Alicia Corts has narrated 10 audiobooks on Listento.it by 11 authors. The most-rated is Maggie's Revenge.
What CEOs Need to Know About Design
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As a leader, you've heard that design is important, and you believe it. But you may not know what you need to know about it, how to buy it, and how to manage it. This is the book for you. "The strongest companies I work with use design as their secret weapon. This short primer makes it not such a secret any more. If how to leverage and lead design is still a secret to your company, buy this book." (Jeff Patton) "If you're the CEO of a technology-powered company, you owe it to your customers, your employees and your investors to learn the power and potential of professional product design. Audrey has been there since the start of the Internet and has worked with countless companies, product teams, and executive teams to leverage the value of product design." (Marty Cagan)
©2019 Audrey Crane (P)2020 Audrey Crane
Hire Women: An Agile Framework for Hiring and Retaining Women in Technology
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Diverse teams are more effective and get more done than homogenous ones. Yet, despite decades of effort, many tech teams are failing at hiring and retaining women. The reason: we’re looking in the wrong place. Hiring women doesn’t start with recruiting. It starts with creating a work environment that’s safe and equal for all. By listening to this audiobook, you will learn an agile, iterative framework for hiring and retaining women that’s practical and easy to use for any team, big or small. Written by Debbie Madden, CEO and founder of Stride Consulting, two-time Inc 500 CEO and serial tech entrepreneur, this book draws on Debbie’s decades of experience hiring and retaining women. At Stride Consulting, a leading Agile software development consultancy, Debbie and her team increased the number of women in the company by 267 percent in 10 months, simply by using the methods she shares in this audiobook. Whether you are a hiring manager, software engineer, product manager, technical recruiter, or technology executive, you’ll find the exercises in this book practical and effective.
©2018 Debbie Madden (P)2018 Debbie Madden
The INFJ Author
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This comprehensive guide on how to become an author with an INFJ personality will help you define your writing goals and give you step-by-step instructions on how to become a successful author, whether you attempt to do it through traditional publishing or by going indie. This guide will guide you through the following topics: What it means to be an INFJ personality How to write your first book Whether to go traditional or indie How to write your first query letter How to find an agent How to pursue a traditional writing contract How to establish your own independent writing career How to build your brand and generate an audience for your work And finally, how to manage your career no matter what you choose With practical, proven, hands-on methods, you can learn how to pursue your writing career from the moment you put pen to paper through marketing and social media. Every chapter of this book will give you proven techniques, online resources to begin your own career, and personal examples of the best method to use when realizing your dream of becoming a published author. No other How-to book has such a comprehensive explanation of every step in the process. About the Expert: M.L. Hamilton has been teaching high school English and journalism in Central California for the last 25 years; however, she always dreamed of publishing her own novel. That dream came true in 2010. Her first novel, Emerald, was published by Wild Wolf Publishing. In 2015, ML Hamilton decided to go independent with her writing and has published more than 34 novels in multiple genres. In addition to teaching and writing, she is the co-manager for Authors Booth at the California State Fair and was a judge for the NCPA writing contest for two years. She also has her own editing business, helping writers find their voice and get their work published.
©2017 Short Story Press (P)2018 Short Story Press
The Enneagram Personality Types
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Are you tired of being ruled by the constraints of your personality and no matter how hard you try, you are powerless to change it? Have you ever wondered why you are the way you are? Have you ever sat on your couch feeling helpless after realizing that you've let your life pass by without embracing it? Do you crave more compassion and understanding with your spouse, children, friends, and acquaintances, but you don't know how? Do you feel somehow stuck with your marriage or relationship and want to better understand where your partner is coming from? Or have you ever felt...different? The enneagram is an accurate character-type system that has been around since ancient times that has proven its usefulness and has helped people in all shapes and sizes to discover themselves and have stellar relationships with others. We all gravitate toward one of the nine personality types. If you understand yourself, then you can understand how your character traits affect your life. Once you know this, you can then make the necessary changes to achieve your goals in life. The enneagram shines like a giant spotlight of truth pointing out all the flaws and possibilities of your personality type and how to overcome your weak points and how to reinforce your already positive traits. This entertaining and practical audiobook combines two lighter, quicker works on enneagram, packed with ideas and techniques suited for each of the nine enneagram types. This audiobook makes it easy to identify your own personality type and those of your family, friends, and colleagues. And once you find it out, your life will start to make so much sense. You will be stunned to see the depth of your persona and the invisible factors controlling your life.
©2018 Eleanor Cooper (P)2018 Eleanor Cooper
The Government Fix: How To Innovate in Government
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When it comes to redesigning how government functions, most of the common assumptions about innovation don’t hold up. Hana Schank and Sara Hudson conducted nearly 70 interviews with people inside of government at the federal, state, county, and city level, to understand the common threads for successful innovation projects. They found that innovation at its most basic level has nothing to do with what is typically called “innovative”. Instead, they discovered who the real change-makers are, what successful projects look like, and why redesigning government can sometimes feel so very hard. In The Government Fix, Hana Schank and Sara Hudson, both a public interest technology fellows at New America and veterans of both Federal and local government, share what they’ve learned about how to truly make change.
