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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415624 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st CenturyAuthor: Jeff LawsonNarrator: Jeff LawsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 1 minuteRelease date: January 12, 2021Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Jeff Lawson, developer turned CEO of Twilio (one of Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2021), creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation. From banking and retail to insurance and finance, every industry is turning digital, and every company needs the best software to win the hearts and minds of customers. The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die. Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition? Software developers are sought after, highly paid, and desperately needed to compete in the modern, digital economy. Yet most companies treat them like digital factory workers without really understanding how to unleash their full potential. Lawson argues that developers are the creative workforce who can solve major business problems and create hit products for customersânot just grind through rote tasks. From Google and Amazon, to one-person online software companiesâcompanies that bring software developers in as partners are winning. Lawson shows how leaders who build industry changing software products consistently do three things well. First, they understand why software developers matter more than ever. Second, they understand developers and know how to motivate them. And third, they invest in their developers' success. As a software developer and public company CEO, Lawson uses his unique position to bridge the language and tools executives use with the unique culture of high performing, creative software developers. Ask Your Developer is a toolkit to help business leaders, product managers, technical leaders, software developers, and executives achieve their common goalâbuilding great digital products and experiences. How to compete in the digital economy? In short: Ask Your Developer.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415430 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How To Talk To Robots: A Girlsâ Guide To a Future Dominated by AIAuthor: Tabitha GoldstaubNarrator: Imogen WildeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 34 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: ââŠan essential and fascinating manual for every woman who wants to understand equality within an ever-changing, modern world.â Scarlett Curtis ââŠ[this book] taught me more than any book has ever taught me about AI.â Chris Evans, Virgin Radio How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI world with a warm embrace. She brilliantly breaks down the tech-bro barriers offering a straightforward introduction and makes clear the enormous benefits of understanding AI. If your social feed defines your spending habits or youâve downloaded the latest filter to see what youâll look like when you are old or now connect with your doctor using an app, have applied for a job online or used your phone to arrive at work in record time, AI is playing a part in how you live, work and play. We live in an era where machines are taught to learn and act without human intervention and there are infinite possibilities to their applications. The risk of these technologies biasing against you is real, and this book will give you tools to navigate the current and future developments consciously. As well as explaining the risks Tabitha lays out the awesome benefits AI can offer. From spotting disease to tailoring education and tackling climate change the potential rewards are life-changing. Starting with a potted history, Tabitha shines a light on the many unsung heroines since the rise of AI in the 1960s. In conversation with Karen Hao she simply demonstrates how the technology works (and sometimes doesnât work!) and interviews a cross-section of women who use AI in their work today including Jeanette Winterson, Sharmadean Reid, Martha Lane Fox and Hannah Fry. This book doesnât just present the challenge; Tabitha offers supportive practical advice and shares an extensive list of books, films, courses and more for further exploration. However it is that you identify with womanhood, wherever you are in life, and whatever you do, this technology is inescapable and now is your time to make sure AI works for you â and not you for it!
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408634 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Power Your Profits: How to Take Your Business from $10,000 to $10,000,000Author: Susie CarderNarrator: Susie CarderFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 16 minutesRelease date: September 22, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Discover how to create âsuccess in all aspects of life and businessâ (Lisa Nichols, New York Times bestselling author) with this comprehensive, bulletproof plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark straight from the inventor of the Predictable Success Methodâą. In the United States, most small business owners struggle daily to make ends meet. Two-thirds of businesses earn less than $25,000 a year. Thankfully, Susie Carderâentrepreneur and business coach to everyone from Steve Harvey to Paul Mitchellâhas developed the ultimate formula for incredible success. But she didnât create it overnight. Susie Carder was at rock bottom financially during the Great Recession of 2008 when she was inspired to dig in and rebuild her fortune from the ground up. Today, she takes what she learned during that difficult time and shares her radical business strategies that have helped countless entrepreneurs and small business owners increase their revenues by more than 3,000%. As the creator of the Predictable Success Methodâą, Carder has a proven, twenty-year track record that includes building two $10 million companies herself, which she later sold. Filled with clear-eyed and practical advice, Power Your Profits teaches you how to run your daily operations, understand your finances, account for sales, and employ marketing systems that lead to predictable and substantial revenue and profit growth. And now, sheâs sharing her hard-won wisdomâworth $5,000 an hour in coaching feesâwith you.