Business Play

Whether you are a CEO, senior executive, manager or an employee looking to raise his or her performance, The A Player is packed with proven strategies to get you to "A Player" status. Businesses filled with "A Players" are not only more profitable and able to share in that prosperity, but those "A Players" are happier and lead more purpose-filled lives as well. The A Player will teach everyone on your team the required steps to achieve and sustain "A Player" performance and lead the charge in creating remarkable steps both personally and professionally.

In The Freelance Mindset we discover our illusions about the way we work are just that—stories we make up, or, worse, stories that were made up for us. The current way of work is, in fact, not working for us, but there is another path forward: one that leverages our innate creativity and human need to make a living. Listeners here discover what pulls us toward freelancing, develop tools to meet its challenges, and realize that we can succeed as either freelancers or traditional employees. What we cannot do is go back to seeing the world in the limited nine-to-five way we once did.

Playlist Profits isn’t about chasing trends, buying fake streams, or dropping another song into the void. It’s about building an unstoppable machine that grows your career while you sleep. Inside this book, you'll discover a proven roadmap that helped me (Manafest) hit over 130 million Spotify streams, land Super Bowl placements, & build a real fanbase—not bots, not luck, but a system.

In this book, which is both inspiring and deeply practical, Alain Samson and Marc Éthier invite us to rethink our relationship to work through the principles of play and gamification. They show us how the state of flow, the feeling of competence, immediate feedback, stimulating challenges and freedom of action can radically transform our everyday working life. Based on solid research, real-life anecdotes and concrete tools, Don't Work Anymore... Play! offers an innovative approach: bringing fun, creativity and energy back to where we only saw tasks to be accomplished.

PLAY FAIR . . . OR PLAY TO WIN? Falling in love with polar-opposite men was an intoxicating ride that nearly ended Sage Reese's life. Now it's time for Sage to decide: Parker, the clean-cut, filthy-rich business magnate . . . or Ryker, the tough-as-nails undercover detective. Her choice? Neither...

THIS KIND OF BUSINESS CAN ONLY BE PERSONAL Sage Reese lives for her job. More precisely, she lives for her debonair boss, Parker Andersen. Sage handles everything for Parker, even as she fantasizes about the one thing that isn't in her job description: him. But when a high-stakes account crosses...

Biography of Play, by CEO Nicolas Breedlove, offers strategies on topics ranging from choosing the best domain name for your company and protecting it under copyright to negotiating partnerships with companies both domestically and internationally. Written from the perspective of a goal-driven CEO and industry leader, this book provides a wealth of insights bound to boost your standing.

Life can seem to be a serious business. We could also look at it as a game—or a series of games. They include survival, love, power, pleasure, courage, creativity, and the Master Game! In this insightful book, Richard Smoley gives a lively but profound account of these games. He talks about how we play them, the mistakes we make, and how we can play them best. The culmination is the Master Game. Richard explores practices from the great spiritual traditions to show how to reach this mastery. If you play this game, you will reach new heights of wisdom, courage, kindness, and performance.

All Work No Play: A Surprising Guide to Feeling More Mindful, Grateful and Cheerful is a practical and rewarding handbook for reconnecting with joy and happiness daily. The book shares strategies for play-based mindfulness, empathy, and gratitude exercises that will help listeners rediscover their inner child; promote good mental health; build and foster more meaningful connections with others; and help combat loneliness and deep-rooted toxic behaviors and thoughts.

The Radical Candor® approach—Caring Personally while Challenging Directly—can move you from a command-and-control culture to one of collaboration. Developed by Kim Scott, Radically Candid guidance is feedback that’s both kind and clear, specific and sincere.

Today's consumers demand more than products—they crave immersive, personalized experiences. As a result, traditional marketing and engagement strategies have lost their edge. The new frontier? Gaming, where over three billion people worldwide spend their time, attention, and money. In Press Play, Bastian Bergmann shows how visionary companies are capitalizing on gaming's unstoppable rise.

Play Chess Not Checkers: The Practical Guide to Warm Start Your Dream Optometric Practice is the must-have audiobook for optometry students, graduates, and new professionals who desire to create their own successful optometry practice.

Streaming music has proven it is here to stay. Artists and their teams now find themselves with many new challenges in the digital landscape. With more options than ever for music distribution, standing out in a crowd, deciding where to focus your energy and finding ways to reach your audience become critical choices you and your team will have to make. Music business executive Mike Warner provides actionable advice, time-tested through more than 20 years in the music industry with proven results.

Darren Finkelstein has a simple, game-changing seven-step road to accountability process that is easy to follow and will increase the probability of achieving your goals, tasks, and promises to a massive 95 percent.

In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon describes how gaming can help us craft a better world together. Through stories from her career in the gaming industry, she outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all.

This course is about setting the foundation and changing the way you think about money and life. You will walk away with a new perspective, a clearer vision of your future, and more understanding of your financial situation and what steps you can take to further take control of your financial future while building the framework to live a life you absolutely love.

Sonia Williams's suffering was never-ending. Having dealt with a suicidal parent's alcoholism and estrangement from her family, the young woman’s sexual assault catapulted her into a life of crazy challenges and extraordinary trauma. And as she struggled to cope with failed businesses, debilitating disease, and a cheating spouse, her anxiety and mental battles took her to the edge of despair. After hitting rock-bottom, Sonia vowed to overcome every unexpected obstacle standing in her path to happiness.

Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the best practices from Big Tech and imitate them. But new paths for growth aren't created by imitation; they're forged by radical differentiation. In Smart Rivals, Harvard Business School professor Feng Zhu and former Bloomberg journalist Bonnie Cao show business leaders how to create new competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match.

Wes Berry built a remarkable $60-million-dollar international business from his family’s small florist shop, which began in Detroit. Now, in his extraordinary new audiobook, he shares what he has learned over the years about leadership and business growth. In many businesses that fail, the small things are overlooked; they are the things that are often the easiest to implement, but at the same, time they are easy to forget. It’s these small things that have the greatest impact in the long term.

An exuberant ode to play and the epic story of a company that has redefined it—their quirky beginnings, their singular ethos, their endlessly innovative leaders and developers, their massive cultural impact, and most of all the video games themselves, which have inspired joy and creativity in...