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Michael Woodford was a company man. He'd risen through the ranks of giant Japanese firm Olympus to become CEO. But just weeks into the job in Tokyo he came across allegations of enormous fraud. Y

The Internet is great for collaboration and exchanging information, but deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and transactions. By contrast, blockchain technology is private and secure. This book ex

Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be different? In this book, the author lays out a ground plan for a diffe

The author has probably failed at more things than anyone you've ever met. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world's most famous comi

'With Steve Jobs's passing, Apple can survive, but it won't prevail.' - Forbes, October 2011In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest busin

'With Steve Jobs's passing, Apple can survive, but it won't prevail.' - Forbes, October 2011 In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest busi

The New York Times-bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Better offers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question: are you playing the finite gam

Winner of the Business Book Awards 'Thought Leader' category ----- With his million-copy bestseller The Lean Startup, Eric Ries launched a global movement. Concepts like minimal viable product, A/B te

The New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with a new chapter on millennials in the workplace, based on Simon Sinek's viral video

Bo Burlingham, the bestselling author of Small Giants, returns with Finish Big, an original guide to exiting your company successfully and gracefully. "Finish Big is for all those founder/leaders who

The twenty-first century is an age of in numerable social conundrums. What is the correct way to deal with dinner guests who check their emails throughout the meal? Can shorts and sandals ever be acce

Simon Sinek's recent video on 'The Millennial Question' went viral with over 100M views and his TED Talk on the million copy bestseller Start with Why is the third most watched of all time. Sinek's la

Do you have an idea in you? A hobby, a project, a product ...something that could change your life? With advice from the people behind the likes of Pizza Pilgrims, Parkrun and Decoded, this book shows

Carlo Ancelotti is one of the greatest managers of all time, with five Champions League titles to his name. Yet his approach could not be further from the aggressive theatricals favoured by many of hi

CARLO ANCELOTTI is one of the greatest managers of all time, with five Champions League titles to his name. Yet his approach could not be further from the aggressive theatricals favoured by many of hi

Through interviews with chefs working in professional kitchens all over the world, culinary students, line cooks and restaurant employees, the author reveals the ten major principles of mise-en-place

To envision the future is one thing, getting others to go there with you is another. By harnessing the power of persuasive communication you can turn your idea into a movement. This title provides the

From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table.

Take your passion and make it happen with The Idea In You by Martin Amor and Alex Pellew We all have an idea in us: a passion, a project, a product. We dream of using that idea to change our lives - w

Real Indian food is fresh, simple and packed with flavour. This book introduces Britain to the food the author grew up eating here every day. It serves up a feast of over 130 delicious recipes collect

With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', this title offers a collection of stories

Begins with Barbara Taylor's visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London - a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England's most in

Presents a response to George Orwell's 'Why I Write'. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of reflections on the writing life, this is a companion

Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke.Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory- filled landscapes of

Can the BRICs sustain their exceptional growth? Which nations will come next? And what, for all of us, does the future hold? This book deals with these questions.

Ben is a young manager who has been charged with persuading 500 employees to agree to a merger. Facing an impossible battle, he seeks the advice of an old friend, who introduces him to eccentric Aunt

'The Squiggly Career is about navigating work in a way that suits you, it's a timely and brilliant handbook for now' Stylist'Like going one-to-one with a personal career coach, it's impossible to leav

Lunch with the Financial Times has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 25 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world. The

In a world where we are constantly connected, it's those with the best people skills who win the day. Those who build the right relationships. Those who truly understand and connect with their colleag

Standing out is no longer optional. Learn how to become a thought leader - the agenda setter, the go-to person - with Dorie Clark's Stand Out. Too many people believe that if they keep their heads dow

Ben is an ambitious young executive charged with persuading 500 employee shareholders to agree to a merger that will save their company. But despite his best efforts, he can't convince anyone to buy i

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | OVER 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEWhy do some products capture our attention while others fade into obscurity? What makes us check our phones, open an app, or scroll a feed without even thinking?Is there a repeatable pattern behind how technology hooks us?In Hooked, Nir Eyal reveals the secret psychology behind the world’s most engaging products. Introducing the groundbreaking Hook Model - Trigger ? Action ? Variable Reward ? Investment - Eyal uncovers how products from Apple, Twitter, Instagram and Google create lasting user habits and how you can ethically harness these principles to build products people love. Packed with cutting-edge behavioural science, case studies, and practical frameworks, Hooked is both a manual for product designers and a mirror for anyone curious about their own habits.‘Hooked changed my life. It’s essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand their actions and habits’Steven Bartlett, Diary of a CEO‘Nir Eyal taugh

Shares the secret to sales success: don't just build relationships with customers. This title argues that classic relationship-building is the wrong approach.

If you think being funny is unprofessional, think again. Some people think the workplace is no place for funny business. But in fact, the upside of humour for our careers is significant. A recent surv

WHAT IF BUSINESS COULD HELP SOLVE THE GREATEST PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME?Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. At th

Louai Al Roumani was head of finance and planning at Banque Bemo Saudi Fransi (BBSF), a privately owned retail bank in Syria, when the war broke out in 2011. Over the next few years he would find hims

You want to go freelance. You want to make your career work for you, on your terms and determined by your own definition of success. You want autonomy, flexibility and variety. But where do you start?

In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook.Today, F

'Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely' - ADAM GRANT, author of Originals and Give and TakeFT Book of the MonthYour words matter more than you th

John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimagin