Economist Best Books of the YearFinancial Times Business Book of the MonthA handbook for disruptors Eric Schmidt, former CEO of GoogleLearn how the geek mindset is revolutionizing the corporate world by breaking all the rules to transform business culture, leadership, and personal successes.Were living in a time of amazing technological innovation, but were not paying enough attention to one of the most important innovations of all one thats going to be a wellspring of progress for a long time to come.This innovation is to the company itself a new model is being pioneered by geeks who have instituted a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can and should be.They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting rather than relying on the bosss instincts. In The Geek Way, author and research scientist Andrew McAfees groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world.The future will be geek. By investigating contemporary research in psychology, economics and behavioural sciences, as well as first-hand accounts from the geek leaders of today, McAfee shows us how this new age will transform everything we think we know about how business is done, now and into the future.The most compelling analysis Ive seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organisations Adam Grant, host of TED podcast Re: Thinking and number one New York Times bestselling author of Think AgainChosen for Economist Best Books of the Year in 2023 and Financial Times Book of the Month in November 2023.

A New York Times BestsellerA revolution is under way.In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologieswith hardware, software, and networks at their corewill in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.In The Second Machine Age MITs Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfeetwo thinkers at the forefront of their fieldreveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kindsfrom lawyers to truck driverswill be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age will alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

¿Por qué nuestra sociedad es cada vez más desigual? ¿Por qué la proporción de gente con trabajo está cayendo tan rápidamente? ¿Por qué las rentas medias han dejado de crecer?Según una explicación frecuente, la causa fundamental de estos hechos es la desaceleracion de las ideas y los inventos que conducen al progreso y a la prosperidad.En La carrera contra la maquina, los investigadores del MIT Erik Brynjolfsson y Andrew McAfee ofrecen una explicacion muy diferente. Demuestran que no solo los avances tecnologicos no estan estancados sino que la revolucion digital se esta acelerando. Esto hace que las nuevas maquinas posean unas habilidades que hasta ahora estaban reservadas solamente a los humanos. Se trata de un fenomeno amplio y profundo con serias consecuencias economicas.Algunas de estas consecuencias son positivas, como el aumento de productividad, la reduccion de precios y el crecimiento de la riqueza en general. Pero la innovacion digital tambien cambia la manera como se reparte esta riqueza, y aqui las noticias son malas para el trabajador medio. Con un progreso tecnologico corriendo mas que nunca, mucha gente se esta quedando atras. Aquellos trabajadores cuyas habilidades han sido incorporadas a los ordenadores modernos tienen poco que ofrecer en el mercado de trabajo y ven como sus salarios se reducen y su futuro se ensombrece.El argumento del libro es que las perspectivas de empleo son negras para mucha gente no porque el progreso tecnologico se haya estancado sino porque los hombres y las instituciones no corren lo bastante. Nuevos modelos de emprendeduria, nuevas estructuras organizativas y unas instituciones diferentes son necesarias para garantizar que el trabajador medio no se quede rezagado detras de las maquinas mas avanzadas.Este es un libro extraordinariamente oportuno, que clarifica la cuestion economica mas seria que nuestras sociedades afrontan y proporciona una hoja de ruta que nos ayudara a convertir el desafio de las nuevas tecnologias en una oportunidad. -John Hagel, co-presidente de Deloitte Center for the EdgeEste es, simplemente, el mejor libro escrito hasta la fecha sobre la interaccion entre la tecnologia digital, el empleo y la empresa. []Si en el proximo año usted solo leyera un libro sobre las nuevas tecnologias y su impacto en las sociedades modernas, deberia ser este. -Profesor Gary Hamel, director de Management LabEn la investigacion en ciencias sociales, necesitamos desesperadamente que se hagan, y se respondan, las preguntas mas importantes. Eso es precisamente lo que Brynjolfsson y McAfee hacen en este importante libro sobre la interseccion entre tecnologia y economia. Diria aun mas, afrontan la pregunta mas importante del presente y del futuro: ¿de donde van a venir los nuevos trabajos?. -Jared Bernstein, ex economista en jefe del vicepresidente de los EEUU Joe Biden

A New York Times Bestseller. A fascinating (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologieswith hardware, software, and networks at their corewill in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.In The Second Machine Age MITs Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfeetwo thinkers at the forefront of their fieldreveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kindsfrom lawyers to truck driverswill be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age alters how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

