Daniel: 11127 books
Living Forward
A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Each of us has but one life to live on this earth. What we do with it is our choice. Are we drifting through it as spectators, reacting to our circumstances when necessary and wondering just how we got to this point anyway? Or are we directing it, maximizing the joy and potential of every day, living...
Psyched Up
How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Closing the sale. Asking for a raise. Nailing the big presentation. Of the 2,000 hours you work every year, your success or failure is determined in the couple of dozen crucial hours when you need to bring your absolute best. Will you?
The last few minutes before a major challenge can be terrifying....
The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
William Randolph Hearst was a man of mythical proportions and staggering contradictions. And he was a fascinating character so much so that he appears in various fictional works from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" to Orson Welles' "Citizen...
The Future of the Professions
How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers,...
The Image
A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for...
Social Media in an English Village
(Or how to keep people at just the right distance)
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post...
House Lust
America's Obsession With Our Homes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
A rich narrative that blends social commentary with incisive reporting, House Lust offers an astute, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of the behaviors that drove the greatest real estate boom in history—and its eventual bust.
Owning a home has long been considered the fulfillment...
by Daniel Kahneman
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Major New York Times bestseller
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street...
Drive
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake,...
Focus
The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.
Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings,...
by Daniel H. Pink
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
**The instant New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
Instant Washington Post Bestseller
"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street Journal
Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is...
by Daniel M. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
The Art of the Possible Create an Organization with No Limitations offers instructive insight into what works in business, revealing how a few simple tenets can build long-standing excellence and success. An easy-to-use integrated leadership and management guide, this book revolves around the fact that...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Microsoft founder Bill Gates writes: "Genuine pioneers don't stop after just one discovery or innovation. They are driven to build on their accomplishments and to follow them into new frontiers." He was speaking about Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com which ushered in the brave new world of...