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The Beekeeper
- Pollinating Your Organization for Transformative Growth
- By: Katie P. Desiderio, Michael G. Frino
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17
Catherine had just celebrated her forty-third birthday on May 20th. Her dream of owning and running a thriving company was coming true. Essentially Proximal's essential oil line was becoming a major success. As a female business owner, she was doing her best to promote positive culture at work and retain talent. Her goal was to build a diverse high-performing and inclusive leadership team, but her leadership team was struggling to put people first and live the mission and values of the company. She had to make some serious changes to ensure the future success of the company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Fable!!
- By Stacey Kyle on 08-24-23
- The Beekeeper
- Pollinating Your Organization for Transformative Growth
- By: Katie P. Desiderio, Michael G. Frino
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Reviewed: 09-30-23
Every leader (or aspiring leader) should read this book, often! The culture is your responsibility. Forming and transforming organizational culture is a top-down phenomenon (I don't want to call it a process because it's as much soul driven as it is stepwise). Every other culture book I've read misses this subtlety. Katie and Michael fill this gap with what initially feels like a cute story about a family vacation to farm, but they nicely analogize the various functions of honeybees (and their impact to the surrounding environment) to how our organizations work -especially from the leadership lens. My favorite part is towards the end when they turn the script to consider the reactions to some of the messages from the CEO, and how members of the leadership team choose their lens to either embrace or resist ownership of the organizational culture. Great read. Thanks Katie & Michael!
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The Effortless Sleep Method
- The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems
- By: Sasha Stephens
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
The Effortless Sleep Method is the approach insomniacs all over the world have been waiting for. This hugely effective method offers a simple and permanent solution for long-term and new insomniacs alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Someone has finally "cracked" insomnia...
- By David on 03-01-15
- The Effortless Sleep Method
- The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems
- By: Sasha Stephens
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
Should be taught in every medical school
Reviewed: 02-18-23
Excellent method to better understand and beat insomnia! Well worth reading or listening to. Thank you Sasha!
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The Wealth of Nations
- The Giants of Political Thought Series
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: Craig Deitschmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 325
> An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is one of the most important and influential works ever published on economic theory and is the foundation of classical economics. In it, Adam Smith stresses the importance of the division of labor to economic progress. He criticizes the arguments for economic planning and offers a detailed theoretical and historical case for free trade. In this masterpiece of the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment, Smith develops a theory of social order arising from the unintended consequences of self-interested behavior.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is a commentary and summary, not the original
- By Loren McConnell on 04-17-21
- The Wealth of Nations
- The Giants of Political Thought Series
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: Craig Deitschmann
Wonderful commentary
Reviewed: 06-15-21
The wealth of nations is notoriously difficult to read and comprehend, the commentary and narration of Adam Smith’s principles makes it very digestible and enjoyable.
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- By: David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: David A. Sinclair PhD
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,444
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,361
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,327
From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting audiobook shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls listeners to consider a future where aging can be treated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- By Nikolai B.G on 09-13-19
- Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- By: David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: David A. Sinclair PhD
A gift to humanity, to pay forward
Reviewed: 01-06-20
What a wonderful time to be alive! Before being halfway done with this book, I already purchased multiple copies - for my parents and my in-laws, and to a couple friends, inviting them to my 100th birthday party. Please keep us up to date on your health/longevity experiments, as I surely will share the positive impacts to my parents!! Thanks again :)
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Built from Scratch
- How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
- By: Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Bob Andelman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 655
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 563
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 562
Built from Scratch is the story of how two incredibly determined and creative people - and their associates - built a business from nothing to 761 stores and $30 billion in sales in a mere 20 years. Built from Scratch tells many colorful stories associated with The Home Depot's founding and meteoric rise; shows that a company can be a tough, growth-oriented competitor, and still maintain a high sense of responsibility to the community; and provides great lessons useful to people in any business, from start-ups to the Fortune 500.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bezos must have read this book.
- By Jensen on 06-22-17
- Built from Scratch
- How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
- By: Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Bob Andelman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Amazing American success story, but...
Reviewed: 07-12-18
Good book and worth a read, I loved the startup process and story. But, I became increasingly frustrated by the 2018 state of shopping at s Home Depot. So much of the mantra preached in this book is about the attributes of excellent customer service. Well, when you go to a HD store, it’s as if the staff ignores you and when you actually lasso one of the scarce staff members, the chance of them actually helping is pitifully low. I’ve left HD so many times to sit in my car in the parking lot, and order what I need from amazon. HD, you need to up your game, and compete on a level that amazon can’t, know-how, right-now, too big to ship. Come on, LETS DO THIS.
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