Transforming Leadership
“Harvesting vignettes from American and world history and reading them in light of new sociological and psychological research, [Burns’] latest book aims to put…
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A Splendid Exchange
“[An] entertaining and greatly enlightening book . . . Bernstein is a fine writer and knows how to tell a great story well. . . . He never loses sight of his overall goal: to show how trade shaped the world in the past and will shape the world in…
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“[An] engaging survey . . . Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and centuries, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of…
keep readingInnovative State
From the first chief technology officer of the United States, a brilliant look at our government, private sector “open innovation,” and how to tackle…
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“Provocative. . . . How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book . . . A lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic.”…
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As our world continues to be fundamentally changed by the Digital Revolution, this essential book by a leading Internet commentator shows how to preserve…
keep readingThe House of Morgan
“As a portrait of finance, politics, and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite simply, a tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review…
keep readingEccentric Orbits
How the largest man-made constellation in the heavens was built by dreamers in the Arizona desert, targeted for destruction by Motorola, and saved by a single Palm Beach retiree who battled the Pentagon, thirty banks, Congress, the White House, and a mysterious Arab prince to rescue the only phone that…
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“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years and including, naturally, the woes of recent years.”…
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“United Fruit essentially invented not only ‘the concept and reality of the banana republic,’ but also, as Chapman shows, the concept and reality of…
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