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415155 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and SocietyAuthor: Erich JoachimsthalerNarrator: Jason CulpFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 54 minutesRelease date: September 15, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Learn how the most successful businesses are creating value and igniting smart growth in a fast-paced, competitive market. Most businesses today focus on competition and disruption instead of collaboration, participation, and engagement. They focus on transactions instead of interactions. They seek to optimize or extract value rather than share it. They build assets and thrive on enormous scale, huge distribution networks, and brand recognition. But then along comes a rival that doesn't care much about your brand and your other assets, and it either rushes past you or mows you down. In The Interaction Field, management expert and professor Erich Joachimsthaler explains that the only way to thrive in this environment is through the Interaction Field model. Companies who embrace this model generate, facilitate, and benefit from data exchanges among multiple people and groups -- from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn't expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators, and even competitors. And everyone in the field works together to solve big, industry-wide, or complex and unpredictable societal problems. The future is going to be about creating value for everyone. Businesses that solve immediate challenges of people today and also the major social and economic challenges of the future are the ones that will survive and grow.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415122 to listen full audiobooks.Title: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of ReinventionAuthor: Reed Hastings, Erin MeyerNarrator: Allyson Ryan, Jason CulpFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 42 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.77 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 4.76 of Total 17Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Hard work is irrelevant. Be radically honest. Adequate performance gets a generous severance. And never, ever try to please your boss. These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 125 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation bigger than Disney. Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy - which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate - and how it plays out in practice at Netflix. From unlimited holidays to abolishing financial approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organisation, one far more in tune with a fast-paced world. For anyone interested in creativity, productivity and innovation, the Netflix culture is something close to a holy grail. This book will make it, and its creator, fully accessible for the first time. ©Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413668 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable GoodnessAuthor: Max H. BazermanNarrator: Rich MillerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 19 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman explores how we can make more ethical choices by aspiring to be better, not perfect. Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. Theyâre largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensionsâand we neednât seek perfection to make a real difference for ourselves and the world. Better, Not Perfect provides a deeply researched, prescriptive roadmap for how to maximize our pleasure and minimize pain. Bazerman shares a framework to be smarter and more efficient, honest and awareâto attain your âmaximum sustainable goodness.â In Part Two, he identifies four training grounds to practice these newfound skills for outsized impact: how you think about equality and your tribe(s); wasteâfrom garbage to corporate excess; the way you spend time; and your approach to givingâwhether your attention or your money. Ready to nudge yourself toward better, Part Three trains your eye on how to extend what youâve learned and positively influence others. Melding philosophy and psychology as never before, this down-to-earth guide will help clarify your goals, assist you in doing more good with your limited time on the planet, and see greater satisfaction in the process. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413180 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters MostAuthor: Andrew L. Russell, Lee VinselNarrator: Rob ShapiroFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 27 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: âInnovationâ is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most? âThe most important book Iâve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it: Focus on understanding what it takes for your products and services to last.ââTim OâReilly, founder of OâReilly Media Itâs hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether itâs genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on thestate of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell argue that our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, andâironicallyâless innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, The Innovation Delusion shows how the ideology of change for its own sake has proved a disaster. Corporations have spent millions hiring chief innovation officers while their core businesses tank. Computer science programs have drilled their students on programming and design, even though theoverwhelming majority of jobs are in IT and maintenance. In countless cities, suburban sprawl has left local governments with loads of deferred repairs that they canât afford to fix. And sometimes innovation even killsâlike in 2018 when a Miami bridge hailed for its innovative design collapsed onto a highway and killed six people. In this provocative, deeply researched book, Vinsel and Russell tell the story of how we devalued the work that underpins modern lifeâand, in doing so, wrecked our economy and public infrastructure while lining the pockets of consultants who combine the ego of Silicon Valley with the worst of Wall Streetâs greed. The authors offer a compelling plan for how we can shift our focus away from the pursuit of growth at all costs, and back toward neglected activities like maintenance, care, and upkeep. For anyone concerned by the crumbling state of our roads and bridges or the direction our economy is headed, The Innovation Delusion is a deeply necessary reevaluation of a trend we can still disrupt.