In Generation AI, lifelong entrepreneur, futurist, and consumer trend expert Matt Britton explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping society, from consumer behavior to education, work, relationships, and health. As the first generation born into an AI-enabled world, Generation Alpha will experience a paradigm shift in lifestyle and career paths. Britton examines the unprecedented opportunities AI presents: personalized learning, advancements in healthcare, and automated consumer experiences and processes. Britton also confronts ethical and societal challenges, from privacy issues and economic disparity to the potential impact on mental health and job displacement. Balancing optimism with caution, Britton offers a forward-looking guide for leaders, parents, and individuals on how to navigate a future where AI drives cultural and economic transformation.

Generation AI explores timely topics including:

• Consumer Behavior: AI-driven, personalized shopping and the role of the creator economy in capturing mindshare
• Education: Exploring the future of education and the need for learnings to reinvent itself from a curriculum centered on memorization to one focused on problem solving and creativity
• Work & Career: A deep dive into the AI powered developments driving disruption in the workplace and uncovering the skill sets needed to thrive
• Mental Health & Relationships: Examines AI’s potential to both connect and isolate, impacting human interaction.
• Ethics & Privacy: The need for AI guardrails to protect privacy and ensure fairness amid rapid technological advances.

Generation AI is a comprehensive and highly practical guide for all individuals looking to future proof themselves in this brave new world–especially Millennial parents, who are raising the first AI generation, grappling with the disruption of AI in their own lives, and seeking to understand the next stages of our technological evolution.

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Sky’s the Limit: Lessons in service, Entrepreneurship and Achieving the American Dream tells the inspirational tale of John P. Calamos Sr., an American trailblazer, self-made success story, and living legend in the world of investing. Each chapter contains stories and business lessons he learned along the way. From a stock boy in his parents’ grocery store in Chicago’s west side, to 400+ combat missions in Vietnam, to launching his own firm which now has upwards of $35 billion in assets, John’s career and the extreme success he’s enjoyed through that career have been built on taking risks and being resilient. Some of the events detailed in this book include:

• Teenage John’s discovery of stock certificates in his family’s basement ignites a passion for investing
• Major Calamos’ time in the Air Force, including five years of active duty flying B-52 bombers and twelve years in the Reserves flying A-37 jet fighters
• Pioneering initiatives to launch one of the first convertible funds in 1985 and one of the first liquid alternative funds in 1990

Sky’s the Limit: Lessons in Service, Entrepreneurship and Achieving the American Dream earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all individuals seeking to mirror the success of a man who is a living embodiment of the quintessential rags-to-riches American dream.

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With a foreword by Reid Hoffman, Coming of Age: How Technology and Entrepreneurship Are Changing the Face of MENA, is the story of the region’s entrepreneurial growth in the last 25 years that spans industries as diverse as fintech, healthtech and agritech—all of which have emerged out of the desert since the new millennium to produce global-leading transformative ventures and leapfrogging technologies.

Featuring interviews with 35 founders from the region, in Coming of Age, Noor Sweid charts the MENA region’s remarkable entrepreneurial journey to the point where it is set to challenge the global order and fully realize its potential to provide for the youngest population in the world.

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Business leaders face all kinds of challenges and fears as they work to grow their business. Dave Ramsey gets it—because he’s been there. Over the past 30 years, he and his team have taken some right (and plenty of wrong) turns as they worked to build his one-man financial counseling business into Ramsey Solutions, a $250-million company with over 1,000 team members. Now, Ramsey is sharing what he’s learned from walking through three decades of business growth—so you can grow your business faster with fewer missteps.

In Build a Business You Love, Ramsey lays out the “EntreLeadership System,” the road map that takes the guesswork out of growth for business owners like you. Because after more than a decade of helping leaders grow their businesses—and through direct experience with his own company—Ramsey has found there are five distinct stages of growth every business has to conquer to reach its potential:

• Stage 1: Treadmill Operator
• Stage 2: Pathfinder
• Stage 3: Trailblazer
• Stage 4: Peak Performer
• Stage 5: Legacy Builder

Throughout the book, Ramsey breaks down each of the stages and their unique challenges in detail to help you solve the right problems, at the right time, in the right way. You’ll learn how to navigate everything business ownership throws at you—from hiring the right people, to finding and training leaders, to creating and operating a budget, to nailing down strategic plans that get results, and more.

Build a Business You Love is the essential guide for business owners who want to grow their business the right way and leave a legacy they’re proud of.

Grab your copy and join the thousands of business owners who have transformed their businesses by learning to leverage the EntreLeadership System—the proven plan to help you grow yourself, lead your team, and scale your business.

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Every big project—whether it’s technology, sneakers, or a neighborhood café—requires a big investment to get off the ground. Unfortunately, most big projects flop with customers. Too many teams waste time, money, and opportunity because they follow the wrong strategy and lose sight of what really matters: Do people want what you’re making? Does your solution click with customers?

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky—two brilliant product designers who spent years at Google Ventures and elsewhere before founding a venture capital firm together—have helped hundreds of teams bring new products and services into the world. As designers and investors, they’ve had a front-row seat to some of the world’s most successful startups. Click: How to Make What People Want is the practical guidebook based on their experience—a proven system for starting projects the right way to make better decisions and move quickly toward a solution that clicks with customers.

Inside are 12 important lessons, a step-by-step playbook, and memorable stories from Nike, Microsoft, Google, Slack, and the frontiers of artificial intelligence research. Building on their bestselling book Sprint, Knapp and Zeratsky introduce new recipes that teams can use to quickly and confidently start new projects.

