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ID: 416951

Title: Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:18:27

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

How to compete in a world dominated by tech giants.

A new breed of monopolies is threatening your business. Tech megafirms from around the world are encroaching on your industry's space, rewriting the rules, and scooping up talent—and your customers. What should you and your company be doing right now to counter these challenges? Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking on corporate inequality, help you understand what it will mean for your organization, and inspire your company to succeed in the winner-take-all economy.

Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.

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ID: 429843

Title: Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses

Author: Amy Whitaker

Narrator: Kim Niemi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:01:34

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

Anyone from CEO to freelancer knows how hard it is to think big, let alone follow up, while under pressure to get things done. Art Thinking offers practical principles, inspiration, and a healthy dose of pragmatism to help you navigate the difficulties of balancing creative thinking with driving toward results.

With an MBA and an MFA, Amy Whitaker, an entrepreneur-in-residence at the New Museum Incubator, draws on stories of athletes, managers, writers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and even artists to engage you in the process of 'art thinking.' If you are making a work of art in any field, you aren't going from point A to point B. You are inventing point B.

Art Thinking combines the mind-sets of art and the tools of business to protect space for open-ended exploration and manage risks on your way to success. Art Thinking takes you from 'Wouldn't it be cool if . . . ?' to realizing your highest aims, helping you build creative skills you can apply across all facets of business and life. Warm, honest, and unexpected, Art Thinking will help you reimagine your work and life—and even change the world—while enjoying the journey from point A.

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ID: 428871

Title: Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Author: Stefan H. Thomke

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:44:34

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

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

Summary:

Don't fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you.

When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don't work. What does? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if companies roll out new products or introduce new customer experiences without running these experiments? They fly blind.

That's what Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke shows in this rigorously researched and eye-opening book. It guides you through best practices in business experimentation, illustrates how these practices work at leading companies, and answers some fundamental questions: What makes a good experiment? How do you test in online and brick-and-mortar businesses? In B2B and B2C? How do you build an experimentation culture? Also, best practice means running many experiments. Indeed, some hugely successful companies, such as Amazon, Booking.com, and Microsoft, run tens of thousands of controlled experiments annually, engaging millions of users. Thomke shows us how these and many other organizations prove that experimentation provides significant competitive advantage.

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ID: 410623

Title: 33 Meditations on Death: Notes from the Wrong End of Medicine

Author: David Jarrett

Narrator: Simon Bubb

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:39:56

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Social Science, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

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Brilliant - a grimly humourous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern age. Everybody over the age of 60 should read it and ponder their probable future. - Henry Marsh

What is a good death? How would you choose to live your last few months? How do we best care for the rising tide of very elderly?

This unusual and important book is a series of reflections on death in all its forms: the science of it, the medicine, the tragedy and the comedy. Dr David Jarrett draws on family stories and case histories from his thirty years of treating the old, demented and frail to try to find his own understanding of the end. And he writes about all the conversations that we, our parents, our children, the medical community, our government and society as a whole should be having.

Profound, provocative, strangely funny and astonishingly compelling, it is an impassioned plea that we start talking frankly and openly about death. And it is a call to arms for us to make radical changes to our perspective on the seventh age of man.

© David Jarrett 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 395638

Title: No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram Winner of the FT Business Book of the Year Award

Author: Sarah Frier

Narrator: Megan Tusing, Sarah Frier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:20:18

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

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

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

WINNER OF THE 2020 FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Deeply researched and highly entertaining.' The Times

'Vivid reporting and electric story-telling.' Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk

'Clear-eyed and objective.' New York Times

The extraordinary inside story of how Instagram became the world's most successful app

In just ten years, Instagram has gone from being a simple photo app to a $100-billion company. The journey has involved ground-breaking innovations, a billion-dollar takeover, and clashes between some of the biggest names in tech. But it's a story that has never been told - until now.

In No Filter, Bloomberg's Sarah Frier reveals how Instagram became the hottest app in a generation, reshaping our culture and economy in the process. With astonishing access to all the key players - from Instagram's co-founders to super-influencers like Kris Jenner - Frier offers behind-the-scenes glimpses of every moment in the company's life: from its launch, to its unlikely acquisition by Facebook, to its founders' dramatic disputes with their new boss, Mark Zuckerberg.

But this is not just a Silicon Valley story. No Filter explores how Instagram has reshaped global business, creating a new economy of 'influencers' and pioneering a business model that sells an aspirational lifestyle to all of us. And it delves into Instagram's effects on popular culture, rewiring our understanding of celebrity and placing mounting pressure on all of us to perform online - to the point of warping our perception of reality.

