An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly.

"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance...

"Luxury brand guru and chairman of LVMH Moett Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Pauline Brown brings her 25 years of experience to this cutting-edge book about the aesthetic value of a company's product or service"-- "Longtime leader in the luxury goods sector and former Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton North America reinvents the art and science of brand-building under the rubric of Aesthetic Intelligence. In a world in which people have cheap...

"David Rakoff's bestselling collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of today's funniest and most insightful writers. Now, in Don't Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from the personal to the public, journeying into the land of unchecked plenty that is contemporary America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has...

Through analysis that's both rigorous and entertaining, Galloway outlines the path for the next trillion dollar company, the Fifth Horseman, and points to which companies are in the running. Uber for example or, less obvious, Microsoft and Starbucks. As with Peter Thiel's Zero to One; listeners will come away with fresh, game changing insights about what it takes to win in today's economy.