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Title: Chess Not Checkers

Subtitle: Elevate Your Leadership Game

Author: Mark Miller

Narrator: Joe Bronzi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-15

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 176 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

In his latest business fable, top leadership author Mark Miller tells the story of newly appointed CEO Blake Brown, who takes over a company distressed by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous job seems to help him deal with the bigger, more complex problems he now faces. The game has changed. As his new mentor points out, Blake is playing a simple game of checkers when he should be playing chess. Miller uses this metaphor to show how leaders can encourage deep, strategic thinking throughout an organization and utilize the unique abilities of each employee (bishops move differently than knights). He explains how to apply the "chess not checkers" mentality in four critical areas: leadership development, employee engagement, organizational alignment, and execution. This is an appealing, accessible guide to helping all leaders think ahead, plan their moves, and avoid getting checkmated by circumstances or competitors.

Members Reviews:

Chess Not Checkers can be an interesting metaphor for business strategy.

Chess Not Checkers is an interesting metaphor for business strategy. It's true and it's essential. This book does a good job of telling a parable of the potential for more involved thinking.

As a business strategy book, the story is quite simplistic and unrealistic - like a fairy tale - so I wouldn't recommend it to experienced business readers who will likely already understand this.

While not a bad book, it frustrated me because real life is not so simple. People fear and resist change - even when it is in their better interest. People make mistakes and and have a difficult time learning advanced strategies. Many are not even capable of the complex and proactive thinking required of an advanced strategy like chess.

I found the narration too slow and listened to this at 2x speed.

Nothing new

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes because the novelty of a story vs. a list of concepts was nice.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

With the company being vague - pointed out at the beginning - made it tough to figure out how they actually did for the four steps. It would have been nice to have more detail on how the team accomplished each step instead of them hearing the step and being told to go do it.

Great Book

Loved this book as it done an amazing job with great takeaways for Leadership Development

A Great Piece Of Work!

I found this very easy to follow and implement looking forward to the additional resources!!

Excellent book for any leader!

The concepts discussed in this short story are fantastic! Easy to understand and start applying in your business right away. Highly recommended.

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Title: Yes, And

Subtitle: How Improvisation Reverses "No, but" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration - Lessons from the Second City

Author: Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton

Narrator: Alan Winter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-15

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 147 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The Second City has launched the careers of celebrated comic performers such as Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert and produced award-winning content. But it's the actual improvisational process developed and honed over the years by The Second City that has become its legacy. Players master an ability to cocreate in ensembles using philosophies that celebrate a "yes, and" approach. They embrace authenticity and failure and espouse the idea of "following the follower", which allows any member of the team to assume a leadership role.

For more than two decades, The Second City has taken these same principles to thousands of corporate clients, showing leaders how to apply the tools of improv to common business challenges. Here, for the first time, Second City executives Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton describe how you can use the same skills that thrill audiences around the world to improve your emotional intelligence, increase creativity, and learn to pivot out of tight and uncomfortable situations. In this engaging, often humorous, and highly practical audiobook, you will learn how to become a more compelling leader and a more collaborative follower by employing the seven elements of improv:

Critic Reviews:

"Narrating a most engaging lesson on being productive and influencing others at work, Alan Winter communicates a natural enthusiasm that makes you like him right away and trust his understanding of the authors' message. His vocal personality, pacing, and articulation draw listeners in and make them want to stay connected." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

The title is the best part

Would you try another book from Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton and/or Alan Winter?

No. It never seems to get to any points advertised. Very disorganized presentation.

What three words best describe Alan Winters performance?

Very good

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment. I wanted something useful. I'm not going to hire Second City to come to my meeting and make a point using sketch comedy.

Any additional comments?

I thought the book would would focus on "showing leaders how to apply the tools of improv to common business challenges", as described. Instead, this was a rambling pile of name-dropping. The book meanders through business-type situations (without getting to the meat of what was done) and quickly returns to theatre performances - even describing the number of people in the audience, and whether they were grumpy.

Disappointing

Any additional comments?

This book was one of the biggest disappointments I've had in an Audible book this year. It could have been partly that my expectations were too high.

As others have said, the title is as much as you will learn about improvisation. There is very little about the practical application of the "yes, and" philosophy.

