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Anthro-Vision
- How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life
- By: Gillian Tett
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Is your workplace riven by tribal conflict? Are your meetings governed by dozens of unspoken rituals? Is there something faintly religious about the way your colleagues worship the CEO? If so, then you might need a lesson in business anthropology. For a century, anthropologists have had an unusual method: immersing themselves deep inside 'alien' tribes and uncovering, from the inside, how they tick. Today, a new generation of anthropologists are using this approach to explain modern businesses - revealing the hidden rituals that define what we buy, who we sell to and how we work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book worth reading but be prepared to grit your teeth through the performance
- By Megan on 21-06-21
- Anthro-Vision
- How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life
- By: Gillian Tett
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
Slightly disappointed, but brilliant in places
Reviewed: 30-01-22
The book's main message is that we cannot ignore culture and diversity in whatever field of activity. Also we can no loger presume that western perspectives, democracy and capitalism are inherently preferable to others. That's well explained. How anthropology's perspectives and methods can be helpful is very interesting.
However, long chapters on how to understand and manipulate consumers and faith in 'moral money' are very questionable.
The narration is over emphasized at times and not always necessarily. I hated it at first, but must admit it makes listening much easier than flatter rendition.
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The Midnight Library
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29,289
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25,934
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25,876
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fantasy may be hard to take if you’re depressed
- By Joan on 04-09-20
- The Midnight Library
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Not so deep.... but a way to reconsider regrets
Reviewed: 29-05-21
A bit predictable and repetitive, but entertaining. Nice way to make you think at one's life. Not a way to be transported elsewhere
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