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Eat Sleep Innovate

(2020) From the author of The Little Black Book of Innovation, a new guide for using the power of habit to build a culture of innovation

Leaders have experimented with open innovation programs, corporate accelerators, venture capital arms, skunkworks, and innovation contests. They’ve trekked to Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, and Tel Aviv to learn from today’s hottest, most successful tech companies. Yet most would admit they’ve failed to create truly innovative cultures. There’s a better way. And it all starts with the power of habit.

In Eat, Sleep, Innovate, innovation expert Scott Anthony and his impressive team of coauthors use groundbreaking research in behavioral science to provide a first-of-its-kind playbook for empowering individuals and teams to be their most curious and creative— single day.

Throughout the book, the authors reveal a collection of BEANs— enablers, artifacts, and nudges—’ve collected from workplaces across the globe that will unleash the natural innovator inside everyone. In addition to case studies of “normal organizations doing extraordinary things,” they provide readers with the tools to create their own hacks and habits, which they can then use to build and sustain their own models of a culture of innovation.

Fun, lively, and utterly unique, Eat, Sleep, Innovate is the book you need to make innovation a natural and habitual act within your team or organization.

Competing in the Age of AI

(2020) “a provocative new book” — The New York Times

AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.

Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning–to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions.

When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear. Iansiti and Lakhani:

Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models

Explain how “collisions” between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition, altering the structure of our economy, and forcing traditional companies to rearchitect their operating models

Explain the opportunities and risks created by digital firms

Describe the new challenges and responsibilities for the leaders of both digital and traditional firms

Packed with examples–including many from the most powerful and innovative global, AI-driven competitors–and based on research in hundreds of firms across many sectors, this is your essential guide for rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of AI.

Unleashed

(2020) “Unleashed is worth an afternoon of your time, whether or not you are already a leader. It is sparkily written and personal, drawing on the experiences of co-authors (and spouses) Frei and Morriss.”- Financial Times

Leadership isn’t easy. It takes grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss offer a different worldview. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn’t about you. It’s about how effective you are at empowering other people— making sure this impact endures even in your absence. As Frei and Morriss show through inspiring stories from ancient Rome to present-day Silicon Valley, the origins of great leadership are found, paradoxically, not in worrying about your own status and advancement, but in the unrelenting focus on other people’s potential.

Unleashed provides radical advice for the practice of leadership today. Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a special combination of trust, love, and belonging to create an environment in which other people can excel, Frei and Morriss offer practical, battle-tested tools— on their work with companies such as Uber, Riot Games, WeWork, and others— with interviews and stories from their own personal experience, to make these ideas come alive. This book is your indispensable guide for unleashing greatness in other people . . . and, ultimately, in yourself.

To learn more, please visit theleadersguide.com.

Shadow Box

(2021) The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth–and the lengths someone will go to stop her.

After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin–who is running for governor–is her prime suspect.

Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed twenty-five years ago. If the public were to find out who her husband is, his political career would be over. Claire’s certain her husband and his powerful supporters would kill her to stop the truth from getting out.

When one of Claire’s acquaintances is murdered, the authorities suspect the homicide is linked to the attack on Claire. As the dual investigations unfold, Claire must decide how much she’s willing to lose to take down her husband and the corrupt group of elites who will do anything to protect Griffin’s interests and their own.

Creating Beauty Interiors

(2020) Whether the setting is a Parisian-inspired Neoclassical Brooklyn townhouse, an elegant Central Park West penthouse, or a modern retreat in the Hudson Valley, Kathryn Scott is a designer whose disciplined eye results in interiors praised for their beauty and minimalism, as well as their artisanal details. Readers who responded to Nancy Braithwaite’s aesthetic will love Creating Beauty.

The first book from acclaimed Brooklyn-based interior designer, Kathryn Scott, whose handcrafted interiors evoke a sense of serenity, harmony, and simplicity.

