Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. The times and ...
Our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in demand as it is today; we''ve never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we''ve grown uncomfortable with boredom and a lack of stimulation and distraction. In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey - described by TED.com as ''the most productive man you ...
The subject of "design thinking" is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press-due in large part to the work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong ...
Prelomový prístup k marketingu, predaju a reklame. Seth Godin učil a inšpiroval milióny podnikateľov, obchodníkov, vodcov a fanúšikov zo všetkých oblastí života prostredníctvom svojho blogu, online kurzov, prednášok a znamenitých úspešných kníh ako Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, či The Dip. Mainstreamový ...
A Times Best Business Book of 2018 What can the ideas of history''s greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time? ''The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time'' Professor Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class and The Great Stagnation ...
Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize ''Majestic, informative and often delightful. insights on every page'' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, ...
We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power, and Profits, a few corporations now dominate entire sectors, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own ...
You don''t need to be university educated, have money, be creative, or even have an idea to get rich. You just need to be willing to break the rules. How to be a Capitalist Without Any Capital will teach you how to be a modern opportunist - investor, entrepreneur, or side hustler - by breaking these ...
They say John Maynard Keynes called gold a ''barbarous relic''. They say there isn''t enough gold to support finance and commerce. They say the gold supply can''t increase fast enough to support world growth. They''re wrong. In The New Case for Gold, James Rickards explains why gold is one of the safest ...
The New Psychology of Selling The sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm. Buyers have more power more information, more at stake, and more control over the sales process than any time in history. Technology is bringing disruptive change at an ever-increasing pace, creating fear and uncertainty ...
This is an Evening Standard Book of the Year 2015. Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the ...
How do people of seemingly ordinary talent go on to achieve unexpected results? What can we learn from them? What are the ingredients for unreasonable success and how is it achieved? In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author Richard Koch charts a map of success, identifying the nine key attitudes ...
Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine''s cards to one''s pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if ...
Autor : Niall Ferguson, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Ascent of Money, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 546.
How was a brilliant physics professor tricked into carrying 2kg of cocaine across the Argentinian border? Why do doctors misdiagnose 10 to 15% of their patients? Why do Nobel Prize winners spread fake news? We assume that smarter people are less prone to error. But greater education and expertise can ...
A complete guide for beginning investors who want to understand how to invest like Warren Buffett. This is one of the first books to showcase both Warren Buffett''s Value Investing technique and his life skills and habits for beginning investors. Sustainable results often come from changes in lifestyle ...
''A superb book'' Financial Times, Books of the Year Adam Smith is now widely regarded as ''the father of modern economics'' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate ...
