From more than 140 CEO interviews, the New York Times columnist distills insights and strategies to help growing organizations avoid becoming calcified, stodgy, complacent. Jeff Gurner's narration captures the urgency of the author's lesson without sounding alarmist or dramatic. With his pleasing voice and effortless businesslike phrasing, his performance is fitting for this outstanding writing. In the first half of the book, chapters focus on creating nimble cultures while later chapters deal with how to sustain such cultures once an organization matures. All chapters begin with a lucid theme or question that is elaborated on with deftly organized quotes from a selection of CEOs. The quotes are riveting, and, with the help of the narrator's pitch-perfect delivery, they create a stirring and highly useful audio.
Pub Date: Jan. 7, 2014
Duration: 8 hrs
DD ISBN: 9781427236241
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
The readers can't compensate for the unbearably pompous prose style of this extended parable about corporate politics and strategy.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
An engaging experience.
This audiobook deals with everything from the historic investments that led to world-dominating companies, such as the Chinese technology company Tencent, to predicting the products and services of the future. An audiobook of such complexity requires a narrator who can handle the task, and David Thorpe manages it admirably. Thorpe uses his masterly voice, which sits somewhere between that of a BBC World Service presenter and an easy, relaxed Home Counties accent, to guide listeners through a sea of numbers, acronyms, and terms such as YP, RPS, and market cap. Rather than simply reading, Thorpe presents the work with excitement and enthusiasm, and this enjoyment transfers to the listener.
An engaging experience.Pub Date: Feb. 20, 2026
Duration: 13 hrs
DD ISBN: 9781668103425
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: March 17, 2026
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