Audiobooks narrated by Scott Pollak

From Panic to Profit: Uncover Value, Boost Revenue, and Grow Your Business with the 80/20 Principle

"Structured corporate strategy to launch ambitious and consistent growth in just 100 days Armed with the hands-on guidance in From Panic to Profit: Uncover Value, Boost Revenue, and Grow Your Business with the 80/20 Principle, companies of any size and in any industry can pivot from panic to profit in a 100-day turnaround using just four steps: set the goal, develop the strategy, build the structure, and launch the action plan. To set the stage for the four steps, this book first empowers leaders to replace their fear, uncertainty, and doubt with confidence from segment-by-segment insights into their business, its customers, its products, and its markets. Written by Bill Canady, seasoned CEO with more than 30 years of experience as a global business executive, this book explores key concepts including: - Unlocking the power of the 80/20 principle to boost company revenue, reduce costs, and accelerate profits - Creating a business plan designed for continuous monitoring and improvement over a three- to five-year growth program - Growing both organically and through strategic acquisition, developing the talent, expertise, and innovation needed to win in today's increasingly dynamic markets - From Panic to Profit: Increase Revenue, Uncover Value, Boost Revenue, and Grow Your Business with the 80/20 Principle lays out an essential blueprint for all entrepreneurs, executives, managers, and business leaders seeking the confidence and tools they need to help their organizations reach great heights. - This audiobook is expertly read by Scott Pollak, with audio engineering by Allie McSwain. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont."

Bill Canady (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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Living Your Best Life: A Guide to Parkinson's Disease

"You may be reading this book because you or someone in your life recently received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Perhaps it was not so recently, but you are now reflecting more on what the diagnosis means for you. Everyone’s PD story is different. Many people with PD vividly remember the moment they were diagnosed and view it as the beginning of a journey; a new life path. Often, they think back a few years and recognize subtle symptoms they missed at the time."

Parkinsons Foundation (Author), Lisa Negron, Marisha Tapera, Rashida A. Marshall, Roy Worley, Scott Pollak, William Wells (Narrator)

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Cognition: A Mind Guide to Parkinson's Disease

"There are many aspects of cognition: thinking, understanding, learning, remembering, problem solving, language and more. This guide explains what affects your thinking (e.g., age, sleep problems, medications) and what cognitive changes can happen in Parkinson’s disease. It includes coping tips for both people with Parkinson’s and care partners and stories that show strategies others use to manage their thinking changes."

Parkinsons Foundation (Author), Lisa Negron, Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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Managing PD Mid-Stride: A Treatment Guide to Parkinson's' Disease

"If managing your Parkinson’s has become more challenging than it used to be, the book Managing Parkinson’s Mid-Stride: A Treatment Guide to Parkinson’s is for you. This audiobook explains why symptoms may get better and worse throughout the day and how to treat and cope with them. Find answers and read tips and stories that can help."

Parkinsons Foundation (Author), Justin Sewall, Lisa Negron, Marisha Tapera, Rashida Marshall, Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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The Decency Code: The Leader's Path to Building Integrity and Trust

"The essential guide to creating an honest, ethical workplace culture in any industry In The Manager’s Book of Decencies, Stephen Harrison showed how even the smallest gestures can produce big results and change the culture of an entire workforce. Now the author of that prescient bestseller has teamed up with Jim Lukaszewski, America’s Crisis Guru® to write the definitive guide to transforming or restoring your workplace into a showplace of honest, ethical behavior. Accountability, civility, compassion, empathy, honesty, humility, and principle: these are the seven characteristics embodied by every truly decent leader. The best organizations develop and maintain a civil culture, valuing ethical behavior, honesty, and integrity as much, or even more, than profitability. The Decency Code provides you with practical pathways to creating or restoring that type of culture. These strategies address the evolving workplace: flexible, fast-moving, delayered, virtual, unstable, out-of-balance, ambiguous, global, diverse, and ruthlessly competitive. Here are actionable tools and strategies to help you build your workplace on a new standard of honest, ethical behavior, along with informative case studies that examine the behavior of both ethical and unethical companies. Today’s climate of corporate cultural disorder needs a new type of leader, men and women who replace confusion with order, opaqueness with clarity, complexity with simplicity, hopelessness with confidence, greed with selflessness, and suspicion with trust. The common-sense prescriptions offered in The Decency Code can help you become the type of leader you wish to be-and effect the change you wish to see. This book is required reading for ethically conscious managers everywhere."