This book is basically a really long brochure for Second City.

If any writers want to satisfy some readers, they could write a book describing how to use the "yes, and" philosophy for improvement on and off the stage.

The Title is all you learn from the book

I bought this book to learn about improvisation. All I got from it was that Second City has a department that works with businesses to teach improvisation skills.

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Title: The Art of the Start 2.0

Subtitle: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

Author: Guy Kawasaki

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 619 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur, or a not-for-profit leader, there's no shortage of advice on such topics as writing a business plan, recruiting, raising capital, and branding. In fact there are so many books, articles, and websites that many startups get bogged down to the point of paralysis, or they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they discover their mistakes.

The Art of the Start 2.0 solves that problem by distilling Guy Kawasaki's decades of experience as one of the most original and irreverent strategists in the business world. Since late 2004 The Art of the Start has been the essential guide for anyone starting anything, from a multinational corporation to a church group. From raising money to hiring the right people, from defining your positioning to creating a brand, from driving buzz to buzzing the competition, this audiobook will guide you through an adventure that's more art than science: the art of the start.

Members Reviews:

Like a collection of about.com articles

This book is one inch deep and a mile wide. A new tip every ten seconds, it is like a collection of lame internet articles. I'm not saying the advice is bad, I just dont find these kind of tips very helpful. It is the opposite of a book like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, which takes a profound idea and explores it in depth.

It's ok, nothing groundbreaking. Poor narration

The narration was distracting. Also it seems like they blended 2 narrations. The tone / voice in the 2nd half sounds different. Same guy but different sound. Many of the phrases just sounded so cheesy with this reader. The content was ok. I've heard lots of entrepreneur audiobooks and this was more of the same.

Real deal from 1 of the fathers of Silicon Valley

Guy tells it like it is to founders of any organization. With humor, blunt honesty, and example after example, he covers the practical business of starting. From font size in a pitch presentation to tips for a launch event to company culture to sales--he gives you the good, the bad, and the ugly. Great read.

Overall worth it

Good info - had helpful insights - especially for tech startup .

Performance of narrator not my favorite but not as bad as others said.

Great primer for any entrepreneur

Full of real-world examples and actionable trip, this is a great book for any entrepreneur - or someone considering becoming one.

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Title: Performing Under Pressure

Subtitle: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most

Author: Hendrie Weisinger, J. P. Pawliw-Fry

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-15

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 207 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. In Performing Under Pressure, Drs. Hendrie Weisinger and J.P. Pawliw-Fry introduce us to the concept of pressure management, offering empirically tested short-term and long-term solutions to help us overcome the debilitating effects of pressure.

Performing Under Pressure tackles the greatest obstacle to personal success, whether in a sales presentation, at home, on the golf course, interviewing for a job, or performing onstage at Carnegie Hall. Despite sports mythology, no one rises to the occasion under pressure and does better than they do in practice. The reality is pressure makes us do worse and sometimes leads us to fail utterly. But there are things we can do to diminish its effects on our performance.

Performing Under Pressure draws on research from more than 12,000 people, and features the latest research from neuroscience and from the frontline experiences of Fortune 500 employees and managers, Navy SEALS, Olympic and other elite athletes, and others. It offers 22 specific strategies each of us can use to reduce pressure in our personal and professional lives and allow us to excel better in whatever we do.

Whether you're a corporate manager, a basketball player, or a student preparing for the SAT, Performing Under Pressure will help you do your best when it matters most.

Members Reviews:

Holy bananas this is really good!

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

There is so much usefull information to absorb in this book. The narration and simple explanations are very clear to understand. Everyone should listen to this it has many meaninfull stories.

What other book might you compare Performing Under Pressure to and why?

It helped me fill my mind toolbag. To me the more of this I hear the more I want.

What does Michael Butler Murray bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Yes there is very insightfull stories and information. I love the honest tea story about optimism, how despite the setbacks rhey still persisted.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Narrator was very clear he maintained the same pace through the whole book.

Any additional comments?

My luxury is listening and understanding this book. Thank you very much. Please keep up the good work. Performing under pressure when it matters most, will be one the best books around.

great book!

i found so much insight from the authors. The book is well organized and its easy to follow.

