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Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor,shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the worlds biggest problems--a reminder that capitalism can take kindlier forms (Spectator) Social business is a visionary new model for capitalism developed by Muhammad Yunus, the practical genius who pioneered microcredit and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to combat global poverty. Now social business, which harnesses the energy of capitalism to fulfill human needs rather than reward shareholders, is being adopted by leading corporations as well as entrepreneurs and social activists across Asia, South America, Europe, and the United States. Through examples of corporations such as BASF, Adidas, Danone, Uniqlo, and others, Building Social Business shows how an inspiring theory has become a world-altering practice, and offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own.

In DEMAND: Giving People What They Love Before They Know They Want It (Crown Business; October 2011), Adrian Slywotzky, named by Industry Week one of the worlds six most influential management thinkers, provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applicationsnot just for people in business but also for social activists, governments leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. They all need to master such ground-breaking concepts as the hassle map (and the secrets of fixing it); the curse of the incomplete product (and how to avoid it); why very good magnetic; how what you dont see can make or break a product; the art of transforming fence sitters into customers; why theres no such thing as an average customer; and why real demand comes from a 45-degree angle of improvement (rather than the five degrees most organizations manage).

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A USA Today BestsellerThe definitive book on AI-powered voice technology The coming age of "voice-first" technology will revolutionize how humans interact with machines. Powered by Generative AI, this shift promises a tech boom as transformative as the internet in the 90s and the mobile revolution in the 2010s. In The Sound of the Future, digital innovation leader Tobias Dengel reveals how voice-first interfaces will reshape business and society. Drawing from decades of experience leading world-class digital consultancies WillowTree and TELUS Digital, Dengel shows how recent advances like Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT Voice are already transforming how brands design digital experiences well beyond first-generation voice assistants like Alexa and Siri and why todays AI-enabled innovations are just the beginning. Discover how: Voice interfaces will triple the speed of human-machine communication AI-powered voice technology will make digital experiences more natural, accurate, accessible, and human Industries from healthcare to law enforcement will be transformed by hands-free voice capabilities Companies must adopt voice-first strategies or risk disruption by competitors who do Dengel explains how voice-first experiences are becoming part of the global technology mainstream, serving basic human needs such as safety, speed, accuracy, convenience, entertainment, and sheer fun. He delves into AI applications and how multimodal voice products are making it possible for hundreds of millions of people around the to participate more fully and productively in todays tech-driven world. Through these real-world examples and deep industry insights, Dengel provides business leaders and digital innovators with actionable strategies to identify voice-first opportunities, drive efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction. Your journey to a voice-first future starts with The Sound of the Future

Just when the world needs it most, a new style of social engagement is emerging: Active Citizenship. A key member of one of New Yorks most civic-minded familiesone that has supported many of Americas notable institutions and deserving programsJonathan Tisch has devoted a lifetime to active citizenship. Its an idea that uses the power of practical creativity and grassroots participation to solve seemingly intractable problems. In Citizen You, Tisch challenges readers to join this movement and points the way toward making our world a better place, one person and one neighborhood at a time. Tisch has filled Citizen You with accounts of people who youll meet, such inspirational individuals as: Scott Harrison, who has used the networking and marketing skills he developed as a night club promoter to help over a million people in the developing world get access for the first time to clean, safe drinking water.Steffi Coplan, whose Broadway2Broadway project brought out the hidden musical talents of kids at an inner city school.Eric Schwarz, who decided to do something about Americas under-performing schools, and parlayed a single classroom mentoring project into the nationwide Citizens Schools movement.Chris Swan, who is training a new generation of citizen engineers to make sure that the projects they build arent just structurally sound but also environmentally and socially sustainable. Dave Nelson, who traded his role as an executive at IBM for a job at a struggling nonprofit that teaches kids about the power of entrepreneurshipand discovered a host of new challenges and rewards in the process.Through these and many other remarkable stories, youll learn how todays active citizens are transforming thinking about social change. Rather than short-term fixes and hand-me-down charity, theyre striving to build sustainable, systemic solutions to our most challenging problems, building and empowering communities rather than fostering dependency. And theyre using a host of new tools, from online networking and private-public partnerships to corporate engagement and social entrepreneurship, to redefine how change can happen. Citizen You is a potent antidote to pessimism. At a time of unprecedented challenges on the national and world stage, when active citizenship is not a choice but a necessity, Citizen You dares us to reshape the social, political, and intellectual structures that have long confined us, and offers fresh thinking that redefines the very concept of activism. For more information and ideas about how to be an active citizen go to www.citizenyou.org

Today, when your fortunes can literally change overnight, the new strategic imperative is making your moment of maximum risk your moment of maximum opportunity. In The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky provides bold and original ideas for growth breakthroughs as well as the practical tools to use Monday morning, such asHow to change the odds for your next major initiative and create potential industry breakthroughs, as Toyota did with its expanding universe of Prius vehicles. Shape and exploit risk, dont be shaped by it. Become a knowledge-intensive business and continuallyincrease the knowledge gap between yourself and rivals, as Coach and Tsutaya of Japan have convincingly done. A category killer cant kill whats not in its category. When basketball legend Bill Russell faced a taller, stronger Wilt Chamberlain, he led the Celtics to victory by inventing a different game. The same thinking lets Target prosper in a Wal-Mart worldand can help you outcompete the unbeatable rival in your own industry. When you come to a fork in the roadtake it! Only a fraction of companies survive when industries experience technological or strategic transitions. To be a survivor, learn the secret that enabled Microsoft to weather the advent of the Internetthe art of the double bet. Stuckinabusinessbox? Findthebiggerboxand then the biggest.When growth stagnates, capture more of your customers dollars through demand innovation and big-box thinking, as companies from Continental AG and Ikea to Procter & Gamble have done. Your competitors can also be your greatest enablers of profit. Stop competing yourself to death! The key is knowing when to compete and when to collaborate, as Apple has shown with its revolutionary approach to the music business.In the 1980s conventional wisdom was that you could have high quality or low cost, but not bothuntil Japanese makers of cars and electronics showed otherwise. Now, high quality and low cost are required just to enter the marketplace. Today, we face a similar paradox when it comes to risk and reward. Rather than shrink from the high risk so integral to the tumultuous global economy, Adrian Slywotzky shows how it can be your greatest source of growth and future reward.

Disrupción digital, mercados cambiantes, necesidades de los clientes, y cada vez más agitación política y social, están haciendo el trabajo de liderar un negocio más difícil que nunca. ¿Cómo mantienes a tu empresa avanzando en un mundo tan impredecible y acelerado? Dos palabras: innovacion sistematica.