What's it about? The Power of Employee Well-Being (2025) argues for abandoning engagement metrics in favor of addressing workers’ full spectrum of needs, from emotional health to autonomy. This shift to well-being creates workplaces where both people and performance genuinely thrive, delivering results that engagement programs could never achieve. Back in 2013, Gallup dropped a bombshell: only 30 percent of American employees felt genuinely engaged at work. For HR professionals, this was a wake-u p call – a clear signal that disengagement was quietly eroding productivity and inflating costs across organizations. Fast forward over a decade, and you’d expect dramatic improvement. Engagement is now firmly on the corporate agenda, a bonafide buzzword. Yet the latest figures tell a sobering story: engagement rates have barely budged, hovering around 31 percent. Why the stagnation? Too often, engagement has become a box-ticking exercise – think perfunctory surveys that generate metri...

What's it about? Framed (2025) examines extraordinary cases of wrongful conviction, revealing how innocent people can lose decades of their lives to prosecutorial misconduct and flawed evidence. Through meticulous research, these stories demonstrate the devastating failures of the American legal system and spotlight the tireless work of civil rights activists fighting to exonerate the innocent. Meet a small but resilient group of people. These people know firsthand just how flawed the US judicial system can be. They have endured the unthinkable. They have suffered needless trauma and lost years of their lives. Only through the most determined work, and the most extraordinary luck, are they able to tell their stories. Who are they? Exonerees. People convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. People like the Norfolk Four, sailors Derek Tice, Danial Williams, Joseph Dick, and Eric Wilson, who were coerced into confessing to a rape and murder they had nothing to do with. Like Claren...

What's it about? The Ten Types of Humans (2025) is an epic exploration of the hidden forces that drive human behavior in extreme situations, from courtrooms to conflict zones. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and real-world cases, it examines the full spectrum of what people are capable of when facing life's most difficult decisions. This investigation reveals why we act as we do under pressure and offers fresh insights into our potential for both remarkable compassion and terrible harm. What drives someone to kill? Why do ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of courage? How does a parent decide which child to save from a burning building?This lesson reveals fascinating answers to these questions. Based on one human rights lawyer's decade-long investigation into human nature, it uncovers several distinct behavioral patterns that we carry within us – from aggression to tribalism to heroism. Backed by groundbreaking psychological studies and heartwrenching real-l...

What's it about? Decision-Driven Analytics (2024) challenges the traditional approach of data-driven decision-making by proposing that organizations should begin with the decisions they need to make rather than starting with available data. It presents a framework built on four pillars that helps bridge the gap between data analysts and business decision-makers, addressing the common problem of the failure of analytics efforts when data analysis becomes disconnected from actual business decisions. Rather than treating data as the starting point, this approach emphasizes human judgment in determining which questions matter most for organizational impact. When it comes to handling data, people naturally split into two distinct camps: divers and runners. Divers love plunging deep into datasets. They’re the ones who get genuinely excited about statistical models and find satisfaction in wrestling with complex algorithms. Runners operate differently. They’re focused on the heartbeat ...

What's it about? Brilliant Mistakes (2011) contends that trying to eliminate every misstep can backfire, while well-chosen errors can actually accelerate learning and improve performance. It explains why mistakes can yield benefits, when to avoid them, and how to design small, safe tests that expose hidden assumptions so you can make smarter decisions. It also lays out practical steps you can apply to learn faster from deliberate missteps. On a frozen New Year’s morning, a road-weary band trudged into a London studio. Big labels had already passed on their music; their gear was beat-up; executives were unimpressed. Yet a young manager heard something – wit, possibility – and signed them anyway. Many at the time called it a mistake. History calls it the start of the Beatles. Sometimes, what might seem like the “wrong” move can turn out to be right. We tend to judge by outcomes, but luck and timing blur the picture. A better lens is the quality of thinking at the moment of choice....

What's it about? A Trick of the Mind (2025) asks a provocative question: what if the world you experience is less reality itself and more a story your brain invents? It makes a strong case for how our minds act like scientists – predicting and testing what we see and believe. It also shows how this process can sometimes lead to brilliant ideas while other times it can trap us in unhealthy distortions. Reality is not a single, solid thing – it’s layered. Philosopher Karl Popper suggested we actually live in three overlapping worlds: the material world of matter and molecules, the mental world of people and their hidden thoughts, and the world of ideas – our languages, myths, and paradigms that live beyond any one individual. In each of these realms we can see how the brain acts like a scientist, forever building and testing theories to make sense of them. What we see, hear, believe, and imagine doesn’t come to us as raw data – it’s filtered through the predictions and models our ...