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ID: 293355

Title: Thoughtfully Ruthless: The Key to Exponential Growth

Author: Val Wright

Narrator: Hillary Huber, Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Today's boardrooms are filled with executives wringing their hands over such concerns as product decisions, the new consumer, and financial results, and even if they find a solution, all their work will only have a granular effect on real growth. Thoughtfully Ruthless lays out the secret to rapid business growth by showing you how to unbelievably invent more time, catapult your energy, and boost the productivity of your resources.

Author Val Wright has unlocked the potential of leaders of all stripesfrom doctors to musicians to C-suite executivesand guided their ascent to the next level of success. In most cases, the obstacle they overcome is not the economy, the market conditions, or the competition. In her storied career, she discovered that the secret to exponential growth comes down to how leaders ruthlessly manage their time, energy, and resources in a thoughtful way. Through firsthand stories of the author being thoughtfully ruthless in her own career and life, she shows you how to do the same by adopting the habits, skills, and practices of some of the most successful business leaders of our time. You'll learn how to become sensibly selfish, how to spend your time and energy, and what issues to delegate or ignore so you can clear your slate to focus on what really matters to you. Designed around the principles it lays out, this straightforward resource comes packed with tangible directives that are quick and easy to use, inject fresh energy into your routine, and immediately improve the way you operate. Keep this toolkit at your fingertips for real-time coaching when you feel like hesitating, including:

Dozens of ready-to-use assessments, exercises, and proven practical tools for accelerating growth

Concrete steps for transforming yourself from humble to shameless

Thirty ways to say 'no' and other ways to take control of your daily input

An appendix of 99 ways to be thoughtfully ruthless with your time, energy, and resources

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ID: 294574

Title: Execution Excellence: Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard

Author: Sanjiv Anand

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:02:07

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Execution Excellence is the practitioner's guide to real-world implementation. Designed by a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) thought leader with 30 years of experience and over 300 global implementations under his belt across a range of industry sectors, this guide gives you a hands-on framework for putting the BSC methodology into action. Clear, and concise, this audiobook skips the theoretical exposition to get right to the pointhow can companies use BSC to effectively deploy strategy and drive individual and enterprise performance? You'll find the answers here. The discussion outlines the ways in which firms commonly fail in implementing BSC. These failures can be traced back to common design and implementation flaws: making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. The discussion will also cover design optimization across a range of key industry sectors. You'll gain expert insight into avoiding these missteps and the practical tools and perspective you need to implement BSC correctly the first time.

While the Balanced Scorecard framework is widely accepted and praised, about half of firms that implement it fail to realize the full benefits. The fault lies not with the framework, but with the design, and more importantlyexecution. This book gives you the information and tools you need to adopt BSC successfully.

Design a BSC that truly and simply reflects your strategy

Customize the BSC to reflect your industry's uniqueness

Define clear measurements and ownership that suit your strategy

Develop a framework for efficient data collection and reporting

Implement effective reviews to keep your business on track

Use your Balanced Scorecard data to close performance gaps

Developed in the early 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard framework has been recognized as one of the most seminal business ideas in the last 75 years. Thousands of companies around the world use BSC to create and maintain a performance-oriented enterprise, yet just as many try and fail. Execution Excellence shows you what you need to know and do to become a BSC success story.

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ID: 292802

Title: Johnny Be Good

Author: Paige Toon

Narrator: Nicky Diss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:59:43

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

If your boss was the hottest rock star on the planet, would you mix business with pleasure?

Celebrity PA to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg Stiles's glam new life in sun-drenched LA is a whirlwind of showbiz parties and backstage passes. Cool, calm Christian, in town to write his famous friend's biography, helps keep Meg's feet firmly on the ground. But with Johnny's piercing green eyes and a body Brad Pitt would kill for, how long will it be before she's swept right off them again?

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ID: 293317

Title: Accelerating Performance: How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility

Author: Colin Price, Sharon Toye

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:13:58

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-17

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Transform your organization into a dynamic catalyst for success

Accelerating Performance is not just another warm and fuzzy change management bookit's a practical, comprehensive, data-driven action plan for picking up the pace and achieving more. Co-written by one of the authors of Beyond Performance, this audiobook draws on a combination of empirical research and decades of experience advising global companies to show you how to reduce time to value by building and changing momentum more quickly than your competitors.

The META framework (short for Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility) offers advice for leading change at four levels: strategy, the organization, teams, and individuals. In addition to step-by-step guidance toward assessment, planning, and implementation, the book offers:

A diagnostic tool for leaders, teams, and organizations to assess their starting place, and highlight the specific areas needed to improve the ability to accelerate performance.

A detailed look at the factors proven to create dragand driveat each of the four levels: strategy, organizations, teams, and individuals.

An exploration of the 39 differentiating actions that organizations can combine as dictated by their strategy and context into a winning recipe.

A closer look at the practices of 23 superaccelerators, a global (and perhaps unexpected) mix of companies that have demonstrated a consistent ability to accelerate performance.

A single taste of success is all it takes to spark change, but the hard work of following through requires constant vigilanceand a plan. Learn how to capture that drive, bottle it, and use it to sustain motivation, inspiration, and achievement. Deliver at the highest level, and then turn around and do even better next time. Accelerating Performance gives leaders a step-by-step framework for taking action and transforming their organizations, teams, and even themselvesstarting today.

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ID: 292618

Title: Eagles in the Storm

Author: Ben Kane

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-17

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Eagles in the Storm by Ben Kane, read by David Rintoul.

