Charles Braden has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The 80/20 Investor.
The 80/20 Investor
Summary
Are you searching for a simple path to financial freedom? Are you worried about your retirement but don't want to deal with the complexity of investing and the financial services industry? Fed up with 0% interest, but don't know anything about investing? You're in the right place. The 80/20 Investor, harnessing the power of the 80/20 principle, simplifies investing. In no time, you will learn the basics of investing, how to finance your investments, where to look for "no-brainer" opportunities, and understand real investment risk and how to reduce it. This book allows you to enter the seemingly intimidating world of investing, with constructive tips from some of those who have changed the game - The Rothschilds, Hetty Green, J. Paul Getty, Henry Singleton, and others. After listening to The 80/20 Investor you will know: How to apply the 80/20 Principle to financial freedom and the three pillars of 80/20 Investing. How to reduce your investment workload, by focusing only on the most valuable investment opportunities and achieve better performance than professionals. Learn how to improve your investment decision making by using the 80/20 principle and effective "mental models." Find the best investment opportunities by obeying the "investment seasons" and using the "magic categories" to find no-brainer opportunities. And much, much more. Who this book is for Whether you're a complete investing novice or you already have your own investment portfolio, The 80/20 Investor is for people who understand that a basic education in investing is necessary for a path to financial freedom. Yet, have very little time to study investing extensively or trust Wall Street to manage their portfolios. It's for individual investors and entrepreneurs who have day jobs and businesses to take care of.
©2016 David Schneider (P)2016 David Schneider
Lean Behavior-Based Safety: BBS for Today's Realities
Summary
While several version of behavior-based safety (BBS) have been around since the 1980s, few of them have truly adapted to the changing environment in which they must operate. The Lean BBS process has not only evolved, but continues to do so with each customized implementation. Making BBS fit your culture, operations, and logistical realities, rather than trying to make your company fit some idealistic model, is a key to success in today's realities. In 2001, ProAct Safety introduced Lean BBS as a major update to traditional behavior-based safety models with a focus on providing new value with more efficient, safer work. Simply put, Lean BBS focuses on adding value to employees rather than trying to control them. Lean BBS addresses the four major issues found within the average behavior-based safety process: BBS provides successful results for many organizations, but they are looking for a way to take the process to the next level. The Lean BBS methodology takes them there. Some are adamantly against BBS for a number of reasons (union resistance, questionable implementations, cookie-cutter and inflexible approaches, etc.). Lean BBS gains bargaining unit support, and is fit-for-purpose and customized to the realities of each organization. Organizations with vastly different processes from site to site want to bring uniformity across the company. Simply changing from one methodology to another is not appealing nor rational. Implementing a more efficient Lean BBS model was both appealing and a rational solution to encourage the processes to evolve towards value-add. Some hesitate to pursue BBS due to high costs and demand on internal resources to operate the process. Lean BBS provides an alternative that addresses these concerns due to the hyper focus on efficiency and ensuring value-add.
©2017 SCE Press (P)2017 SCE Press
Inside Strategy
Summary
Ask any two people what strategy is and you're likely to get two different answers. Ask those same two people how strategic thinking generates value at all levels from within an organization and you'll probably be met with blank stares. Ever since strategy gained currency as an organizational concept in the 1960s, there's been confusion about how to define it. Strategy isn't a detailed plan of action. Nor is it a corporate vision or an objective or a mission statement. Strategy is not what to think. It's how to think. Most books on strategy focus on external strategy: competition with rivals in business or overcoming the enemy on the battlefield. This book is different. The authors take strategic thinking and give it a new focus of attention inside your organization. Inside Strategy is aimed at aligned continual performance improvement. Inside Strategy gives you - and everyone in your organization - a method of managing an unknown future to create new value for your internal and external customers every day.
©2016 Shawn M. Galloway and Terry L. Mathis (P)2016 Shawn M. Galloway and Terry L. Mathis