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A revolution is under way. In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologieswith hardware, software, and networks at their corewill in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.In The Second Machine Age, MITs Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfeetwo thinkers at the forefront of their fieldreveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kindsfrom lawyers to truck driverswill be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.A fundamentally optimistic audiobook, The Second Machine Age will alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

DESCUBRE CÓMO LA MENTALIDAD GEEK ESTÇáREVOLUCIONANDO EL MUNDO CORPORATIVO¿Que significa "ser un geek"? Los geeks utilizan su insaciable curiosidadáy su amor por la innovación para afrontar el reto de crear mejoresaproductos y empresas; no temen abordar grandes problemas y aplicarasoluciones poco convencionales, y no les preocupa seguir la corriente.En esta obra, Andrew McAfee expone como los geeks han creado unaanueva cultura basada en cuatro normas: velocidad, autonomia, ciencia yaapertura. Este enfoque se inclina por los argumentos y rechaza cualquieraburocracia; no esta supeditado a la planificacion y sus partidariosano temen fracasar, desafiar a sus superiores o demostrar que se hanaequivocado. Al principio puede parecer extraño. Pero cuando lasacuatro normas se ponen en marcha, emerge una cultura libre, agil,aigualitaria, basada en evidencias, argumentativa y autonoma. ¿Por queael metodo geek funciona tan bien? McAfee proporciona una originalarespuesta: porque aprovecha nuestra increible capacidad de cooperaraestrechamente y aprender con rapidez.Combinando teoria de la gestion, estrategia competitiva, ciencia de laaevolucion, psicologia y antropologia cultural, asi como historias queaejemplifican el estilo

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age, a paradigm-shifting argument full of fascinating information and provocative insights (Publishers Weekly, starred review)demonstrating that we are increasing prosperity while using fewer natural resources. Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth: chopping down forests, polluting the air and water, and endlessly using up resources. Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the focus has been on radically changing course: reducing our consumption, tightening our belts, and learning to share and reuse. Is that argument correct?Absolutely not. In More from Less, McAfee argues that to solve our ecological problems we should do the opposite of what a decade of conventional wisdom suggests. Rather than reduce and conserve, we should rely on the cost-consciousness built into capitalism and the streamlining miracles of technology to create a more efficient world.Americaa large, high-tech country that accounts for about 25% of the global economyis now generally using less of most resources year after year, even as its economy and population continue to grow. Whats more, the US is polluting the air and water less, emitting fewer greenhouse gases, and replenishing endangered animal populations. And, as McAfee shows, America is not alone. Other countries are also transforming themselves in fundamental ways.What has made this turnabout possible? One thing, primarily: the collaboration between technology and capitalism, although good governance and public awareness have also been critical. McAfee does warn of issues that havent been solved, like global warming, overfishing, and communities left behind as capitalism and tech progress race forward. But overall, More from Less is a revelatory and deeply engaging (Booklist) account of how weve stumbled into an unexpectedly better balance with natureone that holds out the promise of more abundant and greener centuries ahead.

The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done and shows how to change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation."A handbook for disruptors." Eric Schmidt What is being geeky? Its being a perennially curious person, one whos not afraid to tackle hard problems and embrace unconventional solutions. McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. The geek way seems odd at first. Its not deferential to experts, fond of planning and process, afraid of mistakes, or obsessed with "winning." But it explains everything from why Montessori babies turn out to be creative tinkerers to how newcomers are disrupting industry after industry (and still just getting started). When all four norms are in place, a culture emerges that is freewheeling, fast-moving, egalitarian, evidence-driven, argumentative, and autonomous. Why does the geek way work so much better? McAfee provides an original answer: because it taps into humanitys superpower, which is our ability to cooperate intensely and learn rapidly. By providing insights from the young discipline of cultural evolution, McAfee shows that when we come together under the right conditions, we quickly figure out how to build reusable spaceships and self-correcting organizations. Under the wrong conditions, though, we create bureaucracy, chronic delays, cultures of silence, and the other classic dysfunctions of the Industrial Era. Mixing cutting-edge science, history, analysis, and stories that show the geek way in action, McAfee offers a new way to see the world and empowering tools for seizing the big opportunities of today and tomorrow.The Economists Best Books of 2023 Forbes Top 10 Business Books of 2023Financial Time Monthly Best Business Books to Read Pick