James E. Lukaszewski, Steve Harrison (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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Healing Your Inner Child with Affirmations

"Many psychologists believe that every adult has a child hidden inside him or her, an “inner child,” if you will, that lingers long after we grow up. We may carry debilitating and false beliefs with us from childhood—that there’s something wrong with us, that we aren’t good enough, that we’re doing everything all wrong. These subconscious beliefs cause us to feel unfulfilled, to self-sabotage, to shy away from commitment and intimacy, to be overly critical of ourselves and others. Working with an experienced counselor or therapist is an important way to finally make ourselves whole and begin to heal the pain still suffered by our inner child, but another critical step we can take is to practice affirmations. An affirmation is an affirmative statement that is carefully structured to address a negative pattern or thought and inject it was positivity. The affirmations in this guide are designed to program our minds into believing the stated positive concept, and replacing the bad, hurtful, destructive statements with good, nurturing, and healing statements"

Meredith Lane (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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The New Extraordinary Leader, 3rd Edition: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders

"The landmark guide that built a generation of extraordinary leaders-fully updated and revised The definitive guide to 21st Century business leadership, The New Extraordinary Leader shook the foundations of leadership as we knew it when it was published in 2002. Since then, we have seen tectonic shifts in the world of business-and this revised and updated edition provides the data and insights you need to address them all. Jack Zenger and Jim Folkman’s proprietary 360 feedback assessment of leaders in the real world-how they lead, what works, and what doesn’t-provides the data that makes The Extraordinary Leader unique in a crowded field of such books. In this new edition, the authors deliver proven lessons based on feedback from 120,000 leaders from all corners of the globe. Inside, you’ll find: * New chapters on leadership competencies, cross training, and self-development * New methods for getting inspired and empowered by demystifying leadership * New evidence on many ways leaders can singlehandedly boost innovation, employee engagement, profitability, and more * New research on the importance of developing strong leadership teams If you’re looking to dramatically step up your leadership game, if you’re looking for hard evidence of how to do it the right way, and if you’re looking to drive measurable positive change in your organization-you need look no further. The New Extraordinary Leader, Third Edition delivers the information and insight you need to lead effectively in today’s volatile, global economy."

John H. Zenger, Joseph Folkman (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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The Rule: How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Life—and How You Can Too

"The empowering story of Larry Hite’s unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world-with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student-and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative hedge funds in the world. Hite’s wild success is based on his deep understanding that markets are flawed-just like people. Through his early-life struggles and failures, Hite came to know himself well-his fears, his frustrations, his self-doubt, and his tolerance for all of the above. This motivational book reveals that by accepting the facts of his life and of himself, he was able to accept markets as they are. And that was the key to his success. In these pages, you’ll walk of the footsteps of an investing legend, who imparts smart, practical trading lessons throughout the journey. Making a successful living in trading isn’t about beating the markets. It’s about meeting markets where they are, embracing the fact of risk, knowing yourself, and playing it strictly by the numbers. The Rule shows that investing decisions are not only bets or gambles, but investments in time, energy, and attention. By focusing on realistic returns on your investments-versus what you expect or hope to get-you immediately improve your probability for success."

Larry Hite (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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The Power of Mandate: How Visionary Leaders Keep Their Organization Focused on What Matters Most

"The book that reveals how today’s most successful leaders turn vision into reality-featuring profiles of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Reed Hastings, Mike Lawrie, and more. Consensus. Negotiation. Compromise. A democratic approach to leadership drives most organizations today. Consensus based decision making may be popular, but it is far from the best approach in business. It’s also rarely the right approach for C-level executives-especially now that digital technology is driving real business disruption. Simply put, consensus is an innovation killer. The most successful, disruptive companies are propelled forward by mandate driven leaders. These leaders are inspired by a compelling belief, idea, strategy or tactic. Through their willpower, organizations are thrust into the future. The mandate driven leadership model is the hallmark of visionaries who have changed entire industries and sustained consistent innovation in their own companies. The Power of Mandate reveals what it takes to be an effective leader in today’s disruptive business environment. You’ll learn how the most audacious visionaries managed turn their visions into reality. This timely book will help you: * Discover your inner visionary* Avoid the pitfalls of consensus leadership* Create a mandate driven culture* Develop leadership skills in others, and more Profiles of the most successful mandate driven leaders-including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Steve Jobs, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, DXC Technology’s Mike Lawrie, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates-provide invaluable leadership lessons you can begin applying today."

