Investing with Impact: Why Finance is a Force for Good

Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Antony Bugg-Levine, Jed Emerson
• Narrated By Tim Lundeen

This is the first book to chart the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is and can be a positive disruptive force. It shows how impact investing is a transformational vehicle for delivering "blended value" throughout the investment spectrum, giving a single name to a set of activities previously siloed in enclaves, revealing how they are linked within what is becoming a new field of investing. Written by two leaders in the field of impact investing, the book defines this emgerging industry.

Scrum

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Jeff Sutherland, JJ Sutherland
• Narrated By JJ Sutherland

By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as "Scrum", Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1200 percent. Scrum (which gets its name from the formation in rugby in which the whole team locks its arms to gain control of the ball) is the reason that Amazon can launch a new feature on its website every day.

Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Tren Griffin
• Narrated By Fred Stella

Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett's indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom" - a set of interdisciplinary mental models involving economics, business, psychology, ethics, and management - allows him to keep his emotions out of his investments and avoid the common pitfalls of bad judgment.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Jonah Berger
• Narrated By Keith Nobbs
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Why do some products get more word of mouth than others? Why does some online content go viral? Word of mouth makes products, ideas, and behaviors catch on. It's more influential than advertising and far more effective. Can you create word of mouth for your product or idea? According to Berger, you can. Whether you operate a neighborhood restaurant, a corporation with hundreds of employees, or are running for a local office for the first time, the steps that can help your product or idea become viral are the same.

Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings
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We struggle to manage complexity every day. We follow intricate diets to lose weight, juggle multiple remotes to operate our home entertainment systems, face proliferating data at the office, and hack through thickets of regulation at tax time. But complexity isn't destiny. Sull and Eisenhardt argue there's a better way: by developing a few simple yet effective rules, you can tackle even the most complex problems.

The Power of Impact Investing: Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Judith Rodin, Margot Brandenburg
• Narrated By Karen Saltus
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By sharing moving stories of impact investors and the exciting social enterprises benefiting from these investments, Rodin and Brandenburg offer a compelling resource for anyone interested in better understanding the power of impact investing - including retail investors, high-net-worth individuals, and heads of family offices, foundations, banks, and pension funds.

How to Set-Up Your Business for Under $1000

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 26 mins)
• By Dan Fleyshman, Branden Hampton
• Narrated By Larry Wayne

In today's world, the media glamorizes start-ups that are able to raise tons of money in seed funding from investors. While this has helped inspire more people to launch businesses, I believe it has also fueled the notion that tons of funding is needed in order to actually start. Well, folks, I'm here to tell you that this is simply not true. This flawed belief is the exact reason why Branden Hampton and I wrote this book. We've structured this book to walk you through building and growing your business from start to finish.

The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson, Ben Thornley
• Narrated By Tim Reynolds

The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism offers precise details on what exactly impact investing entails, embodied in the experiences and best and proven practices of some of the world's most successful impact investors, across asset classes, geographies, and areas of impact.

The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Chris Bailey
• Narrated By Chris Bailey
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Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream - to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.

Michael Jordan: The Life

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Roland Lazenby
• Narrated By Bob Souer
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When most people think of Michael Jordan, they think of the beautiful shots, his body totally in sync with the ball, hitting nothing but net. He is responsible for incredible moments so ingrained in basketball history that they have their own names: The Shrug, The Shot, The Flu Game. But for all his greatness, there's also a dark side to Jordan: A ruthless competitor, a gambler. There's never been a biography that balanced these personas-until now.

The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Bernard Roth
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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Based on a legendary course Roth has taught at Stanford University for several decades, The Achievement Habit employs the remarkable insights that stem from design thinking to help us realize the power we all have within to change our lives for the better. By ridding ourselves of issues that stand in the way of reaching our full potential, we gain the confidence finally to do things we've always wanted to do.

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Oren Klaff
• Narrated By Oren Klaff
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When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a-kind method to raise more than $400 million - and now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any business situation. Whether you’re selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, Pitch Anything will transform the way you position your ideas. According to Klaff, creating and presenting a great pitch isn’t an art - it’s a simple science.

Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Jay Samit
• Narrated By Jay Samit
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In today's ever-changing and often-volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possible - or even desirable - to learn one set of job skills and work your way up the ladder. Rather, today's entrepreneurs and business leaders must anticipate change to create opportunities for professional success and personal satisfaction.

Bold: How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
• Narrated By Steven Kotler
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Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
• Narrated By Peter Altschuler
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Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation - into the meetings, postmortems, and "Braintrust" sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture - but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, "an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible."

Disrupting Digital Business: Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Economy

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 34 mins)
• By R Ray Wang
• Narrated By Peter Berkrot

We are no longer an economy of products and services. The digital transformation demands that we focus our attention on experiences and outcomes. Business leaders and their organizations must shift to keeping promises - no matter how their customers interact with them. But organizations no longer control the conversation. In this era of social and mobile technology, customers, employees, suppliers, and partners are in direct communication with one another.

How to Be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Martin S. Fridson
• Narrated By Johanna Ward

How to Be a Billionaire is the first comprehensive picture of the real strategies and tactics that built the great business fortunes of modern times. Packed with engaging accounts of titans like Ross Perot, Richard Branson, and Phil Anschutz, it will show you principles that can increase your wealth and business acumen to the mogul level.

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Leonard Mlodinow
• Narrated By Leonard Mlodinow
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Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and misremember important events.

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon
• Narrated By Stephen Bowlby
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In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as CEO, eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company to become chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its core values and restore not only its financial health, but also its soul.

Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 1 min)
• By John Neffinger, Matthew Kohut
• Narrated By Tim Andres Pabon
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You will never look at people the same way again - including yourself - after this lively look at how we make character judgments. Drawing on cutting-edge social science research as well as their own work with Fortune 500 executives, members of Congress, and Nobel Prize winners, authors Matt Kohut and John Neffinger demystify the process we use to size each other up.

Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman
• Narrated By Po Bronson

What are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one day, but wilt from it the next? Can we in fact become better competitors? In Top Dog, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman use cutting-edge science to tease out the hidden factors at the core of every great triumph - and every tragic failure. By enabling you to identify your own competitive style, Top Dog will help you tip the odds of success in your favor.

Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Tim S. Grover
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Tim Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: You keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In "The Relentless 13", he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life.

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan
• Narrated By Cliff Haby

Keller Williams' The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is your handbook to the tried and true financial wealth-building vehicle that rewards patience and perseverance and is available to all: real estate.

You'll learn about the myths about money and investing that hold people back and how to develop the mindset of a millionaire investor; how to develop sound criteria for identifying great real-estate investment opportunities; and more.

Random Walk Down Wall Street: A Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Burton G. Malkiel
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Burton G. Malkiel's classic and gimmick-free investment guide is now more necessary than ever. Rather than tricks, what you'll find here is a time-tested and thoroughly research-based strategy for your portfolio. Whether you're considering your first 401(k) contribution or contemplating retirement, this fully updated edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street should be the first book on your wishlist.