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The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

**A Must-Read for Navigating the Future with Confidence**

In this insightful and thought-provoking book, renowned futurist Amy Webb provides a roadmap for understanding and shaping the future. **The Signals Are Talking** reveals a powerful methodology for deciphering emerging trends, separating genuine innovations from fleeting fads, and anticipating the long-term consequences of today's seemingly random ideas.

A Systemic Approach to Future Forecasting

Webb goes beyond mere speculation, offering a concrete framework for analyzing the signals of the future. Her approach is rooted in deep research, meticulous observation, and a healthy dose of skepticism. The book empowers readers to develop their own foresight by:

* **Identifying the "signals"**: Webb introduces a systematic process for recognizing emerging trends, even those seemingly insignificant or hidden in the fringes of society.

* **Distinguishing the "noise"**: She provides tools to separate genuine trends from temporary fads and distractions, allowing readers to focus on the truly impactful developments.

* **Understanding the "convergences"**: Webb reveals how seemingly disparate ideas can converge to create powerful forces shaping the future.

A Glimpse into Tomorrow's World

**The Signals Are Talking** tackles some of the most pressing questions facing our world today:

* **The Impact of Emerging Technologies**: How will technologies like AI, machine learning, self-driving cars, and the Internet of Things transform our lives, work, and interactions?

* **Reimagining Business and Workplaces**: What does the future hold for businesses and workplaces in a rapidly evolving technological landscape?

* **Shaping Our Future**: Webb challenges readers to actively participate in creating the future they desire rather than passively accepting it.

Review of Key Insights

This book is more than a collection of predictions; it's a call to action. Webb convincingly argues that the future is not predetermined but rather a product of our choices and actions. She empowers readers to become active participants in shaping the future by:

* **Cultivating a "futurist mindset"**: The book encourages readers to develop a critical, curious, and forward-thinking perspective, embracing the unknown with anticipation rather than fear.

* **Taking Ownership of the Future**: Webb emphasizes that the future is not something that happens to us but rather something we can actively influence through informed decisions and strategic actions.

* **Harnessing the Power of Foresight**: The Signals Are Talking provides the tools and framework for navigating the uncertainties of the future with confidence, allowing readers to anticipate challenges and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

**The Signals Are Talking** is an essential read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the forces shaping our world. Whether you're a business leader, policymaker, or simply a curious individual, this book will equip you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the complexities of the future and shape your own destiny.

Leap: How To Thrive In A World Where Everything Can Be Copied

Facing the Copycat Challenge

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the threat of copycats looms large. Even with strong patents, market dominance, and substantial financial resources, businesses can find themselves facing the existential challenge of competitors offering cheaper alternatives. This constant threat compels us to ask: **What can we do to stay ahead in a world where innovation can be quickly imitated?**

Leaping Beyond Copycat Tactics

Professor Howard Yu, a renowned expert in management and innovation at IMD, presents a compelling argument in his book "Leap." He challenges the notion that simply mastering copycat tactics is enough to succeed. Instead, he argues that companies need to **"leap"** beyond these tactics by:

* **Bridging knowledge disciplines:** Companies must embrace interdisciplinary approaches, connecting different areas of expertise to create truly innovative solutions.

* **Reimagining product and service delivery:** Traditional models are often easily replicated. Companies must find new ways to deliver value, pushing the boundaries of conventional thinking.

The Power of Leaping: Case Studies & Principles

"Leap" is not simply a theoretical exploration. Through riveting case studies, Professor Yu illustrates five key principles for success that transcend industries, countries, and time:

* **P&G: From Soap to Tide:** Learn how Procter & Gamble, starting with handcrafted soaps, made a series of leaps – from mass production, to consumer psychology and advertising, and finally to synthetic detergents with their iconic Tide product.

* **Novartis & Pharma Pioneers:** Discover how pharmaceutical giants like Novartis stayed ahead of the curve by transitioning from chemistry to microbiology to genomics in drug discovery.

* **WeChat, Recruit Holdings, & John Deere:** Explore how forward-thinking companies like WeChat, Recruit Holdings, and John Deere are capitalizing on the era of ubiquitous connectivity, intelligent machines, and the rise of managerial creativity to leap ahead.

