Libros
Professional Reading Club: First, Break All The Rules. What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently from Gallup.
Jueves 15 de febrero
This month in The Professional Reading Club we have analyzed the book: First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently from Gallup. In this book, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world’s greatest managers […]
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Professional Reading Club: Art of risk. The new Science of Courage, Caution & Change
Martes 23 de enero
In the Professional Reading Club we start the year with the book The Art of risk,: The new Science of Courage, Caution & Change by Kayt Sukel Are risk-takers born or made? Why are some more willing to go out on a limb (so to speak) than others? How do we weigh the value of opportunities […]
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Professional Reading Club. The new roles of work: The modern Paybook for Navigating your Career
Jueves 30 de noviembre
This month, in the professional reading Club we have analyzed the book “ The new roles of work: The modern Paybook for Navigating your Career. .» The guide, written by Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, founders of the career website The Muse, offers practical strategies and quick exercises to help you figure out your career […]
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Professional Reading Club. Barking up the wrong tree by Eric Barker
Lunes 2 de octubre
In October, in our Professional Reading Club, the book that we have proposed is Barking UP the wrong tree by Eric Baker, in this book Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn: Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest […]
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Professional Reading Club. Everybody Lies by Stephens-Davidowitz
Jueves 28 de septiembre
In September, in the Professional Reading Club, we analyzed the book “Everybody lies” by Stephens-Davidowitz. Stephens is a Harvard-trained economist and former Google data scientist. In his book, he explores the myriad uses of Big Data and how the very definition of “data” is constantly expanding. Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into […]
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Small Data. The tiny clues that uncover huge trends
Viernes 28 de abril
The book is based on a several year period of consumer studies for major corporations across the globe. It features case studies of the author’s work interviewing consumers in their homes and using his observations to create hypotheses as to why they use products the way that they do. Seemingly insignificant behavioral observations containing very […]
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Professional Reading Club: Superbosses
Jueves 23 de marzo
HOW EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS MASTER THE FLOW OF TALENT What do Ralph Lauren, Larry Ellison, Julian Robertson, Jay Chiat, Bill Walsh, George Lucas, Bob Noyce, Lorne Michaels, and Mary Kay Ash have in common? Certainly all of them are known for being talented and successful—even legendary—in their respective fields. All have reputations as innovators who pioneered […]
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How to Have a Good Day
Viernes 17 de febrero
In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology and neuroscience to transform the quality of our everyday lives – at work and beyond. Advances in the behavioral sciences are giving us an ever-better understanding of how our brains […]
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Jueves 17 de noviembre
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to […]
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Sapiens. A Brief History of Humankind
Lunes 19 de septiembre
Homo sapiens rule the world because it’s the only animal that believes in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights. Starting from this provocative idea, Sapiens goes on to retell the history of our species from a completely fresh perspective. It explains that money is the […]
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