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John Humphrys
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By:
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John Humphrys
About this listen
Here John takes a sharp look at phrases and expressions in current use to expose the often hidden attitudes that lie behind them - from the schoolroom to the boardroom, from Westminster to the weather forecast. Questioning our assumptions, puncturing our illusions, and illuminating the way we live now, Beyond Words speaks volumes.
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Swagger and mirth
- By Tamara Shope on 09-14-15
By: Nick Offerman
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The Power of Nice
- How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness
- By: Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval
- Narrated by: Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval have moved to the top of the advertising industry by following a simple but powerful philosophy: it pays to be nice. While so many companies encourage a dog-eat-dog mentality, The Kaplan Thaler Group has succeeded through chocolate and flowers.
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For selected audiences
- By Coach Brock on 10-15-07
By: Linda Kaplan Thaler, and others
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How to Be Black
- By: Baratunde Thurston
- Narrated by: Baratunde Thurston
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Beyond memoir, this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be the Black Friend" to "How to Be the (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month". This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all Black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be".
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Funny yet insightful!
- By Theodore on 02-15-12
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Crystal Clear Communication
- How to Explain Anything Clearly in Speech or Writing
- By: Gary S Goodman
- Narrated by: Gary S Goodman
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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With this program, you'll have the tools, the techniques, and, just as importantly, the unflinching confidence to influence your readers and listeners decisively - both at work and at home.
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Largely Sales-Oriented, and Instantly Usable
- By Troy on 01-26-15
By: Gary S Goodman
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Linchpin
- Are You Indispensable?
- By: Seth Godin
- Narrated by: Seth Godin
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there’s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.
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I was expecting more
- By Steve High on 04-06-10
By: Seth Godin
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The Little Big Things
- 163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE
- By: Tom Peters
- Narrated by: Tom Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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"Years ago, I wrote about a retail store in the Palo Alto environs—a good one, which had a box of two-cent candies at the checkout. I subsequently remember that 'little' parting gesture of the two-cent candy as a symbol of all that is Excellent at that store. Dozens of people who have attended seminars of mine have come up to remind me, sometimes 15 or 20 years later, of “the two-cent candy story,” and to tell me how it had a sizable impact on how they did business."
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Really hard to listen
- By Alexander on 06-03-10
By: Tom Peters
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- By: Fran Lebowitz
- Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, Fran Lebowitz is always wickedly entertaining.
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Wonderful in her own voice.
- By Sue C on 11-07-12
By: Fran Lebowitz
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Fred 2.0
- New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results
- By: Mark Sanborn, Margaret Kelly - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Nine years ago, best-selling author and business consultant Mark Sanborn introduced the world to Fred, his postman, who delivered extraordinary service in simple but remarkable ways. Fred’s story inspired millions. Companies - even, cities - were inspired to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary each day. Today, with stiff competition from the networked global economy, delivering extraordinary results is more important than ever. With Fred 2.0, Mark not only revisits the original Fred to gain new insights, but also equips all of us with new strategies to achieve more.
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Excellent extension of The Fred Factor
- By Mike Henry Sr. on 02-07-15
By: Mark Sanborn, and others
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Winning from Within
- A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change
- By: Erica Ariel Fox
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Life is a series of negotiations, whether or not you think of yourself as a negotiator. From seemingly insignificant daily decisions to major life choices, you negotiate every time you aim to persuade, argue over a decision, or resolve a conflict. But as negotiations and leadership expert Erica Ariel Fox reveals, the most important negotiations - the ones that determine the impact of our actions and the quality of our lives - are those we have with ourselves.
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Enlightening is an understatement
- By Lucas on 01-13-19
By: Erica Ariel Fox