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Patrick

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  • Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter | [Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown]
    Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
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    Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 53 mins)
    • By Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown
    • Narrated By John Meagher
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (146)
    Performance
    (95)
    Story
    (98)

    We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them.

    John says: "Learn how to not strip your productivity away."
    "Either you multiply or diminish talent around you."
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    Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

    Yes. Great influence for up and coming or established leaders. Team concept.


    What about John Meagher’s performance did you like?

    Delivery


    Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

    Yes. It drives your mind to do more and accomplish more as a team for the team. It will exicte you.


    Any additional comments?

    Good listen. Worth every second. Good leaders will see many of these tendencies in this book in themselves.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World | [Michael Lewis]
    Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
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    Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 14 mins)
    • By Michael Lewis
    • Narrated By Dylan Baker
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1464)
    Performance
    (1210)
    Story
    (1222)

    The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.

    Andy says: "we may not be the most stupid kids on the planet"
    "OMG"
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    What made the experience of listening to Boomerang the most enjoyable?

    Eye opening to the thieves in coopatate America that rob us blind! After hearing this book I realized more and more that the news on tv isn't news at all only entertainment. This book is real life society.


    What did you like best about this story?

    Inside scoop on Wallstreet


    If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

    Your American dollars stoen and not a dam thing you can do about it


    Any additional comments?

    You are required to listen to this book if you want to understand life in America.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century | [George F. Gilder]
    Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
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    Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 17 mins)
    • By George F. Gilder
    • Narrated By Grover Gardner
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (8)
    Performance
    (5)
    Story
    (6)

    Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release. In this modern classic, Gilder affirms the moral superiority of free-market capitalism and explains why supply-side economics is more effective at decreasing poverty than government-regulated markets. Now, in a completely updated edition of Wealth and Poverty, Gilder compares America’s current economic challenges with its past economic problems.

    JUDITH says: "did not receive product"
    "Great listen for any American"
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    What made the experience of listening to Wealth and Poverty the most enjoyable?

    Grover Gardner the narrator has a very fluent and yet distinctive voice that is very comforting to listen to..


    What other book might you compare Wealth and Poverty to and why?

    The Price of Inequality by Joseph Sliglitz


    If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

    The downsizing and the collapse of America


    Any additional comments?

    Very knowledgeable and powerful.

    1 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | [Daniel H. Pink]
    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 53 mins)
    • By Daniel H. Pink
    • Narrated By Daniel H. Pink
    Overall
    (1390)
    Performance
    (441)
    Story
    (438)

    From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking best seller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.

    Michael says: "Not as good as A Whole New Mind"
    "Great listen for any enviroment in for improvement"
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    Where does Drive rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

    It ranks within my top ten. This book is concept changing.

    You will re-invent your wheel when reading this book. Your old thoughts of motivation??? Throw them away and face these new challenges of the holistic concept of team. The challenges you will face to change the way you motivate others and the results that will come from it.

    This book should only be read or listened to by: parents, any work environment that need improvement, anyone that has to interact with any human being to accomplish a goal. It's a leader’s bff.


    What was one of the most memorable moments of Drive?

    The view on how to motivate kids.


    Which scene was your favorite?

    Getting away from words like "should" & "must" and transitioning to "consider" & "think about". Awesome!!!!


    Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

    It made me smile.


    Any additional comments?

    Must read or listen for anyone that wants to be or is a leader.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Steve Jobs | [Walter Isaacson]
    Steve Jobs
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    Steve Jobs

    • UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 8 mins)
    • By Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated By Dylan Baker
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (8632)
    Performance
    (7381)
    Story
    (7330)

    Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

    Chris says: "Good Biography, Fine narrator"
    "Great book"
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    Would you listen to Steve Jobs again? Why?

    Yes. More insight of this brilliant yet strange man.


    What did you like best about this story?

    The insight on his personality and his ablity to create products ahead of his time. Mainly the way he lived his life. Even if it wasn't for the money he lived his life the way he wanted.


    Have you listened to any of Dylan Baker’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

    NA


    Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

    Yes


    Any additional comments?

    The narrator voice was excellent to listen to. I have heard other narrators and after a while their voice becomes annoying.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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