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  Focus!: How to Focus on Being Productive Instead of Busy: The Power of Effective Life Habits , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 29min

  We live in a fast-paced world. A sea of information can be accessed by a simple tap on a device. The devices themselves upgrade fast. The rate of improvement of consumer digital technology is so fast that the things you buy today may literally be outmoded tomorrow. Because of the fast-paced environment, today's generation of young professionals also want everything to be fast. A lot of young professionals who have just entered the workforce want fast promotions. They try to work hard and play office politics to get what they aim for faster. They read success and self-help books to find wisdom from people who have succeeded in reaching their goals. Today's young professionals want success and they want it now. This type of workforce culture can lead to frustrations and burnouts before these professionals even turn 30. Many of them will be awakened to the reality that there is no fast lane to success. Success is a daily grueling grind to the top and you have to be mentally prepared for this if you truly want it. The idea of aiming for one goal for at least five years is scary for most. They are not prepared for the possibility that there may be roadblocks in their journey to success and these roadblocks may seriously delay their climb. The first mature thing to do when being confronted by this reality is to accept that you will not arrive at your intended destination within the time frame that you planned, but you will still strive to achieve it. The next step is to prepare for the daily grind of working for years to achieve your long-term goals. Part of preparing for this career journey is developing the right habits that will lead you to success. These habits have been proven by time not only to improve genuine productivity but also to maintain a healthy state of mind and avoid burnouts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067831/bk_acx0_067831_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Brief History of Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice: Brief Histories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min

  In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: How do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result takes the listener on an eye-opening journey through centuries, continents, and civilizations as it looks at both historical and contemporary attitudes to women. Encompassing the Church, witch hunts, sexual theory, Nazism and pro-life campaigners, we arrive at today's developing world, where women are increasingly and disproportionately at risk because of radicalised religious belief, famine, war and disease. Well-informed and researched, highly readable and thought-provoking, this is no outmoded feminist polemic: It's a refreshingly straightforward investigation into an ancient, pervasive, and enduring injustice. It deals with the fundamentals of human existence - sex, love, violence - that have shaped the lives of humans throughout history. The answer? It's time to recognize that the treatment of women amounts to nothing less than an abuse of human rights on an unthinkable scale. A Brief History of Misogyny is an important and timely book that will make a long-lasting contribution to the efforts to improve those rights throughout the world. Jack Holland was a highly respected author and journalist known particularly for his commentary about Northern Irish politics. He grew up in Belfast (where he was taught by Seamus Heaney) and worked with Jeremy Paxman and other outstanding journalists at BBC Belfast during a period of seminal current affairs programming. Jack published four novels and seven works of non-fiction, most of the latter having to do with politics and terrorism in Northern Ireland, including the best-selling Phoenix. Sadly, Jack died of cancer in 2004, just after the manuscript of Misogyny had been delivered and accepted by his US publisher. On his ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cameron Stewart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010323/bk_adbl_010323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min

  A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours. She asked herself: How did I become the "expert" at changing a diaper? Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage - and the way their marriage will affect their child. Enter Jancee, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today. On the brink of marital Armageddon, Dunn plunges into the latest relationship research, solicits the counsel of the country's most renowned couples' and sex therapists, canvasses fellow parents, and even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an "explosive situation". Instead of having the same fights over and over, Dunn and her husband must figure out a way to resolve their larger issues and fix their family while there is still time. As they discover, adding a demanding new person to your relationship means you have to reevaluate - and rebuild - your marriage. In an exhilarating twist, they work together to save the day, happily returning to the kind of peaceful life they previously thought was the sole province of couples without children. Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice, How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids is an eye-opening look at how the m ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jancee Dunn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003071/bk_hach_003071_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Churchill and Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 845min