A Manifesto for Enduring Success

"Leap" provides a comprehensive roadmap for companies to overcome the challenge of copycat competition and achieve lasting success. It's a manifesto for innovation, resilience, and strategic foresight, ultimately demonstrating that **enduring success is a product of constant evolution and strategic leaps.**

Review: A Must-Read for Leaders and Innovators

"Leap" is an essential read for business leaders, innovators, and anyone seeking to navigate the complexities of today's competitive landscape. Professor Yu's clear and engaging writing style, coupled with captivating real-world examples, makes this book a highly practical and thought-provoking resource. It offers valuable insights and actionable strategies for companies seeking to **leap** beyond the limitations of copycat tactics and establish a lasting competitive advantage.

<p>The Smartest Places On Earth: Why Rustbelts Are The Emerging Hotspots Of Global Innovation</p>

<p>The remarkable story of how rustbelt cities such as Akron and Albany in the United States and Eindhoven in Europe are becoming the unlikely hotspots of global innovation, where sharing brainpower and making things smarter -- not cheaper -- is creating a new economy that is turning globalization on its head</p>

<p>Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker counter recent conventional wisdom that the American and northern European economies have lost their initiative in innovation and their competitive edge by focusing on an unexpected and hopeful trend: the emerging sources of economic strength coming from areas once known as "rustbelts" that had been written off as yesterday's story.</p>

<p>In these communities, a combination of forces -- visionary thinkers, local universities, regional government initiatives, start-ups, and big corporations -- have created "brainbelts." Based on trust, a collaborative style of working, and freedom of thinking prevalent in America and Europe, these brainbelts are producing smart products that are transforming industries by integrating IT, sensors, big data, new materials, new discoveries, and automation. From polymers to medical devices, the brainbelts have turned the tide from cheap, outsourced production to making things smart right in our own backyard. The next emerging market may, in fact, be the West.</p>

<p>Keeping At It: The Quest For Sound Money And Good Government</p>

<p>The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.</p>

<p>As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world's faith in central bankers. That extraordinary feat was just one pivotal episode in a decades-long career serving six presidents.</p>

<p>Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, the narrative of Volcker's career illuminates the changes that have taken place in American life, government, and the economy since World War II. He vibrantly illustrates the crises he managed alongside the world's leading politicians, central bankers, and financiers. Yet he first found his model for competent and ethical governance in his father, the town manager of Teaneck, NJ, who instilled Volcker's dedication to absolute integrity and his "three verities" of stable prices, sound finance, and good government.</p>

<p>Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves</p>

<p>Identity fraud happens to everyone. So what do you do when it's your turn?</p>

<p>Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam filters, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But with the breaches of huge organizations like Target, AshleyMadison.com, JPMorgan Chase, Sony, Anthem, and even the US Office of Personnel Management, more than a billion personal records have already been stolen, and chances are good that you're already in harm's way.</p>

<p>This doesn't mean there's no hope. Your identity may get stolen, but it doesn't have to be a life-changing event. Adam Levin, a longtime consumer advocate and identity fraud expert, provides a method to help you keep hackers, phishers, and spammers from becoming your problem.</p>

<p>Levin has seen every scam under the sun: fake companies selling "credit card insurance"; criminal, medical, and child identity theft; emails that promise untold riches for some personal information; catphishers, tax fraud, fake debt collectors who threaten you with legal action to confirm your account numbers; and much more. As Levin shows, these folks get a lot less scary if you see them coming.</p>

<p>With a clearheaded, practical approach, Swiped is your guide to surviving the identity theft epidemic. Even if you've already become a victim, this strategic book will help you protect yourself, your identity, and your sanity.</p>

<p>The End Of Loyalty: The Rise And Fall Of Good Jobs In America</p>

<p>Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore.</p>

<p>In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed.</p>

<p>But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways.</p>

<p>Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class.</p>

<p>Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in current interestA best business book of the year in economics, Strategy+Business</p>

<p>The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, And The Making Of The First Big Cryptocurrency Craze</p>

