted to regulate accounting firms, corporate reporting, and brokerages, but the political cost was so high that he had to resign. Now, as a free agent, he goes to bat for the common investor and tells it like it is. He tells us how investors today are being fed lies and distortions. Wall Street's obsession with short-term performance has resulted in a culture of gamesmanship among corporate managers, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers. Levitt details the conflicts of interest, the tradition of mutual manipulation between companies and analysts, and the shading of information to fudge statistics and control investor behavior. And then he offers sound advice on how to avoid these perils.

©2002 Arthur Levitt; (P)2002 Books on Tape, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Should be mandatory...for anyone with a dollar invested in the stock market." (Publishers Weekly)

"Lively and illuminating....Blends backroom revelations of a first-rate political memoir with the no-nonsense advice of a basic investment primer." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Excellent eye opener

This book is a must hear/read for business leaders, investors, accountants, business students and particularly board directors of any company. The author has carefully written this book to target the widest audience possible...it can be boring for finance professionals in some parts, but the value in most of it is intellectually stimulating even for the pros.

Someone Looking out for the Individual Investor

Mr. Levitt presents a compelling behind-the-scenes account of his efforts to advocate for the Individual Investor. The fact that he was often forced to compromise this goal, due to politcial pressure, is shocking.

Interesting Info but very slow and dry

I can't recommend this book although the information is interesting if your interested in investing and financial markets but the tone and pace make it hard to listen to.

Expected more...

I expected more from this book. It tell you about all those things you hear in the media all the time and you can do nothing about anyway (with very few exceptions).

Good info but narration is distracting

The content is very good, when I can get past the narration. I'm sure the narrator had the best intentions but, to me, it was non-fiction with "an attitude."

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Title: Harvard Business Review, February 2004

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-04

Publisher: Harvard Business School

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

This month's issue of the Harvard Business Review looks into "Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets." The cover story describes a system to determine whether or not your company has the intangibles to execute your business strategy. In a special HBR List, we detail the top twenty "Breakthrough Ideas of 2004." The third article deals with the I.T. dilemma, and how you can straighten it out. Then, learn how to have an honest conversation about your business strategy, and why it's important. You'll also hear five executive summaries of this month's remaining articles.

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©2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved; (P)2004 Audible Inc.

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Title: Harvard Business Review, January 2004

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-04

Publisher: Harvard Business School

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

This month's issue of the Harvard Business Review looks "Inside the Mind of the Leader." Warren Bennis describes "The Seven Ages of the Leader." Psychoanalyst, author and educator Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries talks about "Putting Leaders on the Couch." Barbara Kellerman explores what we can learn when we separate leadership skills and morals. Lynn Offerman offers advice on dealing with toxic employees and eighteen business leaders, scholars, and other experts describe how to cultivate and manage emotional intelligence.

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Title: Harvard Business Review, December 2003

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-03

Publisher: Harvard Business School

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In the December 2003 issue, there are four featured articles. The first article explores the irrelevance of complex customer satisfaction surveys. As it turns out, what customers tell their friends is what matters most. The second article investigates the biases that unconscious biases that result in unethical business decisions. The third article focuses on the growth outside the core market. The final article explains how to merge succession planning and leadership development into a talent pipeline. You'll also hear five executive summaries of this month's remaining articles.

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Title: Harvard Business Review, June 2003

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-03

Publisher: Harvard Business School

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

The cover story of Harvard Business Review for June 2003 looks at how turnarounds that result in companies coming back from a decline almost always are very difficult on staff and managers alike. Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers leadership strategies that will help guide a company through the difficult path back to success. Also in this issue: a look at how commitments to employees, suppliers, customers, and investors may be holding you back from taking tomorrow's challenges, why keeping your B-players happy is important, writing tips from screenwriting coach Robert McKee, and more.

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Title: Marketplace Special Report

Subtitle: Blind Trust, What Enron Says About America

Author: David Brancaccio

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-02

Publisher: Marketplace Productions

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

The Marketplace Special Report: Blind Trust goes beyond the avalanche of Enron-related headlines. Marketplace host David Brancaccio leads a cast of analysts, reporters, commentators, opinion-leaders (including economist Paul Krugman and former SEC Chairman Arthur Leavitt) - even actors and cartoonists - toward a "final draft" version of the Enron story and the six important lessons to be learned:

This special report isn't about "who-did-what-to-whom," nor "what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it." Instead, Blind Trust will step back from the noise to put the Enron drama in a greater historical context. (Original Broadcast Date: February 22, 2002)

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Title: When Genius Failed

Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Author: Roger Lowenstein

Narrator: Roger Lowenstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-01

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1286 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Meriwether & Co. truly believed that their finely tuned computer models had tamed the genie of risk, and would allow them to bet on the future with near mathematical certainty. Thanks to their cast - which included a pair of future Nobel Prize winners - investors believed them. Four years later, when a default in Russia set off a global storm that Long-Term's models hadn't anticipated, its supposedly safe portfolios imploded. In five weeks, the professors went from mega-rich geniuses to discredited failures. The firm's staggering $100 billion balance sheet threatened to drag down markets around the world. At the eleventh hour, fearing that the financial system of the world was in peril, the Federal Reserve hastily summoned Wall Street's leading banks to underwrite a bailout.

