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“Teams succeed to the degree that there is a free flow of ideas. Read this book to learn how to bring out the best in others—and in yourself.”—Scott Galloway, bestselling author of The Four and Post Corona
Ideaflow: the number of ideas you or your team can generate in a set amount of time
We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how they’re born. Innovation doesn’t come from a sprint or a hackathon—it’s a result of maximizing ideaflow.
Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn of Stanford’s renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the “d.school”) offer a proven strategy for coming up with great ideas by yourself or with your team, and quickly determining which are worthy. Drawing upon their combined decades of experience leading Stanford’s premier Launchpad accelerator and advising some of the world’s most innovative organizations, like Microsoft, Michelin, Keller Williams Realty, and Hyatt, they’ll teach you how to:
• Overcome dangerous thinking traps
• Find inspiration in unexpected places
• Trick your own brain to be more creative
• Design and deploy affordable experiments
• Fill your innovation pipeline
• Unleash your own creative potential, as well as the potential of others
Perhaps you have experienced low ideaflow. Have you been in that quiet conference room, with a half-filled whiteboard, and an unmet business target? With the proven system in this book, entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders will learn how to tap into surprising and valuable ideas on demand and fill the creative pipeline with breakthrough ideas.
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- By GoingGoingGone... on 07-01-18
By: Jeanne Liedtka, and others
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Moments of Impact
- How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change
- By: Chris Ertel, Lisa Kay Solomon
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
Moments of Impact is an audiobook on a mission: to eradicate time-sucking, energy-depleting workshops and meetings. In our fast-changing world, organizations have important challenges and opportunities to address - and no time to waste. Moments of Impact delivers the single most useful resource for managers and leaders who need better strategic conversation - now - to shape the future of their organizations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another audiobook failure. Buy the real book
- By Jonathan on 02-08-15
By: Chris Ertel, and others
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The High-Potential Leader
- How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact
- By: Ram Charan, Geri Willigan
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Companies need high potential leaders (Hi-Pos) more than ever before to help them adapt to today's tumultuous, digitally-driven business environment. If you meet the Hi-Po criteria, you're in high demand - and this book explains how to fast-track yourself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book for people wanting to climb the corporate ladder and for executives to accelerate high - potential leaders
- By Niel on 06-23-19
By: Ram Charan, and others
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Little Bets
- How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
- By: Peter Sims
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 353
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the story developers at Pixar films, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all have in common? Best-selling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved breakthrough results by methodically taking small, experimental steps in order to discover and develop new ideas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Useful approach, not for everyone
- By Tad Davis on 08-15-11
By: Peter Sims
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Joy, Inc.
- How We Built a Workplace People Love
- By: Richard Sheridan
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 265
Joy, Inc. offers an inside look at how Sheridan and Menlo created a joyful culture, and shows how any organization can follow their methods for a more passionate team and sustainable, profitable results. Sheridan also shows how to run smarter meetings and build cultural training into your hiring process. Joy, Inc. offers an inspirational blueprint for listeners in any field who want a committed, energizing atmosphere at work - leading to sustainable business results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hey Menlo.
- By Stacey Colón on 03-25-16
By: Richard Sheridan
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Making Ideas Happen
- Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
- By: Scott Belsky
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 694
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 460
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Story4 out of 5 stars 458
How the world's leading innovators push their ideas to fruition, time and time again. Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare. According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be strengthened by anyone willing to build their organizational habits and harness the forces of community.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Narrator
- By Charl on 07-12-12
By: Scott Belsky
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Glimmer
- How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World
- By: Warren Berger
- Narrated by: Ax Norman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4 out of 5 stars 39
The first book to reveal how thinking like a designer can help solve the greatest challenges we face in business, society, and our daily lives. What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our world? In this highly original book by journalist Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated designer Bruce Mau, ten groundbreaking principles of design are shown in action-addressing business, social, and personal challenges and improving the way we think, work, and live.
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2 out of 5 stars
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not for those who know about design thinking...
- By Pierre on 09-06-10
By: Warren Berger
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Questions Are the Answer
- A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
- By: Hal Gregersen
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear - but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn’t we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including more than 200 interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions - and breakthrough insights - and how anyone can create them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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All you need is the title
- By Bob Jordy on 01-13-22
By: Hal Gregersen
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Agile Selling
- Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today's Ever-Changing Sales World
- By: Jill Konrath
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
Powerful strategies for sales proficiency in ever-changing situations. When sales people are promoted, change jobs, or face new business environments, they inevitably need to learn new skills quickly. Their livelihoods depend on getting up to speed quickly; their bosses have no patience for delayed results
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5 out of 5 stars
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Practical and insightful
- By Locke on 08-27-15
By: Jill Konrath
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What's Your Moonshot?