AD 15. The German chieftain Arminius has been defeated, one of the lost Roman eagles recovered, and thousands of German tribesmen slain.

Yet these successes arent nearly enough for senior centurion Lucius Tullus. Not until Arminius is dead, his old legions eagle found and the enemy tribes completely vanquished will he rest.

But Arminius devious, fearless is burning for revenge of his own.

Charismatic as ever, he raises another large tribal army, which will harry the Romans the length and breadth of the land.

Soon Tullus finds himself in a cauldron of bloodshed, treachery and danger.

His mission to retrieve his legions eagle will be his most perilous yet

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ID: 289528

Title: Leading Through Language: Choosing Words That Influence and Inspire

Author: Bart Egnal

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:19:05

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-17

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Negotiation & Communication, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Become a more effective leadercut the jargon and say what you mean

Leveraging. Strategizing. Opening the kimono. Unlocking human capital. Trying to nail that BHAG. All on a go forward basis. These are only a few examples of the jargon-ridden language that is too often the mainstay of business communication. Jargon frustrates, confuses, and generally alienates listeners. Yet it's also everywhere, and using it can often seem like a mandatory requirement for anyone who wants to establish credibility in a professional workplace.

To be an effective leader, you must be brave enough to be the first to drop jargon in favor of simple, coherent language. This can be difficult if you've spent years immersed in business culture, but Leading Through Language will show just how much you've come to rely on jargon, why it's holding you back, and how to trim it away to more effectively convey information and ideas.

Understand why jargon is reviled, yet ubiquitous

Learn why 'business speak' gets in the way of business

Discover what kind of language influences and inspires others

Convey ideas with clarity, energy, and conviction

Approach all communication as an act of leadership

Communication often falls by the wayside in favor of more measurable data-backed performance metrics; but good communication has the power to improve metrics in every area of an organization. Leading Through Language is the business world's much-needed guide to true leadership communication, showing you how to eliminate idle talk and master compelling communication.

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ID: 284544

Title: Crucifix Killer

Author: Chris Carter

Narrator: Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

THE FIRST CHILLING NOVEL IN THE ACCLAIMED ROBERT HUNTER SERIES 

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in Los Angeles, Robert Hunter is thrown into a nightmare case. The victim suffered a terrible death, and on the nape of her neck has been carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer.

But that's impossible. Because two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this therefore be a copycat killer? Or could the unthinkable be true? Is the real killer still out there, ready to embark once again on a vicious and violent killing spree, selecting his victims seemingly at random, taunting Robert Hunter with his inability to catch him?

Hunter and his rookie partner, Garcia, need to solve this case and fast.

PRAISE FOR CHRIS CARTER

'Gripping . . . Not for the squeamish' Heat

'A page turner' Express

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ID: 359792

Title: Kill the Father

Author: Sandrone Dazieri

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:22:20

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please don’t let it be the boy, Colomba thought. Her silent prayer didn’t go unanswered. The corpse belonged to the mother.'

When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, the police unit assigned to the case sees an easy solution: they arrest the woman’s husband and await his confession. But the Chief of Rome’s Major Crimes unit doubts things are so simple. Secretly, he lures to the case two of Italy’s top analytical minds: Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli, a fierce, warrior-like detective still reeling from having survived a bloody catastrophe, and Dante Torre, a man who spent his childhood trapped inside a concrete silo. Fed through the gloved hand of a masked kidnapper who called himself 'The Father', Dante emerged from his ordeal with crippling claustrophobia but, also, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and hyper-observant capacities.

All evidence suggests that 'The Father' is back and active after being dormant for decades. But when Columba and Dante begin following the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues, they grasp that what’s really going on is darker than they ever imagined.

Kill the Angel, the sequel to Kill the Father, publishes in May 2018. 

This unabridged audio version is read by Cassandra Campbell. 

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ID: 284319

Title: You Said Forever

Author: Susan Lewis

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:02:16

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-17

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of You Said Forever by Susan Lewis, read by Julia Franklin.

The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of No Child of Mine and Don't Let Me Go.

Charlotte Goodman is living the dream.

Surrounded by family, friends and a stunning vineyard overlooking the ocean, it would be difficult for anyone to believe that she has a troubled past.

However, haunted by the theft of a young girl, Charlotte begins to realise the enormity of something she did many years ago, and soon finds herself having to make the most harrowing decision any woman would ever have to face.

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ID: 283379

Title: Trackers

Author: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:28:28

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

No power. No rules. No help coming.

The end of the world is just the beginning of the hunt

Estes Park Police Chief Marcus Colton and tracker Sam Raven Spears have never liked one another, but when a young girl goes missing in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colton hires Spears to help find her. Their search ends after a night of catastrophic events. When word reaches Estes Park that the nation has been hit by a coordinated electromagnetic pulse attack, Colton and Spears are forced to work together again. But they quickly realize they arent just tracking a killerthey are tracking a madman during the middle of a war on American soil.

Halfway across the country, Senator Charlize Montgomery awakes to find the nations capital has gone dark. Forced to set off on foot, she treks across a city that has woken to a new world, and as the night progresses, she learns the EMP attack was just the beginning of the horror.

The explosive Trackers series is a harrowing story of survival and a realistic depiction of what an EMP attack and the aftermath might look like from former Homeland Security Disaster Mitigation Officer and New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Packed full of action, survival tips, and a unique twist on the EMP genre, the Trackers series has thrilled hundreds of thousands of readers across the world.

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