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Embrace essentialism. Learn to eliminate the excess that's keeping you from being truly productive and fulfilled in this audiobook summary.
Essentialism by Greg McKeown teaches you how to do better by doing less. By offering practical solutions for how to get your priorities straight, Essentialism helps you to eliminate the excess that’s keeping you from being truly productive and fulfilled. In this audio-only summary, you can review the key ideas...
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Find out how to start or end any habit you wish.
Where does the power of habits come from, and how can you put that power to work for you? This audio-only course shows you how the brain forms a habit or routine and how you can start or end any habit you wish. Learn how habits create a craving that make them difficult to break, but you can replace an existing routine with another one that has a similar reward. Discover how you can use keystone habits,...
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Embrace boredom to enhance your innate creativity. In this audiobook summary, learn how altering your digital habits can help you become more productive and innovative.
Being bored is something of a novelty in the age of smartphones. And in his 2017 book, Bored and Brilliant, Manoush Zomorodi posits that this lack of boredom in our lives can actually zap us of our creativity. In this audiobook summary, get bite-sized tips that can help you alter...
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Learn how to steer your organization away from fierce competition and toward a new, less crowded market. In this audiobook summary, get tips for navigating to new opportunities.
Many business leaders feel resigned to aggressively fending off competitors in their rise to the top. But in their 2017 book, Blue Ocean Shift, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne posit that it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, they suggest that it's often smarter to steer...
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Learn how habits control and influence your life, and how to change them for the better.
Whether they’re good or bad, you probably don’t notice the many habits you have. That’s why they’re habits—they operate below the level of conscious thought. You wake up and brush your teeth, or you sit down and eat a bag of chips, or you check your email constantly—all without thinking about these actions. This is why changing habits can be so daunting....
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Learn how to lead a remote team, build a team culture, manage performance, and run virtual meetings. The course also covers some benefits of remote work.
The shift to remote work has created a need for new management skills. Remote work is here to stay. In this audio-only course, find out how to lead effectively from anywhere. Learn how to develop a shared team purpose, build a team culture of respect and trust, manage your team members’ performance...
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Effective sellers don't push—they persuade. In this audiobook summary, learn how to make the sale by convincing buyers that your idea was their idea.
Your customers don't want to be pushed into making a deal; they want to make their own decisions on their own timelines. In his 2019 book Flip the Script, Oren Klaff explains how to close more deals by convincing buyers that your idea was their idea. This audiobook summary distills key lessons from...
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Learn how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations, with this audio-only summary of Keith Rollag's book.
What to Do When You’re New is the result of Keith Rollag’s 20 years of research on why people become anxious and stressed in new situations. It provides strategies for changing your outlook on new situations and offers techniques for handling them with comfort and confidence. This audio-only summary distills the best...
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Learn how to make small changes over time to achieve big results.
One of the hardest parts of change is just how long it can take. We don’t often notice little changes—if you’re out of shape and go jogging for 20 minutes, you’ll still be out of shape tomorrow. But if you go jogging for 20 minutes every day, eventually you’ll notice an improvement in your performance, even though the day-to-day change may not be measurable. This audiobook...
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Get science-backed insights into the habits of high performers, as well as what you can do to incorporate these practices into your daily life.
It can sometimes seem like the most industrious, successful people among us are imbued with some sort of magic or rare brilliance. But their extraordinary productivity is often the result of something much more mundane: good habits. In this audiobook summary, get science-backed insights into the six habits...
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Discover how to build your personal highlight reel and unlock your potential.
We all have strengths, but sometimes social norms can prevent us from discovering them. How can you get around that and unlock your potential? This audio-only course from Blinkist shows you how to discover your strengths and build on them to become the best version of yourself. By creating a personal highlight reel of your life, you’ll learn how to spot your talents,...
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Learn how to establish a learning culture at your company.
How can you make learning a core part of the way you work, and how can you share that across your company? This audio-only course shows you how to establish a learning culture at your company. Most skills only stay relevant for five years, so it’s important to keep learning. Explore teacher tactics to keep learning interesting, as well as how to cultivate an agile learning environment that...
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Lernen Sie, worauf es bei der Unternehmensführung in Zeiten der Digitalisierung ankommt. Hören Sie die Kernaussagen des Buches von Eichensteller/Lorenz, um auch zukünftig erfolgreich zu wirtschaften.
Das Buch Fit für die Geschäftsführung im digitalen Zeitalter von Harald Eichsteller und Michael Lorenz gibt einen Überblick, worauf es bei der Unternehmensführung in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und schnellen Marktveränderungen ankommt. Welche...
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Learn how to think creatively to increase your happiness and success in your professional and personal life.
When we think of creativity, we often think of something artistic like painting or music or writing. But broadly speaking, creativity is using your imagination to create something new. For example, analytical types express creativity when a programmer creates a new web interface, or when a CEO devises a new business strategy. This audiobook...
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Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit Scrum in Projekten Teamproduktivität und Resultate verbessern. Hören Sie die Kernaussagen des Buches von Jeff Sutherland, um das Projektmanagement-Framework Scrum zu verstehen.
Jeff Sutherland ist Miterfinder von Scrum, einem Projektmanagement-Framework, das die Technologie-Industrie revolutioniert hat. In Die Scrum-Revolution erläutert er Scrum umfassend und im Detail. In der Hörfassung der Kernaussagen dieses Buchs lernen...
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Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit modernen Projektmanagement-Frameworks die Unternehmenskultur vitalisieren. Hören Sie die Kernaussagen des Buches, um zu verstehen, wie der Wandel im Unternehmen gelingt.
Das Buch Management Y stellt eine neue, erfolgreiche Generation von Unternehmen dar: Sie arbeiten transparent, haben flache Hierarchien, sind experimentierfreudig und extrem schnell darin, neue Produkte zu entwickeln. In der Hörfassung der Kernaussagen dieses...
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Explore the Japanese business philosophy of Kaizen, a low-cost strategy to reduce waste and increase efficiency, in this audiobook summary.
Gemba Kaizen is an introduction to the Japanese business philosophy of Kaizen, a low-cost strategy that revolutionizes working standards to reduce waste and increase efficiency. Author Masaaki Imai reveals the aspects of Kaizen that are crucial to building lean business strategies. In this audio-only summary...
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Räumen Sie mit dem Irrtum auf, dass Sie ein Jobwechsel glücklicher machen würden. Hören Sie die Kernaussagen des Buches von Kitz/Tusch, um im aktuellen Job glücklich zu werden.
Über 85 Prozent der Berufstätigen sind mit ihrem aktuellen Job unzufrieden. Viele von ihnen würden ihn lieber heute als morgen gegen einen anderen eintauschen. Doch ist ein Jobwechsel wirklich die richtige Lösung, um dem Frust zu entkommen? Die vorliegende Hörfassung...
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Lernen Sie, wie man aus einem guten Unternehmen ein Spitzenunternehmen macht. Hören Sie die Kernaussagen des Buches von Jim Collins, um die zugrundeliegenden Taktiken und Prinzipien zu erfahren.
Wie kommt es, dass einige mittelmäßige Unternehmen plötzlich den Sprung an die Spitze schaffen? In seinem Buch Der Weg zu den Besten zeigt Jim Collins die Ergebnisse einer fünfjährigen Studie, in deren Rahmen er Unternehmen analysierte, denen nach Jahren...
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Discover strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus, and working smarter all day long.
Your Brain At Work explores the inner workings of the human brain and provides methods to optimize your thinking. Drawing upon thousands of neuropsychological studies conducted in the last 25 years, the book presents strategies to overcome distraction and become more focused. In this audio-only summary, you can review key ideas from the book in just...