Audiobooks narrated by Mitch Crawford

Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 3rd Edition

"This third edition of Collaboration: What Makes It Work is an example of the enduring importance of collaboration. Reaction to the first edition, published in 1992, showed that researchers and practitioners alike found it a useful tool. They appreciated its emphasis on providing a practical reference for decision-making that built upon credible, research-based information. The twenty-first century has brought with it rapid changes and increasingly complex challenges. This third edition in large part responds to the complexity witnessed daily in the authors' work with community, nonprofit, and government organizations. It offers new research and insights paired with practitioner wisdom, adding a 'how-to' perspective to help listeners put the success factors to work. Nearly twenty-five years after the first edition was published, it is not just the 'how' of collaboration that has changed—who we are collaborating with has changed as well. Today, nearly every collaboration involves some degree of working across difference. Bringing together diverse people, organizations, or sectors in a way that will foster collaborative success requires a unique set of skills. This third edition will ground you in the factors that support successful collaboration and assist you in incorporating those factors into your work."

Kirsten M. Johnson, Paul W. Mattessich PhD (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper

"Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. In Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in 'a high impact debris zone,' but his resolve is unshaken. 'If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega, a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be.'"

John Kretschmer (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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The Magic of Imperfection: The ¾ Baked Secret to Unlocking Innovation and Getting More Done

"The world is full of creative people. So why do some get their ideas out in the world while others don't? Why are some incredibly prolific while others struggle with deadlines or can't complete projects? In this book, Jason F. McLennan—a master in 'getting stuff done'—shares secrets to boosting productivity, innovation, and personal success. McLennan's recipe for creative success includes the following ideas: - Look forward to failure - Discover the power of feedback - Learn to become a 'trim tab' - Harness the power of momentum to drive creativity We've all heard the phrase 'the perfect is the enemy of the good.' Perfection is often what holds so many people back. Trying to reach it means that nothing much can get completed, and inspiration itself is often blocked as people either procrastinate or endlessly self-edit. By chasing perfection, it remains elusively further away. The world is full of half-baked ideas—but almost no perfect ones. With The Magic of Imperfection, listeners will learn how to seriously amp up what they do, how fast they do it, and simultaneously how well it gets done."

Jason F. McLennan (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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My Brother's Keeper: The Untold Stories Behind the Business of Mental Health―and How to Stop the Aba

"A leading psychiatrist seeks to transform our understanding of mental health care and how it fits into larger social and economic forces—and proposes an effective and compassionate new framework for healing. Mental health care in America has become atrocious. Developments in treatment methods and medication are inaccessible to those who need them most. People seeking treatment are routinely funneled into homelessness and prison while a mental health epidemic ravages younger generations. It seems obvious that the system is broken, but it's functioning as intended by providing enormous profits for the corporate entities managing mental healthcare. Most of us are more comfortable ducking our fears about mental health and placing our faith in the rugged American and the free market, rather than facing our prejudices and misguided beliefs. Why did we build such a disastrous system when every other industrialized nation have far better models? After decades of work in psychiatry, Dr. Nicholas Rosenlicht reveals how and why we arrived at this abysmal reality—and how we can find our way out of it. Dr. Rosenlicht explains the disastrous outcomes of the for-profit mental health care model. Patients are “clients” and doctors are “providers,” stripping away the humanity and emboldening shifty ethical and legal practices. Perhaps most insidious, the business model paints the mentally ill as people who don’t want help, rather than someone who can’t afford care or even realize they need help because of their illness. Mental illness will touch all of us in some way, if not directly through those we know and love. Those who have already helped care for a loved one know that those who suffer from it have hopes, desires, and aspirations. A healthy solution means a healthier society. In the tradition of Andrew Solomon or Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, My Brother's Keeper is a paradigm-shifting book that can help us find our way to real and lasting solutions."

