Brendan

Just what I needed

Reviewed: 05-24-22

I wanted a little more vocal dynamics, she's much more animated in her natural conversation. Otherwise, these statistics and mechanisms have been incredibly helpful to me. Know that this process takes years, but you can lessen the impact.
Not strictly for the outdoorsy, don't let that stop you! Good luck and peace on your journey 🤍🖤🤍

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God Awful

Reviewed: 04-18-21

I very rarely give 1-star reviews for anything, but this book was so awful that I'm pretty sure all these other 5-star reviews were purchased. English is obviously not his first language and it sounds like it was run through Google Translate. Instead of saying "lift the [exercise] bar", he says "lift the pub" a synonym for one meaning of "bar" but the wrong word in the sentence. He says "the tardy author Ayn Rand..." (rather than "late" aka "dead") and soooo many other examples, like he calls free weight "immunity." It's literally unlistenable in sections. Plus, it's written like a high school book report, with god awful lists of definitions, divorced from any useful context. The author makes no pretense to explain why he knows what he knows, how he has any expertise or even indicate that he's ever lifted a pound in his life. The narrator is pretty mediocre at best, mispronouncing words and sometimes tripping over these non-sensical sentences. The advice itself seems bad to me, like "when you're starting off, you don't have to care about nutrition. In fact, maybe go heavy on the carbs, so you have energy for working out." And he's promising pretty dramatic results each and every month during ramp-up. Steer clear!

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4 people found this helpful

Changing my world. Thank you.

Reviewed: 03-14-19

Wonderful. He is more talking to you than narrating. It cuts deep some times, but how else do you remove cancer?

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Great Sci-Fi, Decent Story, Poor Characters

Reviewed: 01-02-18

It was tough to get through this book, since I didn't like the protagonist or really anyone in the book. They're pretty much all neurotic bureaucrats. But the philosophical exploration of time travel kept getting better until the ending gave a sufficiently good payoff to warranty a several star boost from what I was originally going to give this book.

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absolutely the best

Reviewed: 03-26-16

I've listened to well over 50 audiobooks and this is easily in the top 5. Good mix of anecdotes and well-explained technical information. great narrator.

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Solid

Reviewed: 12-24-13

Nothing revolutionary or tricky about this book - a sound, fundamental approach to B2B selling. He's big into "proactive outreach" (cold-calling) and defends it. I liked the focus on creating an annual Selling Business Plan, for getting more focus on how to sell for the upcoming year. If you've read a million sales books, this won't likely add anything to your skill set, but if you're starting off, I feel this is a pretty good primer.

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Fundamentally Good

Reviewed: 10-31-13

I thought the book was fundamentally good. It went a little slowly for me - many of the topics (and even case studies) are covered in more depth in other books, like "Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow." The points he makes are widely applicable, even though many of them seem like common sense.

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8 people found this helpful

Excellent Frameworks

Reviewed: 09-21-13

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. The lecturer is an excellent narrator and sounds very empathetic and understanding. He breaks down the topic into very logical lectures, each focused around very useable frameworks. He frequently references outside studies, but doesn't get bogged down in the details, making it relate to the issue at hand. There are some dramatic enactments of examples which are sometimes cheesy, but overall add to the course. This audiobook is good from start to finish (arguably getting better as it goes), rather than many books, where it's one good idea re-hashed 50 times.

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Excellent

Reviewed: 06-23-13

Peter Drucker's insights are fascinating to listen to. With this book, it's a very wide-reaching survey of seems to be everything he ever wrote. My only complaint was the lack of focus, but in some ways, it was nice to think outside the box on seemingly random issues. The narrator has a very posh accent that I think lends well to the content, but the first 30 minutes or so of the book is narrated by the co-author/editor, who sounds like a drunken dockworker.

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Down-to-Earth Strategies

Reviewed: 06-23-13

Chris Lytle breaks the responsibilities of the sales manager into several sections, then dives into improving each one of those areas with reasonable strategies. He talks with many top-performing sales managers and synthesizes those ideas into some fun and innovative solutions. This was a well-organized book that kept moving.

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