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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

8 best books like The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty (Clayton M. Christensen): Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt, Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, The Infinite Game, An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
AuthorDavid Epstein
ISBN0735214484
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
AuthorRoger McNamee
ISBN0525561358
The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.

If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself...
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
AuthorArthur C. Brooks
ISBN0062883771
Now a National Bestseller.

To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against...
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
AuthorSafi Bahcall
ISBN1250185963
*Wall Street Journal bestseller
*Next Big Idea Club selection--chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season"
*Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019"
*Inc.com's "10 Business...
The Infinite Game
AuthorSimon Sinek
Do you know how to play the game you're in?

In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.

In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go,...
An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
AuthorAllison Schrager
ISBN0525533966
A Financial Times Book of the Month pick for April!

Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave?

Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie?

Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
AuthorDarrell Bricker
From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape.

For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning...
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
AuthorEric Schmidt
ISBN0062839276
This book fails both as a biography and as a playbook. It's thin on details and the rose-coloured lens of Bill makes it read more like a eulogy.

Evidence would suggest that Bill Campbell was an excellent coach. This book does not capture his playbook in a meaningful way and I learned very little.

It’s...
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