Audiobooks narrated by John Haag

Get Rich with Options: Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor

"In order to survive and thrive in today's financial markets, you must seriously consider the use of options in your investment endeavors. Options allow you to reap the same benefits as an outright stock or commodity trade, but with less risk and less money on the line. The truth is, you can achieve everything with options that you would with stocks or commoditiesat less costwhile gaining a much higher percentage return on your invested dollars. After numerous years as a market maker in the trenches of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make money trading options like author Lee Lowell. In this well-rounded resource, Lowell shows both stock and commodity option traders exactly what works and what doesn't. Get Rich with Options is packed with real-life examples of actual trades and detailed discussions of how options can be used as a hedging, speculating, or income-producing tool. With this book as your guide, you'll begin to see options in a whole new light and learn how to become part of a small group of investors who consistently win."

Lee Lowell (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader: How to Succeed by Building Customer and Company Value

"WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL MARKETING LEADER? The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader, by former McKinsey Partner Thomas Barta and senior London Business School professor Patrick Barwise, is the first research-based leadership book for marketers in the 21st century. Based on the largest ever research study of its kind, with detailed data on over 8,600 leaders in more than 170 countries, this game-changing book identifies 12 specific behaviors--or Powers--that drive marketers' business impact and career success. Reading it, you’ll learn how to: * MOBILIZE YOUR BOSS: Make an impact at the highest level and align marketing with the company's priorities. * MOBILIZE YOUR COLLEAGUES: Inspire and motivate your non-marketing colleagues to deliver a great customer experience. * MOBILIZE YOUR TEAM: Build and align a winning marketing team. * MOBILIZE YOURSELF: Focus on goals that will benefit your customers, your company and yourself, by meeting your own needs and ambitions. By zeroing in on the value creation zone ('V-Zone')--the all-important overlap between your company's and customers' needs--you’ll be able to help the business win in the market--and achieve your career goals. Warning: This is not a marketing book. It’s a leadership book for marketers, using the latest research on what works--and what doesn’t--in marketing's digital age. BONUS: Receive full access to an online self-assessment tool and other marketing leadership resources."

Patrick Barwise, Thomas Barta (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm

"WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A GREAT LEADER? The ultimate guide to managing your career-at every level, through every transition-The McKinsey Edge culls the best practices of an exclusive group of executives and consultants from McKinsey & Company, the legendary consulting firm that services eighty percent of the world’s largest corporations. Drawing on his time as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey, Hattori presents rigorously selected, battle-tested tips that will give you the edge you need to up your game, raise your profile, and take your career to the next level-using a proven four-step program: - Learn more effective ways to get ahead by making multiple self-improvements. - Strengthen your skills of communication, connection, and understanding to influence your team and other stakeholders. - Increase your productivity and performance using tools that work best for your specific environment. - Push yourself further to focus your energies, renew your life, and revitalize your career with a new leadership profile. Each section of this empowering guide includes precise strategies and hard-won advice that will help you tackle the challenges that are unique to each level of management. By applying these 47 principles to your own situation and workplace, you’ll be able to change not only your personal mindset and managerial effectiveness but others’ perceptions of you as a leader. You’ll discover the best methods for dealing with clients, solving problems, motivating teams, and surpassing expectations. These are the strategies that have taken McKinsey’s managers and trainers to the top of their fields-and this is the program that shows you how to take your career wherever you want to go. Whether you’re climbing your way up the corporate ladder, starting on the very first rung, or feeling stuck somewhere in the middle, The McKinsey Edge gives you the edge you need to take the next step and make it to the top. Shu Hattori is a Japanese-British national with extensive experience in management consulting, start-ups, online social commerce, and news media.While at McKinsey & Company, he served in advanced industries, high-tech, and media in Asia, North America, and Europe for more than five years. Now, he runs a leadership development start-up. Shu earned an MBA from National Taiwan University with a full government sponsored scholarship and a bachelor’s degree in commerce with distinction from McGill University in Canada."

