Well-Rounded Listening
Last week we provided an annotated list of a few recent--and diverse--business and financial books available through the Library.
This week we'll do the same for books to which you can listen. At home and in the car are the most popular venues for these, but we also have a number of over-the-road truckers who are voracious consumers of audiobooks.
Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. About fifteen years ago, Brin and Page started out with a basic search engine. Today's megaprofitable operation tops sixteen billion dollars in annual revenue.
Little Red Book of Sales Answers: 99.5 Real World Answers That Make Sense, Make Sales, and Make Money. If you've got a sales question, this author's tips, strategies, and advice may provide the answer.
Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive. Incorporate a subtle range of changes that can positively affect your advertising, writing, and speaking.
Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time. High-tech, low-cost, and low-hassle, one of the Internet's hottest social networking tools can keep customers and business partners in the know in real time.
Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the founding of Facebook. A real-life adventure, the pages of which are peopled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and 6'5" identical-twin Olympic rowers! The astounding creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to each other.
Start Over, Finish Rich: 10 Steps to Get You Back on Track for 2010. Covers the gamut of credit card debt, student loans, real estate, retirement, saving, and more.
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Wizards Took Over Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It. Quantitative analysts swapped hunches for complicated algorithms and supercomputers in an attempt to game the market. Their mind-bending formulas and genius-level IQs just skirted a financial apocalypse.
Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity. An informative and eye-opening look at how we get into these messes and how--with work and perseverance--we can get out of them.
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable. Consumers are tired of the same old brown cows. How can your product or service be a purple cow?
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