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Fool's Gold

How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

by Gillian Tett ...

Series series Inside Story of 2008 Financial Crisis
From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her news-breaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool’s Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008 meltdown.Drawing on exclusive access to J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a tightly bonded team of bankers known on Wall Street as the “Morgan Mafia,” as ... Read more

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From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her news-breaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool’s Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008 meltdown.Drawing on exclusive access to J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a tightly bonded team of bankers known on Wall Street as the “Morgan Mafia,” as
... Read more

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Anthro-Vision

A New Way to See in Business and Life

by Gillian Tett ...

While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of ... Read more

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While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of
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Saving the Sun

How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions

by Gillian Tett ...

Saving the Sun tells the story of the world's largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank. Within that business saga is the dramatic tale of Japan's brightest financial minds, the men who made the Japanese economic miracle come to life, and their struggle against the economic failure in the 1990s. Into this climate of ... Read more

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Saving the Sun tells the story of the world's largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank. Within that business saga is the dramatic tale of Japan's brightest financial minds, the men who made the Japanese economic miracle come to life, and their struggle against the economic failure in the 1990s. Into this climate of
... Read more
The Silo Effect

The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

by Gillian Tett ...

Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work.The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions ... Read more

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Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work.The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions
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Economic Tsunami

How the Great Wealth Transfer to Women & the Next Generation Changes Everything

by Joan B Michelson ...

A once-in-a-century financial shift is shaking the foundations of capitalism, and women, Gen Z, and Millennials are leading the aftershock.In Economic Tsunami, award-winning journalist and executive Joan Bryna Michelson reveals the untold story behind the $83 to $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer now moving from Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation into the hands of women and younger ... Read more

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A once-in-a-century financial shift is shaking the foundations of capitalism, and women, Gen Z, and Millennials are leading the aftershock.In Economic Tsunami, award-winning journalist and executive Joan Bryna Michelson reveals the untold story behind the $83 to $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer now moving from Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation into the hands of women and younger
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Anthro-Vision

A New Way to See in Business and Life

by Gillian Tett ...

Narrated by Imogen Church ...

Unabridged

10 hours 40 min

While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of ... Read more

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While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of
... Read more

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Fool's Gold

How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

by Gillian Tett ...

Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

Drawing on exclusive access to J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a tightly bonded team of bankers known on Wall Street as the "Morgan Mafia"—as well as in-depth interviews with dozens of other key players, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner—Gillian Tett brings to life in gripping detail how the Morgan team's bold ideas for a whole new kind of financial alchemy helped to ignite a ... Read more

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Drawing on exclusive access to J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a tightly bonded team of bankers known on Wall Street as the "Morgan Mafia"—as well as in-depth interviews with dozens of other key players, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner—Gillian Tett brings to life in gripping detail how the Morgan team's bold ideas for a whole new kind of financial alchemy helped to ignite a
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The Silo Effect

The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

by Gillian Tett ...

Narrated by Fiona Hardingham ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work.The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work.The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions
... Read more

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Crash of the Titans

Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America

by Greg Farrell ...

Narrated by Dan Woren ...

Unabridged

16 hours 25 min

The intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America iconWith one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street, setting up offices in far-flung ... Read more

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The intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America iconWith one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street, setting up offices in far-flung
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Cubed

A Secret History of the Workplace

by Nikil Saval ...

Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

Unabridged

12 hours 32 min

You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it
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House of Cards

A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

by William D. Cohan ...

Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

Unabridged

25 hours 17 min

In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash. But mere months before, an industry-wide boom had "the Bear" clocking a record high stock price. How ... Read more

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In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash. But mere months before, an industry-wide boom had "the Bear" clocking a record high stock price. How
... Read more

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Wikinomics

How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams ...

Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

Unabridged

13 hours 40 min

In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive ... Read more

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In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive
... Read more

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