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The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications by Aswath Damodaran

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679059 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679059] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications Author: Aswath Damodaran Narrator: Jonathan Beville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING COMPANY GROWTH AND DECLINE —FROM THE UNDISPUTED EXPERT ON VALUATION Throughout his storied career, Aswath Damodaran has searched for the universal key to demystify corporate finance and valuation. Now, at last, he offers the groundbreaking answer to readers everywhere. It turns out there is a corporate lifecycle very much like our own — with unique stages of growth and decline. And just as we must learn to act our age, so too must companies.  By better understanding how corporations age and the characteristics of each stage of their lifecycle, we can unlock the secrets behind any businesses behavior and optimize our management and investment decisions accordingly. In Aswath Damodaran’s The Corporate Life Cycle, readers will learn— - What markers tell where a company falls on its corporate lifecycle, and crucial insights for managers as they navigate the different stages - Why the shape and timing of life cycles varies across different industries - When transition points pose special challenges to companies—and strategies to conquer them - How differences in investment philosophies, in particular the divide between growth and value investing, should lead investors towards companies at different lifecycle stages As the corporate lifecycle touches virtually every aspect of business, this book is for anyone with skin in the corporate finance game—from managers to investors, from novices to seasoned pros. Aswath Damodaran’s The Corporate Life Cycle is the definitive guide to understanding businesses growth, behavior, and value. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing charts, diagrams, and graphs from the book.

Microskills: Small Actions, Big Impact by Adaira Landry, Resa E. Lewiss

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685032 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685032] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Microskills: Small Actions, Big Impact Author: Adaira Landry, Resa E. Lewiss Narrator: Resa E. Lewiss, Adaira Landry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: The promise of this book is simple: if you buy this book on Friday, you will be better at your job by Monday. MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills. As award winning physicians, educators, and mentors we hear the gamut of challenges with navigating the workplace. And when we learn a lesson we often wish we had learned it earlier.  MicroSkills is packed with the privileged information that you want delivered to you as efficiently as possible. In MicroSkills you will learn - How to build your career without breaking yourself - How to manage your task list to get work done - How to build and maintain your professional reputation - How to become a subject matter expert - How to grow and nurture your network - How to become a better communicator - and so much more... MicroSkills is the gift we wish we had received early in our careers. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

The Future-Proof Career: Strategies for thriving at every stage by Isabel Berwick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673410 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673410] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Future-Proof Career: Strategies for thriving at every stage Author: Isabel Berwick Narrator: Isabel Berwick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: An accessible and approachable guide to work and careers from a trusted and authoritative source. The Future-Proof Career looks at the new way of working in a post-pandemic world and shows you how to make work work for you, no matter what stage of your career you’re at. Whether you’re the boss, the deputy or on your way up, the way we’re working in a post-pandemic world is forever changed and it’s important to make your work work for you. This is a book about how to do work differently, written by the host of the award-winning Financial Times ‘Working It’ podcast. Packed with expert analysis and ahead-of-the-curve workplace trends, this book looks at the big ideas shaping the world of work today and the old habits we need to lose, examining these pressing topics in depth and bringing in expert opinion and personal experience, with key takeaways summarised at the end of each chapter. This modern guide to the world of work can be used by everyone – both employed and self-employed, anyone working in new hybrid working practices, or to the many individuals who set up on their own after the pandemic and are navigating a new way of working. The book is split into two sections – Staff and Managers. This works for both groups, as most people are managed and/or aspire to be higher up and so can be dipped into for expert advice and guidance at any stage of your career. Covering topics as wide-ranging as the four-day working week, bridging the workplace generation gap, making sure your company walks its diversity talk, quiet quitting and the great resignation, achieving workplace equality and even micro-dosing for creativity, The Future-Proof Career spreads the word about understanding modern workplaces so we can all have happier, more productive lives. This book will help you to navigate the world of work now, tell you how it might change in future – and how you can prepare. Get ahead of uncertainty and take control of your career.

The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim Morris

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682945 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682945] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers Author: Jim Morris Narrator: Jeff Zinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: “No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and doctor’s offices.” —Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Toms River “The Cancer Factory could not come at a better time, as we reckon with how our bodies pay the price for our nation’s toxic history and as today’s workers fight not for only their rights but for their very lives.… A powerful and essential read.” —Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers Working at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, was considered a good job. It was the kind of industrial manufacturing job that allowed blue-collar workers to thrive in the latter half of the 20th century—that allowed them to buy their own home, and maybe a small boat for the lake. But it was also the kind of job that exposed you to toxic chemicals and offered little to no protection from them, either in the way of protective gear or adequate ventilation. Eventually, it was a job that gave you bladder cancer. The Cancer Factory tells the story of the workers who experienced one of the nation’s worst, and best-documented, outbreaks of work-related cancer, and the lawyer who has represented the bladder-cancer victims at the plant for more than 30 years. Goodyear, and its chemical supplier, DuPont, knew that two of the chemicals used in the plant had been shown to cause cancer, but made little effort to protect the plant’s workers until the cluster of cancer cases—and deaths—was undeniable. In doing so it tells a broader story of corporate malfeasance and governmental neglect. Workers have only weak protections from exposure to toxic substances in America, and regulatory breaches contribute to an estimated 95,000 deaths from occupational illness each year. Based on 4 decades of reporting and delving deeply into the scientific literature about toxic substances and health risks, the arcana of worker regulations, and reality of loose enforcement, The Cancer Factory exposes the terrible health risks too many workers face.

The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now by Hilke Schellmann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684266 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684266] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now Author: Hilke Schellmann Narrator: Hilke Schellmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results, Emmy‑award winning Wall Street Journal contributor Hilke Schellmann delivers a shocking and illuminating expose on the next civil rights issue of our time: how AI has already taken over the workplace and shapes our future.   Hilke Schellmann, is an Emmy‑award winning investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor and Journalism Professor at NYU. In The Algorithm, she investigates the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of work. AI is now being used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents and real‑world tests, Schellmann discovers that many of the algorithms making high‑stakes decisions are biased, racist, and do more harm than good. Algorithms are on the brink of dominating our lives and threaten our human future—if we don't fight back.    Schellmann takes readers on a journalistic detective story testing algorithms that have secretly analyzed job candidates' facial expressions and tone of voice. She investigates algorithms that scan our online activity including Twitter and LinkedIn to construct personality profiles à la Cambridge Analytica. Her reporting reveals how employers track the location of their employees, the keystrokes they make, access everything on their screens and, during meetings, analyze group discussions to diagnose problems in a team. Even universities are now using predictive analytics for admission offers and financial aid.