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Complete MBA For Dummies

By: Kathleen Allen PhD, Peter Economy
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
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Want to get an MBA? The Complete MBA For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is the practical, plain-English guide that covers all the basics of a top-notch MBA program, helping you to navigate today's most innovative business strategies. From management to entrepreneurship to strategic planning, you'll understand the hottest trends and get the latest techniques for motivating employees, building global partnerships, managing risk, and manufacturing. 

This fun, easy-to-access guide is full of useful information, tips, and checklists that will help you lead, manage, or participate in any business at a high level of competence. You'll find out how to use databases to your advantage, recognize and reward your employees, analyze financial statements, and understand the challenges of strategic planning in a global business environment. You'll also learn the basic principals of accounting, get a grip on the concepts behind stocks and bonds, and find out how technology has revolutionized everything from manufacturing to marketing. 

Discover how to:  

  • Know and respond to your customers' needs 
  • Handle budgets and forecasts 
  • Recruit and retain top people 
  • Establish and run employee teams 
  • Use Sarbanes-Oxley to your company's advantage 
  • Negotiate with the best of them 
  • Build long-term relationships with clients 
  • Avoid common managerial mistakes 
  • Improve cash flow 
  • Market your products and services 
  • Make the most of your advertising dollar

Once you know what an MBA knows, the sky's the limit. Listen to The Complete MBA For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and watch your career take off!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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A little dated but still does it’s job!

The information provided here it’s a little old but if you want the basics this is not bad.

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Great Overview

Great overview and packed a lot into one book. Each chapter could be it’s own book. The narrator made it slightly challenging to listen to, but if you speed it up you can cover move and it sounds way more exciting. Overall, I’m glad I listened.

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fulfilling book

was introduced to blue ocean strategy of finding new market.... .. ... ... ... .

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The Narrator is pretty bad

The performance is really bad. It sounds almost like the doesn't know how to read very well. Cadence and tempo changes in speech is mildly annoying. not sure ill make it through the whole book because of it.

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Great explanation for beginners

Did a great job of explaining terms that I’ve heard my whole life but never really understood.

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Still relevant today despite the time lapsed

However in the finance section there were some statements i don’t agree with. The decisions about how to depreciate an asset… straight line vs reducing balance and others .. are not primarily driven by tax … at least not in many countries outside the US. The tax authorities use their own tables together with any ongoing government incentives to compute capital allowances for tax credits. The difference between this and the company’s own depreciation calculation gives rise to deferred tax

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A great book

A wonderful book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found great relation with the author and i further highly recommend this book.

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Good content Narration is slow

What helped me get past the narration was going about 2 to 2.5 times speed. Hope that helps

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The content is very good

Very rich content but the narration is very monotonous, it is very boring and hard to stay awake

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Terrible

I didn’t finish because it was simply awful. The narrator and the information seemed redundant and un-informative. Do not recommend.

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