<p>The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.</p>

<p>In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures—vast fortunes made from decentralized networks not controlled by any single entity and not yet regulated by many governments.</p>

<p>The recent growth of crypto would have been all but impossible if not for a brilliant young man named Vitalik Buterin and his creation: Ethereum. In this book, Laura Shin takes readers inside the founding of this novel cryptocurrency network, which enabled users to launch their own new coins, thus creating a new crypto fever. She introduces readers to larger-than-life characters like Buterin, the Web3 wunderkind; his short-lived CEO, Charles Hoskinson; and Joe Lubin, a former Goldman Sachs VP who became one of crypto’s most well-known billionaires. Sparks fly as these outsized personalities fight for their piece of a seemingly limitless new business opportunity.</p>

<p>This fascinating book shows the crypto market for what it really is: a deeply personal struggle to influence the coming revolution in money, culture, and power.</p>

<p>A Question Of Power: Electricity And The Wealth Of Nations</p>

<p>Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity.</p>

<p>Global demand for power is doubling every two decades, but electricity remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and do so reliably. Today, some three billion people live in places where per-capita electricity use is less than what's used by an average American refrigerator. How we close the colossal gap between the electricity rich and the electricity poor will determine our success in addressing issues like women's rights, inequality, and climate change.</p>

<p>In A Question of Power, veteran journalist Robert Bryce tells the human story of electricity, the world's most important form of energy. Through onsite reporting from India, Iceland, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, New York, and Colorado, he shows how our cities, our money--our very lives--depend on reliable flows of electricity. He highlights the factors needed for successful electrification and explains why so many people are still stuck in the dark.</p>

<p>With vivid writing and incisive analysis, he powerfully debunks the notion that our energy needs can be met solely with renewables and demonstrates why--if we are serious about addressing climate change--nuclear energy must play a much bigger role.</p>

<p>Electricity has fueled a new epoch in the history of civilization. A Question of Power explains how that happened and what it means for our future.</p>

<p>Building Social Business: The New Kind Of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs</p>

<p>The Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world's biggest problems.</p>

<p>Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe. Its goal is to create self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth as they produce goods and services to fulfill human needs. In Building Social Business, Yunus shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.</p>

<p>A World Of Three Zeros: The New Economics Of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, And Zero Net Carbon Emissions</p>

<p>A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet</p>

<p>Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken -- that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest.</p>

<p>Is this a pipe dream? Not at all. In the last decade, thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus's vision of a new form of capitalism, launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather than accumulate wealth. They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh; turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments; financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States; bringing mobility, shelter, and other services to the rural poor in France; and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups.</p>

<p>In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.</p>

<p>Quirky : The Remarkable Story Of The Traits, Foibles, And Genius Of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed The World</p>

<p>From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so spectacularly inventive? Melissa A. Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, looks at the lives of seven creative geniuses--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nicola Tesla, Curie, and Jobs--to identify the traits and quirks that led them to become breakthrough innovators.</p>

<p>Though all innovators possess incredible intellect, intellect alone does not create a serial innovator. There are other very strong commonalities: for instance, nearly all exhibit very high levels of social detachment. They all have extreme, almost maniacal, faith in their ability to overcome obstacles. And they have a passionate idealism that pushes them to work with intensity even in the face of criticism or failure. These individual traits would be unlikely to work in isolation--being unconventional without having high levels of confidence and direction, for example, might result in rebellious behavior that does not lead to meaningful innovation.</p>

<p>Schilling reveals the science behind the convergence of traits that increases the likelihood of success, and shows us how to nurture and facilitate breakthrough innovation in our own lives.</p>

<p>The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans And Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity</p>

<p>A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.</p>

<p>We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we -- the everyday people whose data powers AI -- aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into -- one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations -- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.</p>

<p>In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI -- the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself -- is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.</p>

<p>Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.</p>

<p>The Power Of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It</p>

<p>A ground-breaking exploration of the changing nature of trust and how to bridge the gap from where you are to where you need to be.</p>

<p>Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees, community members, and investors decide whether an organization can be trusted.</p>