Definitely worth a read

Some great insights into the effects of pressure, and some practical ways to deal with these effects.

Highly recommended for anyone dealing with pressure in any arena. I read it from a golfing perspective, but it is equally applicable for business, or just life in general.

Excellent narration & content

This book is loaded with excellent examples and suggestions. In the competitive world of today, it is it enough to know your craft. The ability to handle situations quickly and effectively is key to success today and in the future.

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Title: Second Chance

Subtitle: for Your Money, Your Life and Our World

Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrator: Tim Wheeler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-15

Publisher: Rich Dad on Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1038 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Few would argue with the fact that on many fronts, we are a world in crisis. And there are two sides to every crisis, be it a leadership crisis, an economic crisis, an education crisis, or a moral crisis. The two sides to crisis are danger and opportunity.

Robert Kiyosaki's new book, Second Chance: for Your Money and Your Life, uses the lessons from the past and a brutal assessment of the present to prepare readers to see - and seize - the future.

If readers can train their minds to see what their eyes cannot in a world that is becoming increasingly more invisible and moving at a high rate of speed, they can have a second chance at creating the lives they've always wanted.

The global problems we face cannot be solved by the same minds and people who created them, and today's world demands the ability to see the future and prepare for what lies aheadprepare for the opportunities as well as the challenges.

Like it or not, we are all involved in the greatest evolutionary event in human history. The Industrial Age is over, and the Information Age continues to accelerate. The visible agents of change have become invisible...and harder to see. And the future belongs to those who can train their minds, use the past to see the future, and take the steps to create the positive changes they want to see in their lives.

Second Chance is a guide to understanding how the past will shape the future and how you can use Information Age tools and insights to create a fresh start. This book is a guide to facing head-on the dangers of the crises around us - and steps and tips for seizing the opportunities they present.

Members Reviews:

Err... Not impressed.

Robert Kiyosaki, is awesome, I've read several of his books and they were evolutionary in his advice and experiences. But this book had an agenda to push you towards his way of thinking. I am not dissing his dream about being a giver/educator, or his idea's. He says right off that this is not a religious book, but I couldn't help feeling like he was preaching to me. I am not a gazillion billionaire like him, so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt,

I kind of hate how he plays his Rich Dad Poor Dad (RDPD) down as an marketing pamphlet for his game. Everyone knows that RDPD was an awesome book along with Cash-flow Quadrant. Yah, however I can't recommend this book, honestly I want to ask for my money back on this one. I won't do that because in general Robert Kiyosaki is awesome. The righteous kick he is on in this book made it a real struggle for me to get through it.

He should change the title of this book, it seems to be more of a Biography then anything else. When I bought this book I was looking for pivotal mind blowing evolutionary business changing philosophy like Cash-flow Quadrant. Not a biography or anything about his faith, what his definitions of good vs innuendos evil. If it had said "Second Chance, My Biography" I think the whole idea of what I was buying and my expectations would have been different which would have altered my opinion as well.

Un-Ignorable book! :)

If you could sum up Second Chance in three words, what would they be?

insightful, useful, brilliant

What did you like best about this story?

Kiyosaki has taken on a more sage-like voice in this book.

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Title: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Subtitle: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success

Author: Kaley Klemp, Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer

Narrator: Jim Dethmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-15

Publisher: Dethmer, Chapman & Klemp

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 196 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

You'll never see leadership the same way again after reading this book.

These 15 commitments are a distillation of decades of work with CEOs and other leaders. They are radical or provocative for many. They have been game changers for us and for our clients. We trust they will be for you, too.

Our experience is that unconscious leadership is not sustainable. It won't work for you, your team, or your organization in the long term. Unconscious leadership can deliver short-term results, but the costs of living and leading unconsciously are great.

Fear drives most leaders to make choices that are at odds with healthy relationships, vitality, and balance. This fear leaves a toxic residue that won't be as easily tolerated in an increasingly complex business environment.

Conscious leadership offers the antidote to fear. These pages contain a comprehensive road map to guide you to shift from fear-based to trust-based leadership. Once you learn and start practicing conscious leadership, you'll get results in the form of more energy, clarity, focus, and healthier relationships. You'll do more and more of what you are passionate about and less of what you do out of obligation. Your team will get results as well. Drama and gossip will all but disappear, and the energy and resources that fueled them will be redirected towardsinnovation and creativity.

