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New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni has written a dozen books that focus on how leaders can build teams and lead organizations. In The Motive, he shifts his attention toward helping them understand the importance of why they're leading in the first place. Lencioni thrusts his listeners into a day-long conversation between rival CEOs. Shay Davis is the CEO of Golden Gate Alarm, who, after just a year in his role, is beginning to worry about his job and is desperate to figure out how to turn things around.

Alex Delaware returns in a thrilling new case featuring one of the most devious murderers ever conceived by New York Times number-one best seller Jonathan Kellerman. Even hundreds of closed cases to his credit can't keep LAPD lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonising over the crimes that don't get solved--and the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home.

It starts with a double homicide. Because of the high profiles of the victims - a politically connected socialite and his glamorous fiancée - the mayor of San Francisco herself demands that a high-ranking detective be put on the case. And so Abe Glitsky is thrust into the controversial investigation.

Just months before Hawaii's gubernatorial primary election, a body is found on the floor of the open air capitol, a macabre scene specifically manipulated to draw attention to a sitting governor with waning political support. Frantic, he calls on the Honolulu Chief of Police Walter Tseng, demanding that the perpetrator be brought to justice as swiftly and silently as possible, fearful a scandal might destroy whatever chance he still has at gaining re-election.  

This gripping anthology gathers classic American short fiction where deception is an art, truth is perilous, and crime often wears a human smile. From a real-life axe murder on a lonely New England island to calculated impostures, whispered rumors, political terror, and crimes born of obsession, these stories explore the dangerous motives that surface when masks begin to slip.

When Sylvia Shipman's uncle plunges to his death on the eve of a catastrophic stock market crash, the verdict is suicide. But Sylvia doubts the official story after seeing a sinister stranger fleeing the scene. She doubts it even more after learning of her uncle's secret criminal connections. With the help of her family's attractive new chauffeur, the mysteriously capable Miles, Sylvia chases the true killer through the swanky jazz clubs and shadowed alleyways of 1920s New York.

A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021 Business has been slow for Hounslow’s small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But desperate times lead him there – and Jay...

In seiner spannenden Fabel Das Motiv beschäftigt sich der Bestsellerautor Patrick Lencioni mit dem Beweggrund von Vorgesetzen und Geschäftsführern für ihre Tätigkeit in einer Führungsrolle. In der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Motiv zur Führung liegt der Schlüssel für herausragende Führungsleistungen. Viele steigen auf in eine Führungsrolle, weil sie es als naheliegende Belohnung für sich und ihre bisherigen Bemühungen begreifen.

Jane Cho is a former legal investigator who was really good at her job, but she quit when someone she was investigating tried to have her killed. She returned to the seaside town of Waverly, Massachusetts, to run a takeout-food shop, Comfort & Joy, and to live a quiet, safer life. She thought everything was behind her as that person was convicted and is behind bars. But one peaceful morning, Jane stumbles over a dead body while taking out the trash. The dead woman ran a nearby bed and breakfast and had been threatened by Jane's thriving new business.

Rye Marshall had it all - wealth, prominence, and the love of his life. But nothing lasts forever, and his perfect world came crashing down around him. When the dust settled, he found himself alone and starting from a clean slate. Grace Dorrance had made many mistakes in her life, but one stood out above the rest - an epic ending to a complex and passionate relationship. She left her former lover’s life in complete ruins and tried her best never to look back at the wreckage.

Host Alexandra Reeves investigates the shocking forces that drive people to commit terrible crimes, from brain wiring and childhood trauma to the cognitive distortions that silence conscience. Each standalone episode reveals why ordinary people cross the line into extraordinary harm. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

It’s Maja and you looked at the title thinking - another true crime show? What new does she have to offer? Welcome to a different spin on true crime comedy! This show will not focus on the whodunnits or tell every fact of the killer’s life or in cases of serial killers, cover every single murder. Here we know the who, the when and where. We’ll be focusing on the facts of the murder, aftermath and childhood that will help us discover the whydunnit. This is motive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On The Motiv podcast we have one of a kind conversations with guests and mentors you want to hear from, while getting them to share the strategies and tactics that have been pivotal for them to carve their own path to success in business and life.

Chicago gangs: Real people. Real stories. A way forward. The new season of Motive explores violence on the streets of Chicago and the former gang members working to stop it.

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. As Sir Leonard Huntercombe tells the elaborate story of one of his clients, listeners will love piecing together this strange locked-room mystery set on a sleeper train to Aberdeen.

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A man is found poisoned by the deadly toxin aconite. A note found at the scene leads Detective Sergeant Jack Mackinnon to a University of Oxford laboratory, where staff and students are desperate to hide their association with the victim. As Mackinnon gets closer to the truth, he finds his own family could be at risk. 

A wave of apparently random homicides is sweeping through their idyllic seaside town of Helsingborg. The murders have no pattern, no order, no reason. The perpetrator is immune to psychological profiling; forensically untraceable; utterly invulnerable to modern police techniques. The body count is growing. But lead investigator Fabian Risk is distracted by his mission to expose a corrupt colleague, and his boss Astrid is spiralling back into addiction. As the hunt for the solution becomes ever more desperate, their tight-knit team begins to unravel.

True Crime. Unfiltered. Dive into captivating real-life mysteries, shocking criminal minds, and the relentless pursuit of justice. Every episode, a new case, a new question, and a story that will haunt you as we get into the Murder, Motive & Mayhem.

Economics shapes many of the decisions that affect our everyday lives. But the people behind those ideas are rarely in the spotlight. Markets & Motives, a podcast from the Economic Society of Australia (Queensland), brings those voices forward. Each episode features a conversation with a leading Australian economist about their career journey, the questions that drive their work, and how economic thinking is applied to real-world challenges across policy, business and research.