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Montella, Erin Callan. Full Circle: A memoir of leaning in too far and the journey back. Triple M Press, 2016.

Erin Callan made her career the center of her life and was named CFO of Lehman in 2007 at age 42, the highest ranking woman on Wall Street. Six months later, the market imploded and management threw Callan under the bus. Eight years later in Full Circle, Erin Callan (now) Montella tells the story of her dramatic rise and fall as a Wall Street rock star and she warns other ambitious young women not to “Lean In” too deeply.

In her self-published book, Montella writes candidly about her life and the choices she made. She graduates from Harvard and NYU Law School, begins her career as a corporate tax attorney at a large prestigious New York law firm. Five years later, attracted by the excitement on Wall Street, she moves to Lehman Brothers to work as an investment banker.

Montella explains that at Lehman she excels at working with clients and constructing profitable high profile deals, earning professional accolades. She is promoted quickly through 11 levels and eventually is tapped as CFO, where she is the first woman to be part of the Executive Committee in Lehman’s 150 year history.

But Montella also counsels that the Wall Street environment is incompatible with work-life balance. At Lehman she runs full throttle, devoted to her career, spending all her time and energy on work. She meets attractive people, but personal relationships dry up from lack of attention. She ends romantic relationships and her marriage for superficial reasons and has no personal friends. When her work life crumbles, she is devastated.

Full Circle is forthright and frankly told, but Montella fails to take personal responsibility for any part of the financial collapse. She was “swimming with the sharks” yet was one of the sharks herself. She calls herself a “rookie” after 15 years in the financial sector. Her complaints about money seem self-indulgent as she owns million dollar homes in the Hamptons, NY and on Sanibel Island, FL. Others who lost their homes in the financial crisis live in their cars. That said, Full Circle is a provocative story, recommended as an introspective memoir about life choices.

Two excellent books on the financial crisis include The Big Short by Michael Lewis and Too Big to Fail by Andrew Sorkin.

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After graduation week winds down, a few quiet weeks pass before the academic cycle gears up again. For many Fuqua staff members, this brief respite is an opportunity to slow down, breathe deeply and learn something new.

Reading is good for the soul and for the mind. Next time you have a few free hours, think about borrowing a Ford Library Kindle to discover new ideas or to enhance personal skills.

Here are 6 new books that were just added to the Business Best Sellers Kindles in the Ford Library.

Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
By Cal Newport.
Georgetown faculty member Cal Newport demonstrates how to train the mind to focus and how to reorganize one’s work life so that deep work is at the core. He argues that cultivating deep work practice is critical for succeeding in our distracted world.

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
By Amy Cuddy.
Harvard faculty member Amy Cuddy teaches simple techniques to improve body language and mindset, as she explains the science behind the body-mind effect that she presents in her top TED talk about “power poses.”

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New ideas…
By Jake Knapp.
Three design partners at Google Ventures describe their innovative five-day process for new endeavors that move quickly from problem to prototype, which they call a “design sprint.”

Smarter Faster Better
By Charles Duhigg.
The author of The Power of Habit presents eight key concepts—from motivation and goal setting to focus and decision making—that explain how the most productive people and companies get so much done.

Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of The Future
By Steve Case.
The cofounder of America Online (1991) describes his vision of the internet of things, a future economy where every product, service and experience is transacted online.

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
By Adam Grant.
The author of Give and Take examines how individuals can recognize and champion new ideas, build coalitions of allies and reject conformity — and how leaders can nurture originality and build cultures that welcome dissent.

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McChrystal, Stanley A. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Portfolio, Penguin, 2015.

Stanley McChrystal now teaches leadership courses at Yale, but he is best known as the four star general who commanded the elite combat forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2003 to 2009. McChrystal led the Joint Special Operations Task Force, a world class team that combined the resources of Navy SEALS, Air Force Rangers and Army Special Forces. In Team of Teams, he uses his leadership experience in Iraq to argue that the speed and interdependence in today’s world have created levels of complexity that require all organizations, including those in business, education and medicine, to adapt to continual change.

When the book begins, Saddam Hussein has already been unseated, but a bitter struggle in Iraq follows and the terrorists are winning. While McChrystal’s forces are far better equipped and trained, they face an environment for which they are unprepared. The enemy is agile, innovative and resilient, an extensive network of fighters with local autonomy but with access to instant communications with their leadership. While McChrystal’s troops are superior, they are losing ground. McChrystal realizes that to beat the enemy, he must transform his command to be like his adversaries. His own elite fighters must become more flexible and innovative, empowered to make on-the-spot, life-and-death decisions.

