The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
By: Lee Vinsel
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Innovation is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if its benefits has been exaggerated, and …
Want to Read $ 7.99"The associate dean of libraries was talking about “innovation"-Lee Vinsel, The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
"The associate dean of libraries was talking about “innovation"-Lee Vinsel, The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
"The associate dean of libraries was talking about “innovation"-Lee Vinsel, The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
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1. Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers (A Gift for Marketers)
By: Seth Godin
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permissio… read more
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"in virtually every industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable. Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, le…"-Seth Godin, Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers (A Gift for Marketers)
"The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're int…"-Seth Godin, Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers (A Gift for Marketers)
2. Stumbling on Happiness
By: None
4.02
Format: None pages,
* Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in … read more
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3. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good… read more
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4. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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5. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
6. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
7. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
8. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more
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"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
9. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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10. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
By: Jake Knapp
4.08
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, … read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
By: Celeste Headlee
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human… read more
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"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "in…"-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
13. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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14. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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15. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
16. Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems
By: Frances Frei
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable , Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent… read more
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17. Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication
By: Vanessa Van Edwards
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Wall Street Journal bestseller! For anyone who wants to be heard at work, earn that overdue promo… read more
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18. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
By: Dana Milbank
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold… read more
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19. How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
By: Matt Ridley
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements… read more
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20. The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
By: Lee Vinsel
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Innovation is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if its benefits has been exaggerated, and … read more
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"The associate dean of libraries was talking about “innovation"-Lee Vinsel, The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
21. No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
By: Erwin Chemerinsky
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy a… read more
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"The Constitution's failure to protect Native Americans, like its failure to protect Americans of African descent, reverberates to this day."-Erwin Chemerinsky, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
"We need to stop venerating a document written in 1787 for an agrarian slave society and imagine what a constitution for the twenty-first century should look like."-Erwin Chemerinsky, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
"Democracies are there until they are not. No form of government lasts forever. Only arrogance would cause us to believe that the United States is somehow immune to pressures for authoritarianism and …"-Erwin Chemerinsky, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
"The constitutional reforms that are essential to save American democracy are not difficult to identify. They must include popular election of the president, the allocation of Senate seats based on po…"-Erwin Chemerinsky, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
