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Business Adventures
- Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
- Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
- Durée: 16 h et 53 min
- Catégories: Sciences sociales et politiques, Sociologie
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The Outsiders
- Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
- Auteur(s): William N. Thorndike
- Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
- Durée: 5 h et 52 min
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In The Outsiders, you'll learn the traits and methods striking for their consistency and relentless rationality that helped these unique leaders achieve such exceptional performance. Humble, unassuming, and often frugal, these "outsiders" shunned Wall Street and the press, and shied away from the hottest new management trends. Instead, they shared specific traits that put them and the companies they led on winning trajectories: a laser-sharp focus on per share value as opposed to earnings or sales growth; an exceptional talent for allocating capital and human resources; and the belief that cash flow, not reported earnings, determines a company's long-term value.
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No better way to understand capital allocation
- Écrit par Ashish Kumar le 2020-01-29
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The Ride of a Lifetime
- Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- Auteur(s): Robert Iger
- Narrateur(s): Jim Frangione, Robert Iger
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger - think global - and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.
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Great listening
- Écrit par Jean-Alexandre Meunier le 2019-11-22
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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.
- Auteur(s): Benjamin Graham
- Narrateur(s): Luke Daniels
- Durée: 17 h et 48 min
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The greatest investment advisor of the 20th century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" - which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies - has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market Bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
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Great content but lots of numbers so needs focus
- Écrit par Sean Arani le 2018-01-19
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Tap Dancing to Work
- Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966–2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
- Auteur(s): Carol J. Loomis
- Narrateur(s): Susan Boyce, Barry Press
- Durée: 17 h et 38 min
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When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge-fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s greatest investor - nor that she and Buffett would become close personal friends. Now Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles Fortune published between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major article that supplies context and her own informed point of view.
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Stress Test
- Reflections on Financial Crises
- Auteur(s): Timothy F. Geithner
- Narrateur(s): Timothy F. Geithner
- Durée: 18 h et 23 min
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On January 26, 2009, during the depth of the financial crisis and having just completed five years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in by President Barack Obama as the 75th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Now, in a strikingly candid, riveting, and historically illuminating memoir, Geithner takes listeners behind the scenes during the darkest moments of the crisis.
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The Psychology of Money
- Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- Auteur(s): Morgan Housel
- Narrateur(s): Chris Hill
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
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Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
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Literally changed my financial life!
- Écrit par Michel Lefebvre le 2021-01-15
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The Outsiders
- Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
- Auteur(s): William N. Thorndike
- Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
- Durée: 5 h et 52 min
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In The Outsiders, you'll learn the traits and methods striking for their consistency and relentless rationality that helped these unique leaders achieve such exceptional performance. Humble, unassuming, and often frugal, these "outsiders" shunned Wall Street and the press, and shied away from the hottest new management trends. Instead, they shared specific traits that put them and the companies they led on winning trajectories: a laser-sharp focus on per share value as opposed to earnings or sales growth; an exceptional talent for allocating capital and human resources; and the belief that cash flow, not reported earnings, determines a company's long-term value.
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No better way to understand capital allocation
- Écrit par Ashish Kumar le 2020-01-29
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The Ride of a Lifetime
- Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- Auteur(s): Robert Iger
- Narrateur(s): Jim Frangione, Robert Iger
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger - think global - and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.
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Great listening
- Écrit par Jean-Alexandre Meunier le 2019-11-22
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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.
- Auteur(s): Benjamin Graham
- Narrateur(s): Luke Daniels
- Durée: 17 h et 48 min
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The greatest investment advisor of the 20th century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" - which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies - has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market Bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
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Great content but lots of numbers so needs focus
- Écrit par Sean Arani le 2018-01-19
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Tap Dancing to Work
- Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966–2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
- Auteur(s): Carol J. Loomis
- Narrateur(s): Susan Boyce, Barry Press
- Durée: 17 h et 38 min
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When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge-fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s greatest investor - nor that she and Buffett would become close personal friends. Now Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles Fortune published between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major article that supplies context and her own informed point of view.
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Stress Test
- Reflections on Financial Crises
- Auteur(s): Timothy F. Geithner
- Narrateur(s): Timothy F. Geithner
- Durée: 18 h et 23 min
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On January 26, 2009, during the depth of the financial crisis and having just completed five years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in by President Barack Obama as the 75th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Now, in a strikingly candid, riveting, and historically illuminating memoir, Geithner takes listeners behind the scenes during the darkest moments of the crisis.
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The Psychology of Money
- Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- Auteur(s): Morgan Housel
- Narrateur(s): Chris Hill
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
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Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
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Literally changed my financial life!
- Écrit par Michel Lefebvre le 2021-01-15
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Shoe Dog
- A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Auteur(s): Phil Knight
- Narrateur(s): Norbert Leo Butz, Phil Knight - introduction
- Durée: 13 h et 21 min
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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
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Amazing Book!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-11-06
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Moonwalking with Einstein
- The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- Auteur(s): Joshua Foer
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
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Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget.
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An inspirational must read of mnemonics....
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-06-13
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A Promised Land
- Auteur(s): Barack Obama
- Narrateur(s): Barack Obama
- Durée: 29 h et 10 min
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Obama reads this himself!
- Écrit par Meredith le 2020-11-17
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How to Lie with Statistics
- Auteur(s): Darrell Huff
- Narrateur(s): Bryan DePuy
- Durée: 3 h
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Darrell Huff's celebrated classic How to Lie With Statistics is a straightforward and engaging guide to understanding the manipulation and misrepresentation of information that could be lurking behind every graph, chart, and infographic. Originally published in 1954, it remains as relevant and necessary as ever in our digital world, where information is king - and as easy to distort and manipulate as it is to access.
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Crappy
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-08-06
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How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- Auteur(s): Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrateur(s): Jordan Ellenberg
- Durée: 13 h et 29 min
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Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God.
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Everyone should think like this.
- Écrit par Justin le 2018-06-01
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The Lean Startup
- How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Auteur(s): Eric Ries
- Narrateur(s): Eric Ries
- Durée: 8 h et 38 min
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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Love it...
- Écrit par Stacy Richter le 2018-12-07
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The Maxwell Daily Reader
- 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You
- Auteur(s): John C. Maxwell
- Narrateur(s): Henry O. Arnold
- Durée: 9 h et 34 min
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The Maxwell Daily Reader draws its unique power from an ageless truth: The heart of leadership is created through actions, put into practice one day at a time. Each person has inborn potential to be a great leader. Each day's message will equip listeners with the inspiration and advice to unlock every bit of leadership potential within. Easily accessible and highly actionable, this is the very best of John C. Maxwell. And it will bring out the very best of the leader in everyone.
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Security Analysis: Sixth Edition
- Foreword by Warren Buffett
- Auteur(s): Benjamin Graham, David Dodd
- Narrateur(s): Scott R. Pollak
- Durée: 32 h et 23 min
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First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, “the father of value investing”, have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.
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Really educational but tough
- Écrit par Black-Ippo le 2020-12-18
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Good to Great
- Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
- Auteur(s): Jim Collins
- Narrateur(s): Jim Collins
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
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A foundational book ...
- Écrit par MMH Toronto le 2017-10-12
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One Up On Wall Street
- Auteur(s): Peter Lynch
- Narrateur(s): Peter Lynch
- Durée: 2 h et 11 min
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Peter Lynch, one of the most successful investors of all time, shows you how to use what you already know to make money in the market. You'll discover why smart money is not so smart - and why you may be a better stock picker than the pros, how to follow your hunches and back them up with facts, how to disregard reports on the economy and pick your own time to buy and sell, and how to determine which types of stocks are right for you. Lynch is the former manager of the $9 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, where he earned investors a $190,000 return on a $10,000 investment.
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Great book, audiobook needs better enunciation.
- Écrit par Andrew le 2018-06-26
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
- Auteur(s): Philip A. Fisher
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 2 h et 55 min
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One of the most important works ever written on investment theory, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits lays out the fundamental principles of intelligent investing.
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Must read for value investors
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-04-04
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Auteur(s): Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- Narrateur(s): Richard Harries
- Durée: 8 h et 51 min
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school - we systematically get the answers wrong. In Factfulness, professor of international health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two longtime collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens.
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Helping you clear your head of the NOISE.
- Écrit par Anthony I le 2018-11-30
Description
From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion 12 classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened.
Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. John Brooks’ insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history repeats itself.
Five additional stories on equally fascinating subjects round out this wonderful collection that will both entertain and inform listeners... Business Adventures is truly financial journalism at its liveliest and best.
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Évaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.
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- Global3xchange
- 2019-12-05
IT'S MOSTLY ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET
Chapter 1 is amazing in this book ! Thank you so much for sharing this useful data greatly appreciated.
