#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.
本书探索研究并解释了80余个世界上*重要的、有关贸易、商业和管理的理论和伟大构思,并提供一个极具吸引力的视角,用以洞察过去和当下的商业世界。 作为对商业主题下基本原理的完美导读,《商业手册》分析了历史↑部分*重要的商界里程碑的发展和从亨利 福特到史蒂夫 乔布斯等大师和业内领军智囊所使用的关键商业策略。 在书中,每一个有影响力的商业构思都通过时尚雅致的信息图表对其作出清晰简单的解释。本书中简单易懂的解释,逐步分解的思维导图,让下至学生和商业从业者,上至准企业家们的所有人都能理解贸易和商业世界。本书同时描述了一系列具有启发意义的商业构思和超过100句值得铭记的名言警句。 Exploring and explaining more than 80 of the world's most important theories and big ideas about trade, commerce, and management, this book offers a fascinating
In this breakthrough book based on her company s #WomenWhoWork initiative, Ivanka Trump wife, mother, real estate developer, entrepreneur, and founder of her eponymous fashion brand and IvankaTrump.com disrupts the existing narrative of women and work to present a new worldview that celebrates how women work in all aspects of their lives. Through highly tactical, solution-oriented content, Trump empowers readers with the insight and tools to define success on their own terms and create the lives they want to live. Fifty percent of the world s workforce is made up of women, yet the term working women is still used as if they re an anomaly. Thanks in part to the generations of women who came before and fought hard to earn a seat at the table, today s working women among them, tens of millions of millennials are able to do things differently. Disappearing are the days of face time for the sake of face time, 9-to-5 hours, and perfectly mapped career paths. Today's generation of women is the first to
Book De*ion In his phenomenal bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, DanielGoleman mapped the territory where IQ meets EQ, where we apply whatwe know to how we live. Spending over a year on the New York Timesbestseller list, Emotional Intelligence provided the evidence forwhat many successful people already knew: being smart isn't just amatter of mastering facts; it's a matter of mastering your ownemotions and understanding the emotions of the people aroundyou.Now, in Working With Emotional Intelligence, Goleman shows whyemotional intelligence has become the new yardstick for success forCEOs and junior hires alike. Drawing on both unparalleled access tobusiness leaders and in-depth research, he documents that starperformance in every field depends more on emotional intelligencethan IQ or technical skills. And the impact of emotionalintelligence is even greater at the top of the leadershippyramid.Goleman vividly shows how self-awareness, motivation,influence, conflict management, and team-building pl
The universal laws of business success . . . no matter whetheryou are selling fruit from a stand or running a Fortune 500company. Have you ever noticed that the business savvy of theworld's best CEOs seems like a kind of street smarts? They sensewhere the opportunities are and how to take advantage of them. Andtheir companies make money consistently, year after year. Howdifferent is it to run a big company than to sell fruit from a cartor run a small shop in a village? In essence, not very, accordingto Ram Charan. From his childhood in India, where he worked in hisfamily's shoe shop, to his education at Harvard Business School andhis daily work advising many of the world's best CEOs, Ramunderstands business as few can. The best CEOs have a knack forbringing the most complex business down to the fundamentals—thesame fundamentals of the family shoe shop. They have businessacumen—the ability to focus on the basics and make money for thecompany. What the CEO Wants You to Know captures these insights an
This fun and accessible guide offers super advice forbusiness success. Top venture capitalist and self- proclaimed “comicbook geek” Sean Wise reveals how to create a winning businesspersona through valuable strategies from great comic book icons. Inthis engaging and insightful guide, Wise takes readers on a guidedtour through the world of superheroes and their lessons, directlyrelating them to essential business tactics people need to masterin order to succeed in today’s workplace. Featuring modern-day examples of business icons who best illustratesuperhero strategies—as well as cautionary lessons from infamoussupervillains—this is the book for anyone who dreams of donning acape instead of a suit, taking an oath instead of swearing at thecopier, and seeing the big picture instead of getting mired in thedaily grind.
Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - andmostbusinesses - want to emulate; the firm with the best talent,the best clients,the best strategy. But is their success just downto the gilded magic ofthe 'Goldman way'?
From two leaders in executive education at Harvard BusinessSchool, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you needto achieve outstanding results in any negotiation. Whether you’ve “seen it all” or are just starting out,Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiatingskills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral researchplus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authorstake the mystery out of preparing for and executingnegotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals orimproving your next salary offer. What sets negotiation geniuses apart? They are the men andwomen who know how to: ?Identify negotiation opportunities where others see noroom for discussion ?Discover the truth even when the other side wants toconceal it ?Negotiate successfully from a position of weakness ?Defuse threats, ultimatums, lies, and other hardballtactics ?Overcome resistance and “sell” proposals using proveninfluence tactics
On December 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar will end. Manysee it as an apocalyptic sign. But is it? In The Twelfth Insight, the long-awaited fourth book in thebeloved Celestine Series, we again follow our Hero and his closefriend Wil. They have just received a portion of another ancientand mysterious manu* that describes a secret approach tospirituality that is silently arriving in the second decade of the21st Century. But the manu* is only available in fragments. To understand its full meaning for mankind, our Hero and Wilbegin an urgent search to find the message in its entirety. As theyembrace the power of Synchronicity and begin their search, they areconfronted by powerful political forces and religious extremiststhat stand in the way of these spiritual revelations. Utilizing what he calls the "parable effect," and based on hisown sources, James Redfield explores the similarities anddifferences that exist among the world religions, revealing theessential
It’s not good enough to want it. You’ve got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind-set–how to think about money, career skills, and life. Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the expert, everything from dealing with brokers to renovating to assessing the value of property, buying and selling, and securing a mortgage. Trump will show you how to cut costs, decide how much risk to assume in your investments, and divide up your portfolio. He’ll also teach you how to impress anyone, how to correct or criticize someone effectively, and how to know if your friends are loyal–everything you need to know to get ahead. And once you’ve earned your money, you’ve got to learn to spend it well. Trump presents his consumer guide to the best things in life, from wine to golf clubs to engagement rings. Check out the billionaire lifestyle–how they shop and what they buy. Even if you’re not s
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkerscomes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive andturbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having onAmerican democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich showshow widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened jobinsecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical resultsof a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influenceof business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them. Powerful andthought-provoking, Supercapitalism argues that a clearseparation of politics and capitalism will foster an enviroment inwhich both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism inthe service of democracy, and not the other way around.