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Audiobooks Narrated by Gary J. Chambers
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Digital platforms are changing the rules of competition in the global economy. Until recently, it took Fortune 500 companies an average of 20 years to reach billion-dollar market valuations. Successful platforms now reach that milestone in an average of four years.
In The Platform Paradox: How Digital Businesses Succeed in an Ever-Changing Global Marketplace, Wharton professor Mauro F. Guillén highlights a key incongruity in this new world. Most platforms considered to be successful have triumphed in only some, rather than all, parts of the world. There are very few truly global digital platforms.
In more than three decades of studying multinational firms, Guillén has found they often misunderstand key aspects of what it takes to succeed globally, from culture and institutions to local competitive dynamics and pursuing markets in a logical sequence. Seeing multibillion-dollar companies like Amazon flounder in certain markets has led Guillén to research what it takes to create a successful global strategy.
In The Platform Paradox, Guillén details: How the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digitization and forced companies like Airbnb to pivot and adapt; How platforms like Tinder and Uber have used local advantages to grow rapidly in different countries; How traditional companies have transformed themselves into digital platforms, like Legoundertaking a digital revolution to emerge from bankruptcy and become the "Apple of toys"; and The possibilities and limits to global expansion, as illustrated by companies like Zoom and Skype. In The Platform Paradox, Guillén offers an integrated framework for these platforms to identify and implement a digital platform strategy on a truly global scale.
4 Audiobooks in 1 Amazing Boxset
This boxset includes the most powerful collection of amazing audiobooks that will help you improve every area of your emotional, personal and relationship growth. It will quickly lead you to more rewarding and fulfilling relationships, as well as a more successful and enriching professional life.
Included in this audiobook collection are:
- Emotional Intelligence: Improve your social skills, emotional agility and self discipline. How to have happier relationships, a better life and success at work
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Retrain your Brain. The best strategies for Managing Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Worry and Panic
- Anger Management: How to Achieve Self-control in every situation. Take control of your Anger and master your emotions
- Overthinking: How to Control Your Thoughts, Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking
Are you happier now than you were last year?
Most people haphazardly chase happiness, guided by vague, empty platitudes like:
- Choose happiness.
- Happiness can only be found when you stop looking for it.
- Happiness is always within you.
These sound profound, but lack clear action steps. Results are inconsistent. How do I choose happiness? Where is happiness within me? This book shows exactly how to shape your mind for happiness, health, and wellbeing.
Readers can expect to:
- Understand happiness, how it’s produced, and how to increase it
- Discover a simple metaphor for how shaping your mind is similar to landscaping
- Master techniques for managing troublesome thoughts, negative feelings, and challenging situations.
- Learn how to link actions with happiness and purpose, then execute them
- Explore 100+ reflection questions and 40+ exercises targeted at increasing happiness
Mindscaping is not the one true path to happiness; it’s a framework for designing your path to happiness, based on well-researched and proven techniques. Happiness is too important to leave to chance. What’s stopping you from investing a few hours into learning the lifelong process for producing happiness?
From Darkness to Sight chronicles the remarkable life journey of Dr. Ming Wang, a world-renowned laser eye surgeon and philanthropist.
As a teenager, Ming fought valiantly to escape one of history's darkest eras - China's Cultural Revolution - during which millions of innocent youth were deported to remote areas to face a life sentence of poverty and hard labor. Through his own tenacity and his parents' tireless efforts to provide a chance of freedom for their son, Ming eventually made his way to America with $50 in his pocket and an American dream in his heart, where against all odds he would earn a PhD in laser physics and graduate magna cum laude with the highest honors from Harvard Medical School and MIT. He embraced his Christian faith and tackled one of the most important questions of our time - Are faith and science friends or foes? - which led to his invention of a breakthrough biotechnology to restore sight.
