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Industrial Design Audiobooks

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    Humble Inquiry, Second Edition

    The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

    by Edgar H. Schein, Peter A. Schein ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    This worldwide bestseller offers simple guidance for building the kind of open and trusting relationships vital for tackling global systemic challenges and developing adaptive, innovative organizations—over 200,000 copies sold and translated into seventeen languages!We live, say Edgar and Peter Schein, in a culture of “tell.” All too often we tell others what we think they need to know or should ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A World Without Email

    Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert)

    by Cal Newport ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would you be?Emails are an integral part of work today. But the 'kind regards', forwards and attachments we check every 5.4 minutes are making us unproductive, stressed and costing businesses millions in untapped potential.Bestselling author of Deep Work and ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Design Leadership Handbook

    by Aarron Walter, Eli Woolery ...
    Narrated by Joey Schaljo ...
    series The Design Better Library

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    Get your bearings as a leader, gain confidence, and learn tactical approaches from experts who have been in your shoes so you can support your team and advance your career.This audiobook includes:How to become a design leader with insights from Netflix’s Andy LawLearn how to hire people with the right balance of skills and find the best structure for your teamEvaluating team members’ performances, ... Read more

    Free

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    Leverage Change

    8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results

    by Robert W. Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Jeff Hoyt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    Organizational change doesn't have to be so difficult. Leading change expert Jake Jacobs shares eight fail-safe ways to make any change initiative at any organization easier, faster, and more effective.In a recent Fast Company article, nine CEOs said the biggest challenges their companies face are all related to change. Change is a constant need and a constant challenge for every organization ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Hidden History of American Oligarchy

    Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...
    Audiobook 5 - The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 30 min

    Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America—and how we can win the latest round.Billionaire oligarchs want to own our republic, and they're nearly there thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions that they have essentially bought. They put Trump and his political ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Redesigning Work

    How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone

    by Lynda Gratton ...
    Narrated by Lynda Gratton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century. So, how do we make the most of this unique opportunity and radically redesign the way we work - forever?Professor Lynda Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future of work. Based on thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural and societal trends that are ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    There's No Such Thing as an IT Project

    A Handbook for Intentional Business Change

    by Bob Lewis, Dave Kaiser ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    Learn how to stop pouring vast sums of money into technology projects that don't have a lasting impact by closing the communication gap between IT and leadership.Too many businesses miss opportunity after opportunity to design, plan, and achieve intentional business change. Why? Because they charter projects focused on delivering software products: IT projects. But as this groundbreaking book ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Building For Everyone

    Expand Your Market With Design Practices From Google's Product Inclusion Team

    by Annie Jean-Baptiste ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    Establishing diverse and inclusive organizations is an economic imperative for every industry. Any business that isn't reaching a diverse market is missing out on enormous revenue potential and the opportunity to build products that suit their users' core needs. The economic "why" has been firmly established, but what about the "how?" How can business leaders adapt to our ever-more-diverse world ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    User Friendly

    How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play

    by Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant ...
    Narrated by Jean Ann Douglass ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of User Friendly by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant.USER FRIENDLY is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products—and for the innovators aspiring to make them.It seems like magic when some new gadget seems to know what we want before we know ourselves. But why does some design feel intrinsically good, and why do some designs last f... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Creativity Leap

    Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

    by Natalie Nixon ...
    Narrated by Natalie Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    "Natalie Nixon's new book provides a fresh primer on how to cultivate creativity in the workplace.”—Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and IndistractableToo many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it's the key to developing breakthrough products and services. Natalie Nixo... ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Your phone is trying to control your life

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    8 min

    Whether you're killing time in line at Starbucks or scrolling through an endless meme stream on Twitter, your smartphone is trying to seduce you. Former Google employee Tristan Harris felt something needed to be done to combat tech designers' relentless efforts to influence our behavior. Special correspondent Cat Wise talks to Harris as part of a collaboration with The Atlantic. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Hidden History of Monopolies

    How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...
    Audiobook 4 - The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 16 min

    “This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”—from the foreword by Ralph NaderAmerican monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same as cancer does in a body, and, like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economic. ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blaze Your Own Trail