  One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the Sunday Times and Literary Review, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late 19th century, Churchill's first experience of the Empire was serving in conflicts in India, South Africa and the Sudan. His attitude towards the Empire at the time was the stereotypical Victorian paternalistic approach - a combination of feeling responsible and feeling superior. Conscious even then of his political career ahead, Churchill's natural benevolence towards the Empire was occasionally overruled for political reasons, and he found himself reluctantly supporting - or at least not publicly condemning - British atrocities. As a politician he consistently relied on the Empire for support during crises, but was angered by any demands for nationalisation. He held what many would regard today as racist views, in that he felt that some nationalities were superior to others, but he didn't regard those positions as fixed. His (some might say obsequious) relationship with America reflected that view. America was a former colony where the natives had become worthy to rule themselves, but - he felt - still had that tie to Britain. Thus he overlooked the frequently expressed American view that the Empire was a hangover from a bygone era of colonisation, and reflected poorly on Britain's ability to conduct herself as a political power in the current world order. This outmoded attitude was one of the reasons the British voters rejected him after a Second World War, in which - it was universally felt - he had led the country brilliantly. His attitude remained Victorian in a world that was shaping up very differently. However, it would be a mistake to consider Churchill merely as an anachronistic soldier. He grasped the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gareth Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000676/bk_orio_000676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mrs. Fletcher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min

  From one of the most popular and best-selling authors of our time, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the front lines of America's culture wars. Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A 46-year-old divorcée whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life - serving as executive director of the local senior center by day and taking a community college course on gender and society at night - Eve can't curtail her own interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary middle-aged women like herself. Before long, Eve's online fixations begin to spill over into real life, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence. Meanwhile, miles away at the state college, Eve's son, Brendan - a jock and aspiring frat boy - discovers that his new campus isn't nearly as welcoming to his hard-partying lifestyle as he had imagined. Only a few weeks into his freshman year, Brendan is floundering in a college environment that challenges his white-dude privilege and shames him for his outmoded, chauvinistic ideas of sex. As the New England autumn turns cold, both mother and son find themselves enmeshed in morally fraught situations that come to a head on one fateful November night. Sharp, witty, and provocative, Mrs. Fletcher is a timeless examination of sexuality, identity, parenthood, and the big clarifying mistakes people can make when they're no longer sure of who they are or where they belong. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Finn Wittrock, Carrie Coon, Alex Allwine, JD Jackson, Nicky Maindiratta, Jen Richards, Sarah Steele, Aaron Tveit. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007942/bk_sans_007942_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min

  Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer, an entrepreneur, an online shopper, a job seeker, or a community leader. If people can't move, if goods are delayed, and if information networks can't connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates, and social inequity grows. We have been stuck for too long, writes Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In Move, Kanter visits cities and states across the country to tackle our challenges - and reveal solutions - on the roads and rails and in our cities, our skies, and the halls of Washington, DC. We meet a visionary engineer and public servant spearheading an underwater tunnel in Miami to streamline port operations and redirect constant traffic from the city center. We see mayors partnering with large corporations and nimble entrepreneurs to unveil parking apps, bike-sharing programs, and seamless Wi-Fi networks in greener, more vibrant, more connected cities. And we learn about much-needed efforts - such as dynamic tolls on highways and fees based on vehicle miles traveled - to reduce our dependence on the outmoded gasoline tax in our new electric car age. It all adds up to a new vision for American mobility, where local leaders shape initiatives without waiting for Congress to act, and ambitious companies partner with governments to tackle projects that serve the public good, create jobs, and improve quality of life while providing healthy sources of investment. With unique insight and unrivaled expertise, Kanter gives us a sweeping look across America, revealing the innovative projects, vital leaders, and bold solutions that are moving our transportation infrastructure toward a cleaner, faster, and more prosperous future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Henderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007582/bk_blak_007582_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Humanocracy

  A Wall Street Journal BestsellerIn a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of upheaval, top-down power structures and rule-choked management systems are a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors, and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Hence this book.In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.Critical building blocks include:Motivation: Rallying colleagues to the challenge of busting bureaucracyModels: Leveraging the experience of organizations that have profitably challenged the bureaucratic status quoMindsets: Escaping the industrial age thinking that frustrates progressMobilization: Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processesMigration: Embedding the principles of humanocracy-ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox-in your organization's DNAIf you've finally run out of patience with bureaucratic bullshit . . .If you want to build an organization that can outrun change . . .If you're committed to giving every team member the chance to learn, grow, and contribute . . .. . . then this book's for you.Whatever your role or title, Humanocracy will show you how to launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in your organization to be their best and to do their best. The ultimate prize: an organization that's fit for the future and fit for human beings.

