Books that Hit Deep

Vive de forma que te duela marcharte

Pablo Arribas · 2021

Made to Stick

Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2007

The Film That Changed My Life

Robert K. Elder · 2011

Cinematography for Directors

Jacqueline B. Frost · 2009

No Rules Rules

Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer · 2020

<b><b><b>The <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<br><br>Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year</b><br><br>Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies</b></b><br><br>There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed.<br><br> Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrel­evant. At Netflix, you don’t try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don’t need approval, and the company pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. But in just a short period, their methods led to unparalleled speed and boldness, as Netflix quickly became one of the most loved brands in the world.<br><br> Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of <i>The Culture Map </i>and one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings’s own career, <i>No Rules Rules </i>is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.

Humankind

Tom Bernardin, Mark Tutssel · 2010

Creating Signature Stories

David Aaker · 2018

Steal Like An Artist

Austin Kleon · 2015

The Anatomy of Genres

John Truby · 2022

Stories That Stick

Kindra Hall · 2019

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari · 2019

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari · 2015

<p>#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates</p><p>Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. </p><p>From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”</p><p>One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?</p><p>Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.</p><p>Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?</p><p>Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.</p>

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell · 2006

One Plus One Equals Three

Dave Trott · 2015

La familia de Pascual Duarte

Camilo José Cela · 2020

Storytelling Salvaje

Isra Bravo · 2024

Quizás vivir sea esto

Jorge Egocheaga Rodríguez · 2021

La vida mola

Raúl Gómez (Maraton Man) · 2019