    An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity, and Compassion

    by Rebekah Bastian ...
    Narrated by Natalie Hoyt ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    A modern, feminist take on the classic choose-your-own-journey book, inspiring readers to embrace the fact that there is no singular right path—just your own!So many women enter their adult lives believing that they should know where they are going and how to get there. This can make life decisions feel intimidating and overwhelming. While some choices that lie ahead are fairly predictable, such ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The New Geography of Innovation: Global unicorns, innovation ecosystems and the race for the future

    by Mehran Gul ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Breaking the Silence Habit

    A Practical Guide to Uncomfortable Conversations in the #MeToo Workplace 

    by Sarah Beaulieu ...
    Narrated by Natalie Hoyt ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 34 min

    Top consultant Sarah Beaulieu offers a five-part framework that enables employees to have difficult but necessary conversations about sexual harassment and violence and develop new, better ways of working together.In the wake of the #MeToo movement, employees and leaders are struggling with how to respond to the pervasiveness of sexual harassment. Most approaches simply emphasize knowing and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Project Decisions, 2nd Edition

    The Art and Science

    by Lev Virine, Michael Trumper ...
    Narrated by Jeff Hoyt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    This new edition gives project managers practical methods and tools to make the right decisions while juggling multiple objectives, risks and uncertainties, and stakeholders.Project management requires you to navigate a maze of multiple and complex decisions that are an everyday part of the job. To be effective, you must know how to make rational choices with your projects, what processes can help ... Read more

    $69.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Managing Care

    How Clinicians Can Lead Change and Transform Healthcare

    by Richard Bohmer ...
    Narrated by James Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    Healthcare systems worldwide are swamped with demand, short of resources, and ill-equipped to respond to global health crises like COVID-19. This book is a guide for reforming healthcare delivery.The way we organize care matters, and the people best positioned to drive this are the clinicians who deliver care. The book offers a framework for transforming healthcare delivery that covers operational ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Subtle Acts of Exclusion

    How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions

    by Tiffany Jana, Michael Baran ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental handbook is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging in their workplace.Our workplaces and society are growing more diverse, but are we supporting inclusive cultures? While overt racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of discrimination are relatively easy to ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Fixation

    How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet

    by Sandra Goldmark ...
    Narrated by Eva Wilhelm ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global economic systems. Since founding Fixup, a pop-up repair shop that brought her coverage in the New York Times, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Autonomous Revolution

    Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines 

    by William H. Davidow, Michael S. Malone ...
    Narrated by Michael S. Malone ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    The coauthors of the seminal book The Virtual Corporation describe how the rise of artificial intelligence and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformation—and how we can thrive in this new era.We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Man Who Designed the Future

    Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America

    by B. Alexandra Szerlip ...
    Narrated by B. Alexandra Szerlip ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 52 min

    Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes.A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan’s most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant 1960s.In The ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Advanced Consulting

    Earning Trust at the Highest Level

    by Bill Pasmore ...
    Narrated by Jeff Hoyt ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    This is the first book to address the specific needs and challenges faced by high-level consultants, who work on very complex projects and must win the confidence of the most senior leaders in organizations.Advanced consulting requires both expertise and personal qualifications that are distinct from those needed in everyday consulting. Advanced consultants work with high-level executive teams on ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Building Brand Communities

    How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging

    by Carrie Melissa Jones, Charles Vogl ...
    Narrated by Caroline Miller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    An authentic brand community is more than just people buying your product or working alongside one another. This book articulates the critical roles of mutual concern, common values, and shared experiences in creating fiercely loyal customer and collaborator relationships.Smart organizations know that creating communities is the key to unlocking unprecedented outcomes. But too many mistakenly rely ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Win Every Day

    Proven Practices for Extraordinary Results

    by Mark Miller ...
    Narrated by Joe Bronzi ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 38 min

    All high performance organizations have one thing in common: execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency. In the fifth and final book of Mark Miller's High Performance series, he uses his trademark business fable format to show how any organization can cultivate the kind of everyday habits that yield ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial