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ID: 391871

Title: Entrepreneurship the Disney Way

Author: Michael G. Goldsby, Rob Mathews

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:07:08

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

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

Summary:

This book focuses on the business story of Walt Disney and the company he built. Combining a unique blend of entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and a relentless drive to bring out the best in his teams, Walt Disney created one of the most successful ventures in business history. Outlining the specific processes of the company, Goldsby and Mathews provide the listener with the tools they need to embrace their own entrepreneurial leadership style, to lead effectively, to be more innovative, and to build a successful organization.

Through the lens of Disney, the listener learns the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. Beginning with a general introduction to the concepts relevant to the entrepreneurial organization today, the book examines how Disney built his empire and how the company remains an industry leader. The book also provides the opportunity to take the Entrepreneurial Leadership Instrument, which measures one's style in leading entrepreneurial ventures.

Entrepreneurship the Disney Way brings entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership to life through the compelling story of one of the most recognizable businessmen and companies of our time.

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ID: 380812

Title: Kochland

Author: Christopher Leonard

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:18:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-19

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year.

‘A landmark book....A massively reported deep dive into the unparalleled corporate industrial giant Koch Industries....This impressively researched and well-rendered book also serves as a biography of Charles Koch, with Leonard providing an evenhanded treatment of the tycoon. Leonard's work is on par with Steve Coll's Private Empire and even Ida Tarbell's enduring classic The History of the Standard Oil Company.’ Kirkus Reviews

 

‘Leonard’s superb investigations and even-handed, clear-eyed reportage stand out....American capitalism at its most successful and domineering is at the center of this sweeping history of a much-vilified company.’ Publishers Weekly

 

‘If you want a crash course in the evolution of postmodern capitalism over the last five decades read Kochland....Leonard's study is exhaustive and engaging.’ New York Journal of Books

The extraordinary account of how the secretive Koch Industries became one of the largest private companies in the world.

Koch Industries, the sprawling industrial conglomerate owned by Charles and David Koch, specializes in the kinds of stunningly profitable businesses that undergird every aspect of modern life: it controls the nitrogen fertilizer that puts food on your table, the gasoline that powers your car, the fibres in your clothes, the building materials that make your homes and offices, and the microchips that drive your life online.

For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating behind a veil of secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He’s a genius businessman: patient with profits, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop an almost a worshipful dedication to free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. 

If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, how we stalled progress on climate change and how corporate America bought the influence industry, all you have to do is listen to this book.

Seven years in the making, Kochland tells the ambitious tale of how one private company consolidated power over half a century – and how in doing so, transformed capitalism into something that feels so deeply alienating to many Americans today.

 

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ID: 360633

Title: Warehouse

Author: Rob Hart

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller, Jason Culp, Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:08:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

'Engrossing ... it will make you forget all about your favourite streaming service for a few nights...' Stephen King

'Featuring an explosive twist-in-the-tail climax, this terrifying hybrid of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Zamyatin's We is a triumph' Guardian

In a world ravaged by bankruptcy and unemployment, Cloud is the only company left worth working for. But what will it cost you?

Amidst the wreckage of America, Cloud reigns supreme. Cloud brands itself not just as an online storefront, but as a global saviour. Yet, beneath the sunny exterior, lurks something far more sinister.

Paxton never thought hed be working Security for the company that ruined his life, much less that hed be moving into one of their sprawling live-work facilities. But compared to whats left outside, perhaps Cloud isnt so bad. Better still, through his work he meets Zinnia, who fills him with hope for their shared future.

Except that Zinnia is not what she seems. And Paxton, with his all-access security credentials, might just be her meal ticket.

As Paxton and Zinnias agendas place them on a collision course, theyre about to learn just how far the Cloud will go to make the world a better place.

To beat the system, you have to be inside it.