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- FibreHead
- 2019-06-07
Too much wall street and not enough business.
I really enjoyed a couple Chapters. The Edsel story is excellent. Xerox too. But found the overall book too wall street technical and more about stocks than business. Book is dated but lessons are timeless.
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- Jason
- 2015-01-31
Interesting book
I found this book on Bill Gates favorites ever list. I guess it was recommended to him by Warren Buffet. Gates said he read it once in the 70's and again recently and thought the lessons were timeless and applicable. I'm trying to figure out exactly what he saw....😝
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- T.Y.
- 2020-06-18
Extremely Dated / Would Not Recommend
Took a chance here based on Bill Gates book list. Subject matter is very dated and extremely dry. The last chapter in particular (over 3 hours) was a true challenge to get to the finish line
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- Philo
- 2015-02-06
A bit uneven; jumps around; has gems
This works for me. I have a broad and deep interest in business and financial history, and I'm always snagging stories from here and there and fitting the parts together into deeper understandings. Sometimes the author nails it here -- as in, giving a great plain-language explanation of central banking and international currency markets (and some wild swings, say, in the pound sterling, presaging better-known recent ones, featuring the US and UK's coordinated battles with speculators, trying to reduce volatility in those markets). I always like a different but clarifying look at such things, from a bit different angle. But, this is a snapshot from the later-mid-1960s, so (like reading some older books or watching some older movies) it helps to have some bigger background and context. The earlier stories do fit well as prequels to more recent ones. This was written on the eve of the US dollar falling off the gold standard, and the emergence of the post-Bretton Woods world (things the author only guesses at, prospectively), so having more of the story helps.
Elsewhere there is a story about price-fixing among certain manufacturers in the 60s. These scofflaws got their knuckles rapped, somewhat, under the glare of public and governmental attention. Then there ensued the corporate game (also well known among politicians) in moments of scandal, of artfully evading responsibility. We have a ringside seat as this art is practiced by various execs under the hot spotlight. What a rhetorical dance! This is a fine tutorial (all done tongue in cheek) for anyone, I suppose, looking to glide through a public grilling in congressional hearings and parading before angry righteous citizens wielding pitchforks and torches, without breaking stride or losing that elite "teflon" panache (and somehow trying to sound ethical and even noble, or as a last resort, gullible, but no, not culpable!). I find plenty amusing and enlightening here. But the choice of topics is fairly random, and it does suffer from flat spots.
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- Bob de Bruin
- 2020-03-27
Boring
Didn't finish, old fashioned, so many numbers without analysis or end conclusion. Don't get it, waste
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- Skipp
- 2014-10-19
Little dated but relevant
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes- I have already recommended it to my parents.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
The original book was written in the 1970s. The stories are about business in that time period and earlier. There is a lot of information that is foundational to how business is conducted today but you will also see how it has evolved. The chapter on Texas Gulf was especially interesting to me because I grew up in Timmins.
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- Jeff
- 2016-07-29
Underwhelming
I had high hopes, but was unimpressed with this book. I didn't mind that all the stories were from the 1940s and 50s, but none of them really grabbed my attention.
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- Vilhelm
- 2015-02-17
Old specialities
Old specialities for people with a lot of time available and with historical interest. Could be shortened to 25 % without problems. The Ford marketing mistake is OK.
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- fernando antonio hadba
- 2017-01-11
Dated
I was disappointed with the book. The histories are too old and in my view they aren't classical enough
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- PC
- 2015-03-15
Boring
I wish there would be an abridged version of this book. This was way too long compared to its actual contents. Pages after pages were wasted on describing irrelevant background where the moral of the story would turn out to be marginally significant. Waste of time in my view.
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- Kurt Emery Matson
- 2014-12-11
Delightful and well spoken!
What made the experience of listening to Business Adventures the most enjoyable?
The book is subtly humorous as the narrator nonchalantly describes harrowing tales of business failure and triumph. Business Adventures is also a eerily relevant reflection on the unpredictability of the world, and how profoundly uncontrollable the business world can be.
What other book might you compare Business Adventures to and why?
It's almost like reading the economist, if the economist was objective, humorous, and had a personable humanity.
Which scene was your favorite?
I found the most rewarding adventure to be about the accidentally cornering of Piggly Wiggly - listen and enjoy.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
What us rhyme silly tales of business history!
Any additional comments?
Very entertaining - contains a lot of wisdom.
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