Be it any field, it is surprisingly easy to identify good leaders; however, it's a monumental effort to define what constitutes good leadership. Two grieving brothers, Sandeep and Sanju, one budding entrepreneur and the other a cricketer, are inspired by the words of their dying father to hold onto their goal of becoming successful entrepreneurs in their respective fields. They are resilient in the face of obstacles and to overcome it they seek directions...

Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that...

The Fall of the Alphas explores the sweeping changes in the corporate and social cultures of today's most successful organizations. Utilizing years of experience advising companies of all sizes, from hypergrowth start-ups to Fortune 500 company-management teams, Dana Ardi identifies a pivotal evolutionary moment: the decline of the traditional Alpha model (the top-down, male-dominated, authoritarian, corner-office heirarchy that has ruled organizational...

"A humorous, yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves -- and our companies -- of commonplace, bureaucratic bottlenecks that plague every office around the world"-- "What has happened to common sense? And how can we get it back? Companies, it seems, have become so entangled in their own internal issues, and further beset by reams of invisible red tape, that they've lost sight of their core purpose. Lindstrom combines numerous real-life examples...

While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.

As a corporate 'undertaker' for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to factory, firing blue-collar workers who remind her of her father and the kids she grew up with. On a trip that takes her to a desperate fishing town in Massachusetts, Carol gets a call from the office: 'You're fired.' Those words shake Carol to her core. But with the help of the townspeople and a charming local fisherman, she begins to...

A guide to a visionary new form of filmmaking discusses how advances in digital technology have made it possible to create a "live" film that can be sent instantly via satellite for viewing around the world.