Career Development Audiobooks | Business & Economics

The Game Writing Guide: Get Your Dream Job and Keep It

This comprehensive guide walks listeners through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly what a beginner needs to know about education requirements, finding opportunities, applying for roles, and acing studio interviews. Professional writers will learn how to navigate studio hierarchies, transfer roles and companies, work overseas, and keep developing their careers. Written by an experienced games writer with nearly two decades of industry knowledge, this book contains a wealth of interviews and perspectives with industry leaders, hiring managers, and developers from marginalized communities, all offering their tips and insights. Included are examples of materials such as job posts, writing samples, and portfolios, as well as chapter-end challenges for listeners to directly apply the skills they have learned. This book will be of great interest to all beginner and aspiring games writers and narrative designers, as well as more experienced writers looking to hone their skills.

Anna Megill (Author), Andrea Emmes, TBD (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads for Business Students

Take your business education to the next level-and push your career forward. If you read (or listen to) nothing else to stand out in class and prepare for what's next, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you understand the most important ideas in management, feel confident in business school, and thrive in any role you take on. You'll discover: how to think more strategically; inspire and execute innovation; develop marketing plans that deliver competitive advantage; perform at your highest personal level; learn with a growth mindset; and redefine what career success looks like to you. HBR's 10 Must Reads series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. The series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Ann Sprinkle, Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Create the Future: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking

Create the Future is an exciting guidebook for disruptive thinking, innovation, and change, paired with The Innovation Handbook, an updated version of the award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos. The bestseller is loaded with the same tactics, tools, and frameworks that Gutsche's team uses to accelerate 700 of the world's most powerful brands, billionaires, CEOs, and NASA. Throughout history, we know that chaos reshuffles the deck, changes consumer needs, switches who is in the lead, and creates unprecedented risk and opportunity. Chaos causes most people to retreat-but not always. Disney, CNN, Square, HP, Apple, Fortune Magazine, Uber, and AirBnB are just a few examples of companies that started during periods of rampant chaos and global economic recession. Crisis and chaos create opportunity, if you know where to look. The challenge is that your own success, neurological wiring, past decisions, and '7 Traps of Path Dependency' make it more difficult for you to realize your full potential. In our post-COVID era of chaos and disruptive innovation, there are so many great opportunities within reach; however, most smart and successful people miss out because of these proven proven traps. If you could overcome these traps, what could you accomplish? How much more successful could your plans for innovation and change, actually be?

Jeremy Gutsche (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech-all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy-new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating-and avoid falling victim to disruption? The Year in Tech 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues-blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more-each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Janet Metzger, Paul Boehmer (Narrator)

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You Should Smile More: How to Dismantle Gender Bias in the Workplace

From small indignities to unconscious slights, women experience situations at work every day that may seem small or unimportant but that effectively differentiate and exclude them. These are micro-offenses; the small, awkward, or uncomfortable moments that slow-build until the unwelcome environment takes hold and women disengage. Situations the authors address range from things like use of the term 'girl' versus 'woman,' watching male colleagues leave work for a social event where women colleagues were left off the invite list, or hearing that a qualified woman shouldn't be offered an assignment because she has small children at home. You Should Smile More shows witnesses, allies, supervisors, and women at every level in their careers how to dismantle everyday gender bias, based upon the latest research, personal accounts, and interviews with professionals, both women and men. Widely known as a meme, the title itself is now a call-to-action against the very advice women so frequently hear from male colleagues or bosses. The authors spotlight these all-too-familiar moments, offering realistic strategies every witness can use to confront and productively address them. The information in this book finally advances women in the corporate workplace as equals and advances organizations on the path to creating cultures of true inclusion.

Angelique Bellmer Krembs, Cie Nicholson, Dawn Hudson, Katie Lacey, Lori Tauber Marcus, Mitzi Short (Author), Lindsey Dorcus (Narrator)

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Working Identity, Updated Edition, With a New Preface: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing You

Bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from 'career experts'-and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of 'possible selves' we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures. Using new examples of people in different stages of a career transition, Ibarra identifies the three critical strategies-experiment with new professional activities and identities, interact in new networks of people, and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities-that all successful career changers use. She shows how you can use these strategies to: explore your possible selves; craft and execute 'identity experiments;' create 'small wins' that keep momentum going; connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition; and arrange new learnings into a coherent story. Now with action-oriented exercises to help you work successfully through your own career transition, this updated edition gives you the tools to discover a new path and find success in your new career.

Herminia Ibarra (Author), Joana Garcia (Narrator)

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Getting Over Ourselves: Moving Beyond a Culture of Burnout, Loneliness, and Narcissism

In Getting Over Ourselves, human development specialist and leadership coach Christina Congleton delivers an insightful and urgently needed discussion of how millennials can move beyond the tired cliches of the self-help genre and achieve new levels of satisfaction and contentment. In the book, you'll explore how crushing levels of student debt, consecutive financial crises, and an alarming uptick in depression, substance abuse, and suicide are combining to significantly damage the potential of millennials everywhere. You'll also find concrete strategies-rooted in developmental psychology-to counteract those negative influences. Getting Over Ourselves offers: insights into why 'life hacks,' productivity seminars, and more 'adulting' are not the solutions to the issues faced by the millennial generation; frameworks that reject the idea that there is a separate, solitary self in need of constant improvement and connect you with your deeper humanity; and effective techniques for fending off burnout and ways to move beyond the unsatisfactory status quo. An essential and timely work that belongs in the libraries of millennials everywhere, Getting Over Ourselves is the antidote to the skin-deep, ineffective 'self-help' material that you've been looking for.

