The Corporation in the 21st Century
Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong
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John Kay
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In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.
But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority.
John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation—and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- De: Parmy Olson
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive—until now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Author doesn’t understand AI
- De David en 09-30-24
De: Parmy Olson
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The Everything War
- Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
- De: Dana Mattioli
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt, Dana Mattioli
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Drops knowledge, reads like a thriller
- De Kitty B. en 05-29-24
De: Dana Mattioli
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- De: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts strong then goes political, common for left technocrats
- De Michael S. Rice en 05-24-25
De: Raj M. Shah, y otros
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Understanding Michael Porter
- The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
- De: Joan Magretta
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 650
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 548
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 541
Michael Porter’s groundbreaking ideas on competition and strategy have unfolded over three decades and are spread across a dauntingly long list of publications. Every manager can name individual pieces of his work - competitive advantage, the value chain, five forces - but no one, not even Porter himself, has put the entire puzzle together to reveal it as an integrated whole. This lucid, concise audiobook does just that. This book provides an engaging summary of Porter’s ideas and an invaluable synthesis of this important body of work....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horrible and pompous narration
- De Amazon Customer en 08-28-13
De: Joan Magretta
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Seeing Like a State
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 389
Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beats a dead horse and then beats it again
- De Nathan Parker en 10-29-20
De: James C. Scott
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The Friction Project
- How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
- De: Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become “friction fixers.”
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4 out of 5 stars
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not clear purpose
- De Gg en 05-09-24
De: Robert I. Sutton, y otros
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Ignorance and Bliss
- On Wanting Not to Know
- De: Mark Lilla
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
In Ignorance and Bliss, the acclaimed essayist and historian of ideas Mark Lilla offers an absorbing psychological diagnosis of the human will not to know. With erudition and brio, Lilla ranges from the Book of Genesis and Plato's dialogues to Sufi parables and Sigmund Freud, revealing the paradoxes of hiding truth from ourselves.
De: Mark Lilla
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How Big Things Get Done
- The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between
- De: Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 348
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 346
Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great on Project Mgmt But Uninformed on Renewables
- De Richard Redano en 03-09-23
De: Bent Flyvbjerg, y otros
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Waste Wars
- The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
- De: Alexander Clapp
- Narrado por: Greg Lockett
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Some are border skirmishes. Others hustle trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writer of awful reality
- De Tracie B. en 04-15-25
De: Alexander Clapp