<p>Based on two decades of research and illustrated through vivid storytelling, Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta examine the economic impact of trust and the science behind it, and conclusively prove that trust is built from the inside out. Trust emerges from a company being the “real deal”: creating products and services that work, having good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for all the impacts an organization creates, whether intended or not</p>

<p>When trust is in the room, great things can happen. Sucher and Gupta’s innovative foundation for executing the elements of trust—competence, motives, means, impact—explains how trust can be woven into the day-to-day and the long term. Most importantly, even when lost, trust can be regained, as illustrated through their accounts of companies across the globe that pull themselves out of scandal and corruption by rebuilding the vital elements of trust.</p>

<p>No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All The Trends</p>

<p>Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend lines resemble saw-tooth mountain ridges.</p>

<p>The world not only feels different. The data tell us it is different. Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking all the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy: the rise of emerging markets, the accelerating impact of technology on the natural forces of market competition, an aging world population, and accelerating flows of trade, capital and people.</p>

<p>Our intuitions formed during a uniquely benign period for the world economy -- often termed the Great Moderation. Asset prices were rising, cost of capital was falling, labour and resources were abundant, and generation after generation was growing up more prosperous than their parents.</p>

<p>But the Great Moderation has gone. The cost of capital may rise. The price of everything from grain to steel may become more volatile. The world's labor force could shrink. Individuals, particularly those with low job skills, are at risk of growing up poorer than their parents.</p>

<p>What sets No Ordinary Disruption apart is depth of analysis combined with lively writing informed by surprising, memorable insights that enable us to quickly grasp the disruptive forces at work. For evidence of the shift to emerging markets, consider the startling fact that, by 2025, a single regional city in China -- Tianjin -- will have a GDP equal to that of the Sweden, of that, in the decades ahead, half of the world's economic growth will come from 440 cities including Kumasi in Ghana or Santa Carina in Brazil that most executives today would be hard-pressed to locate on a map.</p>

<p>What we are now seeing is no ordinary disruption but the new facts of business life -- facts that require executives and leaders at all levels to reset their operating assumptions and management intuition.</p>

<p>The Revenge Of Analog: Real Things And Why They Matter</p>

<p>One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016</p>

<p>A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated, from film photography to brick-and-mortar retail, are now springing with new life. Notebooks, records, and stationery have become cool again. Behold the Revenge of Analog.</p>

<p>David Sax has uncovered story after story of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and even big corporations who've found a market selling not apps or virtual solutions but real, tangible things. As e-books are supposedly remaking reading, independent bookstores have sprouted up across the country. As music allegedly migrates to the cloud, vinyl record sales have grown more than ten times over the past decade. Even the offices of tech giants like Google and Facebook increasingly rely on pen and paper to drive their brightest ideas.</p>

<p>Sax's work reveals a deep truth about how humans shop, interact, and even think. Blending psychology and observant wit with first-rate reportage, Sax shows the limited appeal of the purely digital life-and the robust future of the real world outside it.</p>

<p>Beyond Great: Nine Strategies For Thriving In An Era Of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism, And Technological Revolution</p>

<p>Great is no longer good enough. Beyond Great delivers a powerful new playbook of 9 core strategies to thrive in a post-COVID world where all the rules of the game are being re-written.</p>

<p>Beyond Great answers to two fundamental questions which face business leaders today in a world shaped by daunting and disruptive technological, economic, and social change. First, what is outstanding performance in this new volatile era? &nbsp;Second, how do we build competitive advantage in a world with new and often uncertain rules? Supported by years of research and hands-on consulting practice, this book presents a comprehensive framework for building a high performing, resilient, adaptive, and socially responsible global company.</p>

<p>The book begins by taking an incisive look at these disruptive forces transforming globalization, including economic nationalism; the boom in data flows and digital commerce; the rise of China; heightened public concerns about capitalism and the environment; and the emergence of borderless communities of digitally connected consumers. Distilled from the study of hundreds of companies and interviews with dozens of business leaders, the authors have distilled nine core strategies – the new winning playbook of the 21st century.</p>

<p>Beyond Great argues that business leaders today must lead with a new kind of openness, flexibility and light-footedness, constantly layering in new strategies and operational norms atop existing ones to allow for "always-on" transformation. Leaders must master a whole new set of rules about what it takes to be "global," becoming shapeshifters adept at handling contradiction, multiplicity, and nuance. This book will show them how.</p>

