This is a story of seven commoners whose farsightedness and resilience to think beyond the obvious, and to ingeniously master the practices of their respective fields, made them the Seven Uncommoners. While some journeys show incredible upswings against awe wrenching odds, others give remarkable...

This is a vivid and personal account of 21st century banking excess. "How I Caused the Credit Crunch" traces seven years at the forefront of the credit markets - a tale from the heart of the bewildering banking maelstrom whose catastrophic collapse has plunged...

This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever.Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely...

This is more than a richly detailed story about the hubris, corruption and incompetence that doomed Credit Suisse; it's a stark warning to all of us about what happens when we let bankers do what they like'and - Oliver Bullough, bestselling author ofand Butler...

This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you...

This is the first book to explain how the fundamentals of marketing strategy must change in response to this broad-based increase in wealth The authors specifically addresses how to fine tune a mass marketing approach that captures the value created from greater consumer affluence....

This is the first detailed look at the new generation of consumers in emerging markets - how they think, shop, buy and dream - and what companies must do to win them over, from the heads of Boston Consulting Group's consumer and globalization practices...

This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes a versatile, integrated, and effective leader Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the...

This is the only business book that speaks to creative women who want to start a product or service- based business while juggling the demands of parenthood. Expert mompreneurs Meg and Cat guide mothers through business basics, creating a product, opening an online retail...

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This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of “value. The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparatively sparse in Anglophone circles, and the essays here aim to answer the question,...

This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people-farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees-behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes (The New York Times) from independent journalist andand Teen Vogueand labor columnist Kim Kelly.Freed Black women organizing for protection in the...

This revised and expanded edition of the bestselling book, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, gives you everything you need to transform your business, your career or your working life forever. An MBA at a top school is an enormous investment in time, effort...

This revised edition of Peter Senge's bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book's ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn...

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This text argues for a new business strategy centred on corporate purpose and culture, and not on the industrial machine. Using examples, it explains how business leaders must recast the role of managers - by transforming how they behave, not re-engineering what they do....

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This vital and compelling collection of stories about work, compiled by novelist and short-story writer Richard Ford, explores tales of how we Americans are employed; how we find work and leave it; how it excites, ennobles, occasionally debilitates, but often defines us. Contributing writers...

This wise, gentle Sufi classic speaks in powerful parables of the journey of the soul. The three parts of THE MYSTERY OF HUMANITY-Nirvana, Message from the Soul, and Psalm of the Gods-unfold the essence of Sufism. They reveal that true knowledge of God comes...

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This work seeks to explain how current developments in management ideas relate to traditional forms of management thought and practice, and examines which paradigms are likely to be durable in the next century.

This year alone, 3.2 million US students will graduate from college and unprecedented percentages of them will be unable to obtain jobs in their desired fields. The key for young professionals to escape this cycle isn't in the outdated tactics of climbing the corporate...

Thomas Derale, a mild-mannered businessman from Chicago, embodies leadership's greatest secret: his companies make fortunes, his people love him, and his customers are willing to wait weeks just to do business with him. At age 55, though, Derale is dying, and through a series...

Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Every day new solutions, revolutionary cures, and artistic breakthroughs are conceived and squandered by smart people. Along with the gift of creativity come the obstacles to making ideas happen: lack of organisation, lack...

Thomas Piketty sand Capital in the Twenty-First Centuryand is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here...

Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store', offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To achieve that end,...

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Three Womenand meetsand Crudo: a frank and fresh literary debut about the dawn of dating apps in Amsterdam. Sexual infidelity is unavoidable, for whatever reasons, in long monogamous relationships, so why not give the other sexual freedom, as a gesture of love, of communication...

Three years after his election, Barack Obama presides over a deep economic malaise. Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration has failed to deliver economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals which could realise these goals. Whilst corporate profits...

Through economics, our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping who lifted millions out of poverty by opening up China; Franklin D Roosevelt whose 'New Deal' helped the USA break free of the Great Depression. Or...

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new...

Time the price cycles of bitcoin and become richBitcoin has been the best performing asset class of all time-better than gold, silver, real estate, and the stock market. Its value has risen from one tenth of a cent in 2009 to a new high...

Timelyand andand important.' -- Joseph E. Stiglitz'Tim Wu helps shape anand urgentand new global conversation.' -- Shoshana ZuboffWe're three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and power of corporate giants...

Timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art; in When, Pink shows that timing is in fact a science.Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology and economics, Pink reveals how best...

Tired of his energy- and money-draining middle-class life, Dr John Pinto decides to end it all by walking into oncoming traffic. But Life has other plans for him! Through a quirky twist of fate, John finds himself saved and launched into a financial pilgrimage...

To get a great answer, you need to ask the perfect question. Warren Berger revives the lost art of questioning.In this groundbreaking book, journalist and innovation expert Warren Berger shows that one of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in...

To understand business and its political, cultural, and economic context, it helps to view it historically, yet most business histories look no further back than the nineteenth century. The full sweep of business history actually begins much earlier, with the initial cities of Mesopotamia....

Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of...

Today there is a gap between organizational strategy and day-to-day management activities. To capitalize on new opportunities, or “gettinga head rather than just “stayingin business most workplaces need a radical transformation.This transformation can begin with how organizations devise and manage their portfolios. Long underutilized...

Today, consumers have more choice than ever before. It's no longer enough to simply provide a service - companies who want to stay in business must also provideand impeccableand service with such consistency, integrity and creativity that people who experience it will not only...

Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country's governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail.The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will flourish while others flounder. Why?...

Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major firms and their workers is higher than ever before - depending on the method of calculation, CEOs get paid between 300 and 700 times more than the average worker. Such outsized pay is a...

Today's brands face an apparent choice between two evils: continue betting on their increasingly ineffective advertising or put blind faith in the supposedly mystical power of social media, where "likes" stand in for transactions and a mass audience is maddeningly elusive. There has to...