Nicholas Rosenlicht M.D. (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That 'Win-Win' Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice

"The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That 'Win-Win' Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Ken Wilcox's firsthand challenges he encountered in four years 'on the ground' trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the Chinese government to fund local innovation design—and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) efforts to systematically sabotage the project and steal SVB's business model. This book provides actionable advice drawn from meticulous notes Wilcox took from interviews with people from all walks of Chinese life, including Party and non-Party members, the business elite, and domestic workers. Describing a China he found fascinating and maddeningly complex, this book explores topics including difficulties in transplanting SVB's model to China, from misunderstandings about titles and responsibilities to pitched battles over toilet design; ethics and practices widely adopted by Chinese businesses today and why China must be met with realistic expectations; and Wilcox's own honest missteps and the painfully learned lessons that came afterwards. Engrossing, enlightening, and entertaining, The China Business Conundrum is an essential cautionary tale and guidebook for all Western bankers, C-suite executives, consultants, and entrepreneurs seeking to do business within China."

Ken Wilcox (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex, Scandal, and California's First Cult Scare

"The true story of the first California cult scandal In 1891, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove, a utopian spiritualist community in northern California. Chevaillier accused the colony's leader, the poet and prophet Thomas Lake Harris, of perverting the teachings of the Bible to promote a “new sexology” that was “worse than Mormonism.” She insisted that Harris used magical powers of hypnosis to take sexual and financial advantage of his followers, turning them into a “spiritual harem” that practiced “free love” and other gross immoralities. Media reports emphasized the presence of Japanese immigrant men at Fountaingrove, raising racialized specters of miscegenation and moral contamination. The international scandal, full of the sorts of salacious details prized by newspaper editors at the dawn of the era of yellow journalism, would last more than a decade, establishing Harris as the prototype for a new type of public menace: the “California cult leader.” Unholy Sensations takes a close-up look at the Fountaingrove scandal to examine religion, gender, sexuality, and race in the Gilded Age from a fresh perspective. By chronicling the life stories of the people swept up in the scandal, Unholy Sensations reveals connections and tensions between a wide variety of nineteenth-century religious and social groups, including suffragists and spiritualists, Christian Scientists and Theosophists, journalists and politicians, and Protestant ministers and urban reformers. Together, these disparate groups helped spark California's first cult scare, demonizing Harris as the first—but far from the last—dangerous California cult leader. By showing that the term “cult” has always been a marker of race, sexuality, and religion, Unholy Sensations reveals the limits of American freedom and the centrality of religion to the policing of whiteness, family, and nation."

Joshua Paddison (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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The Civility Book: A Guide to Building Bridges Across the Political Divide

"Once pitted as adversarial counterparts as the opinion editors of Detroit's right- and left-leaning newspapers, veteran journalists Nolan Finley and Stephen Henderson join forces in this groundbreaking work to champion a novel approach to political discourse. Finley, a resolute conservative, and Henderson, a committed progressive, defy expectations by demonstrating that civil conversation is not only possible but also richly rewarding, even across colossal ideological divides. In 2020, they launched the Civility Project with journalist and author Lynne Golodner, beginning their journey to teach Americans how to engage in respectful dialogue and maintain relationships despite political differences. The Civility Book is an extension of that mission, offering practical tools and strategies for fostering civility in everyday interactions. At the core of this work, the authors position their four pillars of civility to explain what civility is, why it matters, and how individuals can use it to overcome the antagonistic rhetoric that threatens our society today, one conversation at a time. This conversational, no-nonsense guide provides valuable lessons, a detailed curriculum, probing questions for consideration, and an extensive appendix of resources outlining ongoing efforts to curb unproductive contention and advance a more harmonious society."

Nolan Finley, Stephen Henderson (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower

"The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown jewel of his professional career; In essence, he created a skyscraper on stilts. The building was a modern marvel—until it was revealed that it had a one in sixteen chance of collapse. The Great Miscalculation tells the riveting story of LeMessurier's discovery of a fatal flaw in his building's design and his decision to blow the whistle on himself, putting his reputation on the line in a race to save this iconic skyscraper. With hurricane season rapidly approaching, the structural design flaws of the Citicorp Tower posed a menacing danger. Meanwhile, the economic hardships and political turmoil of 1970s New York only compounded the obstacles to a massively expensive, never-before-seen structural redesign in the heart of downtown Manhattan. A fascinating piece of overlooked New York City history, The Great Miscalculation tells the gripping narrative of a catastrophe averted in the nick of time."

