Accounting, like almost every industry, is being disrupted by new and emerging technologies. This disruption will affect auditing in unique way. In this course, futurist and financial expert Jason Schenker shares the most important changes, constants, and uncertainties for the future of audit. Learn why advancements in physical technologies, like drones and robots, will become more important for deployment in the field, while data analysis, AI, and quantum computing will be impactful when doing testing and sampling. Then discover why technology will be a critical lever for evaluating financial statements as part of audit and due diligence work—and how some things, including the goals of an independent audit, will remain unchanged. Jason also reviews regulatory risks and emerging types of audits such as social and cybersecurity audits. This course can help executives, leaders, and tax and accounting professionals identify the changes ahead and how they are likely to present both opportunities and challenges for their business.

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Being a CEO can be particularly challenging. Those who ascend to this rank must steer their company to success while grappling with loneliness, stress, and the weighty knowledge that their organization's fate largely rests in their hands. In his 2014 book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, entrepreneur Ben Horowitz delves into this role, sharing practical lessons gleaned from his own experiences in the trenches of Silicon Valley. This audiobook summary provides concise highlights from the book that you can listen to while on the go. Learn how to handle layoffs, hire the right people, dispense with politics to make your company a place where people want to work, and more. Note: This audiobook summary was produced by Blinkist. We are pleased to host this content in our library.

Bring your best self to work. Join Dr. Britt Andreatta in The Mindful Workday, a series of mindfulness exercises to keep you connected, grounded, and focused at work. Learn how to maximize your commute—whether it’s a two-hour drive or a short walk to your home office—so you show up prepared. Discover how to create a healthy working environment and communicate better with your boss. Find out how to use your downtime in a positive way, stop watching the clock so you can live in the present, and turn meetings into successful, collaborative experiences. Finally, learn how to mindfully leave work and arrive home fully present.

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If you want a fulfilling and happy life, your morning routine is the place to start building it. This audio-only course shows you how some changes to your morning routine can help you start creating the life you’ve always wanted. Find out how to escape Rearview Mirror Syndrome (RMS) and make decisions that will positively impact the future you. Learn how to embrace the morning with purpose and excitement and how to raise your wake-up motivation level. Explore ways to set aside time for purposeful silence or meditation, start a habit of positive affirmations, and schedule exercise into your day. Discover how you can make time to read and write, customize your miracle morning, and build your miracle morning into a lifelong habit.

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While virtual sales calls have steadily increased for many reasons—reduced travel costs, improving technology, and most recently health and safety considerations—the fact remains, people simply hate virtual meetings. Factors like fatigue and distrust of the presenter lead to declines in attention and engagement, which reduce your chances of closing a deal. In this course, neuromarketing expert Patrick Renvoise shows you how to tackle the challenges around selling virtually by understanding the brain of your audience. Patrick covers the reasons people hate video calls, why they generate so much fatigue, and why it’s so hard to establish trust over a virtual meeting. He also guides you through what to say and do on video sales calls, and shows how a little knowledge of the primal brain can help you communicate more persuasively in the virtual world.

Where does the power of habits come from, and how can you put that power to work for you? This audio-only course shows you how the brain forms a habit or routine and how you can start or end any habit you wish. Learn how habits create a craving that make them difficult to break, but you can replace an existing routine with another one that has a similar reward. Discover how you can use keystone habits, such as willpower, and small wins to change large routines. Find out how crises can change organizational habits, how habit-based marketing works, and how movements are born. It’s up to you to take responsibility and change your habits for the better.

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In The Practicing Photographer, photographer and teacher Ben Long shares a weekly serving of photographic instruction and inspiration. Each installment focuses on a photographic shooting scenario, a piece of gear, or a software technique. Each one concludes with a call to action designed to inspire you to pick up your camera (or your mouse or smartphone) to try the technique for yourself.Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.

All day, we make decisions—from what to have for lunch to whether or not to shut down a product line. These decisions shape our careers and haunt our dreams.

It turns out that people aren’t very good at making decisions, and the main reason is simple: we hoard our chips. We overvalue things we’ve built, experiences we’ve endured and assets we’ve acquired. As a result, we get stuck. Too many dead ends and too many regrets.

The promise of this course is simple: You and your coworkers will finally be able understand why we get stuck and what to do about it. With engaging stories and a new way to talk about the issue, Seth Godin helps you see how to stop being manipulated and start leading instead.

There’s no such thing as overnight success. Success is built gradually, and the good news is that you’re probably already doing things to be successful. This audio-only course shows you how to build on what you’re already doing to give yourself that slight edge toward success. Find out how to enhance your ability to make critical choices, as well as how to keep learning and train your mind for success. Discover four tools you can use to keep moving on a positive path, then learn about ways to cultivate positive habits and take the three steps needed to make your dreams a reality.

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No matter who you are, how wealthy or powerful or healthy you are, you only have 24 hours in a day. Do you often find yourself wondering if you’re spending those hours in the most effective way? Do you live in denial about what you can actually accomplish in any one day? Then check out this audiobook summary of Elizabeth Grace Saunders’ The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment, a practical guide to living a life by design instead of impulse. It provides step-by-step strategies for planning your days around the commitments that really matter to you, setting up effective routines, and finding people to help you stay on track. It also reveals the importance of dealing with emotional baggage like guilt and shame, which can derail even the best-laid plans.

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Learn the flaws behind three negotiation-related myths: win win, the need for trust, and getting to yes vs. starting with no. In this course, adapted from the American Negotiation Institute podcast Negotiate Anything, Kwame Christian discusses these common negotiation myths with Allan Tsang, negotiation coach and consultant at Oblinger and Tsang, and explores how to use the truth to your advantage. They discuss examples that show why the myths don’t work in real life and address concerns you may have about challenging conventional wisdom.

