Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life by Morgan Housel
$34.99 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Social Science
When planning for the future we often ask, "What will the economy be doing this time next year?" Or, "What will be different ten years from now?" But forecasting is hard. The important events that will shape the future are inherently unpredictable. Instead, we should be asking a different question: Wha ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
$38.99 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Social Science
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History by Ben Mezrich
$39.99 NZD
Category: Business
Gripping and darkly comic, Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time – Elon Musk – and the company that owns our world’s best hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to t ...Show more
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Tony Fadell has spent the last three decades making things and founding companies that have profoundly changed millions of lives. After leading the team that created the iPod and iPhone, products that saved a struggling Apple, Tony founded Nest Labs and revolutionised household electronics. He has work ...Show more
How to Decide - Simple Tools for Making Better Choices by Annie Duke
$48.00 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Social Science
Making good decisions is a skill anyone can learn. All you need is the right toolkit. In this unique blend of cutting-edge concepts and interactive exercises, decision strategy expert and former professional poker player Annie Duke has crafted an invaluable compendium of tools and frameworks anyone can ...Show more
The Art of Risk: What we can learn from the world's leading risk-takers by Richard Harris
$41.00 NZD
Category: Business
Diving doctor on the Thai Cave Rescue (now a Netflix series) and former joint Australian of the Year explores the stories of other people who regularly risk their lives and what we can learn from their expertise. ‘Harry’ Harris – Thai Cave Rescuer, joint Australian of the Year – does something for fun t ...Show more
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
$34.99 NZD
Category: Economics | Series: Classic Edition
THE ALL-TIME #1 AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLER This is the only money guide you'll ever need. That's a bold claim, given there are thousands of finance books on the shelves. Yet there's a reason this book is in one in every 20 Australian homes. You'll find out how to create an entire financial plan that is s ...Show more
The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
This is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent. At the very heart of all the success and failure I've been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I've conducted on my podc ...Show more
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Social Science
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far bey ...Show more
The Power Law - Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption by Sebastian Mallaby
$32.00 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Social Science
Innovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a legendary venture capitalist told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered. Most attempts at discovery fail, but a few succe ...Show more
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life. Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, dur ...Show more
Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot by Matt Abrahams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Stanford lecturer and host of the #1 business podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams, reveals the secrets to finding the right words when it counts.Communication is crucial to success in life and business. However, it is not just big speeches that matter: it is also those critical, spur-of-the-mo ...Show more