In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. 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.
Jul 8, 2019
William Duggan has conducted pioneering research on strategic intuition and for the past three years has taught a popular course at Columbia Business School on the subject. He now gives us this eye-opening book that shows how strategic intuition lies at the heart of great achievements throughout human history.
Jul 7, 2019
"Skin in the Game” provides a meta guide to risk exposure and how the fragility works. It’s not so much exploration of strategies for dealing with uncertainty, it’s more of a deep intellectual dive into origins of thinking about risks and its impact on politics, businesses, belief systems - across different magnitudes of scale.
Jul 4, 2019
The book covers recent theoretical, empirical, and practical developments that provide a solid basis for the practice of collaborative innovation
Apr 30, 2019
The handbook introduces creativity scholarship by summarising its history, major theories and assessments, how creativity develops across the lifespan, and suggestions for improving creativity.
Apr 24, 2019
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Sep 17, 2015
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup
Mar 4, 2014
Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers.
The book illustrates existence of a vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle
Jan 28, 2014
Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations the book explores these insights to diagnose patterns of innovation, and to evaluate how firms are performing against competitors. The framework has proven to be one of the most enduring and useful ways to start process of transformation.
Apr 15, 2013
An intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
Jun 7, 2011
A masterful work by two leading economists on some of the biggest issues in economics: economic growth, human capital, and inequality. There are fundamental insights in the book, not just about our past but also our future.
Mar 30, 2010
A comprehensive perspective on the micro- and macroeconomics of innovation. The book breaks new ground in identifying and analyzing the key ingredients driving economic growth.
Jan 24, 2010
How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.
Jan 2, 2002
A collection of essays brings psychiatric and philosophical authority to the discussion of an important topic - creativity. AN enormous amount of seminal works on creativity. Individual papers are all classics.
Jun 1, 1976
An unbeatable introduction to the economic history of the industrial and technologiocal revolutions in Western Europe.
Nov 16, 1969
A semi-academic book on the diffusion process (adopt an innovation, then spreading it the word among their circle of acquaintances). The information contained within is paramount to implementing change across a diverse population.
Jan 1, 1962
An exploration of a large number of major and increasingly complex problems facing human society. Homer-Dixon fears that it is: "the hour is late," and we're blindly "careening into the future."
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