¿Por qué nuestra sociedad es cada vez más desigual? ¿Por qué la proporción de gente con trabajo está cayendo tan rápidamente? ¿Por qué las rentas medias han dejado de crecer?Según una explicación frecuente, la causa fundamental de estos hechos es la desaceleracion de las ideas y los inventos que conducen al progreso y a la prosperidad.En La carrera contra la maquina, los investigadores del MIT Erik Brynjolfsson y Andrew McAfee ofrecen una explicacion muy diferente. Demuestran que no solo los avances tecnologicos no estan estancados sino que la revolucion digital se esta acelerando. Esto hace que las nuevas maquinas posean unas habilidades que hasta ahora estaban reservadas solamente a los humanos. Se trata de un fenomeno amplio y profundo con serias consecuencias economicas.Algunas de estas consecuencias son positivas, como el aumento de productividad, la reduccion de precios y el crecimiento de la riqueza en general. Pero la innovacion digital tambien cambia la manera como se reparte esta riqueza, y aqui las noticias son malas para el trabajador medio. Con un progreso tecnologico corriendo mas que nunca, mucha gente se esta quedando atras. Aquellos trabajadores cuyas habilidades han sido incorporadas a los ordenadores modernos tienen poco que ofrecer en el mercado de trabajo y ven como sus salarios se reducen y su futuro se ensombrece.El argumento del libro es que las perspectivas de empleo son negras para mucha gente no porque el progreso tecnologico se haya estancado sino porque los hombres y las instituciones no corren lo bastante. Nuevos modelos de emprendeduria, nuevas estructuras organizativas y unas instituciones diferentes son necesarias para garantizar que el trabajador medio no se quede rezagado detras de las maquinas mas avanzadas.Este es un libro extraordinariamente oportuno, que clarifica la cuestion economica mas seria que nuestras sociedades afrontan y proporciona una hoja de ruta que nos ayudara a convertir el desafio de las nuevas tecnologias en una oportunidad. -John Hagel, co-presidente de Deloitte Center for the EdgeEste es, simplemente, el mejor libro escrito hasta la fecha sobre la interaccion entre la tecnologia digital, el empleo y la empresa. [?] Si en el proximo año usted solo leyera un libro sobre las nuevas tecnologias y su impacto en las sociedades modernas, deberia ser este. -Profesor Gary Hamel, director de Management LabEn la investigacion en ciencias sociales, necesitamos desesperadamente que se hagan, y se respondan, las preguntas mas importantes. Eso es precisamente lo que Brynjolfsson y McAfee hacen en este importante libro sobre la interseccion entre tecnologia y economia. Diria aun mas, afrontan la pregunta mas importante del presente y del futuro: ¿de donde van a venir los nuevos trabajos?. -Jared Bernstein, ex economista en jefe del vicepresidente de los EEUU Joe Biden

Una obra que plantea una nueva forma de alcanzar grandes logros en un mundo empresarial cada vez más rápido. Cambiará la forma en que concibes el trabajo, los equipos, los proyectos y la cultura, y te proporcionara la comprension y las herramientas necesarias para tomar las riendas de nuestros superpoderes humanos de aprendizaje y cooperacion.¿Que significa ser un geek? Los geeks utilizan su insaciable curiosidad y su amor por la innovacion para afrontar el reto de crear mejores productos y empresas; no temen abordar grandes problemas y aplicar soluciones poco convencionales, y no les preocupa seguir la corriente.McAfee muestra como los geeks han creado una nueva cultura basada en cuatro normas: ciencia, autonomia, velocidad y mentalidad abierta. No prioriza a los expertos, ni esta supeditada a la planificacion y los procesos; sus practicantes no temen cometer fallos, ni estan obsesionados con ganar. Al principio, su enfoque puede parecer extraño. Pero cuando las cuatro normas se ponen en marcha, emerge una cultura libre, agil, igualitaria, basada en evidencias, argumentativa y autonoma. ¿Por que el metodo geek funciona tan bien? McAfee proporciona una respuesta original: porque aprovecha los superpoderes humanos, que son nuestra habilidad de cooperar intensamente y aprender con rapidez. Combinando teoria de la gestion, estrategia competitiva, ciencia de la evolucion, psicologia y antropologia cultural, asi como historias que ejemplifican el estilo geek en accion, McAfee ofrece una nueva manera de observar el mundo, asi como herramientas para aprovechar las grandes oportunidades de hoy y de mañana.