ياسمين العودة

أصابه سؤالها المباشر في مقتل. هل أنت صاحب همّة عالية يا عمر؟ ردّد فؤاده رجع الصّدى، وغاب في دهاليز روحه يفتّش عن همّته ليقيس مدى ارتفاعها. حين ثاب إلى رشده، كان أهدأ بالا وأهنأ حالا. قال وقد غشيته سكينة عجيبة:
– عسى أن أكون كذلك!
قالت في هدوء:
– سأهبك فرصة لتثبت نفسك إذن!
شعر عمر بأنّ مقاليد القرار قد تفلّتت من يده في تلك اللحظة، وغدت بين راحتيها.. كأنّما هي تتماهى مع مفتاح بيت جدّها الصّدئ.

غربة المنازل

عطر مريضة شابة يغمر طبيب النساء الأعزب؛ فيقلب حياته رأسًا على عقب. نظرة من امرأة في عربة ترام تصل إلى سر ما عاشته امرأة أخرى في ساعة حب. موسيقار عرف العديد من النساء وانتهى مقيدًا بسطوة امرأة يحاول الإمساك بجملة لحنها الأولى. وباحث يخسر حربًا طويلة الأمد مع الذباب، لكنه يستميت في معركة أخيرة من أجل الحب!

في رواية «غربة المنازل» يتعطل الكلام؛ فيفسح مجالًا لملمس الحياة ورائحتها وطعمها وألوانها، وتبدو القراءة عملًا لكل الحواس، نكتشف من خلاله عالمًا صاخب بالأحلام ومعجزات الحب، تحت المظهر المخادع لهدوء العزلة الحزين.

قميص لتغليف الهدايا

أنين الدمى

يعيش آدم وأمه في كومباوند بجزيرة منعزلة، أملًا في أن يشفيه الهدوء من مرض نفسي غامض عصف بحياته وأوصله حد الجنون. حتى تصدمه جريمة قتل جارته “كايا”، وتوقظ رجل الشرطة بداخله. وتدفعه لمغامرة تربك عقله وتزيد حياته تعقيدًا، ليكتشف في نهايتها حقائق تغير مصيره إلى الأبد.
مع أحدث أعمال الكاتبة نور عبدالمجيد “أنين الدمى” داخل عالم من الإثارة النفسية والديستوبيا التي لا مثيل لها، تدرك أن هناك لحظات ومواقف يجب أن نَترك فيها الضعفاء وحدهم، ليتعلموا كيف يحاربون ضعفهم، فإن حاسبك القانون أو الطغاة أو حتى الأصدقاء، فهناك فرصة لأن تجد ما تدافع به عن نفسك.. لكن حين تحاسبك النفس، ماذا تُراك تقول لها وهي وحدها بك من دون خلق الله جميعًا أعلم وأدرى؟

في بيوت الحبايب

في بيوت تحمل رحيق العمالقة والمبدعين، بحثنا عن الأبناء والأحفاد ليحدثونا عن الجوانب التي لا نعرفها عن «الحبايب»، تفاصيل البدايات ومحطات النجاح والأضواء، وأسرار فترات العزلة والانزواء.

كيف كانت الحياة في بيت الشيخ رفعت، وأسرار سنوات مرضه وعزلته، وسر وصية الشيخ النقشبندي وكيف توقّع وفاته، ولماذا تعرّض محمد عبد المطلب للاعتقال، وما لا يعرفه الكثيرون عن السندريلا عقيلة راتب، وقصة سعاد محمد مع زوجين و10 أبناء، وعلاقة الشيخ الشعراوي بعماد حمدي وحسن عابدين واعتزال مديحة كامل وحجابها.

حكايات القهر والألم في حياة ملوك الضحك زينات صدقي، وعبدالفتاح القصري، وعبد المنعم إبراهيم، ومحمد رضا، وعبد المنعم مدبولي، وفؤاد المهندس، وعلاء ولي الدين، ومغامرات حمدي وعبدالله غيث مع الفن والحياة، وحكايات عبد الناصر والسادات مع أهل الفن.

في بيوت الحبايب نرى وجوه من غابوا، ونعرف كيف عاشوا، نشاهد الصور والمقتنيات ونعرف تفاصيل الأسرار والحكايات.