- Future-Proof Yourself and Your Business in the Age of Exponential Disruption
- By: John Sanei
- Narrated by: John Sanei
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In What's Your Moonshot? trend and innovation strategist John Sanei explains how to ask the bigger, bolder, more courageous questions that will help you thrive - rather than merely survive - in our exponentially changing times. With a future-focused victor mindset, Sanei decodes the mega-trends that are reshaping human behavior and the way we do business - not to mention, the way we live our lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read to kick off 2022
- By Anonymous User on 01-08-22
By: John Sanei
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Effortless
- Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
- By: Greg McKeown
- Narrated by: Greg McKeown
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,129
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,826
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,814
As high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat”, we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Laced with mistakes!
- By LEE on 04-28-21
By: Greg McKeown
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Ask Your Developer
- How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
- By: Jeff Lawson
- Narrated by: Jeff Lawson
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 302
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 301
Jeff Lawson, developer turned CEO of Twilio (one of Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2021), creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Two and Half Stars
- By Anonymous User on 12-16-21
By: Jeff Lawson
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Power Listening
- Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All
- By: Bernard T Ferrari
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
Listening is harder than it looks - but it's the difference between business success and failure. Nothing causes bad decisions in organizations as often as poor listening. But Bernard Ferrari, adviser to some of the nation's most influential executives, believes that such missteps can be avoided and that the skills and habits of good listening can be developed and mastered. He offers a step-by-step process that will help you become an active listener, able to shape and focus any conversation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better listening made easy
- By Alejandro A. on 09-07-12
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Solving Problems with Design Thinking
- Ten Stories of What Works
- By: Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, Kevin Bennett
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4 out of 5 stars 80
Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can directly affect business results. Yet most managers lack a real sense of how to put this new approach to use for issues other than product development and sales growth. Solving Problems with Design Thinking details 10 real-world examples of managers who successfully applied design methods at 3M, Toyota, IBM, Intuit, and SAP; entrepreneurial start-ups such as MeYou Health; and government and social sector organizations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book for design thinkers
- By Amazon Customer on 11-16-16
By: Jeanne Liedtka, and others
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The Self-Made Billionaire Effect
- How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value
- By: John Sviokla, Mitch Cohen
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first massmarket personal computer. Or what Steve Case might have done for PepsiCo if he hadn't left for a gaming start-up that eventually became AOL. What if Salomon Brothers had kept Michael Bloomberg, or Bear Stearns had exploited the inventive ideas of Stephen Ross? Scores of top-tier entrepreneurs worked for established corporations before they struck out on their own and became self-made billionaires.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of time!
- By Anonymous User on 05-30-20
By: John Sviokla, and others
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Design to Grow
- How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (And How You Can Too)
- By: David Butler, Linda Tischler
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In Design to Grow, a Coca-Cola senior executive shares both the successes and failures of one of the world's largest companies. In this rare and unprecedented behind-the-scenes look, David Butler and senior Fast Company editor Linda Tischler, use case studies to show how this works at Coca-Cola - and how other companies can use the same approach to grow their business. This audiobook is a must for managers inside large corporations as well as entrepreneurs just getting started.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content, difficult narration
- By nicholas hork on 05-06-15
By: David Butler, and others
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Jobs to Be Done
- A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation
- By: Stephen Wunker, David Farber, Jessica Wattman
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
Jobs to Be Done gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a road map for discovering new markets, new products, and new services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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YouTube talks are better.
- By BizTech Readings on 12-27-16
By: Stephen Wunker, and others
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Okay… a lot of people culture from the early 2010’s
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Straw man arguments and handwaving
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You know your product is awesome, but does anybody else? Forget everything you thought you knew about positioning. Successfully connecting your product with consumers isn’t a matter of following trends, comparing yourself to the competition, or trying to attract the widest customer base. So, what is it? April Dunford, positioning guru and tech executive, will enlighten you.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best and only book on positioning
- By Geordie on 05-02-20
By: April Dunford
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Awaken Your Genius
- Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary
- By: Ozan Varol
- Narrated by: Ozan Varol
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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We say some people march to the beat of a different drummer. But implicit in this cliché is that the rest of us march to the same beat. We sleepwalk through life, find ourselves on well-worn paths that were never ours to walk, and become a silent extra. Extraordinary people carve their own paths as leaders and creators. They think and act with genuine independence. They stand out from the crowd because they embody their own shape and color. We call these people geniuses—as if they’re another breed. But genius isn’t for a special few. It can be cultivated. This book will show you how.
