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Title: Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance

Author: Karen Levy

Narrator: Randye Kaye

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Release date: December 6, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life. Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly find themselves under many watchful eyes. Data Driven examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises crucial questions about the role of data collection in broader systems of social control. Karen Levy takes listeners inside a world few ever see, painting a bracing portrait of one of the last great American frontiers. Federal regulations now require truckers to buy and install digital monitors that capture data about their locations and behaviors. Intended to address the pervasive problem of trucker fatigue by regulating the number of hours driven each day, these devices support additional surveillance by trucking firms and other companies. Traveling from industry trade shows to law offices and truck-stop bars, Levy reveals how these invasive technologies are reconfiguring industry relationships and providing new tools for managerial and legal control—and how truckers are challenging and resisting them.

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Title: Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't

Author: Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin

Narrator: Linda Jones

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Release date: November 29, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it? Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather than individuals, two of the world's leading experts on workplace diversity show us a better way in the first comprehensive, data-driven analysis of what succeeds and what fails. The surprising results will change how America works. Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev draw on more than thirty years of data from eight hundred companies as well as in-depth interviews with managers. The research shows just how little companies gain from standard practice: sending managers to diversity training to reveal their biases, then following up with hiring and promotion rules, and sanctions, to shape their behavior. Almost nothing changes. It's time, Dobbin and Kalev argue, to focus on changing the management systems that make it hard for women and people of color to succeed. They show us how the best firms are pioneering new recruitment, mentoring, and skill training systems, and implementing strategies for mixing segregated work groups to increase diversity. They explain what a difference ambitious work–life programs make. And they argue that as firms adopt new systems, the key to making them work is to make them accessible to all.

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Title: Leadership for a Digital World: The Transformation of GE Appliances

Author: Annika Steiber

Narrator: Daniela Acitelli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Release date: November 29, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

The pace of change today is unprecedented. As more than one observer has said, change itself has changed. Technologies and markets in virtually every industry are now subject to rapid and unpredictable change, placing a premium on the ability to successfully manage new paradoxes, such as being entrepreneurial and efficient, as well as able to sense shifts and rapidly respond and secure enough stability for quality and efficiency. In short, enterprise leaders face a paradigm shift in management, and they will be forced to transform their organizations in order to survive in the twenty-first century. This book will provide leaders with the fundamental principles for managing a firm in the digital economy, as well as the Rendanheyi business model, developed for the new century. Finally, the book will provide leaders with a case, based on GE Appliances, on how they can effectively transform their own organizations. Foreword by Edgar Schein and Peter Schein.

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Title: Lean Production Scale-up

Author: Ilkka Taponen

Narrator: Chris Davis

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Release date: November 28, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook is an altered version of the Master’s thesis Lean Production Scale-up. How a startup can scale the manufacturing of physical product innovation by Ilkka Taponen. Approximately half of the original thesis has been removed to suit the audiobook format. The audiobook edit has been designed for an audience familiar with startups and business, meaning that large portions of the basics have been removed from the Theory chapter. Today the market entry for new ideas and entrepreneurs is easier than ever as the digital age is reshaping how business is done. Through digitalization, the business environment has become highly open and widely connected. The combinations of digital technologies like edge computing and artificial intelligence, AI, enable new business model opportunities. In this fast-changing environment, the most important thing is to learn as fast as possible what to do next and what is worth doing at all. Multiple non-fiction books like The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank and Lean Startup by Eric Ries study the modern internet-era startup business environment. Still, one aspect has not been included in the broader public discussion. The tools presented in Lean Startup concentrate on finding the market fit as efficiently as possible but assume that the same level of uncertainties does not exist in the company's internal processes. “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters” is a famous quote by startup investor Peter Thiel. Behind the quote is the notion that there is something different and more challenging about developing physical technologies compared to online services. Manufacturing, indeed, is an underrated problem. It is much harder to take advanced technology and bring it to volume manufacturing than to design it in the first place.

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Title: [Spanish] - Pensar en sistemas: Un manual de iniacion (A Primer)

Author: Donella H. Meadows

Narrator: Aressi Suástegui

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Release date: November 22, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

En los años siguientes a su papel como autora principal del best seller internacional, Limits to Growth ?el primer libro que muestra las consecuencias del crecimiento sin control en un planeta finito? Donella Meadows siguió siendo una pionera del análisis ambiental y social hasta su prematura muerte en 2001.Pensar en sistemas, es un libro conciso y crucial que ofrece información para la resolución de problemas en escalas que van desde lo personal hasta lo global. Editado por Diana Wright del Sustainability Institute, esta introducción esencial trae sistemas que piensan fuera del reino de las computadoras y ecuaciones y en el mundo tangible, mostrando a los lectores cómo desarrollar las habilidades de pensamiento de sistemas que los líderes del pensamiento en todo el mundo consideran críticas para la vida del siglo XXI.Algunos de los mayores problemas a los que se enfrenta el mundo ? guerra, hambre, pobreza y degradación ambiental ? son esencialmente fallos del sistema. No se pueden resolver arreglando una pieza aislada de las demás, porque incluso los detalles aparentemente menores tienen un enorme poder para socavar los mejores esfuerzos de pensamiento demasiado estrecho.Mientras que los lectores aprenderán las herramientas conceptuales y los métodos de pensamiento de sistemas, el corazón del libro es más grande que la metodología. Donella Meadows era conocida tanto por nutrir resultados positivos como por ahondar en la ciencia detrás de dilemas globales. Ella recuerda a los lectores que presten atención a lo que es importante, no sólo lo que es cuantificable, que se mantengan humildes y que se mantengan como aprendices.En un mundo cada vez más complicado, hacinado e interdependiente, Pensar en sistemas ayuda a los lectores a evitar confusiones e impotencias, el primer paso hacia la búsqueda de soluciones proactivas y eficaces.

