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Your Next Five Moves
- Master the Art of Business Strategy
- By: Patrick Bet-David
- Narrated by: Patrick Bet-David
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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From the creator of Valuetainment, the number-one YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals....
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Not worth the time or money
- By Mr Mikkel on 16-09-20
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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
- How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
- By: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success....
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Boring repetitive stories about other companies
- By A Charles on 24-04-21
By: W. Chan Kim, and others
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Choose Your Enemies Wisely
- Business Planning for the Audacious Few
- By: Patrick Bet-David, Greg Dinkin
- Narrated by: Patrick Bet-David
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter....
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Excellent listen getting inside the mind of Patrick Bet David
- By Chris on 30-12-23
By: Patrick Bet-David, and others
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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- The Difference and Why It Matters
- By: Richard Rumelt
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....
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fantastic book, very insightful with many examples
- By Faruk on 10-02-20
By: Richard Rumelt
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Thinking in Bets
- Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
- By: Annie Duke
- Narrated by: Annie Duke
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result....
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Absolutely dire, avoid at all costs.
- By Chris Cox on 15-03-18
By: Annie Duke
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24 Assets
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- By: Daniel Priestley
- Narrated by: Daniel Priestley
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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In every industry, there are companies that take off. They effortlessly hire talented people, attract loyal customers, create cool products...
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Top class book. just read worth every penny.
- By danny mcmenamin on 25-03-21
By: Daniel Priestley
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Your Next Five Moves
- Master the Art of Business Strategy
- By: Patrick Bet-David
- Narrated by: Patrick Bet-David
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the creator of Valuetainment, the number-one YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals....
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Not worth the time or money
- By Mr Mikkel on 16-09-20
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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
- How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
- By: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success....
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Boring repetitive stories about other companies
- By A Charles on 24-04-21
By: W. Chan Kim, and others
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Choose Your Enemies Wisely
- Business Planning for the Audacious Few
- By: Patrick Bet-David, Greg Dinkin
- Narrated by: Patrick Bet-David
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter....
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Excellent listen getting inside the mind of Patrick Bet David
- By Chris on 30-12-23
By: Patrick Bet-David, and others
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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- The Difference and Why It Matters
- By: Richard Rumelt
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....
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fantastic book, very insightful with many examples
- By Faruk on 10-02-20
By: Richard Rumelt
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Thinking in Bets
- Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
- By: Annie Duke
- Narrated by: Annie Duke
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result....
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Absolutely dire, avoid at all costs.
- By Chris Cox on 15-03-18
By: Annie Duke
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24 Assets
- Create a Digital, Scalable, Valuable and Fun Business That Will Thrive in a Fast Changing World
- By: Daniel Priestley
- Narrated by: Daniel Priestley
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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In every industry, there are companies that take off. They effortlessly hire talented people, attract loyal customers, create cool products...
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Top class book. just read worth every penny.
- By danny mcmenamin on 25-03-21
By: Daniel Priestley
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Scaling People
- Tactics for Management and Company Building
- By: Claire Hughes Johnson
- Narrated by: Claire Hughes Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment....
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Packed with insightful info, engagingly told
- By Kindle Customer on 29-02-24
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Superforecasting
- The Art and Science of Prediction
- By: Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions....
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book presents a new way of thinking
- By Flavia Richardson on 10-02-16
By: Philip Tetlock, and others
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....
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The book I’ve read on the future of technology
- By Darrell Hodgetts on 27-01-24
By: Peter H. Diamandis, and others
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The Signal and the Noise
- Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
- By: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....
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Great book well narrated
- By Megan on 05-09-20
By: Nate Silver
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Sooner Safer Happier
- Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
- By: Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend - contributor, Myles Ogilvie -contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Jane Steel
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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This book is not about software development. It is not a book about the computer industry. This book is about applying agility across the entire organization. It's a book that will put you at the front of change and ahead of the competition...
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Insightful
- By Yummy Mummy on 19-01-23
By: Jonathan Smart, and others
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The Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword
- When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- By: Clayton M. Christensen, Marc Benioff - foreword
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganse, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.
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A great book effectively narrated.
- By Huw J. Morris on 15-04-24
By: Clayton M. Christensen, and others
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Wiring the Winning Organization
- By: Gene Kim, Steve Spear
- Narrated by: Alex Knox
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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This groundbreaking theory of organizational advantage details three components: simplification, slowification, and amplification. These create coherence across large, complex organizations, empowering them to architect enviable success in the market....