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Tired tropes
- By S. Small on 04-22-23
By: Ozan Varol
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7 Rules of Power
- Surprising—but True—Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career
- By: Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular—with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks. Rooted firmly in social-science research, Pfeffer’s 7 rules provide a manual for increasing your ability to get things done, including increasing the positive effects of your job performance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great advice and evidence based perspective
- By Camilo Velasquez on 06-22-23
By: Jeffrey Pfeffer
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Anatomy of a Breakthrough
- How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
- By: Adam Alter
- Narrated by: Adam Alter
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether you’re muddling through a crisis, wrestling writer’s block, trapped in a thankless job, or trying to remedy a friendship, the resulting emotion is a mix of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, anger, and numbness. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Break Free is the roadmap we all need to escape our inertia and flourish in the face of friction. Adam Alter has spent the past two decades studying how people become stuck and how they free themselves to thrive. Here he reveals the formula he and other researchers have uncovered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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really helpful
- By Kindle Customer on 08-27-23
By: Adam Alter
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The Power of Moments
- Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
- By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember 20 years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Easy to create your own defining moments
- By A. Yoshida on 12-15-17
By: Chip Heath, and others
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Predictably Irrational
- The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- By: Dan Ariely
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good lessons, mediocre science?
- By William Stanger on 02-24-09
By: Dan Ariely
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- Fab N.
- 03-05-23
Not Targeted at Solopreneurs
Great book, and great ideas. But to adapt to a one person enterprise will take work. I’m not the target market.
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- JECO
- 02-16-23
This IS Gold!!!
The concepts outlined in this book have unlocked my brain. I’ve always considered myself a creative person. Until now, I didn’t know how to fully wield that power, much less unlock it in someone else. This is the most comprehensive approach I have ever seen to problem solving. It is a master skill as valuable as habit building itself. It is my mission to master Idea Flow. I’ve already seen an impact in my family, my work and my routine. GET THIS BOOK!!
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- kirk
- 11-29-22
Great book
Very good book for learning a new creative management process. Highly recommended to all my friends.
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- Bonnie Ellison
- 11-17-22
I will be gifting this for Christmas!
Great book!
It's a call to action. It's definitely not a frivolous read, I took a ton of notes! Outside of the incredible stories the authors share about helping others solve and create, Ideaflow makes a practical practice out of the "out of the box" thinking entrepreneurs need and rely on, for the reader.
Anyone who is hoping to take an idea from conception to insight, from insight to action, thinkers who enjoy finding new ways to think and problem solve, and those who look to better use time, would benefit from this book!
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- Joseph B.
- 10-31-22
A must book for every entrepreneur!
This book is phenomenal.
The easy to follow methods they teach here are amazing, and the information is a must for everyone!
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- Francisco Arias
- 11-28-22
A master piece!
This book should be part of every school around the world, truly a master piece!
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- James Sykes
- 01-04-23
Idea Flow Review
I need to type 15 words. So I will write 15 words. Do numbers count?
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- Josh S.
- 02-24-23
Amazing book!
Best book I’ve ever read on this topic. Highly recommend it to anyone who is leading innovation projects or just needs more great ideas!
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- Chuck
- 07-01-23
These two taught me HCD- needed the refresher and added to my toolset
I still remember going through HCD training with Jeremy and Perry in 2016 and needed this refresher. Only this time their messaging about doing good, low fidelity, tests hit home. I’m getting a hard copy to lend out to teammates at work and Kindle for easy searching - I rarely get more than one version of anything.
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- John Q Public
- 12-04-22
Horrible Narrators, Good Book
Monotone, phlemy and unrehearsed.
One narrator sounds like he forgot his reading glasses.
The other seems like he's on Ambien.
They managed to kill an otherwise interesting book. Like most business books, this is a bloated blog post.
Still, the case studies and deep dives make it very useful. I may buy the print edition and return this mess.
You have been warned.
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