Raymond Bing
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Critical Chain
- Project Management and the Theory of Constraints
- By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rick Adamson, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,242
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,077
A young, untested team of problem solvers challenged with saving their company moves from board room to classroom in search of answers - and finds them through lively, open discourse with their innovative professor. This gripping, fast-paced business novel does for project management what Eliyahu M. Goldratt's other novels have done for production and marketing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Business Fiction - A New Genre
- By Charlotte A. Hu on 10-10-14
- Critical Chain
- Project Management and the Theory of Constraints
- By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rick Adamson, Tavia Gilbert
I just a good story that teaches me.
Reviewed: 02-21-25
A good story will always add to any lesson worth learning. This author knows how to put it all together in a paletable story anyone can relate too.
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The Innovator's Dilemma
- When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- By: Clayton M. Christensen
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,030
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 788
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Story4 out of 5 stars 783
Great companies can fail: not because they do anything wrong, but because they do everything right. Meeting customers' current needs leads firms to reject breakthrough innovations, "disruptive technologies", that create the products and opportunities of the future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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See "The Innovator's Solution" Instead
- By 3.14 on 09-10-10
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- By: Clayton M. Christensen
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
All you need to know
Reviewed: 11-11-24
Wrapped in a few chapters and ready for your enjoyment. Takes notes, you will need them later.
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Living Trusts for Everyone, Second Edition
- Why a Will Is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle Estates
- By: Ronald Farrington Sharp
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Living Trusts for Everyone is the best resource for setting up a living trust. Explaining in specific terms what benefits a trust will have, Ronald Farrington Sharp gives the tools necessary to set up a loved one's trust with no lawyers and no expense. Wills benefit lawyers. Trusts benefit the clients. Too often lawyers sell wills to clients only to sit back and wait to sell their probate services to their clients' heirs. Ronald Farrington Sharp describes the best way to handle modern estate planning.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Misguided and biased
- By beckkia on 12-24-20
- Living Trusts for Everyone, Second Edition
- Why a Will Is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle Estates
- By: Ronald Farrington Sharp
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
A LOT to consume
Reviewed: 06-05-24
Slowing this book down was they only way I could understand all the information offered in this treasure. It is a lot but seems to cover all the bases. I wish I would of listened to it many years ago.
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Ghost Town Living
- Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
- By: Brent Underwood
- Narrated by: Brent Underwood
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 274
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 255
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Story5 out of 5 stars 255
The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death Valley, has seduced thousands since the 1800s, but few fell harder for it than Brent Underwood, who moved there in March of 2020, only to be immediately snowed in and trapped for weeks. It had once been the largest silver mine in California. Over $500 million worth of ore was pulled from the miles of tunnels below the town. Butch Cassidy, Mark Twain, and other infamous characters of the American West were rumored to have stayed there. Newspapers reported a murder a week. But that was over 150 years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needle in a haystack.
- By sergio trujillo on 06-06-24
- Ghost Town Living
- Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
- By: Brent Underwood
- Narrated by: Brent Underwood
This is the real story we all need today
Reviewed: 03-22-24
Who has grit like this guy? Not me. From his reasons for buying this old town to how it tried to destroy him - this is a well written, thought-out book. Lucky the world is to be blessed by Mr. Underwood sharing his story with us. I have been following him and his story for years and look forward to visiting, volunteering and embracing Cerro Gordo someday soon.
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Company of One
- Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
- By: Paul Jarvis
- Narrated by: Paul Jarvis
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,231
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,035
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,027
Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high profile world was not his idea of success. In Company of One, Jarvis explains how you can find the right pathway to do the same, including planning how to set up your shop, determining your desired revenues, dealing with unexpected crises, keeping your key clients happy, and of course, doing all of this on your own. Company of One is a refreshingly new approach centered on staying small and avoiding growth, for any size business.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts out strong...
- By Oliver Nielsen on 05-02-20
- Company of One
- Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
- By: Paul Jarvis
- Narrated by: Paul Jarvis
This is the American Future
Reviewed: 03-15-24
As a fellow company of one, this book puts it all into perspective. Yes you have to do all the things, yes you have yo do all the work, yes you will reep all the rewards. This book will lay it all out for you in a simple mind set to keep you going for what you want.