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No PDF on Audible version
- By Eric Giggs on 09-12-23
By: Gene Kim, and others
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The Founder's Mentality
- How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth
- By: Chris Zook, James Allen
- Narrated by: Robert Feifar
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers.
By: Chris Zook, and others
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Playing to Win
- How Strategy Really Works
- By: Roger L. Martin, A.G. Lafley
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well....
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Very useful and enjoyable to listen to
- By SmartList on 15-12-15
By: Roger L. Martin, and others
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Competing in the Age of AI
- Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
- By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm....
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Gets your creative thinking going
- By Jason Nash on 09-07-20
By: Marco Iansiti, and others
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7 Powers
- The Foundations of Business Strategy
- By: Hamilton Helmer
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate, and quickly apply....
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Excellent strategy book heavy on math
- By Zonda888 on 21-07-23
By: Hamilton Helmer
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Humanocracy
- Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
- By: Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid....
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Essential reading
- By SH on 28-01-24
By: Gary Hamel, and others
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Rewired
- The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI
- By: Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, Rodney Zemmel
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there is a playbook. The answer is in rewiring your business so hundreds, thousands, of teams can harness technology....
By: Eric Lamarre, and others
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The Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level
- HBR Handbooks Series
- By: Ron Ashkenas, Brook Manville
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review, interviews with senior executives, and their own experience in the field - all to help rising leaders stand out and have a big impact....
By: Ron Ashkenas, and others
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No Bullsh*t Strategy
- A Founder’s Guide to Gaining Competitive Advantage with a Strategy That Actually Works
- By: Alex M H Smith
- Narrated by: Alex M H Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away....
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Very actionable stuff to make a strategy clear
- By Rebecca on 03-03-24
By: Alex M H Smith
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Blue Ocean Strategy
- How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
- By: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Challenging everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces....
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Shame...
- By CT on 24-10-18
By: W. Chan Kim, and others
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Project Management Mastery
- A Comprehensive Guide to Successfully Implementing the Core Principles of Project Planning and Scope Management from Concept to Completion
- By: Jack Hayden
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Introducing Project Management Mastery—the ultimate guide to mastering project planning and scope management. This comprehensive book is perfect for project managers, team leaders, and anyone responsible for managing projects of any size, complexity, or industry....
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Super useful advice
- By Martina D. on 30-10-23
By: Jack Hayden
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The Model Thinker
- What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
- By: Scott E. Page
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja....
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Book had some good ideas, let down by equations
- By Steve on 12-07-22
By: Scott E. Page
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Flow Engineering
- From Value Stream Mapping to Effective Action
- By: Steve Pereira, Andrew Davis
- Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Tired of misalignment, friction, and stalled workflow? Flow Engineering is a practical guide to using value stream mapping techniques to align teams, unlock innovation, and optimize performance.
By: Steve Pereira, and others
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Strategic
- The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence
- By: Rich Horwath
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath delivers an incisive roadmap to help leaders at all levels think, plan, and act strategically to navigate every business challenge they face....
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Net Positive
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- By: Paul Polman, Andrew Winston
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- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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In this paradigm-shifting book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston provide a model to help leaders build companies that contribute more to the world than they use or take - that is, net positive companies....
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Insightful, inspiring and practical
- By Afitton on 30-11-23
By: Paul Polman, and others
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI (With Bonus Article "How to Win with Machine Learning" by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb)
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
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The next generation of AI is here—use it to lead your business forward....
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Design Systems Handbook
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This book guides listeners through best practices around planning, designing, building, and implementing a design system, with insights and first-hand experiences from lead designers at Shopify, Google, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn....
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Fusion Strategy
- How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
- By: Vijay Govindarajan, Venkat Venkatraman
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
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In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best with what digitals do best.
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Be the Giraffe
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Why are so many successful people unhappy, uninspired, or unhealthy? After 30 years of solving complicated financial problems for millionaires, billionaires, and their businesses, Chris Jarvis discovered patterns for success and for happiness. Do you know that most successful entrepreneurs, the wealthiest families, and the giraffe all have several unusual traits in common?
