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Alexandre Lazarow
Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs from Delhi to Detroit are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley
Sinopse
This engaging quest for “frontier innovators” who operate away from established innovation hubs succeeds in shedding new light on innovation, the understanding of which is too often shaped by the unicorns and technology giants of Silicon Valley. By working in more challenging environments, global entrepreneurs build resilience and learn to “create” rather than simply to “disrupt”.
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Alex Edmans
Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
SinopseThis is more than just another call for a radical rethink of how companies operate: Edmans, a finance professor, offers plentiful research — his own and others’ — to back his thought-provoking thesis that it is not enough to create the conditions for businesses to act better. They should be enabled to “grow the pie” through more effective leadership. He shows how the aim is not just desirable, but realistic and achievable.
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Geoffrey Cain
Samsung Rising: Inside the Secretive Company Conquering Tech
This is the entertaining story of Apple’s big non-US rival, a tale in which the dynastic wrangling, tycoon scandals and dealmaking are as exciting as the technology. It’s a compelling insight into the rough and tumble of South Korean business — “a gripping read”, according to the FT’s Louise Lucas.
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David Enrich
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
A vivid exploration of the disorder and dysfunction of Germany’s largest bank, which helped fuel the post-war rise of West Germany only to stumble as it tried to grow into a global powerhouse to rival US banks. By delving into the psyche of some of the characters at the heart of its ill-fated expansion, Enrich tells “a devastating tale of a big bank gone bad”.
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Margaret Heffernan
Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together
Uncharted tackles our obsession with the spuriously precise “science” of prediction and offers abundant examples, drawn from business, science and personal experience, to underline the importance of preparedness, adaptability and robustness, rather than rigid plans. In his review for the FT, Tim Harford said the book provoked fresh thinking in a way that was ultimately “wise and appealingly human”.
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David Boyle
Tickbox
A powerful and timely polemic against fast-spreading “tickbox culture” in education, government, business or healthcare. Obsessive target-setting, Boyle argues, leads to disaster by voiding decision-making of common sense, in favour of a rigid managerial template. Boyle lays out a programme of resistance aimed at curbing a system that “has infected and stupidified the official mind”.
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Frances Frei&Anne Morris
Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You
Leaders who recast their mission to improve the people around them will turn themselves into better listeners and make their teams more productive and happier to boot. The book is drawn in part from Frei’s work at Uber, where she helped reset the leadership of the scandal-hit company.
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Liam Vaughan
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, A Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
The extraordinary saga of Navinder Singh Sarao, the maths prodigy who, trading from his parents’ home in the London suburbs, managed to crash the world’s markets in 2015.
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Rebecca Henderson
Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World
Purpose-driven companies should be central to a systematic rethinking of capitalism, according to this prescription for change. The radical action of central authorities in shoring up business through the pandemic gives added weight to Henderson’s message, especially her emphasis on the importance of co-operation and collaboration between government, business, and communities of individuals.
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Andrew Scott & L.Gratton
The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World
In this sequel to The 100-Year Life, their groundbreaking 2016 examination of work and careers in an age of longevity, Scott and Gratton broaden and amplify their call for action from governments, employers and individuals to prepare for an increasingly multigenerational world.
