Future Business

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family, and his friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the pinnacle of the global business world.

New York Times bestseller 1! Più di due milioni di copie vendute! Lanciare un missile nello spazio? Costruire una macchina del futuro pratica, efficiente e pronta a conquistare il mondo con le sue linee eleganti? Non solo sognare ma camminare a grandi passi verso il lancio degli uomini su Marte? Inventare un'app e diventare un milionario prima di trent'anni? Sembra impossibile riuscire a fare tutto questo nel corso di una vita, vero? Non solo per un uomo ma anche per una squadra ben allenata di scienziati, imprenditori, costruttori e operai. Ma ce l'ha fatta.

In The Compass and the Coin: The Purpose-Driven Future of Business, George Guibal and Shaun Pearce present a powerful guide for leaders who want to align profitability with purpose. Through compelling case studies, actionable frameworks, and practical tools, this book highlights how purpose-driven organizations outperform competitors, attract top talent, and create lasting positive impact. From crafting a mission to embedding purpose into strategy, overcoming cultural resistance, and measuring success, this is a must-listen for anyone ready to shape the future of business.

Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way helps any business leader uncover the future now and use this knowledge to steer his or her organization - and career - to success. The book encourages you to consider how your actions can create, influence, and affect the future for other people, as well as entire professions and organizations. In particular, it helps you develop the same kind of forward-thinking/acting Drucker mindset that led him to the highest levels of success.

The term affiliate marketing has been misunderstood and underestimated since its inception. At its core, affiliate marketing represents something overwhelmingly positive: paying only for marketing that delivers actual, quantifiable results. Robert Glazer, a leader in the affiliate marketing industry for more than a decade, draws upon his experience and insights gathered from influential marketers to examine a rapidly changing field. Performance Partnerships is the first in-depth look at the performance (affiliate) marketing industry.

Extensively revised and expanded, Future Search, the classic, definitive, best-selling book on one of the most powerful methods for changing and improving all types of organizations and communities, includes a host of new tools, and three new chapters. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, or any other major change in a participative, whole system way, this book is your guide.

With the aim to educate and encourage every listener to adopt disruptive technologies, as well as to understand their impact on the future of businesses, workforce, and societies, The Future of Disruptive Technologies was born.

Me 2.0 shows job seekers and established professionals alike how to leverage the power of online media for personal empowerment and career success. There is no job security anymore, which means that the way we manage our careers has forever changed. Now everyone in the world is your competition, and the single greatest differentiator you have is your personal brand. With social media tools, blogs, and mobile applications, there are endless opportunities to become known and connect with other people.

You will learn how design and innovation are being impacted by new and emerging technologies, societal demands, cultural shifts, and broader world issues. The Future of Design is practical, concise, and includes guidelines for building and supporting creative teams, advice and strategies for evaluating product concepts, and interviews with product designers, inventors, and innovators from around the world.

Bitcoin. You’ve heard of it, you’ve seen it in the news, but what is it? And how can this new technology help with fundraising? In this easy-to-understand guide, fundraisers and bitcoin experts Jason Shim and Anne Connelly will help you learn about what Bitcoin is, how it’s transforming non-profits, and give you a step by step plan to set up a cryptocurrency donation program at your organization and engage donors today!

Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening future - eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. Wadhwa says that we need to ask three questions about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence?

Jeremy Siegel, one of the world’s top investing experts, has taken a long, hard, and in-depth look at the market and the stocks that investors should acquire to build long-term wealth. His surprising finding is that the new technologies, expanding industries, and fast-growing countries that stockholders relentlessly seek in the market often lead to poor returns. In fact, growth itself can be an investment trap, luring investors into overpriced stocks and overly competitive industries.

The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary best seller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.

Ever noticed how leadership theories can disintegrate in the face of real-world challenges? That’s frustrating, whether you’re a busy executive or a developing leader. On the other hand, purely reactive problem-solving is like bailing water from a ship without ever patching the leaks. With no reflection, no structure, no guiding vision, your temporary fixes won’t last, and soon you’re bailing water again.

One of Scarlett Abbott's 2023 World Changers, Marva Bailer takes a modern twist on business protocols that haven't changed since the '80s in her book, Be Unexpected. Energizing the routine and mundane professional lectures and meetings, Be Unexpected will teach listeners soft skills in a relatable way that will help create positive connections.

On 10 August 2015, an unassuming product expert who learnt his ropes at IIT Kharagpur was declared the next CEO of tech giant Google. Sundar Pichai's appointment was hardly an unexpected one. Pichai is a man known as much for his veritable Midas touch with every product he has developed or led for Google - Chrome, Chrome OS and Android, to name just a few - as for his superlative people skills and open-minded approach to innovation.

In 2015, when Mohammad Alardhi became the executive chairman of Investcorp, a leading global manager of alternative investments, he arrived with a transformative mindset that would set the company on a path to unprecedented growth. Within three years of Alardhi taking control of the company, their wealth management grew from $10B to $25B, and three years after that, it had grown to a remarkable $42B. After seven years under Alardhi’s leadership, Investcorp was managing an astounding $50B in wealth. Alardhi speaks candidly about the big thinking needed to succeed at such a large scale.

Millennials are often bashed for our lifestyle choices as well as how we will, one day, ruin our economy. This book goes in depth as too whether or not that will happen. It will discuss the pros and cons of each generation as well as the prediction of the upcoming future in the United States.

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute The Future Isn't Coming—It's Already Here. The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just disrupt supply chains, workforces, and economies—it accelerated the future. In this critically acclaimed fourth volume of The Robot and Automation Almanac, over 20 futurists, technologists, economists, engineers, and thought leaders forecast the trends, technologies, and transformations reshaping our world in real time. From the warehouses and hospitals of today to the digitally driven workplaces of tomorrow, this almanac explores how robotics, AI, ...

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute Welcome to the Future. What if you could go back in time and read a book that predicted how automation, robotics, AI, and future tech would begin transforming industries and daily life? This is that book—for the year 2018. The Robot and Automation Almanac – 2018 captures a unique moment in the evolution of technology, offering rare insight into the pivotal year when the age of automation began to emerge from science fiction into everyday reality. In this visionary collection, top experts, CEOs, engineers, and futurists explore...