From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show listeners how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrep...

What It Takes

Radical generosity is the against-the-grain secret weapon of real influencers, and it will allow you to boost referrals, retention rates, and ROI like few other strategies.  But be warned, gifts with strings attached backfire. There is a right, and w...

Giftology

At the peak of his career and success, Ari Meisel nearly killed himself from exhaustion and overwork.  He had to make a choice: He could let his "success" destroy him physically and mentally, or he could find a better way to live. He spent the next f...

The Art of Less Doing

Please download the supplementary PDF for a list of the figures referenced in the audio.  When Ari Meisel and Nick Sonnenberg launched their high-end virtual assistant (VA) company, Less Doing™, they changed the culture of start-ups forever, effectiv...

Idea to Execution

From Blackstone chairman, CEO and cofounder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show listeners how to build, transform and lead thriving organisations. Whether you are a student, entrepren...

We all know that meetings suck, right?  You hear it all the time. It's the one thing that almost everyone in business can agree on.  Except it's not actually true. Meetings don't suck; we suck at running meetings. When done right, meetings not only w...

Meetings Suck: Turning One of the Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable

Joseph Romm, one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top "100 Agents of Change", has focused his talents on helping us all to increase our language intelligence and to better understand the art of persuasion.  Romm demonstrates that you don't have to be an e...

Language Intelligence

People and organizations tend to approach chaos as if it were an unruly beast - something that needs to be reined in, or avoided at all costs. But what if there's a benefit to chaos? What if it's actually crucial for inspiring industry innovation?  I...

The Chaos Imperative

Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in t...

Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition

How much would you pay for a gallon of gas? $4.00? $10.00? Would you pay with the health of your lungs or with years taken from your lifespan? The infamous "pain at the pump" runs much deeper than our wallets, argues Terry Tamminen, former secretary ...

Lives Per Gallon

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, ...

The Book of Salsa

In this practical guide to successful grantseeking, Alan Silver draws on 30 years of experience to help listeners formulate strategies for winning grants for individuals, nonprofits, and agencies. Concisely written and easy to follow, How to Win Gran...

How to Win Grants

Reinvent yourself and grow radical influence.   What if you got heard, and became visible in a seemingly noisy online world from day one of your new idea? Imagine yourself having a worldwide influence in your industry, profession, or life. What if yo...

The Influencer Economy: How to Launch Your Idea, Share It with the World, and Thrive in the Digital Age

For more than 200 often turbulent years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images - Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle...

Cuba in the American Imagination

Would you like to get more qualified traffic to your website and increase your conversion rate - for free? Publicity in real world media such as newspapers, magazines and trade journals is the best endorsement you can possibly get for your online bus...

Media Strategies for Internet Marketers

The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece on a large scale. Using the Histories of Herodotus ...

Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars

The theater is in the midst of a digital revolution! This audiobook provides listeners with an easy-to-understand overview of the digital technology currently available for the stage. In clear language, Digital Technical Theater Simplified explains d...

Digital Technical Theater Simplified

Rome, May 2011. After the shocking abdication and disappearance of Pope John Paul III, close confidants of the Pope are being murdered. Peter Adam, a German journalist, and his American colleague, Loretta, begin to investigate the case. Their only le...

Signs

Peter Adam wakes up on an oil rig to discover he has survived a mortal injury, and learns that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Don Luigi, has been elected pope. The news is worrying, not least because it appears Pope Peter II is doing everything possib...

Awakening

It’s late. You’re tired. After a long day, you just want to be home in time for dinner. As you enter an intersection, a truck barrels through a stop sign, smashing into your passenger side. Within seconds, every plan is changed, every project delayed...

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