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Read by the author, David Epstein. ‘Masterful’ – Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again ‘Wonderful’ – Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit How to do more with less and use limits to stimulate creativity, innovation and collaboration, from the Sunday Times bestselling...

Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, for the past five years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, allowing the spread of fake news and the amplification of dangerous, polarising hate speech. Critics framed the narrative as the irreconcilable conflict between the platform's lofty mission to advance society by bringing people together while also profiting off of them. But the truth is far more complex. 

Driving innovation in large organizations is as engaging and thrilling as a heist movie. Are you ready to embark on the adventure of transforming your ideas into impactful realities? In The Inside Job, Ed Essey, a senior director at The Microsoft Garage with decades of experience in driving innovation, offers just that: a game-changing guide for high performers and innovation leaders who refuse to settle and want to empower their crew so bold ideas flourish.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Financial Times Best Book of the Year The “compulsively readable narrative of beauty, business, privilege, and mogul-dom” (The New York Times) that reveals—for the first time—exactly wat happened at Glossier, one of America’s hottest and most...

At 9:00 p.m., two men lie awake beneath two very different ceilings. Marcus studies the cracks in poured concrete, coming to terms with the story he told himself for years — that his anger was justified, that his hardness was strength, that who he was had been decided for him. Daniel stares at the recessed lighting above a king-sized bed, successful by every visible measure, quietly numbing something he has never named. Two men. Two ceilings. One unseen war.

The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to "think outside the box": to brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes it works, but it’s a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender creative thinking more generally. Inside the Box demonstrates Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), a method that systemizes creativity as part of the corporate culture. SIT requires thinking "inside the box", working in one’s familiar world to create new ideas independent of specific problems.

Read by the author. Uncover the unique qualities within YOU that will lead you to find your true purpose, a meaningful career, and show you how to live your biggest life. I know I have a bigger purpose, but how can I find it? Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand shows you how to turn your unique...

This program includes a preface read by the authors. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives. Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards, these two...

For the first time ever, one of the rarely discussed formulas for building wealth and achieving success in all areas is revealed in The Attractor Factor. Popular marketing and spirituality guru Joe Vitale argues that those who try hard and fail need to remake their inner beings in order to easily attract success, wealth, and happiness. Many people do the right things but get the wrong results; it's not so much what they do, as what they are inside.

In Chief Everything Officer, Kunal Gupta takes you on a raw and unfiltered journey through the world of entrepreneurship. From the age of six to thirty-six, Kunal’s story is a testament to the power of resilience, innovation, and relentless pursuit of vision. Unlike typical business memoirs, this book dives deep into the behind-the-scenes realities of startup life, including the difficult decisions, the pivots, and the unconventional strategies that led to remarkable success.

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of the founding and exponential growth of Hobby Lobby. Learn the secrets of retail success from the man you built America's home-and-craft superstore—from the ground up. The retail industry has undergone enormous changes during the last thirty years. But...

Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen's engaging account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century pharmacist in Atlanta who secured the rights to the original Coca-Cola formula and then struggled to get the cocaine out of the recipe. After many tweaks, he finally succeeded in turning a backroom belly-wash into a thriving enterprise.

Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge...

In Inside the Box: The Power of Complementary Branding, Greg Sausaman shows you how to add high margin new sales to help solve the pressures of increasing costs such as big minimum wage hikes through smart and strategic complementary branding. Greg combines his 15 years of experience in complementary branding with the expertise of industry leaders to provide a comprehensive guide on how to successfully increase sales with a robustly profitable complementary brand partner.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Includes live, archival audio footage documenting the eras of In-N-Out—perfect for In-N-Out superfans! Discover the official story of In-N-Out Burger––how three generations have created a thriving, family-owned company, why its fans are...

How to find the soft innovation that will make your product, service, school, church, or career worth talking about. We live in an era of too much noise, too much clutter, too many choices, and too much spam. And as Seth Godin's 200,000-copy bestseller Purple Cow taught the business world, the...

Personal mentor and entrepreneur Mark Sephton challenges you to create the right environment and mental culture to tap into your creative genius. Inside Job is built on your capability to work on the way you think, act, and behave. Your beliefs about who you are determine your behavior. The way we think, our attitude and mindset toward ourselves, is an "inside job". Discovering your own identity and purpose is paramount to achieving extraordinary shifts in the way you live, develop, and advance.

Inside sales is the fastest growing sales channel due to its cost effective nature. An inside sales rep can handle far more contacts on a daily basis than their field sales counterpart. If you are a "C" level executive with responsibility for delivering revenue, you cannot afford to overlook the rules contained in this fast-paced, powerful, book.

From a long-time Alibaba executive and former special assistant to Jack Ma, this is the first book to articulate how Alibaba's unique culture and “tai chi” management principles are providing a business and economic development model for the rest of the world. If you took the economic might...

Stop shrinking. Stop second-guessing. Start becoming the leader you’re meant to be. High-potential women are often caught between proving and protecting themselves. You want to be seen as capable, confident, and credible, yet you’re navigating outdated or invisible rules. Over time, this can lead to self-doubt, imposter syndrome, or people-pleasing tendencies, resulting in leadership that feels forced instead of authentic. Unapologetic on Purpose breaks limiting patterns with a bold, inside-out approach to leadership.