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Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings
Can one political leader change the course of history? Should CEOs be given big bonuses when a company performs well? Will firing a coach actually change the fortunes of the team? What does a religion's success owe to a charismatic founder? In a fresh take on the interplay of power, character and success, world-renowned historian and bestselling author Jared Diamond argues that great leaders are so much more than either heroic exceptions or products of circumstance. Looking at natural experiments in four different spheres - history, business, sport and religion - Diamond asks under which conditions is a leader most likely to make a difference and why.Drawing on examples of iconic leaders - from Botswana president Seretse Khama to environmentalist Rachel Carson to legendary UCLA football coach John Wooden - Diamond shows us how effectiveness is determined by a range of complex interrelated factors, from resources to geography, culture to technology. Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings is a thought-provoking assessment of when leaders can bring about effective change, when they don't, and perhaps whether we need them at all.
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Anführer
Der Pulitzer-Preisträger und Bestsellerautor Jared Diamond geht in seinem neuen Buch der Frage nach, wann Anführer tatsächlich einen Einfluss haben - und wann nicht. Wenn wir uns Geschichte erzählen, dann konzentrieren wir uns oft auf diejenigen, die an der Spitze standen: Welche Entscheidungen traf Napoleon, warum konnte Jesus so viele Menschen erreichen und was wäre geschehen, wenn Stauffenbergs Attentat auf Adolf Hitlererfolgreich gewesen wäre? Doch wie viel Einfluss Anführer wirklich haben, das ist gar nicht so genau geklärt. Ob in der Politik, in der Wirtschaft, im Sport oder in der Religion: Oft genug stehen Einzelne riesigen, behäbigen Systemen gegenüber, die sie kaum befehligen können. Anhand von zahlreichen Einzelbiographien - von Rachel Carson über Elon Musk bis hin zu Jesus Christus - und mit Blick auf umfassende Studien untersucht Diamond, wann ein Führungswechsel oder die Weitsicht eines Einzelnen tatsächlich einen Unterschied machen kann. Ein Buch für alle, die aus der Geschichte lernen wollen.
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Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings
From the author of¿the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,¿ a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter. Can one person change the world? In his acclaimed and influential books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings, he studies leaders throughout time to answer the question: do the actions of individuals truly influence history? Or is humanity subject to larger historical, technological, cultural, geographical forces, far beyond the influence of individuals, no matter how powerful they may seem? On 13 March 1930, a truck sped into an intersection, headed straight for another car’s right front door. The passenger of this chauffeur-driven car happened to be Adolf Hitler. If the truck had hit the door, Hitler would have been crushed and killed. But the chauffeur managed to accelerate, and Hitler survived. Would tens of millions of people have died in the Holocaust and World War Two if the chauffeur had been slower to react? Some believe Hitler was unique in his evil abilities, while others think the war was guaranteed by the harsh conditions imposed on Germany post-war. Do leaders like Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, Genghis Khan, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Belichick, or Christ really change our world? If yes, what qualities and circumstances are required of a leader to make their mark? Drawing on his deep study of the life and career of a diverse cast of leaders famous and obscure– from Botswana president Seretse Khama, to environmentalist Rachel Carson, to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden–Diamond reveals how leadership effectiveness is determined by a range of complex interrelated factors. Understanding these successes and failures and the opportunities leaders did (or did not) seize illuminates the influence of today's leaders and helps us to reflect on the value of our votes, our faith, our passions, and the people who happen to steer our ship. With the same remarkable scope of Diamond's classic bestsellers, Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings takes readers on a rich journey through the lives of humanity’s most well-known characters to reveal how time, place, and person can come together to change the course of history.
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Swing Kings
"The best baseball book I’ve read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseballwriter, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group ofplayers who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches whohelped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a historic era for the home run. The2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two yearsbefore. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played,contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logicalconclusion of the analytics era. In SwingKings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer JaredDiamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn’t steroidsor the stitching of the baseballs, it’s the most elemental explanation of all:the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseball’sbiggest stars—including Aaron Judge, J.D. Martinez, and Justin Turner—whoremade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, andremade the game in the process. Thesecoaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves asswing gurus, for years were one of the game’s best-kept secrets. Amongtheir ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, andan ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique ofJapanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has movedfrom the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the wayhitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scramblingfor their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. AndDiamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists thetutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in theannual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium. Swing Kings isboth a rollicking history of baseball’s recent past and a deeply reported,character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old andnew, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. JaredDiamond has written a masterful chronicle of America’s pastime at thecrossroads.
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Krise
Krise: Wie Nationen an Herausforderungen wachsen und Hoffnung für die Zukunft schaffenIn seinem bisher persönlichsten Buch zeigt der Pulitzer-Preisträger Jared Diamond, wie Nationen erfolgreich mit den gegenwärtigen Krisen wie Klimawandel, sozialer Ungleichheit und gesellschaftlicher Polarisierungumgehen können. Anhand historischer Beispiele wie der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte, Chiles Umgang mit der Diktatur Pinochets und Japans erzwungener ökonomischer Öffnung 1853 zeichnet er die Muster nach, wie sich Staaten von tiefgreifenden Erschütterungen erholen.Diamond verdeutlicht, dass bei der Bewältigung nationaler Krisen ähnliche Faktoren entscheidend sind wie beim Umgang mit individuellen Traumatisierungen: sich der Krise bewusst werden, ehrliche Bestandsaufnahme statt Opferrolle, Probleme eingrenzen, Hilfe annehmen und aus den Erfahrungen anderer lernen. Es gilt, sich zu verändern, ohne die eigene Identität zu verlieren.Diamond erklärt, wie Nationen an Herausforderungen wachsen und neue Wege in die Zukunft finden können. Nach den Bestsellern 'Arm und Reich' und 'Kollaps' liefert Diamond erneut wertvolle Denkanstöße für den Umgang mit den drängenden Fragen unserer Zeit.
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Omwenteling
Hoe staten omgaan met crisis en veranderingKeerpunten in de moderne geschiedenis als basis voor de actualiteit In zijn eerdere boeken onderzocht Jared Diamond hoe beschavingen opbloeien en hoe ze ten onder gaan, maar nu richt hij zijn aandacht op de verbazingwekkende veerkracht van landen in crisis. En op de landen die hierin tekortschieten. In deze gedetailleerde en deskundige beschouwing onderzoekt Diamond zeven landen die rampspoed te boven zijn gekomen door middel van een proces van zelfreflectie en aanpassing en verkent hij hierin de patronen die aan de basis liggen van hun herstel. Of het nu om de Sovjetinvasie in Finland, het Indonesische crisisjaar onder Soekarno of de heropbouw van Duitsland gaat, Diamond weet steevast op vakkundige wijze de keerpunten aan te wijzen en grondig te analyseren. Ook richt hij zijn blik op de toekomst: zijn landen wereldwijd op weg naar politieke ondergang of kunnen we nog lering trekken uit het verleden? Jared Diamond is evolutionair bioloog, fysioloog en biogeograaf. Hij is hoogleraar in de geologie aan de UCLA in Californië en heeft al meerdere succesvolle boeken geschreven, waaronder Zwaarden, paarden en ziektekiemen, waarvoor hij in 1998 de Pulitzerprijs voor non-fictie won, en Ondergang.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
€ 33,00