Sunday, September 27, 2020

iTunes Store: Top 25 Books in Business & Personal Finance 2020-09-27

Daniel Yergin - The New Map artwork The New Map
Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Daniel Yergin
Genre: Industries & Professions
Price: $18.99
Publish Date: September 15, 2020
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the "era of shortage", but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse--and, during the coronavirus crisis, brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging our economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. All of this has been made starker and urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic Dark Age that it has wrought. The chessboard of world politics has been upended. A new cold war is emerging with China; and rivalries grow more dangerous with Russia, which is pivoting east toward Beijing. Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are converging both on energy and on challenging American leadership, as China projects its power and influence in all directions. The South China Sea, claimed by China and the world's most critical trade route, could become the arena where the United States and China collide directly. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after World War I, is being challenged by jihadists, revolutionary Iran, ethnic and religious clashes, and restive populations. But the region has also been shocked by the two recent oil price collapses--one from the rise of shale, the other the coronavirus--and by the very question of oil's future in the rest of this century. A master storyteller and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey across the world's "new map". He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical questions on the eve of the historic 2020 Presidential election and the profound challenges that lie ahead.



Jean-Sébastien Pilotte - La retraite à 40 ans artwork La retraite à 40 ans
Comment déjouer le système pour atteindre la liberté financière
Jean-Sébastien Pilotte
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: September 16, 2020
Publisher: Les Éditions de l'Homme
Seller: Messageries A.D.P. Inc.

Une fois passé le cap de la quarantaine, travailler devient facultatif pour la plupart des Québécois. Quoi, vous n'étiez pas au courant? En fait, il s'agit du secret le mieux gardé de notre système économique: la surconsommation et l'analphabétisme financier nous maintiennent artificiellement prisonniers du métro-boulot-dodo. Inspiré par la stratégie FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), j'ai moi-même pris ma retraite à 39 ans, sans gagner à la loterie et en dépit d'un salaire moyen. Déjouer le système pour atteindre la liberté financière, même en temps de pandémie, ça vous tente? Ce livre résume comment j'y suis arrivé et comment vous pouvez aussi y parvenir.



Normand Lester - Stupides et dangereux. Les États-Unis à l'ère de Trump artwork Stupides et dangereux. Les États-Unis à l'ère de Trump
Normand Lester
Genre: Business & Personal Finance
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: September 16, 2020
Publisher: Les Éditions du Journal
Seller: Messageries A.D.P. Inc.

En abordant les États-Unis sous différents angles historiques, politiques et culturels comme les inégalités, le système de santé, les dérives médiatiques, l'hégémonisme international, le fondamentalisme religieux ou le culte des armes à feu, Normand Lester montre dans un livre coup-de-poing comment, loin d'être une aberration, l'avènement de l'Amérique de Trump se préparait depuis des décennies.



James Clear - Atomic Habits artwork Atomic Habits
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: October 16, 2018
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

The #1 New York Times bestseller . Over 1 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to:    •   make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);    •   overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;    •   design your environment to make success easier;    •   get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.



Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed artwork The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
Benjamin Graham
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: March 17, 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

“By far the best book on investing ever written.” — Warren Buffett The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of “value investing”—which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies—has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949. Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham’s strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham’s original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today’s market, draws parallels between Graham’s examples and today’s financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham’s principles. Vital and indispensable, The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.



Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo - Poor Economics artwork Poor Economics
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Genre: Economics
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: March 27, 2012
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.



David Allen - Getting Things Done artwork Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: March 17, 2015
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

The book Lifehack calls  "The Bible of business and personal productivity." "A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru'" — Fast Company Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.   Allen has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with important perspectives on the new workplace, and adding material that will make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This new edition of Getting Things Done will be welcomed not only by its hundreds of thousands of existing fans but also by a whole new generation eager to adopt its proven principles.



Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - The Dichotomy of Leadership artwork The Dichotomy of Leadership
Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: September 25, 2018
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Seller: Macmillan

THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership comes a new and revolutionary approach to help leaders recognize and attain the leadership balance crucial to victory. With their first book, Extreme Ownership (published in October 2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin set a new standard for leadership, challenging readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people, in both their professional and personal lives. Now, in THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP , Jocko and Leif dive even deeper into the unchartered and complex waters of a concept first introduced in Extreme Ownership : finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Here, Willink and Babin get granular into the nuances that every successful leader must navigate. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding when to lead and when to follow; when to aggressively maneuver and when to pause and let things develop; when to detach and let the team run and when to dive into the details and micromanage. In addition, every leader must: · Take Extreme Ownership of everything that impacts their mission, yet utilize Decentralize Command by giving ownership to their team. · Care deeply about their people and their individual success and livelihoods, yet look out for the good of the overall team and above all accomplish the strategic mission. · Exhibit the most important quality in a leader—humility, but also be willing to speak up and push back against questionable decisions that could hurt the team and the mission. With examples from the authors’ combat and training experiences in the SEAL teams, and then a demonstration of how each lesson applies to the business world, Willink and Babin clearly explain THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP — skills that are mission-critical for any leader and any team to achieve their ultimate goal: VICTORY.



Mike Michalowicz - Profit First artwork Profit First
Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
Mike Michalowicz
Genre: Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: January 18, 2017
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.



Nicolas Bérubé - Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez artwork Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez
Nicolas Bérubé
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: February 21, 2019
Publisher: Les Éditions La Presse
Seller: Les editions La Presse Ltee

Comment décririez-vous la vie d’un millionnaire ? Conduirait-il un VUS électrique ? Habiterait-il un loft haut perché ou une maison avec des tourelles ? Sur les relevés de ses cartes de crédit, trouverait-on des achats de vêtements chics ? Des repas dans des restaurants à la mode ? Ces gens existent, bien sûr, mais la plupart de ceux qui mènent ce genre de vie ne sont pas millionnaires. Et la majorité des « vrais » millionnaires ne se reconnaîtraient pas dans cette description. Ce livre raconte les parcours de Québécois ordinaires ayant une valeur nette de plus d’un million de dollars ou qui, pour les plus jeunes, s’en rapprochent après avoir mis en place des principes rendant l’accumulation de la richesse inévitable. Ces gens sont propriétaires de boutiques, ingénieurs, spécialistes en marketing, comptables ou propriétaires d’immeubles d’habitation. Ils n’ont pas remporté le gros lot, n’ont pas hérité d’une fortune ni vendu leur compagnie à Google. Certains touchent un salaire de 30 000 $ par année et d’autres un peu plus de 100 000 $, mais aucun n’a un salaire de PDG. Presque tous sont mal à l’aise avec l’étiquette de millionnaire. Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez.



W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne - Blue Ocean Shift artwork Blue Ocean Shift
Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Genre: Economics
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: September 26, 2017
Publisher: Hachette Books
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy , the classic and 3.6 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why non disruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth. Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. Whether you are a cash-strapped startup or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people's confidence so that they own and drive the process. With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical reading for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs alike. You'll learn what works, what doesn't, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This book will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future.



Robert K. Greenleaf - The Servant as Leader artwork The Servant as Leader
Robert K. Greenleaf
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: October 17, 2008
Publisher: The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
Seller: Robert K. Greenleaf Center, Inc.

This is the essay that started it all. The Servant as Leader is the classic essay by Robert K. Greenleaf that coined the phrases “servant-leader” and “servant leadership.” His essay is a profound work that should be read a few pages at a time — and then re-read. It has influenced hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Powerful, poetic and practical. The Servant as Leader describes some of the characteristics and activities of servant-leaders, providing examples which show that individual efforts, inspired by vision and a servant ethic, can make a substantial difference in the quality of society. Greenleaf discusses the skills necessary to be a servant-leader; the importance of awareness, foresight and listening; and the contrasts between coercive, manipulative, and persuasive power. A must-read.



Bob Davis & Lingling Wei - Superpower Showdown artwork Superpower Showdown
How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
Bob Davis & Lingling Wei
Genre: Business & Personal Finance
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: June 09, 2020
Publisher: Harper Business
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

This is the inside story of the US–China trade war, how relations between these superpowers  unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, D.C., the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else. The trade battle between China and the U.S. didn’t start with Trump and won’t end with him, argue Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. The two countries have a long and fraught political and economic history which has become more contentious over the past three years—an escalation that has negatively impacted both countries' economies and the world at large—and holds the potential for even more uncertainty and disruption.  How did this stand-off happen? How much are U.S. presidents and officials who haven't effectively confronted or negotiated with China to blame? What role have Chinese leaders, and U.S. business leaders who for decades acted as Beijing’s lobbyists in Washington, played in driving tensions between the two countries? Superpower Showdown is the story of a romance gone bad. Uniquely positioned to tell the story, Davis and Wei have conducted hundreds of interviews with government and business officials in both nations over the seven years they have worked together writing for the Wall Street Journal. Analyzing U.S.–China relations, they explain how we have reached this tipping point, and look at where we could be headed. Vivid and provocative, Superpower Showdown will help readers understand the context of the trade war and prepare them for what may come next.



Robert T. Kiyosaki - Rich Dad Poor Dad artwork Rich Dad Poor Dad
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: September 18, 2015
Publisher: Plata Publishing, LLC.
Seller: Perseus Books, LLC

In Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 Personal Finance book of all time, Robert Kiyosaki shares the story of his two dad: his real father, whom he calls his ‘poor dad,’ and the father of his best friend, the man who became his mentor and his ‘rich dad.’ One man was well educated and an employee all his life, the other’s education was “street smarts” over traditional classroom education and he took the path of entrepreneurship…a road that led him to become one of the wealthiest men in Hawaii. Robert’s poor dad struggled financially all his life, and these two dads—these very different points of view of money, investing, and employment—shaped Robert’s thinking about money. Robert has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people, around the world, think about money and investing and he has become a global advocate for financial education and the path to financial freedom. Rich Dad Poor Dad (and the Rich Dad series it spawned) has sold over 36 million copies in English and translated editions around the world. Rich Dad Poor Dad will… • explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich • challenge the belief that your house is an asset • show parents why they can’t rely on the school system to teach their kids about money • define, once and for all, an asset and a liability • explain the difference between good debt and bad debt • teach you to see the world of money from different perspectives • discuss the shift in mindset that can put you on the road to financial freedom



Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money artwork The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Morgan Housel
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $19.99
Publish Date: September 08, 2020
Publisher: Harriman House Ltd
Seller: Harriman House Ltd

Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.



Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck - Blood and Oil artwork Blood and Oil
Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck
Genre: Business & Personal Finance
Price: $19.99
Publish Date: September 01, 2020
Publisher: Hachette Books
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award** From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope (coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale ), this revelatory look at the world's most powerful ruling family reveals how a rift within Saudi Arabian royalty produced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a charismatic leader with a ruthless streak. Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emanuel flew out to meet with the crown prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Arabia's restrictive Islamic law. He lifted the ban on women driving and explored investments in Silicon Valley. But MBS began to betray an erratic interior beneath the polish laid on by scores of consultants and public relations experts like McKinsey & Company. The allegations of his extreme brutality and excess began to slip out, including that he ordered the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While stamping out dissent by holding three hundred people, including prominent members of the Saudi royal family, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel and elsewhere for months, he continued to exhibit his extreme wealth, including buying a $70 million chateau in Europe and one of the world's most expensive yachts. It seemed that he did not understand nor care about how the outside world would react to his displays of autocratic muscle-what mattered was the flex. Blood and Oil is a gripping work of investigative journalism about one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders. Hope and Scheck show how MBS's precipitous rise coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain that had been at the head of U.S.-Saudi relations for more than eighty years: oil in exchange for military protection. Caught in his net are well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians, all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince. The Middle East is already a volatile region. Add to the mix an ambitious prince with extraordinary powers, hunger for lucre, a tight relationship with the White House through President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner, and an apparent willingness to break anything -- and anyone -- that gets in the way of his vision, and the stakes of his rise are bracing. If his bid fails, Saudi Arabia has the potential to become an unstable failed state and a magnet for Islamic extremists. And if his bid to transform his country succeeds, even in part, it will have reverberations around the world.



Darren Hardy - The Compound Effect artwork The Compound Effect
Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Darren Hardy
Genre: Careers
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: September 15, 2020
Publisher: Hachette Books
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

Do you want success? More success than you have now? And even more success than you ever imagined possible? That is what this book is about. Achieving it. No gimmicks. No hyperbole. Finally, just the truth on what it takes to earn success As the central curator of the success media industry for over 25 years, author Darren Hardy has heard it all, seen it all, and tried most of it. This book reveals the core principles that drive success. The Compound Effect contains the essence of what every superachiever needs to know, practice, and master to obtain extraordinary success. Inside you will find strategies on:How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced.Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress.Painlessly installing the few key disciplines required for major breakthroughs.The real, lasting keys to motivation--how to get yourself to do things you don't feel like doing.Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you'll be unstoppable.The acceleration secrets of superachievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes, they do, and now you can too!If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you desire. Begin your journey today!



