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Who controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their laptop? Who owns your favourite football player? And why do Facebook and Google want your private data? In ‘Mine!’ Michael Heller and James Salzman reveal the hidden economic and social rules that guide everyday life, demonstrating that much of what we assume about ownership is wrong. Whether a lost wallet, a playground swing or a London flat, ‘Mine!’ explores what ownership means and why it governs everything we do.
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A new approach to negotiation that replaces the usual ‘tug of war’ with a more positive experience based on collaboration, building trust and finding hidden value
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First, this book will change how you see the world.
Then you will change how others see it.
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The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit.
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The world of business is changing. The single pursuit of ‘profit at any cost’ has been replaced by a desire to build and run companies that create a better future, as well as enjoying commercial success. In ‘Do Build’, Alan Moore draws on his years of research into some of the most pioneering and progressive businesses on the planet. By speaking to a number of purpose-driven founders, he discovers that it is possible to lead with generosity, create a company culture that allows individuals to do their best work, to have a transparent supply chain, and create products and services that are considered and profitable. His insights will challenge and inspire the founders of tomorrow to design and build a different type of business. One that the world needs. Business can do good. It can regenerate and restore our economy, our environment, our civilisation.
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The CEO of The Walt Disney Company shares the ideas and values he has used to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world, and inspire the people who bring the magic to life. In 2005, Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company during a difficult time. Morale had deteriorated, competition was more intense, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. ‘I knew there was nothing to be gained from arguing over the past’, Iger writes. ‘The only thing that mattered was the future, and I believed I had a clear idea of the direction Disney needed to go’. It came down to three clear ideas: (1) Create the highest quality content Disney could produce. (2) Embrace and adopt technology instead of fighting it. And (3) Think bigger – think global – and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.
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Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding, and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all – understanding people’s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people’s masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose.
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Richard Reed built Innocent Drinks from a smoothie stall on a street corner to one of the biggest brands in Britain. He credits his success to four brilliant pieces of advice, each given to him just when he needed them most. Ever since, it has been Richard’s habit, whenever he meets somebody he admires, to ask them for their best piece of advice. If they could tell him just one thing, what would it be? Richard has collected pearls of wisdom from some of the most remarkable, inspiring and game-changing people in the world – in business, tech, politics, sport, art, spirituality, medicine, film and design.
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Even though everyone is talking about it, there is no concept in business more muddled than ‘strategy’. Richard Rumelt tackles this problem head-on. He offers an explanation of how to develop and take action on strategy, in business, and politics.
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Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalised and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
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As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the world’s first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream first as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged an early partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later and against all odds, ‘Toy Story’ was released, changing animation forever. Since then, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as ‘Monsters, Inc.’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Up’, and ‘WALL-E’, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner 27 Academy Awards. Now, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques, honed over years, that have made Pixar so widely admired-and so profitable.