<p>Shorter: Redesign Your Work And Reclaim Your Time</p>

<p>You and your company can work less, be more productive, and make time for what's really important.</p>

<p>The idea of success embraced by the global economy means being always-on, never missing an opportunity, and outworking your peers. But working ever-longer hours is't sustainable for companies or individuals. Fatigue-induced mistakes, whether in the operating room or factory line, cost companies billions, and overwork alienates and burns out valuable employees.</p>

<p>But what if there is another way? Shorter tells the story of entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world who have discovered how to shrink the workweek without cutting salaries or sacrificing productivity or revenues. They show that by reducing distractions, eliminating inefficiencies, and creating time for high-quality focus and collaboration, 4-day workweeks can boost recruitment and retention, make leaders more thoughtful and companies more sustainable, and improve work-life balance. Using design thinking, a business and product development process pioneered in Silicon Valley, futurist and consultant Alex Pang creates a step-by-step guide for readers to redesign their workdays. You and your company can work less, be more productive, and make time for what's really important.</p>

<p>The idea of success embraced by the global economy means being always-on, never missing an opportunity, and outworking your peers. But working ever-longer hours is't sustainable for companies or individuals. Fatigue-induced mistakes, whether in the operating room or factory line, cost companies billions, and overwork alienates and burns out valuable employees.</p>

<p>But what if there is another way? Shorter tells the story of entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world who have discovered how to shrink the workweek without cutting salaries or sacrificing productivity or revenues. They show that by reducing distractions, eliminating inefficiencies, and creating time for high-quality focus and collaboration, 4-day workweeks can boost recruitment and retention, make leaders more thoughtful and companies more sustainable, and improve work-life balance. Using design thinking, a business and product development process pioneered in Silicon Valley, futurist and consultant Alex Pang creates a step-by-step guide for readers to redesign their workdays.</p>

<p>Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search For The Soul Of Business</p>

<p>In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic progress.</p>

<p>The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Narratives about the failures of capitalism, the greed of the 1 percent, and the blindness of corporations to public need have made their mark and are driving change. These aren’t the superficial cosmetic fixes that generated so much cynicism in the past, but a revolution in the way corporations are imagined and run.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Tomorrow’s Capitalist reveals how corporate CEOs—the ultimate pragmatists—realized that they could lose their “operating license” unless they tackle the fundamental issues of our time: climate, diversity and inclusion, and inequality and workforce opportunity. Responding to their employees and customers who are demanding corporate change, they have taken the lead in establishing the bold new principles of stakeholder capitalism, ensuring that for the first time in more than a half a century it is not just shareholders who have a say in how corporations are run.</p>

<p>Alan Murray vividly captures the zeitgeist of the real and compelling dynamic that is transforming much of the corporate world.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Good Economics For Hard Times</p>

<p>The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.</p>

<p>Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.</p>

<p>Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable.</p>

<p>In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.</p>

<p>In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalized world: in short Good Economics has been done badly. This precise but accessible book covers many of the most essential issues of our day--including migration, unemployment, growth, free trade, political polarization, and welfare. Banerjee and Duflo will confound and clarify the presumptions of our times, such as:</p>

<p>- Why migration doesn't follow the law of supply and demand

- Why trade liberalization can drive unemployment up and wages down

- Why macroeconomists like to bend the data to fit the model

- Why nobody can really explain why and when growth happens

- Why economists' assumption that people don't change their minds has made has made polarization worse

- Why quite often it doesn't take a village, especially if the villagers aren't that nice</p>

<p>In doing so, they seek to reclaim this essential terrain, and to offer readers an economist's view of the great issues of the day--one that is candid about the complexities, the zones of ignorance, and the areas of genuine disagreement.</p>

<p>The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work And The Workplace Of The Future</p>

<p>What has changed in the workplace? Everything.</p>

<p>The traditional office was probably doomed anyway. Then a global shutdown changed everything we thought we knew about work, including where and when it needed to take place. Automation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have accelerated, and perhaps as much as one third of the world’s permanent workforce will soon become remote. In The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm offers a strategic and practical guide to navigating this pivotal moment in the history of work and provides lessons for how both employees and employers can adapt.</p>

