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Free Download Becoming a Better Boss: Why Good Management Is so Difficult by Julian Birkinshaw, Glen McCready, Gildan Media
English | July 29, 2020 | ISBN: B08DG8JYNJ | 5 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 326 Mb
There are hundreds of books on management. This is not just another book about what makes an effective manager. Becoming a Better Boss highlights why well-known advice on good management is so rarely heeded.
By focusing on management through the eyes of an employee, Julian Birkinshaw gives us insightful and helpful advice on what we might do differently - both as individual managers of others, and as architects of the organizations in which we work. To achieve this, Birkinshaw has spent time working "in the trenches" to remind himself what life as an employee feels like, as well as interviewed hundreds of employees and managers and undertaken surveys which have received responses in the thousands.
The resulting book is a radical new look at what makes good management which is applicable to both manager and employee. It takes managers out of their comfort zone and shows how you can do things differently. It shows how the employee can help themselves be managed more effectively and explores the limitations and pathologies of the organizations we work for.

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Free Download Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR4HST17 | 2024 | 14 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 431 MB
Author: Stacy A. Cordery
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful business-women in American history, BECOMING ELIZABETH ARDEN opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamor, and the profitable business of beauty. Elizabeth Arden was a household name on six continents and a millionaire several times over before her death in 1966. Arden counted British royalty and social elites from the overlapping worlds of New York, Hollywood, London, and Paris among her clients. She revolutionized skin care and cosmetics, making it acceptable for all women to embrace glamour and wear makeup-not just actresses and prostitutes. She created a successful international business empire before women gained the vote and at a time when virtually no woman owned or ran a national company. She developed the first luxury spa and insisted on a holistic understanding of health and beauty.

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Free Download Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders by Jeffrey D. McCausland, Tom Vossler, Walter Dixon
English | September 08, 2020 | ISBN: B08H4HMHGB | 7 hours and 25 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 408 Mb
You may never visit the Gettysburg battlefield, but understanding historic lessons from Battle Tested! will have a profound influence on not only your leadership abilities, but also your life, organizations, and career.
In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to learn as much as possible from the examples of history - the disasters as well as the triumphs. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate commanders faced a series of critical leadership challenges under the enormous stress of combat. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. These leaders each responded in different ways, but the concepts and principles they applied during those traumatic three days contain critical lessons for today's leaders that are both useful and applicable - whether those leaders manage operations at a large corporation, supervise a public institution, lead an athletic team, or govern a state or municipality.
In the 21st century, leadership is the indispensable quantity that separates successful organizations from failures. Successful leaders communicate vision, motivate team members, and inspire trust. One must move both people and the collective organization into the future while, at the same time, dealing with the past. A leader must learn to master the dynamic requirements of decision-making and change.

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Free Download Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5SBDGLK | 2024 | 24 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 687 MB
Author: Francis S. Barry
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
Bringing together two of America's unifying loves - road trips and Abraham Lincoln - Frank Barry takes listeners on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of our democracy and the soul of our country. A year into his marriage and having never driven an RV, Frank and his wife Laurel set out from New York City in a Winnebago to drive the nation's first transcontinental route, the Lincoln Highway, which zigzags through small towns and big cities from Times Square to San Francisco. Using the spirit of Abraham Lincoln to guide them across the land, they hope to see more clearly what holds the country together-and how we can keep it together, even amidst political divisions that have grown increasingly rancorous, bitter, and exhausting. Along the way, Frank and Laurel meet Americans whose personal experiences help humanize the nation's divisions, and they encounter historical figures and events whose legacies are still shaping our sense of national identity and the struggles over it. This unforgettable journey is full of what makes any great road trip memorable and enjoyable: music, conversation, and laughter. By the end, listeners will have a clearer picture of how we have arrived at a period that carries echoes of the Civil War era, and-using Lincoln as a guide-where the path forward lies.

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Free Download Baby Bust (10th Anniversary Edition): New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DF869XJ2 | 2024 | 3 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Stewart D. Friedman
Narrator: Jon Vertullo
Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School's Work/Life Integration Project, studied two generations of Wharton college students as they graduated: Gen Xers in 1992 and Millennials in 2012. The cross-generational study produced a stark discovery-the rate of graduates who planned to have children had dropped by nearly half over those twenty years. While some might wonder what this privileged group can tell us about broader trends in the United States, Friedman argues that they were "the canaries in the coal mine. . . . if they could not see a way to make their careers and families work, how could those with fewer opportunities and resources square this circle?" In a new preface to this tenth anniversary edition of Baby Bust, Friedman observes that the birth rate in the United States has continued to decline in the years since. He offers new insights into why fewer people are choosing to have children, how the pandemic affected these trends, and what can be done about it.

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Free Download Adrian Gonzalez Sanchez, Matt Godfrey (Narrator), "Azure OpenAI Service for Cloud Native Applications: Designing, Planning, and Implementing Generative AI Solutions"
English | ASIN: B0DDZZ325H | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:57:00 | 219 MB
Get the details, examples, and best practices you need to build generative AI applications, services, and solutions using the power of Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft AI specialist Adrián González Sánchez examines the integration and utilization of Azure OpenAI Service within the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.
To guide you through the technical details of Azure OpenAI Service, this book shows you how to set up the necessary resources, prepare end-to-end architectures, work with APIs, manage costs and usage, handle data privacy and security, and optimize performance. You'll learn various use cases where Azure OpenAI Service models can be applied and get valuable insights from experts. Ideal for software and cloud developers, product managers, architects, and engineers, and cloud-enabled data scientists, this book will help you:

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Free Download Attacker's Advantage: Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities by Ram Charan, Mark Bramhall, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
English | February 24, 2015 | ISBN: B00TE29TY8 | 6 hours and 8 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 506 Mb
When Ram Charan (and Larry Bossidy) published Execution (over 2 million copies sold), they saw it as the playbook for both senior and middle managers in "the new game." But now, the game has changed. Business leaders find themselves operating in an era of persistent uncertainty moving at an unprecedented rate of change. Now the man Forbes magazine called "alone at the top of his profession . . . a guru, a corporate sage" returns with a new message for this challenging time.In The Attacker's Advantage, Charan reveals the upside of uncertainty for those leaders who are nimbly positioned to anticipate the catalysts of disruption and embrace change. He updates and adapts the principles of his previous bestsellers to address the current turbulent business environment, cutting through the veil of complexity to concentrate on the new customer needs and expectations and providing the tools for corporate leaders to take their companies to a higher level."He has the rare ability to distill meaningful from meaningless and transfer it to others in a quiet, effective way." -Jack Welch, former Chairman of GE"He knows more about corporate America than anyone." -Richard Harrington, CEO Thomson Reuters
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Free Download H. R. McMaster (Author, Narrator), "At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House"
English | ASIN: B0CNJ26Z2C | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:42:00 | 349 MB
A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster's turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.
At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. With the candor of a soldier and the perspective of a historian, McMaster rises above the fray to lay bare the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump's presidency and give readers insight into what a second Trump term would look like.

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