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Principles of Scientific Management
- By: Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Narrated by: Trevor Bond
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) is a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), a manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer, and management consultant. This work laid out Taylor's views on the principles of scientific management, or industrial-era organization and decision theory. The term scientific management refers to coordinating the enterprise for everyone's benefit including increased wages for laborers, often referred to as Taylor's Principles, or Taylorism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So this is what the old guys talk about.
- By Raymond Bing on 02-14-24
- Principles of Scientific Management
- By: Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Narrated by: Trevor Bond
So this is what the old guys talk about.
Reviewed: 02-14-24
If you want to know the ways of the people before you, you have found it. This is a classic, and beeds to be learned by anyone in business so you know what to do and what not to do. A lot of these older ways fight against our new LEAN business ideas but, you can't break the rules if you do not know them. Enjoy.
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Selling Luxury
- Connect with Affluent Customers, Create Unique Experiences Through Impeccable Service, and Close the Sale
- By: Robin Lent, Genevieve Tour
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Connect with affluent customers, create unique experiences through impeccable service, and close the sale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Focused Too Much On Items & Not Enough On Services
- By Michelle O on 03-12-24
- Selling Luxury
- Connect with Affluent Customers, Create Unique Experiences Through Impeccable Service, and Close the Sale
- By: Robin Lent, Genevieve Tour
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
I needed this in my life
Reviewed: 01-03-24
This is that smart, quick book that reminds you why you serve your public. I will be reviewing and referring to it often. Smart voice and well written.
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The Sewing Machine
- By: Natalie Fergie
- Narrated by: Angus King, Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 606
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 531
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 533
It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again. Decades later, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her. More than 100 years after his grandmother's sewing machine was made, Fred unpicks the secrets of four generations, one stitch at a time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical perspective
- By susan schumacher on 03-06-18
- The Sewing Machine
- By: Natalie Fergie
- Narrated by: Angus King, Ruth Urquhart
I never would of thought...
Reviewed: 06-21-23
This book explained a lot of what is in my mind and heart when I think of a sewing machine. The relationship I built with sewing and my mother making my cloths meant so much to me. It took this book for me to remember that. The steike of 1911 at the Singer meant a lot to all of us in this industrialized world. Thanks for putting it all into words and a great story with a few twists, turns and creative prose.
Our story with small meaning machines has rarely been so well told.
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
- A Novel
- By: Tom Hanks
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks, Peter Gerety, Natalie Morales, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,406
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220
From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could never stay married to an actor,
- By PattyQB on 05-11-23
- The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
- A Novel
- By: Tom Hanks
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks, Peter Gerety, Natalie Morales, Ego Nwodim, Nasim Pedrad, Connor Ratliff, Holland Taylor, Rita Wilson, full cast
The magic of movies answered on a typewriter.
Reviewed: 05-15-23
The future of audiobooks is here and it is all starting with this. The story is everything one would expect it to be with much more human interest than you can shake a stick at. The character voice actors do-not disappoint as they completely understood the asignment. The post audio editing is missing a few things but I am sure that can be fixed soon.
How blessed we are in this time to have the talent of Tom Hanks, Rita Wison and the rest of the cast expound thier talents in this medium. I thabk you all for your efforts and dedication to your craft.
I will be buying a new-to-me typewriter, recommending this book and a typewriter to everyone that I know including my mother.
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How to Fix a Factory
- A Practical Approach to Clarify and Resolve Underlying Challenges in Your Factory
- By: Rob Tracy
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19
Every factory eventually runs into choppy waters and turbulence. Systems and processes that used to work suddenly struggle, and customer complaints pile up out of nowhere. It’s not for a lack of effort or desire, but something goes wrong with the old formula for running the plant. What can you do to navigate the trouble and help your manufacturing business get back on the right track? In How to Fix a Factory, Rob Tracy shows there’s always a way to fix the problem, once you know what the problem is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tremendously useful
- By Miguel Zepeda on 01-03-25
- How to Fix a Factory
- A Practical Approach to Clarify and Resolve Underlying Challenges in Your Factory
- By: Rob Tracy
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
Everything you REALLY need to know - conveniently
Reviewed: 04-23-23
I first thought that this book would not be long enough, I was wrong. From people to the things we produce, it has it all. No matter what side of the management or worker table you may sit on, this is a must listen if you are interested in making money these days.
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