The military uses extreme training to create trust and common purpose on elite teams. McChrystal keeps these teams intact, but he breaks down the silos within the Task Force and replaces them with a “team of teams” organization with strong lateral ties. McChrystal converts his headquarters into a single open space with a wall of screens at the front that are shared by all. He uses transparent communication, a radical sharing of information about their operations, to create a shared consciousness. Everyone on the organizational chart accesses complete information from across the network, previously restricted to senior leaders. On the field, interdependent and fully informed operational teams make individual decisions in real time.

Under the new model, the commander’s role changes from planning, directing and decision making to communicating and enabling, which McChrystal terms “Eyes On-Hands Off.” Leading the adaptive organization requires shaping the ecosystem and nurturing cooperation among teams on a regular basis. Leaders must guide and inspire, working continually to maintain a culture that is flexible and durable. Leaders also update their organizations continually because in constantly changing environments there are no permanent fixes.

Team of Teams includes examples from many industries, including aerospace and medicine. Examples from the military are riveting. This book is recommended to all leaders.

Also available as an eBook on OverDrive and as an audiobook on OverDrive.

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Jiang, Jia. Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection. Harmony Books, 2015.

Fuqua 2009 MBA Jia Jiang is the author of a new and heartfelt book about his personal journey to overcome fear of rejection.

In Rejection Proof, Jiang explains that he left his first post-MBA position as a marketing manager at a Fortune 500 company to pursue his dream of becoming an entrepreneur.  After assembling a team of coders to create a game app, he pitched his idea to an outside investor, but it was rejected.   His personal difficulty in dealing with “no” led Jiang to devote his next 100 days to a self-directed program of rejection therapy so he could learn  to thrive in the face of rejection.

Adapting a game invented by a Canadian entrepreneur, Jiang purposely sought out rejection to desensitize himself to denial.  He challenged rejection 100 times and video-recorded every experience.  He also started a website http://fearbuster.com/ where he blogged about his experience.  In Rejection Proof, Jiang reports what he learned about himself and others over those 100 days.

At first Jiang approaches strangers with an absurd request and he is filled with fear.  After the encounter, he feels shameful.  But later, viewing his video-recording, he analyzes his own and others’ reactions and gets a new perspective.  Within the first week he is able to approach people on the street with confidence and composure.  He learns that asking for favors in a friendly and open way sometimes motivates strangers to say “yes” to his preposterous requests.   He learns strategies for turning a negative reaction into acceptance.

After one of Jiang’s video-recordings goes viral, he becomes famous. He is now a popular keynote speaker with a top Ted Talk and has been featured on Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Yahoo News, CNN, Time Magazine, the Jeff Probst Show and more.   In Rejection Proof, Jiang writes with forthright honesty and amiable humor.  His book is an easy and enjoyable read.  Recommended.

Also available as an eBook on OverDrive and as an audiobook on OverDrive.

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A vital tool for developing library collections at 4000 universities is Choice magazine’s book reviews. For books selected for review, concise critical evaluations by teaching faculty members or subject experts are followed by purchase recommendations. Only a fraction of the books are evaluated as “Essential,” the highest rating. Five recent Ford Library acquisitions earned the rare designation, “Essential.”

The Practical Drucker by William A Cohen.
Peter Drucker, “The Father of Modern Management,” wrote 39 books and over 1000 journal articles. In The Practical Drucker, former student William A. Cohen synthesizes the enormous body of Drucker’s work, summarizing his observations about people and their work organizations. Cohen describes 40 key concepts for solving real-world problems, covering topics such as leadership, ethical behavior, performance measurement, marketing and innovation. Examples from Drucker’s day-to-day work with leaders in complex organizations provide proven practice and illustrate solutions to problems.

The Greening of Asia by Mark L. Clifford.
Asia business journalist Mark Clifford explains that exponential economic growth in Asia is causing a crisis in environmental quality. He proposes a new model of economic development that uses market forces to transition to a greener Asia, with government offering incentives to business to find efficient solutions to challenges in sustainability. Clifford showcases leading Asian companies that are changing the global landscape and overtaking Western competitors in solar and wind power, environmentally powered cars, green buildings, water treatment technologies and sustainable agriculture.

