Economics and Business

THE VOLTAGE EFFECT explores why some ideas succeed while others fail to scale. Highlighting the importance of achieving "high voltage," List identifies five vital signs that make an idea replicable. Drawing on research and real-world examples, he offers strategies for maximizing impact across various sectors, emphasizing that understanding scaling can drive meaningful change in society.

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe - and shoot down those we don't.

Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry's backwaters, unified by the heretical idea that even many of the world's finest investors couldn't beat the market in the long run.

Now more than ever, you don’t need a fancy office, Ivy League degree, or millions of dollars in venture capital to launch a business that matters for the communities you care most about. Software, the internet, and remote work have made it possible for entrepreneurs to start for free, make a customer of anyone, and grow a profitable, sustainable company from anywhere.

As high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress.

In his seminal self-help productivity guide, Getting Things Done, veteran coach, management consultant, and “personal productivity guru” David Allen first introduced his breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has shared with over a million people around the world. Now, his wisdom is presented in bite-sized portions for quick doses of productive inspiration.

The Now Habit Motivation Cards offer essential pieces of wisdom and inspiration from Fiore s successful program, to help anyone.

The phenomenal bestseller Think and Grow Rich established Napoleon Hill as an authority on motivation and success. These revised and updated motivational and inspirational passages-keys to wealth, power, happiness, and good health-were originally published in Hill's magazine, Success Unlimited. 

Aaron Dignan helps his clients get unstuck by teaching them how to eliminate red tape, tap into collective intelligence, and rethink long-held traditions that no longer make sense. Now he shows us how to do the same.