New Wave Vision by Hayden Cox
$40.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Hayden Cox started his surfboard brand Haydenshapes at the age of 15 while still at school, taking on a fickle industry where few succeed beyond local reach. Today he is an award winning designer and entrepreneur who took his passion, young ideas and vision for doing things differently, and created a be ...Show more
Viking Economics by George Lakey
$44.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Scandinavians work less than we do, they have free childcare and healthcare, and they're just generally happier. We're told that we can't have what they have...but what if we can? In Viking Economics, George Lakey explains how the Nordic system works and shows us that if we put in the hard work Scandina ...Show more
Messy - How to Be Creative & Resilitent by Tim Harford
$33.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
"Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world." --Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take "Engrossing." --New York Times From the award-winning columnist and author of the ...Show more
What To Think About Machines That Think by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Edge Question Ser.
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think." Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trum ...Show more
The Stupidity Paradox: Why smart people don't think at work by Mats Alvesson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious, the absurd and the downright idiotic, from unsustainable management fads to the cult of leade ...Show more
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K Anders Ericsson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Mozart wasnâe(tm)t born with perfect pitch.Most athletes are not born with any natural advantage.Three world-class chess players were sisters, whose success was planned by their parents before they were even born.Anders Ericsson has spent thirty years studying The Special Ones, the geniuses, sports star ...Show more
Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
$30.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. ...Show more
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio Garcia Martinez
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An adrenaline-fuelled expose of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. Written by startup CEO and industry provocateur Antonio Garcia Ma ...Show more
Ultimate Leadership: Maximize Your Potentail by Maxwell John C
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Jumping Ship: From the Heart of Corporate Australia to the World of Social Investment by Michael Traill
$45.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
As an ambitious, competitive kid from a public school, who grew up in a country town in Victoria, Michael Traill converted privileged education opportunities in the hallowed halls of Melbourne University's Trinity College and the Harvard Business School into a highly paid and successful career at Macqua ...Show more
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
$18.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more
The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity into a Career by Jason Oberholtzer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
To survive in today's gig economy, you must be a mover, a shaker, a doer, and a maker. In The Hustle Economy, we give you 25 essays from founders, writers, producers, game makers, artists, and creative types from every path who share one common trait--they are all self-made hustlers who have managed to ...Show more