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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
What if the greatest forces shaping our lives are the ones we never see coming? The Black Swan plunges into the world of improbable events—rare, unpredictable, and colossal in impact—unveiling how our blind faith in patterns and probabilities leaves us vulnerable to chaos. With sharp wit and philosophical depth, the book dismantles our illusion of certainty, urging us to rethink what it means to understand risk, randomness, and the unknowable. Are we prisoners of the past, forecasting the future through a broken lens? This is a provocative exploration of how fragility, arrogance, and surprise dance at the heart of every decision we make.
- Originally Published: 2007
- Publisher : Random House Publishing Group, 2011
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 480
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141034591
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Thinking Fast and Slow
Your mind is a battleground between two selves: one impulsive and instinctual, the other deliberate and slow. Thinking, Fast and Slow pulls back the curtain on the quiet tug-of-war behind every choice we make—from trivial daily decisions to life-altering judgments—revealing just how often we are strangers to our own reasoning. What if your confidence is an illusion, your logic a mirage, and your certainty the mask of a hidden bias? With surgical clarity and unsettling insight, this book challenges not just how you think, but who you believe yourself to be.
- Originally Published: 2011
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 2024
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 624
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780141033570
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What They Don’t Teach you at Harvard Business School
In the high-stakes arena of business, textbooks teach strategy—but the real world demands instinct, timing, and the unspoken art of reading people. What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School is a sharp, street-smart guide into the unwritten rules of success—where handshake psychology, quiet observation, and intuitive judgment matter more than perfect spreadsheets. How do you win trust in a boardroom full of egos, or spot the lie hidden in polite words? With wit and candor, this book invites you behind the curtain of corporate theater, revealing that the most valuable lessons in business are often unsaid, unseen, and unteachable.
- Originally Published: 1984
- Publisher: Profile Books, 2014
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 240
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 9781781253397
- Access: Members
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The Lean Startup
What if failure were not a dead end, but a compass? The Lean Startup reimagines the chaotic world of entrepreneurship as a disciplined dance of bold ideas, rapid testing, and relentless adaptation. In this playbook for modern innovators, the startup becomes a living experiment—where uncertainty is not feared but harnessed, and progress is measured not by grand plans but by learning what customers truly need. Can a startup grow not by building more, but by building less—and learning faster? With clarity and urgency, this book invites creators to trade guesswork for insight, and vision for validated action.
- Originally Published: 2011
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 2011
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 336
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780670921607
- Access: Members
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
In a world where our choices are never as free as they seem, Nudge reveals the hidden levers that shape how we decide—from what we eat to how we save, vote, or plan our futures. Through the lens of behavioral science, it explores how small, well-placed cues—nudges—can guide us toward wiser, healthier, and more ethical outcomes without taking away our agency. But can gentle guidance coexist with true freedom, or does every choice architecture carry the fingerprints of power? With clarity and warmth, this book challenges us to see decision-making not as a cold calculation, but as a deeply human dance between impulse, intention, and design. It is a quiet manifesto for a smarter society—one choice at a time.
- Originally Published: 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 384
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780141999937
- Access: Members
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich
Behind the polished gates of global finance and industry, Plutocrats peels back the gilded curtain on a new ruling class—one whose influence stretches beyond borders and whose wealth multiplies as inequality deepens. With unsettling clarity and a journalist’s eye for paradox, the book charts how meritocracy mutates into oligarchy, and how ambition, once a ladder for the many, becomes a fortress for the few. Are today’s ultra-rich the architects of progress, or the harbingers of social fracture? As the fortunes of the elite soar ever higher, the real question emerges: can a world tilted so steeply still hold together?
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher: The Penguin Press, 2013
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780141043425
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Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
What if the key to building the future lay not in predicting it, but in reversing into it—starting with the customer, and daring to challenge every assumption in your way? Working Backwards pulls back the curtain on the enigmatic engine behind one of the world’s most relentless innovators, revealing not just tools and tactics, but a mindset forged in clarity, discipline, and radical ownership. With crisp prose and surgical insight, the book explores how bold ideas become scalable systems—by writing the press release before the code, and choosing conviction over consensus. Can innovation truly be methodical, or must genius always be chaotic? This is a rare blueprint for those bold enough to rethink how greatness is built—one decision, and one principle, at a time.
- Originally Published: 2021
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, 2021
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 286
- BookType: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781250275714
- Access: Members
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Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Power and Prediction explores the profound transformation unleashed when prediction—once a human art—is mastered by machines, reshaping economies, industries, and the very fabric of decision-making. With incisive clarity, it reveals how the ability to foresee outcomes redefines value and power, challenging us to reconsider who holds control in a world governed by algorithms. As prediction becomes both a tool and a force, the book asks: How will our choices change when uncertainty itself can be quantified, anticipated, and commodified? This is an urgent inquiry into the future’s architecture, where insight and influence converge in unpredictable ways.
