Too Small to Fail: Why Some Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World

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  The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

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  Jack Farchy, Javier Blas

   

  This jaw-dropping study shows how much money and global influence is concentrated in the hands of a tiny group . . . A remarkable book . . . As the authors roam from oilfield to wheatfield, they reveal information so staggering you almost gasp . . . The colour is fantastic . . . Tracking down some of the biggest names in the business to their German castles and stud farms and persuading them to talk is a rare scoop. ― Sunday Times

   

  A fascinating and revealing story . . . There are tales in the book of breathtaking trades, such as shipments of rebel oil from war-torn Libya or deals bartered amid the brutal “aluminium wars” in the Russia of the 1990s . . . A gripping book. ― Economist

   

  Javier Blas and Jack Farchy probe the hard-knuckle and secretive world of commodity trading. — What to Read in 2021 ― Financial Times

   

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  The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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  **Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award**

   

  Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, Brad Stone’s definitive book on Amazon and its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, is a masterclass in deeply researched investigative financial journalism. The story of Amazon, the largest and most influential company in the world, and Bezos’ relentless pursuit of new markets, has changed business forever. From its humble beginnings as a mail-order bookseller, Bezos’ ambition to make Amazon ‘the everything store’ led to disruptive innovations such as the Kindle and cloud computing, transforming retail and the way we do business. Stone’s compelling narrative sheds light on Amazon’s corporate culture of ambition, secrecy, and relentless drive, making this book a must-read for anyone interested in the history and impact of one of the world’s most iconic companies.

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  Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built

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  In just 15 years, Jack Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba and turned it into the world’s second-largest Internet company. With a groundbreaking $25 billion IPO in 2014, Alibaba has transformed China’s e-commerce landscape and made Jack Ma an icon of the country’s private sector. Author Duncan Clark, with unprecedented access and insider knowledge, presents a compelling narrative of Alibaba’s rise, Jack Ma’s drive, and the company’s impact on China’s economy. He also explores Alibaba’s international expansion, political and social context, and its role in shaping China’s economic landscape.

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  The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

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  “Getting results in large companies is a very rare skill and this book captures how to do it.” — Kevin Rollins, President and CEO, Dell, Inc.

   

  “The 8th Habit is a true masterpiece, a must-read. These principles of personal and organizational leadership, when lived, unleash human genius and inspire deep commitment and magnificent levels of service and satisfaction. This book will be my gift to all my associates as required reading for all of my future endeavors.” — Horst Schulze, former President and COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

   

  “Stephen Covey continues to wow us with his new The 8th Habit. As the world’s most respected leadership expert, he builds on the foundation of his bestselling 7 Habits and gives a pattern for life that is passionate, makes a difference and leaves a legacy of greatness.” — Larry King

   

  From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to accessing and encouraging the human potential for greatness.

   

  In the more than twenty-five years since its publication, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with more than twenty-five million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, and schools have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey’s classic book.

   

  The world, however, is a vastly changed place. Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option—it’s a requirement for survival. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the “New Knowledge Worker Age,” we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. In this era of human history, our call is for greatness—holistic fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution.

   

  Accessing the higher levels of human genius in today’s new reality requires a change in thinking: a new mindset and a new skill-set—in short, a new habit. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit. The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul’s yearning for greatness, the organization’s imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity’s search for its “voice.”

   

  Covey’s books have transformed the way we think about ourselves, our purpose in life, our organizations, and about humankind. Just as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People helped us focus on effectiveness, The 8th Habit shows us the way to greatness.

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  Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

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  “Tony Fadell is one of the world’s great experts in starting companies and creating insanely great products. He’s distilled his wisdom in this book, providing wildly useful mentorship in a delightfully readable set of stories.” — Walter Isaacson, author and biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci

   

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  “Based on hard-won, real-life lessons as an entrepreneur, Tony Fadell’s Build delivers priceless advice for any young person who wants to build something great or change the world for the better. I wish I had this book when I was twenty-one.” — Ben Horowitz, founding partner of Andreessen Horowitz

   

  “Insightful. Funny. Instructive. Unvarnished. In a book brimming with energy and enthusiasm, Tony Fadell, builder of epoch-defining products, draws on his experience with failure and accomplishment to coach you through every stage of your career.” — Joanna Hoffman, former vice president of marketing at General Magic and member of the original Macintosh team

   

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  Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard

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  “Witty and instructive . . . The Heath brothers think that the sciences of human behavior can provide us with tools for making changes in our lives—tools that are more effective than ‘willpower,’ ‘leadership’ and other easier-said-than-done solutions. . . . For any effort at the change to succeed, the Heaths argue, you have to ‘shape the path.’ With Switch they have shaped a path that leads in a most promising direction.”—The Wall Street Journal

   