Shu Hattori (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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The Network Always Wins: How to Influence Customers, Stay Relevant, and Transform Your Organization to Move Faster than the Market

"The Definitive Business Guide to Surviving and Innovating in the Digital Age The world is changing faster than ever. With the rise of new digital markets and the consequent network-ization of our environment, the phrase “The customer is always right” takes on a whole new meaning. This powerful guide from serial entrepreneur and radical innovation consultant Peter Hinssen shows you how to keep your company up to speed with your market, engage with customers at a time when loyalty keeps fading into the background, and transform your organization into a network in order to thrive in this era of digital disruption. The Network Always Wins provides step-by-step strategies to help you: - Reinvent your company-even after the market has flipped - Tap into the force of the network-and survive in a market characterized by speed, uncertainty, and complexity - Maintain relevance-and stay on top of emerging trends - Connect with your customers-and encourage them to interact This business guide is as illuminating as it is pleasant and fun to read. It provides everything you need to adapt your organization for this exciting new age of networks and digital disruption. You’ll learn how to evolve faster, connect deeper, and make better decisions than ever before. You’ll find proven methods to speed up your reaction time, beat the clock of your competitors, and anticipate consumer trends before they even happen. In today’s fast-moving marketplace, networks are power. This book shows you how to harness that power. For your company. For your customers. For your continued success in the digital age."

Peter Hinssen (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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How to Retire Happy, Fourth Edition: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire

"The Washington Post and New York Times Business Bestseller “Everyone in the workforce today should read this book!” -HORACE B. DEETS, FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AARP “Want excellent insights on retirement planning from a professional who’s actually experienced retirement himself? You’ll get just that from Stan Hinden’s book.” -STEVE VERNON, COLUMNIST “Provides the most important information you’ll need before and during your retirement.” -MICHELLE SINGLETARY, THE WASHINGTON POST Award-winning Washington Post retirement columnist Stan Hinden’s bestselling How to Retire Happy, Fourth Edition, helps you make the right decisions to ensure a happy, healthful retirement. It delivers all the expert advice you need in an easy-to-understand step-by-step style. How to Retire Happy includes everything that has made previous editions the go-to guides for retirees and near-retirees, plus: - Brand-new material on health insurance and the prescription drug plan - The facts about Medicare Part A (hospital), Part B (tests, doctors, preventive care), and Part D (prescription drugs) - The author’s personal experiences with the realities of long-term Alzheimer’s care - Fully updated material on Social Security strategies - How to handle the financial realities of the post-meltdown economy - New resources you can turn to for extra advice"

Stan Hinden (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

"Take your professional game to the next level-in 100 seconds o r less! People with inborn talent may be good at what they do-but only the mentally tough reach the highest plateaus in their field. And here’s the best news of all: mental toughness is something anyone can learn. Director of mental training for the St. Louis Cardinals and a top-tier executive coach, Dr. Jason Selk knows everything there is to know about developing the mental toughness required for achieving any goal you set for yourself. In fact, the techniques he outlines in this book are the same ones he used to help the Cardinals defeat the heavily favored Detroit Tigers in the 2006 World Series. Inspired on the vision of legendary basketball coach John Wooden, Selk’s program is as simple as it is effective. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. You have to put effort into your drive to success; it’s the only way to build up your mental “muscles.” Selk provides hands-on daily exercises for breaking old, self-defeating patterns of behavior and replacing them with the can-do attitude and positive behavior that would make Coach Wooden proud. Executive Toughness outlines the three fundamentals for attaining high-level success: ACCOUNTABILITY-admit to mistakes, correct them, and, most important, learn from them FOCUS-on your strengths, on winning, on reaching your goal . . . for only 100 seconds per day OPTIMISM-don’t just believe you can succeed, know you can succeed Executive Toughness takes you through the steps of making these critical behaviors part of your everyday routine. Practice your accountability, focus, and optimism, and you’ll be on the path to attaining your goals; make them part of your mental “DNA,” and there will be no turning back-ever. A complete regimen from a leading expert on developing the mindset for attaining goals, Executive Toughness is your workout for ultimate success in your career and in your life."

Jason Selk (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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Invasion

"Colt McAlister was having the summer of his life. He spent his days surfing and his nights playing guitar on the beach with friends. He even met a girl and got his first car. But everything changes when his parents are killed in a freak accident. He’s forced to leave his old life behind and move to Arizona with his grandfather. The only person he knows at the new high school is a childhood friend named Dani. And Oz, a guy he’s sure he’s never met but who is strangely familiar. But what if his parents’ death wasn’t an accident? His mother, an investigative reporter, was going to expose a secret mind-control program run by one of the world’s largest companies. Before she could release the story, what if agents from Trident Biotech made sure she couldn’t go public? Vowing to uncover the truth, Colt gets drawn into a secret world of aliens, shapeshifters, flying motorcycles, and invisible gateways. The invasion has begun."

