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Nine Lies About Work

A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World

by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall ...

Forget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco ... Read more

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Forget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco
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The Problem with Change

And the Essential Nature of Human Performance

by Ashley Goodall ...

If you’ve had enough of the constant turbulence that defines corporate life today, you’re not alone. Learn why change is bad for people and for business, and discover how to create the stability that we all need to thrive.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues ... Read more

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If you’ve had enough of the constant turbulence that defines corporate life today, you’re not alone. Learn why change is bad for people and for business, and discover how to create the stability that we all need to thrive.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues
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Nine Lies about Work

A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World

by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall ...

Narrated by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall ...

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8 hours 53 min

Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies—distortions, faulty ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies—distortions, faulty
... Read more

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The Problem with Change

And the Essential Nature of Human Performance

by Ashley Goodall ...

Narrated by Ashley Goodall ...

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7 hours 58 min

Revolutionize the way you see disruption and change with a groundbreaking alternative to corporate instability from a lauded HR expert.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful.Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new ... Read more

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Revolutionize the way you see disruption and change with a groundbreaking alternative to corporate instability from a lauded HR expert.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful.Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new
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The Shadow System

Mass Incarceration and the American Family

by Sylvia A. Harvey ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

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8 hours 43 min

From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young ... Read more

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From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young
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The Complications

On Going Insane in America

by Emmett Rensin ...

Narrated by James Gloucester ...

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12 hours 56 min

An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for ... Read more

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An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for
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Fantasy Island

Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

by Ed Morales ...

Narrated by Sean Duffy ...

Unabridged

10 hours 57 min

An overarching history of Puerto Rico’s years as a colony of the United States."Urgent, fascinating, and impassioned." —Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an EmpireSince its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore ... Read more

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An overarching history of Puerto Rico’s years as a colony of the United States."Urgent, fascinating, and impassioned." —Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an EmpireSince its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore
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Narcotopia

In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA

by Patrick Winn ...

Narrated by Patrick Winn ...

Unabridged

15 hours 30 min

The gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state—and America’s struggle to thwart them.In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs.Wa ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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The gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state—and America’s struggle to thwart them.In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs.Wa
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Fifteen Cents on the Dollar

How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap

by Ebony Reed, Louise Story ...

Narrated by Tovah Ott ...

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14 hours 45 min

A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system.The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans of all backgrounds joined together in historic demonstrations in the streets, discussions in the workplace, and conversations at home about the financial ... Read more

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A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system.The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans of all backgrounds joined together in historic demonstrations in the streets, discussions in the workplace, and conversations at home about the financial
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Over Ruled

The Human Toll of Too Much Law

by Neil Gorsuch, Janie Nitze ...

Narrated by Neil Gorsuch, Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

7 hours 28 min

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it’s worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?Over just the last few decades, laws in this nation have exploded in number; they are increasingly complex; and the punishments they carry are increasingly severe. Some of these laws come ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it’s worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?Over just the last few decades, laws in this nation have exploded in number; they are increasingly complex; and the punishments they carry are increasingly severe. Some of these laws come
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How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

by Richard D Kahlenberg ...

Narrated by Graham Winton ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about itThe last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.While ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about itThe last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.While
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American Breakdown

Why We No Longer Trust Our Leaders and Institutions and How We Can Rebuild Confidence

by Gerard Baker ...

Narrated by Ian Russell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

From the former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, a must-read account of how America suffers from a “trust deficit” that has weakened its cornerstone institutions and divided our society.AMERICAN BREAKDOWN dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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From the former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, a must-read account of how America suffers from a “trust deficit” that has weakened its cornerstone institutions and divided our society.AMERICAN BREAKDOWN dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine
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