<p>Hobsbawm draws on her extensive networks in business, academia, and entrepreneurship across &nbsp;generations to offer new ideas about how to handle hybrid working, as well as provides deep insight into how the way we work is being transformed by larger issues such as community, hierarchy, bias, identity, and security. The Nowhere Office describes a unique moment in the history of work which, if understood and handled correctly, can provide a springboard for the biggest transformational change in the workplace for a century: something better, more meaningful, and more workable for everyone.</p>

<p>The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory And The Birth Of The People's Economy</p>

<p>A New York Times Bestseller</p>

<p>The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.</p>

<p>Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find the money to pay for it, rooted in myths about deficits that are hobbling us as a country.</p>

<p>Kelton busts through the myths that prevent us from taking action: that the federal government should budget like a household, that deficits will harm the next generation, crowd out private investment, and undermine long-term growth, and that entitlements are propelling us toward a grave fiscal crisis.</p>

<p>MMT, as Kelton shows, shifts the terrain from narrow budgetary questions to one of broader economic and social benefits. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential as a society. MMT gives us the power to imagine a new politics and a new economy and move from a narrative of scarcity to one of opportunity.</p>

<p>The Crowdsourceress: Get Smart, Get Funded, And Kickstart Your Next Big Idea</p>

<p>"Neil Young's Pono campaign was the third most successful hardware campaign of all time, and Alex deserves much of the credit, second only to Neil, of course. The Crowdsourceress will give you everything you need to make your campaign a success." -- Phil Baker, COO, Pono</p>

<p>"Owning The Crowdsourceress is like having Alex Daly's 'special sauce' right at your fingertips." -- Jesse Reed, cofounder, Standards Manual</p>

<p>In recent years, the crowdfunding industry has generated several billions in funding. But the harsh reality is that around 60 percent of Kickstarter campaigns fail. Enter Alex Daly, a crowdfunding expert who has raised over $20 million for her clients' campaigns. She has run some of Kickstarter's biggest projects-TLC's newest album, Neil Young's audio player, and Joan Didion's documentary. In this book, Daly takes readers deep inside her most successful campaigns, showing you how to

Get fans and influencers excited about your launch

Build an appealing and powerfully designed campaign

Access proven video tips, pitching tactics, press releases, and rewards ideas

Avoid the most common headaches and pitfalls</p>

<p>Here you'll get tangible tools to run your own crowdfunding campaigns and fully connect with the crowd, get people to pay attention, and inspire them to act.</p>

<p>Bossed Up: A Grown Woman's Guide To Getting Your Sh*t Together</p>

<p>In this candid, refreshing guide for young women to take with us as we run the world, Emilie Aries shows you how to own your power, know your worth, and design your career and life accordingly.</p>

<p>Young women today face an uncertain job market, the pressure to ascend at all costs, and a fear of burning out. But the landscape is changing, and women are taking an assertive role in shaping our careers and lives, while investing more and more in our community of support.</p>

<p>Bossed Up teaches you how to:</p>

<p>- Break out of the "martyrdom mindset," and cultivate your Boss Identity by getting clear on what you really want for your career and life without apology;

- Hone the self-advocacy skills necessary for success;

- Understand the differences between being assertive (which is part of being a leader) and being aggressive (which is more like being a bully) - and how that clarity can transform your trajectory;

- Beat burnout by identifying how the warning signs may be showing up in your life and how to prioritize bringing more rest, purpose, agency, and community to your day-to-day life;

- Unpack the steps to cultivating something more than just confidence; a boss identity, which will establish your ability to be the boss of your life no matter what comes your way.</p>

<p>Drawing from timely research, and with personal stories, and spotlights on a diverse group of women from the Bossed Up community, this book will show you how to craft a happy, healthy, and sustainable career path you'll love.</p>

