The Executive

audiobook (Unabridged) Power, Strategy, and Control in the 21st Century

By J. L. Hart

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The Executive: Power, Strategy, and Control in the 21st Century


In a world ruled by algorithms, attention, and ambition, the battlefield of power has shifted—but the game remains the same.


The Executive is a bold, modern playbook for those who seek to rise, rule, and endure. Blending Machiavellian realism with corporate strategy and digital-age insight, this book dissects how power is acquired, maintained, adapted, and immortalized in an era of rapid change. From boardroom coups and media manipulation to soft power, surveillance, and the myth of legacy, The Executive reveals the true mechanics behind influence—and how to wield them.


This is not a book about being good. It is a book about being effective.


Across four parts—Acquisition, Control, Adaptation, and Legacy—you'll explore:


Founding power like a startup, or seizing it like a hostile takeover

Fear, optics, and algorithms as tools of control

Crisis as opportunity—and ruthlessness as virtue

Reinvention as survival, and silence as strategy

Immortality through branding, systems, and successors


Whether you're a CEO, political operative, startup founder, or ambitious strategist, this is your field manual for modern leadership. Those who understand it will shape the future. Those who don't will be shaped by it.


Read it to win. Or risk being ruled by someone who has.

The Executive