Faut-il avoir peur des robots ? Les plateformes que sont Facebook, Google et autres vont-elles régner sans partage sur l’économie ? Que deviennent les compétences et les métiers à l’ère du tout-numér

La révolution technologique vient seulement de commencer ! Tel est le propos de ce livre, écrit par deux grands experts américains des nouvelles technologies. Leur optimisme se fonde sur la fameuse loi de Moore, qui veut que les capacites de calcul des ordinateurs doublent tous les dix-huit mois. Une loi exponentielle qui accouche dun monde nouveau tous les dix-huit mois Des voitures autonomes se jouant des aleas de la circulation aux robots capables de nous remplacer dans les taches menageres, en passant par toutes les innovations de la sante et de linformation, ce livre nous entraine au cur de la Silicon Valley avant de nous faire penetrer les arcanes de ce que les auteurs appellent le deuxieme age de la machine : une revolution industrielle sans precedent, qui mele intelligence artificielle, robotique et economie numerique. Tres accessible, ce livre est une contribution decisive au debat sur la croissance et la productivite. Et meme sil nannonce pas encore la disparition du travail, il en appelle cependant aux entreprises et aux gouvernements pour accompagner ces mutations et repartir labondance. Erik Brynjolfsson est economiste et dirige le Center for Digital Business du MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Andrew McAfee dirige la recherche scientifique du Center for Digital Business du MIT.

Una obra que plantea una nueva forma de alcanzar grandes logros en un mundo empresarial cada vez más rápido. Cambiará la forma en que concibes el trabajo, los equipos, los proyectos y la cultura, y te proporcionara la comprension y las herramientas necesarias para tomar las riendas de nuestros superpoderes humanos de aprendizaje y cooperacion.¿Que significa ser un geek? Los geeks utilizan su insaciable curiosidad y su amor por la innovacion para afrontar el reto de crear mejores productos y empresas; no temen abordar grandes problemas y aplicar soluciones poco convencionales, y no les preocupa seguir la corriente.McAfee muestra como los geeks han creado una nueva cultura basada en cuatro normas: ciencia, autonomia, velocidad y mentalidad abierta. No prioriza a los expertos, ni esta supeditada a la planificacion y los procesos; sus practicantes no temen cometer fallos, ni estan obsesionados con ganar. Al principio, su enfoque puede parecer extraño. Pero cuando las cuatro normas se ponen en marcha, emerge una cultura libre, agil, igualitaria, basada en evidencias, argumentativa y autonoma. ¿Por que el metodo geek funciona tan bien? McAfee proporciona una respuesta original: porque aprovecha los superpoderes humanos, que son nuestra habilidad de cooperar intensamente y aprender con rapidez. Combinando teoria de la gestion, estrategia competitiva, ciencia de la evolucion, psicologia y antropologia cultural, asi como historias que ejemplifican el estilo geek en accion, McAfee ofrece una nueva manera de observar el mundo, asi como herramientas para aprovechar las grandes oportunidades de hoy y de mañana.

Economist Best Books of the Year Financial Times Business Book of the Month A handbook for disruptors Eric Schmidt former CEO of Google We re living in a time of amazing technological innovation but we re not paying enough attention to one of the most important innovations of all one that s going to be a wellspring of progress for a long time to come This innovation is to the company itself a new model is being pioneered by geeks who have instituted a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can and should be They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would through trial and error egalitarianism evidence and stress testing ideas in a group setting rather than relying on the boss s instincts McAfee s groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world The future will be geek By investigating contemporary research in psychology economics and behavioural sciences as well as first hand accounts from the gee

Everyone knows we re doomed by runaway overpopulation pollution or resource depletion whichever comes first Not only is this view paralysing and fatalistic but as Andrew McAfee shows in this exhilarating book it s wrong More from Less is fascinating enjoyable to read and tremendously empowering Steven Pinker Bestselling author and co director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Andrew McAfee says there s a new reason for optimism we re past the point of peak stuff from here on out it ll take fewer resources to make things and cost less to lead a comfortable life This turn of events invalidates the predictions of overpopulation alarmists and those who argue we need to drastically reduce our conception of how much is enough What has made this turnabout possible One thing primarily the collaboration between technology and capitalism Capitalism s quest for higher profits is a quest for lower costs materials and resources are expensive and technological progress allows companies to use fewer of them even as they grow their markets Modern smartphones take the place of cameras GPS units landline telephones answering machines tape recorders and alarm clocks Precision agriculture lets farmers harvest larger crops while using less wate