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Title: An Introduction to Indian Gaming from an Indian: Native Thoughts

Author: Aaron M. Thomas

Narrator: Aaron Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-16

Publisher: Aaron Thomas

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

As I attend state and national gaming conferences, there's not too many tribal executives (at least at the time of writing this book) that have any real gaming operations experience. I am truly one of the lucky and skilled tribal executives who knows first-hand what it's like to have to go through tough economic times as well as the happy times when the champagne was uncorked every January because we just broke another revenue record.

I hope that tribal members who listen to this book will get a better sense of what it truly takes to help a casino run more smoothly, to help grow their revenue, and to lead with a business hat on rather than the political hat that we've become so used to in the tribal government sectors.

I wish you all well with your endeavors as you look to increase profit for your tribe. I hope that this book will serve as a book of guidelines that will propel you to the next level of your gaming knowledge.

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Title: Go for the Pot of Gold

Subtitle: Learn How to Open and Run Your Marijuana Dispensary and Grow Room for Higher Revenue

Author: J. D. Rockefeller

Narrator: Eric Medler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-16

Publisher: J.D. Rockefeller

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

When it comes to the marijuana industry, it is very important to know how to successfully open and run a business with a certified grow facility and dispensary in order to provide legitimate cannabis products to the public. With the legalization of cannabis in many states across the US today, we may be able to say again, one day soon, that we are living the American dream.

Before you start your marijuana dispensary, be sure you understand whether or not it's right for you. Managing this type of business is not an easy one. You will have to deal with overhead costs, time management, crop planning, and plenty more. There is a lot associated with this type of business to consider before deciding whether or not it would be the best venture for you. In terms of the legalization process, you will need to know how to set up the business before you can run it, and you must do your research on the laws that govern your state.

This guide will provide you with tips on how to successfully set up the right business plan, structure, permits, and licenses, and how to gain knowledge of the rules and regulations within your state.

Lastly, you will also get some helpful insights when it comes to establishing an ultimate dispensary, from merchandising, inventory and sales, detail and retail, social media and web presence, as well as the childproofing regulations. Listen, dream big and achieve your business goals in no time!

Members Reviews:

Save your money.

Total waste of money. No details at all.

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Title: Build the Fort

Subtitle: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10-Year-Old Can Set You up for Startup Success

Author: Chris Heivly

Narrator: Morley Shulman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-16

Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In Build the Fort, Heivly breaks down his personal fort-building experiences and uses them as an analogy to his journey as co-founder of MapQuest as well as The Startup Factory (a seed-stage investor & mentorship program). Build the Fort outlines five basic elements that are common to both fort-building and startups:

Whether you are 16 or 60, Build the Fort will provide the listener a better understanding of the earliest micro-steps of starting your own business by overlaying Chris' 30 years of experiences in startups, investments, big-company intrapreneurship, and community development.

Members Reviews:

What I like about this book is that Chris puts all the ...

This is one of a handful of books I can honestly say I read cover-to-cover, word-for-word, non-stop. For those of us who have been involved with many start-ups over the years, as founders, mentors, advisors, or educators, the lessons in the book are not new. Nor should they be. I've shared the same lessons with students over and over again through the years. What I like about this book is that Chris puts all the critical lessons that a first-time founder needs to learn in a succint, easy to read, and entertaining way. His five lessons paint a pretty complete picture of what it takes and what you need to know to get a start-up off the ground with any hope of success. I really love the parable of his childhood experience of building the coolest fort ever. I would guess that most of us can relate to that (I certainly can). As I read through the book I thought back to my first start-up and all the mistakes we made. I wish Mr. Conti had been around then!

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is itching to turn their dreams into reality via the start-up route. I particularly recommend it for those starting a tech venture. That's Chris's personal background and it shines through clearly in the book, although I'm sure the lessons will be of great value to anyone starting anything - a bakery, a social movement, a you-tube channel, or a B2B software company. It even gave me some new thoughts on how test an idea that's been bouncing around in my head at nearly zero cost. Can't wait to try it!

