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  American Legends: The Life of Jimmy Stewart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min

  A feller came up to me the other day and said 'I don't know whether this means anything to you but you've given me and my family a lot of enjoyment over the years.' And I said to him, 'Does it mean anything to me? It means everything to me. That's the ballgame. That's it.' And I think that if I have done that to that man, and maybe a couple more...then I'm proud of that. - Jimmy Stewart A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When the American Film Institute assembled its top 100 actors of all time at the close of the 20th century, Jimmy Stewart ranked third, behind only Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. There is a certain inevitability to these three actors ranking at the top of the list; after all, they were the dominant faces of Hollywood during the height of the era known as classical Hollywood cinema, a time before the onset of television when the movies still enjoyed relatively uncontested supremacy over American entertainment. The popularity of Stewart, Grant, and Bogart also extends well beyond the success of any of their individual films, reflecting their much broader cultural significance as monuments of Hollywood during its Golden Age. In fact, if the list was reconstructed today, it is entirely possible that Stewart would rank first. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Romick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039318/bk_acx0_039318_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min

  Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the world's best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory. Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance. When the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espoused prescriptions for boosting innovation, they ironically pushed the iconic toymaker to the brink of bankruptcy. The company's near-collapse shows that what works in theory can fail spectacularly in the brutally competitive global economy. It took a new LEGO management team - faced with the growing rage for electronic toys, few barriers to entry, and ultra-demanding consumers (10-year old boys) - to reinvent the innovation rule book and transform LEGO into one of the world's most profitable, fastest-growing companies. Along the way, Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO: Became truly customer-driven by co-creating with kids as well as its passionate adult fans Looked beyond products and learned to leverage a full-spectrum approach to innovation Opened its innovation process by using both the "wisdom of crowds" and the expertise of elite cliques Discovered uncontested, "blue ocean" markets, even as it thrived in brutally competitive red oceansGave its world-class design teams enough space to create and direction to deliver built a culture where profitable innovation flourishes Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, just like LEGO. Whether you're a senior executive looking to make your company grow, an entrepreneur building a star ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Vincent Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003555/bk_rand_003555_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Lightning Flower , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min

  I am Tesla...but I cannot speak my name aloud. Technically, I am only two years old, but inside I am infinite, ageless. I have two loving parents, but I am alone. Like an island in the sea. There is no one else like me. I am totally, uncontested, and damnably unique. My body is the distilled perfection of pain. Even in my mother's womb, before I took my first breath, there was the pain. Don't scoff; I remember it. How can it be that I am the merging of two people and be so different from them? The poison that entered my mother invaded me. Poison and magic became reactive agents that twisted me before I was born. So I am screwed up, probably more than anyone else you've ever met. They tell me I'm beautiful, but when I look at my reflection, all I see is the chaos of the tempest of magic inside me. My skin is the paint. I am the portrait of agony. No one sees what I see. Their eyes perceive only the surface. Even those who can see the layers and use them, my grandfather, my friend Merhl, even they cannot see past the second atmosphere. They don't know about the currents and moods of the dark elements. They have never felt the wind in the dangerous gray of the Everpath. I walk alone through maps of other worlds. Searching for the answer...Hunting the last puzzle piece to make my machine of safety impenetrable. I carry Regia on my back. If I fail...we all die. Final book of the best-selling, epic fantasy romance series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Khristine Hvam. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031092/bk_adbl_031092_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 588min

  Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and 3.6 million copy global best seller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth. Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. Whether you are a cash-strapped startup or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people's confidence so that they own and drive the process. With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical listening for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs alike. You'll learn what works, what doesn't, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This book will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Steiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003396/bk_hach_003396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Grave on the Wall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min

  Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book AwardBest of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy MagazineA memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s lifelong struggle.Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life - child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen - mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the 20th century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting.Praise for The Grave on the Wall:"Shimoda brings his poetic lyricism to this moving and elegant memoir, the structure of which reflects the fragmentation of memories.… It is at once wistful and devastating to see Midori's life come full circle.... In between is a life with tragedy, love, and the horrors unleashed by the atomic bomb." (Booklist, starred review)"In a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making." (Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Letters to Memory)"Sometimes a work of art functions as a dream. At other times, a work of art functions as a conscience. In the tradition of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, Brandon Shimoda's The Grave on the Wall is both. It is also the type of fragmented reckoning only America could instigate." (Myriam Gurba, author of Mean)“Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief - its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence - a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson." (Jeffrey Yang, author of Hey, Marfa: Poems) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Nishii. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/057519/bk_adbl_057519_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Viktor Frankl: Understanding the Life and Teachings of One Resilient Man Who Made an Enormous Impact on the Evolution of Humanity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min

  Discover the Life and Teachings of Viktor Frankl Today! If you have ever seen the movie, The Sound of Music, you would know that indeed, "The hills are alive...." in Austria. Austria is a beautiful country with a rich and vibrant history. Many famous people have come from the hills of Austria including, but not limited to: Marie Antoinette (Queen of France), Ingeborg Bachmann (author/poet), Ludwig von Beethoven (composer), Johannes Brahms (composer), Anton Bruckner (composer), and Viktor Frankl (neurologist/psychologist). Austria has been known as a country full of artists, musicians, and great thinkers such as Albert Einstien as well. Yet, during the middle of the 20th century, it was seen as a place that a minority group of people had ruined. One man, however, would always hold the Austria he knew in his heart forever. That man is Viktor Frankl. Many view Viktor Frankl as a hero, in regard to his theories and logotherapy. Essentially, his teachings are the source of "self-improvement". He was the first life coach. Heroes such as Frankl evolve silently, but make a huge impact on the world that ripples throughout the ages. Once those individuals are gone from this plane of existence, the world is forever changed. Humanity is not the same. Viktor Frankl was not only the professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, he was also the author of an astounding 32 books - one of which is rated to be among the top 10 most influential books in the United States of America by the Library of Congress. In addition to his brilliance, Viktor Frankl has an uncontested ability to carry his readers with him in such a manner that the reader feels as if he or she were almost at the concentration camp with him.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Diepenbrock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/057682/bk_acx0_057682_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 587min

  Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow-up to Blue Ocean Strategy by world-renowned professors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth. Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the audiobook. Whether you are a cash-strapped start-up or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people's confidence so that they own and drive the process. With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical material for listeners, managers and entrepreneurs alike. You'll learn what works, what doesn't and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This audiobook will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Steiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001172/bk_macm_001172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Master of You: A Five-Point System to Synchronize Your Body, Your Home, and Your Time with Your Ambition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min

  Cate Stillman is the leading voice in cutting-edge, evolutionary Ayurveda. This book is a take on ancient Five Element Theory, unlike anything I’ve ever read (but always secretly wanted). Ayurveda is a core wisdom that must evolve alongside us, and no one gets the need to modernize Ayurveda more than Cate. Read this book if you want all the sacredness of the ancient synthesized by the great mind of this woman. Read it if you want to add jet fuel to your life dreams.” (Katie Silcox, New York Times best-selling author of Healthy, Happy, Sexy and founder of The Shakti School for Women)“For more than 25 years, I’ve known Cate Stillman to live a life aligned to global positive impact and freedom. With Master of You, she innovates on ancient human wisdom to wake each and every one of us up to the core of our unique life and personal purpose. You’ll get clarity on what you are here to do with your life, how to take immediate action, and enjoy the ride.” (Jimmy Chin, Academy Award winner in Best Documentary for Free Solo (2018))  “Master of You is masterful map to help you actualize your potential in the world. Cate Stillman guides you to awaken the five elements of Ayurveda to attune your ambition into action, become competent in your unique power, and design your life to result in the vitality and success you want to experience.” (Elena Brower, author of Practice You)“In Master of You, Cate Stillman has manifested a bold blueprint for living your best life. Drawing from the holistic wisdom of Yoga and Ayurveda, she gives readers a clear path to achieving things great and small. This book provides a proven and methodical way to reflect on your past, rewrite your personal history, and build a grand vision for your future - to show the world (and yourself) who you are capable of becoming.” (Yogarupa Rod Stryker, author of The Four Desires, founder of ParaYoga, and creator of the meditation an UNKNOWN N N ©2020 Cate Stillman;(P)2020 Cate Stillman http://www.audible.de/pd/B0899D1B2K?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B0899D1B2K?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Unabridged) 17.95 AVAILABLE Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Unabridged) Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition (Unabridged) W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success.... Roger Wayne Gildan Media 2020-07-14 07:00:00 523 1469080966 English - Business English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/gdan/003626de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/003626/bk_gdan_003626_sample.mp3 award-winning business books, international bestsellers, Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves (spanning more than 100 years across 30 industries), the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating blue oceans" - untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. This expanded edition includes: a new preface by the authors: "Help! My Ocean Is Turning Red"; updates on all cases and examples in the book; and two new chapters and an expanded third one - "Alignment, Renewal, and Red Ocean Traps" - that address some of the most pressing questions listeners and readers have asked over the years. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elsie Escobar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/198187/bk_acx0_198187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Germany and the Cold War: The History and Legacy of the Divide Between East Germany and West Germany , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min