The Soft Edge by Rich Karlgaard.
Forbes publisher and entrepreneur Rich Karlgaard presents his model for how companies achieve long-lasting success — a triangle composed of a strategic base (market, customers, competitors, substitutes, disrupters); the hard edge (speed, cost, supply chain, logistics capital efficiency); and the soft edge (trust, smarts, teams, taste and story). Karlgaard focuses on the soft edge, sharing observations and anecdotes about industry leaders, companies that have thrived for decades and have found the right balance between the data of the hard edge and the skills of the soft edge.

Fish Can’t See Water by Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis.
At the heart of the culture of any business organization is the national culture, which has a powerful yet invisible impact on the company’s success. Yet management is often blind to the culture in their own company and their home country. Two experts on culture and communications, Kai Hammerich and Richard Lewis, present their models (the Cultural Dynamic Model and the Lewis Model) as a framework for understanding how national culture effects strategy execution within organizations. Concludes with recommended actions to enhance competitiveness in a global environment.

Global Entrepreneurship by Nir Kshetri
This scholarly work by Nir Kshetri, faculty member at the UNC Greensboro Bryan School of Management, examines entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, including key elements such as values and culture, the regulatory environment and access to markets, financing and technology. Geographic areas covered include OECD economies, post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe, the Gulf states, Africa, China and India.

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Bissonnette, Zac. The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute. Portfolio/Penguin, 2015.

At the end of the 20th century, two speculative bubbles reached their climaxes and then quickly collapsed. The best known was the dot-com bubble, which involved publicly held internet companies on the NASDAQ. The other bubble involved a privately held toy company that sold $5 and $10 stuffed animals. A new book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble, tells the story of Ty Warner and his company, but it is also an entertaining look into the formation and dynamics of speculative manias.

Author Zac Bissonnette relates the tale of the creative and driven Ty Warner, who was a top grossing salesman for Dakin before he started a competing company Ty Inc. Warner’s personal charisma and obsessive attention to detail compensated for his start-up company’s disadvantages such as limited product line, lack of scale, small sales force and low price points. He changed his product mix often and focused on independently owned toy and gift shops, which remained loyal to him.

In 1995, a popular Beanie Baby was discontinued due to supplier problems. Retailers complained until they learned that Warner “retired” the product, which created scarcity. Retired Beanie Babies became collectible and each $5 piece took on a higher value in the secondary market.

Beginning with the first collectors in the Chicago suburbs, interest in assembling collections of retired Beanie Babies spread incrementally by word of mouth. Warner retired pieces that were already hard to find, creating a frenzy of buying. The Internet was new, and vague comments and innuendo about future retirements on www.ty.com caused prices to spike. Soon a new auction site named Ebay created a market that operated 24/7.

The craze ended suddenly in 1999 as Ebay brought transparency to the supply side of the market. Adults who had used a child’s toy as an investment lost everything. Ty Warner reported a net worth of $1.7 billion. In 2013 Warner was charged with tax evasion and fined $53 million. Jimmie Fallon joked, ” The Beanie Babies creator owes $53 million for tax evasion. If he sells them all, he’ll just owe… $53 million.”

Also available as an audiobook on OverDrive and as an eBook on OverDrive.

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Galinsky, Adam D. and Maurice Schweitzer. Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both. Crown Business, 2015.

Yesterday, Chapel Hill native Adam Galinsky, business faculty member at Columbia Univ., presented academic research and his acquired wisdom on cooperating, competing, power and social hierarchy, to 150 Fuqua staff members. Afterward, a colleague noted to me, “That was the best speaker that we have ever heard.”

Prof. Galinsky is also an engaging writer. He presents these topics (and more) in a new book that he wrote with Wharton faculty member Maurice Schweitzer. In Friend & Foe, Galinsky and Schweitzer explain that human beings are inherently both cooperative and competitive. By nature, people compete when resources are scarce, but as social animals, they cooperate when resources are plentiful. In modern society, interactions among people are complex and require a balance of both behaviors.

Galinsky and Schweitzer explain that comparisons between people are inevitable. Competing with those with better skills can motivate people to improve their performance, but they can also trigger resentment or unethical behavior. Competing with the less skilled makes people feel satisfied. Finding the right balance is key to remaining motivated and happy.

The most interesting discussion in the book is about power. The authors present academic research that demonstrates that in a social interaction, personal power can be increased by merely thinking of a prior experience with power. Power can also be increased by adopting a power stance, standing tall, arms akimbo, legs spread. In addition they show how powerful people are often unaware of the perspectives of others and can improve their leadership skills by considering the vantage points of others.