To date, Dr. Wang has performed over 55,000 eye procedures and has treated patients from nearly every state in the U.S. and from over 55 countries worldwide. He is considered the "doctor's doctor," as he has operated on over 4,000 physicians. Dr. Wang has published 8 textbooks including a paper in the world-renowned journal Nature, holds several U.S. patents and performed the world's first laser artificial cornea implantation. He is the recipient of the Honor Award from American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Lifetime Achievement Award from American Chinese Physician Association. Dr. Wang is currently the only surgeon in the state who performs 3D LASIK (18+), 3D Forever Young Lens Surgery (45+), 3D Laser KAMRA (45+), and 3D Laser Cataract Surgery (60+). Dr. Wang established a non-profit foundation which provides sight restoration surgeries for indigent patients who otherwise would never have the opportunity to receive them free-of-charge.
I am involved in youth sports parenting for more than forty years, having experienced it from both sides of the coin. ParentShift, which you are about to read, embraces all that knowledge. The process never ends because I am still learning; my kids teach me every day. Do you have the feeling of coming up short as a parent? Don't worry; you are not alone. It happens to me all the time, and we can fix it together. As Jim Rohn said, success is attained with a few things done every day. A tool with more than twenty skills to develop is now available. There are no shortcuts. You have to work on yourself, not on your child. You, becoming a super parent, once mastered your parenting skills.
Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day. Despite their variety, consequences appear to follow a common set of scientific principles and share some similar effects in the brain--such as the 'pleasure centers.' Indeed, learning from consequences predictably restructures the brain and even activates genes. Applications are everywhere--parenting, working, learning, helping fight prejudice, free addicts of their habits, and treat depression. Enriching the lives of pets and zoo animals too. Ultimately, this science helps us address our biggest societal challenges. Ten years in the making, The Science of Consequences takes an interdisciplinary approach to show how something so deceptively simple can help make sense of so much.
There is No Such Thing as Free Money
The United States is currently experiencing a recession triggered by a worldwide pandemic. The economic fallout has been extensive, resulting in lost jobs, lost businesses, and lost hope. Congress has been reluctant to pass stimulus packages while Americans suffer. The Federal Reserve keeps printing money to prop us up. We realize that this continued injection of currency into our economy will inevitably result in higher taxes, more regulations, and less buying power for each dollar that we earn. There is no such thing as free money.
We are helpless to slow the decrease of economic damage when a recession occurs. We need a new approach! We need a financial tool that will ensure consistent consumer spending, infuse federal and state tax bases, reduce taxation, and strengthen our economy. We have discovered that new stimulus is the quickest, most powerful, and useful tool to get our economy back on track. We need the American Stimulus Program!
The Right Tool for The Job
Through the American Stimulus Program, we can rebuild, reshape, and reestablish the United States economy through Covid-19 and after that. This tool creates a unique balance of distributing disposable income directly to the people of our respective states while also providing the opportunity of enriching ourselves!
The ASP can produce billions of dollars to substitute for lost earnings. It will help millions who are drowning in worry and debt. We can lift ourselves up and catapult our economy back to where it was and help it grow. The American Stimulus Program is simple, transparent, powerful, and fun!
A Big Idea Financed by Spare Change
We can take a small sliver of our disposable income and funnel it together to stimulate and strengthen our economy's most vital component: consumer spending. We could take some of our spare change to build up our economy. This Program ensures stimulus each week effectively, efficiently, and without any political bias. The American Stimulus Program will put cold hard cash into the hands of hundreds of thousands of Americans each week!
What if the money to drive America's economy did not dry up during economic declines? What if there was a constant influx of currency to the American people that was not an artificial stimulus created by the Federal Government? How could we do that, and what would it look like? The answer is the American Stimulus Program!
