Penguin (33)
Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
2011 || Paperback || Simon Sinek || Penguin
The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER.
In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who've watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY -- the third most popular TED video of all time.
Sinek starts with a fundamental question: ...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
2012 || Paperback || Daniel Kahneman || Penguin
Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It will enable to ...
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The Power Paradox
How We Gain and Lose Influence
2024 || Paperback || Prof. Dacher Keltner || Penguin
A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about power It shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat green vegetables or ask for a promotion at work. But how do we really gain and maintain power - through coercion or cooperation? What does it do to our behaviour? And what makes us lose power? In twenty revolutionary 'power principles', renowned psychologist Dacher Keltner turns everything we thought we knew about influence and status upside down,...
Why Machines Learn
The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
2025 || Paperback || Anil Ananthaswamy || Penguin
Why We Sleep
The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
2023 || Paperback || Matthew Walker || Penguin
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives i...
Difficult Conversations
How to Discuss What Matters Most
2023 || Paperback || Bruce Patton e.a. || Penguin
What is a difficult conversation? Asking for a pay rise, saying 'no' to your boss or spouse, confronting a friend or neighbor, asking a difficult favor, apologizing. This book helps you to turn your difficult conversations into positive, problem-solving experiences.
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The Lean Startup
How Relentless Change Creates Radically Successful Businesses
2011 || Paperback || Eric Ries || Penguin
Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.Now is the time to think Lean.
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The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
2015 || Paperback || Bessel van der Kolk || Penguin
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? This book offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.
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Thanks for the Feedback
The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
2024 || Paperback || Douglas Stone e.a. || Penguin
We get feedback every day of our lives, from friends and family, colleagues, customers, and bosses, teachers, doctors, and strangers. We know that feedback is essential for professional development and healthy relationships - but we dread it and even dismiss it. This book teaches you how to take criticism productively.