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Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place

Jane Mosbacher Morris · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Eager to change the world? Learn how you can have a greater social impact through your everyday purchases.The money we routinely spend on food, clothes, gifts, and even indulgences is an untapped superpower. What would happen if we slowed down to make more thoughtful decisions about what...
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Out of the Maze: An A-mazing Way to Get Unstuck

P SPENCER JOHNSON · Portfolio
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

The posthumous sequel to Who Moved My Cheese?, the classic parable that became a worldwide sensation.Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers can adapt...
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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Julie Zhuo · Portfolio
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager...
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Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

Hamish McKenzie · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?" --Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a West Coast start-up's audacious dream came true. Elon Musk created a car company that would go up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit...
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The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Life on Your Own Terms

Dr. Paul Napper · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Introducing The Power of Agency, a science-backed approach to living life on your own terms. Agency is the ability to act as an effective agent for yourself -- reflecting, making creative choices, and constructing a meaningful life. Grounded in extensive psychological research, The Power...
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Safi Bahcall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"This book has everything: new ideas, bold insights, entertaining history and convincing analysis. Not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand how ideas change the world." -- Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow What do James...
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The Rise of the Curator Class: Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Make Everything

Steffon Davis · Praeger
Pages: 174
Format: Hardcover

Pairing "big ideas" in marketing with the popular activity of content curation, The Rise of the Curator Class positions curation as a "humanization" movement that is restructuring the internet* Describes the current state of content overload and how curation is solving...
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Innovating Innovation: Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen

David Morey · Mango
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Breakthrough Innovation Tools for Successful LeadershipInnovation needs innovation: Innovation is broken. Business leadership and management struggle to find ways to crack through their own corporate politics or bureaucratic silos, to move from defense to offense, to nurture real breakthrough,...
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