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One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone--not just for people of color. "This is the book I've been waiting for."--Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracis...
Tom Peters
May 01, 2021*** Wall Street Journal bestseller ***Investing isn’t a man’s world anymore—and this provocative and enlightening book shows why that’s a good thing for Wall Street, the global financial system, and your own personal portfolio.Warren Buffett and all of the women of the world have one thing in common: They are better investors than the average man. ...
Tom Peters
Mar 22, 2021In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fas...
Tom Peters
Dec 04, 2020How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation ...
Tom Peters
Dec 02, 2020
Marketing to PrimeTime Women
How to Attract, Convert, and Keep Boomer Big Spenders
New executive edition, with all of the insights in fewer pages. When the book PrimeTime Women, was first published in 2007 the oldest Baby Boomers had just turned 60, and the youngest Boomers were still in their mid-40s. Now ALL Boomer women are in the PrimeTime years, age 50–75. Collectively, they are the healthiest, wealthiest, most educated, act...
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.Invisib...
Tom Peters
Oct 04, 2020
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Just as coincidence can be confused with causality, so the lucky idiot can be confused with the skilled investor. The realities of randomness and probability almost guarantee that, out of a large pool of random investors, a Warren Buffett will emerge just by luck. Taleb (the founder of Empirica L.L....
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which...
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The Business Romantic
Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself
In this smart, playful, and provocative book, one of today’s most original business thinkers argues that we underestimate the importance of romance in our lives and that we can find it in and through business—by designing products, services, and experiences that connect us with something greater than ourselves.Against the backdrop of eroding trust ...
Tom Peters
Jul 14, 2020Forget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and...
Tom Peters
Jul 14, 2020
PrimeTime Women
How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders
Baby boomers are the largest and wealthiest demographic and at the peak of their spending power. What marketing and sales professionals might not realize is that the majority of this spending power is wielded by women ages 50-75. They are the healthiest, wealthiest, most educated, active, and influential generation of women in history. Marti Barlet...
Tom Peters
Jul 06, 2020The Overstory by Richard Powers
Enough by John C. Bogle
Brotopia by Emily Chang
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The Shareholder Value Myth by Lynn Stout
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence by Vala Afshar
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Small Giants by Bo Burlingham
Simply Brilliant by William C. Taylor
Quiet by Susan Cain
Wait by Frank Partnoy
Rework by Jason Fried
Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century by Hermann Simon
Retail Superstars by George Whalin
The Power of Small by Linda Kaplan Thaler
The Power of Nice by Linda Kaplan Thaler