This course was created by the American Negotiation Institute. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

How can you make learning a core part of the way you work, and how can you share that across your company? This audio-only course shows you how to establish a learning culture at your company. Most skills only stay relevant for five years, so it’s important to keep learning. Explore teacher tactics to keep learning interesting, as well as how to cultivate an agile learning environment that helps you and your team adapt to a changing world. Find out how to generate employee excitement around learning, provide accessible learning, and demonstrate and promote the value of learning. Plus, discover ways to prove the value of development programs and create a DEAL hour.

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In this installment of Adam Shostack’s Threat Modeling series covering the STRIDE threat modeling framework, Adam goes over the D and E parts of the framework: denial of service and elevation of privilege. For both threats, Adam digs deep into two main questions: “What can go wrong?” and “What are we going to do about it?” He details the many targets of denial-of-service attacks like storage, memory, CPU bandwidth, and budget, and how elevation of privilege exists in basically any running code. He then goes over structured methods for ensuring that your systems are resistant to the various types of DoS attacks and elevation-of-privilege attacks. These attacks affect all manner of systems, and having an understanding of how they work and how to combat them are essential parts of a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity.

The best things in life are often the result of difficult conversations. But what happens when the other side isn’t operating in good faith? Find out how to deal with deception and dishonesty in this course, adapted from the American Negotiation Institute podcast Negotiate Anything. Dan Oblinger is a hostage negotiator, consulting negotiator and coach, and cocreator of the #NegotiationTribe. He is also the author of Life or Death Listening: A Hostage Negotiator’s How-to Guide to Mastering the Essential Communication Skill and The 28 Laws of Listening: Best Practices for the Master Listener. In this discussion, Dan teaches three ways to deal with deception in any circumstance. He explains how to come to the negotiation table prepared, how to know when to walk away, how to practice active listening, and how to confront deception. These tips will help you deal with people who try to undermine negotiations with deception.

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Ego has an impact on relationships and conversations. Find out how to minimize the detrimental effect of your own ego and deal with difficult emotions in this course, adapted from the American Negotiation Institute podcast Negotiate Anything. Derek Gaunt is a negotiations trainer and coach at the Black Swan Group and the author of Ego, Authority, Failure: Using Emotional Intelligence Like a Hostage Negotiator to Succeed as a Leader. Derek teaches how the ego can get in the way during negotiations, how to use labels during negotiating, and how to use tactical empathy. In this short but impactful course he provides simple guidance for not letting your emotions—or your ego—get the best of you during any critical situation

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Many of today's companies are finding that offering more flexible work options—whether it be hybrid, in-office, or entirely remote—can yield immense benefits for their business. And for individual workers ready to take the plunge, these new ways of working can be professionally empowering. In this course, discover strategies that can help you successfully do your job—and do it well—while working from anywhere. As a remote work advocate for much of her career, instructor Sarah Aviram is passionate about empowering others to achieve their desired levels of work independence. Here, Sarah explores how you can prepare yourself to thrive in various locations, as well as minimize obstacles to doing so. She dives into how to optimize the opportunity by planning for and executing on goals that make an impact and help you build towards career success. Plus, Sarah shares her tips for managing your energy, making an impact, and practicing gratitude.

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In this course, adapted from the podcast al empire, co-host Hebah Fisher talks with entrepreneur Joy Ajlouny about how Joy built three companies from the ground up: from signing a $10,000 lease at the age of 23 to raising $56M across her ventures. Joy made her first $100 working in a bakery during high school. After working her way up through a sales company, she went on to start her own clothing store, then moved into ecommerce with her company, Bonfaire. Joy pursued an opportunity to mentor new entrepreneurs in Dubai where she met her current business partner and formed Fetchr, a delivery company that solves the problem of needing to send and receive goods without a physical postal address. Joy continues to be focused and passionate about her work.

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Unlike large companies, small companies cannot always hire privacy specialists or buy pricey third-party tools. In this course, instructor Nishant Bhajaria provides an easy-to-understand, practical primer on privacy, security, and compliance. He shows hands-on leaders what obligations are created by laws like GDPR and CCPA, identifies techniques to detect privacy risk in data handling and product development, demonstrates how to implement tools and processes to manage access to sensitive data, and much more. This course can help you build tooling for critical functions like data inventory; data sharing and export; data subject access requests; deleting account and event streaming data; capturing; storing and updating user consent; and addressing security vulnerabilities that could cause privacy harm.

After taking this course, companies will be able to prioritize and execute on their privacy priorities intelligently, reduce risk, manage compliance, and build user trust.

If you’ve ever completed a big project at work, after the initial elation or relief starts to fade, you may have quickly realized that the work is not yet done. While the people involved in the project might be ready to move on to new work, or back to their regular roles, the project deliverables need to transition to operational use. And as Claudine Peet shows in this course, that doesn’t just happen automatically. The transition is a high-risk phase that impacts all stakeholders, and must therefore be carefully planned. Claudine details the many different stages of a transition, including planning and communicating the approach in the pre-transition stage, appointing a transition team, defining transition acceptance criteria, and implementing the actual transition and managing the outcome. She also delves into the post-transition phase, highlighting how to achieve stable operations and measure the effectiveness of the transition.

Business is booming in the productivity software space. From communication and collaboration apps to virtual whiteboarding, there's a dizzying array of new tools available. Curious about these buzzworthy innovations? This course can help you get up to speed. Join our LinkedIn Learning instructor team as they break down new or trending apps and tools. Each bite-sized video covers what a tool was designed for, what sets it apart from its competition, and why it's trending right now.