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Disrupt or Be Disrupted is the ultimate playbook for winning in an era where change happens faster than most companies can respond—and where slow, rigid businesses die without warning. In today’s hyper-competitive world, the only real advantage is your ability to adapt, innovate, and outrun everyone else. This book reveals how market leaders, visionary entrepreneurs, and unstoppable companies dominate by anticipating shifts before they happen, moving with extraordinary speed, and building organizations engineered for constant evolution.

In Decoding the Psychology, Durton Fucsovics takes you on a groundbreaking exploration of the forces that drive human behavior. Drawing from cutting-edge research in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science, this book unpacks the hidden systems that influence your choices, actions, and ultimately—your destiny.

Strategic thinking isn’t a talent you’re born with—it’s a skill you can build. In this practical and engaging guide, Sam Kurtosis reveals how top leaders, entrepreneurs, and problem-solvers think clearly, make confident decisions, and design smarter strategies in complex business environments. You’ll learn proven techniques for critical thinking, systems thinking, scenario design, structured problem solving, and high-value decision making.

In a world driven by rapid change and constant connection, Lead with a Quantum Mind reveals how to think beyond linear limits and lead with clarity, confidence, and creativity. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, quantum theory, and strategic psychology, Fritz Alex Jr. shows how to collapse mental barriers and expand what’s possible in every decision you make. You’ll learn how to decode uncertainty, rewire habits, and master the mental agility that modern leadership demands.

Includes bonus audio featuring an exclusive conversation with Naval Ravikant. Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and...

In AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm, leading futurist Jonathan Brill and innovation expert Stephen Wunker unveil a groundbreaking vision for how organizations must evolve to survive and thrive in the age of artificial intelligence. Drawing inspiration from the octopus, an ancient creature noted for both rapid adaptation and distributed intelligence, the authors show that only businesses that rewire their structure, leadership, and decision-making can unlock AI's full potential.

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation - especially difficult ones - leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in “the ultimate guide to thinking about risk” (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). “A big favorite among...

An Avid Reader Press book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in...

Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. Yet it’s also easy to shirk or defer—until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional. The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions:

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a...

Let's face it: We all know people who are irrational. No matter how hard you try to reason with them, it never works. So what's the solution? How do you talk to someone who's out of control? What can you do with a boss who bullies, a spouse who yells, or a friend who frequently bursts into tears? In his book Just Listen, Mark Goulston shared his best-selling formula for getting through to the resistant people in your life. Now he brings his communication magic to the most difficult group of all - the downright irrational.

The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile...

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s...

This essential guide reinvents selling for today’s B2B market, showing sellers how to overcome stalled deals and customer indecision.

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of...

The difference between growing your business and going out of business is your ability to think strategically. The problem is, most leaders are stuck in the operational weeds, struggling to find the time to make better strategic decisions. This challenge is only heightened by the rise of AI. While you know AI is the future, current demands leave you with no time to explore its benefits. Meanwhile, your competition is gaining an edge by integrating AI. The time to act is now.

Every great team, culture, society, religion, or business that has endured time, adversity, and challenge has always had one thing in common: a set of simple but powerful rules that govern the internal behaviors and expectations of the group. It is called The Code of Honor. We hear of these...

When Dan Solomon began writing Winfuel, the intended audience was the men and women who aspire to reach the top of the global fitness industry. But as the story came to life, the book evolved into something bigger, a powerful resource for ANYONE in any industry on a mission to level up—creating momentum, activating your network, and maximizing opportunities.

Leadership isn’t broken—but much of what leaders are being asked to do today no longer fits the old ways they were taught to lead. Across boardrooms and executive teams, experienced leaders are feeling it: decisions that once felt grounded now feel forced; cultures that look successful on the surface feel brittle underneath. The demand to perform certainty has overtaken the space required for clarity. Be the Difference Now is written for leaders who can feel that misalignment—even if they can’t yet name it.