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410930 to listen full audiobooks.Title: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of ReinventionSeries: #2 of Younger SeriesAuthor: Reed Hastings, Erin MeyerNarrator: Allyson Ryan, Jason CulpFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 42 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed. Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrelÂevant. At Netflix, you donât try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees donât need approval, and the company pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. But in just a short period, their methods led to unparalleled speed and boldness, as Netflix quickly became one of the most loved brands in the world. Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the worldâs most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastingsâs own career, No Rules Rules is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the worldâs most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies. *Includes a PDF containing examples of Netflix Culture Maps from the book.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/409939 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Unstoppable Startup: Mastering Israel's Secret Rules of ChutzpahAuthor: Uri AdoniNarrator: Tom ParksFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 8 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Discover the bold secrets to Israelâs incredible track record of success in this new guide that will help make any startup unstoppable. More than half of all startups fail - often during the crucial early stages of development when they need to prove their viability on a limited budget. However, when it comes to startup success, one country stands out: Israel. Even though it is a relatively small country, Israel has one of the highest concentrations of startups in the world, has the highest venture capital per capita, is one of the top countries in terms of number of companies listed on NASDAQ, and is well-recognized as a global leader in research and development. In The Unstoppable Startup, veteran venture capitalist Uri Adoni goes behind the scenes to explain the principles and practices that can make any startup, anywhere in the world, become an unstoppable one. Packed with insider accounts from leaders who have realized bold visions, The Unstoppable Startup distills Israeli chutzpah into six operational rules that will help you to: - Build an unstoppable team; - Foresee the future and innovate to meet its demands; - Manage your funding and partnerships through all phases of growth; - Dominate the market category you are after or create a new one; - Build and manage an early stage investment vehicle; - Build and grow a healthy high-tech ecosystem. Adoni implemented these practices throughout his more than 12 years as a venture capitalist for one of Israel's most successful venture funds, and he continues to utilize these same proven startup strategies today in metropolitan areas in the US. The Unstoppable Startup provides readers with insights and operational advice on how to run a startup, and how to overcome challenges?that almost every startup faces.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405493 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Supermaker: Crafting Business on Your Own TermsAuthor: Jaime SchmidtNarrator: Jaime SchmidtFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 36 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Supermaker is a guide to business and career development by Jaime Schmidt: acclaimed entrepreneur, founder of Schmidt's Naturals, and icon of the Maker Movement. In Supermaker, she shares how you too can start or grow your own business with advice on branding, product development, social media marketing, scaling, PR, and customer engagement, all based on her own hard-won mastery. In just seven years, Jaime Schmidt went from making natural products in her Portland, Oregon, kitchen to turning her brand into a household name and selling her company to Unileverâwithout sacrificing the integrity of her product or her creative vision. âą Listeners learn how to get ahead on their own terms and while maintaining their commitment to fair and sustainable principles. âą A valuable resource to the ever-growing community of business owners and entrepreneurs who want to go from maker to magnate. âą Candid advice from an industry disruptor. Following her growth from farmers' market stand to international brand, Jaime's book is a riveting mix of inspiration, the honest airing of mistakes, and indispensable instruction. Supermaker empowers and unites the next generation of entrepreneurs. âą A go-to guide for the passion-to-profit journey. âą The perfect listen for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, creatives, and anyone with an interest in natural products, selling your products online, retail strategy, and digital marketing. âą Great for anyone who enjoyed Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, Craft, Inc: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco, and The Girls' Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur by Caitlin Friedman.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396850 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American FarmAuthor: Sarah FreyNarrator: Sarah FreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 41 minutesRelease date: August 25, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: âA gutsy success storyâ (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious womanâs journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming businessâwithout ever leaving the land she loves The youngest of her parentsâ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner alongside her brothers. