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    Taking Smart Risks: How Sharp Leaders Win When Stakes are High , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 444min
    In today’s market, playing it safe is not an option. The business world is in flux, and you have to think and act quickly in order to stay competitive. But the last thing you want to do is make reckless business decisions. You have to find the middle ground. You have to take SMART RISKS. In this groundbreaking book, leadership expert Doug Sundheim explains how to find that precise point between comfort and danger for generating the sustained ability to work at the highest level of performance. Taking Smart Risks reveals the secrets to discovering, planning for, and acting upon the kind of risks that will move your company forward and ahead of the competition. Learn how to: Find Something Worth Fighting For -What do you care enough about to risk time, energy, and money to try to make happen? Determining this is half the battle. See the Future Now - Clarify your big idea in terms of real objectives, plans, and intended results. Act Fast, Learn Fast - Make your move quickly, but be sure you don’t squander valuable resources in the process. Communicate Powerfully - Assume communication will break down at points, plan accordingly - and don’t shy away from the tough conversations. Create a Smart Risk Culture - Build teams that share the same mindsets and values about expected smart risk behavior. Applying Sundheim’s advice will help you let go of old assumptions, explore new possibilities, move your organization out of its comfort zone, and experience long-term success. When you take smart risks, you will create. You will innovate. You will grow. And you will WIN. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000965/bk_gdan_000965_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Competing Against Luck
    The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new insights. After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion: our long held maxim-that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation-is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world's most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes-it's about predicting new ones. Christensen contends that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they'll pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts.This book carefully lays down Christensen's provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world-and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides.
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    Unravel (The Unravel Series, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
    AllisonIt's been a long semester. My roommate moved out. My boyfriend cheated on me. And the courses I took drained me.All I want to do is go home for the holidays. But the forces of nature have a different plan.I'm stuck, snowed in, with no heat or food for the unforeseeable future … on Christmas Eve no less. Could it get any worse?It could.In an attempt to venture out and find food before the storm worsens, I collide with the one person I'd gone to great lengths to avoid all semester - Assistant Professor Dempsey, the man I almost had a one-night stand with months ago.Keeping my distance from him is impossible as he tempts me with a warm meal and his presence.The temptation to finish what we started the night we met may be too hard to resist. MaxI thought I would never see Allison Brown again, but fate had other plans.Our chance collision meant I could no longer ignore her presence. Knowing she had no food or heat, I had no choice but to invite her to dinner.But inviting her means risking what I've done to bury my violent and chaotic past. This assistant professor position was a favor - a gift given and not meant to squander. Giving in to my desire could risk all of it. But the chance to have another taste of Allison - I can't promise I won't give in. *The Unravel series is a spinoff from V. Angelika's best-selling Crossing Stars Duet series. It isn't necessary to have read the Crossing Stars Duet to read Allison and Max's story.*Intended for readers 18+ due to explicit language and sexual content. Reader discretion is advised.
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    Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min
    Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander 40 days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes", he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories. Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination - showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the World Memory Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity. At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our individual memories obsolete, Foer's bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering becomes an urgent quest. Moonwalking with Einstein brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too often slips our minds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Chamberlain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001659/bk_peng_001659_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Empath: A 21 Step by Step Emotional Healing & Survival Guide for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People - Overcome Fears and Develop Your Gift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min
    Are you looking to improve your empathic abilities, overcome your fears, and develop your gift?If you answered "Yes" to any of those questions, then you need to be listening to this audiobook.Empathy, in its most basic form, is the ability to feel the emotions and energy of not only the people around you but the world around you as well. It is difficult to adequately describe what empaths really are. Some work as counselors, able to read the emotions of the distraught and vulnerable. Many are healers, sometimes feeling the echo of pain before the patient can even begin to speak. Empathy is a sixth sense of sorts; it’s an extra layer of skin for some people, with different textures or auras depending on that individual's psyche. For others, it’s emotions that just pop or slide into their mind when someone walks in the room.While the way the gift manifests is going to be different for every person, one thing that remains constant is that those with these abilities came by them naturally and have the ability to improve upon them with practice.If you are looking to improve your empathic abilities, then Empath: A 21 Step by Step Emotional Healing & Survival Guide for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People - Overcome Fears and Develop Your Gift is the audiobook for which you have been waiting.Inside, you will learn:About the famous empaths who have come before you, the various ways your gifts can manifest, and how to manage your gifts effectively.About the dangers that empathy can lead to as well as exercises to try to ensure your empathic abilities are as strong as they can possibly be.And so much more!So, what are you waiting for? Being empathic is a gift, don’t squander it; make the most of it by listening to this audiobook today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Baltz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135383/bk_acx0_135383_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 415min
    Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget - nearly $175 billion - is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health. In Predictive Health, distinguished doctors Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns propose a solution: invest earlier - and use science and technology to make healthcare more available and affordable. Every child would begin life with a post-natal genetic screen, when potential risk - say for type II diabetes or heart disease - would be found. More data on biology, behavior, and environment would be captured throughout her life. Using this information, health-care workers and the people they care for could forge personal strategies for healthier living long before a small glitch blows up into major disease. This real health care wouldn’t just replace much of modern disease care - it would make it obsolete. The result, according to Brigham and Johns, will be a life defined by a long stay at top physical and mental form, rather than an early peak and long decline. Accomplishing this goal will require new tools, new clinics, fewer doctors and more mentors, smarter companies, and engaged patients. In short, it will require a revolution. Thanks to a decade-long collaboration between Brigham, Johns and others, it is already underway. An optimistic plan for reducing or eliminating many chronic diseases as well as reforming our faltering medical system, Predictive Health is a deeply knowledgeable, deeply humane proposal for how we can reallocate expenses and resources to prolong the best years of life, rather than extending the worst. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Josdal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017188/bk_adbl_017188_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 493min
    Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them?Why is addiction “perfectly logical” to an addict?Why does love change so quickly from passion to disinterest?Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times - and so good at figuring them out? The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas - and progress itself. Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more - more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it’s why we gamble and squander. From dopamine’s point of view, it’s not the having that matters. It’s getting something - anything - that’s new. From this understanding - the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it - we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion - and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others. In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—And will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an un ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/011173/bk_brll_011173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min
    The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now he goes further, offering powerful new insights. After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion: Our long-held maxim - that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation - is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world's most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes - it's about predicting new ones. Christensen contends that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products not only that customers want to hire, but for which they'll pay premium prices to bring them into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts. This book carefully lays down Christensen's provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world - and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase thi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Pruden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005520/bk_harp_005520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary of Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    This is a summary of Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to US Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander 40 days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes", he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories. Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination - showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the World Memory Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity. Foer takes his inquiry well beyond the arena of mental athletes - across the country and deep into his own mind. In San Diego, he meets an affable old man with one of the most severe case of amnesia on record, where he learns that memory is at once more elusive and more reliable than we might think. In Salt Lake City, he swaps secrets wi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David N. Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068927/bk_acx0_068927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Of Beasts and Demons (Pandemonium Academy Royals, #2) (eBook, ePUB)
    One's a werewolf with an ax to grindTwo's a vampire with a heart of coalThree's a demon with a taste for painFour's a fae with a past of woeFive's a girl who will take them down allIn revenge for the pain they've sownSo what if they're gorgeous? They must atone…Everyone now thinks I am a witch - a member of the Apollinari House. They couldn't be more wrong since I was adopted when I was little, but they don't know that and I won't squander this advantage by telling them.The boys have decided that they need a witch to help them fight the magical surges, and what better way to slip through their defenses and find out their dirty secrets?Find them, expose them and get my revenge on behalf of my cousin who is lying in a deadly enchanted sleep back home. It shouldn't be that hard. The boys, after all, seem interested in getting to know me better.But that's because I am a witch, someone they need. Which suits me just fine. Who cares why, right?It shouldn't hurt. I shouldn't want them to want me for who I really am, to feel anything for me. That's nonsense. I'm not here to court them; I'm here to hurt them.So why is it so hard to go through with my plan?After all, since when do I care for them? *OF BEASTS AND DEMONS is a full-length paranormal reverse harem romance, meaning the main character has more than one love interest. This is book two of four, with a happily ever after at the end of the complete series. All four books have already been written.This novel contains enemies-to-lovers/love-hate adult themes, foul language and humor as well as explicit content with darker elements. By book 3 there will be mm scenes. For 18+ only.This book uses alternative points of view - one boy point of view chapter for every two of the heroine.*
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