<p>The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization</p>

<p>A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.</p>

<p>The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see that a bigger trend, globalization, was about to take hold. The benefits of globalization--through the freer flow of money, people, ideas, and trade--have been many. But rather than a world that is flat, what has emerged is one of jagged peaks and rough, deep valleys characterized by wealth inequality, indebtedness, political recession, and imbalances across the world's economies.</p>

<p>These peaks and valleys are undergoing what Michael O'Sullivan calls "the levelling"--a major transition in world economics, finance, and power. What's next is a levelling-out of wealth between poor and rich countries, of power between nations and regions, of political accountability from elites to the people, and of institutional power away from central banks and defunct twentieth-century institutions such as the WTO and the IMF.</p>

<p>O'Sullivan then moves to ways we can develop new, pragmatic solutions to such critical problems as political discontent, stunted economic growth, the productive functioning of finance, and political-economic structures that serve broader needs.</p>

<p>The Levelling&nbsp;comes at a crucial time in the rise and fall of nations. It has special importance for the US as its place in the world undergoes radical change--the ebbing of influence, profound questions over its economic model, societal decay, and the turmoil of public life.</p>

<p>Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 12th edition</p>

<p>The only current authorized edition of the classic work on parliamentary procedure--now in a new updated edition</p>

<p>Robert's Rules of Order is the recognized guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings. This 12th edition is the only current manual to have been maintained and updated since 1876 under the continuing program established by General Henry M. Robert himself. As indispensable now as the original edition was more than a century ago, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the acknowledged "gold standard" for meeting rules.</p>

<p>New and enhanced features of this edition include:</p>

Section-based paragraph numbering to facilitate cross-references and e-book compatibility

Expanded appendix of charts, tables, and lists

Sample rules for electronic meetings

Helpful summary explanations about postponing a motion, reconsidering a vote, making and enforcing points of order and appeals, and newly expanded procedures for filling blanks

New provisions regarding debate on nominations, reopening nominations, and completing an election after its scheduled time

Dozens more clarifications, additions, and refinements to improve the presentation of existing rules, incorporate new interpretations, and address common inquiries

<p>Coinciding with publication of the 12th edition, the authors of this manual have once again published an updated (3rd) edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, a simple and concise introductory guide cross-referenced to it.</p>

<p>Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art</p>

<p>The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers.&nbsp;They can make and break careers and fortunes.</p>

<p>The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers-the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival.</p>

<p>Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first ever definitive history of their activities. He has spoken to all of today's so-called mega dealers-Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne and Marc Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth-along with dozens of other dealers-from Irving Blum to Gavin Brown-who worked with the greatest artists of their times: Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and more.</p>

<p>This kaleidoscopic history begins in the mid-1940s in genteel poverty with a scattering of galleries in midtown Manhattan, takes us through the ramshackle 1950s studios of Coenties Slip, the hipster locations in SoHo and Chelsea, London's Bond Street, and across the terraces of Art Basel until today. Now, dealers and auctioneers are seeking the first billion-dollar painting. It hasn't happened yet, but they are confident they can push the price there soon.</p>

<p>Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China's Great Global Companies</p>

<p>Fortune Makers analyzes and brings to light the distinctive practices of business leaders who are the future of the Chinese economy. These leaders oversee not the old state-owned enterprises, but private companies that have had to invent their way forward out of the wreckage of an economy in tatters following the Cultural Revolution.</p>

<p>Outside of brand names such as Alibaba and Lenovo, little is known, even by the Chinese themselves, about the people present at the creation of these innovative businesses. Fortune Makers provides sharp insights into their unique styles -- a distinctive blend of the entrepreneur, the street fighter, and practices developed by the Communist Party -- and their distinctive ways of leading and managing their organizations that are unlike anything the West is familiar with.</p>

<p>When Peter Drucker published Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made large American corporations tick. Similarly, when Japanese companies emerged as a global force in the 1980s, insightful analysts explained the practices that brought Japan's economy out of the ashes -- and what managers elsewhere could learn to compete with them. Now, based on unprecedented access, Fortune Makers allows business leaders in the United States and the rest of the West to understand the essential character and style of Chinese corporate life and its dominant players, whose businesses are the foundation of the domestic Chinese market and are now making their mark globally.</p>

<p>Unsubscribe: How To Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, And Get Real Work Done</p>