For anyone who has ever had a good idea but didn’t know how to start, this book is for you.

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An urgent and illuminating perspective that offers a window into how the most pernicious aspects of the venture capital ethos is reaching all areas of our lives, into everything from health care to food to entertainment to the labor market, and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

The venture capital playbook is causing unique harms to society. And in World Eaters, Catherine Bracy offers a window into the pernicious aspects of VC and shows us how its bad practices are bleeding into all industries, undermining the labor and housing markets and posing unique dangers to the economy at large. VC creates a wide, powerful wake that impacts the average consumer just as much as it does investors and entrepreneurs.

In researching this book, Bracy interviewed founders, fund managers, contract and temp workers in the gig economy, and limited partners across the landscape. She learned that the current VC model is not a good fit for the majority of startups, and yet, there are too few options for early stage funding outside of VC dollars. And while there are some alternative paths for sustainable, responsible growth, without the help of regulators, there is not much motivation to drive investors from the roulette table that is venture capital.

World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy is an eye-opening account of the ways that the values of contemporary venture capital hurt founders, consumers, and the market. Bracy’s clear-eyed debut is a must-read for fans of Winners Take All, Super Pumped, and Brotopia, an appealing “insider/outsider” perspective on Silicon Valley for those who are fascinated to look under the hood and learn why the modern economy is not working for most of us.

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“You don’t get to be my age without navigating all kinds of transitions. Some you embraced and some you never expected. Some you hoped for and some you fought as hard as you could.” —Melinda French Gates

Transitions are moments when we step out of our familiar surroundings and into a new landscape—a space that, for many people, is shadowed by confusion, fear, and indecision. The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward accompanies readers as they cross that space, offering guidance on how to make the most of the time between an ending and a new beginning and how to move forward into the next day when the ground beneath you is shifting.

In this book, French Gates will reflect, for the first time in print, on some of the most significant transitions in her own life, including becoming a parent, the death of a dear friend, and her departure from the Gates Foundation. The stories she tells illuminate universal lessons about loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping friends navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty, and more.

Each one of us, no matter who we are or where we are in life, is headed toward transitions of our own. With her signature warmth and grace, French Gates candidly shares stories of times when she was in need of wisdom and shines a path through the open space stretching out before us all.

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Ishan Shivanand was born into an ancient lineage of yogis spanning 21 generations and spent the first 20 years of his life in a Himalayan monastery. Grounded in the traditions of yoga, meditation, martial arts, storytelling, and herbal medicine, he developed the Yoga of Immortals (YOI) protocol, which is designed to help followers combat stress, anxiety, depression, and create healthy individuals and healthy communities.

The Practice of Immortality shares these lessons and practices. In a world suffering the effects of fear, competitiveness, and anger, Shivanand encourages us to take a step back. Structured as a thoughtful narrative with practices based in the true intentions and meaning of yoga, The Practice of Immortality will help you achieve that which you never thought possible.

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Should I buy or rent? Do I ask for a promotion? Should I tell people I’m pregnant? What salary do I deserve? Should I just quit this job? Common anxieties about life are often grounded in economics.

In an increasingly win-lose society, these economic decisions—where to work, where to live, even how to live—have a way of feeling fixed and mistakes terminal. Daryl Fairweather is no stranger to these dynamics. As the first Black woman to receive an economics Ph.D. from the famed University of Chicago, she saw firsthand how concepts of behavioral economics and game theory were deployed in the real world—and in her own life—to great effect.

Hate the Game combines Fairweather’s elite knowledge of these principles with her singular voice in describing how they can be harnessed. Her great talent, unique among economists, is her ability to articulate economic trends in a way that is not just informative but also accounts for life’s other anxieties. In Hate the Game, Fairweather fixes her expertise and service on navigating the earliest economic inflection points of adult life: whether to go to college and for how long; partnering, having kids, both, or neither; getting, keeping, and changing jobs; and where to live and how to pay for it.

She speaks in actionable terms about what the economy means for individual people, especially those who have the sneaking suspicion they’re losing out. Set against her own experiences and enriched with lessons from history, science, and pop culture, Fairweather instructs readers on how to use game theory and behavioral science to map out options and choose directions while offering readers a sense of control and agency in an economy where those things are increasingly rare.

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Life of Your Dreams by Mark Pentecost offers an empowering road map for those who feel stuck in the cycle of day-to-day survival, unable to pursue their true potential. Pentecost’s journey from high school math teacher struggling to make ends meet to billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist proves that daring to dream bigger can lead to extraordinary results.

In this inspiring and practical guide, Pentecost shares his seven transformative steps to break free from the “Dependence Dilemma”—the self-imposed barriers of financial obligations, fear of risk, and the illusion of security that hold many back from realizing their dreams.

Drawing on personal experiences and lessons learned, Pentecost provides actionable advice and mindset shifts to help readers transcend stagnation and achieve the life they desire. In Life of Your Dreams, readers will discover how to:

• Master the 7 steps for breaking free from dependency patterns
• Identify and overcome the 2 biggest barriers to personal growth
• Understand how to assess and take calculated risks that lead to breakthrough results
• Cultivate a “live on the offense” mindset to turn challenges into opportunities
• Build a supportive community to propel progress
• Create an action plan for achieving unimaginable goals

If you’re ready to stop playing it safe and start living your dreams, this book offers the tools, strategies, and inspiration to get there.

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