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LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND STANDARD CHARTERED BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2026From the long-tenured head Goldman Sachs - an institution legendary for its culture of success - comes a candid memoir of global leadership in an age of extreme turbulence'Lloyd Blankfein is scary smart about people, markets, and life generally. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Lloyd acted decisively, and he tells the story of what happened with unique insights' WARREN BUFFETT'A sharp insider's guide to the era of when the financial industry spun out of control before nearly collapsing, then getting larger than ever ... As much as a Wall Street story, it is a wider narrative of culture and leadership' FINANCIAL TIMES When Lloyd Blankfein was attacked as a Wall Street fat cat, he had to smile, thinking of his precarious childhood in the notorious public housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn, and attending a high school so chaotic he didn't feel safe leaving class to go to the bathroom in his time there. Harvard University was a total moonshot, and his outsider status never wore off, there or at Harvard Law. When he struck people as street-y, it wasn't Wall Street they were thinking of. But if the chip never quite left Blankfein's shoulder, neither did a wry, resilient spirit and a lucid, democratic intelligence that saw through airs and found talent and ideas in unlikely places.Streetwise is a delightfully honest, sharp and often very funny reckoning with Blankfein's education - in finance, human nature and the workings of the world. It abounds with lessons about leading teams of brilliant, aggressive, competitive people and harmonising them around shared goals; changing when times are hard and when they're good; managing risk; and knowing a crisis is at hand before it swamps you so you can guide your team to the further shore. Blankfein is famed for his calm hand on Goldman Sachs's tiller during the global financial crisis, and that story is told in full here, among many other decisive episodes.A powerful blueprint for the wise stewardship of a cause that is larger than yourself, Streetwise will inspire and inform readers throughout the global business community and beyond.

We're Female Invest and we've educated more than a million women on investing. Along the way, we realised something: MONEY IS BROKEN FOR WOMEN. Because women's financial lives are not shaped by salary, saving and investing. They are shaped by the structures around us: by the systems we grow up in, by expectations, policies, and life events that affect women differently than men. We saw that there are eight major life themes that shape a woman's financial future. And how you navigate those has a bigger impact than any job title, salary negotiation or investment strategy ever will.Instead of writing another investing book, we wrote one that explains why money works differently for women and most importantly, how you can navigate it.It's a Rich Man's World is a book rooted in data, but we also share deeply personal stories from our own lives, in the hope that you'll recognise elements of your own journey in it.You'll discover:* The 8 life events that determine your financial future: Most women don't recognize the financial impact until it's too late.* How to navigate them successfully: Clear, practical guidance to spot and avoid the most common financial traps women face.* Personal stories: We share deeply personal, vulnerable stories from our own life, to help you see the impact behind the data.No matter where you're from or where in life you are, it's never too late to change your financial future. **"A movement redefining women's financial power" FORBES "The best source of financial knowledge out there" EMMA WATSON

"START MAKING SOME SERIOUS MONEY...FOLLOW MIKE'S COUNTERINTUITIVE ADVICE AND PUT PROFITS FIRST."-Verne Harnish, author of Scaling Up"A BRILLIANT SMACK-UPSIDE-THE-HEAD REVELATION FOR ENTREPRENEURS."-Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate"PROFIT FIRST MAY ARGUABLY BE ONE OF THE GREATEST 'HACKS' OF ALL TIME...WATCH THE PROFITS ROLL IN."-Chris Guillebeau, author of Born for This and The $100 Startup"A GAME CHANGER...YOU NEED THIS BOOK."-Michael Port, author of Steal the Show"A MUST-READ FOR BUSINESSES LARGE AND SMALL."-Jenny Blake, author of Pivot"THE ROAD MAP TO AVOID BECOMING A STATISTIC."-Dawn Fotopulos, associate professor of business, The King's College, New York City; author of Accounting for the NumberphobicUsing Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that:· Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances.· A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line.· Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth.The entrepreneur behind three multi-million dollar companies offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows.With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humour, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.