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The Playful Entrepreneur

How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times

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A compelling account of how incorporating play into work can help us overcome the uncertainty and turbulence that surrounds work.

How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding audiobook, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encourages exploration, experimentation, and curiosity, while it also challenges established practices and orthodoxies. It facilitates change in people and organizations.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators, this audiobook explains why we should incorporate play into work, what play looks like, and how to encourage playfulness in individuals and organizations.

Dodgson and Gann identify four key behaviors that endorse, encourage, and guide play: grace, craft, fortitude, and ambition, and they provide a blueprint for an alternative way of working that fosters resilience and encourages innovation and growth in difficult times.

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The examples used were very educational and I could relate to them. Great.

Great narriation, Good read!

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This book was an informative book on different entrepreneurs that had different styles of play in shpaing their business and staying in business. The narrator was a bit dull but he was clear in everything he read.

Story is good but the Narrator wasn't the best.

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Although this book is not an eye opening experience , there are some chapters that really give you some things to think about it .....

Fairly good

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I cant tell you how many times I dozed off or got distracted while trying to listen to this book. For PLAYFUL Entrepreneur, you guys sure got the most boring voice actor possible.

Terrible choice of voice acting

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This book is more of a history lesson than an actual guide. The stories were interesting, but there is no guidance on how you can apply it to your business. I just thought they were going to talk about how they can be used today or even give exercises to do.
When you read the book title and look at the title, you definitely think it's going to be an interesting read and that you're going to use new skills that you can apply now. That's not the case here. It's more like they tell you of entrepreneurs that used play to build their companies. More like a documentary I guess?
Also, the narrator sounds like a robot. There's just no playfulness or joy in their reading at all. I honestly speed up the pace of the book just so I could get through it sooner.
I wouldn't recommend this book if your looking for ways to expand your business. I would only recommend it if your the type that gets inspired by other entrepreneur stories. I would buy a physical copy though because you might fall asleep listening.

Not what I expected

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