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Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter)

Series: Part of HBR's 10 Must Reads

Author: Renée Mauborgne, Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business Review, W. Chan Kim

Narrator: Paul Mclain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Release date: November 22, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles (featuring 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to: distinguish your company from rivals; clarify what your company will and won't do; craft a vision for an uncertain future; create blue oceans of uncontested market space; use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy; capture your strategy in a memorable phrase; make priorities explicit; allocate resources early; and clarify decision rights for faster decision making. This collection of bestselling articles includes: featured article 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter, 'The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,' 'Building Your Company's Vision,' 'Reinventing Your Business Model,' 'Blue Ocean Strategy,' 'The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution,' 'Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System,' 'Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action,' 'Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance,' and 'Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance.'

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Title: Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, 1st Edition

Author: Clarke Murphy

Narrator: Clarke Murphy, Wendy Tremont King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Release date: November 22, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Deliver extraordinary sustainability results for your business In Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, accomplished leadership expert Clarke Murphy shares a can't-miss toolkit for delivering remarkable sustainability results. You'll learn what it takes to become a sustainable leader and how you can turn your sustainability promises into tangible action on the ground. Drawing on the real-life stories of sustainable leaders from across the world, Murphy proves that sustainability success is within reach for every business executive. He debunks the myth that sustainability is at odds with profitability and reveals the inside track on how to make sustainability your new growth strategy. You'll find: a step-by-step framework on how to build your sustainable leadership legacy; pragmatic examples of balancing the demands of shareholders and other stakeholders; lessons from CEOs on how they stayed the course in the face of setbacks; and strategies to prepare your up-and-coming executives to carry the sustainability mantle and help you hit your short and long-term sustainability goals.

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Title: The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed

Author: Linda K. Yates

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Release date: November 22, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Inside every company is a portfolio of game-changing new ventures waiting to be unleashed. It's become accepted wisdom that established companies can't build and scale new ventures the way startups can—after all, startups are lean and agile, while incumbents are too big, slow, and inflexible. But that's nonsense, and it's time to challenge that idea. In The Unicorn Within, Linda Yates, the founder and CEO of Silicon Valley–based Mach49, the world's leading growth incubator for the Global 1000, argues that to thrive, companies can and must harness their power—their ideas, talent, data, cash, resources, channels, and customers—to build a portfolio of game-changing ventures and beat the startups at their own game. In this all-in-one guide, Yates lays out a comprehensive twelve-week program, proven in scores of the world's largest companies, for doing all of the above: building a team and finding customer pain points; creating new products or services; developing a rigorous business and execution plan; and launching, accelerating, and scaling each venture. And then doing it again and again. She also shares a blueprint for building your own incubator and accelerator—your own growth engine—along with providing a robust, repeatable, and scalable process that also addresses the complexities and often paralyzing constraints of corporate bureaucracy. Best of all, Yates offers a guide relevant to everyone, from the growth-minded C-suite senior executive to the ambitious, creative intrapreneur, as she covers everything from selecting your new-venture team to creating a new-venture board—the senior executives who become the venture's internal VCs, helping to remove institutional friction and ensuring that every venture can reach escape velocity and thrive. Focused 100% on execution, the book is filled with methods, assessments, tools, scripts, and agendas illustrating every step. The Unicorn Within provides everything even the most established company needs to create high-growth new ventures that deliver compelling new products and services—and stay perpetually competitive in the face of relentless change.

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Title: HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case

Series: Part of HBR Guide

Author: Amy Gallo, Raymond Sheen

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Get your idea off the ground. You've got a great idea that will increase revenue or boost productivity—but how do you get the buy-in you need to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows your idea's value. That's not always easy: Maybe you're not sure what kind of data your stakeholders will trust. Or perhaps you're intimidated by number crunching. The HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case, written by project management expert Raymond Sheen, gives you the guidance and tools you need to make a strong case. You'll learn how to: spell out the business need for your idea; align your case with strategic goals; build the right team to shape and test your idea; calculate the return on investment; analyze risks and opportunities; and present your case to stakeholders.

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Title: The Tao of the Side Hustle: A Buddhist Martial Arts Approach to Your New Business

Author: Don Hyun Kiolbassa

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: Business & Career Development

Publisher's Summary:

Don Hyun Kiolbassa is no stranger to side hustles. In addition to owning his own law firm, he is a CPA, martial artist, dynamic speaker and performer, and the motion capture model for some of the biggest action video games in the industry. When he was at his lowest professionally and financially, he had an epiphany that helped him grow a side hustle into a full-time business: the principles of Wushu Kung Fu apply to business just as they do to fighting. He turned to the fundamental principles of strategy learned in a lifetime of Martial Arts, including his time living as a Monk at the Shaolin Temple in China. In The Tao of the Side Hustle, Don shares this martial arts wisdom, blends Buddhist Martial Arts stories with strategic business, tax and legal principles, and explains how anyone interested in a side hustle or small business can follow in his footsteps. Learn how to: identify a side hustle suited to your skills and passions; join forces with family, friends, colleagues, and mentors to help launch successfully; deal with failure, rejection, and doubt; manage your time; decide if your side hustle should become your full-time income source; grow your side hustle into a full-fledged business; and scale your business by establishing your mission, hiring, managing, and building a culture.