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Brought to you by Penguin. The remarkable true story of the man who took on a corporate giant - and won In the early days of the Covid pandemic, warehouse worker Chris Smalls and his colleagues continued showing up as the rest of the world was shutting down. A dedicated and experienced Amazon...

Chaos isn’t coming. It’s already here. Chaos is the New Black: Navigating Power, Narrative, and Transformation is not just another self-help book. It’s a field guide for professionals, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens who are done reacting to disruption—and ready to master it. In a world engineered for confusion, clarity is your greatest act of resistance.

“The Cost of Silence” is a modern parable about a seasoned professional, Jacob, who joins thriving tech firm CDS and collides with a subtle, suffocating culture where efficiency and usefulness outrank truth. Through the small but telling choices of his manager, Danielle, Jacob learns how silence becomes a weapon, how quiet performers are sidelined by louder politics, and how personal cuts hide behind policy.

Michael Jordan no sólo fue uno de los deportistas más importantes de todos los tiempos, sino que también, con el avance de su carrera, se convirtió en uno de los grandes referentes de éxito en el siglo XX. Pero, ¿cómo se creó la leyenda de Michael Jordan y cuáles fueron sus efectos?, ¿por qué nos hechizó tantas veces verlo jugar, verlo triunfar en la vida y en los negocios?, y sobre todo, ¿qué podemos aprender de él y cómo podemos aplicarlo a nuestra vida?

Las claves estratégicas de uno de los grupos empresariales más exitosos y emblemáticos de México. Establecida en 1945, Bimbo surgió a partir de la experiencia de sus fundadores en la panadería El Molino para producir y vender pan de caja en el territorio de la República Mexicana. Ahora, con presencia en más de treinta países, es un emblema del crecimiento empresarial mexicano en un mundo globalizado y competitivo.

As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. Exhaustively researched and documented, Drowning in Oil is the first in-depth examination of how a lack of corporate responsibility and government oversight led to the biggest offshore oil spill in US history. It is an objective, definitive account of the energy industry and BP's pursuit of profit at any cost.

Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic. Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs...

It can be difficult to live according to our values in a complicated world. At a time when capitalism seems most unforgiving but the need for paying work remains high, it is important to learn how we can be more mindful and intentional about our impact - personal, social, economic, and environmental. As designer and creative director Kelly Small had to do to navigate a crisis of ethics and burnout in their career in advertising, we can admit our complicity in problematic systems and take on the responsibility of letting our own conscience guide our decisions.

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of...

"Nunca confie em alguém que não arrisca a própria pele", diz Taleb. Por que não devemos escutar pessoas que só falam em vez de agir? Por que empresas entram em falência? Por que existem mais escravos hoje do que nos tempos romanos? Por que impor a democracia em outros países nunca funciona? A resposta: muitas das pessoas que estão no comando do mundo não arriscam a própria pele.

O que faz algumas pessoas serem mais bem-sucedidas que outras? Tem relação com habilidade e estratégia ou pode ter influência de algum fator que foge ao nosso controle? Iludidos pelo acaso é sobre sorte — ou, mais precisamente, sobre como a encaramos nas nossas experiências pessoais e profissionais. Nassim Taleb apresenta insights sobre essa variável nebulosa das nossas decisões e, para isso, usa exemplos do mercado financeiro — área em que supostamente a sorte pode ser confundida com habilidade.

Mitarbeiter haben heute eine andere Erwartung an ihre Vorgesetzten. Führung ist mittlerweile der "Blick über den Tellerrand", der es einer Führungskraft ermöglicht, das eigene Welt- und Werteverständnis zu verlassen und das des Unternehmens und der Mitarbeiter einzusehen und zu verstehen. Um dieser Herausforderung gerecht zu werden, entwickelte Rainer Krumm auf Grundlage der Arbeiten des amerikanischen Psychologieprofessors Clare W. Graves das Führungsprinzip der "9 levels of value systems".

Born 1898 in the Northern-Italian city of Modena, Enzo Ferrari lived his dream and founded the world’s most famous sports car manufacturer. This book analyzes how he achieved his goals by what are considered to be modern concepts. Or were leadership theories, emotional intelligence, business ethics, client orientation, and sustainability already guiding principles of business in the beginning of the last century.

Serial entrepreneur and business visionary Dale Partridge reveals seven core beliefs that create success by putting people first. Every day major headlines tell the story of a new and better American marketplace. Established corporations have begun reevaluating the quality of their products, the...

New Marketing, whose tools include things like MySpace, You Tube, Web sites, permission marketing, cable TV, and viral techniques, is reshaping our world. But many companies try to use the tools without first getting their organization and products in sync with them. The result: what Seth Godin calls a "meatball sundae". A big, ineffective mess.

In the same vein as major bestsellers as Tony Dungy's Quiet Strength, Coach K's Leading with the Heart, and Bo'sLasting Lessons by Bo Schembechler, Coach Ken Carter brings us a highly personal motivational and inspirational book of dedicated life lessons. Accountability . . . Overcoming...

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, corporate America has doubled down on its public intentions to be more inclusive and equitable. Yet beyond the pledges it is difficult to see which system changes make a real difference. In From Intention to Impact, Malia Lazu draws on her background as a community organizer, her corporate career as a bank president, and now her experience as a leading DEI consultant to explain what has been holding organizations back and what they need to do better.

This pamphlet provides an alternative basis for understanding and applying ethical leadership. Ethical ideologies and the managerialization of leadership are treated as problems to be overcome.

The Soul of Capitalism examines how the greatest wealth-creation engine in the history of the world is failing most of us, why it must be changed, and how intrepid pioneers are beginning to transform it. Best-selling author William Greider analyzes how our relentless pursuit of unprecedented affluence has eroded family life, eaten away at our sense of personal and professional security, corroded our communities, impoverished our spiritual lives, and devastated our natural environment.

Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it...