Using research and interviews with industry experts at “talented” companies including Ford, Goldman Sachs and Cisco, describes how to find the most talented workers and keep them happy, challenged and
Two superstars revolutionizing economics?indeed all social science? provide breakthrough ideas for taking on big, complicated problems, using colorful stories from their travels and experiments around
Using a vast array of stories to illuminate his research, a leading psychologist and decision-making expert reveals how insights are formed and how insight can be a new way of understanding what occur
As President Of The World Bank for a decade, James Wolfensohn tackled global poverty with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important figure in a fundamental arena of change. Using a life
When Sepp Blatter joined FIFA in 1975 it had just twelve employees. Forty years later, the FBI have accused 14 executives of 47 counts of money laundering, racketeering and tax evasion linked to kickb
In the current era of intense global competition, advancing technology, weakness in organized labor and a worshiping of ?shareholder value,? the idea of a corporate social contract in America has beco
Most travel memoirs involve a button-nosed protagonist nursing a broken heart who, rather than tearfully watching The Princess Bride while eating an entire 5-gallon vat of ice cream directly out of th
American politics is not just a combination of high ideals and low cunning. It is also the story of thousands of local influencers, fixers, activists, and run-of-the-mill voters who shape the destinie
Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women p
In the mid-nineteenth century, Charleston, South Carolina was the most powerful city in the South. Men flocked from across the region to join in the city's vibrant economic, political, and cultural li
This is an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. All the ?givens? of civic life are no longer given. From the fracturing of the major political
As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line on Marathon Monday in Boston in 2013, she had no idea her life was about to change. She had no idea that in a matter of minutes she wo
In May 2014, the mountaineer and geologist John All fell into a crevasse near Everest and took a series of videos as he struggled to climb out 70 feet of ice and snow with broken bones, internal bleed
When Peter Drucker wrote Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made the large American corporation tick. Similarly, The Art of Japanese Management by Richard Pascale in 1981 explained t
In this new book, Charles Morris tackles the white whale of economic history, the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, which has become a palimpsest of competing fads and trends in thinking about f
Smick’s The World is Curved (2008) was a reply to Thomas Friedman and one of the first books to argue that globalization had unleashed dangerous and damaging economic forces. In An Economy for Everyon
?How did we miss that?” is perhaps the scariest question for a business leader to face: it's the one that they have to ask themselves when one day they wake up to discover that a competitor or startup
The 1980 rape and murder of four American women - three of them Catholic nuns - by the U.S.-trained military of El Salvador shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War po
Modern life is warped by the trend of specialization?the push for each person to be an expert in their own little niche. But is this serving us well? In business, government, personal life, sports, a
“A friend of mine, an American, was once asked to mention the two features of English life which had made most impression on him. He hesitated a moment, and then said, ‘The dogs and the children.’ The
"Dear Mr. Madoff: Just why did you do it? . . . . "Thus began Eugene Soltes’ fascinating look into the rarified world of the corporate executive turned criminal: A simple letter to prominent people wh
On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of th
How would we remember Abraham Lincoln if not for the Civil War?This may seem like a silly questionLincoln is applauded for starting a war over a moral outrage he couldn't bear, so there's little reaso
Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast,All the Kremlin’s Men is a historical detective story, full o
Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. Sales of authorized copies total near $1 billion to date, and that is just a fraction of the money made from knockoffs
On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate e
Authoritative and original, The Long Game is a controversial assessment of President Obama’s foreign policy legacy. Too often, critical discussions concerning American foreign policy are divorced from
Advances in technology are creating the next economy and enabling us to make things/do things/connect with others in smarter, cheaper, faster, more effective ways. But the price of this progress has b
The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategi
American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability.
For a decade after the Second World War, Emil Zatopek"the Czech Locomotive"redefined his sport, pushing back the frontiers of what was considered possible in terms of training, record-settin
The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan is the intimate, brave, bittersweet memoir of a remarkable young millennial, chronicling her journey from her trailer park home in Southeast Texas, her loving famil
During the 2014 Ebola crisis, the public watched with rapt attention as a handful of Americans contracted the deadly fever and were transported to treatment facilities in the United States. We charted
The Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo was described by a 1943 Manhattan Project intelligence report as the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered in the world.' So long as the USA remain
Champagne is the epitome of effervescence, the centerpiece of celebration, and a symbol of good fortune. It has become an icon, a symbol of luxury, an emblem of the "good life," and few are
The Founding Fathers, mythologized for their fervor for and dedication to democratic principles, were as heavily mired in partisanship, plagued by petty infighting, and driven by personal gain as, arg
Between 1970 and 1974 ten million Americans abandoned the city, and the commercialism, and all the inauthentic bourgeois comforts of the Eisenhower-era America of their parents. Instead, they went bac
"Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to
More Human is a scintillating manifesto that ranges across many aspects of lifefrom food to government, the economy to health careto argue that we need to redesign, reorganize, and reconsider our worl
Young black men are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts. The unemployment rate for African Americans has been double that of whites for more than half a century.
