Discover transformative insights from today’s most compelling business thinkers. This collection spotlights game-changing perspectives on leadership, strategy, and innovation—from decoding Taylor Swift’s unprecedented success to navigating the green economic revolution. Each title offers powerful frameworks to reshape your thinking, elevate your decision-making, and gain competitive advantage in an increasingly complex business landscape.
Business Minds: Innovative Reads for Strategic Thinkers
Moral Ambition
9781526685599 | Bloomsbury Publishing | TPB
Rutger Bregman
Every day we’re bombarded with methods, mantras and life hacks that promise us wellness and prosperity – while time and talent remain some of our most squandered resources. The average full-time worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job: are you making the most of them? Do you truly believe in what you do, day in, day out?
What if you want to do something more with your limited time on the planet?
Internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman shows us that with moral ambition – the will to make the world a wildly better place – we can be both idealistic and successful, and change the world along the way. Uncovering the qualities that made the great change-makers of history so effective, he shows how we too can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to inequality to the next pandemic. With moral ambition, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can make history itself.
This book won’t make your life easier, but it should make it more meaningful. The question is: what will you do with it?
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto
9781805464365 | Atlantic Books | TPB
Benjamin Wallace
In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto posted a white paper outlining ‘a peer-to-peer electronic cash system’ called Bitcoin to an arcane Listserv populated by Cypherpunks. No one in the community had heard of Nakamoto, and just as people were starting to wonder who he was, he vanished…
Just who was Satoshi Nakamoto? Tracking leads from coastal Australia – through London, Oslo and Los Angeles – to the Arizona desert, and exploring Bitcoin’s utopian origins and the world it eventually wrought, The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto takes readers through a rogues’ gallery tour of Nakamoto suspects – and the eleven-figure fortune in his Bitcoin wallet still waiting to be claimed.
There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift
9798892790178 | Harvard Business Review Press | HB
Kevin Evers
A smart, page-turning exploration of the business and creative decisions that transformed Taylor Swift into an unprecedented modern cultural phenomenon.
Singer-songwriter. Trailblazer. Mastermind. The Beatles of her generation. From her genre-busting rise in country music as a teenager to the economic juggernaut that is the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has blazed a path that is uniquely hers.
But how exactly has she managed to scale her success—multiple times—while dominating an industry that cycles through artists and stars like fashion trends? How has she managed to make and remake herself time and again while remaining true to her artistic vision? And how has she managed to master the constant disruption in the music business that has made it so hard for others to adapt and endure?
In There’s Nothing Like This, Kevin Evers, a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, answers these questions in riveting detail. With the same thoughtful analysis usually devoted to iconic founders, game-changing innovators, and pioneering brands, Evers chronicles the business and creative decisions that have defined each phase of Swift’s career.
Mixing business and art, analysis and narrative, and pulling from research in innovation, creativity, psychology, and strategy, There’s Nothing Like This presents Swift as the modern and multidimensional superstar that she is—a songwriting savant and a strategic genius.
Swift’s fans will see their icon from a fresh perspective. Others will gain more than a measure of admiration for her ability to stay at the top of her game. And everyone will come away understanding why, even after two decades, Swift keeps winning.
50 Ideas that Changes the World of Work
9781800816299 | Economist Books | TPB
Jonathan Besser & Jeremy Kourdi
What does disruptive innovation really mean?
How can the Eisenhower matrix help you manage your time?
And when will you reach that all-important tipping point?
By summarising and explaining the best business thinking, this book will help you to get to grips with – and apply – 50 key ideas, including:
· Classics like Sun Tzu’s Art of War and Dale Carnegie’s rules of influence
· Fundamentals like emotional intelligence, psychological safety and flow
· Tips and techniques like SWOT, PEST and GROW
· Smart thinking from Daniel Kahneman, Michael Porter and Carol Dweck
Whether you want to think more strategically, boost team performance or make better decisions, this book is a guide to success at work today.
Environomics: How the Global Economy is Going Green
9781783968473 | Elliott &Thompson Limited | BPB
Dharshini David
Read this to understand how the global economy is going green – and how it will affect your wallet.
The world is changing fast. Money is pouring into the green revolution as it sweeps across our globe. This isn’t just economics – it’s Environomics.
Across industries such as energy, food, fashion, technology, manufacturing and finance, businesses are innovating; governments are taking action; technology is advancing; commercial opportunities are emerging; and our long-formed consumer habits are shifting – sometimes at a dizzying pace.
But what exactly is happening, how quickly, who is driving it all – and what does it mean for us?
In this fast-paced and eye-opening book, award-winning broadcaster and economist Dharshini David follows the course of an average day to tell the real story of the green developments taking place all around us, from the clothing we wear and the food we eat to the way we consume energy.
Full of surprising facts and new perspectives, this book shows that what we do now will affect our everyday lives for decades to come. Economics helps us to understand our world. Environomics is going to shape our future.
• Environomics follows the course of an average day to explore the green economic changes, challenges and opportunities that face us all.
• If you’ve ever wondered what green issues really mean for your day-to-day life, this book is for you.
• From BBC Chief Economics Correspondent Dharshini David, author of The Almighty Dollar
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
9780349128788 | Little, Brown | BPB
Cass R. Sunstein & Tali Sharot
What if we could find a way to see everything anew?
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.
Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in their own lives. They also stop noticing what is terrible. They get used to dirty air. They stay in abusive relationships. People grow to accept authoritarianism and take foolish risks. They become unconcerned by their own misconduct, blind to inequality, and are more liable to believe misinformation than ever before.
But what if you could regain sensitivity, not only to the great things in your life, but also to the terrible things you stopped noticing and so don’t try to change?