Jon S. Lewis (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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Organizing for Success, Second Edition

"The 'productivity guru' updates his renowned organizing and time-management program to help workers and managers stay on top of their game in an increasingly changing work environment. About the Book Organizing for Success, Second Edition provides simple, remarkably effective time management technique to help reders get two extra productive hours out of every day. The book uses “The Master List” concept to show readers how to budget their time and energy by the day, week, and month. Readers will learn how to quickly prioritize their goals, complete tasks on time and under budget, and even helps readers plan for the interruptions, urgent emails, and unexpected meetings that will inevitably attack their day. This new edition places heavier emphasis on technology, including advice on how to write, manage and file email more effectively; how to use Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office to streamline the day; and how to use devices like Blackberries and social media as assets and time-savers, rather than as distractions and time sinks. Key Selling Features - Zeigler has been recognized as a leader in the time-management field since 1996; his books have sold over 15,000 copies to date. - He speaks at least three times per week to as many as 1,000 people - Companion website will include customizable, downloadable “Master Lists” that readers can print out or export into their pdas, iphones, and work computers - Zeigler's website gets about 1,000 hits a day; he spends approximately $50,000 per year on Google AdWords and clickthrough advertising - In the last year alone, he has appeared on the Neil Cavuto Show, in the Chicago Tribune, and on MoneyMatters Market / Audience Business professionals and managers, readers of Getting Things Done About the Author Kenneth Zeigler (Charlotte, NC) has been recognized as an expert on the subject since developing a time management system for Hertz in 1997. He has been on the cover of Investor's Business Daily and has published numerous articles for such newspapers as The Washington Post, the NY Post, and the Charlotte Observer. Over the years he has advised such clients as Hertz, Toys 'R' Us, The Federal Reserve, The Comptroller of the Currency, Hormel, and Fidelity Investments."

Kenneth Zeigler (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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20 Minutes to a Top Performer: Three Fast and Effective Conversations to Motivate, Develop, and Engage Your Employees

"Transform Average Employees into Powerhouse Performers “I cannot think of a more important message and timely book. 20 Minutes to a Top Performer offers quick, simple techniques for managers to improve their effectiveness in communicating with their teams.” Steven Fine, vice president for administration, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida “Alan has provided some of the best thinking on the issue of leadership conversations. His book offers easy-to-implement suggestions for everything your team needs to know about effective conversations!” Al Miller, VP HR, Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training and Support, Lockheed Martin “This book is essential for leaders in today’s fast-paced and do-more-with-less environment.” Dan Russi, VP, Customer Services, Ariba, Inc. “Alan gives a how-to guide for managers of all experience levels. In twenty minutes and three conversations, he’s captured the essence of managing and leading.” Ron Sacchi, director, Organizational Learning and Development, Gilead “It is great news for the business and professional community to see a book emerge with practical tips for having intelligent interactions in traditionally sensitive areas of communication. Many books promise easily used guidelines for a successful result-this one delivers!” Pat Cramer, learning director, Honeywell Aerospace About the Book The key to long-term organizational success is the ability to move employees to action. Easier said than done, right? Not really. All it takes is three simple 20-minute conversations. Alan Vengel has spent 25 years helping Fortune 500 companies empower their employees to perform at peak efficiency, generating measurable results organization-wide. Now, in 20 Minutes to a Top Performer, Vengel shares the secret to his and his clients’ success: good old-fashioned communication. Inside, he explains how to engage your employees through specific, focused conversations, of which there are exactly three: Coaching: Focusing on performance and feedback Motivating: Focusing on engagement and interests Mentoring: Focusing on support and development Vengel dissects these types of conversations to illuminate how, why, and when to initiate each one. The conversations are not meant to be technical. They won’t be uncomfortable or combative. They will simply be . . . conversations. And you’ll be surprised at how quickly you see results. Your people will become better team players, take greater enjoyment in their work, tackle problems with verve, and, in the end, contribute valuable talent to your organization for the long term. Managers are facing unprecedented demands to do more with less-a trend that is clearly not going to reverse in the foreseeable future. You don’t need a Harvard Business School degree or expensive new technology to empower your workforce. All you need is the drive to make change happen. 20 Minutes to a Top Performer is a blueprint to helping your people succeed. And when they succeed, you and the entire organization succeed."

Alan Vengel (Author), John Haag (Narrator)

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