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Confessions Of an Internet Guru Wannabe: The Shocking True Story Of An Attorney Who Lost $100,000 On

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The Explosive True Story of How an Internet Newbie Overcame Obstacles To Achieve Explosive Success Online...And How His Confessions Can Help You Succeed Too! My bitter-sweet romance, and eventual bondage in the vicious circle of internet marketing started with a beautiful email about how a 23-year-old college drop-out, living in a welfare shelter, was able to move from being bankrupt to becoming a millionaire in less than one year, simply by building a list and sending emails out to his list on a constant basis. This cleverly written sales letter pulled at all my psychological emotions and tapped into the gullible part of my nature that really wanted to believe the impossible is possible with very little work.... I took a couple of looks at this ‘guru’s’ alleged beautiful houses by the lakes of San Diego, the Yachts, futuristic looking Ferraris, and I was hooked. Right there and then, I made up my mind that I was going to become a guru like this 23-year-old retired fat cat... The Confessions Of A Guru Wannabe is the sizzling, shocking and confessional true story of Dr. Ope Banwo, who rose from being a bumbling clueless internet newbie to becoming one of most respected Internet Business professionals in Africa. The book reveals all the mistakes he made while chasing internet success and how he turned everything around to achieve success as a successful Netpreneur. In this frank, heartwarming, and motivational confessional story, the author frankly discusses the errors he made and the valuable lessons he learnt in the process. He also revealed powerful secrets he learnt that could help other struggling Netpreneurs who are looking to build a genuine business on the internet.

Dr. Ope Banwo (Author), Digital Voice Mike G (Narrator)

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Material Handling Equipment Operation

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Material handling equipment refers to a diverse array of machinery, tools, and systems used in the movement, storage, control, and protection of materials, goods, and products throughout the manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, and logistics processes. This equipment is designed to facilitate the efficient, safe, and organized handling of materials, reducing manual labour, minimizing product damage, and optimizing productivity. This book examines the diverse world of material handling equipment, offering in-depth coverage of forklifts, order pickers, telehandlers, elevating work platforms, reach stackers, truck trailer side loaders, and pushback tugger trucks. With a focus on practicality and safety, each section delves into the uses, key components, operating principles, preparation for operations, operational practices, safe operation, and finalizing operations of these essential machines. Additionally, the book introduces vital skills and knowledge required for operating an aircraft push-out tug, including conducting pre-operational checks, operating the tug, and conducting post-operational checks. It also covers the safe operation of forklift trucks, order picking forklift trucks, telehandlers, boom-type elevating work platforms, side loaders, and pushback tractors, emphasizing planning, preparation, execution, and cleanup phases of the work or task. Whether you're a novice or an experienced operator, this book provides invaluable insights and guidance for operating these critical pieces of equipment safely and efficiently.

Richard Skiba (Author), Digital Voice Cole G (Narrator)

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Into The Wind: Journey of an Entrepreneur

How one entrepreneur’s dedication, devotion, and drive built a company and shaped a city. Anyone curious about how Corporex grew to become a formidable player in the commercial real estate development and construction industry will want to read native Kentuckian Bill Butler’s entrepreneurial story. Throughout the book are practical business lessons, including: - Self-funding a startup - Uncovering new income streams - Making your company appear more established than it is - Effective negotiation tactics - Surviving severe economic corrections - Holding onto top talent - Turning around a local community As well as acts of faith that guided Bill along the journey. Part business guide, part memoir, part plan for the region’s future, Bill Butler’s book is a must-read for anyone in need of inspiration and education.

William P. Butler (Author), Jake Fedida (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La venganza del campo

El campo se vengará, al modo bíblico, con escasez y brutal encarecimiento de los alimentos, de la sociedad que lleva décadas despreciándolo. La venganza del campo ya está aquí. Los precios de los alimentos suben con fuerza y las olvidadas crisis alimentarias amenazan con reaparecer. ¿Por qué? ¿Por qué ayer sobraban alimentos y hoy parecen faltar? El desprecio al campo y los desajustes de la desglobalización son las razones principales. Sin embargo, los responsables públicos culpan, injusta y demagógicamente, a distribuidores y agricultores, tratando de justificar sus propios yerros y desvaríos. ¿Cómo se ha podido llegar a esta triste, injusta y suicida situación? ¿Cómo ha sido posible que la sociedad desprecie a los que les dan de comer? ¿Por qué los agricultores, los ganaderos y los pescadores hemos pasado de héroes a villanos? ¿Por qué la sociedad actual no solo no nos valora, sino que, al contrario, nos considera enemigos del medio ambiente, parásitos de la PAC, «señoritos» de otros tiempos, maltratadores de animales? ¿Por qué, si los precios suben, se siguen abandonando nuestros campos? Este breve ensayo trata de comprender los porqués y los cómos de esta situación paradójica y contradictoria. Castigamos a las gentes del campo mientras les exigimos alimentos abundantes, sanos y a precio de saldo. Queremos comida buena, bonita y barata, pero sin agricultura ni agricultores; carne sin ganadería ni ganaderos; pescado sin pesca ni pescadores. Protestamos por el encarecimiento de los alimentos al tiempo que prohibimos los trasvases, perseguimos a las granjas o cuestionamos los regadíos y los abonados, entre otras muchas limitaciones o interdicciones. Y, claro, eso no funciona. A lo largo de estos años, los agricultores agonizan sin que a la sociedad que alimentan parezca importarle lo más mínimo. Los agricultores, ganaderos y pescadores no son parte de problema, son parte de la solución. Desean trabajar en paz, con dignidad, de manera sostenible y rentable, para cumplir con su misión trascendente de proveernos de alimento. No trabajan solo por el pan de sus hijos; lo hacen, sobre todo, por el pan de los hijos de todos los demás.

