The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
By: Clayton M. Christensen
4.28
Format: 368 pages, ebook
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1. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
By: Deborah Stone
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Since its debut, Policy Paradox has been widely acclaimed as the most accessible policy text availa… read more
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"People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference."-Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. In the original and primary sense of lacks or needs, wants …"-Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
2. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
3. Kim
By: Rudyard Kipling , None
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more
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4. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
By: Mark Miodownik
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more
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- nonfiction
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6. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
By: Peter M. Senge
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Completely Updated and Revised This revised edition of Peter Senge's bestselling classic, The Fifth… read more
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7. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
By: Muhammad Yunus , Alan Jolis
3.84
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of pov… read more
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8. Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks and exchanges, thi… read more
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9. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
By: Steven Kotler , Peter H. Diamandis
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge--this is a book about how we rise to meet it. … read more
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10. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
11. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
By: Ray Dalio
4.28
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more
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- audiobook
12. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
By: Ben Horowitz
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- leadership
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- audiobook
"Without trust, communication breaks. Here’s why: In any human interaction the required amount of community is inversely proportional to the level of trust."-Ben Horowitz, What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
13. The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities
By: Patrick Lencioni
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Shay was still angry but shrugged nonchalantly as if to say, it's not that big of a deal. "So, what… read more
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- audiobook
14. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
By: Reid Hoffman
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Foreword by Bill Gates LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Maste… read more
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15. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
4.23
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more
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- politics
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- economics
- society
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- audiobook
"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
16. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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17. This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See
By: Seth Godin
3.94
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER & INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA game-changing approach to ma… read more
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18. The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
By: Clayton M. Christensen
4.28
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New… read more
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- entrepreneurship
- finance
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19. Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
By: Paul Polman
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource constraints, and s… read more
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"People with purpose thrive, brands with purpose grow, and companies with purpose last."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Anyone who things that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Our current economic system has two fundamental weaknesses: it’s based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and it benefits a small number of people, not everyone."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Creating positive returns for stakeholders does not mean satisfying all of them at the same time, or focusing equal attention and resources on each. You can't prioritize everyone at once."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
20. Capital and Ideology
By: Thomas Piketty
4.28
Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more
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"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
21. Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
By: Gabriel Weinberg
4.04
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller! "You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated … read more
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