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How Will You Measure Your Life?The renowned Harvard Business School professor and author of “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” often spoke and wrote about how to measure a life beyond traditional metrics like wealth, power, or career success. He offered a deeply philosophical and values-driven framework centered around finding meaning and happiness through serving others
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Innovation Capital: How to Compete--and Win--Like the World’s Most Innovative LeadersWe've all seen leaders who excel at winning resources and support for their ideas. It turns out that this quality is so valuable, and measurably more important for innovation than just being creative, that it has a name: 'innovation capital.'
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the MarketsThis book is a foundational text in understanding how we often misinterpret random events as meaningful patterns, particularly in contexts like finance and life in general.
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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for EveryoneAs told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella’s personal journey, one that is taking place today inside a storied technology company, and one that is coming in all of our lives as intelligent machines become more ambient and more ubiquitous
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of PovertyGlobal poverty is one of the world’s most vexing problems. For decades, we’ve assumed smart, well-intentioned people will eventually be able to change the economic trajectory of poor countries. From education to healthcare, infrastructure to eradicating corruption, too many solutions rely on trial and error. Essentially, the plan is often to identify areas that need help, flood them with resources, and hope to see change over time. But hope is not an effective strategy.
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to QuitSeth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt--until they commit to beating the right Dip.
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment HistoryThe never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success?
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersA lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business. Is it though?
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful GroupsWhat do Pixar, Google and the San Antonio Spurs basketball team have in common? The answer is that they all owe their extraordinary success to their team-building skills.