Manuel Pimentel (Author), Santiago Calero (voz Digital) (Narrator)

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the truth of this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of "listening in the heating ducts" and for Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg to once say: "It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, 'I hope Kara never sees this.'" Burn Book is part memoir, part history and, most of all, a necessary recounting of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for of modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in the emerging field of tech. She was among the first to recognize the potential of the internet, accurately predicting that "everything that could be digitized, would be digitized." She went on to work for The Wall Story Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking AllThingsD conference, as well as pioneering online tech sites. It's only a slight exaggeration to say Swisher has interviewed everyone. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few who Swisher made sweat—figuratively and, in one famous case, literally. Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech's potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone. Burn Book includes soaring tales of innovation and brilliant entrepreneurs, as well as Silicon Valley's much more complex history of striving, success, and failure. The book details how the commercial internet came into being and how, for all it has given the world, it now sits at the center of global power, creating a clear and present danger to humanity.

Kara Swisher (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations

A groundbreaking investigative narrative that trails the money and massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, proving how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people. In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America's history of enslavement. It has long been maintained by many that the North wasn't complicit in the horrors of slavery. The truth, however, is that large Northern banks-including well-known institutions like Citibank, Bank of New York, and Bank of America-were critical to the financing of slavery; that they saw their fortunes rise dramatically from their involvement in the business of enslavement; and that white business leaders and their surrounding communities created enormous wealth from the enslavement and abuse of Black bodies. The Stolen Wealth of Slavery grapples with facts that will be a revelation to many: Most white Southern enslavers were not rich-many were barely making ends meet-with Northern businesses benefitting the most from bondage-based profits. And some of the very Northerners who would be considered pro-Union during the Civil War were in fact anti-abolition, seeing the institution of slavery as being in their best financial interests, and only supporting the Union once they realized doing so would be good for business. It is a myth that the wealth generated from slavery vanished after the war. Rather, it helped finance the industrialization of the country, and became part of the bedrock of the growth of modern corporations, helping to transform America into a global economic behemoth. In this remarkable book, Montero elegantly and meticulously details rampant Northern investment in slavery. He showcases exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed, calling for corporate reparations as he details contemporary movements to hold companies accountable for past atrocities.

David Montero (Author), Eric Jason Martin, TBD (Narrator)

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Insulin: A Hundred-Year History

In 1922, researchers made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery seemed miraculous. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved. However, this was no simple cure. Injections must be taken for life. Without them, symptoms quickly return, often with fatal results. But while a lifetime on insulin poses great challenges, it also offers opportunities. In this revelatory history, Stuart Bradwel looks back on one of medicine's most celebrated innovations. Setting professional narrative against subjective patient experience, he tells the story of a drug that has challenged many of the basic assumptions upon which medical practice is built, both inside and outside the clinic. Nevertheless, Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent 'wonder drug' should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and 'Pharma Bro' capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.

Stuart Bradwel (Author), Michael Langan (Narrator)

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Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business-and How to Fix It

Many workers believe that to compete with other top talent they must embrace a culture that rewards long hours and constant connection to work. Businesses and society have encouraged this by endorsing busyness, overwork, and extreme commitment as the most valued traits in workers. Sometimes that endorsement is explicit, as when Elon Musk told Twitter employees to work 'long hours at high intensity' or get fired. But more often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that increasingly make it easy to tether people to work. Either way, this workaholic behavior is unhealthy and counterproductive for workers and for organizations. It's time to fight back. Malissa Clark shows you how in Never Not Working. Clark delivers a comprehensive definition of workaholism, busting myths along the way-such as the idea that the number of hours worked is the strongest predictor of workaholic tendencies. (It's not.) She also helps you see if you're creating workaholics in your organization or if you're falling prey to the phenomenon yourself. Deeply researched and written for everyone from leaders to individual contributors, Never Not Working is the essential guide to identifying workaholism in yourself and others and starting on the road to recovery.