The resulting book connects one company's rise to a global revolution in technology, culture and business. Facebook's decision to buy Instagram was the best investment it ever made. But we're still learning about what it has cost the rest of us.

© Sarah Frier 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 398327

Title: Prosecutor

Author: Nazir Afzal

Narrator: Nazir Afzal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:43:58

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law

Summary:

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Meet the true face of British justice.

Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure the most complex, violent and harrowing crimes made it to court, and that their perpetrators were convicted. From the Rochdale sex ring to the earliest prosecutions for honour killing and modern slavery, Nazir was at the forefront of the British legal system for decades.

But his story begins in Birmingham, in the sixties, as a young boy facing racist violence and the tragic death of a young family member - and it's this that sets him on the path to his groundbreaking career, and which enables him to help communities that the conventional justice system ignores, giving a voice to the voiceless.

A memoir of struggle and survival as well as crime and punishment, The Prosecutor is both a searing insight into the justice system and a powerful story of one man's pursuit of the truth.

© Nazir Afzal 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 410617

Title: Start Your Engines: My Unstoppable CrossFit Journey

Author: Sam Briggs

Narrator: Victoria Riley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:23:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Sports, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Fitness

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

You dont get biceps like Briggs by giving up when the going gets tough

CrossFit superstar Sam Briggs, aka The Engine, is a true hero in the sport, with a level of endurance unparalleled in the game. This is the story of how she got to the top, and battled with everything she had to stay there.

Sams memoir takes in the whole story, from being kicked out of ballet lessons as a child but being accepted on the boys sports teams, to working as a firefighter in West Yorkshire for ten years, tackling dangerous and adrenaline-fueled situations on a daily basis, and to taking up CrossFit at the comparatively ancient age of 27. Sam tells of what it took to become champion a mere three years later, and after a year out with a broken patella. Despite the numerous setbacks and debilitating injuries that have plagued her in the years that followed, when most other athletes would have thrown in the towel, Sam has fought, and continues to fight, to be the very best that she can be.

Start Your Engines is the story of how, with a combination of grit, training and dogged motivation, its never too late to achieve your dreams.

© Sam Briggs 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 393087

Title: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 4th Edition

Author: David S. Kidwell, Robert Parrino, Stuart L. Gillan, Thomas Bates

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42:27:13

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance develops the key concepts of corporate finance with an intuitive approach while also emphasizing computational skills, enabling students to develop the critical judgments necessary to apply financial tools in real decision-making situations. The fourth edition offers a level of rigor that is appropriate for both business and finance majors.

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ID: 419617

Title: Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

Author: Alain Hunkins

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizations

Yes, you can learn the skills to effectively lead people, organizations, and employees. With the right motivation and knowledge, you can be a leader who knows what it takes to succeed. Throughout his extensive experience in training leaders, author Alain Hunkins discovered that many leaders shared a common trait. They were mainly focused on what they were doing but not so focused on how they were doing it, especially when it came to working with other people. By strengthening their leadership capabilities, they could become trusted leaders within their organization, improve employee communications, and build bridges across hierarchies. Cracking the Leadership Code shares the valuable principles and practices that Hunkins developed and refined during the twenty-plus years he's worked with leaders.

When you crack the code, you'll have a new operating model for organizational leadership that will help your teams thrive in a twenty-first-century economy. When you learn from the author's insightful experiences working with organizations around the world, you can accelerate your leadership development and become the leader you've always aspired to be.

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ID: 419616

Title: Do You Care to Lead?: A 5 Part Formula for Creating Loyal and Results Focused Teams and Organizations

Author: Michael G. Rogers

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:53:45

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Create loyal, engaged, and results-focused teams and organizations using a practical five-part servant leadership formula.

Think of a world where people go to work completely engaged, are inspired to do more than they ever thought possible, remain 100% loyal to the teams and organizations they belong to, are achieving mind-blowing results, and gladly and even passionately follow their leader's direction. Is that a world you want to be a part of? The reality is, you really can!

In his work with hundreds of leaders and teams, Michael Rogers has created a practical approach to leadership that works. It is the Care to Lead Leader™. Care to Lead Leaders are different than most leaders. Most leaders talk of caring with their lips but are far from actually leading with their hearts.

Care to Lead Leaders lead from their heart. They understand that leading from the heart wins the hearts of those they lead, which makes leading more purposeful and a lot easier.

After listening to this book, you'll have the tools to apply practical servant leadership approaches that create buy-in into bigger visions, improve loyalty and engagement, and move your teams and organizations to unprecedented levels of action.

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