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big cityâor really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business with nothing more than an old pickup truck. Two years later, when the family farm faced inevitable foreclosure, Frey gave up on her dreams of escape, took over the farm, and created her own produce company. Refusing to play by traditional rules, at seventeen she began talking her way into suit-filled boardrooms, making deals with the nationâs largest retailers. Her early negotiations became so legendary that Harvard Business School published some of her deals as case studies, which have turned out to be favorites among its students. Today, her family-operated company, Frey Farms, has become one of Americaâs largest fresh produce growers and shippers, with farmland spread across seven states. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Frey has been dubbed âAmericaâs Pumpkin Queenâ by the national press. The Growing Season tells the inspiring story of how a scrappy rural childhood gave Frey the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, she found adventure and opportunity in one of the most forgotten parts of our country. With fearlessness and creativity, she literally dug her destiny out of the dirt.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410306 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Accountable: The Rise of Citizen CapitalismAuthor: Michael O'leary, Warren ValdmanisNarrator: Joe KnezevichFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 5 minutesRelease date: August 18, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: âMore than ever before, this is the book our economy needs.â â Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation âUnwilling to settle for easy answers or superficial changes, OâLeary and Valdmanis push us all to ask more of our economic system.â â Senator Michael F. Bennet This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself. Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix themâcorporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government controlârisk making our problems worse. With lively storytelling and careful analysis, OâLeary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: If we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good. What happens when the sustainability-driven CEO of Unilever takes on the efficiency-obsessed Warren Buffett? Does Kelloggâsâa company founded to serve a healthy breakfastâhave a sacred duty to sell sugary cereal if thatâs what maximizes profit? For decades, government has tried to curb CEO pay but failed. Why? Can Harvard students force the university to divest from oil and gas? Does it even matter if they do? OâLeary and Valdmanis, two iconoclastic investors, take us on a fast-paced insiderâs journey that will change the way we look at corporations. Likely to spark controversy among cynics and dreamers alike, this book is essential reading for anyone with a stake in reforming capitalismâwhich means all of us.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405106 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in AppalachiaAuthor: Chris HambyNarrator: Gary TiedemannFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 1 minuteRelease date: August 18, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced Congress to enact long-overdue legislation designed to virtually eradicate black lung disease and provide fair compensation to coal miners stricken with the illness. Today, however, both promises remain unfulfilled. Levels of disease have surged, the old scourge has taken an aggressive new form, and ailing miners and widows have been left behind by a dizzying legal system, denied even modest payments and medical care. In this urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby traces the unforgettable story of how these trends converge in the lives of two men: Gary Fox, a black lung-stricken West Virginia coal miner determined to raise his family from poverty, and John Cline, an idealistic carpenter and rural medical clinic worker who becomes a lawyer in his fifties. Opposing them are the lawyers at the coal industryâs go-to law firm; well-credentialed doctors who often weigh in for the defense, including an elite unit Johns Hopkins; and Garyâs former employer, Massey Energy, a regional powerhouse run by a cantankerous CEO often portrayed in the media as a dark lord of the coalfields. On the line in Gary and Johnâs longshot legal battle are fundamental principles of fairness and justice, with consequences for miners and their loved ones throughout the nation. Taking readers inside courtrooms, hospitals, homes tucked in Appalachian hollows, and dusty mine tunnels, Hamby exposes how coal companies have not only continually flouted a law meant to protect miners from deadly amounts of dust but also enlisted well-credentialed doctors and lawyers to help systematically deny much-needed benefits to miners. The result is a legal and medical thriller that brilliantly illuminates how a band of laborers â aided by a small group of lawyers, doctors and lay advocates, often working out of their homes or in rural clinics and tiny offices â challenged one of the world's most powerful forces, Big Coal, and won. âHarrowing and cinematic,â (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Soul Full of Coal Dust is a necessary and timely book about injustice and resistance.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396838 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any FieldAuthor: Mike MichalowiczNarrator: Mike MichalowiczFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 7 minutesRelease date: August 4, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay aliveâlet alone growâitâs easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of âsell itâdo it, sell itâdo itâ that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try.This is the exact situation Mike Michalowicz found himself in when he was trying to grow his first company. Although it was making steady money, there was never very much left over and he was chasing customers left and right, putting in twenty-eight-hour days, eight days a week. The punishing grind never let up. His company was alive but stunted, and he was barely breathing. Thatâs when he discovered an unlikely source of inspirationâpumpkin farmers. After reading an article about a local farmer who had dedicated his life to growing giant pumpÂkins, Michalowicz realized the same process could apply to growing a business. He tested the Pumpkin Plan on his own company and transformed it into a remarkable, multimillion-dollar industry leader. First he did it for himself. Then for others. And now you. So what is the Pumpkin Plan? âą Plant the right seeds: Donât waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers. Instead, identify the thing you do better than anyone else and focus all of your attention, money, and time on figuring out how to grow your company doing it. âą Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same is true of customers. Figure out which customers add the most value and provide the best opportunities for sustained growth. Then ditch the worst of the worst. âą Nurture the winners: Once you figure out who your best customers are, blow their minds with care. Discover their unfulfilled needs, innovate to make their wishes come true, and overdeliver on every single promise. Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconvenÂtional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field. *Includes exclusive author commentary throughout the audiobook and a bonus author interview at the end of the program.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/394062 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Blue-Collar Cash: Love Your Work, Secure Your Future, and Find Happiness for LifeAuthor: Ken RuskNarrator: Roger WayneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 17 minutesRelease date: July 28, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: A prescriptive and timely guide to finding success and happiness without a college degree by Ken Rusk, the Ohio-based entrepreneur and âmillion-dollar ditch diggerâ who believes it is time to celebrate the possibilities and financial opportunities that a Blue-Collar life can bring. A BLUE-COLLAR APPROACH TO CREATING A LIFE YOU LOVE In a period of skyrocketing student loan debt without the promise of high-paying employment, and in an economy in desperate need of skilled tradespeople, many are seeking new paths. Ken Rusk, the âmillion-dollar ditch digger,â is here to show you that blue-collar trades are a source of pride and that you canâand willâfind your version of happiness by pursuing a good old-fashioned craft. In Blue Collar Cash, Ken shares his insights from over 30 years working in blue collar trades as an entrepreneur, mentor, and life coach. Ken knows from his own experienceâfirst as a young kid digging ditches, and then as the owner of a successful concrete construction businessâthat working with your hands at a job that takes skill and practice can be monumentally rewarding and life-affirming. Since then, he has built a multi-million-dollar business and gone on to mentor hundreds of employees in how to manage their money and set achievable goals. Using the stories of those who have discovered lives of comfort, peace, and freedom, Ken creates a step-by-step, interactive guideâincluding financial planning and savings adviceâto creating alternative and realistic routes to success and fulfillment.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395897 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with EthereumAuthor: Camila RussoNarrator: Laura JenningsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 31 minutesRelease date: July 14, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it. Everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but few know about the second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, which has been heralded as the ''next internet.'' The story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a supremely gifted nineteen-year-old autodidact who saw the promise of blockchain when the technology was in its earliest stages. He convinced a crack group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer. The Infinite Machine introduces Vitalikâs ingenious idea and unfolds Ethereumâs chaotic beginnings. It then explores the brilliant innovation and reckless greed the platformâan infinitely adaptable foundation for experimentation and new applicationsâhas unleashed and the consequences that resulted as the frenzy surrounding it grew: increased regulatory scrutiny, incipient Wall Street interest, and the founding teamâs effort to get the Ethereum platform to scale so it can eventually be accessible to the masses. Financial journalist and cryptocurrency expert Camila Russo details the wild and often hapless adventures of a team of hippy-anarchists, reluctantly led by an ambivalent visionary, and lays out how this new foundation for the internet will spur both transformation and fraudâturning some into millionaires and others into felonsâand revolutionize our ideas about money.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/409947 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long TermAuthor: David M. CoteNarrator: David M. CoteFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 1 minuteRelease date: June 30, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: LEARN HOW TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS IN A TOUGH ECONOMY In this unpredictable business landscape, everyone is struggling to choose between chasing short-term objectives and creating a secure future for their company, but both are crucial. As CEO of Honeywell, David Cote understood this dilemma well. He turned the company around despite facing the 2008 recession. In these pages, he shows you how taking the same revolutionary approach might be the smartest business decision youâll ever make. Presenting a comprehensive solution to a perennial problem, Winning Now, Winning Later is a go-to guide for you and leaders everywhere to finally transcend short-termismâs daily grind and leave an enduring legacy of success. This tested and proven approach can strengthen your business like never before and even rescue it from the brink of disaster, no matter how dire the current circumstances may seem. In Winning Now, Winning Later, Cote shares 10 essential principles for winning today and tomorrow such as: - Spot business practices that seem attractive in the short term but will cost the company in the future - Determine where and how to invest in growth initiatives for maximum impact - Sustain both short-term performance and long-term investments even in challenging times, such as a recession or leadership transition - Feel inspired to stand up to investors and managers who are solely focused on either short- or long-term company objectives - Step back and foster independent thinking among those around you
