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Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together by Michael Morris

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390669 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390669] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together Author: Michael Morris Narrator: Michael Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A revelatory, paradigm-shifting work from a renowned Columbia professor and “one of the great social and cultural psychologists” (Amy Cuddy) that demystifies our tribal instincts and shows us how to use them to create positive change. Tribalism is our most misunderstood buzzword. We’ve all heard pundits bemoan its rise, and it’s been blamed for everything from political polarization to workplace discrimination. But as acclaimed cultural psychologist and Columbia professor Michael Morris argues, our tribal instincts are humanity’s secret weapon.  Ours is the only species that lives in tribes: groups glued together by their distinctive cultures that can grow to a scale far beyond clans and bands. Morris argues that our psychology is wired by evolution in three distinctive ways. First, the peer instinct to conform to what most people do. Second, the hero instinct to give to the group and emulate the most respected. And third, the ancestor instinct to follow the ways of prior generations. These tribal instincts enable us to share knowledge and goals and work as a team to transmit the accumulated pool of cultural knowledge onward to the next generation.  Countries, churches, political parties, and companies are tribes, and tribal instincts explain our loyalties to them and the hidden ways that they affect our thoughts, actions, and identities. Rather than deriding tribal impulses for their irrationality, we can recognize them as powerful levers that elevate performance, heal rifts, and set off shockwaves of cultural change. Weaving together deep research, current and historical events, and stories from business and politics, Morris cuts across conventional wisdom to completely reframe how we think about our tribes. Bracing and hopeful, Tribal unlocks the deepest secrets of our psychology and gives us the tools to manage our misunderstood superpower.

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/464489 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/464489] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects Author: Andrew Chen Narrator: Andrew Chen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded ''cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users. Although software has become easier to build, launching and scaling new products and services remains difficult. Startups face daunting challenges entering the technology ecosystem, including stiff competition, copycats, and ineffective marketing channels. Teams launching new products must consider the advantages of “the network effect,” where a product or service’s value increases as more users engage with it. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants utilize network effects, and most tech products incorporate them, whether they’re messaging apps, workplace collaboration tools, or marketplaces. Network effects provide a path for fledgling products to break through, attracting new users through viral growth and word of mouth. Yet most entrepreneurs lack the vocabulary and context to describe them—much less understand the fundamental principles that drive the effect. What exactly are network effects? How do teams create and build them into their products? How do products compete in a market where every player has them? Andrew Chen draws on his experience and on interviews with the CEOs and founding teams of LinkedIn, Twitch, Zoom, Dropbox, Tinder, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest to offer unique insights in answering these questions. Chen also provides practical frameworks and principles that can be applied across products and industries.  The Cold Start Problem reveals what makes winning networks thrive, why some startups fail to successfully scale, and, most crucially, why products that create and compete using the network effect are vitally important today.

Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds by Scott Jeffrey Miller

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452534 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452534] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds Author: Scott Jeffrey Miller Narrator: Scott Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. For busy professionals and lifelong learners seeking practical strategies for reaching new heights, Master Mentors distills 30 essential learnings from Seth Godin, Susan Cain, Trent Shelton, General Stanley McChrystal, and other top business minds and thought leaders of our time. Mining the best and brightest revelations from FranklinCovey’s global podcast, On Leadership with Scott Miller, Scott personally introduces you to 30 Master Mentors, featuring the single most transformative insight from each of them. Depending on where you are in your journey, Master Mentors will: - Challenge your current mindset and beliefs, leading to what could be the most important career and thought-process shifts of your life! - Restore you to the mindset and beliefs you find effective but aren’t currently living in alignment with. - Validate that you are on the right path with your current mindset and beliefs and empower you on your way forward. Whether you are challenged, affirmed, informed, or inspired—Master Mentors guarantees you will experience a transformative shift in your personal mindset, life skillset, and career toolset. Accompanying figures are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees: or, How to Deal with Idiots at Work by Thomas Erikson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451773 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451773] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees: or, How to Deal with Idiots at Work Author: Thomas Erikson Narrator: David John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Surrounded by idiots at work? Fed up with a bad boss or lazy colleagues? Thomas Erikson, author of the runaway international bestseller Surrounded by Idiots, will help you handle them and get things done, the right way Why is good leadership so rare? Everyone has to manage up to some extent but frankly some bosses are worse than others. If you're being driven crazy by a micro-manager, frequently drown under your boss's unreasonable expectations or struggle with being handed out responsibilities but no authority international behavioural expert Thomas Erikson is here to help. Drawing on the simple four-colour system that made Surrounded by Idiots a global bestseller, Erikson shows how understanding your boss's behavioural tendencies as well as your own will lead to a more harmonious and productive workplace. He also sets out what characterises an exemplary leader type and how you can adapt your behaviour to model it. Because there are two sides to every coin, Erikson also looks at employees themselves and why some colleagues frequently underachieve and what you can do to change this. Written with Erikson's signature humour and warmth, Surrounded by Bad Bosses (and Lazy Employees) will help you deal with the most hopeless managers and employees you can imagine - and keep you entertained along the way. © Thomas Erikson 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

The Edge: How Ten CEOs Learned to Lead--And the Lessons for Us All by Michael Useem

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462922 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462922] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Edge: How Ten CEOs Learned to Lead--And the Lessons for Us All Author: Michael Useem Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” —Jim Whittaker, first American to climb Mt. Everest   A leader’s job—in a radically changing world—is standing on the cliff edge, getting a grip on unfamiliar landscapes, and acquiring the skills for leading the enterprise into new territory. In a world facing the unprecedented challenges of global pandemic and economic distruption, every leader needs to find the edge for leaping across the breach and breaking new ground on the other side.   Michael Useem provides rare insight into how ten leaders confronted hard realities. He looked close-in at the lide and work of people such as Bill McNabb of Vanguard, Jeffrey Lurie of the Philadelphia Eagles, Alex Gorsky of Johnson & Johnson, and Tricia Griffith of Progressive Insurance. His “you are there” profiles chronicle fateful decisions such as: - Meeting the concerns of a next-generation workforce that considers inclusiveness an integral part of business - Developing a strategy for growth in a market that is cratering - Escaping the confines of an insane, always-on, 24/7 world to learn about the real, granular changes happening in the marketplace   Useem’s profiles of leaders on the edge provide the inspiration and the guidance we all need for adapting and thriving in an era of massive disruption and continuous transformation.