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Brought to you by Penguin. THE OUTRAGEOUS NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW AN OSCAR- AND BAFTA-WINNING FILM From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that...

Computer engineers use 'chaos monkey' software to wreak havoc and test system robustness. Similarly, tech entrepreneurs like Antonio García Martínez are society's chaos monkeys - their innovations disrupt every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and holidays (Airbnb) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder) - all in search of the perfect business miracle. Describing himself as 'high strung, fast talking, and wired on a combination of caffeine, fear, and greed at all times', García Martínez left Wall Street to make his fortune in Silicon Valley.

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.

In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them. 

‘Kocienda reveals the real secret of Steve Jobs's leadership and Apple's magic’ – Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor A Wall Street Journal bestseller. An inside account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. 'If you’ve ever wondered what it’s...

The remarkable inside story of how Instagram became the hottest website on Earth. With astonishing access to all the key players, she recounts the fateful meeting of the Instagram founders in 2010. She explores the company’s unlikely acquisition by Facebook and the internal clashes over whether it could retain its autonomy. And she reveals how when Facebook entered a tailspin brought about by data misuse and fake news, it was Instagram that came to the rescue. But this is not just a Silicon Valley story. No Filter reveals how Instagram has transformed global society.

In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for uninstalling bureaucracy and reinventing management as we know it. In this extensively updated and expanded edition, listeners will find new and compelling case studies, the latest research findings, and a wealth of fresh and provocative insights.

In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects, even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran.

What author Margaret Graziano proposes in Ignite Culture is a fundament shift in leadership’s approach to creating an intentional, healthy, high-performance organization. Offering a unique combination of experiential coaching, evidence-based leadership tools, and actionable strategies, Ignite Culture empowers business leaders with the wisdom and insights they need to reshape their company’s culture, increase employee engagement, and grow revenue in a supportive, high-performance environment.

Michael Port's Book Yourself Solid was a huge hit among professional service providers and small business owners. With that book, thousands mastered the art of attracting tons of new clients and keeping them happy. But the tactics and strategies Port introduced in Book Yourself Solid worked too well! Today, many listeners simply have more clients than they can handle. Port solves this problem with a revolutionary plan for gracefully upping your business to the next stage of success.

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.

Ever since strategy gained currency as an organizational concept in the 1960s, there's been confusion about how to define it. Strategy isn't a detailed plan of action. Nor is it a corporate vision or an objective or a mission statement. Strategy is not what to think. It's how to think. Most books on strategy focus on external strategy: competition with rivals in business or overcoming the enemy on the battlefield. This book is different.

Leading companies invest a lot of resources into competitive intelligence, so why are they still caught off guard by the actions and reactions of their competitors? In Inside the Competitor’s Mindset, John Horn shares proven techniques to help businesses think like the competition and understand why they act the way they do. The keys to unlocking this mindset are cognitive empathy and a strategic approach to competitive insight that focuses on the “why” of a competitor’s move, and not just on “what happened.”

In The Building Blocks of Success, industry veteran Monte Block pulls back the curtain on the dynamic world of technical contract staffing. With nearly five decades of experience, Monte offers an unparalleled insider's view of an industry that shapes the modern workforce.

Learn the secrets of how successful businesses consistently predict and grow revenue. Imagine how great it will feel presenting to your board when the team is perfectly aligned, everyone knows their numbers, and has a proven process to deliver growth. It is not a dream. It can be reality. The Forecast takes you on a step-by-step journey with a fictional team as they pull together to save their small tech business.

David Greer has a mission - to take his 35 years of entrepreneurial experience and share it with other entrepreneurs to accelerate their success. Of all the things you as an entrepreneur can focus on, getting clear on the strategy and purpose of your business drives progress the fastest. Listen to Wind In Your Sails and you will always have three ideas that will accelerate your business in the next 90 days. What are you waiting for? Listen to find out more.