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From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible...

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.

Nattukotai Chettiars were the most prominent business community from Tamil region and this book captures their spirit of enterprise that led many of them to seek their fortunes overseas. It’s a story that connects South India, Burma, and South-East Asia across the Bay of Bengal and equally one...

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources - produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK?

Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There ...

Life Changing Advices (Must Listen!!) from 21st Century Billionaire's like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Ratan Tata and so on at Clumsy Entrepreneur Podcast.

Want to take control of the future? In each episode of this podcast, Entrepreneur magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer takes something that seems concerning or confusing today, and then learns its surprising history, what important things we’re missing, and the solutions that can make us smarter and better. (The show was previously called Pessimists Archive.)

In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day.

Old Gits New Tricks (OGNT) brings back two internet OGs, Mark Lyford and Brad Gosse, 14 years after their original No B.S. Podcast. Now in their 50s, they talk business, tech, crypto, AI, culture and life with zero filters and plenty of humour. Real stories. Real opinions. No fluff. Just two old gits learning new tricks.

Nexus: Crime, Power, Profit examines the strategic patterns connecting criminal operations and corporate decision-making. Through documentary-style interviews and analysis, we reveal how power operates across legal and illegal contexts.What We Do: Each episode features a real, documented case. We interview the people who investigated, prosecuted, or studied these cases: FBI agents, federal prosecutors, corporate executives, forensic accountants, and behavioral psychologists.Our Approach: Using our proprietary Nexus Framework™, we analyze every case through five lenses: Motive, Leverage, ...

19 Minutes with 19Keys, where every minute counts. "19 Minutes with 19Keys" isn't just a podcast; it's a high-intensity journey into the minds of movers and shakers. Hosted by 19Keys, this show brings you raw, uncut conversations with influential figures from various spheres. Dive deep into 19 minutes of pure, undiluted wisdom.About '19 Minutes':Intense, Focused Dialogues: Straying from the typical long-form format, '19 Minutes' is about packing a punch. Each episode, ranging from a sharp 45 minutes to an impactful 2-hour session, is a deep dive into a world of ideas.Exclusive Access, Unseen ...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion...

Brought to you by Penguin. Hear the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever warship. 65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that's home to up to fifty Aircraft. HMS Queen...

The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel Peace Prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well as its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, over the last 120 years. But more than that, the book also draws on the author's unique insight during his 25 years as director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

In this groundbreaking book on high-stakes leadership, Co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and former Marine Sniper Jake Wood, shows how to apply hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from the battlefield and disaster zone to your professional life. What do elite members of the military...

Historian Erik Baker argues that the entrepreneurial work ethic has given meaning to work in a world where employment is ever more precarious—and in doing so, has helped legitimize a society of mounting economic insecurity and inequality. Where work is hard to find and older nostrums about diligent effort fall flat, the advice to "make your own job" keeps hope alive.

Based on extensive archival research as well as interviews with the movement's key players going back to the 1960s, this acclaimed book is the most comprehensive chronicle yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative culinary trends in the US since World War II. Acitelli weaves the story of the rise of American craft beer into the tales of trends like Slow Food and the rebirth of America's urban areas, and paints an unforgettable portrait of plucky entrepreneurial triumph.

The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of entrepreneurial freedom has complicated the task of distinguishing aggressive salesmanship from unacceptable deceit, especially on the frontiers of innovation. At the same time, competitive pressures have often nudged respectable firms to embrace deception. As a result, fraud has been a key feature of American business since its beginnings.

"We Got The Funk" is a podcast based in Fort Worth, Texas. I discuss a wide variety of subjects that directly affect our city. Everything from the history of Funkytown to its future. Welcome to The Funk......

Bienvenue sur le podcast du Laboratoire Littéraire qui accompagne les auteurs indépendants de la première ligne au dernier clic d'achat.Avec plus de 100 épisodes couvrant toutes les facettes de l'autoédition, vous trouverez ici des réponses concrètes à vos questions : Comment structurer votre manuscrit ? Optimiser votre fiche produit Amazon ? Créer une couverture qui vend ? Construire votre communauté de lecteurs ?Chaque épisode développe un article du Laboratoire Littéraire en format audio, avec des exemples pratiques, des checklists actionnables et cette approche qui me définit...