What people are saying about The Warehouse:

'Literary blockbuster Observer

A triumph Guardian

Brilliantly imagined BBC Culture

Inventive, addictive Paul Tremblay

Thrilling Blake Crouch

An Orwellian thriller Publishers Weekly

Wildly imaginative yet terrifyingly real Riley Sager

Taut, tense and masterful Chuck Wendig

'One of the breakout books of the year' Barnes & Noble

'Holds up a dark mirror to our times' San Francisco Chronicle

'A jet black satire of modern consumerism' Waterstones

'A thriller of ideas ... taut action, incisive cultural commentary ... shades of Fahrenheit 451 and Jurassic Park.' USA Today

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ID: 391867

Title: Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods

Author: Marcelo Bucheli, R. Daniel Wadhwani

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:29:43

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Why does history matter to our understanding of management, organizations, and markets? What theoretical insights can it offer into organizational processes? How can scholars use historical sources and methods to address research questions in management and organization studies?

This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. It examines the reasons for the growing interest in historically grounded research in management departments and business schools, and considers both the intellectual and practical questions the endeavor faces.

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ID: 391414

Title: Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success 2nd Edition

Author: David L. Dinwoodie, Katherine Colarelli Beatty, Richard L. Hughes

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:37:12

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

In the second edition of the bestselling Becoming a Strategic Leader, Richard L. Hughes, Katherine Colarelli Beatty, and David L. Dinwoodie draw from the Center for Creative Leadership's (CCL) acclaimed Leading Strategically program to offer executives and managers a comprehensive approach to strategic leadership that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations.

This thoroughly revised edition concentrates on practical tools for producing impact right away. The authors place special emphasis on three essential strategic components: discovering and prioritizing strategic drivers, which determine sustainability and competitiveness; leadership strategy, which ignites the connections between people critical to enacting the business strategy; and how to foster the individual and organizational learning that is foundational to sustained performance.

The authors and other leadership development professionals have used the distinctive and systematic approach described in this book with great success in CCL's Leading Strategically program. The second edition also contains improved self-assessments that help to align the book's lessons learned with the program's current practices.

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ID: 391409

Title: What Anyone Can Do: How Surrounding Yourself with the Right People Will Drive Change, Opportunity, and Personal Growth

Author: Leo Bottary

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:29:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

In his 1976 book The Long Run Solution, Joe Henderson suggested that becoming truly accomplished at running (or at anything) doesn't typically require us to perform superhuman feats. In fact, success is frequently realized by those who simply do the things anyone can do that most of us never will.

In What Anyone Can Do, with the help of Leo Bottary's Year of the Peer podcast guests, you'll discover that if you surround yourself with the right people, you'll do the things anyone can do far more often. And when you do that, you and the people around you will realize more of what you want out of business and life. It's that simple.

The Power of Peers (2016) made a strong case for how and why formal peer groups are so effective. This book steps outside the formal peer group arena to examine all the important relationships we have in our lives (parents, teachers, spouses, mentors, children, mentees, etc.) and provides a practical approach and specific framework for harnessing their power for your benefit (and theirs). It's what anyone can do. You're anyone, right?

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ID: 391874

Title: Follow the Feeling: Brand Building in a Noisy World

Author: Kai D. Wright

Narrator: Kai D. Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:56:21

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising

Summary:

In Follow the Feeling, strategy advisor Kai D. Wright answers a critical question plaguing entrepreneurs, brand strategists, marketers, and leaders: how do you grow your brand in a noisy world? Analyzing 1,500 fast-growing companies from Alibaba to Zara, the Columbia University lecturer and Ogilvy global consulting partner unpacks five branding secrets. Starting with behavioral economic principles and ending with a new systems-based approach to brand building, Wright offers listeners one metric that trumps the hundreds entangling brand value, feelings.

Follow the Feeling will show you how to best build and position your brand so you can stand out from competitors, build a tribe, and engineer a positive feeling across five important branding territories—lexicon, audio cues, visual stimuli, experience, and culture. Through storytelling, global research, and practical tips, this valuable book will help you and your organization efficiently create and deploy a comprehensive brand strategy across the organization; quickly launch new brands or reboot existing brands for growth; build tribes from audiences, consumers, clients, and partners; and lean into the convergence of communication, culture, digital, and technology.