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Competitive Success
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Frozens are the dark forces of an organization’s management team. But you already knew that—you just didn’t know what to call them. You know the Frozens. They are the people in management destroying dreams by two key methods: quietly impeding progress on everything (product, people, process and more), artificially hiring and promoting based almost solely on loyalty (instead of capability, outcomes, potential or other 'real' factors).
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When Machines Become Customers
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For thousands of years, customers have been individual humans, families or organizations. But soon, generative AI enabled software and hardware machines will start to act as customers. First they will shop for us, later they will act for themselves. You can’t take them to dinner, and they won’t fall for your slogans, but they might help grow your market – if you know how. Companies are already being called on the phone by software that sounds like a person. Cars will buy their own fuel and tires. That smart speaker in every home can become the housekeeper and shopper for the family it serves.
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The Founder's Mentality
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Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external.
By: Chris Zook, and others
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Thrive
- A Collaboration Manifesto
- By: Darrin Murriner, Kirsten Moorefield, Scott Dust
- Narrated by: Kirsten Moorefield
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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The founders of Cloverleaf, Darrin Murriner and Kirsten Moorefield, along with Dr. Scott Dust, a tenured organizational behavior professor, know how to transform organizations into collaborative teams. Their book will show you how to harness the collective strength of your team for effective collaboration to thrive both organizationally and individually.
By: Darrin Murriner, and others
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Fusion Strategy
- How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
- By: Vijay Govindarajan, Venkat Venkatraman
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best-create physical products-with what digitals do best-use algorithms and AI to parse expansive, interconnected datasets-to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible.
By: Vijay Govindarajan, and others
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The Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword
- When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- By: Clayton M. Christensen, Marc Benioff - foreword
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganse, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative—and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time—The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.
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A great book effectively narrated.
- By Huw J. Morris on 15-04-24
By: Clayton M. Christensen, and others
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The Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword
- Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
- By: Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, Scott D. Anthony - foreword
- Narrated by: Joel Leffert, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now.
By: Clayton M. Christensen, and others
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Productize
- The Ultimate Guide to Turning Professional Services Into Scalable Products
- By: Eisha Armstrong
- Narrated by: Paige McKinney
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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More and more traditional professional services firms are turning to "productization" as a strategy to grow, improve valuations, and to fend off new digital-first competitors. However, many of them will fail and waste a lot of money in the process. Productize first outlines the "Seven Deadly Productization Mistakes" made when pursuing a product strategy, then provides the blueprint for overcoming each of these missteps. It is designed to be a practical playbook for any leader of a professional services business who wants to successfully accelerate growth.
By: Eisha Armstrong
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Smaller Is Better
- By: Brady Brim-DeForest
- Narrated by: Matt Pittenger
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the drawbacks of working in giant, siloed environments. His book, Smaller is Better, shows you how to use the small, empowered teams model to radically recharge your workplace, make better products, and deliver a phenomenal customer experience. All with better employee engagement and retention!
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The Entrepreneur's Journey
- 8 Steps from Inspiration to Global Impact
- By: Alon Braun
- Narrated by: Peter Brook
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Unlock the secret to building a business that isn't just insanely profitable but deeply meaningful, freeing you to concentrate on what truly matters. With a unique blend of management theories, practical frameworks and a step-by-step guide to navigating the entrepreneurial landscape, the book offers more than wisdom; it provides a roadmap.
By: Alon Braun
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Strategic Management
- Formulate and Implement Strategies, Analyze the Competitive Environment and Make Strategic Decisions (Administration: The Science of Managing Resources)
- By: Domingos Coimbra
- Narrated by: Scott Mandeville
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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This comprehensive and practical guide is your essential resource for achieving success in a constantly evolving business landscape. Tailored for students, professionals, and leaders, it provides an in-depth insight into Strategic Management and how to apply it to gain a competitive edge.
By: Domingos Coimbra
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Strategic Business Management: Fundamentals and Successful Practices
- Profound Foundations of Strategic Management: A Comprehensive Academic Series for Professionals, Educators, and Students
- By: Mariana Goulart
- Narrated by: Wayne Champion
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Discover the secrets behind business success. This comprehensive academic book delves deep into the world of business strategy, providing a detailed insight into essential practices for the growth and sustainability of organizations. From the fundamentals of strategic management to competitive analysis and strategic decision-making, this guide will equip you with the tools and knowledge necessary to face the challenges of today's corporate world.
By: Mariana Goulart