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2011
A better time for your business starts in the next decade. Are you ready? In this fast and furious time machine of a book, Richard Laermer shows you how to...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy Richard Laermer
2030
Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees, and people aspiring towards the middle class yearned to own...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Inequality, Law Mauro F. Guillen
A World Without Work
From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced,...
Automation, Business & Economics, Digital Transformation, Education, Employment, Future of Work, Robotics Daniel Susskind
Average is Over
The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom. The global labor market is changing...
Automation, Business & Economics, Economics, Robotics Tyler Cowen
Business Adventures
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf...
Business & Economics John Brooks
Covid-19: The Great Reset
"COVID-19: The Great Reset" is a guide for anyone who wants to understand how COVID-19 disrupted our social and economic systems, and what changes will be needed to create a...
Business & Economics, Education, Politics & Government, Public Policy Klaus Schwab, Thierry Malleret
Creating Innovators
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities...
Business & Economics, Education, Innovation Tony Wagner
The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts...
Business & Economics, Communication, Computer & Internet Law, Technology & Engineering Susan Crawford
Here Comes Everybody
For the first time in history, the tools for cooperating on a global scale are not solely in the hands of governments or institutions. The spread of the internet and...
Business & Economics, Communication, Technology & Engineering Clay Shirky
I Live in the Future & Here’s how it Works
Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business...
Business & Economics, Social Aspects of Technology, Strategy Nick Bilton
The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it’s coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder—the peerless visionary...
Business & Economics, Digital Currencies George Gilder
Machine, Platform, Crowd
We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the...
Business & Economics, Social Aspects of Technology, Strategy Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson
Monopolized
Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today,...
Antitrust, Business & Economics, Competition, Public Policy David Dayen
Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth: chopping down forests, fouling the air and water, and endlessly digging out resources. Since the first...
Business & Economics, Social Sciences, Sustainability Andrew McAfee
NextMapping
This NextMapping - Second Edition provides strategies and ideas for leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs to navigate the future of work. The biggest imperative for companies right now is to be ready...
Automation, Business & Economics, Future of Work, Leadership, Robotics Cheryl Cran
Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find...
Business & Economics, Strategy Richard Dobbs
Non-Obvious 2017
What unexpected insights can a holographic Holocaust survivor and a Japanese film about soy sauce offer us about career development? How do self-repairing airplane wings, touch-enabled “skinterface” tattoos and smart...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy Rohit Bhargava
Platform Revolution
A practical guide to the new economy that is transforming the way we live, work, and play. Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when...
Business & Economics Geoffrey G. Parker
Post Corona
The COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask wearers and the mask haters....
Business & Economics, Politics & Government Scott Galloway
Predictably Irrational
How do we think about money? What caused bankers to lose sight of the economy? What caused individuals to take on mortgages that were not within their means? What irrational...
Business & Economics, Psychology, Social Sciences Dan Ariely
Why has median income stopped rising in the US? Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly? Why are our economy and society are becoming more...
Business & Economics, Technology & Engineering Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Rethinking the Future
From this all-star cast of today's most highly-regarded business philosophers, futurists and practitioners comes a panoramic perspective of how organizations can be redesigned to thrive in tomorrow's hyper-competitive global environment....
Business & Economics, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Warren G. Bennis
Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Psychology Philip Tetlock
The Alignment Problem
Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us―and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing....
Artificial Intelligence, Business & Economics, Ethics Brian Christian
The Attention Merchants
Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of messaging, advertising enticements, branding, sponsored social media,...
Business & Economics, Communication, Media & Internet Tim Wu
The Big Nine
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in...
Artificial Intelligence, Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering Amy Webb
The Exponential Age
We are living in the first exponential age. High-tech innovations are created at dazzling speeds; technological forces we barely understand remake our homes and workplaces; centuries-old tenets of politics and...
Business & Economics, Politics & Government, Public Policy, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media Azeem Azhar
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all...
Business & Economics, Social Aspects of Technology Scott Galloway
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how...
Business & Economics Klaus Schwab
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Social Aspects of Technology, Strategy Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we...
Business & Economics, Future of Work, Law, Social Aspects of Technology, Strategy Richard Susskind, David Susskind
The Globotics Upheaval
At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service...
Automation, Business & Economics, Future of Work, Globalization, Robotics Richard E. Baldwin
Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions -- errors of logic and flawed judgments that distort our understanding of the real reasons for a company's performance. In a...
Business & Economics, Communication Phil Rosenzweig
Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years—for businesses, governments, and the...
Business & Economics, Globalization, Politics & Government, Social Aspects of Technology Alec Ross
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