The Corporation in the 21st Century
Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong
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John Kay
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In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.
But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority.
John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation—and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Illuminating.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-12-25
De: Dan Davies
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Dark Brilliance
- The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
During the 1600s—between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment—Europe lived through an era known as The Age of Reason. By exploring all the key events and bringing to life some of the most influential characters of the era—including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV, and Charles I—acclaimed historian Paul Strathern tells the vivid story of this paradoxical age, while also exploring the painful cost of creating the progress and modernity upon which the Western world was built.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short biographies of some of the most profound and influential people that lived and molded the Age of Reason
- De joseph en 02-03-25
De: Paul Strathern
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- De: Parmy Olson
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive—until now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Author doesn’t understand AI
- De David en 09-30-24
De: Parmy Olson
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- De: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Self congratulatory book
- De mbojanczyk en 03-17-25
De: Raj M. Shah, y otros
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Team of Giants
- The Making of the Spanish-American War
- De: Matthew Bernstein
- Narrado por: Douglas R Pratt
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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If not for an unlikely alliance among a bespectacled cowboy, a former Confederate general, and a millionaire newspaper publisher, the Spanish-American War might never have been. How these three outsize characters—Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, and William Randolph Hearst—helped ignite the war that established the United States’ offshore empire is the rousing tale that Matthew Bernstein tells in Team of Giants.
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Tribal
- How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
- De: Michael Morris
- Narrado por: Michael Morris
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Tribalism is our most misunderstood buzzword. We’ve all heard pundits bemoan its rise, and it’s been blamed for everything from political polarization to workplace discrimination. But as acclaimed cultural psychologist and Columbia professor Michael Morris argues, our tribal instincts are humanity’s secret weapon. Ours is the only species that lives in tribes: groups glued together by their distinctive cultures that can grow to a scale far beyond clans and bands. Morris argues that our psychology is wired by evolution in three distinctive ways.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well educated, institutionally, but otherwise naive
- De Zirrus en 12-14-24
De: Michael Morris
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The Longevity Imperative
- How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives
- De: Andrew J. Scott
- Narrado por: Michael Chance
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of us view the prospect of additional years with fear and skepticism? The reason is simple: society is not currently structured to support long lives. Rather than thinking in terms of the needs of a rising number of older people, we must instead support the young and middle-aged to prepare differently for the longer futures they can expect.
De: Andrew J. Scott
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes
- The Untold Story of the International Spy Network
- De: Richard Kerbaj
- Narrado por: Richard Kerbaj
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 2
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This is the definitive account of the Western world’s most powerful—but least known—intelligence alliance, which remains central to the defense of the free world in a dangerously uncertain time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The author should stick to writing
- De IBH en 03-16-25
De: Richard Kerbaj
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Ignorance and Bliss
- On Wanting Not to Know
- De: Mark Lilla
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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In Ignorance and Bliss, the acclaimed essayist and historian of ideas Mark Lilla offers an absorbing psychological diagnosis of the human will not to know. With erudition and brio, Lilla ranges from the Book of Genesis and Plato's dialogues to Sufi parables and Sigmund Freud, revealing the paradoxes of hiding truth from ourselves.
De: Mark Lilla
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The Everything War
- Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
- De: Dana Mattioli
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt, Dana Mattioli
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Drops knowledge, reads like a thriller
- De Kitty B. en 05-29-24
De: Dana Mattioli
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Lawless Republic
- De: Josiah Osgood
- Narrado por: David Holt
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
In its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by a crime wave. An epidemic of extortions, murders, and acts of insurrection tested the court system's capacity to maintain order. As case after case filled the docket, an ambitious young lawyer named Cicero seized every opportunity to litigate, forging a reputation as a master debater with a bright future in politics. In Lawless Republic, historian Josiah Osgood recounts the legendary orator's ascent and fall, and his pivotal role in the republic's lurch toward autocracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and educational
- De N. Mammen en 02-25-25
De: Josiah Osgood
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The Friction Project
- How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
- De: Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become “friction fixers.”
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4 out of 5 stars
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not clear purpose
- De Gg en 05-09-24
De: Robert I. Sutton, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
- America and the World in the Free Market Era
- De: Gary Gerstle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cursory, unoriginal, class-blind
- De A Reviewer en 10-24-22
De: Gary Gerstle
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Question 7
- De: Richard Flanagan
- Narrado por: Richard Flanagan
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who loves longer?
- De Diane en 03-26-25
De: Richard Flanagan
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Obliquity
- Why our goals are best achieved indirectly
- De: John Kay
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
A leading economist charts the indirect road to happiness and wealth. Using dozens of practical examples from the worlds of business, politics, science, sports, literature, even parenting, esteemed economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: The best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal-from happiness to wealth to profit to preventing forest fires-is the indirect way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Little additional insight
- De Roger Wirth en 01-23-19
De: John Kay
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- De: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good summary
- De Medz en 01-28-25
De: Henry Farrell, y otros