Michael M. Greenburg (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Another Way: Building Companies That Last…and Last…and Last

"Dave Whorton was John Doerr's associate partner at high-flying Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers during Silicon Valley's big shift. After Netscape's IPO, he witnessed the VC industry pivot from a proven forty-year playbook of managing risk to something much more aggressive: Get big fast. Don't worry about profitability. Cash out and find another venture. And for a while, Whorton took part in this whirlwind as he pursued his dream of becoming the next Hewlett or Packard. It wasn't long, though, before it all got to be too much. Whorton recognized that if 'get big fast' was the formula for building a great technology company in the twenty-first century, he was happy to let someone else do it. It just wasn't for him. Whorton went on a journey to find a better way to build companies: a way focused on long-term stability and steady growth, funded through profitability; a way in which leaders were committed to a Purpose greater than personal wealth generation, to being People First, and making their companies endure. He calls these companies 'Evergreen.' Whorton's story, combined with his Evergreen 7Ps® framework, offers practical steps to create and lead enduring businesses."

Dave Whorton (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Getting Back to the Table: 5 Steps to Reviving Stalled Negotiations

"The cofounder of Harvard's Global Negotiation Initiative and a renowned global guru in negotiations, presents a dynamic strategy for overcoming stalled or failed negotiations that empowers individuals to return to the table with increased strength and resilience, carefully learning from the challenges they encountered. When negotiations fail it can be hard to start over. Some people give up, others forget and move on, but the truly successful negotiator learns. Celebrated negotiation thought-leader and advisor to the UN Mediation Unit, Joshua N. Weiss, introduces an evidence-based model for when negotiations stall or fail. Getting Back to the Table explores the reality of failure in negotiation. It lays out the types of failure that can happen, how to cope with it when it does, and how we can be resilient in the face of it. Using Weiss's easy-to-use framework, listeners can successfully get back to the negotiation table. Failing in negotiations is inevitable, but learning and growing from failure is not."

Joshua N. Weiss (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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HBR Daily Leader: Everyday Wisdom for Exceptional Leadership

"Learn, grow, and be inspired—every day. HBR Daily Leader provides 365 days' worth of insights and inspiration, an easy and enjoyable way to make your professional development a regular habit. Throughout the book, you'll find insights to spark your thinking, quotes to inspire you, and questions to reflect on. And each day presents you with an opportunity to take on topics such as communicating effectively, managing your time, expanding your influence, and cultivating new skills. Elevate your leadership practice and presence with wisdom drawn from the best of Harvard Business Review."

Harvard Business Review (Author), Mitch Crawford, Rachel Perry (Narrator)

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There's No Such Thing as Crypto Crime: An Investigative Handbook

"In There's No Such Thing as Crypto Crime, accomplished cybersecurity and forensics consultant Nick Furneaux delivers an expert discussion of the key methods used by cryptocurrency investigators, including investigations on Bitcoin and Ethereum type blockchains. The book explores the criminal opportunities available to malicious actors in the crypto universe, as well as the investigative principles common to this realm. The author explains in detail a variety of essential topics, including how cryptocurrency is used in crime, exploiting wallets, and investigative methodologies for the primary chains, as well as digging into important areas such as tracing through contracts, coin-swaps, layer 2 chains, and bridges. He also provides engaging and informative presentations of strategies used by investigators around the world to seize the fruits of crypto-related crime; how non-fungible tokens, new alt-currency tokens, and decentralized finance factor into cryptocurrency crime; and the application of common investigative principles—like discovery—to the world of cryptocurrency. An essential and effective playbook for combating crypto-related financial crime, There's No Such Thing as Crypto Crime will earn a place in the libraries of financial investigators, fraud and forensics professionals, and cybercrime specialists."

Nick Furneaux (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Mitch Crawford