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Neuroscience for Leadership
- Harnessing the Brain Gain Advantage
- By: Tara Swart, Kitty Chisholm, Paul Brown
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Leadership can be learned: New evidence from neuroscience clearly points to ways that leaders can significantly improve how they engage with and motivate others. This book provides leaders and managers with an accessible guide to practical, effective actions, based on neuroscience.
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2 out of 5 stars
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she tells me what she's gonna tell me
- By bagheera on 09-27-21
- Neuroscience for Leadership
- Harnessing the Brain Gain Advantage
- By: Tara Swart, Kitty Chisholm, Paul Brown
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
she tells me what she's gonna tell me
Reviewed: 09-27-21
what the he'll? I'm 2 chapters in and she keeps telling me what the book is going to be about. why not also hire a narrator to tell me how she tells it, while she's at it. this is getting exhausting. not a lot of take away so far. will re-rate later. stop convincing me to read a book I already have. please. you're wasting my time.
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Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26,484
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,560
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,480
In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting read with contradictory messages
- By Danny on 04-21-05
- Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
sleeping beauty's wake-up spell
Reviewed: 09-16-21
Malcolm is enlightening. he illustrates vivid consious distinctions to what normally tingles in the back of your mind.. showing how to see, really see, what our instincts take for granted and how those instincts can be conned, disabled, distracted or thrown off. Brilliant. "wish I had learned this @15 years old. ...and was inherently proficient (by now) at this enabled understanding.
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71,110
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 61,578
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61,213
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
taking the strange, out of the stranger.
Reviewed: 01-13-20
Chaotic and highly charged topics, become distinctively reshaped, like the way Tom Hanks and "Philadelphia" reshaped people into seeing sexuality. But here... with a reasonable people processing glitch we haven't looked at yet.
Lots of distinctive research from varied topics to show the oversimplification of how we see specific strangers under templates of our Known associations... Summed up as an unconscious"I think I know", in a confirmation bias approach, that doesn't factor in, the parts we wildly don't know.
Struggles with blame and anger, at seeming black and white... finish with a dumbledorian "pity those who live without love", type of objectivity. Where we can actually see many ways to problem solve parts of our humanity.
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The Home Front: Life in America During World War II
- By: Dan Gediman, Martha C. Little
- Narrated by: Martin Sheen
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,592
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,531
Narrated by Emmy Award–winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War II takes listeners into the lives of Americans at home—part of the Greatest Generation—who supported the war effort and sustained the country during wartime. The war brought immediate, life-changing shifts: the rationing of meat, dairy products, and sugar; an explosion of war-related jobs; and, despite mixed signals, a greater role for women working outside the home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent! But incessant breaks with credits along the way.
- By Bradley Justice on 09-11-17
This is episode format, not Chapters.
Reviewed: 09-09-19
"Episodes" here, means that each "chapter" has an ending that runs through all the people who made each episode possible.
This resembles staying through all the credits of a Marvel movie, to see the cameo, except here there is no cameo. My Honey and I relax into slumber, with these audiobooks, and while Martin Plays the narrator with perfection, a number of other people are involved in telling the story. Martin is ideal. others are genuine, but less flavor for the ears.. While its nice getting a true feel for the era, the capping off at every episode, is more than a tad annoying. Neither entertaining, nor informative (more than the second time around). repetitive is not what I love in a book. Especially words that don't tell a story.
However, if you're in a position of ease to fast forward to the next chapter, consider this as a flash back added perspective of history that varies in cadence and views. It CAN draw you in to the moment of the 40s. But it doesn't vouch as advertised. FYI
My recommendation to those in charge would be to drop the "recap" ending at each chapter. Then... this would make a much better audiobook. and review. If there is a response to this review, that such has been the case, consider my review changed to 4 and a half stars.
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