<p>A modern, no-nonsense guide to getting rid of email anxiety, reclaiming your productivity, and spending more time on the work that matters.</p>

<p>Let's face it: Email is killing our productivity. The average person checks their email 11 times per hour, processes 122 messages a day, and spends 28 percent of their total workweek managing their inbox. What was once a powerful and essential tool for doing our daily work has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety, and distraction from our work.</p>

<p>Unsubscribe will show you how to tame your inbox and reclaim your focus, with tips on how to:</p>

<p>- Break free from email addiction and the "inbox zero" obsession</p>

<p>- Build a daily email routine that reduces stress and anxiety</p>

<p>- Process your inbox based on what (and who) really matters to you</p>

<p>- Write messages that get people to pay attention and take action</p>

<p>- Set boundaries and say "no" to time-wasting distractions</p>

<p>- Plan your day around meaningful work -- not busywork</p>

<p>Productivity isn't about just "keeping busy," it's about leaving a legacy. Are you ready to Unsubscribe?</p>

<p>The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, And The Quest To Colonize The Cosmos</p>

<p>The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier</p>

<p>The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel, and send humans even further than NASA has gone. These entrepreneurs have founded some of the biggest brands in the world-Amazon, Microsoft, Virgin, Tesla, PayPal-and upended industry after industry. Now they are pursuing the biggest disruption of all: space.</p>

<p>Based on years of reporting and exclusive interviews with all four billionaires, this authoritative account is a dramatic tale of risk and high adventure, the birth of a new Space Age, fueled by some of the world's richest men as they struggle to end governments' monopoly on the cosmos. The Space Barons is also a story of rivalry-hard-charging startups warring with established contractors, and the personal clashes of the leaders of this new space movement, particularly Musk and Bezos, as they aim for the moon and Mars and beyond.</p>

<p>Overheated: How Capitalism Broke The Planet - And How We Fight Back</p>

<p>In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by a quarter-century of neoliberal policies, that threatens to doom us before we've grasped the full extent of the crisis.</p>

<p>As Kate Aronoff argues, since the 1980s and 1990s, economists, pro-business Democrats and Republicans in the US, and global organizations like the UN and the World Economic Forum have all made concessions to the oil and gas industry that they have no intention of reversing. What's more, they believe that climate change can be solved through the market, capitalism can be a force for good, and all of us, corporations included, are fighting the good fight together.</p>

<p>These assumptions, Aronoff makes abundantly clear, will not save the planet. Drawing on years of reporting and rigorous economic analysis, Aronoff lays out a robust vision for what will, detailing how to constrain the fossil fuel industry; transform the economy into a sustainable, democratic one; mobilize political support; create effective public-private partnerships; enact climate reparations; and adapt to inevitable warming in a way that is just and equitable.</p>

<p>Our future, Aronoff's book makes clear, will require a radical reimagining of our politics and our economies, but if done right, it will save the world.</p>

<p>Aronoff's bold political &amp; economic agenda for saving the world in 12 years includes:</p>

<p>* decarbonizing the economy

* nationalizing utilities and the fossil fuel industry

* public sector - private sector partnerships in the public interest

* a jobs guarantee

* climate reparations

* equitable planning for inevitable warming

* low-carbon luxury</p>

<p>Impact: A Step-by-Step Plan to Create the World You Want to Live In</p>

<p>If you've ever felt too overwhelmed to make a difference, or just unsure of how to apply your unique skills to a bigger purpose, this book is ready to unlock your potential.</p>

<p>When you feel that pull to be part of social change, where do you start? How can you ensure that your good intentions create a positive impact? How do you focus your scattered efforts? And how do you sustain yourself throughout?</p>

<p>Impact brings you the answers. Drawing on their network and experience as founders of She's the First, Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts show you how to create your own impact strategy, one that fits into your life and allows you to match what you have with what the world needs.</p>

<p>Their guidance, paired with interactive activities, will lead you to identify your North Star, find the right partners, and plug into movements for long-term, systemic change. Equally important, you'll learn how to address biases, practice allyship, and shift power to become more inclusive and effective in your journey.</p>