T. Danylak
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Storytelling: Manipulation of the Audience
- How to Learn to Skyrocket Your Personal Brand and Online Business Using the Power of Social Media Marketing, Including Instagram, Facebook and YouTube
- By: Daniel Anderson
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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In Storytelling, Daniel Anderson shows you how to harness the ageless power of storytelling to completely transform your personal brand and business. You're going to discover how you can use well-crafted stories to develop your unfair competitive advantage, connect with people on a deep level, and get people to purchase your products and use your services.
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Terrible Book
- By T. Danylak on 10-01-21
- Storytelling: Manipulation of the Audience
- How to Learn to Skyrocket Your Personal Brand and Online Business Using the Power of Social Media Marketing, Including Instagram, Facebook and YouTube
- By: Daniel Anderson
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
Terrible Book
Reviewed: 10-01-21
Don't waste your money. The narration is awful, the content is not delivered engaingly. You'd think a book about storytelling will use stories and be engaging, right? Not this book.
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The Parasitic Mind
- How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
- By: Gad Saad
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Serving as a powerful follow-up to Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life, Dr. Gad Saad unpacks what is really happening in progressive safe zones, why we need to be paying more attention to these trends, and what we must do to stop the spread of dangerous thinking. A professor at Concordia University who has witnessed this troubling epidemic firsthand, Dr. Saad dissects a multitude of these concerning forces (corrupt thought patterns, belief systems, attitudes, etc.) that have given rise to a stifling political correctness in our society.
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Some pros and some cons
- By chris boutte on 10-11-20
- The Parasitic Mind
- How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
- By: Gad Saad
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Finally, a science based approach to fighting insane rhetoric from universities
Reviewed: 07-29-21
This is the new bible of the modern age, filled with ideas, truths, scientific facts and evidence about the state of our society today.
Everyone should read this book, share with with friends, give it as a gift, discuss it with colleagues.
If you ever in doubt and need a scientific brief to support your common sense position, refer to this book. It has plenty of scientific data.
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The Madness of Crowds
- Gender, Race and Identity
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ‘woke’ culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of ‘wokeness’, the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive.
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An Urgent Read for Our Over-woke Times
- By Justin J. Norman on 09-26-19
- The Madness of Crowds
- Gender, Race and Identity
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
The most important book of this century
Reviewed: 02-23-21
Douglas Murray is the most clear headed, logical, and intelligent author in the current political environment.
This book should be mandatory reading for Chief People Officers, CEOs, Presidents, Managers, and everyone else.
I’d say politicians, but they probably don’t read books, only Twitter.
Along with this author, everyone should be encouraged to explore the books and ideas of Thomas Sowell.
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Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one's own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life.
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Brilliance smothered by Condescension and Petty Squabbling
- By JG on 03-11-18
- Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Why Trump will win again?
Reviewed: 08-12-20
Because he has skin in the game. And people can see it. Joe Biden has no skin in the game, never did, never will.
Read the book to understand why.
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On Grand Strategy
- By: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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For over 20 years, a select group of Yale undergraduates has been admitted into the year-long "Grand Strategy" seminar team-taught by John Lewis Gaddis and Paul Kennedy. Its purpose: to provide a grounding in strategic decision-making in the face of crisis to prepare future American leaders for important work. Now, John Lewis Gaddis has transposed the experience of that course into a wonderfully succinct, lucid and inspirational book, a view from the commanding heights of statesmanship across the landscape of world history from the ancient Greeks to Lincoln, and beyond.
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Interesting, but fails to offer real lessons.
- By Zack on 07-04-18
- On Grand Strategy
- By: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Promising start
Reviewed: 05-18-18
In the beginning it was good, then it turned into a series of lectures without a clear definition of what grand strategy is and what it entails. Last five minutes were good too.
It needs a better structure.
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Leadership BS
- Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
- By: Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In Leadership BS Jeffrey Pfeffer shines a bright light on the leadership industry, showing why it's failing and how it might be remade. He sets the record straight on the oft-made prescriptions for leaders to be honest, authentic, and modest; tell the truth; build trust; and take care of others. By calling BS on so many of the stories and myths of leadership, he gives people a more scientific look at the evidence and better information to guide their careers.
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Antidote to Bromides from Leadership Gurus
- By Sean Lannan on 09-23-15
- Leadership BS
- Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
- By: Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Probably the best book ever written on leadership
Reviewed: 12-13-17
I long felt cynical about leadership in general and was always sceptical about the stories of inspirational leaders. This book have provide me with evidence and data to back up my conclusions.
We need a new look at how leaders are taught.
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The Black Swan
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: David Chandler
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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Maverick thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb had an illustrious career on Wall Street before turning his focus to his black swan theory. Not all swans are white, and not all events, no matter what the experts think, are predictable. Taleb shows that black swans, like 9/11, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact on the world.
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Worth it in the end...I think.
- By Judd Bagley on 05-27-09
- The Black Swan
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: David Chandler
Don't read this book it'll change how you view the world around you
Reviewed: 06-06-17
Nassim Taleb will show you the reality that you have never considered. So if you aren't ready, read "the secret" or some other nonsense like that,
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions
- By: Ram Charan, Harvard Business Review, Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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If you listen to nothing else on decision making, you should at least hear these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.
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Great Collection of Wisdom, Narration not so much
- By T. Danylak on 03-06-17
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions
- By: Ram Charan, Harvard Business Review, Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
Great Collection of Wisdom, Narration not so much
Reviewed: 03-06-17
Would you listen to HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions again? Why?
Yes, the articles provide insight into decision making processes in organizations and lessons can be applied to personal challenges as well.
What did you like best about this story?
Daniel Kahneman's article "Before you make that big decision"
What didn’t you like about James Edward Thomas’s performance?
It's not so much his performance, as the planning of whole process. I.e. All articles have "aside" sections that summarize the ideas discussed. The narrator reads these without any forethought whatsoever. The page that he's one might have nothing to do with the aside bar, but the minute he finishes the paragraph, he starts reading the aside bar. Aside bars should be read after the concept has been introduced, maybe even at the end of a section. Needs better planning.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No
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Warriors of the Storm
- A Novel
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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A fragile peace reigns in Wessex, Mercia, and East Anglia. King Alfred's son, Edward, and formidable daughter, Aethelflaed, rule the kingdoms. But all around, the restless Northmen, eyeing the rich lands and wealthy churches, are mounting raids. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the kingdoms' greatest warrior, controls Northern Mercia from the strongly fortified city of Chester.
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A good thing gone bad
- By Gino on 01-20-16
- Warriors of the Storm
- A Novel
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
Narrator is bad
Reviewed: 01-04-17
Narrator bad at pronouncing names, kept on pronouncing Ragnar with gn sounding like gn in gnocchi
Annoying voice changes in the beginning
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Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers
- By: The Great Courses, Andrew R. Wilson
- Narrated by: Andrew R. Wilson
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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From Napoleon's revolutionary campaigns to the way insurgency, terrorism, and nuclear weaponry have defined the nature of warfare in the 21st century, the results of military strategy have changed the course of history. These 24 thought-provoking lectures give you an inside look at both the content and historical context of the world's greatest war strategists. From the triremes and hoplites of ancient Greece to the Special Forces in 21st-century Afghanistan, strategy is the process by which political objectives are translated into military action.
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Good beginning - weak end
- By Hoefling on 05-10-14
Brought be back to my roots
Reviewed: 11-06-14
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Anyone interesting in understanding the world today should listen to this course.
What did you like best about this story?
Everything
What does Professor Andrew R. Wilson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Yes, he is excellent at delivering the message
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