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  Humanocracy (eBook, ePUB)

  A Wall Street Journal BestsellerIn a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of upheaval, top-down power structures and rule-choked management systems are a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors, and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Hence this book.In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.Critical building blocks include:Motivation: Rallying colleagues to the challenge of busting bureaucracy Models: Leveraging the experience of organizations that have profitably challenged the bureaucratic status quo Mindsets: Escaping the industrial age thinking that frustrates progress Mobilization: Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processes Migration: Embedding the principles of humanocracy—ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox—in your organization's DNAIf you've finally run out of patience with bureaucratic bullshit . . . If you want to build an organization that can outrun change . . . If you're committed to giving every team member the chance to learn, grow, and contribute . . . . . . then this book's for you.Whatever your role or title, Humanocracy will show you how to launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in your organization to be their best and to do their best. The ultimate prize: an organization that's fit for the future and fit for human beings.

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  Metaphysische Einflüsterungen

  Wolfram Hogrebe »übt sich in einer denkerischen Diszip-lin, die viele allzu moderne Philosophen gern als vorgestrig und vormodern aus dem Sortiment ausscheiden würden: Metaphysik« (Uwe Justus Wenzel, NZZ). Es gehört zu den Aufgaben unserer Gegenwart, Metaphysik neu zu denken. In diesem Buch wird der Versuch unternommen, aus exemplarischen philosophischen Fragestellungen Klärungsstrategien zu entfalten, die allesamt änigmatische Grenzzonen erkunden, aus denen niemand herauszufinden vermag: Die Rettung einer unvermeidlichen Rätselhaftigkeit ist das Sujet einer neuen Metaphysik."Was Hogrebes wie immer elegant und mit Witz geschriebenen Einflüsterungen ohne Zweifel aufs Neue erweisen, sind die robuste Möglichkeit und die Fruchtbarkeit von Fragestellungen jenseits der positiven Wissenschaften. [...] Sollte dies die Leistung der Metaphysik sein, können wir gar nicht genug Metaphysik betreiben." Philosophische Rundschau"Hogrebes Buch geht [metaphysischen] Einflüsterungen - im souveränenRückgriff auf das, was in der europäischen Philosophie bis heute gedacht und überlegt wurde - nach: auf einfühlsame, hörbereite, manchmal mitreißende und immer höchst eigenständige Weise. [...] Dem Verfasser ist ein großer Wurf gelungen." Christoph Böhr, in Die TagespostWolfram Hogrebe practices a mode of thinking that all too many all too modern philosophers would like to ban as unfashionable and outmoded, namely: metaphysics. Bracing himself against this curent, Wolfram Hogrebe claims that, quite to the contrary, one of the tasks of our time is precisely to rethink metaphysics. This book attempts to unfold clarification strategies from exemplary philosophical questions, all of which explore enigmatic border zones from which no one is easily able to extricate himself. Absences in creative processes, the birth of intentionality, the switch from the monstrous object to the monstrous subject, the release of creativity from fuzzy semantic relationships, the meaning of education in processes of conciliatory acceptance, forms as the eyes of things, and finally cosmology as poetics: The salvation of an unavoidable mysteriousness is the subject of a new metaphysics.

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  Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously

  The End of Assembly Line ManagementWe're in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people's behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders.This is no mere tech issue. The transformation requires a complete rethinking of the way we organize and manage work. And, as software becomes ever more integrated into every product and service, making this big shift is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. We need a management model that doesn't merely account for, but actually embraces, continuous change. Yet the truth is, most organizations continue to rely on outmoded, industrial-era operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have.Now, organizations are emerging, and thriving, based on their capacity to sense and respond instantly to customer and employee behaviors. In Sense and Respond , Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, leading tech experts and founders of the global Lean UX movement, vividly show how these companies operate, highlighting the new mindset and skills needed to lead and manage themand to continuously innovate within them.In illuminating and instructive business examples, you'll see organizations with distinctively new operating principles: shifting from managing outputs to what the authors call outcome-focused management"; forming self-guided teams that can read and react to a fast-changing environment; creating a learning-all-the-time culture that can understand and respond to new customer behaviors and the data they generate; and finally, developing in everyone at the company the new universal skills of customer listening, assessment, and response.This engaging and practical book provides the crucial new operational and management model to help you and your organization win in a world of continuous change.

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