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2020.
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Learn how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations, with this audio-only summary of Keith Rollag's book.
What to Do When You’re New is the result of Keith Rollag’s 20 years of research on why people become anxious and stressed in new situations. It provides strategies for changing your outlook on new situations and offers techniques for handling them with comfort and confidence. This audio-only summary distills the best...
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2019.
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English
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Learn about the key ingredients that go into the creation of truly great teams. In this audiobook summary, get practical tips that can help you build stronger, more cohesive groups.
Whether you're a college student saddled with a group project or an executive trying to pull off a multimillion dollar merger, collaborating with other people can be challenging. In his 2018 book, Dream Teams, Shane Snow details the key ingredients that go into the creation...
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2020.
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English
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Discover strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus, and working smarter all day long.
Your Brain At Work explores the inner workings of the human brain and provides methods to optimize your thinking. Drawing upon thousands of neuropsychological studies conducted in the last 25 years, the book presents strategies to overcome distraction and become more focused. In this audio-only summary, you can review key ideas from the book in just...
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2022.
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English
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Learn how to unlock your greatness through self-love.
We spend much of our lives caring for and caring about others, but what about ourselves? This audio-only course from Blinkist explores the power of positive thinking. Learn how your thoughts dictate your reality, and find out how to cut toxic people out of your life and become more secure. Go over ways to make your dreams come true and control your reactions. By outlining simple techniques for...
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2020.
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English
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Learn how to be more kind to yourself by practicing the skill of self-compassion. Get tips for eliminating self-criticism and more, in this short audiobook.
Self-Compassion is an urgent call for us to be more kind to ourselves. Based on empirical psychological research, this popular book looks at the causes and effects of the vicious self-criticism and feelings of inadequacy that plague many of our minds. It shows a healthier, more compassionate...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Enhance your productivity—and get more free time—though focused deep work. This audiobook summary provides tips that can help you regain your focus in a distracted world.
For many modern professionals, remaining electronically connected at nearly all times is the norm. And dealing with these constant distractions—from email, social media, apps, and so on—can wreak havoc on our ability to focus. In Cal Newport's 2016 book, Deep Work, he shares...
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2020.
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English
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Master the habits of great leaders. This audiobook summary breaks down leadership skills into easy-to-learn microbehaviors you can develop in minutes a day.
The Leader Habit offers an approach to leadership development that favors practice and habit learning over rote learning of knowledge. By looking at the ways habits are developed, and by breaking down the skills necessary for successful leadership into microbehaviors, author Martin Lanik offers...
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2021.
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English
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Learn how to prioritize what's important and make realistic goals so you can start investing your time in a way that's meaningful to you.
No matter who you are, how wealthy or powerful or healthy you are, you only have 24 hours in a day. Do you often find yourself wondering if you’re spending those hours in the most effective way? Do you live in denial about what you can actually accomplish in any one day? Then check out this audiobook summary...
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2022.
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English
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Learn about setting and achieving personal and professional goals.
Setting goals is admirable, but it can be challenging to make the leap from setting goals to achieving them. Where to start? This audio-only course from Blinkist gives you a step-by-step guide to setting and achieving personal and professional goals. Learn how to reflect on where you are in life, reflect on your priorities, and assess your wheel of life. Explore the process of setting...
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2020.
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English
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In this audiobook summary, learn about the different personalities you'll encounter at work, and get tips for connecting with these individuals and helping them succeed.
Each of your coworkers have their own unique working styles. Whether you admire or feel challenged by a colleague's approach, you can still find a way to connect with them. In their 2018 book Business Chemistry, Kim Christfort and Suzanne Vickberg lay out how to do this, highlighting...
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2021.
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English
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Learn how to establish a learning culture at your company.
How can you make learning a core part of the way you work, and how can you share that across your company? This audio-only course shows you how to establish a learning culture at your company. Most skills only stay relevant for five years, so it’s important to keep learning. Explore teacher tactics to keep learning interesting, as well as how to cultivate an agile learning environment that...
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2019.
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English
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Control your inbox. This audiobook summary provides practical tips for organizing your inbox, responding to messages in a more efficient manner, writing better emails, and more.
Email is supposed to be a tool that helps us do our jobs. But the time we spend responding to unimportant messages (and obsessively emptying our inbox to zero) can actually impede our ability to perform key tasks. In Jocelyn K. Glei's 2016 book, Unsubscribe, she shares strategies...
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2020.
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English
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Get a treasure trove of management guru Peter Drucker’s most essential insights, known as “Druckerisms,” summarized in this audio-only course.
A Year with Peter Drucker offers a treasure trove of the management guru’s most essential insights, known as “Druckerisms.” Over decades, Peter Drucker developed a groundbreaking philosophy of leadership and success, teachings blissfully free of the jargon that dominates management studies today....
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Learn useful techniques to get your procrastination habit under control.
Procrastination becomes a problem when it becomes a habit. This audio-only course examines why we are drawn to procrastination and what we can do to move past it. Explore some reasons why you might be procrastinating, as well as advice on getting started quickly and gaining momentum. Find out how to prioritize your to-do list and achieve more, then learn the best ways to use...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Find out what you’re already doing to be successful and learn to encourage and build on that behavior in the future.
There’s no such thing as overnight success. Success is built gradually, and the good news is that you’re probably already doing things to be successful. This audio-only course shows you how to build on what you’re already doing to give yourself that slight edge toward success. Find out how to enhance your ability to make critical...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how we work and innovate. In this audiobook summary, explore the possibilities that AI offers businesses and consumers.
From self-driving cars to smart watches, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a huge role in both our current moment and our future. In Superhuman Innovation, author Chris Duffey explores the possibilities that AI offers a variety of industries—from tech to fashion—as well as how...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Learn how to do more with your time. This audiobook summary provides bite-sized tips to help you prioritize your tasks, fight procrastination, and get results with less effort.
Boosting your productivity doesn't need to mean squeezing more hours into your work week. In fact, true productivity usually happens when you learn how to expend minimal energy for maximum results. In this audiobook summary, get bite-sized tips that can help you prioritize...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Find out how to start or end any habit you wish.
Where does the power of habits come from, and how can you put that power to work for you? This audio-only course shows you how the brain forms a habit or routine and how you can start or end any habit you wish. Learn how habits create a craving that make them difficult to break, but you can replace an existing routine with another one that has a similar reward. Discover how you can use keystone habits,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Learn how to make small changes over time to achieve big results.
One of the hardest parts of change is just how long it can take. We don’t often notice little changes—if you’re out of shape and go jogging for 20 minutes, you’ll still be out of shape tomorrow. But if you go jogging for 20 minutes every day, eventually you’ll notice an improvement in your performance, even though the day-to-day change may not be measurable. This audiobook...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Learn how to achieve hyperfocus to increase your productivity and creativity.
Multitasking may seem like a necessity in the modern work environment, but in reality it can often lead to less productivity. If you can focus on one task, while also avoiding the temptations of your usual daily distractions, you can get in the zone of an engaged, undistracted, and incisive mind. In other words, you can be hyperfocused. This audiobook summary of Hyperfocus...
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