Critical Business

Improve your critical thinking skills by focusing on seven key areas. After all, being a successful leader means being able to develop, analyze, and evaluate data efficiently, and this is nearly impossible without having strong critical thinking skills.

When ancient Greeks rolled a giant wooden horse into Troy, the Trojans welcomed it as a gift. They had no idea that soldiers waited inside, ready to open the gates and destroy the city. Business leaders fall into a similar trap. They accept surface-level "solutions" to deeper problems, only to discover too late that the real enemy was within. In Trojan Horse: The Unseen Solution to Critical Business Problems, veteran entrepreneur and turnaround specialist Dean Svarc pulls back the curtain on unseen forces that sink companies from the inside out.

This bite sized book is part of a series and is a concise guide to offer simple and straightforward tips and advice to help you to distill complexity and apply intelligent thinking through information overload and fake news.

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions. 　 Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities...

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and...

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate...

"Eagleman renders the secrets of the brain’s adaptability into a truly compelling page-turner.” —Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner “Livewired reads wonderfully like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn...

The rise, fall, and revival of the Caesar of Silicon Valley. Elon Musk has cast himself as the savior of humanity, an altruistic force whose fortune is tied to noble pursuits from halting our dependence on fossil fuels to colonizing Mars. Once frequently heralded as a modern-day Edison, Musk has...