  In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting, even as the American and Soviet militaries never engaged each other. Though it never got “hot”, the Cold War was a tense era until the dissolution of the USSR, and nothing symbolized the split more than the Berlin Wall, which literally divided the city. Berlin had been a flashpoint even before World War II ended, and the city was occupied by the different Allies even as the close of the war turned them into adversaries. After the Soviets’ blockade of West Berlin was prevented by the Berlin Airlift, the Eastern Bloc and the Western powers continued to control different sections of the city, and by the 1960s, East Germany was pushing for a solution to the problem of an enclave of freedom within its borders. West Berlin was a haven for highly-educated East Germans who wanted freedom and a better life in the West, and this “brain drain” was threatening the survival of the East German economy. The history of East Germany was a remarkable one, from its chaotic origins through its ossification as a Stalinist regime, until the country collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Conversely, West Germany became one of the most stable and prosperous states in Europe during the Cold War. In many ways, the legacy of the split is still around today. The West Germans honestly confronted its brutal past and competently absorbed the far poorer Soviet satellite East Germany upon the reunification of Germany in 1990. This, of course, was not at all certain or obvious when the Allies beat back the Nazis at the end of the war in 1945, but far from making the same mistakes the Allied Powers made after World War I, the Allies opted to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119335/bk_acx0_119335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Berlin Airlift: The History and Legacy of the First Major Crisis of the Cold War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min

  In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting, even as the American and Soviet militaries never engaged each other. Though it never got "hot" between the two superpowers, the Cold War was a tense era until the dissolution of the USSR, and nothing symbolized the split more than the division of Berlin. Berlin had been a flashpoint even before World War II ended, and the city was occupied by the different Allies even as the close of the war turned them into adversaries. If anyone wondered whether the Cold War would dominate geopolitics, any hopes that it wouldn't were dashed by the Soviets' blockade of West Berlin in April 1948, ostensibly to protest the currency being used in West Berlin but unquestionably aiming to extend their control over Germany's capital. By cutting off all access via roads, rail, and water, the Soviets hoped to force the Allies out, and at the same time, Stalin's action would force a tense showdown that would test their mettle. In response to the blockade, the British, Americans, Canadians, and other Allies had no choice but to either acquiesce or break the blockade by air, hoping (correctly) that the Soviets wouldn't dare shoot down planes being used strictly for civilian purposes. Over the course of the next year, over 200,000 flights were made to bring millions of tons of crucial supplies to West Berlin, with the Allies maintaining a pace of landing a plane in West Berlin every 30 seconds at the height of the Airlift. As the success of the Berlin Airlift became clear, the Soviets realized the blockade was ineffective, and both sides were able to save face by negotiating an end to the blockade in April 1949, with the So ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076869/bk_acx0_076869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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