Showing results by publisher "Simon & Schuster Audio" in Business & Careers

Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves, and put the knowledge of our entire civilization in your back pocket. But no one - from MIT nerds to Army Corps engineers - has ever built a robot that can lay bricks as well as a mason. Unlike the controlled conditions of a factory line, where robots are now ubiquitous, no two construction sites are alike, and a day’s work involves countless variables - bricks that range in size and quality, temperamental mortar mixes, uneven terrain, fickle weather, and moody foremen.

This audio program is your guide for balancing and surviving the stresses of work and family. It will tell you how to make small daily changes. It will help you determine your top priorities. We have interviewed many of you to obtain the supportive suggestions you will hear on this audio. We have drawn on your wisdom as parents (more specifically, mothers and fathers), single parents, employees, and telecommuters, to successfully navigate through all the circumstances that you may face.

This is an audiobook you will want to come back to often, to renew yourself and your family.

In this book you'll learn about the nine time-tested rules required to create a high-quality, highly engaging online training experience, and discover what it takes to successfully transfer in-person classrooms to live online classrooms. With the resources, tools, and rules found in The Learning Explosion, you will be the spark that ignites your virtual training.

When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is "How will this crisis change us?" The worst thing we can do now, Wallis tells us, is to go back to normal. Normal is what got us into this situation.

In a world that’s become more interconnected yet polarized, inclusion has been overly politicized and narrowly defined to issues of gender and race. As a result, we need a new approach to inclusive leadership that goes beyond DEI, harnessing its power for innovation and growth. In Lead Bigger, Anne Chow reframes inclusion as the required leadership competency of expanding our perspectives for greater performance in our work, workforce, and workplace.

There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world - one thing which, if removed will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the strongest character, the deepest love.

Bestselling author and trend watcher Marc Ostrofsky is here to help. In this groundbreaking new audiobook, Ostrofsky reveals the ways that new technologies implant themselves in our daily lives and how we can easily take advantage of them to live, learn, buy, sell, work, play, communicate, and socialize better. Covering diverse topics from how the Internet affects our health to how we can become bargain-hunting pros, Ostrofsky's audiobook could come at no better time.

From daily work and home-related tasks to the larger, long-range concerns of career and family ambitions, Getting Out From Under will help you break vague discontents into manageable problems and offers concrete solutions to ease the pressures of an overwhelming world. Listen to this audiobook and start getting out from under!

The New York Times best-selling author and coauthor of Great Work, Great Career share the secrets to getting and keeping the job you want. This three set audio program teaches you how to create your ultimate job and make an extraordinary contribution. In this 30-minute audio, you'll learn the importance of becoming a solution, not a problem to an organization. Discover how to start making the contribution you'd like to make by focusing on your talents, passion, and conscience. This audio also provides tips on and how to network in a way that leads to success.

What do you call a bull market that lasts at least 10 years and includes steep corrections and cycles of vicious rotation, but results in a quadrupling of the Dow, a stratospheric rise in new technology, and the creation of staggering amounts of wealth? Ralph Acampora, one of Wall Street's most influential analysts, calls it a mega-market.

You may not be afraid of heights or spiders, but making a speech in front of a large crowd - whether it’s a wedding party, an awards ceremony, or even doing a presentation in the office - is sure to get your heart pounding and your palms sweaty. But with Your Guide to Public Speaking in hand, there’s no need to fear public speaking a second longer.

This is not a collection of jokes for public speakers, but a comprehensive look at how a touch of humor can be applied to everyday business situations: meetings, memos, negotiations, and management. Packed with practical advice that Kushner has already shared with such Fortune 500 companies as IBM, Lockheed, Aetna -- even the IRS -- The Light Tough will make anyone a more effective communicator. And that's no joke.

For over 15 years, New York Times best-selling author Harry S. Dent, Jr. has been uncannily accurate in predicting the financial future. In his three previous works, Dent predicted the financial recession of the early 90s, the economic expansion of the mid-90s, and the financial free-for-all of 1998-2000.

From the author of Days of Drums and Gatekeeper comes this masterfully crafted thriller spinning around an unforgettable heroine. Philip Shelby again demonstrates that he ranks among the great American thriller authors today.

Lydia Fenet, Senior Vice President of Christie's and seasoned auctioneer, shares the secrets of success and the strategies behind her revolutionary sales approach to show you how to embrace and channel your own power in any room. Who is the most powerful woman in the room? She's the one who can raise a million dollars in a minute. She's the one who can command the attention of a crowd of any size, from one person to a crowd of 5,000. She's the one who can sell anything to anyone just by asking. She can be you.

In this compelling, heartwarming parable, Bach and his best-selling coauthor, John David Mann (The Go-Giver), tell the story of Zoey, a 20-something woman living and working in New York City. Like many young professionals, Zoey is struggling to make ends meet under a growing burden of credit card and student loan debt, working crazy hours at her dream job but still not earning enough to provide a comfortable financial cushion. At her boss’ suggestion, she makes friends with Henry, the elderly barista at her favourite Brooklyn coffee shop.

In business, we spend twice as much time using the telephone as we do handling mail, writing reports -- even attending meetings. Still, the phone is currently our most underdeveloped tool, and we pay less attention to our telephone strategies than to any other business skill. The result? The average businessperson wastes approximately six hours each week playing telephone tag, fending off unscreened callers, or trapped into rambling -- or dead-end -- conversations.

Investors beware! That's the message in Howard Kurtz's The Fortune Tellers. It reveals what happens when 'Net technology meets stock market hype. Listen to an interview with the author on archive edition of Marketplace.

Now, with his keen, objective insight and wizardry with numbers, Hacker tackles the emotionally charged issue that preoccupies us: wealth and its distribution. Hacker's answers are surprising and fascinating, illuminating the financial condition of every strata of America.Shattering all the taboos we have on the subjects of wealth, poverty, and worth, Money is essential listening for anyone who wants to know more about their slice of the American pie.

Protect Your Achilles Heel mirrors the immensely successful model created by Roberts in his two previous best sellers Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun and Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun. In that series, Roberts applied Attila's cunning leadership secrets to the modern business world.