Subject: Business/Commerce
Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother’s will to survive
At 28, Stephanie Land’s dreams — breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest, attending a university, and becoming a writer […]
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Loonshots: how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries
Loonshots is a brilliant and wonderfully entertaining book, an unstoppable read, full of surprises and rich with insight into how people create and nurture things […]
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The enlightened capitalists: cautionary tales of business pioneers who tried to do well by doing good
As a new generation attempts to address social problems through enlightened organizational leadership, O’Toole explores a major question being posed today in Britain and America: […]
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The once and future worker: a vision for the renewal of work in America
A re-evaluation of American society, economics, and public policy. Oren Cass challenges our basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it comes from to […]
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Great at work: how top performers do less, work better, and achieve more
Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, […]
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Team creativity and innovation
For the past two decades, creativity and innovation have been viewed by researchers as critical to organizational success and survival. Understanding the factors that facilitate […]
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The pan-industrial revolution: how new manufacturing titans will transform the world
A stunning look at what will happen to global industry as 3-D printing becomes a worldwide phenomenon. Richard D’Aveni contends that this is beginning to […]
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Lab rats: how Silicon Valley made work miserable for the rest of us
Examines how the ideas of Silicon Valley and its “new oligarchs” have changed work culture, making employees subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even […]
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Temp: how American work, American business, and the American dream became temporary
Every working person in the United States asks the same question, how secure is my job? For a generation, roughly from 1945 to 1970, business […]
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50 ways to get a job: an unconventional guide to finding work on your terms
Based on the popular website of the same name, a guide to finding the right job while maintaining your sanity in the process In today’s […]
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