This Wall Street Journal Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller and Canadian Book Club Award Winner is filled with true stories about how one small deed can make a world of difference. 'Elegant and wise' (Deepak Chopra) 'The most uplifting and life-affirming book in years' (Forbes)
Brad Aronson's life changed in an instant when his wife, Mia, was diagnosed with leukemia. After her diagnosis, Brad spent most of the next two and a half years either by her side as she received treatment or trying to shield their five-year-old son, Jack, from the worst of Mia's illness. Amid the stress and despair of waiting for the treatment to work, Brad and Mia were met by an outpouring of kindness from friends, family, and even complete strangers.
Inspired by the many demonstrations of 'humankindness' that supported their family through Mia's recovery, Brad began writing about the people who rescued his family from that dark time, often with the smallest of gestures. But he didn't stop there. Knowing that simple acts of kindness transform lives across the globe every day, he sought out these stories and shares the best ones here.
In HumanKind, you'll meet the mentor who changed a child's life with a single lesson in shoe tying that has had a ripple effect on thousands of lives, the six-year-old who launched a global kindness movement, the band of seamstress grandmas who mend clothes for homeless people, and many other heroes.
Brad also provides dozens of ways to make a difference through the simplest words and deeds. You'll discover how a seemingly small act can change someone's world, as well as your own.
HumanKind will leave you grateful for what you have and provide a refuge from the negativity around us. This feel-good book will touch your heart. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll be reminded of what really matters.
Jack Frost's wish finally comes true when he and his sister, Iphigenia Claus, open the Claus & Frost Detective Agency. Will Claus & Frost be able to solve who's behind the strange occurrences on Christmas Eve? Or will Christmas--and Jack--be ruined once and for all? Claus & Frost is a children's (of all ages) mystery short story at approximately 5,000 words in length.
In this book - The Maharaja of Mastipur & The Pet tiger - enjoy the 'petrionics' of Shera, a beautiful, orphaned Royal Bengal Tiger cub, gifted to Prince Arjun on his 10th birthday. Shera loves the palace life so much that he refuses to grow up as a tiger.The Prince is his rockstar and he imitates everything the prince does, including eating ice cream and having a bubble bath.
You won't bee-lieve how simple it is to start your own bee colony when you follow these straightforward steps
Do you want to have a relaxing hobby that satisfies your need to be outdoors and helps the environment at the same time?
Raising bee has a lot of benefits, not only for yourself, but also for your garden and the larger ecosystem.
They're also relatively easy to care for, as they are naturally hardworking and self-sufficient.
What's more, with this hobby, you get a delicious bonus - honey! This versatile product can be used in a myriad of ways, including health and medicine.
You just need one more thing . . .
To prepare yourself to start this exciting journey, you need to first know what you're getting into and learn the information, tools, and tricks involved in this endeavor.
In Beekeeping For Beginners, you will discover:
- The perfect time to start this pleasurable pastime to ensure you begin your beekeeping journey as smoothly as possible
- 4 important qualities to consider when choosing a bee strain to raise, the recommended strains for beginners
- Why your bee hive's location matters so much to your beekeeping success, and what you need to do to make sure placement and position are correct
- The one thing you should never do near your hive if you want to avoid getting stung
- How to identify and handle these 2 troublesome issues that could threaten the survival of your colony
- Creative projects you can do with honey and beeswax that could save you money, and even make you some more
And much more.
If you want to be adequately prepared and avoid any unpleasant surprises in your rewarding journey as a beekeeper, then scroll up and click the 'Add to Cart' button right now!
Learn to play chess the fun and easy way while you learn what it takes to be successful in life. One Move at a Time reveals twenty proven ways to succeed at the game of kings—or at anything else you desire. It uses kid- and teen-friendly language to teach you fun, simple ways to memorize how the game is set up and how the pieces move; the “smart start” that gains you a quick advantage from your first few moves; seven strategies to turn beginning players into fast winners; and how to go for “the big win. Plus, you’ll learn twenty life lessons you can take from the chess board to make you a success at everything you do.
“Whether you’re a newbie or a chess veteran, this book will help you make the most successful moves you can on the chess board—and even more important—in your life.”—Jack Canfield, cocreator of the Chicken Soup series
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