Any one of these commitments will change your life. All of them together are revolutionary.

What do you need to bring to the table?

Be curious.

Sounds so simple, yet in our experience it's a skill few have mastered. Most of us are far more interested in being right and proving it than we are in learning, growing, and shifting out of our old patterns. By default we gravitate toward the familiar. We're asking you to take a chance and explore the unfamiliar.

Members Reviews:

Excellent Concepts in Leadership

Candid approach to effective change. Surprise - you can't resist change or make changes sustainable without others helping!

All I can say is wow!

Amazing! I hope to someday be called a conscious leader! I appreciate that I am in the middle of a whole team of people that are trying to become conscience leaders also.

Invaluable !

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

I have recommended, even gifted this book to many already. I have a book club, in which we meet daily at 5 am to apply the commitments to our share vision in our company. It's been fantastic to have this book to clear obstacles that have been holding us back.

What other book might you compare The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership to and why?

The Obstacle is the way, Just Listen, and Og Mandino scrolls

Which character as performed by Jim Dethmer was your favorite?

which commitment? or Character.. not sure I understand the question

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

15 hrs to a changed view!

very helpful! I'll get the hard copy to follow up

I'd like to get the actual book, to follow up and implement this in my life

life changing!

Easy to listen to on audible- this book is going to really change how I handle life, business, personal relationships...everything!

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Title: Leadership

Author: James MacGregor Burns

Narrator: Paul Costanzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns devoted his legendary career to the study of leadership in all its aspects - from politics to business. Leadership, Burns' pioneering study, introduces the highly influential theory of "transformational leadership", stating that the best leaders are those who inspire others to come together toward the achievement of higher aims.

Featuring fascinating case studies drawn from history, Leadership is the classic audiobook for anyone seeking to understand executive decision-making, the dynamics of influence, and moral leadership.

Critic Reviews:

"An impressive book. Although Burns is sophisticated about frailties of people, Leadership is also an optimistic book." (The Washington Post)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

A seminal work. Also read Joseph Rost's classic book, "Leadership for the Twenty-First Century."

Amazing Book on General Leadership

First class piece of work. I can't say more

Five Stars

Best academic work on the subjecct. Recommend for all professionals interested

An exciting journey through leadership from the guru's perspective. ...

An exciting journey through leadership from the guru's perspective. I have not completed reading this book as yet but it is certainly helping me with my research. More after I have completed reading it

A classic

A classic on leadership. A necessary tome in any leader's library.

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Title: The New Gold Standard

Subtitle: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

Author: Joseph A. Michelli

Narrator: Joseph A. Michelli, Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-14

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 171 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed.

The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization. He emerged with the key principles leaders at any company can use to provide a customer experience unlike any other, such as:

Understanding the ever-evolving needs of customers

Empowering employees by treating them with the utmost respect

Anticipating customers' unexpressed needs and concerns

Developing and conducting an unsurpassed training regimen

Sharing engaging stories from the company's employees - from the corporate office and hotels around the globe - Michelli describes the innovative methods the company uses to create peerless guest experiences and explains how it constantly hones and improves them.

The New Gold Standard weaves practical how-to advice, proven leadership tools, and the wisdom of experts to help you create and embed superior customer-service principles, processes, and practices in your own organization.

Members Reviews:

great stories of the Ritz

This book included many great and inspiring stories of the employees of the Ritz. Would have rated the book higher, but it had many slow points throughout it.

Very good information

The ritz Carlton is an organization we can learn a lot from. Their culture is amazing. We will be trying to include a number of these items

If you are after excellence, look here for clues

There was a lot in this book. I found it to be packed with content and I personally struggled to stay with it. This is a true work on mastering the mundane aspects of what makes a business great. The nuggets found was worth the effort to keep with the book

I want to stay at a Ritz-Carlton

An inpiring book if you want to take customer service to the next level. One thing to note: you will most likely be disapointed with your next hotel stay after you read this book, you will think to yourself of all the ways your stay could have been better, if only you had stayed at a Ritz-Carlton.

Learning From The Best

The Ritz-Carlton Hotels Company is known for its renowned customer service culture.

