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ID: 413739

Title: If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders

Author: Doug Moran

Narrator: Doug Moran

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:46:50

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

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

Summary:

If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders provides listeners with guidance for any sort of leadership journey. Whether you are a seasoned executive or just starting your first leadership role, this book will help you grow as a leader. Doug Moran starts by posing four critical questions for every listener to consider: 1. Who am I? 2. What do I want? 3. How can I get others to make their own choice to follow me? 4. How can I earn and retain the privilege to lead? If You Will Lead helps each listener discover his or her own answers to these pivotal questions.

Moran has taken Rudyard Kipling's classic poem 'If—' and created a leadership framework out of it that comprises sixteen eternal and essential leadership attributes. He draws on noteworthy historical events to illustrate how great leaders like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, and others applied these leadership attributes to achieve extraordinary results.

If You Will Lead uses the power of storytelling to teach its leadership lessons. It combines bigger-than-life examples with everyday stories to help leaders apply its lessons to their own leadership challenges, whatever they may be. It's a practical guide that offers numerous resources and tools to help listeners hone their skills and achieve their full potential.

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ID: 403895

Title: HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Jonathan Yen, Randye Kaye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:24:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

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

Summary:

This big initiative could make or break this fiscal year—or your career.

Strategic initiatives are where the rubber meets the road when it comes to putting strategy into action, and leading a critical initiative may be the key to propelling your career forward. Yet managing a cross-functional team on a high-profile project can present a multitude of challenges and risks, causing even the most experienced manager to struggle.

The HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives provides practical tips and advice to help you manage all the stages of an initiative's life cycle, from buy-in to launch, implementation to scaling up or winding down. You'll learn how to: launch an initiative in a way that maximizes its chance of success, assemble a team that's ready to perform, gather the resources you need, stay on schedule and within budget, avoid losing momentum once the initiative is up and running, maintain the confidence of sponsors and stakeholders, and put strategy into action.

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ID: 415608

Title: Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women

Author: David G. Smith, W. Brad Johnson

Narrator: Dana Hickox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:41:30

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Increasingly, new employees and junior members of any profession are encouraged—sometimes stridently—to 'find a mentor!' Four decades of research reveals that the effects of mentorship can be profound and enduring; strong mentoring relationships have the capacity to transform individuals and entire organizations.

But the mentoring landscape is unequal. Evidence consistently shows that women face more barriers in securing mentorships than men, and when they do find a mentor, they may reap a narrow range of both professional and psychological benefits. Athena Rising is a book for men about how to eliminate this problem by mentoring women deliberately and effectively.

Traditional notions of mentoring are modeled on male-to-male relationships, yet women often report a desire for mentoring that addresses their interpersonal needs. Women want mentors who not only understand this, but truly honor it. Coauthors W. Brad Johnson and David G. Smith present a straightforward, no-nonsense manual for men working in all types of institutions, organizations, and businesses to become excellent mentors to women, because as women succeed, lean in, and assume leading roles in any organization or work context, the culture will become more egalitarian, effective, and prone to retaining top talent.

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ID: 398127

Title: Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Companys Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy

Author: Michael Beer

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:33:07

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

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

Summary:

In thirty years of working in corporations, Michael Beer has witnessed how organizational silence has derailed many a strategic objective. When lower-level employees in the organization can't speak truth to power, senior leaders don't hear what they need to hear about their firm's fitness to compete. Employees lose trust in higher-ups and become more resistant to change.

In Fit to Compete, Beer presents an antidote to silence—an innovative and highly effective process for holding honest conversations with everyone in your organization. Used by over 150 organizations across the globe, the Strategic Fitness Process has helped leaders in industries as diverse as medical technology, restaurant chains, and pharmaceuticals hear the raw and necessary truth about the sources of misalignment between their strategies and their organizations.

In addition to a step-by-step guide, Beer offers detailed and illustrative case studies of companies that have used the Strategic Fitness Process to great effect. He also shows how to apply the process more broadly, to a variety of strategic challenges and at multiple levels throughout the organization.

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ID: 405081

Title: Quantum Entanglement

Author: Jed Brody

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics

Summary:

Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum entanglement rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning and irrefutable evidence of the opposite. Is quantum entanglement mystical, or just mystifying? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jed Brody equips listeners to decide for themselves. He explains how our commonsense assumptions impose constraints—from which entangled particles break free.

Brody explores such concepts as local realism, Bell's inequality, polarization, time dilation, and special relativity. He introduces listeners to imaginary physicists Alice and Bob and their photon analyses; points out that it's easier to reject falsehood than establish the truth; and reports that some physicists explain entanglement by arguing that we live in a cross-section of a higher-dimensional reality. He also examines a variety of viewpoints held by physicists, including quantum decoherence, Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation, genuine fortuitousness, and QBism.

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ID: 393469

Title: Memory Wood

Author: Sam Lloyd

Narrator: Emily Beecham, Joe Jameson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:25:53

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Gripping, twisty and addictive, The Memory Wood is a thriller like no other.

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Elijah has lived in the Memory Wood for as long as he can remember. It's the only home he's ever known.

Elissa has only just arrived. And she'll do everything she can to escape.

When Elijah stumbles across thirteen-year-old Elissa, in the woods where her abductor is hiding her, he refuses to alert the police. Because in his twelve years, Elijah has never had a proper friend. And he doesn't want Elissa to leave.

Not only that, Elijah knows how this can end. After all, Elissa isn't the first girl he's found inside the Memory Wood.

