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Leadership Insights That Endure offers a rare window into the minds of two leaders from Boston Consulting Group—a top global consulting firm—over the course of five years of real-world transformation. Christoph Schweizer, BCG’s CEO, along with former CEO and current Global Chair Rich Lesser, share their most powerful weekly briefs written to leaders in the middle of crises, recalibrations, and reinventions.

La guía más cool que explica todo lo que deberían haberte enseñado sobre las tarjetas de crédito y débito. Porque sí, usar plástico puede ser liberador… o convertirse en una pesadilla si no sabes cómo funciona el juego. En México, acceder a servicios financieros es todo un reto. Entre que los bancos no sueltan el crédito, que el efectivo sigue reinando, la jungla de fraudes allá afuera, la informalidad y que nadie nos da una guía clara, no es raro que acabes pagando intereses eternos por el regalo de tu ex que ya hasta te bloqueó.

In The Great Stupidification, Kevin Whitworth takes you on a hilarious, infuriating, and eye-opening ride through a world that has traded critical thinking for clickbait, abandoned practical skills for pointless credentials, and elevated fake expertise to a global sport. From brain-melting corporate jargon to the rise of fake gurus, from the productivity theater of endless meetings to the social media circus where outrage is currency, this book exposes how we got so stupid—and why it’s getting worse.

In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the meaningful differences between uncertainty and risk, the different ways people cope and have coped with uncertainty through history, the importance of knowledge and science to reducing uncertainty, and the trade-offs involved in reducing forms of uncertainty while leaving open opportunities for others.

Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated experiences of intriguing, constructive failure can help students develop creativity and learn more deeply. When carefully curated, failure can become a signal for learning, not the noise detracting from it. Learners gain a lifelong readiness to push themselves outside of their comfort zones, using setbacks as launchpads.

What sets the most successful people apart? You may think that the correct answer is hard work (and it’s certainly part of it), but in her interviews of the most accomplished individuals—from entrepreneurs and investors to Olympic athletes and Pulitzer Prize winners—Distinguished Professor of Management Laura Huang discovered that what they called their gut feel, the product of their intuition, played the most important role. You Already Know offers a highly practical model that equips you to leverage your most powerful and underutilized resource.