Gives the reader confidence by demystifying the startup process and making it seem familiar

Chris did a great job with this book balancing its readability with the necessary didactic elements. This first chapter is an entertaining story from his youth about how he and his friends built a fort in the woods. Each chapter that follows is a necessary step in building your startup company demonstrating how you probably already know how to do this just like building a fort as a kid. There is plenty of how-to in these chapters but I think the Chris's greatest accomplishment here is in demystifying the startup process giving the reader confidence to proceed. He somehow makes the scary high-risk world of starting your own venture oddly familiar and thus far less ominous. Again...great job Chris! There are a lot of how-to startup books but I can't think of any that accomplish this so well. If you don't have time to go through Chris's startup accelerator then this book is your next best option.

Happily for you

If only Chris Heivly had written this little red book of startup advice years ago.

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Title: Mergers and acquisitions of small and medium businesses (The truth revealed about business risk)

Author: Vladimir John

Narrator: Shelley Blond, William Sibtain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-16

Publisher: Meriglobe Business Academy ltd.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

In this lesson, learn about acquisitions and mergers, the role they play in business and how to use them successfully. Advice for entrepreneurs who want to rapidly expand their business and safely buy a functioning company or companies.

©2015 Meriglobe Business Academy ltd (P)2015 Meriglobe Business Academy ltd

Members Reviews:

Efficient, basic, limited, effective

Covers the most basic fundamentals efficiently within a 45 minute listen. It did confirm a few things for me that were helpful and certainly worth a few bucks. Good book to listen to on a short flight!

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Title: Sales Management

Subtitle: The Brian Tracy Success Library

Author: Brian Tracy

Narrator: Brian Tracy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-16

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

The job of the sales manager is to recruit, manage, and motivate a top team of high-performing sales professionals. This audiobook shows you how to do it.

World-renowned sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying what sets the most successful sales managers and professionals apart from the rest - and now, in this guide, he distills these simple but powerful strategies. Listeners will discover the six key characteristics of a winning sales team and learn how to:

A compact but essential resource, Sales Management will help listeners increase the effectiveness of their sales forces, improve their bottom lines, and advance their own careers and satisfaction in the process.

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Title: Online Business Startup

Subtitle: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching a Fast, Lean and Profitable Online Venture

Author: Robin Waite

Narrator: Craig Beck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-16

Publisher: The Coconut Group Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Online Business Startup isn't just a how-to guide in online marketing or SEO.... It contains everything an experienced entrepreneur wished he had known when he started in business. We are flooded with so much information in the digital world that it distracts us from the fundamentals of starting up and running a lean business. This book is ultimately an answer to the question "how can we quickly implement proven strategies for my online business and avoid all the noise?"

Online Business Startup will teach you:

Members Reviews:

Over rated in my opinion

Would you try another book from Robin Waite and/or Craig Beck?

Probably not he was way to complicated.

Would you ever listen to anything by Robin Waite again?

No.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Craig Beck?

Narrator was fine.

Any additional comments?

This book did not hold my interest because it was way to complicated from the beginning. I did not find the content interesting at all. Long and boring.

Excellent book! You must fet it also in paper.

Here is all you need to know about how to start your online business. It describes step by step, so you can go easily on this. I will also buy itin paper.

GREAT RESOURCE

I found this to be extremely helpful to have in my library of books for my online business,

Not for the existing online business owner

Any additional comments?

This is not for people who are actively engaged in online business as you are likely doing all the things mentioned in this book. This is for the absolute novice beginner looking to enter the online business world.

Excellent guide to taking your business online

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

Starting and building a business is a messy process.

This book does an excellent job of tidying things up so you are aware of each and every step as well as the best order in which to do things so you can successfully launch and grow your business online.

