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Beyond the Startup: Sparking Operational Innovations for Global Growth by Ralf Specht

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423808 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423808] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Startup: Sparking Operational Innovations for Global Growth Author: Ralf Specht Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: The greatest challenge of any start-up and growth company is the transition from an early stage start up to a robust organization complete with a driving culture, contemporary leadership, organizational infrastructure and twenty-first-century operating methodologies. Ralf Specht provides inspiration, wisdom, and learnings gleaned from his role and experience in creating and scaling Spark 44, a Jaguar Land Rover joint venture from concept to an award-winning global marketing communications company with well over a thousand employees in eighteen countries in a few short years. In the high interest topic of start-ups focused on the beginning stages of entrepreneurship, Beyond the Startup fills a void in the entrepreneurial discussion on how to scale a second stage start up laying out, in practical terms, the tools and practices that made Spark44 a global powerhouse.

Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace by Stacey Vanek Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403845 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403845] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace Author: Stacey Vanek Smith Narrator: Stacey Vanek Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: 2022 BUSINESS/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AUDIE AWARD WINNER! From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes an “accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical” (Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author) guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling—perfect for fans of Feminist Fight Club, Lean In, and Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. Women have been making strides towards equality for decades, or so we’re often told. They’ve been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. They’ve recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance. But despite all of this, the payoff is—quite literally—not there: the gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000. And the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has actually been declining. So why, in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, is the glass ceiling still holding strong? And how can we shatter it for once and for all? Stacy Vanek Smith’s advice: ask Machiavelli “with this delicious look at what we have to gain by examining our relationship to power” (Sally Helgesen, New York Times bestselling author). Using The Prince as a guide and with charm and wit, Smith applies Renaissance politics to the 21st century, and demonstrates how women can take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as second-best. “Machiavelli For Women is the ultimate battle guide for our times. Brimming with hard-boiled strategies, laced with wit, it’s a must-read for every woman ready to wield power unapologetically” (Claire Shipman, coauthor of The Confidence Code).

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400790 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400790] to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination Author: Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel Narrator: Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: “The ultimate takedown.” – New York Times Book Review Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé that offers the definitive account of Facebook’s fall from grace.  Once one of Silicon Valley’s greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users’ data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech. The company, many said, had simply lost its way. But the truth is far more complex. Leadership decisions enabled, and then attempted to deflect attention from, the crises. Time after time, Facebook’s engineers were instructed to create tools that encouraged people to spend as much time on the platform as possible, even as those same tools boosted inflammatory rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and partisan filter bubbles. And while consumers and lawmakers focused their outrage on privacy breaches and misinformation, Facebook solidified its role as the world’s most voracious data-mining machine, posting record profits, and shoring up its dominance via aggressive lobbying efforts. Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang take readers inside the complex court politics, alliances and rivalries within the company to shine a light on the fatal cracks in the architecture of the tech behemoth. Their explosive, exclusive reporting led them to a shocking conclusion: The missteps of the last five years were not an anomaly but an inevitability—this is how Facebook was built to perform. In a period of great upheaval, growth has remained the one constant under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Both have been held up as archetypes of uniquely 21st century executives—he the tech “boy genius” turned billionaire, she the ultimate woman in business, an inspiration to millions through her books and speeches. But sealed off in tight circles of advisers and hobbled by their own ambition and hubris, each has stood by as their technology is coopted by hate-mongers, criminals and corrupt political regimes across the globe, with devastating consequences. In An Ugly Truth, they are at last held accountable.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426059 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426059] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age Author: Ram Charan Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: How do you gain an edge in the digital world order? “Another book for the ages from a master! . . . Particularly insightful is his emphasis on how the end-to-end individual consumer experience will separate winners from losers in our new digital age.”—Fred Hassan, chairman, Caret Group; former CEO, Schering-Plough and Pharmacia The old ways of creating competitive advantage for your business—such as building moats to ward off competitors—have become dangerous. Giants like Amazon and Alibaba are creating vast new market spaces through a deft combination of tools like machine learning and business savvy that reimagines customer experiences while generating immense shareholder value. A handful of traditional companies, including Fidelity Investments, Walmart, and B2W, have adopted these new approaches to reinvigorate their businesses. Most, however, are stalled—and the clock is running out.   In this lively, accessible guide, Ram Charan, bestselling author and adviser to some of the world’s top CEOs and boards, redefines competitive advantage for the digital-first era, offering a set of new rules to get ahead: • Create an ecosystem with third-party partners to revolutionize and personalize the customer experience. • Empower teams focused on a single task, building a “social engine” that drives constant innovation, fast execution, and customer satisfaction. • Attract funders who understand the big picture: that beyond a certain scale, major upfront spending will turn into a cash-generation machine. Filled with stories that peek behind the curtain of digital behemoths as well as traditional companies that have transformed their organizations, Rethinking Competitive Advantage offers concrete advice and methods to help you conceive of new market spaces and moneymaking models. Competing against digital giants might seem daunting, if not impossible. The necessary computing power is within any company’s reach. By borrowing from these digital winners’ playbooks, traditional companies and upstarts alike can gain an upper hand. Whether you’re in the C-suite or brainstorming the next big idea from your garage, Rethinking Competitive Advantage is the ultimate guide to creating competitive advantage today.

Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power by Kasia Urbaniak

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419437 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419437] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power Author: Kasia Urbaniak Narrator: Kasia Urbaniak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: The ultimate guide to owning your power--and mastering how to use it. How can so many women feel 'good and mad' yet still reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? Why do women often feel like they're too much--and, at the same time, not enough? What causes us, at the most critical moments in our lives, to freeze? Kasia Urbaniak teaches power to women--and her answers to these questions may surprise you. Based on insights from her experiences as a dominatrix, her training to become a Taoist nun, and the countless women she has taught to expand their influence, this book offers precise, practical instruction in how to stand in your power, find your voice, and use it well. Learn how to: - Embrace your desires as the pathway to your destiny. - Ask for--and get--what you need in your life, work, and in the bedroom. - Skillfully navigate hearing 'no' and any resistance, even your own. - Flip power dynamics when someone crosses your boundaries and puts you on the spot. - Create new and expanded roles for the people in your life with precise, targeted asks. Whether you're getting crystal clear on exactly what you want, or turning the tables on a man who has shut you up and shut you down, Urbaniak's methods teach women to stand for themselves in every interaction. Part manual, part manifesto, part behind the scenes look, Unbound is a how-to guide to the impossible, the outrageous, the unimaginable--a field guide to living your wildest, best, and most satisfying life.