Michael Harris has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is Solitude.
Solitude
Summary
Governor General's Award-winner Michael Harris explores the profound emotional and intellectual benefits of solitude, and how we may achieve it in our fast-paced world.
The capacity to be alone - properly alone - is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a contented and productive state that garners tangible rewards: It allows us to reflect and recharge, improving our relationships with ourselves and, paradoxically, with others. Today, the zeitgeist embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on online and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive distraction that dangerously undervalues solitude. Many of us now lead lives of strangely crowded loneliness - we are ever-connected, but only shallowly so.
Award-winning author Michael Harris examines why our experience of solitude has become so impoverished and how we may grow to love it again in the frenzy of our digital landscape. Solitude is an optimistic and encouraging story about discovering true quiet inside the city, inside the crowd, inside our busy and urbane lives. Harris guides listeners away from a life of ceaseless pings toward a state of measured connectivity, one that balances solitude and companionship.
Rich with true stories about the life-changing power of solitude, and interwoven with reporting from the world's foremost brain researchers, psychologists, and tech entrepreneurs, Solitude is a beautiful and convincing statement on the benefits of being alone.
©2017 Michael Harris (P)2018 Doubleday Canada
Party of One
Summary
A timely indictment of a prime minister determined to remake Canada.
In Party of One, investigative journalist Michael Harris gives us an intimate look at Stephen Harper and draws a portrait of a prime minister whose policies and instincts, Harris believes, are a clear and present danger to Canada's democracy. Fueled by the election victory of May 2011, unchecked by the opposition, the staggering gap between Stephen Harper's stated political principles and his practices starkly drive Harris' arguments home. Harper, an acknowledged master at controlling information is, Harris argues, profoundly antidemocratic. The Harper government's sins include keeping facts from Canadians and an inclination to invent them (as it did in the F-35 debacle). Since coming to power, Harper has made war on every independent source of information in Canada. Harris recounts Stephen Harper's well-defined and growing list of enemies, whose perspectives are unwelcome and whose voices are to be suppressed: scientists, diplomats, union members, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and journalists.
Counter to the backdrop of a Conservative commitment to transparency and accountability, Harris exposes a regime of ultra-secrecy, noncompliance, and dismissiveness. With this Conservative majority in Parliament, the law is simple: What one man, Stephen Harper, says, goes.
©2014 Michael Harris (P)2015 Post Hypnotic Press
Insight Selling
Summary
Selling value to B2B buyers today can feel like trying to stop a freight train that's hurtling towards the sales graveyard of commoditization and discounting. Today's empowered buyer has done research, has a clear idea of his or her firm's needs, and knows how much the firm is willing to pay. This type of buyer does not want a salesperson to talk about features and deliver a series of open-ended questions that delivers no value. What this buyer wants is insight. But how does a salesperson deliver insight so that it challenges the customer's thinking without challenging the customer? That's the question that this audiobook will answer. In part one of this book, we will examine why Insight Selling will help you sell value and differentiate your product to empowered buyers. In part two, we will provide six reasons why Insight Scenarios™ trump verbal persuasion at delivering insight to your customers. These reasons are backed by solid research: eight neuroscience studies and 20 research footnotes. Finally, in part three, we will show you how to create insight scenarios so that you can not only arm your salespeople with insights, but so that you can also show them the most effective way to deliver them. Once you have created your own insight scenarios, your salespeople will be more effective in two ways: They will be able to deliver insights without upsetting the buyer, and; They will be able to let the customer take your product out for a virtual test drive, so customers will discover for themselves the unique value of your product.
©2014 Michael Harris (P)2015 Michael Harris
100+1 Trivia Questions with Interesting Facts: General Knowledge
Summary
Are you looking for a fun way to spend your evening with your friends and also learn something new and interesting? You don't have to spend money and go to a pub quiz or any trivia questions event! You can enjoy your own pub quiz trivia questions event right at your home! Do you know what country has the highest number of castles and chateaux per capita in the world? Do you know what is the name of a famous actor, who, after coming back from Navy, he started working as a lorry driver, a laborer, a model, and a coffin washer? Did you know, there are three times as many sheep as citizens living in Australia? Discover these and many other interesting facts in this entertaining audiobook. Get your friends and family together, and enjoy a wonderful evening! Who will win?
©2019 Michael Harris (P)2019 Michael Harris