The book goes into great depth on the things you need to think about when setting up a business website. It provides great detail on what you need to consider if you are building the site yourself and also outlines what you will need to communicate with and expect from your web-developer to ensure your online business works for you effectively.

On top of this, the book explains which social media channels you need to plug in to to boost traffic and get found by your customers and introduces online tools and a strategy for creating and sharing content across all channels with minimal effort from you the business owner. In other words, how to get all the benefits with minimal time cost to you.

For someone thinking about starting a new business, this book is essential reading to help you figure out what needs to be done and when. It will bring clarity to what can be a very confusing process.

If you are already in business, this book is something that you will wish youd read when you were getting started.

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Title: The Agility Shift

Subtitle: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations

Author: Pamela Meyer

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-15

Publisher: Bibliomotion, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

As contrary as it sounds, "planning" - as we traditionally understand the term - can be the worst thing a company can do. Consider that volatile weather events disrupt trusted supply chains, markets, and promised delivery schedules. Ever-shifting geopolitical tensions as well as internal political upheaval within US and global governments derail long-planned new ventures. Technology failures block opportunities. Competitors suddenly change their products or release dates; your team cannot meet the pace of innovations in your market niche, leaving you sidelined. There are myriad ways in the current business environment for a company's well-considered business plans to go awry.

Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mind-set and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control at the very foundation of most management training and business practice.

Despite most leaders' approaches, "Agility is not simply accelerated planning." Unlike many agility books on the market, The Agility Shift provides specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization to put into practice immediately to improve agility and achieve results.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Critic Reviews:

"Meyer provides a powerful framework and accompanying suggestions...to help you immediately start creating an effective culture of agile leaders and teams." (DeBorah Lenchard, director of education & talent development, Spot Trading LLC)

Members Reviews:

Unlistenable. Robotic voice put me to sleep

This book may be good but trying to listen to this monotonous presenter is impossible. Every time I try I realize after a few minutes that I switched off in my mind. I genuinely checked the website to see if it was a person reading the book or a computer program reading it. Im still not sure.

I honestly dont know if the content is good because I couldnt continue listening.

Robot reader

I can't listen to this robot reader anymore. Got 2/3 of the way through. Just painful to listen to. Somewhat interesting book.

Terrible narrater

The content is okay but not very recolutionizing but the narraters voice really made this an unpleasant experience. To such an extend that I returned the book.

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Title: Simple Sabotage

Subtitle: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace

Author: Robert M. Galford, Bob Frisch, Cary Greene

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees.

In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) - the predecessor of today's CIA - issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual that detailed sabotage techniques designed to demoralize the enemy. One section focused on eight incredibly subtle - and devastatingly destructive - tactics for sabotaging the decision-making processes of organizations. While the manual was written decades ago, these sabotage tactics thrive undetected in organizations today:

Everyone has been faced with someone who has used these tactics, even when they have meant well. Filled with proven strategies and techniques, this brief, clever audiobook outlines the counter-sabotage measures to detect and reduce the impact of these eight classic sabotage tactics to improve productivity, spur creativity, and engender better collegial relationships.

Members Reviews:

Situations we see everyday.

Most of the info in the book were situations we see everyday and get annoyed. Now it makes sense because deep down we know it makes meetings and committee frustration. The book helps explain what is happening.

It was interesting how in one scenario a committee was formed to ensure nothing got done.

info you won't find anywhere else

Short and simple ways to increase the productivity of your group. I can't recommended it more!

short, simple, sweet and helpful

I see how these sorts of tactics are already being applied in different level of government.

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Title: The Silo Effect

Subtitle: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

Author: Gillian Tett

Narrator: Fiona Hardingham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-15

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 97 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes a brilliant examination of how our tendency to create functional departments - silos - hinders our work and how some people and organizations can break those silos down to unleash innovation.

