Ian Porter has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Reed Hastings.
Reed Hastings
Summary
Global Business Visionaries - Reed Hastings.
Reed Hastings is one of the world's foremost business leaders. As co-founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix, he has built one of the largest media and entertainment companies on the planet, with an estimated personal net worth of $3.6 billion. A notable philanthropist, he has served on the boards of Facebook, Microsoft and a number of non-profit organisations.
This concise but detailed biography provides an overview of Hastings' career trajectory, providing insights into his success. It also covers his unique management style, what he is like as a person and the biggest mistakes he has made along the way, revealing why he decided to take Netflix from a business that dealt with products (rental DVDs) to a technology company that focuses on streaming. And it looks to what the future may bring for him and his ventures.
Aspirational and positive, it is the perfect audiobook for listeners who want a concise and accessible account of a global business visionary.
©2020 Matt Burgess (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group
Dead in the Water
Summary
In this shocking, heart-wrenching true-crime drama, a 40-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers - just kids when they witnessed their father commit the brutal act - to track down a psychopath once suspected as being the Golden State Killer. In 1978, two tortured corpses were discovered in the sea off Guatemala. Hooded, bound with ropes and weighted down with heavy engine parts, Chris Farmer and his girlfriend Peta Frampton were still clinging to life when they were thrown from a yacht on which they had been crewing. This is the gripping account of how Chris's family painstakingly gathered evidence against the boat's Californian skipper, Silas Duane Boston, working alongside the FBI, Interpol, and police in the UK and the USA. Almost four decades later in 2015, there was a major breakthrough in the case when, using Facebook, Chris's sister Penny tracked Boston down. Following the testimony of his two sons who, as young boys, had witnessed the horrific murder of Chris and Peta at the hands of their father, Boston was finally arrested and charged with two counts of maritime murder. Chillingly, Boston was later linked to several other killings on US soil - at one point he was even the FBI's prime suspect in the notorious Golden State Killer case, until DNA ruled him out. The list of crimes for which he was suspected put him in the league of America's most prolific and elusive serial killers. Not just a story of murder on the high seas, Dead in the Water is a tale that offers insights into the minds of the killer and his two sons. And it reveals a family's fortitude and diligence in tracking down a monster of a man, a task which ultimately fell to the author to complete. It exemplifies that life can be senselessly snuffed out but love never dies.
©2019 Penny Farmer (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Backstage Leadership
Summary
Most of us would recognise a star leader by their charisma, emotional intelligence and public communication prowess. What is truly impressive but often overlooked is the silent work of leadership that garners real results. Exercising influence in a complex and global organisation - whilst also shaping and executing strategies across borders in a disruptive age - is the true mark of success as a leader. Backstage Leadership takes a comprehensive look at the background processes that leaders must master in order to shape the culture, direction and capability of a successful company. With an emphasis on strategy, the author provides an integrated toolkit for developing your knowledge and skills as a 'backstage leader'. You will learn how to: Mobilise people towards new strategic directions Scan your business environment for threats and disruptive forces Diagnose and help to shape the culture of your organisation Develop talent and capabilities towards a specific goal. Focusing on the key and consistent underlying processes of leadership, this audiobook is essential listening for managers who wish to bring focus and coherence to their leadership role and integrate themselves within the engine of the organisation.
©2018 Nina Renata Aron (P)2020 Random House Audio