Business Play

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design. Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market...

He didn’t just claim me. He branded me. Nicolette I thought I was in an office to help my father renegotiate a deal. Turns out—I was the deal. Thirty days. Zero mercy. Full submission. My father signed the contract. I signed away my pride. Now, Cassian Wolfe owns me—body, mind, and orgasm. And every time I beg, he makes me beg harder. Cassian She didn’t read the fine print. I didn’t need her consent—just her signature. Now she’s mine. Leashed. Collared. Branded. I want the crack in her voice. The tremble in her knees. The tear that says, “I hate how much I need you.” ...

Florence Scovel Shinn nos propone la vida entendida como un juego. En este juego, hay reglas que debemos respetar para ganar o por lo menos para que el camino sea más grato. La autora ofrece recomendaciones para conseguir la prosperidad, ya sea en nuestras relaciones personales, en el ámbito financiero o la salud. «La mayoría de la gente considera que la vida es una batalla, pero es más bien como un juego, un juego que no se puede ganar sin haber comprendido primero la Ley Espiritual».

The Family Business Book A twelve-step guide to surviving succession, power struggles, and staying sane. Third Edition — Fully Updated for the Post-COVID and AI Era Every business starts with a family. Even the largest companies began with a founder, a kitchen table, and a dream. But what happens when that family grows? When the children come of age—or refuse to? When power shifts from one generation to the next, often without a plan? In this newly updated edition, The Family Business Book offers a practical and psychologically informed roadmap for navigating the emotional complexity of...

He didn’t just claim the contract. He claimed me. Sloane I built a tech empire from scratch—and lost it in a single night. A betrayal signed in ink. A clause buried in fine print. A partner’s signature that sold me as collateral. Thirty days. No appeals. No escape.Now I’m shackled to the man who dismantled my world. Vincent Drake is more than a billionaire predator—He’s a collector of obedience. A master of punishment. And he intends to break me one command at a time. Vincent Sloane Winters was never supposed to belong to me. But she does now. She’s fiery, defiant, and ...

An exuberant, behind-the-scenes look at the designers and the company that brought us Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, and so much more “Keza MacDonald pulls back the curtain on the Nintendo dream factory.” —Walt Williams, author of Significant Zero What magical mushroom could have turned an...

Porchlight’s Best Leadership & Strategy Book of The Year An inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods that is “not only entertaining but will be of great value to any entrepreneur” (Phil Knight, New York Times bestselling author of Shoe Dog). It’s How We Play the Game...

He didn’t just promise to save her brand. He claimed her body as collateral. Celeste I was the future of couture—until scandal shredded my name and set fire to everything I built. Then Sebastian Wolfe showed up: billionaire investor, media fixer, and ruthless negotiator. He didn’t offer a bailout. He offered terms. One contract. One collar. Complete submission.I signed to survive. But now I sleep in his penthouse. I kneel when he commands. And the man who rescued my empire is wrecking me from the inside out. Sebastian She walked into my office with pride in her spine and desperation ...

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER The riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car—from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins. “A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride.”...

Teacher’s Pet: Trying to make up for past mistakes, Grant works with his subs to improve their lives. He’s become good at rope play and is often invited to perform at clubs. Kayla is lost. She needs courage, self-confidence, and the ability to converse. For a passing drama grade, she finds herself center stage at a BDSM club under her old high school teacher’s hands. Turns out, she’s got a past eating away at her and she needs help working it out. Grant makes sure she does. Timeless: Life is all about finding meaning. For Leigh Anne, it means opening up her own agency, it means ...

The new way to transform a sales culture with clarity, authenticity, and emotional intelligence. Too often, the sales process is all about fear. Customers are afraid that they will be talked into making a mistake; salespeople dread being unable to close the deal and make their quotas. No one is...

The Swedish firm Hästens enjoys an outstanding international reputation for creating the finest beds in the world, as evidenced by a client list that includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to actual crowned heads of state. Its luxurious, handcrafted, top-of-the-line Grand Vividus sells for as much as $750,000. Now the family business lovingly run by fifth generation and CEO Jan Ryde sells its beautiful beds in fifty countries around the world. In When Business Is Love, Jan shares his leadership philosophy and explains how any business, in any field, can operate on the basis of love.

From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness—a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining guide to help build better friendships, reignite love, and get closer to others, whether...

Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions? In every organization there are Impact Players—those indispensable colleagues who can be counted on in critical situations and who consistently receive high-profile assignments and new...

Can you remember the utter delight of playing chase, flying a kite, or getting messy with a box of paints? As children, playing is how we make sense of the world and our place in it. Why then, as adults, do we forget how to play? Drawing on more than 20 years of neuroscientific research and clinical practice, psychotherapist Joanna Fortune has discovered that play is central to the human experience–and is the key to living a happier, joyful life.

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader In 1984, soon-to-be college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his fledgling PC business in the...

An off-site corporate event gone disastrously wrong. The largest ransom in history. The price-tag: dead or alive. Now, in Joseph Finder's explosive thriller Power Play, it's up to Jake Landry-a modest, steady guy with a dark, hidden past-to save them all... It was the perfect retreat for a...

Throughout her career in the super-competitive, male-dominated media industry, Gail Evans, one of the country's most powerful executives, has met innumerable women who tell her that they feel lost in the workplace, almost as if they were playing a game without knowing the directions. In this book, she reveals the secrets to the playbook of success and teaches women at all levels of the organization - from assistant to vice president - how to play the game of business to their advantage.

In this new edition of the bestselling classic, Florence Scovel Shinn teaches the power of positive thought and how to access abundance, love and success.At a time of global trauma like no other, The Game of Life and How to Play It is the ultimate guide to creating a life full of optimism...

Great companies stumble and fall when they lose it. Highfliers crash when a competitor notices they don't have it. Start-ups shut down if they can't develop it. "It" is a strategy so powerful and an execution-driven mindset so relentless that companies use it to gain more than just competitive advantage—they achieve an industry dominance that is virtually unassailable and that competitors often try to explain away as unfair.