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ID: 354918

Title: Gone

Author: Leona Deakin

Narrator: Emily Bruni

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:31:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Four strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read:

YOUR GIFT IS THE GAME.

DARE TO PLAY?

The police arent worried its just a game. But the families are frantic, and psychologist and private detective Dr Augusta Bloom is persuaded to investigate. As she delves into the lives of the missing people, she finds something that binds them all.

And that something makes them very dangerous indeed.

As more disappearances are reported and new birthday cards uncovered, Dr Bloom races to unravel the mystery and find the puppeteer. But is she playing into their hands?

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ID: 360365

Title: 13-Minute Murder

Author: James Patterson

Narrator: Brandon Williams, Kevin T. Collins, Macleod Andrews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:26:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

From an assassin on the run to a family rife with scandal, this thrilling short story collection is packed with murder, revenge, and shocking twists.

13-MINUTE MURDER WITH SHAN SERAFIN:

Michael Ryan can kill anybody in just minutes - from the first approach to the clean escape. An anonymous client offers Ryan a rich payout to assassinate a target in Harvard Yard. It's exactly the last big job he needs to walk away from his life as a hit-man. But the hit goes horribly wrong, and now his beloved wife Maria is missing. Now the world's fastest hit-man sets out for one last score: revenge. And every minute counts.

DEAD MAN RUNNING WITH CHRISTOPHER FARNSWORTH:

Dr Randall Beck is an eccentric psychiatrist with a terminal disease. This makes him fearless, which comes in handy when a patient is murdered before his eyes - a patient with an unspeakable secret.

KILL AND TELL WITH SCOTT SLAVEN:

Famous film director Wayne Tennet stands accused by his stepdaughter of crossing the line. Falsely, he swears. Now his life and career hang in the balance. But why would she lie?

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ID: 369652

Title: Chain Across the Dawn

Author: Drew Williams

Narrator: Brittany Pressley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:54:24

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-19

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

Bigger spaceships. Bigger explosions. Bigger planets.  Bigger problems.

It's been three years since Esa joined the ranks of the Justified after her rescue from the fanatical murderers the Pax. Together, Esa and her mentor Kamali travel from planet to planet, searching for children with supernatural abilities. It's hard work, but Esa has never felt more assured of her place in the universe. 

 

On a visit to a planet so remote that its inhabitants never learned that the Sect Wars ended over a hundred years ago, they learn that the Justified are not the only people searching for gifted children. There is a creature with unexpected powers who will stop at nothing to get its hands on the children that Esa and Kamali are trying to rescue.

 

With their latest recruit in tow -- a young Wulf child named Sho -- Esa and Kamali will travel halfway across the galaxy in pursuit of answers. But the answers only lead to more questions, and the danger will only increase as their terrifying nemesis turns his eyes on them.

* * * Praise for Drew Williams and his debut novel, The Stars Now Unclaimed* * *

‘The only thing more fun than a bonkers space battle is a whole book packed with bonkers space battles. Come for the exploding spaceships, stay for the intriguing universe’ Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

‘A total blast’ Rob Boffard, author of Tracer

Pirates, smugglers, soldiers, spies, snarky spaceships, and really big guns . . . and that's just the first chapter. The action gets bigger, the stakes get higher, and I loved it!’ Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

 

‘A non-stop SF actioner, The Stars Now Unclaimed is a rollercoaster of a read and thoroughly enjoyable debut’ Jamie Sawyer, author of The Lazarus War

 

‘A massive, galaxy-spanning tale of war, betrayal, friendship, and the kind of commitment people make to a better future even at the cost of their own lives. You don't want to miss this amazing, kick-ass book’ K.B. Wagers, author of Behind the Throne

 

‘Kamali is a kick-ass heroine who gets the job done and never loses her sense of humor . . . The action is non-stop, and filled with brilliant and unexpected laugh-out-loud moments… a sci-fi thrill ride from start to finish’ Catherine Cerveny, author of The Rule of Luck

 

‘A fast, fun, and heartfelt adventure through a truly unique universe. From the first page to the last, it's impossible to put down’ K.S. Merbeth, author of Bite

 

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