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Professor Kevin Fong was flying with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, making split-second, life-or-death decisions in the most extreme circumstances. Then he was seconded to the NHS's Covid-19 Strategy Unit, tasked with leading the fight against pandemic. In this gripping blend of memoir and reportage, he confronts a disturbing truth: the quest for 'zero harm' can prevent the saving of lives.

In today’s working world, careers are characterized by change. You can take control of your own development at any time, but many of us don't as we feel held back by time, money, or imposter syndrome. Careers used to be linear and ladder-like. They were about following in other people’s footsteps and focused on getting to the top. This predictable approach to careers no longer fits. Enter the lobster, which never stops growing. Inspired by the lobster, superstar career coaches Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis show you how to achieve a meaningful and motivating career.

The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen—one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data—takes us deep into the heart of games, and into the depths of bureaucracy, to see how scoring systems shape what we care about. Games are the most important art form of our era. They embody the spirit of free play. They show us the subtle beauty of action everywhere in life—in video games, sports, and boardgames—but also cooking, gardening, fly fishing, and moving. They remind us that it isn’t always about outcomes, but about how glorious it feels to be doing the thing.

Every single day, those who suffer from anxiety and racing thoughts have a singularly challenging time with something we all have to do: make decisions. Whether big or small, getting to the other side of indecision with peace and clarity is something we all crave, but some of us have a very hard time getting there. Fear and doubts crowd in, making any action impossible. Just as Joseph Nguyen has provided relief to hundreds of thousands of listeners through Don’t Believe Everything You Think, he now invites us to move beyond intellectual understanding into practical application.

We have to make decisions all the time. But were any of us taught at school, college or work how to make better decisions? This book, by Sharon Curry and Andrew St George, provides a very simple system for making good decisions, tried and tested in a wide variety of workplaces, and under extreme conditions with clients from military to health to commercial to consultancies to international governments. The process derives from the Royal Marines and military planning, fully extended and adapted to match the challenges of everyday lives.

In The Art of Spending Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel offers a refreshingly practical approach to managing wealth while finding deeper meaning and contentment. Instead of cookie-cutter financial advice, Housel provides you with psychological tools to navigate your personal relationship between money and optimizing for happiness. Discover why people often mistake envy for admiration, how to align your expectations with your income, and ways to invest in future happiness while avoiding regret.

My Boss Is a Moron is the book every frustrated employee didn’t know they were waiting for—a bold, hilarious, and genuinely helpful guide to navigating bad management with your sanity and career intact. It meets you exactly where you are: stuck under leadership that’s clueless, careless, or downright toxic. And, more importantly, gives you real-life strategies for managing up, recognizing dysfunction, setting boundaries, advocating for yourself, and knowing when it’s time to walk away.

Control freaks. Narcissists. Slackers. Cynics. Difficult people are the worst part of a manager's job. This book turns this seemingly difficult chore into a straight-forward process that gently, yet effectively, improves behaviors. It all begins with understanding a core truth: most people actually want to contribute results, not cause headaches. When the manager resets to that fundamental principle, the potential for change can reveal itself in even the most hopeless situations.

In this audiobook, Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei offer a different way to think about the choices we make every day. Drawing from economics, psychology, and philosophy—and both inspired by and challenging Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow—they show how the focus on rationality, narrowly understood, fails to fully describe how we think about our decisions, much less help us make better ones.

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like? Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness.

In today's fast-paced world, data is everywhere—but only actionable insights can drive real success. The Insight-Driven Leader offers a practical guide to transforming raw data into powerful workforce insights that solve critical business challenges. Through clear frameworks, compelling case studies, and proven strategies, Jenny Dearborn and Kelly Rider reveal how high-performing organizations combine business and workforce data to innovate, engage employees, delight customers, and exceed financial goals.

Another Door Opens grapples with the reality of change - when our emotions are unravelling and we have no idea where to go next. But, however daunting it may seem, every change brings hope and opportunity. After all, what the best thing that could happen? Through her practical 5-step process, leading change consultant Eleanor Tweddell guides readers from the initial impact of change through key stages such as ideation, lateral thinking and overcoming disruption.

Through compelling examples from business, economics, literature, art, fashion, and beyond, Anointed demonstrates how status cascades through society, creating winners and losers in ways that often have little to do with merit. And how new technology offers a glimpse of a more equitable future.

This book is for every manager, leader, and entrepreneur who needs to rally a team, an organization, or themselves to think big and keep the flame of invention burning brightly while under suffocating pressure—which happens to be when you need creative problem-solving the most.

In Stakeholder Whispering: Uncover What People Need Before Doing What They Ask, author Bill Shander demonstrates how to get from your stakeholders' "order"—what they're asking for—to what they really need. You'll learn how to uncover the needs and desires of your clients, colleagues, bosses, customers, and other stakeholders based on what they ask for and how they ask for it, and how to deliver products and services that meet those needs.

Award-winning mathematician Noah Giansiracusa explains how the tech giants and financial institutions use formulas to get ahead—and how anyone can use these same formulas in our everyday lives. You’ll learn how to handle risk rationally, make better investments, take control of your social media, and reclaim agency over the decisions you make each day.

If you've been spinning your wheels trying to get ahead financially, working more hours, or chasing the latest financial trends, but still find yourself stuck, the problem might not be your work ethic, your boss, or even bad luck. The real issue is likely your approach. Enter The Wealth Ladder. This revolutionary system doesn’t tell you what to do; it teaches you how to think about your finances. In a world where interest rates, careers, and desires are always shifting, why should your strategy for building wealth stay the same? It shouldn’t.

選ぶ、決める、進む、やめる。そんなとき、どう考えればいいかというと――。【こんな人にオススメ】・「自分の頭で考えろ」と　言われても、よくわからない

Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated experiences of intriguing, constructive failure can help students develop creativity and learn more deeply. When carefully curated, failure can become a signal for learning, not the noise detracting from it. Learners gain a lifelong readiness to push themselves outside of their comfort zones, using setbacks as launchpads.

What sets the most successful people apart? You may think that the correct answer is hard work (and it’s certainly part of it), but in her interviews of the most accomplished individuals—from entrepreneurs and investors to Olympic athletes and Pulitzer Prize winners—Distinguished Professor of Management Laura Huang discovered that what they called their gut feel, the product of their intuition, played the most important role. You Already Know offers a highly practical model that equips you to leverage your most powerful and underutilized resource.