Using storytelling, well-researched reporting, and analysis, Pulitzer Prize-winning financial and business writer Anders attempts to explain how to recognize exceptional talent. Robert Fass’s straightforward, somewhat nasal reading is matter-of-fact and businesslike. The content, as well as the narration, is quite bland—the entire experience is akin to a business textbook. Fass does little to distinguish tone or pace within any of the three major themes: Don’t ignore the person whose background teeters between success and failure, look for the obscure talented individual with skills “that whisper,” be cautious with brash talent that shouts at you. Some interesting business examples do not sufficiently compensate for an overall mediocre experience.
Pub Date: Oct. 18, 2011
Duration: 8 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9781101564516
Publisher: Penguin 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
The audiobook illuminates the misdeeds of malevolent marketers, sleazy lawyers, and unethical doctors.
Cassandra Campbell’s narration is a model of a nonfiction performance. Her reading of exposition is careful and convincing. She knows where to pause and how to move the action forward. Law professor Burch’s investigative report of the con men, grifters, and profiteers who took advantage of women who were harmed by vaginal mesh implant removal is deeply researched. The revelations of how these “professionals” colluded to scam these vulnerable women who experienced incontinence, pain, and emotional distress after their procedures is horrific. The patients whose mesh implants were removed often had no medical workups prior to surgeries and were charged egregious hidden fees. The text also exposes the legal system’s glacial pace.
The audiobook illuminates the misdeeds of malevolent marketers, sleazy lawyers, and unethical doctors.Pub Date: Jan. 13, 2026
Duration: 13 hrs
DD ISBN: 9781668115107
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: Feb. 17, 2026
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