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This audiobook is about what we call "Radical Companies", owned and managed by the people who embody them and give them life. It is for people who want to make an impact on the world, not just to make money. The world's economies that have evolved have worked relatively well for many of us, but have worked best for the powerful. Without question, things have gotten financially and materially better since the 18th century, but the playing field still tilts to the powerful and deep disparities continue today.

This audiobook has been designed to give you insight that could lead to a happier, more fulfilled life. We all experience these rough seasons and moments of unhappiness. You are not alone. The idea is to not get stuck in the same patterns and to push yourself forward towards change. Happiness is a self-taught emotion which starts with recognizing that you need to change your actions to get different, happier results.

Great leaders are always searching for new ideas and approaches to their work because they know they must continue to evolve in order to succeed in an ever-changing world. And, just like a gardener who knows not to blame their lettuce for failing to thrive, great leaders know that it’s the conditions of their workplace that affect how their people perform and grow. This book explores a variety of leadership topics that will help you meet challenges, respond to opportunities, and nurture a healthy workplace culture in new and innovative ways.

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Every organization today faces an ever-changing set of threats in this digital landscape. Understanding how to develop a functional information security program to protect your organization’s reputation and brand from being tarnished due to a breach of your company’s sensitive information is more critical than ever. Developing a functional program that sets up the best information security practices across the organization’s operational workflows, is the leading practice for protecting against a possible breach.

Anyone who listens to this audiobook will benefit as they take steps toward achieving goals they never dreamed possible. With this wisdom, listeners can plant the seeds of action deep inside themselves. They can then learn how to cultivate internal success from these lessons, which will penetrate to the surface and reflect in all areas of their life.

The internal conflict of a rape survivor starts the yearning and calling for vigilante justice. Leading a normal life, but tormented internally - does Helen answer this call? Helen is spitfire who may or may not be happily married, and she is your local women's rights defender. She yearns for a world free of rape and violence, but what will it take? She is tired of seeing women left for dead - of the rape kits that only overload the system, causing these cases to rarely be solved. But how much does she want to change the world around her, and how much is she able to ?

Left behind by her mother’s murder, given away by her father, and betrayed by the ones who raised her. Revenge is the only thing on her mind. Lucky for her, she has the powers of a Dark Zal, the skills of a Klexon, and the mind of a human. Having the ability of using all three against the ones who cross her path makes her unstoppable. However, the greed for power by many others is rising.

Social anxiety disorder and shyness are devastating to the person who suffers from them. Everyday activities that most people take for granted, like small talk, going to social events, making friends, and even paying for groceries at the store, become the most frightening things imaginable. Understanding what triggers we have and how to combat them can gradually open up a world that, before now, seemed to be only a dream.

Eileen Garvin’s older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn’t easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. How to Be a Sister begins when Eileen, after several years in New Mexico, has just moved back to the Pacific Northwest, where she grew up. Being 1,600 miles away allowed Eileen to avoid the question that has dogged her since birth: What is she going to do about Margaret?

Dani had her entire life planned out by the time she was 13. Then tragedy struck and Dani had to bury those childhood dreams in a pine box, along with the love of her young life. The memory of what she lost haunted her until she disappeared into the night, leaving behind everyone and everything she’d ever known. Years later, she returns home to find everything has changed. When she meets Kyler, there is something about him that gets past the walls around her heart. Will she let fear control her, or will she let go of the past and learn to love again?

Nineteen-year-old Lily is frustrated and heartbroken. Her dad had disappeared when she was 12, leaving Lily without a father, without answers, and feeling abandoned. Lily takes out her anger on her mom, whom she sees as the enemy. Soon after, Lily’s friends head off to college, leaving Lily to grapple with her uncertain future in the small town of Ogden, Iowa. When Lily suffers a series of emotional losses, she is forced to make a decision.

Michael, who lives in the mountain city of Feldring in the Kingdom of Prikea, knows nothing about Drendil. He does know that for weeks he has experienced nightmares telling of death and destruction to come. Unfortunately, this death and destruction threatens the entire world and cannot be ignored any longer. After one such nightmare, a priest named Joshua from the Order of Ravens visits Michael and says the only way to stop the nightmares is to leave Feldring behind. Now, Michael finds himself riding a horse across Prikea with a stranger wanting to stop his nightmares.

This is the frightfully relatable but ever so raw memoir of a woman's struggle with early motherhood, all whilst battling the demons of mental illness in the midst of keeping her marriage together. The story tells of a mother's fight to keep her family afloat, her sex life alive, and her sanity intact, even though the person she once was is no longer to be found. It's a very honest book on motherhood that you will find hard to put down. Ride the emotional train along with the author as she tackles the daily grind of motherhood.

Twice a century, the world of Duranaya grows new surfaces from the top of its mountain, casting old ones into darkness and forcing a constant upward migration on its peoples. But there are those who live in the pitch-black Undersurface ... and they march to conquer the sunlit world, commandeering the magic that once contained them. In the midst of the invasion, Whissen, a monk afflicted with a mind divided by magic, crosses paths with Reph, a huntress with a criminal past. They have little in common, but they do share a predator.

When the new girl in town, Arden Roth, witnesses a classmate, Benji Jones, vanish in thin air at the claws of two terrifying fairies, she isn't quite certain what to do. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, she discovers Benji is the grandson of Peter Pan and has been taken to a place called Ever Island, or more commonly referred to as Neverland.

People are longing for the wholeness that can only come through Christ, yet we, the Christian church are not finding the ways to make the connection between the longing in their hearts and the truth of the gospel. What does it mean for them to encounter a Christianity that is more than a cliché? It is the 6 Radical Decisions at the heart of the Kingdom Cell, that time and again over the last 2,000 years have transformed cities and nations. It is the 6 Radical Decisions that provide a way forward for the church in the 21st Century.

A rogue AI in a miniskirt is walking around the lunar colony blackmailing and killing people, forcing Kate Devana, a retired Marine and Space Force Guardian, to come out of semi-retirement. She returns to find it’s become the new Wild West. The powers that be don’t like her much because the last time she was there, she blew the place up. But the colony isn’t big enough for all of them.

The world is changing and Issue 101 is here to ask the burning questions: How did we get here, where are we going, and how can science guide us to make the right choices? Bianca Nogrady charts the way data is helping Australia negotiate its relationship with fire. Clare Watson takes a hard look at Big Pharma and explores alternative drug development initiatives that put people over profit.

Telma is an opinionated little girl who doesn’t quite fit into the world around her. She becomes a physics professor, happily married to Uri, a bridge engineer, whose life seems secure as the bridges her husband builds. However, the little girl is not quiet; she reflects on the successful adult life from her unique point of view. Gadi, a genius from Berkeley, is attracted to Telma's distinctive view; he hopes he has found in Telma someone to lean on. An emotional-roller-coaster-like relationship develops between them.