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/409880 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Spanish] - La ventaja del introvertido: CĂłmo los introvertidos compiten y gananAuthor: Matthew PollardNarrator: Carlos OlallaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 25 minutesRelease date: June 30, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Matthew Pollard, un reconocido experto en ventas y un introvertido, ha creado y perfeccionado un sistema de venta transparente, autĂ©ntico y de baja presiĂłn, sin tĂ©cnicas de cierre duro o de venta de bulldogs. La ventaja del introvertido te equiparĂĄ con un sistema completo enfocado a la venta transparente, autĂ©ntica y de baja presiĂłn. Los extrovertidos rara vez se quedan cortos de palabras, y sus conversaciones y argumentos de venta nunca se sienten forzados para ellos. El mundo de las ventas es natural para los extrovertidos. Pero los introvertidos no se sienten cĂłmodos con las tĂĄcticas tradicionales como empujar agresivamente un producto o hablar sobre las objeciones de un cliente. Lo que hace que La ventaja del introvertido sea tan poderoso y prĂĄctico es que explica cĂłmo los introvertidos pueden sentirse igual de cĂłmodos y sinceros en el mundo de las ventas tambiĂ©n, ÂĄsin cambiar lo que son! La estrategia de 7 pasos de Matthew esboza lo que se necesita para obtener resultados fiables y repetibles, desde la implementaciĂłn de preguntas bien preparadas hasta la adopciĂłn del poder de la historia. En La ventaja del introvertido aprenderĂĄs: - CĂłmo encontrar la confianza natural - CĂłmo prepararte para cada situaciĂłn - CĂłmo esquivar las objeciones que de otra manera expondrĂan tu incomodidad - CĂłmo pedir la venta (sin preguntar) - CĂłmo beneficiarte de un proceso que no depende de la personalidad, y ÂĄsimplemente disfrutar de las ventas! Tanto si persigues las ventas como una carrera como si eres un pequeño empresario que no quiere vender, pero necesita hacerlo, La ventaja del introvertido es tu guĂa para el Ă©xito de las ventas. The Introvert's Edge Matthew Pollard, an awarded sales authority and fellow introvert, has created and perfected a system for selling in a transparent, authentic and low-pressure wayâwith no hard closing or bulldog sales techniques. The Introvertâs Edge will equip you with a comprehensive system focused on transparent, authentic, and low-pressure selling. Extroverts are rarely short on words, and their conversations and sales pitches never feel sales-y to them. The world of sales just comes natural to the extrovert. But introverts arenât comfortable with traditional tactics like aggressively pushing a product or talking over a customerâs objections. What makes The Introvertâs Edge so powerful and practical is that it explains how the introvert can feel equally comfortable and sincere in the sales world as wellâwithout changing who they are! Matthewâs 7-step strategy outlines what you need for reliable and repeatable results, from implementing well-prepared questions to embracing the power of story. In The Introvertâs Edge you will learn: - How to find natural confidence - How to prepare for every situation - How to sidestep objections that would otherwise expose their uncomfortableness - How to ask for the sale (without asking) - How to profit from a process that doesnât rely on personality, and simply enjoy sales! Whether youâre pursuing sales as a career or youâre a small business owner who doesnât want to sell but needs to, The Introvertâs Edge is your guide to sales success.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/404858 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Frictionless: Why the Future of Everything Will Be Fast, Fluid, and Made Just for YouAuthor: Duff McDonald, Christiane LemieuxNarrator: Jean Ann DouglassFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 21 minutesRelease date: June 23, 2020Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: Serial entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux describes the new rules of entrepreneurship and business, arguing that visionary startups leverage the concept of âfrictionlessâ to beat their competitors. Based on interviews with dozens of startup founders, experts and scholars on entrepreneurship, Frictionless provides readers with a wide-ranging education in starting companies that thrive in the world of frictionless commerceâmade possible by new technologies, a new mindset, and new demands from Millennial consumers. Working with bestselling author and journalist Duff McDonald, Lemieux also shares her own storyâlessons learned, failures absorbedâat the helm of DwellStudio (which was acquired by Wayfair) and her latest venture, The Inside. Some founders profiled in the book are reducing friction in their own business models, others reduce friction through improved customer experiences, and still others are revolutionizing their operations to create frictionless organizations. Readers will glean lessons from the founders of well-known companies such as Instant Pot, Bonobos, Hims, and Halo Topâas well as upstarts Billie, Dame Products, and Convene. Frictionless outlines the groundwork necessary for getting a company up-and-running and explains how companies make and market products and services while meeting the demands of their customers and employees today. Frictionless is the essential handbook for creating tomorrowâs mind set and competitive advantage.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/399479 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the WorldAuthor: Matt AltNarrator: Matt AltFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 49 minutesRelease date: June 23, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3Genres: Business & Career DevelopmentPublisher's Summary: The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that capturedâand transformedâthe worldâs imagination. âA masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.ââW. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Japan is the forge of the worldâs fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and PokĂ©mon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and â80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the âlost decadesâ of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but thatâs precisely when its cultural clout soaredâwhen, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed themâconnecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japanâs pop-media complex remade global culture.
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