The shortlist for the Business Book Awards 2020 has just been announced and we’ve cherry picked the titles that should be on every CEO’s bookshelf.
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Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed
Where do the best ideas come from? And how to we apply these ideas to the problems we face – at work, in the education of our children, and in the biggest shared challenges of our age: rising obesity, terrorism and climate change?
Rebel Ideas is a fascinating journey through the science of team performance. It draws on psychology, economics, anthropology and genetics, and takes lessons from a dazzling range of case studies, including the catastrophic intelligence failings of the CIA before 9/11, a communication breakdown at the top of Mount Everest, and a moving tale of deradicalization in America’s deep South.
Rebel Ideas offers a radical blueprint for creative problem-solving. It challenges hierarchies, encourages constructive dissent and forces us to think again about where the best ideas come.
Read this book if you: want to learn more about the power of thinking differently and using this to solve complex problems.
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