Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Resilience (HBR Emotional Intelligence)
Harvard Business Review · 2020
🎙 Narrated by Daniel Henning and Rachel Perry (Gildan Media audiobook edition)
72/100
👍 Worth It
This is a smart, curated set of essays from recognized names like Goleman and Achor, genuinely useful if you're navigating workplace burnout or a career setback. It reads more like a toolkit than a flowing single-author story, so don't expect the cohesion of a memoir. The multi-narrator audio is polished and professional, well suited to the business-nonfiction format.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Multi-narrator, professional business-nonfiction delivery typical of HBR's audio essay series.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness76
Craft & writing64
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit78
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict72
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