Greg Mckeown - Essentialism artwork Essentialism
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg Mckeown
Genre: Business & Personal Finance
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: April 15, 2014
Publisher: Crown
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.   “A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked.”—Adam Grant   Have you ever: • found yourself stretched too thin? • simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized? • felt busy but not productive? • felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?   If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the  Way of the Essentialist .    Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a  systematic discipline  for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.   By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy—instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.   Essentialism is not one more thing—it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.



Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers artwork Outliers
The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: November 18, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

Learn what sets high achievers apart -- from Bill Gates to the Beatles -- in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" ( New York Times Book Review ). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.



Daniel H. Pink - Drive artwork Drive
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: December 29, 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people—at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others ) explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive , the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive , he reveals the three elements of true motivation: * Autonomy —the desire to direct our own lives * Mastery —the urge to get better and better at something that matters * Purpose —the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. Drive is bursting with big ideas—the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.



Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism artwork The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Genre: Industries & Professions
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: January 15, 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.



Malcolm Gladwell - Blink artwork Blink
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: April 03, 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

The landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making -- from #1 bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point , Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink , he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work--in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"--filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.



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Un plan pour les milléniaux, les jeunes familles et tous ceux qui veulent s'enrichir
David Descoteaux
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: October 04, 2017
Publisher: Les Éditions Québec-Livres
Seller: Messageries A.D.P. Inc.

Des milliers de Québécois ont un besoin urgent de sortir de l'endettement chronique et d'accumuler des économies pour leur retraite. Bonne nouvelle : tu peux y arriver, peu importe ton âge ou ton salaire, mais tu devras y mettre les efforts. Dans ce livre, tu apprendras, entre autres : • comment éviter (légalement) de payer des impôts; • comment assainir tes finances en t'imposant le Protocole d'austérité; • quoi faire, dans l'ordre, si tu fondes une famille; • comment t'enrichir grâce au plus gros cadeau du gouvernement : le REEE; • les bases de la négociation et comment gérer toi-même tes placements; • comment utiliser intelligemment le REER et le CELI, et faire un pied de nez au fisc ! Voici des actions concrètes, faciles à mettre en application et à la portée de tous. Le but est de t'offrir un guide agréable à lire, mais qui couvre l'ensemble de tes besoins de base. Même s'il est destiné avant tout au néophyte, les connaisseurs y trouveront plusieurs idées originales.



Timothée Luwewe - Comment gérer votre argent selon Robert Kiyosaki artwork Comment gérer votre argent selon Robert Kiyosaki
Timothée Luwewe
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: March 14, 2020
Publisher: Timothée Luwewe
Seller: Smashwords, Inc.

Beaucoup de gens ont du mal à gérer leur argent. Certains croient que vous avez besoin d’un diplôme universitaire pour le faire correctement. Mais ce n’est pas toujours vrai. Tout ce dont vous avez besoin, c’est un coach expérimenté en matière d’argent. Dieu merci ! Nous avons trouvé un ! C’est Robert KIYOSAKI. Dans ce livre, nous vous offrons des détails sur la bonne manière de gérer votre argent.



Clarke Ching - The Bottleneck Rules artwork The Bottleneck Rules
How to Get More Done (When Working Harder isn't Working)
Clarke Ching
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: August 01, 2018
Publisher: Clarke Ching
Seller: Clarke Ching

Working hard, but still can't keep up? This short, insightful book will teach you how to speed up at work, by slowing down, looking at your workplace slightly differently, then thinking a little. ** Spoiler Alert ** The world’s best manufacturers have known the secret for decades: every workplace, big or small, has one resource that is slower than the rest. It’s called The Bottleneck. Find it, speed it up, and your entire workplace speeds up.  The problem is that, although this secret is well known inside manufacturing, it’s been hidden from the rest of us, deep inside complicated manufacturing texts and sophisticated computer algorithms.  Until now, that is. Clarke Ching, author of Rolling Rocks Downhill, has spent the last 20 years adapting and simplifying manufacturing’s techniques so that everyone can use them, no matter where they work. In this book, he reveals the surprisingly simple process - called the FOCCCUS Formula - that you can use to find your bottleneck then manage it. The book takes roughly 90 minutes to read, and most readers figure out where their bottleneck is before they’ve finished. One reviewer wrote, “What a great and - dare I say it - inspirational read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m grateful for the stories and the lack of business mumbo-jumbo. Your readers will find it a useful kick-start for their minds because it shows them how to look at their problems in different ways.” Buy The Bottleneck Rules today, and you'll start running faster tomorrow.