![]() ![]() Even in the face of difficulty, an optimistic leader will find the path toward the best possible outcome and focus on that, rather than give in to pessimism and blaming. In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 220,000-plus employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including: ![]() Its value is nearly five times what it was when Iger took over, and he is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful CEOs of our era. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger - think global - and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.įourteen years later, Disney is the largest, most admired media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Competition was more intense than ever, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time ’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his 15 years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. ![]()
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Kovacs has no choice but to try to figure out who would waste their time killing a man who has endless sleeves to burn? ![]() If he doesn’t, he’ll serve out the rest of his sentence and get resleeved on Earth, far from home. ![]() If he solves the mystery, he’ll get sent back to his home planet and get a sleeve of his choice without serving any further sentence. So he’s hired Kovacs to figure it out for him. After being resleeved, the local police told him it was suicide, but he doesn’t believe them. A rich myth–someone who has been alive for centuries in the same body, due to their wealth–has been killed. Kovacs is an ex-UN envoy but he’s also a criminal, and he wakes up one day in a new sleeve on Earth, not his home planet, before his sentence is up. Criminals are put into the brain bank for a set period of time to serve their “prison” sentence before being resleeved. In the future, people’s memories are backed up on sticks like external hard-drives, and when someone dies, they can just be put into a new body or resleeved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Violets (review copy courtesy of Weidenfeld & Nicolson) is the latest work in English by Kyung-Sook Shin, author of novels such as Please Look After Mother, I’ll Be Right There and The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness. While Hur himself is no shrinking violet, that’s exactly what we’re getting in today’s choice, an intriguing story of a woman drifting through her days with plenty of time to smell the roses – even if not everything in her life is quite as pleasant as the flowers she sells… A busy man, he’s not one to rest on his laurels, and before this year’s winner has even been announced, he’s back with another Korean novel, one written by a big name in K-Lit. The big success on the translator front in this year’s International Booker Prize has been Anton Hur, twice longlisted and once shortlisted (and with a good chance of winning the whole thing with Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny). ![]() ![]() Observing that much British conversation about empire has been binary-“a veritable industrial oven of hot potatoes”-he pleads for a nuanced view of Britain’s “difficult history.” Acknowledging that his “quintessentially British” education “encouraged me to view my Indian heritage through patronizing Western eyes,” he nevertheless loves the nation, even though immigrants are endlessly instructed to integrate.” It is, as he points out passionately, his home. Drawing from sources as varied as Jan Morris, Edward Said, and Twitter, Sanghera moves elegantly through one legacy to the next, frequently opposing imperial apologists against detractors. in 2021) with a note to American readers: “The contention that the War of Independence marked a total rejection of the British Empire is the historical equivalent of a teenager leaving home and declaring that his parents had nothing to do with shaping him.” Indeed, American readers will find much that’s familiar in the account that follows, in which the author probes Britain’s imperial history to find its present-day influences-which are everywhere: in Britain’s monuments and museums, education system, multiculturalism, racism, even its trash TV. ![]() ![]() ![]() edition (the book was published in the U.K. A British Sikh journalist and documentarian probes the lasting effects of “one of the biggest white supremacist enterprises in the history of humanity.” ![]() |