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Title: The Amazon Way

Subtitle: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company

Author: John Rossman

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-14

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 281 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

In just 20 years, Amazon.com has gone from a start-up internet bookseller to a global company revolutionizing and disrupting multiple industries, including retail, publishing, logistics, devices, apparel, and cloud computing.

But what is at the heart of Amazon.coms rise to success? Is it the tens of millions of items in stock, the companys technological prowess, or the many customer service innovations like "one-click"?

As a leader at Amazon who had a front-row seat during its formative years, John Rossman understands the iconic company better than most. From the launch of Amazons third-party seller program to their foray into enterprise services, he witnessed it all - the amazing successes, the little-known failures, and the experiments whose outcomes are still in doubt.

In The Amazon Way, Rossman introduces listeners to the unique corporate culture of the worlds largest Internet retailer, with a focus on the 14 leadership principles that have guided and shaped its decisions and its distinctive leadership culture.

Peppered with humorous and enlightening firsthand anecdotes from the authors career at Amazon, this revealing business guide is also filled with the valuable lessons that have served Jeff Bezoss "everything store" so well - providing expert advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors alike.

Members Reviews:

Great read

Good narration from beginning to end. To the point on the inside story of a new era

fantastic story telling

loved the way all the principles come together. very objective . the author explain the true culture of working in amazon.

Valuable insights

The content may be a bit dated when it comes to some technology talk, but the core of the book is great. I enjoyed the listen.

Solid book; good ideas

Good review of the how and why behind Amazon leadership. Solid content and good presentation. I recommend this audio book for aspiring leaders who want to rethink their business or industry.

interesting stories

stories are interesting, some details are very.nice to know. However, more details are needed to complete the amazon puzzle.

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Title: The Virgin Way

Subtitle: Everything I Know about Leadership

Author: Richard Branson

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4120 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

While building the Virgin Group over 40 years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola and lost.

Now Branson gives an inside look at his strikingly different swashbuckling style of leadership. Learn how fun, family, passion, and the dying art of listening are key components to what his extended family of employees around the world has always dubbed (with a wink) the "Virgin Way."

This unique perspective comes from a man who dropped out of school at 16, suffers from dyslexia, and has never worked for anyone but himself. He may be famous for thinking outside the box - an expression he despises - but Branson asserts that "youll never have to think outside the box if you refuse to let anyone build one around you."

This is a unique audiobook on leadership from someone who readily admits he has never read a book on leadership in his life. So expect the unexpected.

Members Reviews:

Inspiration, and nuggets of wisdom for anyone

There are certain criticisms of this book that can be anticipated; I have heard said of many books in this category that the ideas are not new, lack earth-shaking originality. I think such criticisms miss the point in general, and overlook the real significance and value of this book in particular. The question to be asked is, has this book shaped your outlook on starting and running a business in a meaningful way. For me, the anecdotes are entertaining and inspiring, and the embedded encouragement is genuinely motivating. Mr. Branson certainly does have various unique takes on common wisdoms of business leadership. Beyond the interesting presentation of his "radical" confrontation of business convention, though, the impact of this book derives from the diversity and longevity of Mr. Branson's working experience. In a relatively short book, he covers a lot of ground, and relates an array of personal experiences, each punctuated by his take on the moral to be had from the story. Some may resonate with you, some may not, but by the end of it, you are likely to find that you have come away with a rewarding trove of new ideas, novel approaches to confronting your own business challenges, and a satisfying "can-do" attitude. I know I did.

One Cool Dude

What did you love best about The Virgin Way?

Mr Branson has a very cool way about the way he talks about himself and his companies. HE oozes success and "Boss-nes" but never comes across as being condescending. In fact he seems like he would be a really cool guy to have as a mentor/boss/friend.

There is humor but it's never silly. It's a fairly light and yet informative book on general business and leadership, with Mr Branson's special twist.

The narrator actually sounded a bit like Richard Branson, which made this even better.

What did you like best about this story?

It was nice to hear a major player to share what principles worked for him and which didn't. Some of what he says goes a bit against conventional managerial and business wisdom, and I liked how he is steadfast in sharing his opposing views.

More entertainment than meat

Overall not a bad work, but it's not ground breaking. The story of Virgin is interesting.