- Originally Published: 2022
- Publisher: Harvard Business Publishing, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781647824198
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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
What if mastering business didn’t require a classroom, a fortune, or a degree—but a shift in mindset? The Personal MBA is a sharp, liberating manifesto for the self-taught strategist, distilling the essence of entrepreneurship, value creation, and decision-making into powerful, practical insights. With clarity and conviction, it reveals that true business wisdom is not locked behind ivy-covered walls but found in the choices we make, the systems we build, and the problems we dare to solve. Can one book replace a thousand lectures—and teach you to build something that lasts? Read it, and decide for yourself.
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Portfolio, 2012
- Genre: Business, Self-help
- Pages: 464
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1591845577
- Access: Members
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Principles: Life and Work
Principles invites readers into the crucible where clarity, discipline, and radical honesty forge the very foundation of success. It challenges us to confront the paradox of control: how can one embrace uncertainty and complexity while steadfastly adhering to unyielding truths? Beneath its pragmatic surface lies a profound meditation on human nature and the pursuit of meaningful progress, questioning whether life’s most intricate problems can be unraveled through a systematic approach to decision-making. What if the key to mastering chaos is not avoiding failure, but learning to decode it with rigor and openness? This book offers a daring blueprint for those ready to transform their personal and professional worlds by living—and leading—according to enduring principles.
- Originally Published: September 2017
- Publisher: Avid Reader Press, 2019
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 592
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1501124020
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
In the chaos of competing priorities and endless to-do lists, The 4 Disciplines of Execution offers a razor-sharp blueprint for turning ambition into action. It challenges leaders and teams to focus not on doing more, but on doing what matters most—with relentless clarity and precision. How do you close the yawning gap between strategy and results, between what you hope to achieve and what actually gets done? This is not a book about planning; it is a manifesto for movement, a method for breaking through inertia to achieve goals once thought unreachable. When urgency overwhelms purpose, discipline is the only path forward.
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher: Free Press, 2012
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1451627053
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Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
What if the secret to explosive business growth lies not in big budgets or blind luck, but in bold experiments and relentless curiosity? Hacking Growth is a fast-paced blueprint for those ready to abandon traditional marketing myths and embrace the agile, data-fueled mindset that has built some of the world’s most iconic companies. With each chapter, it challenges readers to reimagine how products spread, customers engage, and momentum is sustained—not by chance, but by design. In a world where attention is fleeting and loyalty hard-won, can growth be engineered rather than hoped for? This is the modern entrepreneur’s playbook—part science, part rebellion, and all about unlocking unstoppable traction.
- Originally Published: 2015
- Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2017
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781524760007
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Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
In Your Next Five Moves, strategy is no longer the preserve of chess masters or CEOs—it becomes a personal battlefield where clarity of vision meets calculated action. With sharp precision and real-world intensity, this book draws you into the high-stakes game of decision-making, challenging you to think not just one step ahead, but five. Are you building an empire—or merely reacting to the board in front of you? Through bold frameworks and unflinching self-examination, it dares you to master the paradox of ambition: to move fast while thinking long. Every chapter is a call to rise above guesswork and lead your life like a grandmaster plans a win.
- Originally Published: August 18, 2020
- Publisher: Gallery Books, 2020
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781982154813
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Execution lays bare the vital, often overlooked art of turning vision into reality—a disciplined journey where strategy falters without action, and leadership is measured by results, not intentions. With incisive clarity, it exposes the tensions between ambition and accountability, revealing how the relentless pursuit of flawless execution can forge or fracture organizations. What does it take to bridge the chasm between planning and doing, and how do leaders inspire teams to carry the weight of responsibility without faltering? This book challenges readers to confront the hard truths of leadership and the unforgiving demands of making things happen in an uncertain world.
- Originally Published: 2002
- Publisher: Crown Business, 2002
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0609610572
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Why do some ideas light up the world while others fade into silence? Contagious peels back the curtain on the science of social transmission, revealing the invisible levers—emotion, story, visibility, and value—that make content irresistible and messages magnetic. With brisk insight and captivating clarity, it decodes why whispers become roars, why we share what we do, and how influence often hides in plain sight. At its core lies a tantalizing question: Is virality crafted or caught? This is a playbook not just for marketers, but for anyone who wants their ideas to live—and spread.
- Originally Published: 2013
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2013
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1451686579
- Access: Members
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Success can be seductive—blinding us to the very habits that quietly hold us back. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There is a sharp, illuminating guide for high achievers who find themselves stalled at the edge of their next great breakthrough. It dares to ask: What if the behaviors that built your rise are now the barriers to your ascent? In brisk, candid prose, it reveals the hidden interpersonal flaws—subtle, often unspoken—that undermine leadership and derail potential. This is not merely a book about climbing higher, but about growing deeper, confronting the blind spots that ambition often refuses to see.
- Originally Published: 2007
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2007
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1401301309
- Access: Members
