Google has been a web titan for decades, guiding the online experience of billions of people worldwide. They dominate about 90 percent of the global search engine market and, as of recent years, are vying for control of today’s AI race.
This company is a force to be reckoned with, but it would not sustain such power and success were it not for the excellent minds it employs.
These five books by top talent from within Google’s leadership provide tried-and-tested career and business strategies.
By Jenny Wood
A bold, empowering, and energizing guide to embracing your ambition and chasing after what you want from an executive who spent nearly two decades climbing the ranks at Google. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Jenny Wood, or View on Amazon
What’s Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready
By Frederik Pferdt
Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Frederik Pferdt, or View on Amazon
Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing
By Laura Mae Martin
Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the new way of work work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Laura Mae Martin, or View on Amazon
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
By Katherine Morgan Schafler
As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google, Katherine Morgan Schafler argues that you don’t have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. For women who are sick of being given the generic advice to “find balance,” a new approach has arrived. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Catherine Morgan Schafler, or View on Amazon
Building for Everyone: Expand Your Market With Design Practices From Google’s Product Inclusion Team
By Annie Jean-Baptiste
Best practices for inclusion in product design, marketing, management, leadership and beyond, straight from the innovative Google Product Inclusion team. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Annie Jean-Baptiste, or View on Amazon
The Key Ideas in 15 Minutes
“If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books,” Roald Dahl once famously said. The only trouble is, reading even one book from cover to cover takes hours—and you may not have many hours to spare.
But imagine for a moment: What if you could read a groundbreaking new book every day? Or even better, what if you could invite a world-renowned thinker into your earbuds, where they personally describe the 5 key takeaways from their work in just 15 minutes?
With the Next Big Idea App, we’ve turned this fantasy into a reality. We partnered with hundreds of acclaimed authors to create “Book Bites,” short audio summaries of the latest nonfiction that are prepared and read aloud by the authors themselves. Discover cutting-edge leadership skills, productivity hacks, the science of happiness and well-being, and much more—all in the time it takes to drive to work or walk the dog.
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