Ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to read as much as you’d like?
Chances are, it’s one of the reasons you listen to a podcast like this one.
It’s not just about reading more in less time, mind you. It’s also about smartly leveraging what might otherwise be wasted down time.
Today’s episode focuses on some of my favorite apps for doing both.
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First of all, Happy Thanksgiving! I’m traveling to visit family this week, hence the lack of an interview episode.
I did, however, want to bring you into the loop on some very exciting developments. The next few weeks are shaping up to be some of the most exciting since the launch of the Read to Lead Podcast.
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Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives around the world.
She is the President of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, Dubai Bank, Nike, PayPal, Salesforce.com and Twitter.
Liz is the author of several books including The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools and Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, a Wall Street Journal bestseller and the book featured in episode 30 of the podcast when Liz made her first appearance here.
She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review and a variety of other business and leadership journals.
A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
Liz’s new book is Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.
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Jairek Robbins is a decorated performance coach and lifestyle entrepreneur who has applied his innovative methods to living a life of adventure, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship.
At the age of twenty-three, he was awarded the Congressional Award Gold Medal from the United States Congress. By twenty-five, he gained international renown as the creator of a revolutionary approach to maximizing personal performance that accelerated organizational success for a wide range of businesses.
His personal journey has included circumnavigating the globe on a ship, helping build schools and houses in multiple countries, cage diving with great white sharks, encountering silverback gorillas in Rwanda, and working as a volunteer in underdeveloped regions.
His new book is called Live It! Achieve Success by Living with Purpose.
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Today’s bonus episode features our third in a series of audio blinks; audio versions of written book summaries found inside the Blinkist app.
The key insights from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson are brought to you by Blinkist, a mobile learning company that transforms outstanding nonfiction books into 15-minute reads made for your mobile device.
If you’d like Blinkist to consider adding audio summaries to their existing app, please leave a comment below.
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Walter Isaacson is an American writer and biographer.
He was formerly the editor of TIME magazine as well as CEO and chairman of the CNN news network.
Isaacson has written best-selling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, and is also the author of American Sketches (2003).
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by Walter Isaacson