Inspired by venture capitalists’ unique way of thinking, The Venture Mindset offers a transformative playbook for delivering results in a rapidly changing world from a top Stanford professor and a technology executive. Venture capitalists are known for their extraordinary ability to spot opportunities. They know how to identify emerging trends, how to bring new industries into … [More]
A Leader’s Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference
Elias Aboujaoude’s distinctive exploration of leadership provides unusual insight into understanding who should and should not be striving for leadership positions. Dr Aboujaoude takes on the culture at large, explaining how our cult-like obsession with leadership gives narcissists an edge and results in leadership failure everywhere we look — and how resisting the imperative … [More]
Graciously Assertive: How Becoming a Better Human Makes You a Better Leader
Dr. Yasmin Davidds has spent most of her professional life empowering women leaders. In this new book, the award-winning entrepreneur, psychologist, speaker and author continues her lifelong mission, offering helpful tools and strategies to people of all backgrounds who are looking to transform the way they communicate in the workplace. Breaking down what she refers to as a … [More]
Made You Look: How to Use Brain Science to Attract Attention and Persuade Others
There’s an overlooked but critical scientific fact that every marketing professional needs to know: Many decisions start with attention, and it’s their job to grab the attention of every prospective customer as effectively as possible. But in this increasingly fast-paced, busy and noisy world, the question is how to capture people’s attention, much less persuade them. To answer … [More]
Behind The Click: How to Use the Hidden Psychological Forces That Shape Online Behavior to Craft Digital Journeys That Delight, Engage, and Convert
There are so many hidden factors that influence the decisions customers make, and it has little to do with the facts of a business’s brand or the products it sells. They know they like a product or brand. They know that one service feels like a better value than another. They know that what one business sells isn't a good fit and they should head over to its competitor. But … [More]
Create Once, Distribute Forever: How Great Creators Spread Their Ideas and How You Can Too
In the modern business world, distribution is king. Impactful products and extraordinary ideas are no longer enough to guarantee success for today's digital creators. To improve sales, gain influence, increase engagement and make an impact, how and where one distributes one’s work is more important than the work itself. In Create Once, Distribute Forever, digital marketing … [More]
Future Money: Fintech, AI and Web3
The world of money is rapidly changing, but what does it all really mean? Exploring key developments such as blockchain, DeFi, AI and the metaverse, the book brings these technical topics to vivid life via narrative deep dives into selected founders and their companies. Spanning multiple geographies from London to Lagos, via Ahmedabad, Dubai, Hong Kong, Karachi and more, Future … [More]
Cycles: The Mysterious Forces That Trigger Events
Thousands of scientists in fields as unrelated as history, botany, anthropology, terrestrial magnetism, sociology and economics — to name only a few — are accumulating facts and figures that promise to make the age-old dream of foretelling the future at least a partial reality. This new science deals with the behavior of events recurring at reasonably regular intervals … [More]
Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on 19 months … [More]
Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce: Build Rapport, Camaraderie, and Optimal Performance No Matter the Time Zone
This first-of-its-kind resource shows how to cultivate trust and build solid connections with customers, colleagues and partners in today’s hyper globalized, digitized work world. Perfunctory efforts to show investment in a business relationship — detailed in so many books about global work and cultural intelligence— doesn’t cut it anymore. Business professionals working across … [More]
