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A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn't Everything and How We Do Better by Margaret Heffernan
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Olympics. X-Factor. The Rich List. The Nobel Prize.Everywhere you look: competition - for fame, money, attention, status. Being top seems to be everything - but what is it costing all of us? We depend on competition and expect it to identify the best, make complicated decisions easy and to motivate ...Show more
Uncharted: How to Map the Future by Margaret Heffernan
37.99 NZD
Category: Business
'An urgent read...Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, former CEO, Edelman EMEA and author of Trust me, PR is DeadHow can we think about the future? What do we need to do - and who do we need to be?In her bold and invigorating new book, distinguished businesswoman and author Margaret Heff ...Show more
Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious by Margaret Heffernan
26.00 NZD
Category: Science
An engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth......... In the 2006 case of the US Government vs Enron, the presiding judge instructed the jurors to take account of the concept of wilful blindness as they reac ...Show more
Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan
42.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
In the 2006 case of the US Government vs Enron, the presiding judge instructed the jurors to take account of the concept of wilful blindness as they reached their verdict about whether the chief executives of the disgraced energy corporation were guilty. It was not enough for the defendants to say that ...Show more
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