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Not So Risky Roo
A Home Safety Guide
2020
EN
Risky Roo the Kangaroo is always getting hurt, but a day with his friend Hayden may help turn it all around. Putting on his safety gear and magical badge, Hayden teaches Risky how to avoid some scary situations. Will you take the Safety Pledge with Risky Roo?Not So Risky Roo is a full color illustrated children’s book written by a safety professional who is also a parent. Using simple terms geared for young readers, this book tackles the top ten hazards around your home that too of...
Not So Risky Roo
A Home Safety Guide
2020
EN
Risky Roo the Kangaroo is always getting hurt, but a day with his friend Hayden may help turn it all around. Putting on his safety gear and magical badge, Hayden teaches Risky how to avoid some scary situations. Will you take the Safety Pledge with Risky Roo?Not So Risky Roo is a full color illustrated children’s book written by a safety professional who is also a parent. Using simple terms geared for young readers, this book tackles the top ten hazards around your home that too of...
Good Boss, Bad Boss
How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst
2010
EN
In his long-awaited follow-up to The No Asshole Rule, Robert Sutton reveals the actions of the best bosses and contrasts these with the mistakes of the worst, so that you can learn to become the great boss most people dream of having.The stark differences between what superb and lousy bosses do is backed up by piles of research, and Good Boss, Bad Boss blends this with true stories to contrast the best and worst moves bosses make when taking charge, making decisions and turning talk...
Good Boss, Bad Boss
How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst
- Narrated by
- Bob Walter
Unabridged
7 hours 9 min
2017
EN
From the New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule'I am frequently asked, "Tom, my brother/sister/friend is taking on a new leadership role. What should they read?" I always respond the same way, by recommending one and only one book: Bob Sutton's Good Boss, Bad Boss' - Tom Peters, New York Times bestselling author of In Search of Excellence.Good Boss, Bad Boss was inspire...
Out of the Jar
My Book of Poems
2018
EN
This book is a collection of my poetry over the years inspired by the life I have led working in the care setting and traveling all over the world. I hope you enjoy my work and may find it useful to use in the right settings, for instance “Those in Grief” has been used in funerals. My life has been rather colorful to say the least, and I have been in a few situations facing danger and adventure, bringing me to the present day. Now at sixty-three, I can reflect on this and laugh at the funn...
2019
EN
Just Like Magic is an adventure in a magical world where the main characters get to fight evil and bring back the good that was lost in this fantasy land.
The Asshole Survival Guide
How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
2017
EN
Learn how to handle assholes - in the workplace and beyond - once and for all!'If only Bob Sutton's book had been available to help me deal with the full complement of 1st-class assholes I've encountered in my 50-year professional life. No names shall be mentioned' Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence________________FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OF THE NO ASSHOLE RULE
The Asshole Survival Guide
How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
- Narrated by
- Robert I Sutton
Unabridged
5 hours 58 min
2017
EN
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Asshole Survival Guide written and read by Robert I Sutton.Being around assholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage performance and affect wellbeing: having one asshole in a team has been shown to reduce performance by 30 to 40%. And social media has only given rise to further incivility -- 40% of people have experienced harassment online.But in The Asshole Survival Guide, Stanford profe...
The Friction Project
How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
- Narrated by
- Sean Patrick Hopkins
Unabridged
8 hours 44 min
2024
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.No organization is totally free from destructive friction; the forces that make it harder, morecomplicated and sometimes downright impossible to get things done. Drawing on years of research and featuring case studies on the likes of Uber, Netflix and Boeing, The Friction Project teaches readers how to become 'friction fixers'.Stanford professors Sutton and Rao unpack how we should think and act like trustees of ...
The Friction Project
How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
2024
EN
‘If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place.’ Adam Grant, author of Think AgainEvery organisation is plagued by destructive friction. Lengthy and convoluted emails, inefficient processes, and antiquated procedures can all be obstacles to excellence at work.Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful. Often teams need to slow down, struggle and develop some bad ideas to find that rar...
- Narrated by
- Gareth Prosser
Unabridged
8 hours 47 min
2020
EN
A breakthrough in management thinking, ‘weird ideas’ can help every organization achieve a balance between sustaining performance and fostering new ideas. To succeed, you need to be both conventional and weird. • Hire misfits • Pursue the impractical • Find happy people and encourage them to fight • Reward failure but punish inaction • Forget your own successes These and other counterintuitive strategies will unlock ideas you never knew you had.
Nazis on the Potomac
The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II
- Narrated by
- David Colacci
Unabridged
9 hours 20 min
2022
EN
Now a green open space enjoyed by residents, Fort Hunt, Virginia, about fifteen miles south of Washington, DC, was the site of one of the highest-level, clandestine operations during World War II.Shortly after the United States entered World War II, the US military realized that it had to work on exploiting any advantages it might gain on the Axis Powers. One part of these endeavors was to establish a secret facility not too close, but also not too far from the Pentagon which would...