©2019 Hana Schank & Sara Hudson (P)2019 Hana Schank & Sara Hudson
Enneagram: Discover Yourself and Get the Most Out of Your Relationships
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In just a short amount of time, you can find the answer to the single most important question of your life that 99.97 percent of people are never fully capable of answering: Who am I? (Bonus test included.) There is no such thing as a single system that can help you understand and explain everyone’s behavior and core values, right? Wrong! Author Eleanor Cooper in Enneagram: Discover Yourself and Get the Most Out of Your Relationships reveals the nine types of personalities to allow you to finally understand not only how to turn your life around based on your exact personality type but realize how all people around you are wired and how to build long-lasting relationships. This concise, easy-to-understand, and entertaining guide will open your eyes on human nature. So much so that it will become shockingly easy for you to find shortcuts for building stronger connections with people around you.
©2018 Eleanor Cooper (P)2019 Eleanor Cooper
Invisible Leader
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Traditional leadership frameworks emphasize control over making connections, but that underestimates the value of collaboration. By sharing the lessons of facilitative leadership, Invisible Leader gives you a new framework for tapping into your team’s potential. This book will show you how to approach, prepare, and guide team meetings to their best outcomes as well as how to use reflection to improve every stage of your work. With these “soft skills", you can show respect for your team’s time, help them maximize their talents, and put the humanity back into digital transformation. By combining the practices of adaptive leadership, facilitation, and product delivery workflows, the audiobook offers leaders new tools for relating to their teams. Elena has over a decade of facilitative experience into the qualities renowned leaders share, and her insights are backed up by recent research in cognitive psychology and human behavior. Leaders, both inside and outside of the business world, will benefit from this guide to becoming an invisible leader.
©2019 Elena Astilleros (P)2019 Elena Astilleros
OKRs at the Center
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Companies today are using OKRs - objectives and key results - to improve the way they set and work with goals. Along the way, they discover something else: changing the way you work with goals can lead to other changes. Changes in how you plan work, how you lead and reward people, how you make decisions, how you budget, and so much more. In short, if you really, sincerely start pursuing goal-setting in a new way, you will discover that goals live at the center of everything you do. What’s exciting about this is where it leads: Changing how you work with goals has the potential to drive ongoing change and bring new ways of working to the whole organization. That’s what this book is about: how goals live at the center of your organizational system and how you can leverage their potential for organizational development by adopting OKRs in an intentional way. This short, practical book includes case studies, examples, and practical guidance to help you get started on your own OKR journey.Written by Natalija Hellesoe and Sonja Mewes, who bring their extensive experience working OKRs in companies of all sizes. Natalija and Sonja are trainers, coaches, and change agents. They work with companies at different stages of the their OKR journeys - from first know-how workshops to OKR practitioner coaching and organizational development. "This book is a great explanation of how to set and deploy OKRs to improve your business. Whereas other books paint a rosy picture of best-case scenario for setting and deploying OKRs, this one focuses on reality. Many companies will see themselves in this book and be able to harness the practical advice in the book to fix their current scenarios and thrive. Highly recommended for every business that's trying to find focus and define impact." (Melissa Perri, author "Escaping The Build Trap)
©2020 Natalija Hellesoe and Sonja Mewes (P)2020 Natalija Hellesoe and Sonja Mewes
Enneagram
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Gain access to your hidden and neglected strengths, knowing they are yours to take, and own them using Enneagram exercises, meditations, and questions. You have heard about Enneagram; you may have read articles or even books on the topic, but you still don't see exactly how it could contribute to your life? You understand things and are aware of the theory side of Enneagram, but you want real results and changes in your life? Did you consider if there is a guide with the practical side of Enneagram to help you profit from your knowledge and lead you to the next level? What if you could get a guide to bring out the best of yourself based on your exact Enneagram type? This is the perfect audiobook for you. Enneagram guide and author Eleanor Cooper shares her must-hear insights on the world of personality types. Based on her work with several hundred people through the past decade and her research about human nature driven by insatiable appetite for knowledge and understanding, she now brings up the questions we are all longing to get a clear answer on: Who am I? Who can I become?
©2018 Eleanor Cooper (P)2019 Eleanor Cooper
Maggie's Revenge
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DEA Special Agent Maggie Holt is fierce, smart, beautiful - and in over her head. Maggie has been working undercover 15 months when she is taken by Chinese-Mexican cartel leader, Chenglei. She tries to escape with eight other women and is captured and brutally punished. Adam O'Connor is angry and frustrated. It's his fault his partner, and one-time lover, is missing and no matter how many leads he chases, they don't bring Maggie home. An unexpected break in the case sends Adam south to Texas. His old SEAL Team Chief, Frank Stein, offers his home and his help in the search effort. Will these two strong men find Maggie? And will their decades old friendship be destroyed by their love for the same woman? Listen to the exciting continuation of the Wounded Hearts Saga today! Related subjects include mysteries, women sleuths, murder mystery series, whodunit mysteries (whodunnit), amateur sleuth books, book club recommendations, police procedural, and crime fiction.
©2017 Jacquie Biggar (P)2020 Jacquie Biggar