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Gist.fm peeks into the bookshelves of successful entrepreneurs and remarkable thinkers pulling out those ideas you wish you’d heard before and the ones you need to hear again. We pick timely and timeless pieces of nonfiction and boil them down to 20 minutes with the help of their authors and professional voice actors. Learn how FBI hostage negotiators handle difficult conversations; what a study of 80,000 managers tells us about hiring and motivating people; what most productivity hacks gros ...
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For over a decade, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (known online as DHH) have turned conventional business wisdom on its head. In their bestselling book Rework they share some surprising lessons they have learned while growing Basecamp to a $100-billion company - from bootstrapping to growing slowly, embracing constraints, saying no to goo…
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Ben Casnocha has spent over 4 years working closely with Reid Hoffman as his co-author and LinkedIn’s Chief of Staff. In this episode he shares 5 timeless lessons he learned from the King of Tech: 1. People are complicated and flawed. Root for their better angels. 2. The best way to get a busy person’s attention: Help them. 3. Keep it simple and mo…
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Dr. Goulston combines insights from neuroscience, FBI hostage negotiation tactics and marriage counselling and puts them to work in the modern office environment. His book reveals the basis in our brain chemistry that causes communication to break down and what we can do to turn difficult conversations around. In this audio, you’ll learn how to dea…
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