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Did you know that A trucker working to the legal limit in the U.S. can rack up to 3,432 driving hours a year—nearly 10 times that of the average New York commuter or enough to listen to the unabridged audio book version of Bill Clinton's My Life 77 times? (Publishing Trends, Market Partners International, September 2005).

Think of the way audio books could optimize your time management. Audio books can turn the day to a 26 hours day. Yes, audio books can add extra two hours each day. Still not convinced?

Did you know that The average rush hour driver will spend an additional 62 hours stuck in traffic—at standstill—each year and that More than 97 million workers drive alone to work each day.

Well, enough with that pile of useless data, Think about yourself – what have you been doing while driving - Listening to the radio? Making unnecessary calls with your mobile phone? Wasting valuable time?

Now close your eyes and imagine you could read the last edition of the New York Times, Read the last Harry Potter book or learn Chinese – all simultaneously while driving your car. Now open your eyes and stop dreaming, you can do it all now. The only difference is that you are going to use a new method of reading – listening to audio books.

And it is so easy: You may get audio books in different formats from books on tapes and audio books on CD to downloadable audio books. You can get it from different sources – libraries, book and music stores and online audio book sources. You could buy audio books, rent audio books and even get free audio books.

According to eBrain Market Research survey, 71% of the audio book listeners listen to them on long car trips.

Believe me; I couldn't wait getting into the heavy morning traffic listening to the audio book “IT” by Stephen king. In fact, I couldn't resist listening to it at home after work. I love audio books.


Companies often use business audio books as a way of encouragement for their employees to take up further studies and reading. Business audio books contain highly inspirational speakers talking about managing and motivating employees, conducting successful negotiations, closing deals and various other things.?
Because of their useful nature yet fun and interactive format, audio books have fast become popular. An audio book can be useful to all family members, it can encourage young readers to learn, can help the mothers updated for the meetings with her book club friends, can be a really cool tool for teenagers to ?hear? their own assignments and can also be a great confidence booster for the dads before their all important meetings.?
Audio books, which first started in Spanish, are quite simply books rendered in the audio format. Today these are multi-lingual and massively popular. The popularity mainly stems from the fact that they are of low cost and are also portable. In today's fast moving world audio books help us multitask besides being vitally important for beginners who are learning any language and need to hear and pronounce words properly.?
Here's a look at some of the best audio books:?
Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton's The Carrot Principle?
This landmark book reveals the results of one of the most detailed management studies ever, which shows that most managers who have made it big have always been quick to reward and recognize their employees? efforts.?
Using wonderful examples from companies like Disney, KPMG, Pepsi Bottling Group and DHL, The Carrot Principle demonstrates how purpose based recognition always produces greater results. Gostick and Elton also show how the following criteria can be achieved through constructive praise and meaningful rewarding of the employees by good managers:
* Higher productivity
* Greater engagement
* Higher retention
* Customer satisfaction
Following this simple principle common called the carrot principle of managing is bound to make you a great leader and take your team to a greater level of achievement.
The On-Time, On-Target Manager ? by Ken Blanchard
Ken Blanchard already famous for best sellers like The One Minute Manager? and Raving Fans?, has collaborated with the globally recognized business author Steve Gottry to explore in this book, one of the greatest problems plaguing every workplace ? procrastination.
The book tells us the story of Bob the middle manager who loves procrastinating. Bob misses deadlines habitually and tries to justify and rationalize his procrastinating habits. But Bob's office's CEO turns out to be a "Chief Effectiveness Officer" as he helps Bob overcome his problems of lateness, poor work quality and the stress that he lands himself and others in. Through what Blanchard calls the Three P strategy, Bob is changed into a On-Time, On-Target Manager.
Using the simple story of Bob the procrastinator Ken Blanchard and Steve Gottry offers effective practical strategies and ways to tackle problems of procrastination in any workplace.
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