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Excellent (and very timely)." —Financial Times * "Smartly assembled case studies and insights." —Publishers Weekly * A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Former CEO and popular TED speaker Margaret Heffernan offers powerful and practical tools so you can face the future with confidence and courage.Most of us are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won't provide that, experts in...

* A Financial Times Best Book of the Year * From former CEO and popular TED speaker Margaret Heffernan comes a timely and enlightening book that equips you with the tools you need to face the future with confidence and courage.How can we think about the future? What do we need to do—and who do we need to be? In her bold and invigorating new book, distinguished businesswoman and author Margaret Heffernan explores the people and organizations wh...

An urgent read...Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, author of Trust me, PR is Dead

An urgent read...Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, author of Trust me, PR is Dead

An urgent read...Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, author of Trust me, PR is Dead

An engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth

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PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology

Get into the best schools. Land your next big promotion. Dress for success. Run faster. Play tougher. Work harder. Keep score. And whatever you do--make sure you win. Competition runs through every aspect of our lives today. From the cubicle to the race track, in business and love, religion and science, what matters now is to be the biggest, fastest, meanest, toughest, richest. The upshot of all these contests? As Margaret Heffernan shows in t...

Die bekannte Autorin und Unternehmerin Margaret Heffernan erzählt in ihrem TED-Book >Wie wir unsere Arbeitskultur verändern können<, was wir alles an unserer Art zu arbeiten verbessern können. Margaret Heffernan (die selbst CEO von fünf großen Medienunternehmen ist) zeigt, dass es die kleinen Schritte sind, die wirklich Veränderung bringen. Eine verblüffende und geistreiche Anleitung, wie jeder - vom CEO bis zum Hausmeister - zur Verbesserung ...

Subtitled, "Why We Ignore The Obvious At Our Peril". An engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth. Ranges freely through history and from business to science.

With support, humor, and perspective, this provocative book outlines new options for businesswomen. Margaret Heffernan, who has run five different companies in the UK and US, states her case directly and provocatively: women are at odds as to how to find happiness and success at work while remaining true to themselves.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

Vaak hebben de kleinste veranderingen de grootste en langst durende impact. In deze geestige en geestverruimende gids voor een sterke bedrijfscultuur legt Margaret Heffernan de fundamenten voor een nieuwe manier van denken uit. 'Voorbij het meetbare' staat bol van fascinerende anekdotes en verrassende statistieken van organisaties over de hele wereld. Hoe maak je van elke medewerker een leider? Waarom is het kantoor verlaten wonderbaarlijk go...

A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike: Influential and award-winning business leader Margaret Heffernan reveals how organizations can build ideal workplace cultures and create seismic shifts by making deceptively small changes.By implementing sweeping changes, businesses often think it's possible to do better, to earn more, and have happier employees. So why does engagement prove so difficult and productivity so elusive? In Beyond ...

With deft prose and page after page of keen insights, Heffernan shows why we close our eyes to facts that threaten our families, our livelihood, and our self-image--and, even better, she points the way out of the darkness." --Daniel H. Pink In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes.Why, after every major accident and blund...

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