#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One , legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system.
A game plan for team players in every arena of life--business,family, sports--uses examples from the life of the great basketballcoach to show how any group can combine strengths and talents andbe successful. Reprint. No one knows the dynamics of a winning team better than Pat Riley,one of pro basketball's most successful coaches. The Winner Withinis his game plan for team players in every aspect of life:business, family, or sports. Riley uses his own examples ofsuccess--in and out of sports--to show how any group can blend itstalents to create lasting success. The pro basketball coach and popular motivational speaker presentshis recipe for leadership, personal growth, and control of shiftingdynamics, showing how to forge strong groups that can work togetherto create success
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Insightful and inspiring, Closing the Leadership Gap is a call to action to increase the presence of women in powerful leadership positions in our country-in politics as well as business. Marie C. Wilson, a leading women's advocate and founder of the White House Project argues that even as our nation sits on a world spinning with crises, we have barely begun to tap our most critical natural resource--women. Despite the common view that women already permeate every level of leadership, in fact: The United States ranks sixtieth in the world in terms of female political representation A study of Sunday-morning tall shows found that male guests outnumbered females 9 to 1 Women constitute 47 percent of the labor force in the United States yet lead only six Fortune 500 companies One out of every seven military personnel in Iraq are women, but only fifty women in the armed services Rich have reached the rank of admiral or general Rich with historical context and supported by a wealth of curr
Can one be both an ethical person and an effectivebusinessperson? Stephen Green, an ordained priest and the chairmanof HSBC, thinks so. In Good Value , Green retraces thehistory of the global economy and its financial systems, and showsthat while the marketplace has delivered huge advantages tohumanity, it has also abandoned over a billion people to extremepoverty, encouraged overconsumption and debt, and ravaged theenvironment. How do we reconcile the demands of capitalism with both the commongood and our own spiritual and psychological needs as individuals?To answer that, and some of the most vexing questions of our age,Green takes us on a lively and erudite journey through history,looking for lessons in the work of economists and philosophers,businessmen and poets, theologians and novelists, playwrights andpolitical scientists. An essential business book by a man who isuniquely qualified to write it, Good Value is a timely andpersuasive analysis of the most pressing financial and moralquestions we fac