Malissa Clark (Author), Lauren Pedersen (Narrator)

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Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

'Zoë Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhaps the weirdest business story of our time. A fast-paced and riveting account of a hilarious and tragic mess.' - Matt Levine, Bloomberg Opinion "Money Stuff" columnist "the bird is freed" - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, commentators were rooting for the visionary behind Tesla and SpaceX to succeed. Here was a tough leader who could grab back power from Twitter's entitled workforce, motivate them to get "extremely hardcore," and supercharge Twitter's profit and potential. And it was all out of the goodness of his own heart, rooted in his fervent belief in the necessity of making Twitter friendlier to free speech. 'I didn't do it to make more money," Musk said. "I did it to try and help humanity, whom I love."  Once Musk charged into the Twitter headquarters, the command-and-control playbook Musk honed at Tesla and SpaceX went off the rails immediately. Distilling hundreds of hours of interviews with more than sixty employees, thousands of pages of internal documents, Slack messages, presentations, as well as court filings and congressional testimony, Extremely Hardcore is the true story of how Musk reshaped the world's online public square into his own personal megaphone. You'll hear from employees who witnessed the destruction of their workplace in real-time, seeing years of progress to fight disinformation and hate speech wiped out within a matter of months. There's the machine-learning savant who went all-in on Twitter 2.0 before getting betrayed by his new CEO, the father whose need for healthcare swept him into Musk's inner circle, the trust and safety expert who became the subject of a harassment campaign his former boss incited, and the many other employees who tried to save the company from their new boss's worst instincts. This is the story of Twitter, but it's also a chronicle of the post-pandemic labor movement, a war between executives and a workforce newly awakened to their rights and needs. Riveting, character-driven, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter. It's the next best thing to being there, and you won't have to sleep in the Twitter office to get the scoop.

Zoë Schiffer (Author), Jaime Lamchick (Narrator)

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Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Brought to you by Penguin. Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park. Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Guidara’s team surprised a family who had never seen snow with a magical sledding trip to Central Park after their dinner; they filled a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs, to console a couple with a cancelled vacation. And his hospitality extended beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, who learned to deliver praise and criticism with intention; why the answer to some of the most pernicious business dilemmas is to give more—not less; and the magic that can happen when a busser starts thinking like an owner. Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. Featuring sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industry’s most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve. ©2024 Will Guidara (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Will Guidara (Author), Will Guidara (Narrator)

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Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World

Today's headlines are full of employee unrest over racial injustice, communities infuriated by corporate environmental impacts, staff anxiety over surveillance, and discoveries of child labor in supply chains. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed with rules and processes. Simply maximizing shareholder value while not breaking the law is no longer an option, but we've never been so confused about what it means to do the right thing. In this eye-opening, indispensable book, NYU ethics professor Alison Taylor argues that amid stakeholder demands and transparency pressures, we can no longer treat ethics as a legal and reputational defense mechanism. Leaders at Davos and the Business Roundtable have called for a new corporate responsibility paradigm, but how to implement their ideas remains an open question as organizations struggle in an atmosphere of heightened expectations and intense suspicion. Offering vivid stories and examples, Taylor brings this complex, risky environment alive to provide a blueprint for how leaders should rethink and reshape their practices. Higher Ground will show leaders how business can navigate this messy paradigm shift, build trust, and achieve long-term strategic advantage in a turbulent world.

Alison Taylor (Author), Julia Anthony (Narrator)

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Do Deal – Negotiate better. Find hidden value. Enrich relationships

Brought to you by Penguin. **Winner, Business Book Awards - Short Business Book 2023** We negotiate constantly. In work, and in life. As we try to secure the best deal for ourselves or our clients, it can feel like a tug of war – without the fun. Yet what if the process was more collaborative, and led to a successful long-term partnership? In Do Deal, music lawyers Richard Hoare and Andrew Gummer share their refreshing approach to negotiation. Not only has it led to major record deals and enduring creative relationships, but also a reputation for getting the deal done without leaving both parties bruised and battered. Now, they will help you to: - Identify your natural negotiating style - Develop strategies to deal with difficult situations (and people) - Build trust and negotiate more collaboratively - Think creatively to enrich deal terms With case studies from Glastonbury Festival and films such as True Grit, this is an essential read before any negotiation. Very soon you'll be approaching the bargaining table with new skills and greater confidence, regardless of the cards you're holding. Deal? ©2024 Andrew Gummer (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Andrew Gummer, Richard Hoare (Author), Richard Hoare, TBD (Narrator)

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