Finance, Business & Management Books

In 1978, an obscure animated TV show produced by an upstart Toronto firm caught the eye of the world's hottest filmmaker, George Lucas.He was looking for someone to produce an animated short for a CBS Star Wars television special. The ensuing...

Drive transformation.Change is now constant. As a leader, you must serve as interpreter, project manager, cheerleader, and conduit. Plans evolve. Contexts shift. Progress happens in fits and starts. Through it all, you must push your team forward even...

Learning is the mindset, the differentiating skill, and the approach to life and the world that defines the most successful leaders.When you put learning at the center of everything you do, you'll grow your career, boost your leadership skills,...

The two landmark books, Blue Ocean Strategy and Beyond Disruption, that together challenge everything you thought you knew about winning the future.These two iconic books, Blue Ocean Strategy and Beyond Disruption, together changed how the world thinks...

Overworked? Overwhelmed? Protect yourself from burnout.The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for our jobs, we're often asked to manage tasks that don't lead to career...

Want to start a business and ready to make a plan? This workbook will walk you through the essential steps with no fluff.Joe Biel, founder of Microcosm Publishing and co-author of Unfuck Your Business, talks you through honing your idea, figuring out...

Pattern Breaks is a handbook for navigating the world of creative facilitation. It is for facilitators, trainers, educators, group leaders, and anyone who would like to bring more creativity out of their groups and out of themselves. It provides food for...

AI including generative AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge.Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no...

The Digital Transformation Playbook: What You Need to Know and Do is anindispensable resource for you and your organization as you embark on theexciting and challenging journey of digital transformation. It features insightfulideas and best practices...

When Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2013 season he was the most successful football manager Britain had ever seen, having won twice as many trophies as his nearest rival. But that success had not come easily. Thirty-five years previously he...

The transnationally coordinated response to "Covid-19" witnessed numerous developments reminiscent of the prewar years of the Third Reich, including the suspension of constitutional rights and freedoms, the rollout of draconian legislation, an attempted...

An essential new guide to navigating macroeconomic risk.The shocks and crises of recent years pandemic, recession, inflation, war have forced executives and investors to recognise that the macroeconomy is now a risk to be actively managed. Yet unreliable...

A rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.On Work gathers a...

A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nationA conventional economic theory, monetarism, holds that inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by changes in the supply of money. Yet recent experience...

"Unleash Your Team & Unlock Their Potential" teaches readers how to set their people free to realize their potential. This book provides a unique and fresh perspective on team building that is timeless in its approach. The book clearly defines what...

Why would the first family of oil so ardently support environmental climate research and activism? Join author and researcher Jacob Nordangrd as he uncovers the whole sordid truth.The Rockefeller family is one of the richest in the world. Yet, why would...

Everyone leads projects. Learn how to manage them more effectively.If you read nothing else on leading projects large and small, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most...

Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient times. But now, more than ever, exhibits and the organisations responsible for them have become part of our troubled politics. Protests force out problematic patrons and curators, and pressure museums...

Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you.The AI transformation is underway, but where are the leaders who will ensure their companies implement AI successfully and responsibly? Up until now, leaders have largely ceded their role in the AI...

Move past the ESG culture wars and make better choices for your business.Embracing ESG environmental, social, and governance goals isn't just the right thing to do. It's good business. Companies that don't address their...

In Lead Boldly, peak performance coach Hugh Blane shares his three guiding principles for converting human potential into inspired performance. He does this by providing a detailed road map for transforming a leader's results at work and home in...

Climate investor and activist Tom Steyer shows us how we can win the war on climate.The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the same time, the clean...

The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighbouring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea...

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun - from lower test scores to higher crime rates - and how we might tackle them today.It's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we...

Crown Resorts, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten's Allied Medical Group, 7-Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on...Australia has suffered from the continual sting of business scandals since corporate cowboys like Alan Bond...

I'm not here to make work friends. Or am I?Managers, peers, work friends, mentors, frenemies, annoying people, romantic interests, your boss's boss, and so on. We probably spend more hours with our coworkers than with anyone else. So...

Say no to a culture of constant work.We often equate our productivity with the number of hours we spend working. But do we really need to work endlessly, through weekends and during vacations, to be seen as stars? To find a healthy balance between our...

A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book A devastating investigation into the "corporate poverty complex"-the myriad businesses that profit from the poor Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs...

Drawn is a compendium of Frazier's illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 405 illustrations and sketches curated from a career spanning over 40 years. Respected by design peers and...

LIKE FILM SCHOOL FOR TRAINERS! Film and edit effective training videos-using your smartphone. Whether you're a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don't need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful...

Strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential.If you read nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most...

Two world-renowned experts on innovation and digital strategy explore how real-time data and AI will radically transform physical products - and the companies that make them.Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from...

Five invaluable lessons for doing sustainability right, doing it profitably, and getting the credit you deserve.Did the title of this book get your attention? Good. Because as silly as it is, the idea behind it is serious, earnest, and authentic: you...

A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland. "Second Classis the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is...

With a new afterword by the authorsA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth-countless species becoming extinct,...

At last! Godine found a use for the word "sciolist" in a subtitle! This is a throwback to Godine's core of erudition on obscure but fascinating subjects.Unique history of lexicographers and the dictionaries they created. Abundantly illustrated.Author,...

In this succinct volume, author Brainard Carey, an artist with prestigious exhibitions like the Whitney Biennial under his belt, distills two decades of personal experience and over 1,900 interviews with artists and curators for Yale University Radio...

Are we sometimes too strong for our own good?Amid epidemics of anxiety and depression,threats of ecological and economic disaster, not to mention a pandemic, resilience has been the buzzword of the decade, the answer to every challenge we face as...

A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy.At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual...

Grow your audience, shrink your footprint, change the world Straight-talk on what makes a purposeful, sustainable event, including honest, practical insights into case studies of hits, misses, and lessons learned. -SHAWNA MCKINLEY, Principal, Clear...

Explore the rich history of Canada's largest ranch.Douglas Lake is the largest ranch in Canada, encompassing over one million acres of BC's south-central interior, and thousands of people have worked there since it was founded in the mid 1880s. Douglas...

Another tell it like it is, no holds barred addition to Dan Kennedy's No B.S. series which has sold hundreds of thousands of books worldwide. Dan S. Kennedy is back and making a large presence in 2024 with a new speaking tour, podcast features, and event...

Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Lwy's essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the...

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other "long problems" that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow,...

Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea,...

The future of AI is here.The world is transfixed by the marvel (and possible menace) of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. It's clear Gen AI will transform the business landscape, but when and how much remain to be seen. Meanwhile, your...

<p>What is money? What is capital? Christopher J. Arthur brilliantly tackles these fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level in <em>The Spectre of Capital</em>. He argues that the modern world is ruled...

"Jae Oh's Maximize Your Medicare is the best book I've read on understanding all of the Medicare options and how Medicare intersects with other health insurance options." -Wade Pfau, Professor of Retirement Income at The American CollegeIncludes the Most...