  “Using the terminology of University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the Heaths designate the emotional side of the mind as the Elephant and the rational side as the Rider. . . . Switch is crammed with stories…covering a number of fields to drive home the importance of using the strengths of both the Rider and the Elephant to make change happen. This could be a valuable read for the would-be change-makers of the Obama administration.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

   

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  Switch is likely to prove invaluable to anyone wanting to make long-lasting change a reality ― BBC Focus

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  Thinking, Fast and Slow

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  There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, distils a lifetime of research into an encyclopedic coverage of both the surprising miracles and the equally surprising mistakes of our conscious and unconscious thinking. He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable from beginning to end. My main problem in doing this review was preventing family members and friends from stealing my copy of the book to read it for themselves…this is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read — William Easterly ― Financial Times

   

  This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’

   

  Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time. There may be no other person on the planet who better understands how and why we make the choices we make. In this absolutely amazing book, he shares a lifetime’s worth of wisdom presented in a manner that is simple and engaging, but nonetheless stunningly profound. This book is a must read for anyone with a curious mind — Steven D. Levitt, co-author of ‘Freakonomics’

   

  This book is a tour de force by an intellectual giant; it is readable, wise, and deep. Buy it fast. Read it slowly and repeatedly. It will change the way you think, on the job, about the world, and in your own life — Richard Thaler, co-author of ‘Nudge’

   

  Thinking, Fast and Slow is a masterpiece – a brilliant and engaging intellectual saga by one of the greatest psychologists and deepest thinkers of our time. Kahneman should be parking a Pulitzer next to his Nobel Prize — Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of ‘Stumbling on Happiness’, host of the award-winning PBS television series ‘This Emotional Life’

   

  A terrific unpicking of human rationality and irrationality – could hardly have been published at a better moment. Kahnemann is the godfather of behavioural economics, and this distillation of a lifetime’s thinking about why we make bad decisions – about everything from money to love – is full of brilliant anecdote and wisdom. It is Kahnemann’s belief that anyone who thinks they know exactly what is going on hasn’t understood the question; as such it’s the perfect gift for opinionated family members everywhere. — Tim Adams ― Observer Books of the Year

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  Brandvantage: A 12-Week Master Plan for Brand Leadership and Beyond

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  Arvind Bhandari and Trupti Bhandari

   

  ‘I wish Brandvantage were around when I started my corporate journey decades ago! Arvind and Trupti, who punch in more than four decades of experience between them, have expertise in conceptualizing, creating, managing, nurturing, growing and curating some of the most iconic global and local brands. Brandvantage is a compendium of some of the most critical “hardware” and “software” every brand marketer, or indeed business person, needs. A must-read for every young marketer starting his or her starry-eyed journey to create a new brand icon or the seasoned one who takes a “pit stop” to refresh vital skill sets’ — Suresh Narayanan, chairman and managing director, Nestlé India

   

  ‘Learning is an ongoing process. Business schools start with the principles and learnings till the date of your course completion. Thereafter, one begins the journey of learnings from the experience of others combined with your own learnings. This book is a bridge between business school and your travels’ — Piyush Pandey, chief creative officer, Ogilvy Worldwide and executive chairman, Ogilvy India

   

  ‘Brandvantage is an easy-to-use guide that can help take your brand towards leadership in these hyper-competitive times. It very simply takes one through the process of brand building, from mining insights to targeting and developing communication to shaping a cult brand while staying agile and focused on the consumer. Real tips for today’s marketers’ — Lloyd Mathias, business strategist and senior marketer, HP Asia, Motorola and PepsiCo

   

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  The Curse of Bigness: How Corporate Giants Came to Rule the World

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  Mr. Wu writes with elegance, conviction, knowledge – and certitude. ― Wall Street Journal

   

  Short and sharp… an excellent primer for anyone who wants to understand why corporate wealth and power have grown so concentrated… and why that might be a problem for democracy. ― Financial Times

   

  As Tim Wu argues in The Curse of Bigness, global economic concentration is now at levels unseen in more than a century – since the early days of industrial capitalism… Wu manages to make this brisk and impressively readable overview of the subject vivid and compelling. ― Washington Post

   

  Tim Wu has pulled off an incredible feat – he’s written a short, compelling book on antitrust… Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dollar tech companies. ― Publishers Weekly

   

  Sweeping in scope, The Curse of Bigness is probably the best popular account of the history of American antitrust law and policy. It captures the stakes in the battle for antitrust – and it cuts to the heart of one of the central questions of our time: can democracy survive? ― New Republic

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  The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

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  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.

   

  “Splendid and epic history of oil…. The story is brilliantly told…with its remarkable cast of characters.” — The Wall Street Journal

   

  “Impassioned and riveting…only in the great epics of Homer will readers regularly run into a comparable string of larger-than-life swashbucklers and statesmen, heroes and villains.” — San Francisco Examiner

   

  “A masterly narrative…The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies.” — James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of Energy

   

  “Spellbinding…irresistible…monumental…must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history.” — The New York Times

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