As her abductor's behaviour grows more erratic, Elissa realises that outwitting strange, lonely Elijah is her only hope of survival. Their cat-and-mouse game of deception and betrayal will determine both their fates, and whether either of them will ever leave the Memory Wood . . .

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'Superbly creepy' Guardian

'Brilliant writing, a terrifying story, and characters so real it feels like you know them' Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife

'Beautifully told, with two superbly drawn young protagonists, Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent' Daily Mail

'Beautifully written, fast-paced' Heat

'You'll be breathless with anticipation, tingling with hope, and numb with dread from beginning to end' Press Association

'An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller' Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door

'Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time' Lesley Kara, author of The Rumour

'The Memory Wood is impossible to put down. It's so wonderfully written, creepily atmospheric and chilling' Karen Hamilton, author of The Perfect Girlfriend

Readers love The Memory Wood

'A very clever psychological thriller. Dark, creepy and intense.'

'Oh my goodness, what a ride! I loved, loved, loved The Memory Wood.'

'One of the best examples of a page-turner that I've read in a long time.'

'The writing style was beautiful and elegant for a story so dark and twisted.'

'Deliciously dark... fresh and imaginative.'

'WOW! Do not be deceived in thinking that this is like any other thriller you have read. It is not.'

'The twists and turns in The Memory Wood will astound. This book is undoubtedly the best I've read this year.'

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**** THE RISING TIDE, Sam Lloyd's electrifying new thriller, is available to pre-order now****

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ID: 391199

Title: When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

Author: Ariana Neumann

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:08:15

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture, Military

Summary:

KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS

WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE

‘Beautifully told' – John le Carré

‘More than just history’ – Michael Palin

In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.

When her father dies and leaves her a box of clues, Ariana Neumann uncovers a heritage she knew nothing about. Exploring the joys and sorrows of the Neumann family, she learns through her tireless investigations why her father, a successful entrepreneur in Venezuela, never spoke about his past. How as a young man from Prague he boldly deceived the Gestapo by doing the unimaginable.

Spanning nearly ninety years, this is an unforgettable memoir about resilience, hope and love in the midst of tragedy. A tribute to the lost, and a celebration of all that connects us, and of the courage it takes to keep going. Because the darkest shadow always lies beneath the candle.

 

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ID: 386377

Title: Springtime Affair

Author: Katie Fforde

Narrator: Rebecca Lacey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:25:07

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

'Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.' AJ PEARCE

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape.

It's the season of new beginnings for Helena and Gilly.

Gilly runs her own B&B business from her much-loved family home, which she doesn't want to part with - at any price.

But that's before she meets handsome estate agent Leo, and soon she begins to wonder whether selling up might not be such a bad idea after all.

Meanwhile Gilly's daughter Helena has a budding romance of her own. A talented weaver, she's becoming very close to her new landlord, Jago, who's offered to help her at an upcoming craft fair.

It's what friends do, and they are just friends. Aren't they?

With spring in full bloom, Helena and Gilly begin to ask themselves the same question:

Might their new loves lead to happily ever after?

'Modern-day Austen' WOMAN AND HOME

'Katie's books are so full of warmth and charm and I always hear her voice telling me the story. She is the absolute queen of feel-good escapism with lovely, quirky characters and an ahhhh factor at the end. Reading a Katie Fforde is like getting in a lovely hot bath with scented oils and relaxing salt.' JANE WENHAM-JONES

'Katie's writing is life-enhancing and, like the love affairs, delicious. I enjoyed every minute!' ELIZABETH BUCHAN

The whole world loves Katie Fforde's work:

'Like a good wedding, it will leave you wiping away the tears' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Modern-day Austen. Great fun' RED

'Katie's writing is life-enhancing and, like the love affairs, delicious. I enjoyed every minute!' ELIZABETH BUCHAN

'Top-drawer romantic escapism' DAILY MAIL

'Warm, brilliant and full of love' HEAT

'Delicious - gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches' SUNDAY TIMES

'Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun' CLOSER

'Curl up on the sofa with this book and dream ... delightful' THE LADY

'Deliciously enjoyable' WOMAN AND HOME

'Uplifting and delightful' HOT BRANDS COOL PLACES

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ID: 408148

Title: Homecoming

Author: Ellie Dean

Narrator: Julie Maisey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Sagas

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

THE EIGHTEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East, but for those living at Beach View Boarding House, the news brings mixed emotions.

Peggy Reilly is devastated that her husband Jim will not be coming home for Christmas. And Sarah and Jane, who have lived at Beach View throughout much of the conflict, dread what they will find when they go back to Singapore.

Life in Cliffehaven is in a whirlwind of change as the men return from the war and Peggys evacuee chicks begin to spread their wings and start new lives in different corners of the world.

Peggy and Jim have longed to be together after so many years apart, but war has left them profoundly changed. Can they rekindle the loving, close relationship theyd shared before?

© Ellie Dean 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 404703

Title: My Wild and Sleepless Nights: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Author: Clover Stroud

Narrator: Clover Stroud

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:07:14

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be.

My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair.

Charting the course of one year, the first in her youngest childs life, Clover searches for answers to questions that many of us would be too afraid to admit to not only about motherhood, but also about female sexuality and identity. Her story will speak to all mothers, and anyone about to embark on that journey.

'Clover Stroud is a remarkable woman, and an incredible writer.' - Bryony Gordon

Clover Stroud is a force of nature. Elizabeth Gilbert

© Clover Stroud 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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