In addition to discussing academic research, Professors Galinsky and Schweitzer use dozens of stories to provide practical advice on topics, such as: How to negotiate; How to build trust; How to detect deception; How to apologize; How to choose a good name. The new book, Friend & Foe, is recommended for all readers and as Fuqua staff discovered yesterday, author Adam Galinsky comes highly recommended as a speaker.

Also available as an eBook on OverDrive and as an audiobook on OverDrive.

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Farrell, Chris. Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life. Bloomsbury Press, 2014.

For decades, conventional wisdom about the long term viability of Social Security benefits was gloom and doom. When the baby boom generation reached retirement age and drew on Social Security benefits, the entitlement system would be strained, requiring lower benefits and higher taxes, perhaps going bankrupt altogether. With only three workers to support each retiree over 65, Social Security was deemed unsustainable. But according to business journalist Chris Farrell, the current outlook is far more optimistic.

In his new book, Unretirement, Farrell argues that aging baby boomers are not behaving as their predecessors. Instead of retiring at their earliest opportunity and moving to Florida to play golf, baby boomers are working longer, either remaining at their full-time jobs, transitioning to a non-profit, downshifting to part-time work or putting their experience to work as independent contractors. Farrell estimates that the average age of retirement will rise to 70 over the next 25 years. This bodes well for Social Security because people who work longer continue to contribute and have fewer years to draw on the benefits.

Baby boomers are better educated and healthier into their 60’s and 70’s than previous generations. They seek meaning through work and stay engaged in their communities. A frugal mindset and distrust of Wall Street are taking root. Farrell explains retirement planning for this group is less about investing, and more about staying on the job, developing new skills for an encore career, maintaining social contacts and delaying Social Security benefits.

Farrell admits that unretirement will not be enjoyed by all. Workers with limited skills in low paying jobs have bad prospects as they age. But he predicts that the majority of older Americans will experience personal financial security and the U.S. economy will undergo a long period of prosperity despite its aging population. Recommended.

Also available as an eBook on OverDrive.

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Critics and commentators at the Economist, the Financial Times and McKinsey select the best books of the year for 2015. Not surprisingly, there is a significant overlap. Let’s take a look at what the experts are recommending now.

BUSINESS

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Karen White.
Accomplished academic at Princeton and key foreign policymaker for the Obama Administration describes her vision for what true equality between men and women really means.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015
Financial Times Book of the Year 2015
Finalist: FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
By Stephen Witt.
The secret history of digital music piracy, from the German engineers who invented the MP3, to a N.C. CD manufacturing plant that leaked 2000 recorded albums over 10 years, and then into dark recesses of the Internet where music is available for free.

Financial Times Book of the Year 2015
Finalist: FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015

Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
By Ashlee Vance.
A portrait of daring, charismatic and confrontational innovator Elon Musk, his life and career, his successes and failures, beginning with his difficult childhood in South Africa.

FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015 nominee

Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
By Nathaniel Popper.
N.Y. Times reporter presents the volatile evolution of an emerging payment system that facilitates innovative transactions and reduces costs to merchants while assuring privacy to users.

Financial Times Book of the Year 2015
Finalist: FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015

Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
By Jeffrey Pfeffer.
Stanford Business School professor uses his research to update the accepted wisdom about leadership, concluding that authenticity, honesty and humility are overrated.

FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015 nominee

Road to Character
By David Brooks.
Political writer illustrates the lives of 8 well-known people who have been down the difficult “road to character” and shows how character building works in the real world.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015

Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
By Greg Ip.
Wall Street Journal commentator explains that the urge to avoid risk often leads to danger — for example, preventing small forest fires creates the opportunity for an inferno — as a lesson for banking regulators trying to prevent a financial crash.

Financial Times Book of the Year 2015

Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
By Gillian Tett.
Silos are ubiquitous in business, government and universities. A financial journalist explains why organizations fragment into silos and how functional departments can be better integrated to foster innovation.

Financial Times Book of the Year 2015

ECONOMICS

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By Richard Thaler.
An entertaining view of how economists are deviating from the traditional standard of rationality to study real human behaviors, showing how miscalculations affect decision making and how incentives affect markets.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015
Financial Times Book of the Year 2015
Finalist: FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015

Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance
By John Kay.
An economist explains how the finance sector should work, managing other people’s money for the benefit of businesses and households, instead of enriching financial executives in powerful banks.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015
Financial Times Book of the Year 2015

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
By Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman.
Two economists discuss the risks of an extreme climate event and its global repercussions, unless action is taken now, as they identify carbon pricing as the economic solution to the production of industrial pollution.

