“Fascinating and important.” —Walter Isaacson, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk

Silicon Valley has lost its way. Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’s dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions.

Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom.

The result? An entire generation for whom the narrow-minded pursuit of the demands of a late capitalist economy has become their calling.

In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success. Above all, our leaders must reject intellectual fragility and preserve space for ideological confrontation. A willingness to risk the disapproval of the crowd, Karp and Zamiska contend, has everything to do with technological and economic outperformance.

At once iconoclastic and rigorous, this book will also lift the veil on Palantir and its broader political project from the inside, offering a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.

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Who is the most complicated person you work with? You probably don’t have to think very hard to answer that question. You already know their name, their job title, their quirks, and their flaws. You have firsthand experience with the mental and emotional fallout they leave in their wake. You’ve seen the problems their complexity creates for everyone on their team. You wish you could fix them, solve them, ignore them, or teleport them to a parallel dimension. But you can’t. You have to work with them. (You could quit, but your next job will have a complicated person waiting for you.)

That means you need effective strategies to collaborate with (nearly) anyone. Especially the picky, prickly, problematic ones. Drawing from his global consulting experience with teams and leaders from the glitz of sports and entertainment, to the number-crunching world of finance, to the meticulous realms of insurance, pharma, and manufacturing, Ryan Leak provides proven strategies for…

• Seeing challenging individuals as human beings to understand rather than problems to solve
• Detoxing unrealistic expectations and getting comfortable with complicated
• Learning to communicate effectively in complex environments
• Embracing healthy disagreement as a tool to discover better solutions
• Setting boundaries that let people into your world without letting them run your world

“The process of learning to collaborate with difficult individuals is transformative—it’s a gateway to greater creativity, stronger teams, and increased productivity,” Leak explains. “On the other side of complicated is the wonderful, wide-open world of effective collaboration and a workplace you love.”

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Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men do and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens: Upon entering the workforce, they immediately lose their advantage. When the first promotions come around, the slide continues–for every 100 men who are promoted to manager, only 87 women and 73 women of color get promoted.

This is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez call “the broken rung,” and its effects compound throughout women’s careers, causing women to fall behind at the start and keeping them from catching up.

In this groundbreaking book, the authors reveal the problem’s underlying cause: while about half of a person’s lifetime earnings come from education and half from experience, men get more value from their experience than women do. As the authors show, it is also here, in one’s experience, that the solution lies: How can women build their “experience capital” to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential?

Based on over a decade of research, conversations with more than 50 remarkable leaders, and their own experiences as senior partners and as the first three consecutive chief diversity and inclusion officers for McKinsey, the authors weave data on the potential pitfalls across a career with inspiring and instructive stories of women who have climbed over the broken rung by using strategies that increased their experience capital.

Leaders and companies must do more to address structural gender inequalities in the workplace–but you don’t have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide, right now, for moving up the corporate ladder and reaching your full potential at work.

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It is clear that leaders carry a unique burden. They are guardians, protectors, providers, judges, helpers, servants, counselors, and friends–and only a Giant can be all those at one time. Leaders live and die with the actual results they create, and those results are created with and through the people they lead.

Dave Durand spent 35 years founding, leading, and selling companies with more than a billion dollars in combined sales. Having led hundreds of thousands of people, he distills leadership influence in usable terms. Leading Giants illuminates the Four Superpowers of a Leader, how to rapidly expand your influence, and that in order to succeed, strangely, you have to “think like a criminal.”

In addition to building greatness in yourself, your team, and your organization, Leading Giants will help you:

• Become a Giant–someone who has unlocked their maximum potential in business and in life
• Inspire great results in those around you–creating profit and long-term wealth for your business
• Attract and retain incredible talent (other Giants)–keeping all the best players on your team
• WIN against your competitors

By learning to serve as a firm but compassionate leader in the face of challenges, you will do the right things, the right way, and reap the benefits. Because life and business are full of good people engaging in destructive behavior, influencing people away from vice and into virtue is the key to peace, prosperity, and profits.

Filled with personal stories from Durand’s decades of founding, leading, scaling, and selling businesses, plus actionable lessons readers can use to increase the impact of their leadership, Leading Giants offers a fresh and empowering perspective, helping readers set their sights on true success and providing them a practical guide for the journey.

If you want success, extraordinary results, and a winning culture, Leading Giants will show you how.

