Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Business & Finance, Local Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9781776392483
Published: July 2025
Page Extent: 224
Format: Paperback
RRP 300.00

Wicked Smart

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About the book

Over the past decades, there have been amazing breakthroughs in behavioural economics. What if you could gather all the best ones in one place? An entire book packed full of ‘smart-cuts’…? Steve Jobs once made an interesting point: ‘Animals in the wild may be more energy-efficient than humans. But put a guy on a bike, and he blows past all of them.’ That’s because technology is ‘like a bicycle for the mind.’ Turns out, the landscape is littered with bicycles. Adopt the principles and you can do almost everything faster and better. Here you will find direct answers to questions like: ‘How do you get the most out of your brain?’, What’s the best way to structure a team?’ or even, ‘How can our business...

About the Author

Douglas Kruger

Douglas Kruger

Douglas Kruger is a Hall of Fame global speaker and the author of several bestselling books. He is best known for enticingly counterintuitive titles like They’re Your Rules, Break Them!, Is Your Thinking Keeping You Poor? and Poverty Proof. He narrates his own books for Audible, and his speech on overcoming poverty has over two million views online. Douglas focuses on how great leaders can elevate human talent and how businesses can dismantle needless rules, incentivise their radical-value employees and foster a culture of innovation. He has been featured on TED, and his columns and articles regularly appear in the media. For a little fun, he also writes novels. Meet him at www.douglaskruger.com

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