Scott Stawski (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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High Impact Teams: Where Healthy Meets High Performance

"No matter how big an organization, we all do ministry with a team, whether paid or volunteer. Anyone who has been part of a great team knows it's something special. When there is good chemistry, everyone is operating from their sweet spot, the objectives are clear, and kingdom progress is being made, it is incredibly fulfilling and fun. On the flip side, we're painfully aware what happens when there is dysfunction in the team--stress, tension, politics, and posturing. It's not much fun for anyone, and we end up squandering our divine assignment. Lance Witt, founder of Replenish ministries and a former executive and teaching pastor at Saddleback Church, knows what it takes to keep teams functioning at the highest level of impact. He shows leaders how to build next-level teams that are spiritually, emotionally, and relationally healthy and productive and high-performing. Short, to-the-point chapters make the book easy to digest and the perfect resource for your team to read through together."

Lance Witt (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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Walk On: From Pee Wee Dropout to the NFL Sidelines-My Unlikely Story of Football, Purpose, and Following an Amazing God

"In this true, compelling account of perseverance and hope from Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll's assistant, a young journalist walks on to a top-ranked USC football team and, guided by his faith, shares God's love, launching him on an unexpected journey with an amazing outcome. Had anyone told Ben Malcolmson that he'd someday be a wide receiver on the national champion USC football team--after not playing football since an unfortunate fifth-grade Pop Warner experience--he would have called them crazy. As a reporter for The Daily Trojan, in the spirit of George Plimpton, he participated in walk-on tryouts for the team and was dumbfounded to find himself listed on the roster. His position on the team never amounted to much in a game-time contribution, but Ben felt strongly that his faith was inextricably linked to his purpose. He felt called to anonymously place Bibles in each USC teammate locker on Christmas Eve--to resounding indifference and rejection from his friends. It wasn't until three years later, when his role at USC had led to a role with Coach Pete Carroll at the Seahawks organization, that an old friend connected with Ben and told him that one of the Bibles had captivated the heart of a teammate in the three days before his death. With a humble spirit dedicated to consistent acts of discipleship, Ben Malcolmson is an authentic voice for the power of simple obedience and trust, for what can happen when a believer allows God to work in a life. Walk On is the result of God using his faithful people to work in the lives of others."

Ben Malcolmson (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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Value-Added Selling, Fourth Edition: How to Sell More Profitably, Confidently, and Professionally by Competing on Value—Not Price

"The global, go-to guide that started the Value Selling Revolution-now updated for today’s market “Value” is about more than just price. Good salespeople understand that and know what differentiates their products from that of competitors. In the first edition of Value-Added Selling, industry guru Tom Reilly tackled the most common problem that salespeople faced: overcoming customer concerns about pricing. That book went on to become the global, go-to guide for value-added selling. Since then, the industry–and the world-has changed dramatically. Developments in technology, including price comparison apps and search engines, now provide consumers with more information than ever, making it much harder to value and sell your product. Additionally, millennials, who now comprise the largest population in the workforce, prefer to do things differently than prior generations. This updated fourth edition of Reilly’s classic guide examines the latest trends and technology that have impacted the market and provides expert advice on leveraging current technology to increase sales. Value-Added Selling, 4th Edition offers proven strategies and tactics to help you not only close more sales but improve repeat business without compromising on price. You’ll learn how to anticipate the needs, wants, and concerns of buyers from the very beginning of the sales process. The book shows how to compete more profitably by selling value, not price."

Paul Reilly, Tom Reilly (Author), Scott Pollak (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Scott Pollak

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