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Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. While acknowledging challenges like disinformation and potential job changes, the book focuses on AI’s immense potential to increase individual agency and create better outcomes for society as a whole.

Imagine AI tutors personalizing education for each child, researchers rapidly discovering cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer, and AI advisors empowering people to navigate complex systems and achieve their goals.

Hoffman and co-author, tech and culture writer Greg Beato envision a world where these possibilities, and many more, become a reality. Superagency challenges conventional fears, inviting us to view the future through a lens of opportunity, rather than fear.

It’s a call to action–to embrace AI with excitement and actively shape a world where human ingenuity and the power of AI combine to create something extraordinary.

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The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the 20-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.

Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today. You’ll learn about his childhood, early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents; his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.

Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing. It’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.

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Written in accessible language, Private Markets: Building Better Portfolios with Private Equity, Private Credit, and Private Real Estate addresses the challenges and opportunities with investing in the private markets, including understanding the merits of the asset classes–private equity, private credit, and private real estate–product evolution, and the structural tradeoffs, and how to incorporate these versatile and valuable tools in client portfolios.

This book leverages Tony Davidow’s 40 years of experience working directly with advisors and high-net-worth families/ ultra-high-net-worth families. Davidow is an award-winning author and has also been recognized for building Franklin Templeton’s alternative education program (2023 recipient of the “Wealthie”). Topics discussed in this book include:

● How private markets can be used to increase the likelihood of achieving client goals

● Examining the historical risk and return characteristics of the private markets relative to their public market equivalents

● Exploring the benefits of private markets including the potential for higher returns, an alternative source of income, diversification, and hedging against the impact of inflation.

Now that private markets are available to a broader group of investors outside of institutions and family offices, Private Markets: Building Better Portfolios with Private Equity, Private Credit, and Private Real Estate is an essential resource for all financial advisors and individual investors who are considering allocating capital to these once elusive investments.

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In Leading Relationships, Steve McClatchy, esteemed leadership mentor and entrepreneur, offers a clear path to improving workplace dynamics. This essential guide tackles the pervasive problems of workplace drama and ineffective relationship management, providing readers with practical tools to build trust, confidence, and respect among colleagues.

Delving into his flagship Five Levels of Maturity framework, McClatchy outlines how to progress from basic interactions to deep, meaningful connections in both personal and professional contexts. The book equips leaders with strategies to handle common challenges such as accountability, conflict resolution, and feedback delivery. It also covers specific issues like managing public criticisms, direct disrespect, and workplace gossip, ensuring leaders can maintain a positive environment even in tough situations.

You’ll:

• Learn to recognize and enhance the maturity of your workplace relationships to foster a collaborative environment
• Master conflict resolution techniques that preserve integrity and respect among team members
• Gain practical advice on providing feedback that motivates and supports, rather than alienates, colleagues

Whether you’re a manager, executive, HR professional, or consultant, Leading Relationships is your definitive guide to cutting through workplace conflict and enhancing leadership efficacy. Transform your personal and professional relationships and create a more dynamic and supportive work environment by ordering your copy today.

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What if the key to happiness, success and love was as simple as two words? If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words–let them–will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you.

The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands–and this book will show you exactly how to do it.

In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins–New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s most respected experts on motivation, confidence and mindset–teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can’t control and start focusing on what truly matters: YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.

Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that’s made The Mel Robbins Podcast a global sensation, Robbins explains why The Let Them Theory is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact.

Within a few pages, you’ll realize how much energy and time you’ve been wasting trying to control the wrong things–at work, in relationships and in pursuing your goals–and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.

Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness and ancient wisdom who champion The Let Them Theory every step of the way.

Learn how to:

• Stop wasting energy on things you can’t control
• Stop comparing yourself to other people
• Break free from fear and self-doubt
• Release the grip of people’s expectations
• Build the best friendships of your life
• Create the love you deserve
• Pursue what truly matters to you with confidence
• Build resilience against everyday stressors and distractions
• Define your own path to success, joy and fulfillment

…and so much more. The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.

Order your copy of The Let Them Theory now, and discover how much power you truly have. It all begins with two simple words.

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The No. 1 New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavish their fortune.

The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story–of ambition, invention, destruction and reinvention.

From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society.

The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family’s story.

In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, No. 1 New York Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in America–offering a window onto the making of America itself.

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