Christina Congleton (Author), Rachel Perry (Narrator)

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Decision Intelligence: Transform Your Team and Organization with AI-Driven Decision-Making

In Decision Intelligence: Transform Your Team and Organization with AI-Driven Decision-Making, a team of pioneering decision and AI strategists delivers a digestible and hands-on resource for professionals at every part of the decision-making journey. The book discusses the latest technology and approaches that bridge the gap between behavioral science, data science, and technological innovation. Discover how leaders from various industries and environments are using data and AI to make better future decisions, taking both human as well as business factors into account. This book covers: - A demystifying behind-the-scenes peek inside how AI models, forecasts, and optimization for business challenges really work, and why they open up entirely new possibilities - A business-ready introduction to decision intelligence, exploring why traditional decision-making strategies are outdated and how to transition to decision-intelligence - The evolution of Decision Intelligence - An examination of decision intelligence at the organizational level - An overview of why (and where exactly) AI still needs human expertise and how to incorporate this topic in daily planning and decision making

Ilhan Scheer, Thorsten Heilig (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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Dreams Don't Die: The Story of a Man on a Mission to Inspire a Generation of Dreamers

Immigrant. Dropout. Entrepreneur. Restauranter. Real estate developer. Movie producer. Philanthropist. These are only a few titles Izek Shomof, the so-called King of Spring Street, has carried throughout his fascinating life. Each of these monikers tells a part of Izek’s unbelievable tale, but the whole story has never been told—until now. Dreams Don’t Die is not your typical, run-of-the-mill immigrant story. It is the memoir of a man who had every opportunity to take unethical and often-illegal shortcuts but who instead chose the lesser-trod path of honesty and integrity. It’s the story of a young man who poured his blood, sweat, and tears into the city he loved, transforming not only buildings but lives in the process—starting with his own. From serving drinks in backroom Israeli casinos to buying an entire city block of downtown Los Angeles, Izek’s life has been anything but traditional. Between flipping burger joints, building tract homes, and renovating historic California high-rises, Izek has come face-to-face with some particularly problematic elements of his family tree—including organized crime, Mob enforcers, hit men, drug cartels, bank robbers, and history-making embezzlement schemes. The sordid adventures of Izek’s family have even become the subject of not one but two film productions—a major Hollywood motion picture starring James Caan and a blockbuster Israeli documentary series. Izek’s life proves that even in the face of dream-killing obstacles, with hard work, steadfastness, and tenacity, dreams don’t have to die.

Izek Shomof (Author), Michael Beck (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Las leyes de la naturaleza humana (The Laws of Human Nature)

Robert A. Greene (Author), Antonio Raluy (Narrator)

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Trailblazer Founders

Every start-up founder wants to build the next unicorn, an elusive multibillion-dollar business. But how do you even begin translating your vision for a better world into investor meetings and venture funding; let alone growing, scaling, and successfully leading talent? Enter, Deepti Pahwa. With over two decades of pioneering innovation and entrepreneurship, mentoring start-ups, coaching global executives, and founding an accelerator program with Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Executive Education alumni network, Deepti is on the front lines with fledgling and seasoned founders. This book is an inspiring call to action for founders to become the protagonists of their own story. Distilled from hard-won experience and dozens of interviews with founders and VCs, Deepti provides a roadmap to navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem highlighting leadership skills, research-based tools, and an actionable framework necessary to manifest your ideas into powerful strategies. You will learn about — converting ideas to conviction, brand building and strategic networking to acquire influence and persuade investors and customers alike. Through exemplary stories of successful founders, she provides evidence that opportunities are not limited by gender nor ethnicity. Who gets mentored, sponsored, supported, and funded is not a function of the brilliance of an idea or one’s inherited attributes. But, an outcome of how one embodies inspirational qualities and influential convictions. If you’re ready to create something from nothing, in building a company from “zero to one,” this book is in the right hands—your hands.

Deepti Pahwa (Author), Alexandra Bitton-Bailey (Narrator)

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How to Be Charismatic: 7 Easy Steps to Master Charisma Improvement, Confidence Charm, Body Language

Are you looking to up your game? Do you desire to be one of those people that the room stops when you walk in? Do you want the secrets of people who have charisma? “How to Be Charismatic” is a great guide to help you make a move from simply putting being part of the group to being the guiding force within the group. Often it seems as though those who are charismatic were just born with it. That they won some kind of genetic lottery and have all things working for them. What you do not know is that they often have lots of things happening in the background to help them be perceived in this way. Building your skills is about more than just simply putting a change in the way you look, but about changing internally also. It is about changing the way you communicate, both personally and professionally. This requires you as an individual to be open-minded and ready to change things in your life. YOU WILL LEARN: - What charisma is. - The importance of your body language. - How to exude charisma. - How to be self-aware. - The importance of embracing your weaknesses. - How to be strong without being arrogant. - Why passion is important to unleashing charisma. - How to unleash your curiosity. - Ways that positivity can propel you forward. - The power in authenticity. - How to look and sound the part. - And much more! To help you in becoming a more charismatic person, this guide goes through many actionable examples and strategies. As you press yourself to grow, you will find that there are so many experiences you have already had that will help formulate your ability to be successful. It’s time to take the plunge and grow!

Caden Burke (Author), Gavin Burns (Narrator)

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