Financial Times Book of the Year 2015
FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015 nominee

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
By George Akerlof and Robert Shiller.
Two Nobel Prize-winning economists argue that markets are not always the benign “invisible hand,” but are rife with deception as sellers exploit buyers’ psychological weaknesses.

FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015 nominee

Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup
By Andrew Zimbalist.
A sports economist explains the politics behind hosting the Olympic Games and the World Cup, arguing that the short-term and long-run economic impacts are negative for the hosting cities, where only the wealthy profit.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015

Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History
By Barry Eichengreen.
An economist compares the two financial crises of the 1930’s and 2008-onward and analyzes the actions that policymakers undertook with the positive and negative results.

FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015 nominee

Inequality: What Can Be Done?
By Anthony Atkinson.
An economist proposes 15 new solutions to alleviate economic inequality, such as a minimum inheritance for all and a global tax on wealth.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015
Financial Times Book of the Year 2015

TECHNOLOGY

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner.
Forecasting seems like an art, but can be learned. Experts with real foresight gather evidence from a variety of sources, understand probabilities, work in teams and change course when new data emerges.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015
FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award nominee

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
By Martin Ford.
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur argues that as technology continues to accelerate, machines are beginning to take care of themselves, making human jobs obsolete. Jobs are evaporating, while education and health care costs rise rapidly, leading to massive unemployment, income inequality and the implosion of the consumer economy.

Financial Times Book of the Year 2015
Winner of the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry
By Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff.
An insider’s account of BlackBerry, which in 2009 ranked as the world’s fastest growing company with half the smartphone market, but was then crippled by internal management feuds and ruthless competition from Apple and Google.

Financial Times Book of the Year 2015
Finalist: FT and McKinsey Book of the Year Award 2015

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
By Steve LeVine.
Energy journalist provides a fast-paced account of the global race to develop a lithium-ion super-battery that will transform the world’s industries, geopolitics and climate.

FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award nominee

Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By Jerry Kaplan.
Computing pioneer discusses advances in machine learning, robotics and perception powering systems, creating technologies that exceed human capabilities, promising a future with escalating comfort and wealth for some, but persistent unemployment for many.

The Economist Book of the Year 2015

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Last week’s book recommendations were from Bryan Burrough in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal – What to Give (to family and friends for the holidays).  Today we post more recommendations – popular new books just loaded onto Ford Library Kindles – each book selected with Fuqua students in mind.

Students, as our (temporary) gift to you, consider taking home a Ford Library Kindle to use over the holidays – returning it in January.   Each Kindle contains a library of the most important reading for business professionals.  Choose among three book collections: Business Best Sellers, Business Classics, or Career Management books.

Here are the six additions to Ford Library Kindles:

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt. This story of genius and deceit covers the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked 2000 recorded albums over 10 years, and then into the darkest recesses of the Internet where music is always available for free.

Awards: Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, named one of Time magazine’s Best Books of 2015 So Far, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a Washington Post Notable Book of 2015.

Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection, as an OverDrive audiobook, and as an OverDrive ebook.

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler. The author of the business bestseller Nudge presents an entertaining view of how economists are deviating from the traditional standard of rationality to study real human behaviors, showing how miscalculations affect decision making and how incentives affect markets.

Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection and as an OverDrive ebook.

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur argues that as technology continues to accelerate, machines are beginning to take care of themselves, making human jobs obsolete.  Both blue-collar and professional jobs are evaporating, while education and health care costs continue to rise rapidly, leading to massive unemployment, income inequality and the implosion of the consumer economy.

Winner of the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection and as an OverDrive ebook.

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter and Karen White. Author of a controversial article in The Atlantic that sparked a national debate, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter describes her vision for what true equality between men and women really means and how American culture and organizations need to change to eliminate the “motherhood penalty”.

Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection, as an OverDrive audiobook, and as an OverDrive ebook.

Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money while Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson. Two leaders in the emerging field of impact investing for blended value outline a set of investment strategies that generate financial return while intentionally improving social and environmental conditions, showing how for-profit investments can help address social problems.

Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Classics collection and as an OverDrive ebook.

Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century by Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers. The rapid urbanization of a new 2.5-billion-person middle class in Asia is creating an unprecedented demand for oil, steel, land, food, water, cement, and other commodities. This book shows how innovators are turning worldwide resource crises into business opportunities using breakthrough performance in effective use of natural resources.

Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Classics collection.

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