One of the characteristics of industrial-age enterprises is that they are organized around functional departments. This organizational structure results in both limited information and restricted thinking. The Silo Effect asks these basic questions: Why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that later seem blindingly obvious? Why, as psychologist Daniel Kahneman put it, are we sometimes so "blind to our own blindness"?

Gillian Tett, journalist and senior editor for the Financial Times, answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloomberg's City Hall in New York, the Bank of England in London, Cleveland Clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS bank in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge fund, and the Chicago police. Some of these narratives illustrate how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos. Others, however, show how institutions and individuals can master their silos instead. These are stories of failure and success.

From ideas about how to organize office spaces and lead teams of people with disparate expertise, Tett lays bare the silo effect and explains how people organize themselves, interact with each other, and imagine the world can take hold of an organization and lead from institutional blindness to 20/20 vision.

Members Reviews:

Mediocre reader and weakly supported thesis

What disappointed you about The Silo Effect?

After an interesting introduction, what followed was a history of modern anthropology that just ran too long to make its point. The case study about Sony was promising. Then it just went flat. I couldn't stay interested.

The theme suggested by the title was never convincingly developed. I hoped for a useful insight to apply at work, where we have probably the normal number of silo issues.

Has The Silo Effect turned you off from other books in this genre?

No.

How could the performance have been better?

The reader misread words and emphasized the wrong word or syllable so often it became a major distraction. In the passage about Chicago, she read about Cook Country several times before correcting it to Cook County. In parts about technology that involved VMWare she emphasized "Ware" like it was a person's last name, then later read it as WMWare.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Silo Effect?

I would just make sure that words are pronounced correctly and consistently.

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Title: The Positive Organization

Subtitle: Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and Beliefs

Author: Robert E. Quinn

Narrator: Wayne Shepherd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-15

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where - both individually and collectively - they flourish and exceed expectations.

The problem is that leaders are following a negative and constraining "mental map" that insists organizations must be rigid, top-down hierarchies and that the people in them are driven mainly by self-interest and fear. But leaders can adopt a different mental map, one where organizations are networks of fluid, evolving relationships and where people are motivated by a desire to grow, learn, and serve a larger goal. Using dozens of memorable stories, Quinn describes specific actions leaders can take to facilitate the emergence of this organizational culture - helping people gain a sense of purpose, engage in authentic conversations, see new possibilities, and sacrifice for the common good.

The book includes the positive organization generator, a tool that provides 100 real-life practices from positive organizations and helps you reinvent them to fit your specific needs. With the POG you can identify and implement the practices that will have the greatest impact on your organization.

At its heart, the book helps leaders see new possibilities that lie within the acknowledged realities of organizational life. It provides five keys for learning to be "bilingual" - speaking the conventional language of business as well as the language of the positive organization. When leaders can do this, they are able to make real and lasting change.

Members Reviews:

Iâve been intrigued by the power of the positive since my early skateboard days listening to Bad Brains PMA

I bought this book the very first day it was available. Quinn is one of the forefathers of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) at the University Of Michigan Ross School Of Business. 5 Years ago I attended a Positive Leadership executive education course at Michigan. I was introduced to the positive organization concept and the underlying academic discipline of Positive Psychology. Iâve been intrigued by the power of the positive since my early skateboard days listening to Bad Brains PMA.

Quinn hypothesizes that by using the Positive Organization Generator (provided in the appendix and online here) and doing some work we can lead our organizations to a more positive place. The trick is that most leaders, over the years, have developed negative and constraining mental maps. They see all organizations as top-down hierarchies where people are primarily self-interested and driven by fear. Quinn wants to show us how to change our mental map to one where we see organizations as networks of relationships full of people motivated by their desires to grow, learn and serve a larger goal.

I believe Quinn. I have seen the results first hand in my organization.

Great and Practical

I love the subject! The book is very good, provide some great ideas that can be easily implemented.

This is a great book. Unlike many books on leadership

This is a great book.