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Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all - his fortune, his reputation, and his job - in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors.

Jamie Dimon is Wall Street's biggest player. Following the 11h-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, his profile has reached stratospheric levels. And while the deals and decisions he's made have usually turned out to be the right ones, his journey to the top of the financial world has been anything but easy. Now, in The House of Dimon, business writer Patricia Crisafulli goes behind the scenes to recount the amazing events that have shaped Dimon's career.

Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes listeners inside Google headquarters - the Googleplex - to explain how Google works.

Hablar de Carlos Slim es referirse a una de las figuras clave de nuestro tiempo. De hecho, su nombre se ha convertido en sinónimo de éxito empresarial y poder económico. Personaje admirado y criticado por igual, presencia constante en los medios, magnate capaz de comprar negocios en quiebra para transformarlos en prósperas corporaciones, filántropo que ha donado buena parte de su fortuna a causas sociales y culturales, ejemplo vivo de esfuerzo, tesón y audacia, Slim es un hombre del que todos hemos oído hablar pero de quien, en realidad, sabemos muy poco.

When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side?

"Não sei exatamente em que ano conheci Anderson, não sei onde eu estava, mas acho que trabalhava na Folha de S.Paulo como colunista da “Ilustrada” e Anderson já estava no comando da Arezzo. Também não acho que esse tipo de data seja tão relevante para uma história como a que nos une. Anderson, profissional como poucos nesse país, é um empresário com um olhar lá na frente e com os pés bem no chão. Tenho a impressão de que qualquer coisa que ele fizesse na vida daria muito certo, mas o fato é que ele escolheu fabricar sapatos, para minha alegria e de tantas mulheres brasileiras.

Esse é o audiolivro definitivo sobre a vida de um dos homens mais respeitados e fascinantes do mundo: Warren Buffett. O lendário investidor pela primeira vez autorizou alguém a produzir sua biografia, concedendo a Alice Schroeder acesso irrestrito a seus familiares, amigos e parceiros–e, é claro, a ele mesmo.

La notable historia de cómo, empezado con una pequeña fábrica en Bolton, Joe Foster convirtió a Reebok en una de las marcas deportivas más famosas del mundo.

In "Society's Child," you'll journey with Janis as she spends time with luminaries of the century-Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin-singers and songwriters who both influenced and befriended her. Her book takes an unblinking look at the music business, her own remarkable path through it, and what was really happening backstage-with honesty and integrity.

The protagonist of Just Do It is Phil Knight, a reclusive billionaire who started a two-man operation importing Japanese running shoes and built it into a $4 billion company. Irreverent, unpredictable, and leery of the sports establishment, Knight created the most muscular jock culture in business, a place where employees routinely took two hours at lunch to work out and then strategized late into the night in their holy war against competitors Reebok and Adidas.

Se fossem as histórias triviais, este audiolivro contaria mais um caso de sucesso empresarial. Mas aqui tudo é excepcional, desde o início. A empresa foi vislumbrada em 1924 por um engenheiro ferroviário – que convenceu um lorde escocês a reunir muito capital em Londres para executá-lo. O engenheiro tornou-se acionista minoritário de uma grande multinacional.

"Nella storia del digitale l’Italia ha avuto molte occasioni per diventare protagonista ma non le ha colte come doveva. Ora è venuto il momento di una svolta." Autentico pioniere di Internet in Italia, Gianluca Dettori racconta in queste pagine come è nata, cresciuta, morta e resuscitata un’industria che conta mezzo milione di addetti tra servizi, contenuti, pubblicità online, commercio elettronico, software e tecnologia.

Decades before trade moved between the United States and Japan at its present pace, there was a Japanese immigrant's son with an American dream. Born to a farming tycoon in California, George Aratani was forced to leave the family business behind when incarcerated with more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. After the war, he traveled to Japan with little idea of what he would import from the war-devastated archipelago. What followed was the development of his two powerful businesses, Mikasa and Kenwood.

Al volante della Fiat, la più grande azienda del Belpaese, l'Avvocato è stato ed è ancora oggi il simbolo di quel "made in Italy" che ha fatto della creatività la propria bandiera, un portacolori capace di coniugare il rigore sul lavoro, tipico del nonno fondatore Giovanni e di altri maestri, come Vittorio Valletta, con i piaceri della vita, anche attraverso la sua amicizia con molti protagonisti del secolo breve, da Kennedy a Kissinger a Truman Capote.

Star della Formula Uno, manager di fama internazionale, creatore di club per miliardari e personaggio da copertina: è lui, Flavio Briatore, l'uomo che buona parte degli italiani vorrebbero come maestro di vita. II perché è presto detto: Briatore, figlio di maestri elementari della profonda provincia cuneese, con un semplice diploma di geometra in tasca, è diventato multimiliardario, e oggi gira il mondo a bordo del suo jet privato. Simbolo vivente che "se vuoi, puoi" - come recita il suo motto - e che il successo e la bella vita sono alla portata di tutti.

The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today’s very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past 50 years of the industry. From buying stock in Apple when its market valuation was only $60 million to founding New York Magazine to investing in AOL, Audible, and more recently, Axios, his discerning approach to finding companies is almost peerless.

Gli stimoli nati dalle numerose edizioni dell'evento Evolution Forum Day, che hanno visto protagonisti Zanardi, Velasco, Iacchetti, Crepet, Gnocchi, Cucinelli, Cannavaro, Atzori, Pontremoli, Montali, Sintini, Dallara, Marzari, Sechi, Preatoni, Simoncelli, Gresini, Lanza, Ferrara, Traisci, Liguori, sono l'occasione e il punto di partenza per una serie di riflessioni maturate dall'autore, Gianluca Spadoni, nel corso della sua vita e della sua crescita personale, culturale e professionale.

Listed as one of the “12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time" by Fortune magazine in 2012, Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, or NR Narayana Murthy as he is better known, is probably the most recognized and respected face of Indian industry. This book takes you through the fascinating journey of a 17-year-old who had to sacrifice his entry into the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology because his father did not have money to pay his fees and ultimately came up in life to head a global IT giant.

Indira Nooyi's meteoric rise and success has been charted by every newspaper and business journal in the world, but how many of us know the person behind the image? The Secret of Success: The Story of Indira Nooyi gives us a rare insight into Nooyi's life, her childhood, the choices she made, the struggles she faced and the lessons she learnt on her way to the top.

My real story starts with a disaster, an unmitigated, pull-the-rug-from-under-you, clean-out-the-bank-account disaster. But had it not happened, The Police would never have risen to become the biggest rock band in the world; Jools Holland would not have ended up on TV; The Bangles, The Go-Go’s, R.E.M., and many other music stars might never have made it either. It’s strange how a fluke, a disaster, an unlikely event can lead to incredible results. But that is in essence what happened to me....