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The Essential Deming
- Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
- By: W. Edwards Deming, Joyce Orsini - editor
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
With The Essential Deming, Fordham University professor and Deming expert Joyce Orsini draws on a wealth of previously unavailable material to present the legendary thinker's most important management principles in one indispensable volume. The book is filled with articles, papers, lectures, and notes touching on a wide range of topics, but which focus on Deming's overriding message: Quality and operations are all about systems, not individual performance; the system has to be designed so that the worker can perform well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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system of profound knowledge.
- By Amazon Customer on 02-11-25
- The Essential Deming
- Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
- By: W. Edwards Deming, Joyce Orsini - editor
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
Statisticians take on business
Reviewed: 03-01-21
Dr. Deming has a way with numbers , this book gives a dense not so organized look into his 14 improvements and 7 demise of a business. Found it interesting thru his experience , but very statistical after the core of the book is over with.
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The Dichotomy of Leadership
- Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
- By: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Narrated by: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19,392
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17,018
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16,901
Every leader must be ready and willing to take charge, to make hard, crucial calls for the good of the team and the mission. Something much more difficult to understand is that in order to be a good leader, one must also be a good follower. This is a dichotomy - a Dichotomy of Leadership. It is, as authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin explained in their best-selling first audiobook, Extreme Ownership, “Simple, Not Easy”.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good follow-up but uneccesary
- By Louis Macareo on 11-16-18
- The Dichotomy of Leadership
- Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
- By: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Narrated by: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Two leaders giving perspective on how to lead.
Reviewed: 08-30-20
Loved it . Leif and Jocko give first hand experience of how to be a leader in highly stressful situations of war and equivalating it as much as they can to real world business scenarios. Being able to take scenarios where ego and cookies can get in the way and taking the necessary actions to be better as a leader for the team.
I am looking to move up in my company and this has definitely given me perspective where I have gone wrong and need improvement but also shown where I stand as a leader and have won. Thanks guys .
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites
- How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
- By: Kathleen McAuliffe
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 996
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 994
A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures - including humans - think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining but questionable studies
- By mdkoci on 01-02-17
- This Is Your Brain on Parasites
- How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
- By: Kathleen McAuliffe
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Mind gut connection to a T
Reviewed: 08-25-19
explained theories surrounding microbes , parasites and the human interaction with examples in great detail. Loved the expansion of knowledge in new directions in a field I felt I already knew so much.
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 569
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 484
The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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very detailed, but very statistical
- By ekhensel15 on 01-12-19
- Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
very detailed, but very statistical
Reviewed: 01-12-19
This book started off with a historical recall of viruses, bacterial rampages and then skewed to statistical data which was somewhat disorganized and lost me as a listener. I'm going to have to relisten and draw out some maps to fully understand everything in this book.
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Missing Microbes
- How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
- By: Martin J. Blaser
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 331
In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances-antibiotics-threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enlightening and information well supported
- By James on 05-03-15
- Missing Microbes
- How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
- By: Martin J. Blaser
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Had a hunch and was fully inspired
Reviewed: 05-26-18
I had the thought of medications during pregnancy causing chronic illnesses as my hunch. this book was written to hint at examples of chronic illnesses concerning the gut such as Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, gurg, diabetes ,asthma etc. blBeing a Type 1 Diabetic I found it answering questions that have been lurking in my mind for years of how did I get this disease. Antibiotics make sense as I was severely ill multiple times before the age of 5 , measles, mumps , ear infections ,sore throats and even thought to be dead until I had tubes out in my ears at the age of 5. I questioned at first whether it was my mothers thyroid medication or illness she had while she was pregnant. I look forward to further research on this topic and this may have swayed my educational dissertation.
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