Best selling author Roger Lowenstein captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-90s culture of Wall Street that made it all possible.

Critic Reviews:

"This book is story-telling journalism at its best." (The Economist)

"Lowenstein [is] one of the best financial journalists there is¿" (New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

Informative and interesting, full of suspense

I read this book with the aim of increasing my knowledge about the stock market and various terminologies etc. I did'nt want to read some dull boring book. My way of getting the hang of things when I am *very* new in a field is to listen (or read) on topics related to that field. Knowingly or unknowingly, you start to pick up terms that you had never heard of.

This Book was a very interesting reading all by itself. Many people are drawn towards the stock markets (or success in general) without understanding that success now can be followed by failure. That is the entire essence about being careful and playing safe. Risk management in short.

This book teaches how to be not blinded by present success blah blah blah. its a very interesting book. Informative and full of suspense. It surely teaches somethings. Besides risk management it teaches the value of experience and the concept of rising back from your fall. Many people just accept one defeat as their entire life. There is a lot that can be learnt from this book. Very interesting.

When Genius Failed

I could not listen for more than 30 minutes. The book may be good but I could not stand the narration. I suggest you listen to a sample before purchasing. Listen for a while to get a good sense of the narrator's style.

Great book poorly read

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

It is a clear exposition of the catastrophic failure of Long Term Capital and the hubris of its most important partners.

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Title: Free Agent Nation

Subtitle: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live

Author: Daniel H. Pink

Narrator: Daniel H. Pink

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-01

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 116 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In this landmark book, Daniel H. Pink offers the definitive account of this revolution in work. He shows who these free agents are - from the marketing consultant down the street to the home-based "mompreneur" to the footloose technology contractor - and why they've forged a new path. His entertaining and provocative account of the new frontier of work reveals how free agents are shaking up all of our institutions - from politics to education to the family.

Hip and hopeful, meticulously researched and joyously iconoclastic, Free Agent Nation will change your thinking - and maybe even change your life.

Members Reviews:

Not what I expected

I was expecting a book detailing on how to transition to a free agent. This book examines the overall shift to free agents on a macro level. The author is a former speechwriter for Al Gore and Robt Reich(sp?) from the Dept of Labor. The book was published in 2001 at the height of the dot com/the internet will save the world boom and some of the references are out of date. While I agree with the author that for many in corporate life a logical transition at mid to late career is to shift to free agent status, I was hoping for some pracile advice and examples of success and failure. Would have made an interesting magazine article.

Critical for parents with children in public ed.

What made the experience of listening to Free Agent Nation the most enjoyable?

This was so chock full of research and thoughtfully presented ideas about the world of work today and tomorrow, and education. I can't stop thinking about this book, especially as it relates to my young girls' future lives and education in public school.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Free Agent Nation?

The end of the book, I think the last few chapters, that touched on public education and 'Alumni Networks' of companies.

What does Daniel H. Pink bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Cadence, personality, emphasis where he would have it.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No way. This is a book I stretched out over days, and often reversed in order to really make sure I had a firm grasp of what Daniel was teaching me. I want to listen to it again, and have been telling everyone I know to read this book as well as A Whole New Mind.

Any additional comments?

I absolutely love Audio Books.

I'm not alone in the world!

Would you listen to Free Agent Nation again? Why?

Yes, I would. It's inspirational to know that I'm part of an overall trend.

What did you like best about this story?

It inspired me to take the trouble to find a local community of Free Agents to connect with so I can find solutions to the unique problems Free Agents face. It's easy to find

What about Daniel H. Pinks performance did you like?

I love when an author reads his own books. You really hear the conviction in their voice about their subject, which is hard for an actor to reproduce.

Mandatory freelancer read

If you're an independent professional or considering becoming one - particularly in the US - this book will interest you.

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Title: The World's Most Eligible Bachelor Likes to Eat Grass and Chill in the Mud

Author: PRI's The World

Narrator: PRI's The World

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-00

Publisher: Public Radio International

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

He's "6 ft tall and 5,000 pounds if it matters." That's because he's a rhino. The last surviving male northern white rhino on the planet.

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Title: Disciplined Decisions

Subtitle: Aligning Strategy with the Financial Markets

Author: Martha Akram, Nalin Kulatilaka

Narrator: uncredited

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Harvard Business School

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

It's hard to determine how an investment will ultimately influence a company's value, but by drawing on the techniques, benchmarks, and information of the financial markets to make disciplined decisions, executives can close the gap between strategy and shareholder value. The authors will share with you the 3 components of discipline and how to apply them and offer examples of how decisions can be disciplined by financial markets. This article, which originally appeared in the January-February 1999 Harvard Business Review, is offered in audio form exclusively through Audible.

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©1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved; (P)1999 Audible Inc.