Listen free for 30 days
-
What I Didn't Learn in Business School
- How Strategy Works in the Real World
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
People who bought this also bought...
-
The Success Equation
- Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
- By: Michael J. Mauboussin
- Narrated by: Wes Talbot
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives - yet few of us are adept at accurately distinguishing between the two. Imagine what we could accomplish if we were able to tease out these two threads, examine them, and use the resulting knowledge to make better decisions. In this provocative audiobook, Michael Mauboussin helps to untangle these intricate strands.
-
-
great insight into a under researched arena
- By Rebecca on 10-01-19
-
Leadership (3rd Edition)
- By: Marian Iszatt-White, Christopher Saunders
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
- Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Written by an author team from one of Europe's leading management schools, Leadership encourages critical appraisal of the mainstream viewpoints and personal reflection on leadership experience in a way that is both clear and highly engaging.
-
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- The Difference and Why It Matters
- By: Richard Rumelt
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy”.
-
-
easy listen
- By Anonymous User on 05-01-20
-
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People
- By: W. Chan Kim, Daniel Goleman, Jon R. Katzenbach, and others
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus, Susan Larkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Managing people is fraught with challenges - even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you listen to nothing else on managing people, you should at least hear these 10 articles.
-
-
Some great insights
- By Kenny Marshall on 27-10-16
-
Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
-
-
I never thought about it that way...
- By Mark on 23-12-12
-
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
- By: Harvard Business Review, Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, and others
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. If you listen to nothing else on managing yourself, you should at least hear these 10 articles (plus the bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.
-
-
Good content but dull narration/hard going
- By Spiky Potplant on 08-12-19
-
The Success Equation
- Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
- By: Michael J. Mauboussin
- Narrated by: Wes Talbot
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives - yet few of us are adept at accurately distinguishing between the two. Imagine what we could accomplish if we were able to tease out these two threads, examine them, and use the resulting knowledge to make better decisions. In this provocative audiobook, Michael Mauboussin helps to untangle these intricate strands.
-
-
great insight into a under researched arena
- By Rebecca on 10-01-19
-
Leadership (3rd Edition)
- By: Marian Iszatt-White, Christopher Saunders
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
- Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Written by an author team from one of Europe's leading management schools, Leadership encourages critical appraisal of the mainstream viewpoints and personal reflection on leadership experience in a way that is both clear and highly engaging.
-
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- The Difference and Why It Matters
- By: Richard Rumelt
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy”.
-
-
easy listen
- By Anonymous User on 05-01-20
-
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People
- By: W. Chan Kim, Daniel Goleman, Jon R. Katzenbach, and others
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus, Susan Larkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Managing people is fraught with challenges - even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you listen to nothing else on managing people, you should at least hear these 10 articles.
-
-
Some great insights
- By Kenny Marshall on 27-10-16
-
Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
-
-
I never thought about it that way...
- By Mark on 23-12-12
-
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
- By: Harvard Business Review, Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, and others
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. If you listen to nothing else on managing yourself, you should at least hear these 10 articles (plus the bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.
-
-
Good content but dull narration/hard going
- By Spiky Potplant on 08-12-19
Summary
Meet Justin Campbell. He’s a newly minted MBA who’s landed a coveted job in consulting. He’s headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven’t yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities.
Justin is energized by this challenging assignment, but soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn’t as straightforward as he’d expected. The political and organizational forces swirling within HGS complicate his analyses and test his fundamental understanding of important strategic concepts.
Justin and his cohorts aren’t “real” - What I Didn’t Learn in Business School is a business novel. But they’re realistic: they’re just like us. They are humans, not human resources, and they each have their own personality, motives, and skills. Their story reveals both the strengths and the limitations of common strategy tools. And it demonstrates tactics for navigating the messy organizational dynamics that can make or break a company’s efforts to craft successful strategies.
This engaging audiobook uses the power of story to present potent lessons for anyone seeking to excel at strategy management. The action moves quickly, and at the end of each chapter, you’ll find provocative questions that help you tease out vital insights that you can apply in your own work.
What I Didn’t Learn in Business School is a compelling listen - whether you’re a recent business school grad struggling to apply your new knowledge or an experienced leader who already knows that no strategy is created in a vacuum.
Critic reviews
More from the same
What listeners say about What I Didn't Learn in Business School
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 08-03-20
Uninteresting
This book was very difficult to bear through the whole thing. It was very unintering and very prolix in with it's real life examples.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Utkal
- 11-01-17
Engaging lesson on strategy
The novel style of writing helps in understanding application of strategy lessons in real life in an engaging manner. I would recommend it if you are thinking of starting a career in consulting.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Mark
- 04-10-16
Physical or eBook version probably better
The first chapter has a bunch of pops and off-putting sounds besides the narrator. I don't know if the narrator is purposely trying to sound pompous but it grated on my nerves. I'm still trying to decide if I want to try reading it instead.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- arvinth
- 19-07-16
decent book. peek into consulting partice
The book has decent content expected more examples. Author tried to included more novel style. Performance was good.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Shelby Webb
- 24-10-15
Great book! Narrated well.
I enjoyed listening to this book. A few laughs throughout and a great lesson. Easy to follow and a lot to learn for students leaving school and entering the work force.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Alice
- 06-02-13
With reasonable expectations, you'll learn some
Don't expect to learn a lot about technical aspects of biz school education from this book. But if you are fresh from a business school and have little experience in consulting projects and how consulting firms work, this will be of some help.
Anyway, you can use all the help you can get.
This book gave me a chance to look back at my own consulting projects in the past. Although projects and situations vary, this book is accurate in many ways.
I may be repeating something obvious, but it's critical to know how to deal with your work mates and what to expect from them (and what They expect from you, too, for that matter). Only when you are aware of these, you can effectively use your biz school education on the job. It took some time for me to figure out this. But if you can shorten the time you spend on realizing this, your work life would be somewhat less stressful.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Tameka
- 07-04-15
Prefer audio over hardcopy.
So glad there is an audio version of this book. It's easier to listen to than read.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Mulamfu C. Simuyuni
- 18-08-18
Excellent
The book takes you on a rare journey into the heart of the consulting world. There is plenty to learn. Buying hard copy for my Bookshelf.
The story very captive ,was visualising every point brought out.
Sean Pratt is my favourite narrator, but for this book he was exceptional. He gave the story a very clear verbal picture.
Great Stuff
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Stone P
- 11-09-17
Reality = Better Than Theory
This book was a great story on the realities of consulting straight out if business school. I became a fan of Justin as he trudged along and his stories, insights and interactions are great for a newbie to business school and the business world in general. I recommend this book to MBAs who think their case competitions are the bread and butter of their B-School education. Perhaps it is, but this book is better than theory.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 21-06-17
Good for starter.
The performer is good and the content is easy to understand. I think it's good for career starters to have an overview about what's the consulting work looks like.