Audiobooks narrated by Joel Leffert

The Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

Clayton Christensen's bestselling book, The Innovator's Dilemma, introduced the groundbreaking idea of disruptive innovation, revealing how even well-run companies can do everything right and yet still lose market leadership. In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now. Christensen and Raynor give advice on the business decisions crucial to achieving truly disruptive growth and propose guidelines for developing your own disruptive growth engine. The authors identify the forces that cause managers to make bad decisions as they package and shape new ideas-and offer new frameworks to help create the right conditions, at the right time, for a disruption to succeed. This is a must-listen for all senior managers and business leaders responsible for innovation and growth, as well as for members of their teams.

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor (Author), Joel Leffert, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)

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Texas Anthem

Kerry Newcomb launches his acclaimed Texas Anthem series with a gripping epic of betrayal, revenge, and love. Pistolwhipped, robbed of his horse, and left for dead by his brother Vin, Johnny Anthem escapes Mexican slavery to find that his fiancEe Rose has married Vin. Minutes after the ceremony, Johnny confronts the newlyweds and triggers a chain reaction of explosive events. Listeners will welcome Newcomb's wonderfully readable and profoundly moving prose.

Kerry Newcomb (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Moon Medicine

Texan Mike Blakely is the best-selling author of Comanche Dawn (S1024) and a co-editor of Forever Texas (S1037). Moon Medicine is the story of a boy genius with a peculiar sensitivity to lunar cycles. Jean-Guy lives in a school for boys in France until he murders his vile fencing teacher for raping a woman. He is smuggled aboard a Clipper ship bound for America-the place where he knows he will find the visions of his dreams. Featuring a masterful narration by Joel Leffert, this story is an excellent yarn, with an old-time feel and strong western flavors.

Mike Blakely (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Wanderer Springs

Award-winning author Robert Flynn delivers a witty and thought-provoking novel about a dying Texas town. When the new highway bypasses it, Wanderer Springs is left to wither in the dust. Will Callaghan, back home for a funeral, remembers the town's sometimes funny, sometimes painful past, including the time he cost his high school the football championship. Will's remembrances show that the present, however chaotic, is always linked to the past.

Robert Flynn (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Simpler: The Future of Government

Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children's diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by insisting on smarter regulations, and by eliminating or improving old regulations. Cass R. Sunstein, as administrator of the most powerful White House office you never heard of, oversaw it and explains how it works, why government will never be the same again (thank goodness), and what must happen in the future. Cutting-edge research in behavioral economics has influenced business and politics. Long at the forefront of that research, Sunstein, for three years President Obama's "regulatory czar" heading the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, oversaw a far-reaching restructuring of America's regulatory state. In this highly anticipated book, Sunstein pulls back the curtain to show what was done, why Americans are better off as a result, and what the future has in store. The evidence is all around you, and more is coming soon. Simplified mortgages and student loan applications. Scorecards for colleges and universities. Improved labeling of food and energy-efficient appliances and cars. Calories printed on chain restaurant menus. Healthier food in public schools. Backed by historic executive orders ensuring transparency and accountability, simpler government can be found in new initiatives that save money and time, improve health, and lengthen lives. Simpler: The Future of Government will transform what you think government can and should accomplish.

Cass R. Sunstein (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Tie-Fast Country

Spur Award winner Robert Flynn captures the authentic texture of Texas in this compelling novel about family ties and life's toughest lessons. Chance Carter doesn't like his grandmother, so when he learns her health is failing, he thinks only of his status as the sole heir to her million-dollar ranch. Yet when he pays her a visit, he learns surprising truths about his past that force him to reconsider everything he knows.

Robert Flynn (Author), Joel Leffert, Robert Flynn (Narrator)

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Ralph Compton Rio Largo

The best-selling Ralph Compton novels evoke the American frontier at a time when heroes and villains settled disputes with the exchange of hot lead. In the Sweet Grass Valley, Kent Tovey's Circle T ranch and Dar Pierce's DP ranch sit on either side of the Rio Largo River. Tovey and Pierce have no beef with each other-until a no-good schemer instigates a bloody feud between the old friends.

David Robbins (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Blood Lands

USA Today best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ralph Cotton tells an 1865 tale of a Kansas woman victimized by murderous marauders. As Julie Wilder races to greet her father, she sees his ashen face and fixed stare too late to escape the hooded nightriders who suddenly surround her. When bounty hunter Baines Meredith discovers her the next day-battered, bleeding, and barely alive-he covers her nakedness and gently cares for her. But can Baines help Julie develop the strength, courage, and skill she needs to administer her own brand of frontier justice?

Ralph Cotton (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

Patrick Lencioni is the New York Times best-selling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In this follow-up to his groundbreaking work, Lencioni provides a field guide for implementing the principles of achieving corporate goals through this innovative program. The work also boasts helpful exercises and illustrative, real-world examples. 'Lencioni is fast defining the next generation of leadership thinkers.''Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager

Patrick Lencioni, Patrick M. Lencioni (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific

New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, describes the remarkable accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II. The American and Japanese veterans of such terrible campaigns as Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima shared their stories with North, who presents them here in the soldiers' own words. More than a fascinating history of combat, War Stories II stands as a testament to the unmatched valor and bravery of an extraordinary generation.

Oliver North (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

Seeing What's Next is a framework for predicting industry winners and losers. Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data, and can lead to costly errors in judgment. Internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth present this groundbreaking guide for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry.

Clayton Christensen (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Surviving Brick Johnson

Alex is enjoying a laugh with friends in fifth grade. The next he's fearing for his life. The huge new kid, Brick Johnson, is one guy he doesn't want to mess with, and now Alex has to do something . Quick! Author Laurie Myers captures Alex's growing fear and Brick's mysterious nature, while the humorous narration by Joel Leffert brings the characters to life.

Laurie Myers (Author), Joel Leffert (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Joel Leffert