CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra
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New York Times Bestseller
Wall Street Journal Bestseller

From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.

Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake—and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months.

For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed.

To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2,400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé).

What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

比小說還離奇的12堂犯罪解剖課 (Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime)

薇兒．麥克德米 (Val McDermid)
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英國犯罪小說天后薇兒．麥克德米親炙法醫與鑑識科學最前線
從調查者、被害者與加害者的多重角度，窺見犯罪偵查堂奧！

「這些科學家所分享的故事，從犯罪現場到法庭的曲折旅程，將是你聽過最引人入勝的故事之一。同時提醒我們：事實往往比小說更驚異。」

本書各章節分別切入當今法醫與鑑識科學的各種主要技巧，從火災現場取證、血跡、DNA分析、臉部重建、人體解剖學、法醫人類學及昆蟲學的應用，到最新的電子鑑識技術等。麥克德米在各項技術發展中都觸及一個主題：「鑑識是一門在科學與人性中間遊走的學問。」在安全、控制度高的實驗室中發展出來的技術與知識，如何理解、回應被害人家屬的需求與心情；如何推測、設想加害者的動機與方法；如何在法庭交鋒中，贏得陪審團的理解與共識（但並不是百分之百保證成功）。如同科學方法是一門持續演進的知識，法醫與鑑識科學中永遠會有某些主觀成分，可能左右詮釋走向──例如，專家對於指紋是否相同一事確實可能有不同詮釋，因而導致庭審結果迥異。

★入圍得獎紀錄 ★
2016年安東尼獎（Anthony Award）最佳非小說得獎作
2016年愛倫坡獎（Edgar Award）最佳犯罪實錄入圍作

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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Brad Stone
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A Washington Post Notable Book

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.

Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

承教・城傳 : 九龍學校的故事

李子建, 劉瑩, 陳智德, 香港教育博物館
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1860年中英簽訂《北京條約》，揭開了九龍發展的序幕，市區急速擴展，人口增長，教育需求亦大增。不少早年扎根於香港島的辦學團體洞悉對岸的教育需要，紛紛跨海拓展教育服務，作育英才。其後，辛亥革命、民國新政府成立、新文化運動，以及抗日戰爭等家國大事相繼發生，不少國內知識分子來港從事教育工作，除港島外，亦有大批國內民眾和學校遷徙至九龍各區。

世代更迭，人事遞嬗。如今，走進九龍半島，城市面貌雖已經歷幾番轉變，但仍能隱約從彌敦道、太子道、上海街、大埔道等最早發展的道路和歷史建築，細味新舊城區如何互相交融，從而尋覓各區的歷史延續。現存或停辦的學校，在不同年代，分佈於九龍各處，亦一同譜寫社區歷史，見證城市和教育的變遷。

本書涵蓋九龍早期城市發展、教育歷史、人物訪談、藝術教育及文學等多方面的內容，引領讀者重遊熟悉的街道、景點，窺探時代變遷的足跡，並追溯九龍各校的藝術教育如何營造社區文化藝術氛圍。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

A Thousand Brains : A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins
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A best-selling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

為工作而活 : 生存、 勞動、 追求幸福感、一部人類的工作大歷史 (Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time)

詹姆斯．舒茲曼 (James Suzman)
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傳統經濟學思維告訴我們：「工作即謀生！」
但本書要你跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面理解工作的意義！

★★《人類大歷史》作者哈拉瑞盛讚！★★

原始社會物資匱乏，人類祖先卻能悠閒過活，每週只要工作15小時？
反觀現代社會技術發達，我們卻加班過勞、甚至害怕被未來AI取代！

是人類主宰工作，還是工作支配了生活？
大量湧現的工作真有存在意義嗎？
我們今天是否為了滿足社會的期待，導致人們為了忙碌而忙碌？

●織雀勤奮築巢、也勤奮拆巢，這看似無意義的工作竟是演化所需？
●狩獵採集者從不擔心糧食匱乏，為什麼改當農夫後卻拼命囤積糧食？
●為什麼有人的職業是遛狗？學校裡的行政人員人數怎麼會超越教職員人數？
●古代人習慣把工作轉嫁給水牛和奴隸，現代人為何害怕被機器人搶走飯碗？

綜觀人類三十萬年的歷史，我們幾乎從來不曾像今天這樣，把工作看得如此重要。那麼，人類是從何時開始將工作視為生活的核心？

■跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面解讀人類工作的意義！
■當工作成為義務，人們卻創造更多無意義的工作，把自己推入窮忙的火坑？

本書結合人類學、考古學、生物學、物理學和經濟學等多學科的觀點，從人類誕生一路談到AI時代，解讀不同時代驅使人類工作的動力。本書也點出，我們今天之所以把工作看得比狩獵採集祖先還要重要，就在於我們的工作模式與工作觀，隨著文明變革發生了多次改變。然而，如果我們曾經不為工作而活，那麼如今的我們究竟是為了自己而工作，還是甘願被工作綁架？

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The Secrets of Us

Lucinda Berry
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Dangerously addictive, The Secrets of Us is a pulse-pounding exploration of a disturbed psyche and the bond between two sisters desperate to escape a troubled past.

Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her.

Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect—until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn’t her husband, believing that he’s an imposter.

Driven by fierce loyalty, Krystal starts asking questions, but she’s not sure she can bear the answers. Her investigation leads to the sisters’ dark shared past…to a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.

But that lie can’t kill the truth—the battered, gasping, clawing truth that’s coming for them both. Now Krystal and Nichole must both fight for the lives they’ve built before they’re consumed by the one they left behind.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

不輸給雨 : 宮澤賢治短篇作品選

宮澤賢治
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啟發宮崎駿、手塚治虫、藤子不二雄等眾多動漫創作家的思想源泉
收錄宮崎駿動畫《龍貓》的靈感來源作品——〈橡子與山貓〉
日本國民作家宮澤賢治經典作品
在困難重重的世界，溫暖撫慰善良的心靈短篇

宮澤賢治是日本的國民作家，熱愛自然，熱愛生命。他的作品充滿了想像力和對生命的善意，是無數現代藝術家的靈感源泉。

《不輸給雨》《橡子與山貓》《要求多多的餐館》《奧茨貝爾和大象》《貓的事務所》《夜鷹星》《拉大提琴的戈什》……七篇治癒心靈的經典作品，給疲乏的心靈以慰藉，給善意以鼓舞，給想像力以自由。

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