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New Book: May Contain Lies
I'm delighted to announce my new book, "May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It", which Penguin Random House will be publishing in April. Here's the blurb:
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Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, business leaders, and best-sell Read more of this blog post »
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“citizens and junior employees can grow the pie, whereas only senior management controls the purse strings and can decide where to spend a company’s cash.”
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit – Updated and Revised
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit – Updated and Revised
“But 25 August 2015 was no ordinary day. A patient in Mount Sinai was being given Daraprim to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that leads to fever, aching muscles and fatigue.”
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit – Updated and Revised
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit – Updated and Revised
“excellence in your core business, or using your comparative advantage to solve social problems, typically doesn’t involve major financial expenditure. It only needs an attitudinal shift – to be driven by the hunger to create value for society even if the immediate benefit to profit is unclear.”
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit – Updated and Revised
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit – Updated and Revised
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“To reach the land of profit, follow the road of purpose.”
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
― Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit