Tag: Book review
The “traffic light” book on progress – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
the book of the day has 177 pages, a good medium size. It lacks the usual structure of bestsellers, i.e. an earthquake at the beginning, which then needs to be…
Outgrown the human head
Berlin “I think, therefore I am.” With this statement, the French philosopher René Descartes made human reason the mainstay of the Enlightenment in 1637. More than 380 years later, the…
How a change in corporate culture can succeed
Meeting among colleagues The culture of a company manifests itself in the “dos and don’ts of everyday interaction”, writes Peter Fischer. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Christian Sewing did it. Ola Källenius…
What digitization should and shouldn’t do
Frankfurt Everybody sees everything. The data group records and evaluates the thoughts and actions of each individual – and praises or stigmatizes them. Delaney Wells, the main character in Dave…
We finally have to do more to combat climate change
Polar bear on an ice floe Climate change has been ignored for too long. (Photo: DigitalVision / Getty Images) Dusseldorf Everyone seems to agree that the climate crisis is the…
By Mary L. Trump, Jan Philipp Burgard & Co.
Donald Trump supporter We learn that the Trump era is not yet the topic for historians. (Photo: imago images / UPI Photo) It was in 1935 when a book penned…
“Renegades” by Barack Obamas & Bruce Springsteen: a review
Jay-Z, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen (from left) Support for the Democrats in the 2008 election campaign. (Photo: Corbis / Getty Images) One of the dialogues in Barack Obama and…
Millions in compensation for Helmut Kohl’s widow?
Berlin It was the highest compensation in German legal history to date: shortly before his death, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtained monetary compensation for a particularly serious violation of general…
Bill Gates receives special prize from the German Business Book Prize
Berlin Microsoft founder Bill Gates has won the special award “Entrepreneur Book of the Year” of the German Business Book Prize with his book “How we prevent the climate catastrophe”.…
A thousand tips for decarbonization
Berlin No, there is no shortage of concrete ideas for greening the economy in this anthology. And very few would have thought of many of them. Take building material recycling,…
Markus K. Brunnermeier receives the Business Book Prize 2021
Markus K. Brunnermeier Winner of this year’s business book award Frankfurt For the book “The Resilient Society. How we can better cope with future crises ”, published by Aufbau Verlag,…
Ronald Cohen wants to revolutionize nothing less than capitalism
Chemical site Leuna According to Cohen, all companies have to measure the impact of their activities on the climate. (Photo: imago / imagebroker) Dusseldorf Saving the world with money. That…
The state is only partially operational
Jänschwalde lignite power station Schularick’s central thesis is that the state is ill-equipped for its role as a crisis manager. That has to change in the face of threats like…
These books show how Germany is becoming more innovative
Dusseldorf And suddenly virtual meetings are completely normal. Everything had to happen very quickly in spring 2020. Face-to-face conferences were canceled and replaced by video meetings. Employees frantically carried monitors…
Advice: how to write a bestseller – Six non-fiction authors give instructions
Writing your own book is a dream of many. In truth, it’s one thing above all: exhausting. This is how the path to the first work succeeds. .source site
The choice after the choice
Fridays for Future (Photo: imago images / Future Image) Dusseldorf Bernd Ulrich and Luisa Neubauer – a couple that couldn’t be more different. One journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of the…
Hans-Jürgen Papier and Udo Di Fabio: Pandemic as an endurance test
Berlin Mask requirement, curfews, schools, shops and border closings – in the pandemic, politics imposed restrictions on freedom that hardly anyone would have thought possible before. The result: an unprecedented…
Two guides show how rapid prosperity works
Financial independence There is no shortage of guides for quick prosperity. (Photo: mauritius images) Dusseldorf Leave the five-day week to others and at 40 just watch your own money multiply.…
The US military is said to have restricted Trump’s access to nuclear weapons
Former US President Trump Donald Trump has consistently downplayed the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Chief of Staff Mark Milley (right) is said to have been shocked by the events,…